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If we don't act quickly to prevent more global warming, we could all freeze to death.

As a young man, I lived for a short while in the arid countryside of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. From that glorious summer: Molly and I didn’t plan…

Last year, the Global Forest Watch tracking system starting allowing people to help monitor deforestation in far-flung parts of the world while sitting at home with their laptop...

Research published in the journal Science, using a mix of professional and Raspberry Shake citizen seismic data, finds that lockdown measures to slow the spread of the virus COVID-19 reduced seismic noise by 50% worldwide.

During the current COVID-19 epidemic, most of the evidence is collected by treating physicians, most of whom do not report their results in peer reviewed journals...

By Robert Kernodle Figure 1. NASA satellite image showing the two most frequent meteorological scenarios where huge quantities of viruses and bacteria are deposited in the high mountains of Sierra Nevada, Spain and at a global...

NASA is calling citizen scientists of all ages to help map endangered coral — while sheltering in place. Instead of endlessly livestreaming TV shows during the pandemic, you could help program a supercomputer to classify...

Handwriting recognition casts new light on climate change from NIWA on Vimeo. Be a volunteer! Check it out here. HT/Steven Mosher

Guest post by Kevin Kilty Introduction Within the past week or two we have read posts from Dr. Spencer (6/7/2019), Nick Stokes (6/6/2019), Lord Monckton (6/8/2019), and Willis Eschenbach (6/8/2019) covering a variety of topics...

Royal Astronomical Society IMAGE: Spiral structure in the Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101), as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. view more Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have...

Author: Dr. Michael Chase, 16th May 2019 SCOPE This article describes the method and PRELIMINARY outcome of a relatively low cost “laboratory” (kitchen) experiment on the response of seawater pH to increases in...

Guest reality check by David Middleton 8 Ways To Teach Climate Change In Almost Any Classroom April 25, 2019 ANYA KAMENETZ NPR/Ipsos conducted a national poll recently and found that more than 8 in 10 teachers —...

Steve, in Seattle writes: I began this project out of both frustration and a specific curiosity. I have, over the years, studied many excellent articles at WUWT. The articles that are mathematical / graphic “ heavy “...

Guest essay by Kip Hansen   The marvelous Monarch Butterfly is an icon of biological mystery.  When I was born, circa 1950, monarchs were known to fly north into southern Texas every spring by the millions.  In the...

Reposting from Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on November 19, 2018 by curryja by Judith Curry Reflections on Nic Lewis’ audit of the Resplandy et al. paper. In response to Nic Lewis’ two blog posts critiquing the...