From the Steig et al. is still dead department: The rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula, which occurred from the early-1950s to the late 1990s, has paused. Stabilisation of the…
New research shows that California's Sierra Nevada snowpack will likely not recover from the current drought until 2019
By Lauren Lipuma, Contributing Writer, EOS The unprecedented drought that has gripped the Southwest United States has severely depleted the Sierra Nevada snowpack, the major source of water for drinking and…
Ignoring science to convince the public that we’re doomed by climate change
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The news has become stranger since the climate policy debate has decoupled from the IPCC. Ludicrous claims of certain doom and…
EPA CAFE Targets Unattainable… And their fuel efficiency “test is [fracked] up big time.”
Guest post by David Middleton Doubly too fracking funny! In July 2011, the Obama Maladministration increased the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard for passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon…
Philippines Demands Upfront Compensation to Meet Climate Commitments
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who won the Presidency in May this year, by promising law and order, and economic development, has demanded up front compensation…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 3: The War on Sugar
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This is the third in a series of several essays that will discuss ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which are often referred…
What hibernating toads tell us about climate (nothing)
From MCGILL UNIVERSITY and the “30 years defines a climate trend and 24 years defines toad trend department” comes this dreck. I call bullshit. 24-year study of spring emergence of…
Battered Aussie Conservatives Try to Woo Back Climate Skeptics
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian is worried that the centre right Australian Coalition government, which won the recent national election by the narrowest of margins, has signalled a…
June 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides updates of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS and NCEI (formerly NCDC) through June 2016…
Attempt by AAAS at climate consensus underscores the fact the 'science is not a democracy'
From the “so what?” department and the American Association for the Advancement of Science via Eurekalert: Thirty-one top scientific societies speak with one voice on global climate change In a…
Actual press release: "Policy makers and ecologists must develop a more constructive dialogue to save the planet"
From the talk not action department and TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN comes this laughable press release: Policy makers and ecologists must develop a more constructive dialogue to save the planet Dublin, Ireland,…
UN Accuses Germany, Britain of "Betraying" the Paris Climate Accord
Guest essay by Eric Worrall In the wake of a dramatic rollback of climate policy in Britain and Germany, the UN has accused Britain and Germany of “betraying the spirit”…
New find of 100+ exoplanets suggests Earth-like planets might be present
NASA’s Kepler confirms 100+ exoplanets during its K2 mission The largest haul of confirmed planets obtained since the space observatory transitioned to a different mode of observing includes a planetary…
Analysis of Washington Post police-shootings data reveals surprising result – nearly 2x more whites than blacks shot by police
Note: While not the usual fare of WUWT, after some discussion with Mr. Eschenbach, I decided that this was an impartial data analysis, and that publishing it would be a…
Claim: Researchers create means (a model) to monitor anthropogenic global warming in real time
From the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO and the two most manipulated datasets on the planet- Karl’s “pause buster” and NASA GISS. Study points to primacy of Pacific Ocean as…
Say Hello to La Niña Conditions
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale A quick ENSO update. Meteorological agencies like NOAA use the sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region (5S-5N, 170W-120W) of the equatorial Pacific to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #232
The Week That Was: 2016-07-16 (July16, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project…
Al Gore's revamped "Triana" satellite catches the Moon photobombing Earth
From NASA Goddard: NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth for 2nd Time in a Year For only the second time in a year, a NASA camera aboard the…
Scientists move one step closer to creating Harry Potter's invisibility cloak
From the curious things department and Queen Mary University of London: Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a composite material with nano-size…
Michael Mann: We still need Climate Models, Really
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Michael Mann, inventor of the “hockey stick”, wants to reassure us that we still need his climate research, even though a few weeks ago he…
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