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This spectacular time-lapse video1 captures the dramatic retreat of the Fox Glacier in Westland over the last year — 300 metres between January 2015 and January this year. As the ice retreats, the hillside becomes unstable and collapses down into…

We interrupt your regular diet of Willie Soon for a brief break (the S+B controversy, 2003 is seeing active work). IPCC agrees on Acting Chair after R.K. Pachauri steps down said the IPCC press on the 25th. That PR is…

Originally posted on Goodnight Earth:Figure courtesy of pixabay.com Droughts have intensified in already dry regions around the world, including in the Southwest United States and in Australia throughout the first decade of this century.  The severity of these droughts has…

Willie Soon, trained as an Aerospace Engineer, has been acclaimed among climate deniers as a new Galileo of climatology. And an expert on Polar Bear Biology.  As yet he has not announced a cure for AIDs of the common cold,…

RealClimate: As many will have read, there were a number of press reports (NYT, Guardian, InsideClimate) about the non-disclosure of Willie Soon’s corporate funding (from Southern Company (an energy utility), Koch Industries, etc.) when publishing results in journals that require…

Wall Street Journal: PARIS—Engineering firm Areva SA said it expects its 2014 net loss to widen to about €4.9 billion, or $5.6 billion, from a year earlier, as delays to a reactor project in Finland and low demand for nuclear…

“Slick Willie” Soon, climate Denial Darling, has been taking some lumps in the media this week, and well deserved. Documents released in a Freedom of Information action showed that Soon classified his scientific work as a “deliverable” for corporate clients,…

Yesterday, President Barack Obama became the first president who has taken a stand to stop climate change. Actually, that isn’t quite true. President Obama took that stand from his first step into the White House. He has put into place…

Filed under: Crock of the Week…

This bulletin inventories rebuttals to two recent articles by Christopher Booker published in the UK's Daily Telegraph claiming that climate scientists have nefariously manipulated temperature data in order to propagate the "myth of manmade climate change". This bulletin also functions…

My title comes from a lying “letter of recommendation” for Soon, which says in part: …Willie is scrupulous in attending to the basic scientific veracity of everything that he presents in public about scientific matters. He is careful not only…

NBC weatherman in conversation with Larry King. He gets it.Filed under: Crock of the Week…

Oil production (all liquids in barrels per day) in the US and Canada. (From Ron Patterson's blog). Does this rapid growth indicate that the resources are abundant and that all the worries about peak oil are misplaced? Maybe not....Sometimes, we…

WGRZ Buffalo: Professor Stephen Vermette coordinates the Meteorology and Climatology Program at SUNY Buffalo State. He says we can blame these extreme weather patterns on the jet stream. “It’s been stuck in place and that’s week after week after week,…

It’s a remote area, so probably no surprise that, now that people are looking for them,  more of these have been discovered.  Still not possible to characterize what these processes are, and what they mean. Barents Observer: Scientists say they…

Or at least, that follows clearly from the latest nonsense from Wattie-land. Greenpeace enlists Justin Gillis &John Schwartz of the NY Times in Journalistic Terrorist Attack on Willie Soon – Miss Target, Hit Smithsonian Instead. If the NYT is “terrorist”…

TED has a great page with a number of animated images. These paint a picture of what is happening to our oceans. It’s easy to overlook such a massive tragedy from our vantage point. See the rest here.Filed under: Environment,…

It just keeps on coming.  Anymore of this and Eli will have to be hospitalized for acute giggles. Chris Mooney at the Washington Post does everyone a service by calling out Willie Soon's research as the fantasy that it is,…

Something of a classic, from Richard Telford. He’s discussing Soon’s Heartland presentation. Here’s a screenshot: Soon is trying to point out the importance of the value of the solar insolation, which he believes needs to be heavily fiddled to make…

I have a feature (“Fantasy Island”) in the latest issue of Scientific American and accompanying online slideshow about the reality of sea-level rise in Kiribati. The article summarizes the complicated science of sea-level rise in coral islands and the even…

I’m back in my warm house after shooting some video at sunrise this morning. How cold was it? So cold that my iphone was totally confused, poor thing. Just knew it wasn’t happy. Below see Stefan Rahmstorf’s tweet. Stunning is…

John Cook’s Skeptical Science team has put together a Massive Open Online Course on climate denial. Video above is the intro. It will include all of the historic interviews that we did in San Franciso in December, at the American…

The New York Times report yesterday fingering Climate Denial go-to “scientist” Slick Willie Soon as an Exxon Hack has grown legs. Nature: The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has launched an inquiry into one of its researchers, solar physicist and…

Kind of sums it up.Filed under: Crock of the Week…

More fun and games at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics featuring Eli's heroine Amanda Preston.  So Willie Soon sets up some funding for his salary with Exxon Mobile.  Well that's what soft money people do and Eli would have not…

More hi-jinks from the crew in Cambridge.Amanda Preston was hip deep in the financials of Willie Soon's support network.  As the Advancement and External Affairs Officer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics she negotiated the terms for his support from Exxon…

Justin Gillis has lit the fuse on the interesting funding received by Willie Soon from hither and yon.  Eli had done some digging early on into that pile of offal, but admittedly did not follow through as he should have.  However,…

The Elevator Pitch series has been pretty well received. I had a request a few weeks ago from Al Gore’s Climate Reality group to upload some of these to their facebook page - where, in the last few days, the…

Above, the Climate Reanalyzer image for North America temperature anomalies. Currently minus 17° F, or minus 27°C, here where I am. Note above the cold blues and purples over eastern North America, and the bloody reds flooding the arctic. Jennifer…

I’ve just had a book published entitled Climatology versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics. Climatology versus Pseudoscience cover The book covers a wide range of climate-related topics, starting with a history of some key discoveries in the…