WUWT readers may remember this story from last year, where Chris Turney, leader of the ill fated “ship of fools” Spirit of Mawson expedition that go stuck in Antarctic sea ice said: “Penguins Don’t Migrate, they’re dying!” and of course blamed the dreaded “climate change” as the reason. Of course three days later, Discover Magazine ran…
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade February temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.20 C (about 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for February. Northern Hemisphere: +0.24 C (about 0.43 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for February. Southern Hemisphere: +0.15 C (about 0.27 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for February. Tropics:…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Conversation has noticed that climate taxes on energy used for home heating hurts poor people. Poorest households hit hardest by UK climate change levy despite using least energy March 2, 2018 10.58pm AEDT John Barrett Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, University of Leeds Anne Owen Research Fellow in…
From the Journal of International Climatology and the “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” department. To me, this feels like vindication. For years, I’ve been pointing out just how bad the U.S. and Global Surface monitoring network has been. We’ve seen stations that are on pavement, at airports collecting jet exhaust, and failing instruments…
From MCMASTER UNIVERSITY Data centres and smartphones will be the most damaging information and communications technologies to the environment by 2040, according to new research from W Booth School’s Lotfi Belkhir. At the end of winter term in 2014, Lotfi Belkhir was approached by a student taking his Total Sustainability and Management course who asked, “What…
From the UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM and the “thinnest of evidence” department comes this claim. Fossilised plant leaf wax provides new tool for understanding ancient climates New research, published in Scientific Reports, has outlined a new methodology for estimating ancient atmospheric water content based on fossil plant leaf waxes. As the Earth’s surface and atmosphere warm, the amount…
As many of you know, I was invited by NASA to attend the launch event today (as press) of the newest GOES-S weather satellite, which will become GOES-17 once commissioned. This trip was made possible by the generous donations of WUWT readers, for which I’m very grateful. I had been on Twitter all during launch…