Reverse Polarity Sunspots appear on the Sun – ending a 39 day stretch of spotless days

Dr. Tony Phillips writes: A new solar cycle is coming. Today, two sunspots emerged on the solar disk. Their reversed magnetic polarity marks them as members of new Solar Cycle…

Lasers learn to accurately spot space junk

Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in Earth’s orbit threatening spacecraft safety American Institute of Physics WASHINGTON,…

3 degrees C?

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on December 23, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry Is 3 C warming over the 21st century now the ‘best estimate’? …

Climate Nags are Trying to Ruin Christmas

From the “Greta the Grinch” department. By H. Sterling Burnett For the religious among us, at least those professing to be Christians, Christmas is a time of reflection on the birth…

Blowtorch Christmas? I Think Not

Reposted from Chris Martz Weather Posted on 21 Dec 2019 by Chris Martz Figure 1. ECMWF 500 millibar height anomaly map for North America; five-day average – WeatherBELL Analytics, L.L.C.…

Stellar Snowflake Cluster

From NASA Dec. 23, 2019 Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.…

Eco-builders are clutching at straws

UK climate eco-nutjobs now building houses out of hay. What could go wrong?https://t.co/foqytVvsRd — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 23, 2019 Full article here. The comments on the twitter thread are…

We gave our rulers the greatest gift that we can give

From the Fabius Maximus Website By Larry Kummer, Editor Summary: We gave our elites the greatest gift that America can give. Understanding this, we can make a powerful resolution for…

Bloomberg: A Private Jet is OK if Dad Pays the Carbon Offset

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Rich kids desperate to keep their privileges while maintaining the fiction they care about climate change have demanded their parents purchase carbon offsets to compensate…

Why I Am So Critical of Climate ‘Science’?

Guest opinion by Mike Smith Let’s begin by re-stating information about which we can be confident: The earth is warmer than it was sixty years ago. Mostly unreported is the…

"I don’t want to die!" Climate Exploitation of Children

Children are being used as proxies for climate change hysteria across Canada. Ecojustice is acting on behalf of children in taking the Ontario government to court of the relaxation of…

Norway Names Controversial Climate Change Skeptic As New Oil Minister

From OILPRICE.COM By Tsvetana Paraskova – Dec 18, 2019, 3:30 PM CST Norway appointed on Wednesday a skeptic on wind power and climate change as its new oil minister who…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #391

The Week That Was: 2019-12-21 (December 21, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and…

Hubble’s Close-Up of Spiral’s Disk, Bulge

From NASA Dec. 20, 2019 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of Mensa (the Table Mountain) lying about 85…

Solar Update December 2019

David Archibald We are well into the Solar Cycle 24/25 minimum but 24 may not have ended yet. A solar cycle isn’t over until the heliospheric current sheet has flattened.…

Flooded Tesla charging station in a floodplain that flooded in 2003..

Picture via @megbaynes pic.twitter.com/um2rBmqkd8 — Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ (@Revkin) December 22, 2019

Polar bear cubs play on the thin ice that supposedly threatens them with extinction

From Polar Bear Science Posted on December 21, 2019 | This video tweet deserves a post of its own: two relatively inexperienced cubs-of-the-year in Russia deliberately break through thin ice,…

High carbon footprint families identified by sweets and restaurant food, not higher meat consumption

University of Sheffield Families with high carbon footprints consume two to three times more sweets and alcohol than those with low footprints Study by experts in Sheffield and Kyoto, Japan,…

Aussie Bushfires: Government Promises More Climate Action, but Defends Coal

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Scott Morrison Conservative government has agreed more action is required on climate change, but defended its support for coal mining. McCormack concedes Australia must…

Discovering a new fundamental underwater force

A miscalculated Fluids Lab demonstration leads to a new understanding of how particles accumulate in lakes and oceans University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill VIDEO:  Ocean particle accumulation has…