Climate & Climate Change

It was claimed in 'An Inconvenient Truth' that sea levels could rise by up to 20 feet in the 'near future' due to melting ice sheets. Anyone who believed such a claim wouldn't really be expected to buy a property near San Francisco Bay, would … [Read more...] about Who’d Buy a Property by the Sea?

There's an interesting story on the BBC website: Arctic muds reveal sea ice record A new technique to track changes in the extent of Arctic sea ice over the past 1,000 years is being developed by a UK team from the University of Plymouth. There is … [Read more...] about Using Arctic Mud to Extend Sea Ice Records

From The Times: Please, sir - Gore's got warming wrong THE tormentors of Al Gore, who last week won a legal victory against his film, An Inconvenient Truth, are to step up their battle by sending British secondary schools a documentary attacking … [Read more...] about Monckton to Send TGGWS Film to UK Schools

Graph of yearly averaged sunspot numbers 1610 to 2000 and text follows below: The Maunder Minimum represents the coldest phase of the Little Ice Age, when solar activity was particularly low and there was an almost total absence of sunspots. In a … [Read more...] about Modelling the Maunder

We are all aware of a claimed consensus on climate science, although what the consensus actually is and how far it goes has yet to be defined, in my view. That is not the issue raised here. A book authored by Janis, I. L. & Mann, L. (1977) … [Read more...] about How to Create and Protect a Consensus

Thanks to Luke Walker for alerting me to this story: WESTERN EUROPE'S HIGHEST SUMMIT GETS TALLER CHARMONIX, France, Oct 13, 2007 (AFP) - Western Europe's highest mountain Mont Blanc is taller than ever due to snow piled atop its summit, in what … [Read more...] about Europe’s Mont Blanc Grows Taller