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Category: Science Notes

Clouding the picture

If we were to rank the emptiest slogans in the climate debate, "It's just basic physics" would be near the...
03 Apr, 2019| Science Notes

Shocked by ice

One of Greenland's largest glaciers, Jakobshavn, has long been a poster child of global warming alarmism because of its rapid...
03 Apr, 2019| Science Notes

Even cornier

Harvard researchers, Science Daily reports, suggest the boom in corn production in the United States since the mid-20th century may owe...
27 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

Reef knot

In 2014, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change took a measured position on coral reefs: “Coral cover and...
27 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

What little we know

Journalist Marjin Poels, whose iconoclastic film on climate change, "The Uncertainty has Settled" caused a great stir in Europe, recently...
20 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

All that glitters

A study in Nature Climate Change, ostensibly celebrating the 40th anniversary of weather satellites, claimed that the influence of CO2...
20 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

Common sense on the cob

Alarmist forecasts of declining crop yields under global warming depend on the assumption that farmers will be too dumb to...
20 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

Tell the one about the fiery bogeyman again

Biologist Jim Steele denounces “scary campfire story” climate alarmism from the perspective of someone who spent a lifetime protecting ecosystems...
13 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

The last ice floe?

It is too often taken for granted in discussions of climate that Arctic sea and Antarctic land ice are rapidly...
13 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

Hot and bothered

Climate change does seem to be causing anxiety; apparently over a third of millennials worry that human children are bad...
13 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

Global warming saves lives

It’s a bumper sticker you’re not likely to see. But there is a scientific basis for it, unlike glib claims...
06 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

Atoll tales about sea level rise

A longstanding warning about climate change is that the seas will rise washing away small Eden-like tropical atolls especially in...
06 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

Fish story

After years of factory trawlers, drift nets, open access and lack of enforceable regulations, it turns out it’s not overfishing...
06 Mar, 2019| Science Notes

Tempest in a blog post

With everyone suddenly an expert on extreme weather, an actual scientist threatens to spoil the fun. Dr. Judith Curry, former...
27 Feb, 2019| Science Notes

Settled science: the oceans edition

Climate scientists are admitting that their measurements of ocean surface temperatures through the 20th century are far less certain than...
27 Feb, 2019| Science Notes

Brrrctic

Back when the polar bears were going extinct another reliable alarmist story was about the vanishing Arctic ice. It seems...
27 Feb, 2019| Science Notes

The end of winter 2.0

With much of the northern hemisphere buried in record snow, a new study yet again touts the end of winter...
20 Feb, 2019| Science Notes

Carbon catch and release?

The New York Times writes a classic “Time may tell” story about a Swiss firm that hopes to get carbon...
20 Feb, 2019| Science Notes

A great wind

Climate alarmists frequently claim increased extreme weather proves pernicious human impact on the environment. Even if they have to invent...
20 Feb, 2019| Science Notes

All fired up

One of the annoying habits we aim to cultivate here at CDN is that of looking stuff up. When politicians...
13 Feb, 2019| Science Notes

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