Those weren't the days One question we periodically attempt to pose to climate activists, and suggest you do the same, is that if we... 31 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
All the drought that's fit to drink Apparently the Amazon rainforest is now the Amazon desert, and it’s all your fault. The Guardian panics that “The climate... 31 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
Tidbits In December the Wall Street Journal “The Future of Everything” feature asked “Are Sailboats the Future of Cargo Shipping?” And... 31 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
All tipping points all the time According to a Heatmap Daily piece called “The Last Gasp of Winter Sports”, snow is all but done. “A new... 31 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
And they wonder why no one trusts them The Economist, speaking for Davos Person, conceded that “An influx of Chinese cars is terrifying the West” but argued editorially... 31 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
Meanwhile in the real world Because reality is tricky, Robinson Meyer at Heatmap Daily instead invites readers instead “to dream. Envision a future where the... 31 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
#ECS in the real world: Shaviv et al. 2022 A cliché that describes getting the big picture is to go out to “the 30,000 foot view”. In this study... 31 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
ECS does not correlate with volcanic effects, and why it matters We have had a lot to say over the years about #ECS, noting especially the way the IPCC is determined... 31 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
Modelling climatic impacts of low clouds over tropical waters From the CO2Science Archive: Writing that “regions of marine stratocumulus clouds play an important role in maintaining Earth's global energy... 31 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
The end of snow as we know it Among the curiosities of the winter of 2023-24 thus far, it has seen a lot of snow cover in the... 24 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
Oh snap! When the mercury soars it’s a heat “wave” or heat “dome.” When it plunges it’s a cold “snap”. As in,... 24 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
The end of glacier melting as we know it You may recall the IPCC’s fiasco over their exaggerated claims about Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035 due to global warming.... 24 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
Tidbits The WEF creates an online Global Collaboration Village, apparently unaware that Marshall McLuhan thought the “global village” was a place... 24 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
Green dreams are made of these Canadian Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland went to the Davos WEF forum, arguably not a good look,... 24 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
One way to keep warm this winter On January 12 the Daily Mail wrote an “EXCLUSIVE” that: “Electric double-decker buses will NOT be withdrawn from service after... 24 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
EVs the best, say people paid to say such things In an exceptionally brazen piece of state-funded journalactivism Canada’s CBC, in the middle of bitter cold that threatened to cast... 24 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
#ECS in the real world: Lewis and Curry 2018 Earlier in this series we reported on a paper by Nic Lewis and Judith Curry which brought some key climate... 24 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
So about that polar vortex Since scientific proof has nowadays ditched boring old-fashioned tools like physical theories and real-world data for computer models and colourful... 24 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
One hundred and one years of Netherlands windstorms From the CO2Science Archive: Climate alarmists contend that extreme weather events, such as windstorms, tend to become more frequent or... 24 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
Man-made cooling A recent project by Tony Heller, whose work in the archives has long commanded our admiration, has been to examine... 17 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
Suddenly cold weather isn't so cool In mid-December the New York Times reported that “Survivors Face Subzero Temperatures After Quake Kills Over 120 in China”. Knowing... 17 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
Tidbits According to StarInsider’s 31-slide presentation on “The dire consequences of climate change on everyday life” in case you didn’t know... 17 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
Let's talk fraud Having praised his work in this week’s first “News Roundup” item, let us repeat here our one big disagreement with... 17 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
Don't they know history? It’s especially important to understand how arrogant certainty leads people to misinterpret data with fierce conviction because reporting on the... 17 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
Warming faster at the poles Arctic sea ice has been rebounding rapidly of late. The usual suspects use pseudo-scary language like “ninth lowest in the... 17 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
#ECS in the real world: Christy and McNider 2017 We’ve reviewed many studies that estimate the Earth’s Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity or ECS by observing actual conditions outside rather than... 17 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
NOAA's "Billion Dollar Disaster" disaster Speaking of mistreating data, Roger Pielke Jr. has posted on his Substack the draft of a paper he submitted for... 17 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
Temperatures of the past six millennia in Alaska From the CO2Science Archive: The authors conducted a high-resolution analysis of midge assemblages found in the sediments of Moose Lake... 17 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
That was the year that will have been Apparently 2024 was the hottest year ever. Which might seem a premature judgement given that it only just started and... 10 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
RIP 8.5 Many climate alarmists love to portray the monstrosity known as the RCP8.5 scenario, much-criticized not just by the usual suspects... 10 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
Tidbits This just in from the real world. The City of Edmonton, northern capital (53°N) of Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta,... 10 Jan, 2024| News Roundup
A new year's resolution As it is early January, we are all still keeping some of our recent pledges to mend our ways while... 10 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
The ghost of weather stations past A crucial climate alarmist assumption is that we know the temperatures of the past, at least the recent past, everywhere... 10 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
Another demonstration As the “energy transition” thunders forward, or staggers, Parker Gallant proposes a real-world experiment of considerable interest. It developed out... 10 Jan, 2024| OP ED Watch
#ECS in the real world: Bates 2016 In this series on studies that estimate climate sensitivity based on observed climate data rather than climate models, we’ve noted... 10 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
A startling number of wildfires On his Substack channel Roger Pielke Jr has presented a quick and useful summary of 2023 climate extremes. As he... 10 Jan, 2024| Science Notes
Outbreaks of insects and the severity of subsequent forest fires From the CO2Science Archive: Introducing their study of a somewhat unusual subject, Meigs et al. (2016) write that “in western... 10 Jan, 2024| Science Notes