Climate & Climate Change

In 1610 Galileo observed dark features on the face of the sun – sunspots. In the preface to a little book Galileo wrote on sunspots that was published in 1613, he was credited with having discovered sunspots but an Englishman, Thomas Harriott, and … [Read more...] about August 2008: The first Sunspot-less Month since June 1913

According to a recent paper** published in the journal Nature, only a dramatic fall in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are able to explain the transition from the mostly ice-free Greenland of three million years ago, to the ice-covered Greenland of … [Read more...] about Greenland’s Ice Follows Dramatic Fall in Carbon Dioxide Levels?

In today's UK Telegraph Christopher Booker has commented: "As the estimated cost of measures proposed by politicians to 'combat global warming' soars ever higher – such as the International Energy Council's $45 trillion – 'fighting climate change' … [Read more...] about Time for a Counter-Consensus: Christopher Booker

On the evening of Sunday, August 10, I asked for citations of research papers in reputable scientific journals that examine the causal link between anthropogenic carbon dioxide and global warming and that quantified the extent of this warming.** In … [Read more...] about Causal Linkage between Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming (Part 4)

In The Weekend Australian I wrote that many false claims are made about the state of our environment on an almost daily basis but because most Australians are illiterate when it comes to science and maths, they are mostly just accepted. My first … [Read more...] about Interpreting Eastern Australian Rainfall Data

Two years after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, the Indonesian supervolcano, Robert Leslie published a note in the journal Nature describing wispy blue filaments in the night sky. He is now credited with the discovery of noctilucent clouds … [Read more...] about Clouds at the Edge of Space