From the “Arctic is screaming louder thanks to Mark Serreze and his adjustment shenanigans” department, I don’t think this is going to fly. Some of the adjustments are as much…
Year: 2018
Blaming AGW for rainfall records in China, while giving El Niño caveats
From the INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and the “we think but we aren’t sure, but let’s blame AGW anyway” department. Scientists find culprits for extreme rainfall over…
“Argentinian geoscientist faces criminal charges” for not committing scientific fraud in glacier survey.
Guest post by David Middleton George Orwell on steroids… Argentinian geoscientist faces criminal charges over glacier survey Government researcher Ricardo Villalba stands accused of shaping a study to benefit mining…
Elon Musk’s Latest Corporate Welfare Effort?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If the “Fire and Fury” Musk excerpt is true, Elon Musk appears to be rapidly adapting to the spending priorities of the Trump era –…
The Myth of the Anti-Science Denier
Guest essay by John Ridgway I’ll tell you what you don’t get to see that often nowadays: Death by Chocolate. There was a time, not so long ago, when no…
Climate Advocates Push Floating Houses to Defeat Future Hurricanes And Floods
Guest essay by Eric Worrall There have been a few stories in the press lately about climate proof floating houses. As someone who used to live next to a river,…
The Button Collector Revisited: Graphs, Trends and Hypotheses
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This essay is a follow-up to two previous essays on the topic of the usefulness of trend lines [trends] in prediction. Readers may…
Trump Administration to open 90% of US Offshore to leasing and roll back Obama-era drilling regulations
Guest post by David Middleton The plan is to open almost everything in the 2019-2024 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, with Eastern Gulf leasing beginning when the Congressional moratorium expires…
Claim: Arctic warming is influencing the UK’s extreme weather
From the UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN, where they are trying to make the North Atlantic Oscillation bend to their will part of climate change. Severe snowy weather in winter or extreme rains…
An Instant Global Ocean Thermometer from Antarctic Ice Cores
Guest post by David Middleton Why bother with Argo floats and ocean heat content? Now the average temperature of the oceans can be instantly calculated by the ratio of noble…
New study from Scripps puts a crimp on claims of recent rising ocean temperatures
This is interesting, and revealing. Using a new method of measuring krypton and xenon ratios in Antarctic ice core, an estimated temperature rise of just 0.1°C over the last 50…
NASA-led Study Solves a Global Methane Puzzle
From NASA GODDARD: A new NASA-led study has solved a puzzle involving the recent rise in atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, with a new calculation of emissions from global…
Climate Explainers: Colder Winters – Because Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate explainers are struggling trying to tell us why it is all our fault that bitter cold is gripping the USA this winter, our fault…
UAH: 2017 was third warmest year in satellite record
From the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Global Temperature Report: December 2017 Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade December temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.41 C…
CO2-Consuming Fossil Fuel Combustion
Guest post by David Middleton “The CDCL process is the most advanced and cost-effective approach to carbon capture we have reviewed to date and are committed to supporting its commercial…
Finding: Arctic clouds highly sensitive to air pollution
From the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH and the “other factors besides CO2” department. In 1870, explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, trekking across the barren and remote ice cap of Greenland, saw something most…
Tamper, tamper! How They failed to hide the gulf between predicted and observed warming
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The indefatigable Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama at Huntsville is the first to declare the global temperature anomaly for December 2017. As Fig.…
Blockbuster Bomb Nor’easter ready to roar along the U.S. East Coast into Maritime Canada with major impacts from Florida to New England and Canada
Dr. Ryan Maue writes: Forecaster Jack Sillin has a fantastic blog on the synoptic scale ingredients associated with the storm here: Major Storm To Develop Off The East Coast Bringing Snow,…
Harvard: global warming to dull future wine varietals
From HARVARD UNIVERSITY, where you can’t tell them much. A changing climate, changing wine To adapt to warmer temperatures, winemakers may have to plant lesser known grape varieties, study suggests…
Whiny Eco-terrorists Cry Foul Over Law Enforcement Crackdown
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t CFACT – Bonner Cohen (CFACT) writing for The Hill notes that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are responding vigorously to threats from…
Modeling human behavior in response to climate alarmism yields a ‘rational basis for hope’
From the NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS (NIMBIOS) and the “herding cats is easier” department comes this inane suggestion demonstrating the “importance of factoring human behavior into models of…
Study predicts a significantly drier (or wetter) world at 2ºC (Warning: ‘robust’ model output)
From the University of East Anglia, home of Climategate, comes this press release claiming a good portion of the world will become drier due to global warming. Just a little over…
Laundry Warriors Seeking the Perfect Climate Mushroom
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Worried about all the strange biological additives in your laundry liquid? Its about to get a lot weirder. Fighting Climate Change, One Laundry Load at…
Almost half of the contiguous USA still covered in snow
From NOAA’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center comes this snow map today showing that nearly half of the mainland is covered by snow accompanying the Arctic Cold Blast leading into…
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