Claim: East coast 'Monster hurricanes' linked to previous warm periods, current data suggests otherwise

A new press release from AGU, suggests past data shows this to be true, but Dr. Philip Klotzbach suggests this graph of current data and notes: “Florida Peninsula and East…

Vilifying realist science – and scientists

Ultra-rich Green groups attack climate scientists who question “manmade climate chaos” claims Guest essay by Paul Driessen Things are not going well for Climate Chaos, Inc. The Environmental Protection Agency…

National Academy of Science demands equal access to the climate trough for geoengineering

“…the time has come to look at options for a planetary-scale intervention…” Guest essay by Eric Worrall The National Academy of Science has demanded that scientists from disciplines other than…

Nutty claim: Advent of geoengineering may help lower temperature of debate over climate change

From Yale University and the “we had to burn the village to save it” department: Geoengineering, an emerging technology aimed at counteracting the effects of human-caused climate change, also has…

Recent Paper Ends Abstract with “…Model Might Be Too Sensitive to the Prescribed Radiative Forcings”

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The paper is Douville et al. (2015) The recent global warming hiatus: What is the role of Pacific variability? [paywalled].    The abstract reads (my…

Early Sunspots and Volcanoes

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, as often happens I started out in one direction and then I got sidetractored … I wanted to respond to Michele Casati’s claim in…

Another 'settled science' topic is not so settled after all – Big Bang theory questioned

We’ve all heard of the claim of “settled science” when it comes to global warming/climate change, and we’ve all heard of the “Big Bang Theory”, and I’m not just talking…

Environmental policy: not so much enviro as mental

Guest opinion by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The Environmentalist Committee of the House of Commons, chaired by the ghastly “Tim” Yeo, who has profited to the tune of approaching $1…

The transformation of the science of climatology, in like a Lamb, out like a Lion

Hubert Lamb And The Transformation Of Climate Science London, 10 February: A new paper by Bernie Lewin and published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation re-examines the legacy of…

Claim: Researchers find new evidence of warming

New study reveals remote lakes in Ecuador are not immune to climate change From Queen’s University A study of three remote lakes in Ecuador led by Queen’s University researchers has…

Failed climate predictions gets a website

From climatechangepredictions.org, where the proprietor writes: I’ve started a website with the idea of making it entertaining as well as informative.  The website presents global warming predictions that have been…

Warming stays on the Great Shelf

Global temperature update: the Pause is now 18 years 2 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since December 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This…

Sea Ice 101 – Insolated, Isolated, Insulated Icebergs in Space, A Mid-Term Exam

(Or, How Climate Science Is Taught Today) Guest essay by Robert A. Cook The following begins a series of topics on Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice. And, since we (behind…

Polar bears out on the sea ice eat few seals in summer and early fall

Even back in the 1970s, polar bears that spent the summer and early fall on the sea ice did not eat very often and some probably didn’t eat at all…

Volcanoes and Sunspots

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading how sunspots are supposed to affect volcanoes. In the comments to my last post, Tides, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes, someone approvingly quoted a volcano…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #167

The Week That Was: 2015-02-07 (February 7, 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…

Thanks To The IPCC, the Public Doesn’t Know Water Vapor Is Most Important Greenhouse Gas

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball It is not surprising that Roe and Baker explained in a 2007 Science paper that, “The envelope of uncertainty in climate projections has not narrowed…

Why reducing CO2 Emissions is like the 'Prisoner's Dilemma'

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Prisoner’s dilemma is a games theory scenario which explores cooperation in difficult circumstances. The classic description, there are two prisoners accused of a crime.…

The Met Office UK: Our Heros

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Those following the various versions of the “2014 was the warmest year on record” story may have missed what I consider to be the…

Tides, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Graphs updated to include error bars] Inspired by the paper by the charmingly-named Maya Tolstoy discussed here on WUWT, I decided to see if tidal forces…