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Once upon a time in a galaxy not-so-far away, there were two fools and a scientist. By which I mean, last week at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Space, Science, and Technology. Fool #1 is…

Above, I interviewed Lauren Kurtz, Attorney for the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, following this week’s minor league circus of a hearing. Chairman Lamar Smith (R – Texas) has been conducting a long term war on climate science, and scientists,…

A chronological listing of the news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Sun Sep 11, 2016 Rice paddies raise methane threat by Santosh Koirala, Climate News Network, Sep 10, 2016 Climate change our most pressing…

ClimateCentral: Arctic sea ice is one of the grandaddy’s of climate indicators. And this grandaddy isn’t doing so good these days. This year’s sea ice extent has bottomed out as the second lowest on record, according to the National Snow…

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In 2012, I attended the Heartland Institute’s annual Climate Denial shindig, which was in Chicago not far away. I thought of it in light of recent news that Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, a climate denier, has again doubled down on…

CNN: The former House Speaker, who smokes so much that his office had to be fumigated to get rid of the scent of stale cigarette smoke, just landed a fitting post-retirement gig as a director at Reynolds American (RAI), the…

Donald Trump has been vocal about his belief that climate science is a chinese plot.  He has reinforced the point that I’ve made here often, that racism and conspiracist thinking go hand in hand with climate denial. He also has…

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Roz Pidcock Torrential rains unleashed on south Louisiana in August were made almost twice as likely by human-caused climate change, according to a quick-fire analysis released just weeks after the flood waters subsided.…

Was going to blog about it, but Planet3 has it all, so go read.…

NASA Earth Observatory: Arctic sea ice appeared to reach its annual minimum extent on September 10, 2016, NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported today. An analysis of satellite data showed that sea ice around the…

Since Judith Curry has a guest post about global climate models and the laws of physics, I thought it would be worth posting this recently released video of a talk about climate modelling (see below). It’s by Steve Easterbrook, who…

Our paper on "The Sower's Way" has been published in the IOP Environmental Research Letters journal. It is an attempt to quantify the physical limits of the energy transition from fossils to renewables.The title of the article takes inspiration from…

Over the past summer, I had the opportunity to do fieldwork related to climate change and coral reefs in both Kiribati and the Marshall Islands. I’ve put together a slideshow that gives a window into the effect of rising sea…

Last year had a record number of strong storms like Typhoon Meranti, currently raking over China. Above, MIT’s Kerry Emanuel tells why. Below, new research underscores a trend, especially in Asia. Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Typhoon intensity in the northwest…

Jason Box: Master’s student Karina Hansen appeared at the door to my office at GEUS: “something looks strange” at Spalte Glacier connected to the 79 Glacier far northwestern Greenland. The ~9 km wide Spalte Glacier is a tributary of the…

Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre For Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University and David Karoly, Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Melbourne This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. As…

So Eli understands that Lamarrrrrr Smith held a hearing today to try and justify his pursuit of those nasty Attorney Generals who don't take Donnie Trumps money to stifle investigations.  While there is much fun to be had,…

I enjoy reading the Climate Progress blog, often getting good information and ideas. But when it comes to one recent post, I have doubts about both its correctness and its wisdom. The theme is encompassed in the title: “Record-smashing August…

PBS: A scaled-down gale blows over a flat plate set inside the tabletop wind tunnel. Despite the low lighting and hazy Plexiglas view portals, we can clearly see the frenzied fluttering of streamer ribbons, called telltales, in the field of…

The GOP has become the Grand Oil Party. The fossil fuel industry has now managed to dictate Republican Party actions on climate change in attorney generals offices, Congress, and for the party’s presidential nominee. Trump hires advisers with fossil fuel ties Last…

I generally try to avoid discussing climate policy specifically. One obvious reason is that I don’t have any particular expertise in that area, or any special insights. However, there is a somewhat subtler reason as to why I find it…

In a recent article on the Huffington Post, Stan Sorscher reports the graph above and asks the question of what could have happened in the early 1970s that changed everything. Impressive, but what caused this "something" that happened in the…

Many have enjoyed the smackdown which Brian Cox delivered to Malcom Rogers on Australian TV’s program “Q&A”. Myself included. Cox is a scientist, and one of the most popular science communicators in Britain (perhaps England’s answer to Neil deGrasse Tyson?).…

I’ve been bombarded with requests to repost or at least mention a new web-comic from the popular XKCD series depicting earth’s climate timeline over 20,000 years or so. The original graphic is a bit ponderous to repost in the confines…

During the melting season I'm writing (bi-)weekly updates on the current situation with regards to Arctic sea ice (ASI). Because of issues with data based on the SSMIS sensor aboard DMSP satellites, I mainly focus on higher-resolution AMSR2 data from…

New revelations, if you needed any. Similar techniques have been used to sell tobacco, fossil fuels, and, it turns out, the ridiculously sugar-heavy standard American diet. Stat: As nutrition debates raged in the 1960s, prominent Harvard nutritionists published two reviews…

Mind control is a thing. It’s actually a business model. It’s not the “They Live” model of invisible rays from the television controlling the populace, at least not yet.  The reality is much more low tech, has been known to…

More weirdness.  In a rational world, this would lead Cable interviewers to ask about climate change, but I expect they’ll keep focused on  emails and Pneumonia.  Once again, it may be up to the “climate people” to raise the obvious.…