The potential for a massive solar flare directed at Earth is looming large. An SDO/HMI view of the visible sun showing the largest sunspot of solar cycle 24, AR12192. Image via http://www.thesuntoday.org Since rotating into view, the sunspot group AR12192 has continued to grow in size and complexity, becoming the largest sunspot of the current…
From the University of Arizona As permafrost soils thaw under the influence of global warming, communities of soil microbes act as potent amplifiers of global climate change, an international study has shown. Tiny soil microbes are among the world’s biggest potential amplifiers of human-caused climate change, but whether microbial communities are mere slaves to their…
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball I think, Essex and McKitrick’s Chapter, Climate Theory Versus Models and Metaphors, in their book Taken By Storm, is a very good analysis of the challenges facing climatology. They ask, Do we have any clues at all on how to start the climb toward the summit of Mount Climate…
While not our usual fare, I provide this guest essay for discussion without comment, as it is concerned with an issue of great interest and impact to millions of people – Anthony Guest essay by Alec Rawls Negative atmospheric pressure sounds climate related, but it is just an analogy to the inward draw of air…
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is a quick update on the status of the sea surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific, along with a brief discussion of the recent excursion of the daily Southern Oscillation Index into El Niño conditions. Things are NOT looking good if you’ve been looking forward to an El Niño…
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From the AGU: Anthropogenically induced changes in winds in the Southern Hemisphere are playing a key role in recent warming of subsurface waters around Antarctica, according to a new study by Spence et al. The warming water increases melting of coastal glaciers and thus could affect sea levels in the future. Since the 1950s, westerly…
Eric Worrall writes: James Delingpole has today written about the latest PR disaster from deep greens trying to pretend they are normal people – an award winning graphic novel which associates a terrorist with a machine gun in a shopping mall, with a positive message about environmental activism. The headline picture of Delingpole’s piece depicts…
From Durham University, and the “would you, could you, with a goat” department comes this inanity. They can’t come up with any other explanation, so it must be ‘climate change’. At the rate of observed shrinkage, the goats will be palm sized by the year 2100. Just think of the pet market! Via Eurekalert: ‘Shrinking…
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From: “LOVING THE EARTH” reflections on yogaecology, climate change, permaculture and community, the only thing missing is the unicorns (h/t to WUWT reader Hank Veild) Meditation for Climate Change This meditation came to me a week ago in meditation. I often let my consciousness and breath follow my spine up and down. Recently I learned a…
Paul Homewood notes: According to John Cook, Antarctic sea ice has been expanding because the Southern Ocean is getting warmer. He also claims that anyone thinking more ice is due to colder conditions is “ignorant”. He forgets that some of us know how to check the data. Bob Tisdale produces analyses of sea surface temperatures…
Wow, this is even dumber than Freedman’s story (complete with photoshopped images of airplanes in rising sea water) Quite possibly the dumbest example of ‘Tabloid Climatology’ ever from Climate Central’s Andrew Freedman a couple of years ago, which we rightfully trounced on WUWT for the sheer stupidity of the imagery that somehow, airplanes at LaGuardia…
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Andrew Bolt demands an apology from Bob Ward, the incorrigible climate spinmeister of the Grantham Research Institute over “the pause”, along with others. I agree, next to Mann, Ward is probably to most spitefully incompetent alarmist out there, and it is actually his paid position to broadcast the smears that he does. Bolt writes: Nick…
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