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Computer Models: Hurricane Sandy to Slam Northeast

The U.S. Navy computer model showing Hurricane Sandy approaching the Northeast Monday morning. (Image courtesy of Penn State eWall.) Top-of-the-line computer models have been forecasting a devastating...

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Peak Winds Approaching Rhode Island Right Now

A packet of intense winds approaching Rhode Island appears as a brown “hook” coming in from the northeast. Image, from the NAM computer model, comes courtesy of Dr. Ryan Maue of Weatherbell Analytics....

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Storm Surge Commences in Rhode Island

Wickford Village, three hours before high tide, as Sandy’s storm surge began to be seen in Rhode Island. Photo by Harold Ambler As of 6:30 pm, the Rhode Island coast has started seeing effects of the...

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Sandy in Context

Areas along the Belt Parkway near the Verrazano Bridge in Gravesend Bay, getting breached at 9 a.m. Monday morning, nearly 12 hours before Hurricane Sandy’s more destructive evening surge, Oct 29,...

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Surprised By White

The first “pure” Nor’easter of the season is delivering snow to East Greenwich this evening. The storm, another potent one just nine days after Hurricane Sandy devastated the region, was snowier than...

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Of Pure Weather Ignorance, Yaks on Faces, and Your Holiday Gift Shopping

A curious, and possibly deeply sad, facet of modernity: journalists successfully convincing people that they’re witnessing the demise of the climate system. People have no idea regarding weather. They...

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Britain’s Cold Comes as No Surprise

The first book by an American journalist to predict the strengthening of winter and the slow undoing of the global warming narrative helps put climate science in a new perspective. People say a version...

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New York Times Sets Bar Just a Little Higher for Climate Misinformation

The News York Times has its standards: All the news that fits the narrative of climate doom. Sunday, January 20, 11:43 a.m. EST, update: Andy Revkin kindly took the time to make sure the right set of...

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Blizzard Reading

Once you realize how badly you have been misled by AGW zealots, you suddenly understand that you must now pay attention to climate science on a totally new level. If you have only recently become a...

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Old Time New England Winter

A little evening snow in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, on a far gentler night than tonight. Photo by Jeff Stevens. I live in a historic part of a historic New England town: East Greenwich, Rhode...

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Unprecedented Melt? Not Exactly. Unprecedented Scientific Folly? You bet!

The Antarctic’s annual cycle is its own accordion-like expansion and contraction. But it is dwarfed by the larger expansions and contractions between glacial and interglacial periods during the present...

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Did That Canary Just Flutter Its Wings?

The year you’re living in, 2013, may be the year that it happened. What is it? It is the onset of global cooling. How dare I make such a mental leap? How dare I not would be an equally good question....

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New Book in Process — Please Donate Generously

Very rarely, I mention the fact that being a climate change skeptic not only does not pay but actually costs those of us who have taken an unpopular position on the topic. With my next book on the...

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How Dare I Not?

Anthony Watts rightly points out that if I wish for people to support my work in progress, I should let them know what it is they are supporting. While I fought a long and  strenuous battle to make...

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The Age of Foolishness

(Over the next several weeks, I’ll be posting several excerpts from my forthcoming book, Aztec Nation. The second such excerpt is below. Here’s a link to my first book: clicky.) It was the best of...

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Imaginary Moral High Ground

What follows is the next excerpt from my second book on climate, the forthcoming Aztec Nation. To buy my first book, click here.  So, if the United States is on the verge of ceding a good bit of its...

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The New Last Refuge

Ask yourself: “When it comes to the climate debate, which side more resembles the Aztecs?” “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” – Samuel Johnson Yes, and climate alarmism is the new...

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What’s Going On Up There?

When it was initially apparent that a period of mild cooling was taking place in the high Arctic one month ago, I decided to reach out to Walt Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. I wanted...

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Did a 2006 Arctic “Heat Wave” Largely Cause 2007′s Sea Ice Melt?

In terms of the mechanisms restricting ice melt this season, to the extent that they have anything to do with air temperature, a cool Arctic above 80N basically means an absence of overrunning air from...

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Thoughts on fall

From today’s Providence Journal, my ode to autumn … That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold Bare ruined...

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