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Tree Rings Reveal Largest Solar Storm EVAH!
Guest “Well, the largest yet identified,” by David Middleton NEWS RELEASE 9-OCT-2023 Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS An international team of…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #570
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #567
What is necessary for the very existence of science and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #565
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
La Brea Megafaunal Extinctions Driven by Fires 13,000 Years Ago
Peer-Reviewed Publication AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (AAAS) Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions from Southern California were driven by large-scale fires in an ecosystem made increasingly vulnerable by climate change…
A Brief History of Climate, From Prehistory to The Imaginary Crisis of the 21st Century
Climate history clearly shows that we’re living in a blessed time, and that past civilizations generally prospered during warm periods and declined during cold ones.
Wrong, USA Today, Ocean Currents Aren’t Near Collapse
In fact, based on the limited data, the authors have no way of knowing whether the AMOC speeds up and down cyclically on a multidecadal or multi-century basis, or whether…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #545
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #540
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein
Misperception and Amplification of Climate Risk
The net effect of all this apocalyptic rhetoric, which effectively exploits how humans misperceive risk, is to increase neurotic worrying in many people (particularly children), which can indeed make people…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #496
The Week That Was: 2022-03-19 (March 19, 2022)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Is science of any value? I think a…
Greenland Hiawatha Crater Robustly Dated to Late Paleocene
Guest “Missed it by that much” by David Middleton Following this, Kjaer et al. (2018) report the discovery of a large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. From…
Tipping points in Earths geophysical and biological systems
When a threshold is crossed the physical system responds with positive and negative feedbacks until settling into a new climate state as the perturbation damps out.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #479
We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run…
Holocene CO2 Variability and Underlying Trends
Guest Post by Renee Hannon Introduction This post compares CO2 data from Antarctic ice cores during the Holocene interglacial period with other publicly available CO2 datasets. Antarctic ice CO2 is…
Sea Levels Near B.C. Canada Were 90 Meters Higher Than Today 14,500 Years Ago
A new study suggests British Columbia (Canada) relative sea levels remained 10 meters higher than they are today until they fell to their present levels in the last ~1800 years.…
Holocene Antarctic CO2 Variability or Lack Of
Guest Post by Renee Hannon Introduction This post examines CO2 ice core measurements from Antarctica during the Holocene Epoch. The key CO2 dataset for paleoclimate studies is the EPICA Dome…
Hiawatha Crater: Bracketing the Age
Guest “Don’t mention the YDIH… (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)” by David Middleton The recent discovery of a large, probably young, impact crater beneath the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet…
Summer Natural Gas Prices Reach 7-yr High!
Guest “Thanks Joe!” by David Middleton JULY 22, 2021Summer U.S. natural gas prices are the highest since 2014 In June, the U.S. natural gas spot price at the Henry Hub…
US Crude Oil Exports: Record High in 2020, Despite Lockdown
Guest “Yee-hah! ” by David Middleton JULY 20, 2021U.S. crude oil exports reached record levels in 2020 and remain high in 2021 Despite volatility in global oil markets, U.S. crude…
How to compare today to the past
By Andy May In the last post, I discussed the problems comparing modern instrumental global or hemispheric average temperatures to the past. Ocean temperature coverage was sparse and of poor…
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