Guest essay by Viv Forbes Washpool Qld Australia Earth is a dangerous place. Of all the species that have ever lived, over 95% have already been extinguished by natural disasters. Ice, not global warming, is the big killer and this recurring calamity often strikes quickly. Thousands of mammoths and other animals were killed by ice…
Guest essay by Ola Røyrvik Can the public have confidence in what is presented as science, or do politicians dictate what scientists can say? Well, if Norwegian scientific and political institutions are used as indicators the answer to the first part of the question is a definite NO and to the second a resounding YES.…
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting study over at Climate of the Past entitled “A 305-year continuous monthly rainfall series for the island of Ireland (1711–2016)“ by Conor Murphy et al. Unfortunately, their link to their dataset was broken. So I got in touch with the Copy Editor, Anja Krzykowski, and she was…
From Gallup News: Global Warming Concern Steady Despite Some Partisan Shifts by Megan Brenan and Lydia Saad STORY HIGHLIGHTS Partisan gaps across global-warming measures slightly wider than in 2017 Democrats view global warming seriously; Republicans view it skeptically 69% of Republicans, 4% Democrats say global warming is exaggerated This story is part of a special series…
Guest Post By Renee Hannon Introduction In the mid-1900’s many scientists were suggesting the Earth was cooling. Now scientists are forecasting global warming. Indeed, instrumental data shows global temperatures warmed by approximately 1-degree C during the past 165+ years. With warming rates of 0.5 to over 1.3 degrees C per century this has caused considerable…