Never let a good crisis go to waste: tornado deaths blamed on lawmakers opposed to climate legislation

Further Update: Turns out I was hoping for too much.  Brad Johnson found at least three scientists eager to be quoted in his follow up article:  Kevin Trenberth, Michael Mann,…

Uncertain Climate Risks (Nature Climate Change)

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein As I continue to plow through Vol 1 Issue 1 of the new Journal Nature Climate Change, I came to the following amazing statement: Communicating…

World opinion on global warming: not so hot

Results of the latest Gallup poll: Worldwide, Blame for Climate Change Falls on Humans Americans among least likely to attribute to human causes by Julie Ray and Anita Pugliese WASHINGTON,…

Overstretching Attribution (Nature Climate Change)

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein VOL 1 NO 1 of a new journal, Nature Climate Change, arrived in my mailbox today. While clearly in the Warmist camp, it was refreshing…

Americans believe climate change is occurring, but disagree on why

This must be “polarization week” in social science, as this is the second study published this week on political polarization of the global warming issue. See the previous story on…

Face palm: EPA bureaucrat tap dances during testimony

Post by Ryan Maue EPA Deputy Administrator Mathy Stanislaus should be given credit for showing up Thursday to an Environment and Energy subcommittee hearing, but may not be returning any…

Socialists of the World Unite for Youth Climate Conference

Guest Post by Ryan Maue: Starting Friday, April 15 in Washington DC, we will be able to witness an absolutely surreal public display of anti-capitalist, extreme far-left community organizing, all…

Snow in Los Angeles County, NWS Winter Advisory

From the “weather is not climate” department… Apparently, Nature is weighing in some support for action in Sacramento to end California’s economically punishing anti-carbon law. We saw earlier this winter…

The big self parodying "climate change blame" list

Longtime WUWT reader Jimbo writes in Tips and Notes: The following has been partly referenced and inspired by Numberwatch. The differences between this list and Numberwatch are: 1) I have…

Visualizing the "Greenhouse Effect" – Molecules and Photons

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein This series began with a mechanical analogy for the Atmospheric “Greenhouse Effect” and progressed a bit more deeply into Atmospheric Windows and Emission Spectra. In…

Canadian Harp Seals In New England ("prediction" of cooling?)

Canadian Harp Seals may have “read” the predictions of the coming decades of stabilization of global temperatures and perhaps some cooling. Animals like the Harp Seal have experienced many millions…

New commission confronts threats to food security from 'climate change'

Yeah, like they can do anything about it. Here’s an idea. How about more CO2 and less grain use for ethanol and other biofuels? CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,…

Pining away about bugs and global warming

Cause and effect, or correlation not causation? Press release Via Eurekalert: Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America CORVALLIS, Ore. – Lodgepole pine, a hardy tree…

Visualizing the "Greenhouse Effect" – A Physical Analogy

Guest post by Ira Glickstein Albert Einstein was a great theoretical physicist, with all the requisite mathematical tools. However, he rejected purely mathematical abstraction and resorted to physical analogy for…

Controversial NASA temperature graphic morphs into garbled mess

UPDATE: Repaired – see below What happened to that image? Back in 1999, Dr. James Hansen of NASA penned a report on surface temperatures still located on their servers. However,…

Russian Winter: severe cold to invade Moscow and Eastern Europe

Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue Throughout history, the term Russian Winter has come to explain the multitude of military failures of various invading forces into European Russia.  The effects…

Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded in Oklahoma: -31F today

From:  NewsOK.com The coldest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma was set today. The Oklahoma Mesonet weather station at Nowata reached minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit actual temperature at 7:40 a.m. today.…

Litmus test: MIT Professor Emanuel won't vote for climate change deniers

Post by Dr. Ryan Maue Distinguished MIT Professor Dr. Kerry Emanuel, who has waded gradually — but head-first into the politics of climate change, showed up on NPR’s Talk of…

Climate Professor Paul Krugman destroys deniers with his knowledge

Gradual Trends and Extreme Events Professor Krugman:  “I’ve spent a lot of the last several days reading about climate change, extreme weather events, food prices, and so on. And one…

Climate expert Paul Krugman loses perspective

Roger Pielke Jr. has a nice, short post in reaction to Paul Krugman’s opinion in the NY Times blaming climate change for the unrest in Egypt… Go read –> Roger…