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Category: Science Notes

Even when the Arctic is melting...
There are various ways to characterize changes in Arctic sea ice over time. Including the alarmist’s simple case of vanishing...
12 Jun, 2019| Science Notes

Why climate change is scary
Well for one thing there are Dansgaard-Oeschger events, or D-O for short. Although oh-oh might be more appropriate. Those skeptical...
12 Jun, 2019| Science Notes

Floods: the new same old
In its 2012 report on extreme weather the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that there was little evidence of...
05 Jun, 2019| Science Notes

Rainstorms, eh?
With this spring's flood events inspiring politicians across the spectrum mindlessly to invoke climate change, it is worth pointing out...
05 Jun, 2019| Science Notes

Hooray, uncertainty
For some reason Donald Rumsfeld took a lot of heat back in 2002 for warning about the danger of things...
05 Jun, 2019| Science Notes

An air of denial
The “ground zero” of greenhouse-gas-induced warming is not as you might suppose on the ground. All the climate models say...
29 May, 2019| Science Notes

Urbanization affects thermometers
Common sense tells you that cities are hotter than the surrounding countryside because asphalt and cement absorb heat and machinery...
29 May, 2019| Science Notes

Here come the tigers
Climate alarmism may have jumped the shark, or land-based equivalent, with the new claim in Newsweek, by an Oxford University...
29 May, 2019| Science Notes

Satellite vs satellite
Atmospheric temperature data from weather satellites has long been a thorn in the side of alarmists because it tends to...
22 May, 2019| Science Notes

Speaking of data...
Roy Spencer has more trouble for the alarmists this week. A few recent reports (like the recent Environment Canada State...
22 May, 2019| Science Notes

Remember global warming?
It might seem like an odd question since nobody seems willing to shut up about it. Some say there’s been...
22 May, 2019| Science Notes

Antarctica didn't get the memo
Global warming means polar ice caps melting which means sea levels rising which means ... well let's back up a...
15 May, 2019| Science Notes

The megadrought of 1876-78
Yes, there were droughts before SUV's were invented. And they led to famines too, because the world was poorer then...
15 May, 2019| Science Notes

The coral see
Instead of the impact of climate on corals it’s time, thanks to some Australian scientists, for the impact of corals...
15 May, 2019| Science Notes

Earth got blobs
Scientists using innovative techniques are making surprising discoveries. Which might seem a humdrum statement, including on a story about learning...
08 May, 2019| Science Notes

A flood of conjecture
It is Spring, which means rain and inevitably, in some places, floods. And naturally the alarmists are out in force...
08 May, 2019| Science Notes

Storm (lack of) warning
In keeping with the sound methodology of looking at the big picture, a recent paper from the Global Warming Policy...
08 May, 2019| Science Notes

Cyclones don't surge
Spare a thought for Mozambique, recently hit by a second cyclone in two months. News coverage has been relatively restrained,...
01 May, 2019| Science Notes

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

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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