Claim: Consumers care about carbon footprint

This study reminded me of one of the most ridiculous green marketing campaigns ever, “carbon free” Domino sugar. My view is that the only consumers that care about a carbon…

Analysis of the Relationship Between Land Air Temperatures and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations

Guest essay by Clyde H. Spencer Before getting into the details of the analysis, it must be stated that there are a number of issues with the available temperature data…

The Warmer The Icier

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A WUWT commenter emailed me with a curious claim. I have described various emergent phenomena that regulate the surface temperature. These operate on time scales…

Ten dire polar bear predictions that have failed as global population hits 20-31k

Guest essay by Dr. Susan Crockford Grim predictions of the imminent demise of polar bears – their “harsh prophetic reality” as it’s been called – have been touted since at…

DMI apologizes for their disappeared sea-ice graph debacle

Earlier this week, I published a post titled: DMI disappears an inconvenient sea ice graph . Some of the usual folks who police any sea ice discussion went ballistic over the post,…

Very strong graphical evidence for the Pause. (Part 2)

Guest essay by Sheldon Walker A quick recap for anybody who missed my first article. My first article can be found here. I have developed a new technique for analysing global…

Science debunks the eco-fable of Easter Island

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The Polynesian expansion across the Pacific from Samoa to South America is one of history’s greatest achievements of exploration. Conducted with…

Ridiculous $1.4M Yale study creates 'fictitious fishing communities' to model future fish stock & economic changes

From the department of wasted grant money and YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, comes this models gone wild fish story moment, bold mine: Global warming will drive vast, unpredictable…

Green British Airport Trespassers Avoid Jail

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Heathrow 13, a group of green anti-flight activists who were convicted of cutting the perimeter fence and disrupting flight operations, at one of the…

New Paper Shows Global Warming Hiatus Real After All

Climate researchers have published a new paper this week in the journal Nature Climate Change that acknowledges there has been a global warming slowdown from 2000-2014. Their research shows a…

New study seeks global carbon budget to meet 2°C limit, may also find unicorns along the way

From the INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS and the department of “burning budgets”, comes this glassy eyed missive that has about as much chance of being applied globally as…

Fun video: fire in ultra slo-mo

From The American Chemical Society To fire up the grill or the gas stove, we often reach for a match. It turns out there’s a lot of chemistry going on…

Bill Gates: "We need a [energy] miracle"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Bill Gates thinks we need a miracle to solve the world’s energy needs, a safe, reliable, non polluting form of energy which could bring electricity…

WaPo's 'baked in goodness' of climatic hyper-adjectives

It has been obvious for years that there’s a “say anything” aspect to climate and weather reporting that has gotten out of hand. Today I saw a prime example of…

Northern Winter Nights

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach  [See Addendum at the bottom.] [See Second Addendum at the bottom] I got to thinking about the distribution of the so-called “global” warming. I’d heard…

A new climate war brewing: forecasting vs. modeling

A new paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation explains how statistical forecasting methods can provide an important contrast to climate model-based predictions of future global warming. The…

Study: Urban backyards contribute almost as much CO2 as much as cars and buildings

From the “mulch your way to a warmer planet” department and Boston University: Urban soils release surprising amounts of carbon dioxide Tracking biological emissions will allow more accurate assessments of climate…

Model claims: Future heat waves to roast 60% of the planetary surface by 2075

From NCAR/UCAR: SEARING HEAT WAVES DETAILED IN STUDY OF FUTURE CLIMATE February 23, 2016 Sweltering heat waves that typically strike once every 20 years could become yearly events across 60…

Tim Flannery: Firing Climate Scientists Breaches the Paris Agreement

Tim Flannery, whose spectacularly wrong advice once helped panic Aussie politicians into wasting billions of dollars on useless desalination plants, now thinks firing CSIRO climate scientists will cause Australia to…

Finally, a study that shows unreliable models are the root of overwrought 'extreme weather' events

Dr. Judith Curry tips me to this new study in GRL: Unreliable climate simulations overestimate attributable risk of extreme weather and climate events Omar Bellprat, Francisco Doblas-Reyes Abstract Event attribution aims…