Introduction If one wishes to gain a “heads-up” as to imminent developments in ENSO and possible beginnings of an el … Continue reading ENSO and the anchovy

Paleoclimatology, the study of climate in the past all the way back to deep time, is one of the pillars … Continue reading The breakout from Africa 60 thousand years ago that populated the world

Demographic research shows that by around 2064 the number of people in the world will reach a maximum and start … Continue reading World population will soon peak and decline (doom-mongers wrong again!)

This story of a recorded temperature of 38 C on June 20 (2020) in Verkhoyansk, Siberia has become a huge … Continue reading The disappearance of June 20th (in Verkhoyansk)

One of the most reliable indicators of changing global temperature is the Arctic treeline – the northern-most latitude where it … Continue reading The to and fro of the Siberian Taiga-Tundra treeline

Reblogged from Clive Best http://clivebest.com/blog/?p=1169 I have been struggling to understand exactly how increasing CO2 levels leads to global warming … Continue reading Clive Best: it’s a circular argument – if we assume CO2 warms the earth, we find that CO2 warms the earth

There have been three major glaciations over the last half billion years (the Phanerozoic) during which multicellular life has existed. … Continue reading The Ordovician glaciation – glaciers spread while CO2 increased in the atmosphere: a problem for carbon alarmism

Yawn – we’ve all read too much about the coronavirus. But this new research from Cambridge University UK sheds light … Continue reading The genetic web of coronavirus origin in Yunnan (not Wuhan)

“RaTG13 is the name, rank and serial number of an individual horseshoe bat of the species Rhinolophus affinis, or rather … Continue reading Coronavirus: the batty back story