Another example of climate journalists and researchers not looking carefully at the data they are reporting. It is on the face of it it is an interesting and significant story showing the tragic effects on humans as a result of a warming world. More people are falling into the water and drowning due to walking […]

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), La Niña is back in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, after nearly a decade’s absence. This is expected to result in sea surface temperatures between two and three degrees Celsius cooler than average, said Dr. Maxx Dilley, Deputy Director in charge of Climate Services Department at WMO. […]

Recently there were many headlines proclaiming that this September was the warmest on record. It was from a report uncritically relayed by many. The reasoning behind the conclusion is worth taking a little time to digest as it demonstrates that temperature statistics are often open to interpretation. Consider the GISS Loti database on which September […]

The Central England Temperature Record is the Met Office’s preferred measure of UK temperature, at least as far as climatology is concerned. Although the number of sites underlying the record is tiny and all of them are situated in the Midlands, how these stations have changed over time is well understood. That means that any […]

Recent claims that the hole in the ozone layer is recovering have received worldwide media attention. But the continuing decline of ozone concentrations in the stratosphere and the return of a huge ozone hole over Antarctica raises doubt about claims that it is ‘healing.’ In 1989, the so-called Montreal Protocol introduced a ban on ozone-depleting […]

According to Canada’s National Forestry Database, the number of forest fires has been at the lowest since 1990. According to the Met Office, global warming is leading to record breaking fires in North America. Canada, of course, is a large part of North America, so surely fires should be getting worse there too. In fact wildfires […]

A new analysis of global air temperature by researchers from Tongji University in Shanghai has cast light on the much debated recent hiatus in global temperature. Writing in the Journal of Earth Science the Chinese scientists say there was a rapid rise in global mean surface air temperature after the late 1970s but that this […]

While the season has not quite ended yet, it seems unlikely that the total number of Atlantic hurricanes will be unusually high, while the number of major hurricanes looks like being relatively low. There has been a load of nonsense written about how busy this year’s Atlantic hurricane season has been, with Greek letters having […]