COVID-19 lockdowns temporarily raised global temperatures

The lockdowns and reduced societal activity related to the COVID-19 pandemic affected emissions of pollutants in ways that slightly warmed the planet for several months last year, according to new…

Claim: Aussie PM Edging Towards a 2050 Carbon Pledge

Surprise! When Aussies re-elected conservative PM Scott Morrison in the last national election, we thought we were rejecting the hardline climate madness of the Labor opposition party. Turns out we…

UAH Global Temperature Update for January 2021: +0.12 deg. C (new base period)

The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January, 2021 was +0.12 deg. C, down a little from the December, 2020 value of +0.15 deg. C

Climate Model Failure

By Andy May On January 22, 2021, John Christy presented a new online talk to the Irish Climate Science Forum. The talk was arranged by Jim O’Brien. A summary of…

A Mixed Up Mixed Layer

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A recent post here on WUWT entitled “Claim: Marine heatwaves becoming more intense, more frequent” referenced a study as saying: When thick, the surface layer of…

That Way Madness Lies

A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but…

@ govkristinoem Kristi Noem, Here’s Something You Can Deliver for the American People

Global warming is the religion of choice for militant atheists, without which their meaningless lives would seem empty, hollow, depressing and pointless. The former science journalist Nicholas Wade makes a…

How much global warming should IPCC’s next report predict?

Mainstream climate scientists have been busy in the last two years, publishing updated climatological data in time for IPCC’s forthcoming Sixth Assessment Report. The availability of those recent mainstream data…

Claim: Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding – and climate change is making them stronger

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow bands of moisture in the atmosphere that extend from the tropics to higher latitudes. These rivers in the sky can transport 15 times the volume…

2021 COP26 Climate Conference Hosts Authorise a New Coal Mine

Britain, the host of the upcoming COP26 climate conference, is getting slammed by climate activists for authorising a new coking coal mine in the politically sensitive national electorate of Whitehaven.…

The So-Called Climate “Health Emergency”

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that a number of health organizations are calling on Zhou Bai-den to declare a “climate health emergency”. From the American Lung Association: WASHINGTON,…

Unexpected ice

But observations show that ice extent in the Arctic has shrunk faster than models predicted, and in the Antarctic it has been growing slightly. Researchers are looking much closer at…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #440

“By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else…