It looks like Bill Nye has just given Marc Morano’s film “Climate Hustle” a huge boost by bringing the Streisand Effect into full force. Dennis Kuzara writes: It looks like…
Friday Funny – Farmer answers Greenpeace fracking protesters with manure sprayer
This farmer decided to fight B.S. with B.S., literally. Josh writes: Emma Thompson is in the news again with her mobile bake off protest against fracking in Lancashire. The actress…
Not just extreme weather anymore, 'extreme climate events' enter the lexicon
Amazon rainforest responds quickly to extreme climate events STANFORD’S SCHOOL OF EARTH, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES A new study examining carbon exchange in the Amazon rainforest following extremely hot and…
Mann's new study finds human activity is a major factor driving wildfires
Study weighs human influence in wildfire forecast through 2050 From GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON (April 28, 2016)–A new study examining wildfires in California found that human activity explains as much…
Climate Craziness of the Week -Bill Nye Thinks Not Wasting Bottled Water Will Help Defeat Islamic State
Guest essay by Eric Worrall US TV personality Bill Nye thinks Climate Change is responsible for the rise of Islamic State. But don’t worry, Nye has the solution – a…
Modeling Claim: Widespread loss of ocean oxygen to become noticeable in 2030s
Deoxygenation due to climate change threatens marine life From the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH BOULDER — A reduction in the amount of oxygen dissolved in…
Danish Government Thinktank Proposes "Red Meat" Eco-Tax
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Local, a Danish Newspaper, reports that the Danish Council on Ethics, a government funded think tank, has recommended that red meat be taxed to…
Polarization may cause climate communication to backfire (so might Tweets from Michael Mann)
From DUKE UNIVERSITY and the department of Mannian screaming and insults, comes this attempt to yet again, find the perfect message to sway climate skeptics. Messages that conflict with audience’s partisan…
Steinhilber 2009
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Someone recommended that I look at the Steinhilber 2009 paper. I did. The data is here. My first-cut graphs are below. Discuss. For the reasons…
Sea of Dreams
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So I got an email from my mad South Pacific amigo Mike. I wrote about him in The Missing Cashbox and the Nguru Patrol, and…
Weather pattern changes over Greenland may account for melting, storms in Europe
From the UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD and the “weather, not climate department” comes this paper that basically says it has discovered the Greenland Block all over again. See image below, which isn’t…
Hump day hilarity – Told you so!
Josh writes: There’s been a lot of Twittering over an article in Nature Climate Change about the greening of the planet. It might not exactly be ground breaking science, it is after all…
FAIL: Busted Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment
From the “it’s OK, we used other people’s money” department and Andrew Follet at The Daily Caller: Lake Land College recently announced plans to tear down broken wind turbines on…
Ice freeze data from two lakes suggest warming winters since the end of the Little Ice Age
From York University Citizen scientists collected rare ice data, confirm warming since industrial revolution TORONTO, April 26, 2016 – In 1442, Shinto priests in Japan began keeping records of the…
NASA: Carbon dioxide fertilization greening Earth, study finds
From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER – (we covered this in a previous release, but this press release brings new information – Anthony) From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated…
The Fable of a Stable Climate
Translation from the Dutch book review “Het Sprookje van een stabiel klimaat” by Hans Labohm. Posted on the climategate.nl blog. My loyal readers know him as co-author of my blog:…
Of Pancho Villa, Global Warming, the End of the World, and Other Tall Tales
Guest essay by David Nabhan Many long-established families in El Paso and Juarez have stories about Pancho Villa to relate—mine is no different. My great uncle, Massoud, brought before the…
Teaching People Climate Science "Dampens Public Concern"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Why would teaching people more about science, tend to reduce concern about Climate Change? The obvious explanation is there is something wrong with the science,…
The new climate spin: trying to reach conservatives by making fighting climate change 'patriotic'
Framing discourse around conservative values shifts climate change attitudes From OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY Conservatives’ attitudes toward climate change and other environmental concerns shift when the issues are reframed in terms…
More Burning Water Fracking Hype: Aussie CSIRO says Methane Emissions are "Natural".
Guest essay by Eric Worrall An Aussie Green politician has attracted publicity, by “setting fire” to water in an Australian river, as part of a propaganda attack against local gas…
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