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Perhaps the last word lies best with the towering American essayist H. L. Mencken, who wrote that “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing...

The WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) wants every new project to aim for carbon neutrality, costing billions, almost certainly increasing pollution overseas, but hoping to lower temperatures over WA by 2100 AD.

Stating the bleeding obvious about climate science earns headlines Tony Abbott merely states what no real scientist could argue with. Things are not quite as settled in climate science as people say. For this tiny deviation...

Verily. Eclipses do weird things to people. Justin Gillis, writer for The New York Times used the recent eclipse to sell something I’d call Sciencemagic. Essentially, if some Scientists™ can calculate orbital mechanics...

Rosenthal et al have put out quite a humdinger of a paper. They’ve reconstructed the temperature of the water flowing out of the Pacific to the Indian Ocean over the last 10,000 years and as deep as 900m. The Indonesian...

 “…the role of the Sun is one of the largest unknowns in the climate system” Meteorologists are already aware that changes in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) can affect the polar regions of Earth...

 “…the role of the Sun is one of the largest unknowns in the climate system” Meteorologists are already aware that changes in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) can affect the polar regions of Earth...

Yet more observations from the planet show that modelers misunderstand the water based part of the climate – on our water based planet.

Yet another paper shows that the climate models have flaws, described as “gross” “severe” and “disturbing”. The direct effect of doubling CO2 is theoretically 3.7W per square meter. The...

It’s all up on Watts Up now. What Anthony Watts and Evan Jones have revealed is breathtaking.

Get ready — for all the fears of extreme weather coming our way — studies of Queensland, Victoria, the whole of SE Australia, New Zealand, and Perth show that either nothing is changing (there have always been...

Two major proxy studies, larger than ever, were released in April and June 2012. They show that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) existed, and was similar to current temperatures. These comprehensive studies suggest current...

Dear Paul, Thank you most sincerely for writing to reply to my email. Thank you for taking the time to contact Nature, and thank you for the recognition that the term “denier” causes offense.

This is part of a series that Tony Cox and I are doing that references the most important points and papers, as a definitive resource about the evidence...

This is part of a series that Tony Cox and I are doing that drills down to the most important points and papers, with proper references, as a definitive resource.The models are wrong: not just “unverified”, not...