"The most vehement attack on the wartime press came not from Richard Nixon, but from William Tecumseh Sherman. 'If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the…
A new study by scientists has suggested that zombie attacks might increase if the current projections of global warming are realized. "If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs,…
There is a distressing commonality when discussing climate science lately: many people skip past the data and arguments offered by a skeptic and ask the question, "Are you a climatologist?"…
The short answer, I will disappoint many of you by saying, is no. Like I wrote before, climatologists are generally nice people genuinely struggling with understanding the immense complexities of…
Some careful readers to this blog have pointed out the work of Australian geologist Bob Carter. If you have not yet seen his work, you should. So I want you…
The American Geophysical Union, of which I am a member, has, like many other organizations, e.g. the ASA, issued a statement concurring with the IPCC report. The text of that…
As pointed out by my number one son, "during the debate [in the Italian senate] one senator rushed in fury to the desk of a colleague, Stefano Cusumano, and taunted…
The AMS is re-issuing its statement on the necessity of using probability in forecasts. I am on the committee that is re-drafting, or, as they to say, "wordsmithing", it. If…