Quark Soup by David Appell

The 3rd quarter numbers for ocean heat content are in. Needless to say, the trend continues. Both the 0-700 m region and the 0-2000 m regi...

This is a little interesting: a plot of real US GDP (in 2012 dollars) versus miles driven by all Americans : It shows a clear shift ...

I have to apologize -- I failed to sort through the comments here that were flagged as possible spam, and found several that were real comme...

Guest post by: Layzej In a recent episode of "Patriot Act", Hassan Minhaj took Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to task f...

BP has released its Statistical Review of World Energy 2019 , which always looks authoritative because there are many pages of numbers all n...

The power outage in California is making a mess of some people's lives. a woman had to spend the night in her wheelchair because her...

An article in Slate by April Glaser, a Californian, gives a good picture of the blackout situation in California and failures of the power ...

If it comes to a dystopia this will seem one early step down the road. Power companies in California are shutting off power to 800,000 peopl...

Written and directed by Brent Bonacorso.  

(I'll probably add to this post as the day goes by.) ** If you're looking for the latest PDO data (Pacific Decadal Oscillation), ...

I have been avoiding some text messages on my phone for over nine months. They were from Dave Werth, who lived here in Salem. He commented...

If you’re a grown adult enraged by 16-year-old activist @GretaThunberg , satirist @markhumphries and his co-writer @evanwilliams have c...

Ken Rice ( @theresphysics ) 9/24/19, 8:02 AM Fox News apologises to Greta Thunberg for pundit's 'disgraceful' remark thegu...

Or, "the surge." Back during the 1998-2012 14-year warming "pause" everyone was fixated on it; now we are in the mid...

Maybe she tried just a little too hard to appear angry here, or maybe the rest of us aren't angry enough. I honestly don't know....

“What is the meaning of democracy, freedom, human dignity, standard of living, self-realization, fulfillment? Is it a matter of goods, or o...

Tomorrow the Heartland Institute is having a "debate" in Times Square, NY at 7 pm EDT, 4 pm PDT: "Realists vs. Alarmists....

Here's a plot of the date of the annual Arctic sea ice extent minimum, using NSIDC's data : There does seem to be a tendency to...

Tim Ball put up a video that I hadn't seen until now. Curiously, he seems to think he won his case against Mann on merits -- that his...

Now it's clear that this year's minimum of Arctic sea ice extent will be the 2nd-lowest in the satellite era, after 2012. But still ...