Cave Discovery Reveals Today’s Desert Climates Were Recently Far Warmer, Wetter, Teeming With Life

Fuerteventura, one of the eight major Canary Islands, was not the “desert in the ocean” it is today throughout the Early to Middle Holocene.

Bixonimania: How AI Turned a Joke Diagnosis into “Peer‑Reviewed” Medicine

When a joke diagnosis morphs into “peer-reviewed” research, it is clear that the crisis in scientific credibility is no longer confined to sloppy research or corrupted journals but now extends…

Wrong Again, Associated Press, Climate Change Isn’t Overrunning Evolution

The Associated Press has taken an emerging field of conservation genomics and wrapped it in an existential storyline that exaggerates the speed and uniqueness of current climate trends. That is false…

At The Heartland Climate Conference: “What Is The Proof?”, Earth’s Energy Imbalance Edition

With regard to EEI, the answer to the question “What Is The Proof?” is that there is no proof.

When a “Drought” NOT a Drought?

But whatever the motive, it is very harmful, resulting in unnecessary worry and leading to bad decisions (like the wasteful, corrupting Washington State CCA, which preferentially hurts low-income people while…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #686

“All other aspects and characteristics of science can be understood directly when we understand that observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.” — Richard…