Quark Soup by David Appell

Last week Gregory Johnson et al published a new number for the Earth's energy imbalance in Nature Climate Change : a net heat uptake fro...

Some followups to my post of last night. First, I made a spreadsheet error on the HadCRUT4 monthly anomalies that slightly inflluenced th...

There is some discussion elsewhere here about what weather and climate numbers are normally dististributed and what aren't. I don...

I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before, but if you're looking for a quick but firm introduction to the science of clima...

Peter Sinclair has a nice video up at Yale Climate Connections  about last year's record-breaking season, and the prospects for this yea...

If you were thinking, like I was, that maybe the 7,250 word statement from the rape victim of Brock Turner wasn't worth the time, I hop...

This massive crater -- Batagaika crater, or what local people call the Gateway to the Underworld -- appeared in Siberia 25 years ago after ...

There's going to be a spectacular total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 , and if you'll be near it you really should put it on your...

Note 5/31 2 pm : I'm redoing the graphs that were here in terms of carbon-free energy, since there are questions about whether biomass ...

From a new article in Geophysical Research Letters : The uncertainties in climate change lie in (1) clouds, and (2) the carbon cycle, ...

Trump : “They don’t understand it. There is no drought, they turn the water out into the ocean.” Data :

Trump on climate: He's even worse than we thought from Andrew Freedman's Tweet

The latest numbers for ocean heat content, up through the first quarter of this year, show the ocean (well, the top half) has lost heat in...

From The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi: "Jaidee raises his foot to drive Akkarat over the precipice but pain blossoms in his back....

Portland Tribune : "In a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board un animously approved a resolution...

These come from Chris Colose on Twitter. Venus : Incredible: only 22 W/m2 of sunlight is absorbed by Venus's surface, with 780 ...

*Tonight's Arctic sea ice extent: 4.06 standard deviations below the mean. That's the lowest in the records, which start 11/1/1978...

Oregon Public Broadcasting, May 9th : DHM Research surveyed 901 likely Oregon voters between May 6 and May 9 for OPB and Fox 12. Among Dem...

This is rich: Dr. Norman Page, PhD, is still claiming that his 2003 prediction of global cooling "is looking good." Some people...