compare to this: I had mentioned this new dendro paper to Steve McIntyre, who wrote a short note about it while pointing out that: A news release on a new…
Category: Paleoclimatology
Glacier loss in Hawaii tied to change in North Atlantic AMOC current
From an Oregon State University press release: Ancient Hawaiian glaciers reveal clues to global climate impacts CORVALLIS, Ore. – Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit…
Peer reviewed science: Polar bears of the past survived warmth
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of hearing about the polar bears as a proxy for Arctic ice issues. Yesterday, Steve Goddard pointed out the ramifications…
Polar Bears Survived the Ice Free Arctic
UPDATE BELOW: Peer reviewed science supports the title! By Steve Goddard In part two of Dr. Meier’s post , he mentioned : “Examination of several proxy records (e.g., sediment cores)…
New Chinese study in GRL disputes the hockey stick conclusions
China’s 2,000 Year Temperature History While Mann claims his hockey stick science to be “vindicated”, we have this from World Climate Report, a new peer reviewed study that illustrates that…
Climate Craziness of the Week: The AGU peddles a mammoth climate change theory
Yes, our forebears started global warming by hunting the woolly mammoth. Right. Must be the mammoth albedo effect, much like the sheep albedo effect. Oh, wait, no it’s birch trees…
Mann says hockey stick "icon" is "misplaced"
The scientist behind the controversial ‘hockey stick’ graph has said it was ‘somewhat misplaced’ to make his work an ‘icon of the climate change debate’. From the Telegraph, By Louise…
Deep Purple Haze – the orginal sunscreen
Early Earth haze likely provided ultraviolet shield for planet, says CU-Boulder study. See press release here. Earth’s thick organic haze 3 billion years ago likely similar to haze hovering over…
Icy consensus: least ice "at least the last few thousand years"
From Ohio State, alarming news about ice, sediments, proxy algae, and other worrisome stuff. It has a familiar ring to it, plus some luck. ARCTIC ICE AT LOW POINT COMPARED…
Anthropogenic Decline in Natural Gas
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, Nature Geoscience is on a roll. Their latest “scientific study” makes an old claim in a new way. After ascribing the temperature changes in…
Unprecedented Warming in Lake Tanganyika
Well here we go again, you know the drill. Global warming at fault, other possibilities ignored, multiple press releases. Lake Tanganyika is the second largest lake in the world for…
Climate Change and the dinosaurs
The prevailing theory (on Dino extinction) is said to be a comet/meteor strike, evidenced in the KT Iridium layer, found worldwide. This study though suggests that even though CO2 was…
Mann 2008 a Victim of Sudden Oak Death?
While Dr. Mann and his attorneys are busy sending letters to threaten legal action against authors of a parody video depicting him chopping down trees, such as this one he…
Prominent Climategate Figure Threatens Lawsuit over Spoof Video – No Cap-and-Trade Coalition Says “Bring it on”
PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, April 20th 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jeff Davis No Cap and Trade Coalition Washington, DC — Penn State University’s Michael Mann, one of the central figures in…
Another indication of MWP and LIA being global
From CO2 Science, another peer reviewed paper with a paleoclimatology reconstruction based on cores containing plankton shells, show that both the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age…
Doug Keenan finally gets the tree data
Climate sceptic wins landmark data victory ‘for price of a stamp’ Belfast ecologist forced to hand over tree-ring data describes order from information commission as a ‘staggering injustice’ by Fred…
Faint young sun paradox explained by Stanford – greenhouse effect not involved
Early Earth stayed warm because its ocean absorbed more sunlight; greenhouse gases were not involved, Stanford researchers say. See more about the Faint sun paradox here. A video clip follows.…
Sediments Show Pattern in Earth's Long-Term Climate Record
From UCSB News: (h/t to David Schnare) UCSB Geologist Discovers Pattern in Earth’s Long-Term Climate Record Lorraine Lisiecki (Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In an analysis of the past 1.2 million…
More "hiding the decline"
Steve McIntyre points out some inconvenient data from Law Dome. ================================== Re-reading Climategate and AR4 Review Comments, I noticed an interesting discussion about handling the Law Dome O18 record –…
Medieval Warm Period seen in western USA tree ring fire scars
Here is just one more indication that despite what some would like you to believe, the MWP was not a regional “non event”. From a University of Arizona press release,…
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