From Yale University and the “I’ll bet this guy never reads RealClimate and WUWT” department: Climate science literacy unrelated to public acceptance of human-caused global warming Those who score highest…
Inconvenient study: La Niña killed coral reefs 4100 years ago and lasted over two millennia
From Georgia Tech and the “it’s your SUV that’s killing the coral reefs today, why can’t you get that through your head” department comes this inconvenient study. La Nina-like conditions…
Smear campaign: "His judgment cometh and that right soon"
The title is a quote from the framed embroidery over the Warden’s wall safe in the movie The Shawshank Redemption, which is a story about one man fighting the corruption…
Weekly climate and energy news roundup #169
The Week That Was: 2015-02-21 (February 21, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
The Disparity Between IPCC Science Reports, Summary For Policymakers and Reality, Requires a Political Science Solution
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report was the most influential in establishing global warming as a serious threat demanding political action. It…
Great Lakes Ice Coverage In Striking Distance of a Record
Guest Post By Just The Facts After Micheal Mann and Kevin Trenberth helpfully attributed the recent record snowfall in Boston to global warming, we now have another undeniable indication of…
The CERES Calculated Surface Datasets
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The CERES dataset is satellite data that is based on radiation measurements made from low earth orbit. The CERES data has two parts. The first…
Weekend Open Thread
It has been quite awhile since we’ve had an open thread on WUWT, so let’s have one. As usual, stay on topic per this blog’s usual discussions, and keep it…
Eastern U.S. record breaking cold and snow as seen from space
From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA snaps picture of Eastern US in a record-breaking ‘freezer’ NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of the snow-covered eastern U.S. that looks like the…
Unsubstantiated Claim Over One Cyclone: Climate Change is "Expanding the Tropics"
Because tornadoes and cyclones never appeared in temperate zones before Story submission by Eric Worrall The Sydney Morning Herald has advanced a claim that Cyclone Marcia, the cat 5 cat…
Friday Funny Bonus: East Coast Frozen Blizzard Edition
Cartoonist Rick McKee of the Augusta Chronicle sends this global warming related cartoon our way today. It is set for tomorrow’s edition of the paper, dated 2/21 but we get…
Friday Funny: Well if I was a ‘denier’ I guess I’d be on notice by Barack Obama
An actual email from the “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of any anti-science organization?” department and Barack Obama’s “Organizing for Action” front. Friend — It’s…
Believing In Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, And Climate Models
Dr. Chris Essex: Why Computers Cannot Reproduce The Climate, Never Mind Predicting Its Future A GWPF talk by Dr Christopher Essex – Chairman, Permanent Monitoring Panel on Climate, World Federation…
Canada: Climate Extremists a credible threat
Guardian / leaked Canadian Government memo Story submission by Eric Worrall The Guardian has published excerpts of what it claims is an internal Canadian government memo, which suggests that the…
Data, Models, and the Australian ABC
Guest essay by Cameron Goodison Recently the Australian Goyder Institute released a report detailing the effects of climate change on rainfall in South Australia. The result: ‘Climate change will halve…
Cyclone Marcia: Climate crank wishing suffering on "deniers"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australia is suffering a rare “cyclone sandwich” – two gigantic tropical cyclones, Cyclone Marcia (cat 5 – like Katrina) and Cyclone Lam (cat 4) are…
Twenty good reasons not to worry about polar bears and climate change
Via Dr. Susan Crockford at polarbearscience.com: Here’s a new resource for cooling the polar bear spin, all in one place. I’ve updated and expanded my previous summary of reasons not…
Eye roller: Study finds climate change induced 'extreme weather' may dramatically reduce wheat production
From Kansas State University, where they apparently don’t look at crop reports like this one: MANHATTAN, Kansas — A recent study involving Kansas State University researchers finds that in the…
4 of the 5 Great Lakes about to freeze over
Corky Boyd writes: The latest NATICE graphics show Lake Erie totally covered with 9/10+ ice, Lakes Superior and Huron are nearly totally covered with 9/10+ and Ontario about 80% covered…
Fawlty Towers and Ivory Towers
Guest opinion by Charles Battig John Cleese’s 1970’s “Fawlty Towers” of BBC fame provided a satirical view of an inept hotel manager in his dealings with potential guests, “who is…
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