The Atlantic: David A. Graham: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: Get Used to Endless War From ISIS to climate change, the Pentagon chief says, the threats that face the United States…
Magnetism and Weather: Interconnections?
Opinion; Dr. Tim Ball Way back in the last century, I suggested that in this 21st century the dominant issue in science would be magnetism and in resources water. This…
Hump Day Hilarity – warming at a snails pace
Josh writes: A post by Richard Betts on how the 2 degree limit is like a speed limit just begged for a cartoon! So I did one: On BH now…
Climate change not to blame for 2013 Colorado floods – lack of infrastructure upgrades played a key role
From the University of Colorado Denver CU Denver study says upgrading infrastructure could reduce flood damage Outdated roads, bridges added to flood losses last year DENVER (Oct. 29, 2014) –…
A Future Climate Science Moment
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Not too far in the future, a third-generation climate scientist will be asked by a college student about his grandfather’s work with climate models. Flabbergasted,…
The EPA jumps the shark, banning – ARGON ?
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “noble” cause corruption. Documentation follows. Eric Worrall writes: h/t IceAgeNow – the American EPA has stunned observers, with a list of…
Insights into the physics of space weather that disrupts cell phones and creates Earthly havoc
From the American Physical Society News from the 2014 APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Each second, the sun hurls millions of tons of hot, charged plasma gas into space.…
Winning Slowly
I wanted to highlight an interesting article by Dr. Daniel Botkin. It seems that it helps to be a Professor Emeritus in order to be able to speak your mind freely. Among…
Britain Announces Emergency Measures To Prevent Winter Blackouts
From the GWPF: Cold Winter Could Cause Britain’s Lights To Go Out Emergency measures to prevent blackouts this winter have been unveiled by National Grid after Britain’s spare power capacity…
Claim: Future-focused women stand up to global warming with taxes, checkbook
WSU researcher finds future-oriented women most likely to fight global warming PULLMAN, Wash. – Politicians who discredit global warming risk losing a big chunk of the female vote. A new…
Partial solar eclipse shows off massive sunspot
From the National Science Foundation: Press Release 14-141 Spotlighting the sun October 24, 2014 Astronomers with the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) captured pictures not only…
More On Miriam O’Brien’s Misunderstandings at HotWhopper
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is the second in a series of posts about the blog HotWhopper, specifically about the misunderstandings about climate-science basics displayed by its author and…
Andrew Neil skewers the green blobette
You just have to watch this, it shows weaseling out of direct questions as an art form. Key phrase: “Well what I would say is…” From Bishop Hill: Take a…
A brilliant illusionist trick: The shining new EU climate policy
Guest essay by Fred F. Mueller – Perfectly timed to the run-up of the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference that will be held in Paris in November/ December 2015,…
Climate Doomsday draws near: just 37 days to go
Tim Blair writes in his column, Monday, October 27, 2014 about yet another climate prediction by a government scientist that seems sure to fail. You can add it to the…
Winter comes a month early in Kazakhstan and other northern regions
David DuByne writes: Early Snows & Lost Grain Tonnage Central Asia Ural Mountains (Oct 03), USA Crop losses (Oct 11), Ukraine (Oct 22), Grain fields of Northern Kazakhstan snow and…
Climate Research needs Re-direction
Letter to the Editor 27th October 2014 Written by Viv Forbes of carbon-sense.com Governments are running huge deficits, but still spend billions on climate research especially trying to model the…
Open Thread Sunday
I’m traveling today to another city to see a specialist to deal with a significant and ongoing personal health issue, so blogging will be light over the next couple of…
Yes Virginia (and everyone else) there is an El Niño coming
Guest essay by Joe Bastardi I am a bit surprised at some of the waffling in the meteorological community on the ENSO event ( then again, maybe it is I…
Changes in Total Solar Irradiance
Total solar irradiance, also called “TSI”, is the total amount of energy coming from the sun at all frequencies. It is measured in watts per square metre (W/m2). Lots of…
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