2,000 Years Under the Sea There is much talk about the temperature record going back a great many years. But of course we can’t stick... 01 May, 2019| Science Notes
Cooking the thermometer It's healthy for scientists to debate evidence as well as logic. And despite people hissing “shut up” at climate skeptics,... 01 May, 2019| Science Notes
When we get the new computers A lot of people believe that inadequacies in modeling weather and climate are due to the fact that the computers... 24 Apr, 2019| Science Notes
Fueling their anger If it isn’t polar bears disappearing, it’s forest fires rampaging. Canada’s environment minister keeps citing a fictitious increase in them... 24 Apr, 2019| Science Notes
Because we never used to have wildfires Tony Heller’s website realclimatescience.com specializes in finding historical newspaper entries and climate records that debunk claims that current events are... 24 Apr, 2019| Science Notes
Not-so-adorable polar bears As we mentioned briefly last week, a documentary on Netflix claimed some Siberian walruses fell to their deaths off a... 17 Apr, 2019| Science Notes
Wait, greening? Amidst news that Canada warmed 1.7 degrees since 1948 we might also note that the country has gotten better off... 17 Apr, 2019| Science Notes
Warmest ever, except for all the others Between the Netflix walrus scam and the Environment Canada report about relatively rapid warming in northern Canada, it is important... 17 Apr, 2019| Science Notes
Frogs and fake news As noted elsewhere in this newsletter, when warming brings good things no one will mention it. But if a study... 10 Apr, 2019| Science Notes
The only thing worse than warming Via CO2science we learn of a new study (or rather another new study, there being many earlier ones making the... 10 Apr, 2019| Science Notes
The strong weak sun A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds a surprisingly strong solar influence on wind... 10 Apr, 2019| Science Notes
The 3rd horseman falls off his mount Ukraine is the latest place to report a record harvest despite predictions of climate-driven drought, blight, pests and even “toxic... 03 Apr, 2019| 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
What if climate catastrophe made life better? Over at Watts Up With That Willis Eschenbach notes that according to the Berkeley Earth temperature archive, continental Europe has... 27 Mar, 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
Antarctic ice vanishes unless it doesn't NBC finished us off another way too this week, with a story saying “A hole opens up under Antarctic glacier... 13 Feb, 2019| Science Notes
Models versus observations: Greenland edition We should worry about Greenland, they say, because if it warms up a lot all that land-based ice will slide... 13 Feb, 2019| Science Notes