Guest essay by Eric Worrall While Anthony was setting up his exhibit with Willis at the AGU convention, in another part of the conference, Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown has vowed to…
How a Department Resists a Businessman
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a previous post, The DOE vs Ugly Reality, I discussed how a businessman takes over a government department. In this case it’s the Department of Energy…
Climate and Food – Evidence Free Posturing
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If there is one area of climate prediction which demonstrates how disconnected from evidence climate science has become, it is increasingly tattered predictions that climate…
Challenging climate sensitivity: 'Observational Quantification of Water Vapor Radiative Forcing' #AGU16 presentation
By Willis Eschenbach and Anthony Watts Today at the American Geophysical Union Convention, Willis Eschenbach and Anthony Watts will be presenting at 1:10PM in Moscone South. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Study…
More Polar Non-Science
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Good Grief! Enough already with the Polar Bears! The folks at the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science**, whose motto, proudly displayed on…
More Frac'ing Lies from the EPA, Part Deux
Guest post by David Middleton This is the promised sequel to More Frac’ing Lies from the EPA. The EPA’s new report on frac’ing can be downloaded here: Hydraulic Fracturing for…
More Fracking Lies from the EPA
Guest post by David Middleton The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reversed course on Tuesday, saying in a long-awaited report that it doesn’t have enough information to make a broad conclusion…
University of Toronto Wants to "Save" Climate Data from Trump
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The University of Toronto is hosting a data archiving event on 17th December, to try to “save” climate data they believe will be deleted by…
Energy Department Refuses President-Elect Trump Request for Information
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Scientific American, The US Department of Energy has refused a request from President-elect Trump’s Energy Department Transition Team for information about what their…
#standupforscience rally at #AGU16 – another Manntastic production
Another Manntastic event, these flyers were being distributed at AGU yesterday. Note the “lab coats and signs provided”. Much more sciency with labs coats, fer sure. Here are some pictures…
#AGU16 NOAA's releases their annual Arctic Report Card
Today at the AGU convention in San Francisco, NOAA’s NSIDC released their annual Arctic report card, which I copy below without comment. In a story released by AP, NSIDC’s director…
Meme of the Moment -Fake Climate News
Guest essay by Charles G. Battig Like mesmerized butterflies in a field of flowers, the internet-based media flits from hot-topic to hot-topic. Carefully crafted news items are released as powerful…
British Energy Crisis: OFGEN Official Warns Renewables Will Leave Poor Britons "Sitting in the Dark"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – A senior OFGEN official has warned that Britain faces a looming energy crisis, caused by excessive reliance on intermittent renewables. Britain facing…
#AGU16 – Results from OCO2 carbon tracking satellite in 3D
Following Carbon Dioxide Through the Atmosphere Carbon dioxide plays a significant role in trapping heat in Earth’s atmosphere. The gas is released from human activities like burning fossil fuels, and…
#AGU16 Earth’s Magnetic Fields Could Track Ocean Heat, NASA Study Proposes
From the “Thermometers? We don’t need no steenkin thermometers!” department and NASA comes this interesting story. Video follows. As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the…
Remember when peat bogs were going to release deadly carbon? Never mind.
Readers may recall the NYT sounds of alarm over peat bogs releasing all manners of hellish CO2 into the atmosphere due to warming. Well, they’re all wet. From FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY.…
I Finally Beat My Blog Into Submission
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I finally bit the bullet and successfully got my own blog up and running. It’s called “Skating on the underside of the ice“. The…
A Summary of Meehl, et al., 2016 and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
By Andy May In a comment to my earlier post on ocean cycles, Nick Stokes challenged my interpretation of a quote from the new Nature Climate Change paper by Meehl,…
#AGU16 claim: the speed of ice tells the woes of climate change
This press conference from Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center,and Twila Moon, University of Bristol, in the UK was amusing. They claim that glaciers and ice sheets are melting…
AGU#16 Redefining the Carbon Footprint of Coal
I found this item in the AGU newsroom today, I don’t quite know what to make of it. by Margaret Donelick BiMBy Power Company, LLC will present a poster at…
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