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From the GWPF: A week ago, we were told that climate change was worse than we thought. But the underlying science contains a major error. Independent climate scientist Nicholas Lewis has uncovered a major error in a recent...

Opinion by DR. TIM BALL Seth Borenstein has a journalism degree but claims to be a science reporter. He might have claim to the journalism label except that everything he writes is biased, misleading, distorted, and wrong...

  News Analysis by Kip Hansen Oops, can I say that here?  BS?  Oh, pretend it means “Barley Science.” It does, sort of, especially in this instance.  You see, it isn’t really science.  It is an even worse word...

Guest ridiculing by David Middleton From some SJW rag, via Real Clear Politics… ANTHROPOCENE We Still Don’t Understand the Superstorms of the Anthropocene By Caroline Haskins Oct 12 2018 As of this morning, five people...

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Catastrophe looms for the problematic puffin.  The likeable comically shaped and  cartoonishly colored birds that are the emblematic symbol of Iceland and are the official bird symbol for...

Guest mocking by David Middleton From the No Schist Sherlock files of the American Association for the Advancement of Science of America…   Originally published by E&E News Top researchers are huddled with...

Guest clobberin’ time by David Middleton As global warming continues, Trump wants to burn fossil fuels with an arsonist’s glee By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD SEP 29, 2018 Here’s some disquieting, if unsurprising,...

Guest ridicule by David Middleton Note: The featured image is of thankfully former President Obama babbling about climate change at Yosemite National Park in 2016.  While not part of the article being addressed in this post…...

Trump Auto Rule: Washington Post’s Non-Shocking Non-Discovery Guest essay by Marlo Lewis, Jr., CEI Today in the Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis, and Chris Mooney bash the Trump Administration’s SAFE...

Guest ridicule by David Middleton Anthony covered this story a couple of days ago: MIT: Climate tipping point busted – globe needs to reach 152°F before runaway greenhouse effect kicks in...

Alternate Title: Yes, We Have No Anthropocene, We Have No Anthropocene Today! (Sung to the tune of Yes, We Have No Bananas) Guest commentary by David Middleton SCIENCE Geologists Are Feuding About the Collapse of Civilization...

Guest ridicule by David Middleton I miss the good old days when it was Radio Free Europe. From today’s Real Clear Energy headlines, totally unrelated to energy… Climate Change Fuels California Fires September...

By Dr. John Christy, Alabama State Climatologist Meteorological summer (June, July and August) is now over and it’s time to check how the summer temperatures compare with other years.  For a research project a few years...

Guest CNN-bashing by David Middleton (a geologist) I ran across this April 2018 article while looking for something else.  I totally missed this episode of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Secretary Zinke’s stance on climate...

Guest ridicule of the American Association for the Advancement of Science of America by David Middleton This little gem was in my morning email from the AAASofA: As is often the case, this really dumb article in Science (as...