Weather, Climate, Arctic Ice And The Franklin Expedition

Guest opinion by Dr. Tim Ball | Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper proudly announced discovery of one of Captain John Franklin’s ships, either the Erebus or Terror. Identification, of which…

Report – emails reveal 'collusion' with green activist groups over EPA climate agenda

NEW REPORT: FOIA’d Emails show outside ‘green’ lobby groups staffed up, collude with Obama EPA, calling rules’ legality into question For Immediate Release:September 15, 2014 | Obama’s EPA in collusion…

NASA GISS Tweaks the Short-Term Global Temperature Trend Upwards

SEE UPDATE 2 AT END OF POST Guest Post by Bob Tisdale GISS released its August 2014 global surface temperature data today. As I was preparing the graphs for the…

Claim: New Antarctic sea-ice extent due to wind and 'atmospheric warming' – what warming?

Ah ya gotta love the ABC of Australia, they’ll find a way to keep the meme alive no matter what, as reported in WUWT two days ago,  they found this…

Previous rules of thumb for climate change worsened wet/dry turned upside down

You might remember this claim from Australia’s CSIRO back in 2012 published in the Sydney Morning Herald. It’s been busted by a new paper: The wet gets wetter, the dry…

New paper links Arctic sea ice extent to absorption of sunlight by clouds

The Hockeyschtick writes: A new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres finds Arctic sea ice concentrations at the low of each summer are related to absorption of…

Where's our money? Greens accuse billionaire Richard Branson of not fulfilling pledges

Eric Worrall writes: Flamboyant British Billionaire Richard Branson, the man behind Virgin Galactic, the commercial space tourism venture, has been accused by greens of not fulfilling $3 billion of his…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #149

The Week That Was: 2014-09-13 (September 13, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy…

Virginia Sea Level

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Science Magazine is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I’m reading my AAAS Newsletter, and I find the following blurb (emphasis…

Prof Bob Carter warns of unpreparedness for Global Cooling

Eric Worrall writes: Professor Bob Carter, writing in today’s edition of The Australian, a major Aussie daily newspaper, warns that the world is unprepared for imminent global cooling, because of…

The Weather Channel is losing viewers to global warming and other pointless programming

Bloomberg reports that ratings are down 20% over three years, and with the sort of programming they continue with, such as this lame “forecast from 2050” with Sam Champion and…

New all-time satellite-era record for Antarctic sea ice extent

The Antarctic Sea Ice Extent on Sept 13 2014 may have set a  new all time record (at least for the satellite era, we don’t have data prior to that).…

NSF says the best way to deal with a warming climate is to evolve with it

Press Release 14-120 How evolutionary principles could help save our world The age of the Anthropocene–the scientific name given to our current geologic age–is dominated by human impacts on our…

Offshore Wind power: Even Germany Can't get it Right

Eric Worrall writes: According to Breitbart, Germany’s flagship Bard 1 offshore wind farm has turned into a bottomless money pit, with stakeholders frantically lawyering up, scrambling to pin the blame…

Stanford publishes a report on the balanced use of fracking

From Stanford University – Stanford-led study assesses the environmental costs and benefits of fracking A strange thing happened on the way to dealing with climate change: Advances in hydraulic fracturing…

UN Global Warming Propaganda Campaign: Return to Perceived Success Indicates Desperation

Opinion by Dr. Tim Ball | The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is running a campaign using television weather presenters and national broadcasters from around the world, to influence the UN’s…

The big chill comes early – record winter blast hits Northern Plains

Massive early cold wave –  Nearly an inch of snow at Rapid City. This is the earliest recorded snowfall going back to 1888. Source: NOAA Mount Rushmore from NWS Rapid…

Is the atmospheric ozone recovery real, or just for scoring political points?

To coincide with the upcoming “World Ozone Day 2014″ declared by the U.N. for September 16th, we have some “feel good” news coming out on the 25th anniversary of the…

Methane – damned if you do, dammed if you don't

Drowned tropical forests release too much methane Eric Worrall writes: A new study performed in Laos suggests that building Dams in tropical locations exacerbates climate change. According to Scientific American;…

Friday Funny – 52 excuses to blow your carbon diet

Josh writes of the recent list extension to 52 excuses for ‘the pause’. Celebrating over 50 Pause Excuses – our unique collection of fully grant fattening tasty morsels Flavours being added all…