The Overlooked Role of Atmospheric Rivers in Arctic Sea Ice Loss: A Challenge to the CO2-Centric Narrative

The Arctic’s fate is not as straightforward as many would have us believe, and neither should be the policies we enact in response to its changes.

Climate Change Weekly #510: International Climate Conference Debunks Science and Policy Consensus Claims

The Heartland Institute partnered with the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) and the U.S.-based Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) to hold a two-day climate conference on…

Climate Change Weekly #509: Surveys Show Vast Bulk of Antarctica Is Stable or Growing

Overall, there was no declining trend in fixed ice on land, and perhaps even net growth across East Antarctica, where “[ice] losses have primarily occurred in some of the marine-based…

Meltwater Pulse 1A

Guest “trying not to nitpick” by David Middleton An Ancient Meltwater Pulse Raised Sea Levels by 18 MetersMeltwater pulse 1A, a period of rapid sea level rise after the last…

Has Nature Communications committed reckless endangerment?

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Here is an update on the case against Nature Communications and against the soi-disant “University” of California at Merced and various of its denizens in…

Enlisting peer-reviewed science in the climate crusade

Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Blog Larry Kummer, Editor Climate change 15 August 2019 Summary: A study reveals that the public debate about climate change has begun a new phase.…

Desktop Sized Atom Smasher Demonstrated

From the “E.O. Lawrence would be jealous department”  and the University of Texas Austin comes this bit of interesting news (h/t to “View From the Solent”). Full disclosure, I made…

An interesting advance in battery applications

From Stanford University encouraging news, a rechargeable Zinc-air battery would put electric cars into the realm of reasonable practicality, where with lead-acid batteries they are currently not. Stanford scientists develop…

Using leaf veins to hindcast climate

From the University of California – Los Angeles Hacking code of leaf vein architecture solves mysteries, allows predictions of past climate UCLA life scientists have discovered new laws that determine…