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Guest post by David Middleton From the American Association for the Advancement of Science! in America: Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ By Ann Gibbons Nov...

Elevating this from a mention in my previous Newsworthy Items post. From ScienceNews Whether the impact is related to a period of cooling called the Younger Dryas is unknown By Carolyn Gramling 2:00pm, November 14, 2018 There’s...

Michael Mann and his team of data manglers like-minded scientists like to tell us the Medieval Warming Period was just a “regional” event rather than global, because if it was global, that destroys their narrative...

Guest AEUHHH??? by David Middleton We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal Peter Forbes is a science writer whose work has appeared in New Scientist, The Guardian, The Times, Scientific American and New...

From the “we only select wood for hockey stick construction” department. Steve McIntyre comes back into the fray with a scathing review of just how crappy the tree ring proxies used by Michael Mann were (and still...

Guest sciencey schist by David Middleton Yes… I know it’s Pisa, not Pizza… But I’m trying a low-carb diet and I really miss pizza, Among the 1,000+ UNESCO World Heritage sites that are about to be...

Guest slam dunk by David Middleton For those with sensitive ears (or eyes):   Climate change endangers dozens of World Heritage sites By Sandee LaMotte, CNN October 16, 2018 (CNN)Pull out your passport and pack your...

Does climate vary more from century to century when it is warmer? Century-scale climate variability was enhanced when the Earth was warmer during the Last Interglacial period (129-116 thousand years ago) compared to the current...

Guest review article by David Middleton We’re often bombarded with headlines line this: Arctic sea ice continues its downward spiral At 4.6 million square kilometres in coverage, this year’s sea ice minimum is the...

In the August issue of Physics Today, climate scientists Toby Ault and Scott St. George share a pair of startling research findings. Between roughly 800 and 1500 CE, the American West suffered a succession of decades-long...

How the Southern Ocean may explain Holocene warming The oceans are the planet’s most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide on time scales of decades to millenia...

Guest essay by David Middleton Warning: This is a long post, >5,200 words. Introduction This post was inspired by Anthony Watts’ recent post about wildfires and their unwillingness to cooperate with the Gorebal...

From the University of Helsinki and the “no SUV’s needed” department comes this study which suggests big cold snaps occurred right in the middle of the warm Eemian period...

Guest ridicule by David Middleton More nonsense about sea level rise…ppaleo FRONTIER RESEARCH SOCIAL SCIENCES Lessons from a real Atlantis 17 July 2018 by Jude Gonzalez Traces of long-forgotten human settlements claimed...

From the University of Exeter and the “everything causes global warming and it’s bad, bad, according to our model and leaps of logic” department The evolution of Earth’s first animals more than 500...