Peter Sinclair’s latest video in his This Is Not Cool series for the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media picks up on Heartland head honcho Joe Bast’s allegation that: “…the most prominent advocates of global warming aren [more]

Eli is looking for some climate science experiments that you can do with kids, K-12 roughly although also maybe first year of university.  One quick one he came up with is have them record the temperature and altitude shown on the monitors on the ... [more]

In which we see and example of how Twitter can enable interesting science, and understand a little about the role of existing social networks in getting science done. [more]

This is the second in an ongoing series comparing and contrasting two prominent Canadian think tanks, namely the Fraser Institute and the Pembina Institute. The overall table of contents is given below with the current section on Funding highlighted and … Continue reading → [more]

My contact inside JAXA sent this note:GCOM-W1 was launched at 1:39 18 May (Japan Standard Time) as scheduled, and the satellite was separated from the rocket successfully.This is the satellite carrying the AMSR-2.  Keep your fingers crossed for su... [more]

Study of tree rings, corals, and ice cores find unnatural spike in temperatures that lines up with manmade climate change By Alison Rourke in Sydney, www.guardian.co.uk17 May 2012 The last 60 years have been the hottest in Australasia for a millenniu... [more]

The nearly 440 nuclear reactors in operation across the world remained virtually constant over the last decade, with 32 reactors shut down and the same number connected to the grid. Overall, nuclear capacity increased by more than 6%, due to installa... [more]

Yale 360: These two false-color thermal images taken by NASA satellites depict the rapid retreat of the Columbia Glacier in Alaska over the past 25 years. The top image shows the glacier’s terminus just north of Heather Island in 1986. By 2011, the t... [more]

Contact: Jason McGeownHead of Media RelationsTel: +44 (0)1225 420000      jason.mcgeown@maplecroft.com 10 May 2012 (Maplecroft) – The viability of water supplies throughout key regions of China, India, Pakistan, South Afri... [more]

In the comments at Climate Audit as relayed to Eli by Stoopit.Steve, I’m horrified by your slipshod work. You did not define what you compare, what dataset used in each case, how data were processed, and what was the reason for that, what limitatio... [more]

Tim Curtin's incompetence with basic statistics is the stuff of legend. Curtin has now demonstrated incompetence at a fairly new journal called The Scientific World Journal. Consider his very first "result" (emphasis mine): I first regress the gl... [more]

As my summer research continues, I’m learning a lot about previous experiments that used the UVic ESCM (Earth System Climate Model), as well as beginning to run my own. Over the past few years, the UVic model has played an integral role in a fascinating little niche of climate research: the importance of cumulative carbon [...] [more]

NYTimes:  Five years ago, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization published a report called “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” which maintained that 18 percent of greenhouse gases were attributable to the raising of animals for food. The n... [more]

Above – Hilarious and weirdly sexy folk-rock version of Nelly’s “Hot in Here”. Below, hottest 12 months on record. LA Times: Americans just lived through the hottest 12 months ever recorded, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric... [more]

Over thirty years ago, James Hansen was lead author of a scientific paper titled Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. They estimated that doubling the amount of CO2 in the air would raise global temperature about 2.8 degrees (C, &#8... [more]

By Arata Yamamoto, NBC News Producer13 May 2012 TOKYO, Japan – More than 60 people have committed suicides related to last year’s 9.0 quake and tsunami, which triggered meltdowns at a nuclear plant in Fukushima, the Japanese government says. The ... [more]

I guess that's what you get when you complain there is no daily data and so many satellites are crashing and burning. First the NSIDC released data from the NASA IceBridge Mission, that was turned into a map by commenter 'deconstruct' in no time flat. In between Cryosphere Today resolved... [more]

As US corporate donors step away from the Heartland Institute following their ad campaign likening climate change believers to mass murderers and terrorists, big coal — in the shape of the Illinois Coal Association, supported by all the major US ... [more]

See here - all the Science Blogs type blogs are transitioning platform. This has been semi-secret or something, who knows, anyway clearly it isn't quite so secret anymore. I don't know any deadlines or suchlike, but it can't possibly make the comment s... [more]

An increasingly common fallback position once climate change "skeptics" accept that the planet is warming and humans are the dominant cause is the myth that climate change won't be bad.  In fact, this particular myth comes in at #3 on our list of ... [more]