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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...

Guest commentary by David Middleton YDIH = Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis YDB = Younger Dryas Boundary Last month I shot a big hole in the latest YDIH paper.  This Science News article shoots another big hole in it.  The...

Guest ridicule by David Middleton From ARS Technica, one of the most incoherent things I’ve ever read… WAIT, THERE IS HOPE! — What happened last time it was as warm as it’s going to get later this century?...

  Guest Post by Wim Röst  ABSTRACT Water, H2O, determines the ‘General Background Temperature’ for the Earth, resulting in Hothouse and Ice House Climate States...

Guest Commentary by David Middleton This just eliminated 81% of all of the potential catastrophic sea level rise in the Warmunists’ Little Red Book… June 13, 2018 Largest ice sheet on Earth was stable throughout...

Guest essay by David Middleton Here’s a shocker… I’ve actually never seen Hot Shots! Part Deux.  As much as I love stupid comedies, I’ve never actually seen the movie.  But I do love to use the “part...

The Fable of Chicken Little of the Sea Guest essay by David Middleton, When if comes to debunking Gorebal Warming, Chicken Little of the Sea (“ocean acidification”) and other Warmunist myths, my favorite starting...

Guest post by David Middleton This gem was in my morning email from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in America… The Great Barrier Reef has had five near-death experiences in the past 30,000 years...

Guest shoot-down by David Middleton Preface In my previous two posts on uniformitarian impact craters, we examined the pitfalls of drawing cartoons on Google Earth images without ever looking at the geology and how the Carolina...

Tiny fossils unlock clues to Earth’s climate half a billion years ago. Sea temperatures of 25C helped fuel an explosion of life on Earth about 500 million years ago on Earth, according to UK scientists. Scientists from...