The promise of abundant oil jobs was dangled before us as an incentive—despite the fact that clean energy industries were some of the only sectors to show strong growth at the height of the Great Recession, and 3.1 million jobs in the United States were associated with th …

The Australian Gillard Labor Government has mounted a $36.1 million TV advertisement campaign to promote its latest hand-outs to poor or middle income Australians - but it doesn't mention that these are actually compensation for their newly-imposed Carbon Tax. i.e. taking with on …

In this editorial, James Hansen argues that if the Canadian tar sand are developed, it will be "game over" for the climate. "If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and coal supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the  …

In previous Lessons from Past Predictions entries we examined Hansen et al.'s 1988 global warming projections (here and here). However, James Hansen was also the lead author on a previous study from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) projecting global warming in …

New research finds that wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night, a phenomena that could put a damper on efforts to expand wind energy as a green energy solution. Researchers used satellite data from 2003 to 2011 to examine surface tem …

Researchers have demonstrated a way of distinguishing between carbon dioxide in the air coming from fossil fuel burning and that from natural sources. It measures one type, or isotope, of carbon that decays over time - long since gone from fossil fuels. As explained in the …

Simply put, this ocean acidification news coming out of Oregon State University is huge. Scientists have solved the mystery of what's been killing baby oysters at the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery, proving that elevated carbon dioxide is the culprit. It's the first conc …

Meat eaters in developed countries will have to eat a lot less meat, cutting consumption by 50%, to avoid the worst consequences of future climate change, new research warns. The fertilisers used in farming are responsible for a significant share of the warming that causes cli …

While the largest contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is the power industry, the second largest is the more often overlooked cement industry, which accounts for 5-6% of all anthropogenic CO2 emissions. For every 10 kg of cement produced, the cement industry rel …

Researchers at Oregon State University have definitively linked an increase in ocean acidification to the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon, where larval growth had declined to a level considered by the owners to be "non-economically via …

We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact …

Book Review : Resisting the Green Dragon

  Preface: I first encountered the Green Dragon on a Newsvine post by Publius Redux where he introduced it with: “Now, here is a novel analysis of the undercurrent of urgency and irrationality characteristic of climate doomsayers’ prophecy. This explains the …

A new, detailed record of past climate change provides compelling evidence that the last ice age was ended by a rise in temperature driven by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The finding is based on a very broad range of data, including even the shells of ancient tiny  …

Rising levels of carbon dioxide drove much of the global warming that thawed Earth at the end of the last ice age. That's the conclusion a team of scientists has drawn in a new study examining the factors that closed the door on the last ice age, which ended about 20,000 years a …

The Skeptic's Guide to the Medieval Warm Period

“How can science claim man is the cause of global warming when the temperature of the Earth was much warmer during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP)?”

People who can afford long-haul flights between China and Europe "can also afford to pay for their pollution,"

Gaming the Peer Review System, Part III: A Hostile Takeover

A group of Skeptics once managed to take over an editorship at a peer-reviewed journal  and publish articles hostile to mainstream climate science. With the help of politicians and large funding sources, the hostilities have continued to this day.

Econmcis editor of The Age Ross Gittins reviews an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report "Environmental Outlook to 2050". With the global average temperature increasing by 3 to 6 degrees by the end of the century ''A temperature increase of more tha …

A study, backed by the Climate Institute and GE has found that since 1995 Australia's dependence on GHG polluting activities had grown relative to almost every other major economy with Australia now ranked 16th out of 19 countries in being ready to deal with a low-carbon world  …

Global Warming in Pictures II

Science is about using observation and reason to understand the physical world. Some people are suspicious of computer models and theories; so here is some of the the basic data in pictures and graphs. Ice core data gives a good picture of what has happened to the Earth in t …