Guest post by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA In a paper entitled “Current global warming appears anomalous in relation to the climate of…
Category: Paleoclimatology
The Durban ramp-up begins – now the Earth only warms by hemispheres, and not simultaneously – until now
From Lund University, a new way to blame modern man. Look for more nuttiness like this as the Durban climate conference approaches. Read the conclusion of the paper below, which…
New science field: "paleoblameatology"
Some days you just have to shake your head and say to yourself that there’s irrational fixation on CO2 that has deep roots in the psyche when we see things…
BBC: The Little Ice Age was all about solar UV variability… wasn't an ice age at all
Mike Bromley writes in: BBC has the explanation for the European LIA… it wasn’t really an ice age at all. See this strange quote.
Evaporation, not outflow, drained ancient Lake Agassiz during the Younger Dryas
From the University of Cincinnati: Long-Lost Lake Offers Clues to Climate Change What caused water levels to drop in an immense yet long-vanished lake? Research by a University of Cincinnati geologist…
Back to the "drawing board" on glacial period carbon sinks
From Oregon State University News, more news of unsettled science. Nature study: Rising CO2 levels at end of Ice Age not tied to Pacific Ocean CORVALLIS, Ore. – At the…
Warming Island / Greenland Sea Regional Climate and Arctic Sea Ice Reconstruction
Guest post by David Middleton The recent return of the Warming Island AGW myth inspired me to build a climate reconstruction for the Greenland Sea region. Temperature Reconstruction I performed…
Climate clam chowder has a spicy ENSO rhythm from an old recipe
From the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research comes word that the climate varied before, just like it does today, and we won’t be stuck with a permanent…
A blast from the gas in the past
From the AGU today, I find they are moving the cause of ancient planetary disaster from comets impacts and volcanoes or other big events to CO2 causing acidification of the…
Source of "hide the decline"? New paper finds that tree height shrinks with increased temperature
This new paper by Kempes et al published in the journal Plos One adds uncertainty to the already uncertain science of dendrochronology dendroclimatology and the attempts at tracking temperature from…
Sheep study confirms a premise of McIntyre & McKittrick 05
Yesterday, I published a press release titled Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than temperature in which researchers in Norway published a peer reviewed study stating: “We found tree ring widths…
Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than temperature
From Wiley-Blackwell, via Eurekalert, something just plain surprising. Nibbling by herbivores can have a greater impact on the width of tree rings than climate, new research has found. The study,…
Fools gold as paleo-atmospheric proxy
From the University of Edinburgh Fool’s gold gives scientists priceless insight into Earth’s evolution Fool’s gold is providing scientists with valuable insights into a turning point in the Earth’s evolution,…
The BBC's Richard Black Engages in "Goldilocks-Picking"
Guest post by David Middleton From the BBC… Climate: Cherries are not the only fruit Just about the most predictable event of the week was the tempest of opinion created…
McIntyre calls on PNAS & Michael Mann to issue retraction
Steve McIntyre’s analysis of contaminated data used by Mann et al 2008 demonstrates that relevant criteria for retraction has been met based on PNAS publication policy. Dirty Laundry II: Contaminated Sediments…
New peer reviewed study discovers that when CO2 was higher in the past, not as hot as previously thought
How hot did Earth get in the past? By Judy Holmes, Syracuse University (press release) The question seems simple enough: What happens to the Earth’s temperature when atmospheric carbon dioxide…
What's Up Next?
Guest post by J Storrs Hall There are several ways to predict what the temperature trends of the next century will be like. The standard method of prediction in science…
Paleopollen in Antarctica
Fossilized pollen reveals climate history of northern Antarctica Analysis of direct climate record shows Antarctic tundra persisted until 12 million years ago HOUSTON — (June 27, 2011) — A painstaking…
Run Away! The "Anthropocene" is coming!!!
Guest Post by David Middleton I just love it when the authors of these sorts of articles start out with a series of mistakes… The Anthropocene: Can Humans Survive A…
Mann's inverted Tiljander data survives another round of peer review
* Steve McIntyre reports (via commenter AMac) that Mann’s inverted Tiljander sediment data lives on in Kemp et al 2011 like some zombie that will not die. I feel for…
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