Exxon Strikes Back Against the Climate Witch Hunt

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Exxon has just challenged attempts by Al Gore’s climate witch hunt to “investigate” them, by demanding to know what crime they are supposed to have…

Methane mendacity – and madness

Radical green and government agitators slam methane in latest bid to terminate fossil fuel use Guest essay by Paul Driessen Quick: What is 17 cents out of $100,000? If you…

Hump Day Hilarity – The 97% climate expertise [warning graphic content]

Josh writes: I had an idea with Brandon [Shollenberger] about discovering a secret stupid chart along the lines of the one he found. Shollenberger writes: I think I may have…

Problems with satellite sea ice monitoring confirmed by NSIDC – no timeline for fix

From NSIDC and the “worth blogging about” department Sensor on F-17 experiencing difficulties, sea ice time series temporarily suspended NSIDC has suspended daily sea ice extent updates until further notice,…

WSJ Confirms Collusion Behind #ExxonKnew

Bill McKibben, others, at secret meeting Excerpt: A key meeting in the new push unfolded in January behind the closed doors of a Manhattan office building. The session brought together…

Global Sea Ice Makes A Strong Comeback

By Paul Dorian, Vencore Weather Overview El Nino strengthened significantly during 2015 and peaked in December as one of the strongest such episodes in the past fifty years.  Even though…

Are You New To the Global Warming Debate? James Hansen Admits a Couple of Things about Global Temperatures and Sea Levels You Should Know

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Yale University’s Katherine Bagley interviewed James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in the post For James Hansen, the Science Demands Activism…

Stephen Hawking backs $100 Million Russian Effort to Build a Relativistic Space Probe

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The quest to send a physical probe to the nearest stars is heating up – renowned Physicist Stephen Hawking has teamed up with Russian billionaire…

Brazil Too Distracted by Internal Problems, to Ratify the Paris Climate Agreement?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Concerns are growing amongst greens, that climate and CO2 emissions reduction is taking a back seat in Brazil, because of a severe economic slowdown, and…

Environmentalists Going Nuclear on Pluto

Guest essay by James Wanliss Every technology has costs and benefits. Horses and oxen can draw carts but they also draw flies. Fire can cook food, but can also burn…

John Cook is cooking up more 97% consensus, while two papers refute his statistical sleights of hand

We’ve had the climate wars, now we have the consensus wars, and it appears Cook’s side and his publisher aren’t playing fair with the numbers, or with the review/rebuttal process.…

'Blind flying pig test' from climate model says islands will lack precipitation while being submerged by sea-level rise

From the University of Colorado at Boulder and “when pigs fly, climate models will capture all the missing details” department comes this oinker of a press release. Islands facing a…

Green EU Leader: People should Not be Allowed a Direct Vote on Some Issues

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Rebecca Harms, a senior member of the German Green Party, and co-President of a major Green Group in the European Parliament, thinks referendums, direct plebiscites,…

Hadley Climate data has been "corrected" thanks to alert climate skeptic

John McLean writes relative to our previous story on this issue: Friday Funny: more upside down data A few hours ago I received an email from John Kennedy at the Hadley…

Has the UK Steel Jobs Bloodbath Broken Union Support for Climate Action?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall There are intriguing signs of a softening of political resolve to act on Climate Change, on the left wing of Australian Politics. Perhaps the Climate…

NOAA/NWS to stop 'yelling' at the public in their forecasts

From NOAA Communications: National Weather Service will stop using all caps in its forecasts Farewell teletype, hello mixed-case characters LISTEN UP! BEGINNING ON MAY 11, NOAA’S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS…

Black hole with the mass of 17 billion suns discovered

From NASA Goddard: Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the…

More satellite problems with Arctic Sea Ice measurement

A few years ago in 2009, I was the first to notice and write about a failure of the instrumentation for one of the satellites used by the National Snow…

Headlines: What Climate Alarmists Write Versus What the Rest of Us See

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I always enjoy the headlines of climate alarmist news stories. This one caught my eye this week.  Of course the headline included the infamous weasel…

Federal Court rules in Favour of Plaintiffs Demanding Climate Action

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Federal court Justice Thomas Coffin has ruled that child plaintiffs suing the Federal Government have a right to put their case, that the US Government…