By Don J. Easterbrook, Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA The recent Portland State University study of glaciers on Mt. Adams by is a good example of bad…
Tag: Little Ice Age
Getting the year off to a good start
It always helps to review the topics discussed here, as doing so always provides an educational opportunity for everyone. Given we are starting a whole new year of bringing the…
SST's cooler now than in the Medieval Warming Period
From “The Hockey Schtick“, some inconvenient truth that breaks Mann’s already broken hockey stick into even smaller pieces. A new paper finds significant cooling of Atlantic Ocean over past millennium,…
In China, there are no hockey sticks
Reposted from Jo Nova’s site Chinese 2485 year tree ring study shows shows sun or ocean controls climate, temps will cool til 2068 A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan Tree…
"Without energy, life is brutal and short"
Yesterday I had the honor of co-presenting a seminar with Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, when he visited Chico State University. He had relatives to visit…
No global climate change in the past 20,000 years?
Guest post by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA In a paper entitled “Current global warming appears anomalous in relation to the climate of…
New science field: "paleoblameatology"
Some days you just have to shake your head and say to yourself that there’s irrational fixation on CO2 that has deep roots in the psyche when we see things…
BBC: The Little Ice Age was all about solar UV variability… wasn't an ice age at all
Mike Bromley writes in: BBC has the explanation for the European LIA… it wasn’t really an ice age at all. See this strange quote.
New Climate Scare: Europe May be Facing Return Of 'Little Ice Age'
Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation Britain should brace itself for another freezing winter with the return of La Niña, a climate phenomenon known to…
Dr. Martin Hertzberg responds to Dr. Michael Mann
Readers may recall the strange series of events leading up to the post facto revisionism at the Vail Daily News when Dr. Michael Mann sent an angry reply letter to…
Nils-Axel Mörner: Arctic Environment by the Middle of this Century
Guest Post by Ric Werme Nils-Axel Mörner, best known for his career of studying sea level and sea level records, reported in the April 2011 issue of the journal Energy…
Study: solar activity lull increases chances of cold UK winters
From the Institute of Physics More than 1 in 10 chance of colder UK winters As the Sun enters a period of low solar activity over the next 50 years,…
Mann's new sea level hockey stick paper
WUWT readers may recall yesterday where Dr. Mann was so eager to list this paper on his resume/CV, he broke the embargo set for 15:00 EST June 20th, today, at…
Easterbrook on the potential demise of sunspots
THE DEMISE OF SUNSPOTS—DEEP COOLING AHEAD? Don J. Easterbrook, Professor of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA The three studies released by NSO’s Solar Synoptic Network this week, predicting the…
Warming 101 primer
Submitted by D.B. Stealey This article went viral when it was first published. Well worth reading: “Our planet has been slowly warming since last emerging from the “Little Ice Age”…
Greenland and AGW
Guest post by S Jay Porter In 891 AD. Eric The Red set off from Iceland with a few followers to explore a land to the west which they had…
Temperature reconstruction of Greenland shows ups and downs in climate happened over 5600 years
Greenland’s early Viking settlers were subjected to rapidly changing climate. Temperatures plunged several degrees in a span of decades, according to research from Brown University. A reconstruction of 5,600 years…
Study on paleo rainfall records clearly shows existence of MWP and LIA in Southern Hemisphere
This study from the University of Pittsburgh and SUNY-Albany set out to illustrate how rainfall patterns changes with global temperature in South America. They found the link they were looking…
Potential Agricultural Impact of the Eddy Minimum
Guest post by David Archibald I will be giving a lecture in Washington in early June on my way through to the Bahamas. Following are the slides that pertain to…
New solar reconstruction paper suggests 6x greater solar forcing change than cited by the IPCC
This is interesting. This recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics here has done a reconstruction of TSI using Beryllium 10 isotope records combined with sunspot records. The paper…
New paleo paper shows solar impact on past temperatures
From C3 headlines – Scientists Say Norwegian Sea Research Confirms Large, Robust Solar Impact On Temperatures Read here. Map source here. (click on image to enlarge) There are multiple factors…
The minimal solar activity in 2008–2009 and its implications for long‐term climate modeling
This is a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters by C. J. Schrijver, W. C. Livingston, T. N. Woods, and R. A. Mewaldt. WUWT readers may recognize Livingston as the…
New paleo reconstruction shows warmer periods in Alaska over the past 3000 years
For those worried about tundra melt and methane outgassing, this study might dampen those worries a bit. A new peer-reviewed study by Clegg et al. demonstrates that modern global warming…
2010 – where does it fit in the warmest year list?
Guest post by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook 1934 has long been considered the warmest year of the past century. A decade ago, the closest challenger appeared to be 1998, a…
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