Climate & Climate Change

It was all over local radio here in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, this morning ... that it was the coldest May morning ever, with temperatures down to -2C. That's cold for subtropical Brisbane. As I sat shivering in my little wooden house with … [Read more...] about Feeling Cold & Confused in a Warming World

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has produced two advertisements promoting carbon dioxide (C02) -- that's right promoting C02 -- for American television. To watch the video's click here. The key theme is that C02 is life giving and not a … [Read more...] about Calling C02 “Life”: New Advertisements from Climate Change Contrarians

Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are thought to be responsible for the elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide that are thought to be driving global warming. The Kyoto Protocol has been considered an important first step in reducing … [Read more...] about Broken Trust, Broken Carbon Trading, Broken Kyoto?

Some (not all) global warming skeptics complain that the IPCC doesn't adequately acknowledge the influence of the sun, including sunspot cycles, on climate. There is new information at the NASA website about recent past and future solar activity … [Read more...] about Sunspotting & Climate

I was back at the Future Summit today listening to more speakers lament climate change and how it is going to be drier and warmer in the future. Tom Hatten from CSIRO could have spoken about the science, but he also deferred to perceptions … [Read more...] about Climate Change Not So “Black & White”

Last August I posted a comment at this blog titled 'The Troposphere is Warming', in which I explained that, in accordance with global warming models, and according to a series of papers in the journal Science, the lower troposphere was … [Read more...] about Is the Troposphere Warming?