Video of a “fire tornado” follows. My friend Kris Kuyper writes on Facebook: BIG Pyrocumulus clouds now forming above the smoke plume of the #CarrFire! The dirty part on the bottom…
Month: July 2018
Michael Mann: “We literally would not have seen these extremes in the absence of climate change.”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Alarmism in action. Extreme global weather is ‘the face of climate change’ says leading scientist Exclusive: Prof Michael Mann declares the impacts of global warming…
How to lie with maps and smoothing – NASA GISS in Antarctica
My friend in Europe, Marcel Crok writes to me saying: Hi Anthony The two images in the link above are being used wildly during the current heat wave we experience…
Friday Funny: The Miss Climate Beauty Pageant (no, really)
From the “♪ There she is, misssss climatology… ♫” department. You just can’t make this stuff up. Dr. Roy Spencer advises me of this: The president of our university forwarded…
Swallowed Islands: Getting Sea Level Rise Out of Variability
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Damien Cave, the NY Times Australia bureau chief, writes yet another heart-rending story with great personal touches about how the Solomon Islands are being…
Ben Santer: Climate Change Responsible for Hotter and Colder Weather
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study by Ben Santer which claims that climate change is strengthening the heartbeat of the world’s climate, making winters colder and summers warmer.…
Quote of the Week: That time when climate science believed UHI was causing most of the twentieth century warming
AMS fellow Joe D’Aleo writes of a time when Thomas Karl, former director of the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) actually believed that UHI and station siting was a problem…
SHOCKER: National Geographic admits they were wrong about “starving polar bear” video
A stunning admission from National Geographic: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of…
MSNBC Host: climate change news is a “ratings killer”
This is hilarious, but true, especially when you look at the most recent Gallup Poll that shows many Americans just don’t treat climate change as an issue of interest anymore.…
Dad, Is Climate Getting Worse in the United States?
New eBook – Kindle Edition: Dad, Is Climate Getting Worse in the United States? by Bob Tisdale And the subtitle is, Book 2 in the DAD, WHY ARE YOU A GLOBAL WARMING DENIER?…
Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo Introduces Carbon Tax Legislation
Guest essay by Eric Worrall At least one Republican congressman believes the USA needs more taxes. Carlos Curbelo, U.S. representative for Florida’s 26th congressional district has introduced legislation to charge…
Remember when we were told that wildfires would increase due to global warming? Never mind.
This paper was just published in the Royal Society Biological Sciences journal. The takeaways: “Global area burned appears to have overall declined over past decades, and there is increasing evidence…
NOAA’s newest GOES 17 weather satellite may not be fixable, and a loss
From NOAA and NextGov reports. The second satellite in NOAA’s $11 billion GOES program continues to experience issues with its most important instrument and officials still aren’t sure what’s wrong.…
Pielke Jr. – U.S. Tornado damage continues to fall, 2018 activity near record lows
For those that are sure there’s global warming driving tornadoes and other severe weather events, here’s some inconvenient news. Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. has updated his tornado loss data via…
2017: “Deadliest year on record for environmentalists”… Because Trump? Because climate change? Or because bad journalism?
Guest commentary by David Middleton From the “[fill in the blank] on record” files… Record 207 environmental activists killed last year 24 JUL 2018 More than 200 environmental activists were…
Surprise: Cold wave reveals potential benefits of urban heat islands
From the PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, ENGINEERING SCHOOL and the “UHI is good for something” department. Still, it’s not a good place to measure climate change. The concrete and asphalt that make…
Study: “Little Ice Age” also affected South American climate
Research shows how the Little Ice Age affected South American climate For the first time, scientists reconstruct the rainfall distribution in Brazil during the climate changes that marked the Middle…
L. A. Times touts globally irrelevant Ca. AB 32 emissions target – ignores huge emissions growth from world’s developing nations
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The Los Angeles Times published a story touting California meeting its AB 32 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal in 2016 versus the target year of…
Contrary to the NY Times — The DR Has Lots of Clean Beautiful Beaches
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Palko Karasz, writing in the New York Times, with a degree of insensitivity bordering on blatant intentional libel, reports: “Come for the beaches, say tourism…
Shock Discovery: Warmer Climates Don’t Wreck the Ecosystem
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A climate scientist doing fieldwork has made the shocking discovery that, contrary to predictions, the Earth’s ecosystems might have some capacity for self regulation. CLIMATE…
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