Mother Jones on possible Trump appointees: "Be afraid."

Guest post by David Middleton Look at All the Climate Change Deniers Vying for Jobs in the Trump Administration This can’t be good is grrreat!!! JEREMY SCHULMANNOV. 18, 2016 Donald…

The Cult of Tesla

Guest post by David Middleton As someone rather detached from the automotive world — in other words, someone who considers cars to simply be tools and not extensions of identity…

EcoWatch: Big Oil is in Big Trouble (The Dumbest Article Ever Written About ExxonMobil)

Guest post by David Middleton With the most divisive presidential election in U.S. history just days away from concluding, it is easy to understand why more is not being made…

A geological perspective on sea level and storm surges.

Guest post by David Middleton “Sea level has already risen by about a foot, 1 foot, in much of the Southeast, which means Matthew’s storm surge was higher, and the…

Define Irony: Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect

Guest post by David Middleton From the Department of All Things Ironic… Solar panels, while they mitigate the effects of global warming by replacing fossil fuels, can add heat in…

The Divergence between Surface and Lower Troposphere Global Temperature Datasets and its Implications

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I include a graph in my monthly global surface temperature and lower troposphere temperature anomaly updates that compares the average of the global surface land+ocean…

Even dumber than the dumbest attack on ExxonMobil evah'

Guest post by David Middleton The Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Thursday, arguing that the company is violating several key water regulations at one of…

What did ExxonMobil Know and When Did They Know it? (Part Quatre: "Is ExxonMobil Actually Only Worth A Fraction Of What It Says?")

Guest post by David Middleton In my previous posts regarding the lawless inquisition of ExxonMobil and its supposed climate cover-up, I’ve pretty well demonstrated that ExxonMobil (then Humble Oil, later Exxon)…

FAIL: CO2 Emissions Increasing In EU, Despite €1 Trillion In Green Subsidies

Cost Of Germany’s “Energiewende” To Soar To €31 Billion This Year Alone Eurostat estimates that in 2015 carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion increased by 0.7% in the…

The Illusions Provided by Time-Series Graphs of Climate Model Ensembles and Model Spreads

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The post Controversy over comparing models with observations at Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. prompted this post.  Judith’s post includes a Twitter exchange and a couple of…

RCP 8.5: The "Mother of all" Junk Climate Science

Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from here. Nearly every catastrophic global warming doomsday scenario, particularity those involving icecap failures and Noah-size sea level rises are based on…

Climate Models are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 4

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Alternate Title: Climate Models Undermine the Hypothesis of Human-Induced Global Warming According to the hypothesis of human-induced global warming, manmade greenhouse gases create an energy…

Climate Models are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 3

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE:  See the update below Figure 1.24-8 for the IPCC’s correction of their Figure 9.17 from the 5th Assessment Report.  Thanks, Nic. # # #…

Climate Models Are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 1

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as part 1 of the 2015 update of the model-data comparisons of satellite-era sea surface temperatures. The 2014 update is here.…

"Phytoplankton rapidly disappearing from the Indian Ocean" or not.

  Guest post by David Middleton, feature image borrowed from iHerb. A rapid loss of phytoplankton threatens to turn the western Indian Ocean into an “ecological desert,” a new study…

Seth Borenstein: "Man-made heat put in oceans has doubled since 1997"

Guest post by David Middleton WASHINGTON (AP) — The amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997, a study released Monday showed. Scientists have long…

How not to measure temperature, British facepalm edition

I had to share this “laugh out loud” moment from Bishop Hill and the photo of this weather station. Andrew Montford writes:   Settled science Much amusement is to be…

What did ExxonMobil Know and when did they know it? (Part 3, Exxon: The Fork Not Taken)

Guest post by David Middleton This just keeps getting more hilarious… Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models The company chairman would later mock climate models…

Al Gore and the media were wrong: U.S. Major Hurricane Drought Now One Decade and Counting

As of today, October 24th, it has been 3652 days (including leap years) or a decade (10 years) since the US has been hit by a Category 3 or greater…

What did ExxonMobil Know and when did they know it? (Part Deux, "Same as it ever was.")

Guest post by David Middleton   If you thought Part 1 was a doozy, “you ain’t seen nothing yet”… Exxon Believed Deep Dive Into Climate Research Would Protect Its Business…