Jennifer Marohasy

Like most birds that I see at night, this Azure Kingfisher (Alcedo azurea) was roosting strategically on the distal end of isolated vegetation, to forecast the vibrations of predators. In this instance, the climbing bamboo (Bambusa moreheadiana) provided safe harbour.
What was most unusual, though, was the sighting itself; being only my second of such [...]

In response to criticisms from Gavin Schmidt, Craig Loehle and J Huston McCulloch have published a correction to Loehle’s temperature reconstruction that uses 18 non-tree ring proxies. The pdf of original paper and the correction can be found here.
The corrected Figure 2 can be seen below:

The MWP and LIA remain prominent, in contrast to ‘Hockey [...]

A new paper has been published in GRL by Wang, C., and S. Lee, entitled: ‘Global warming and United States landfalling hurricanes.’
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel has an article about the new study here:
Scientists: Warm seas may mean fewer hurricanes
Excerpt: Following in the footsteps of an earlier study, government scientists on Tuesday said warmer oceans should [...]

A new paper has been published in GRL showing that the Antarctic is accumulating snow. The paper by Thomas, E. R., G. J. Marshall, and J. R. McConnell is entitled: ‘A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850.’
This shouldn’t surprsie the IPCC who say “the Antarctic ice sheet will remain too [...]