Private Firm Attracting Climate Research Funds

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Now the US Federal Government has stopped crowding the market, a private firm is stepping in to fund climate research which might produce commercially useful…

Big increase is Antarctic Snowfall helps to prevent sea level rise

From The EGU  via the BBC: When scientists looked at Antarctic snowfall over the past 200 years they found a “significant” increase, up to 10%. In the decade 2001-2010, some 272…

A surprising finding about Nitrogen in our atmosphere

From the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, a surprising finding. New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth’s bedrock Nitrogen from bedrock can result in side-by-side productive forests and barren acidic areas For…

A troubling omission of condemnation by NASA's Dr. Gavin Schmidt @ClimateOfGavin

Wow, this is really something. Three days after a declaration about “faking climate science” to be “more emphatic” Not a peep from NASA GISS head Gavin Schmidt. That’s a troubling…

Climate change: It Was The Sun All Along – So Say The Bulgarians

Guest essay by David Archibald The gentle, much-appreciated warming of the second half of the 20th century could not have had carbon dioxide as its cause. Carbon dioxide’s logarithmic heating…

Pielke harasser, Judd Legum, turns tail and runs from debate challenge

WUWT readers may recall that we recently highlighted how Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. had had enough of the bullying, smearing, and libel, from the Center for American Progress (CAP) who…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #311

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Adjusting Data: SEPP Chairman emeritus Fred Singer has an essay in…

Bangladesh, Ethiopia, China Demand More Geoengineering Money

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Scientists from countries including Bangladesh, Ethiopia and China have demanded more involvement with global climate change geoengineering initiatives, to be funded by cash from other…

Astronomer: Tens of Thousands of Black Holes Exist in Our Galaxy's Center

From Columbia University and the “that’s heavy” department: New Study Suggests Tens of Thousands of Black Holes Exist in Milky Way’s Center A Columbia University-led team of astrophysicists has discovered…

A rebuttal to an ugly amicus brief attack in the #ExxonKnew case

Warren Blair has written to me to suggest that we should publish here the brief by Monckton et al. replying to the vicious personal attacks on them by attorneys for…

Easter Island's “ecological suicide” – myths and realities

The island’s demise was a human and Little Ice Age tragedy, not “ecological suicide” Guest essay Dennis Avery In a recent New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof misleads us about…

Climate skeptics feel empowered to 'keep pushing' under Trump

Climate skeptics are gaining ground. Zack Colman, E&E News reporter There’s always been a vocal subset of conservatives who cast doubt on climate science, but what were once fringe views…

NASA reports massive hole in Sun's atmosphere

Huge hole over 400,000 miles long (700,000 kilometers) is 55 times wider than the Earth A wide hole in the sun’s atmosphere is facing Earth and spewing a stream of…

Looping the loop: how the IPCC's feedback aerobatics failed

Guest essay By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley This series discusses climatology’s recently-discovered grave error in having failed to take due account of the large feedback response to emission temperature. Correct…

UAH finds a warming error in satellite data, lowers "tropical hotspot" temperature trend, contradicts IPCC models

From the University of Alabama, Huntsville via email from Dr. John Christy. Weather Satellite Wanders Through Time, Space, Causing Stray Warming to Contaminate Data In the late 1990s, the NOAA-14…

Will There Be A 2018/19 El Niño?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Looks like one may be forming right now.

NASA GISS gets slammed in Inspector General report for questionable '$1.63 million of GISS’ expenditures since 2012'

From the “Climate of Gavin” department. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently completed a report on out favorite set of climate alarmists, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies…

Claim: White Evangelicals Have Sold Their Souls on Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Clean Technica author Steve Hanley seems to think White Evangelicals have traded their integrity for Big Oil Money. Why White Evangelicals Don’t Care About Climate…

Appeasement in the Bizarre World of Climate, Politics, and Big Oil

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball I know a great deal about this bizarre world because I have incorrectly been accused of being in the pay of Big Oil. In the…

Whitestown Revisited – a weather benchmark location for the Corn Belt

Guest essay by David Archibald Readers may recall a previous WUWT article where I examined growing conditions experienced in the Corn Belt over the last 30 years with Growing Degree…