A Holocene Summer Temperature Record of Romania's Lake Brazi (30 June 2015)
It speaks volumes about the global warming effect that is claimed by the world's climate alarmists to accompany atmospheric CO2 enrichment...
ENSO Influence on East Asian-Western Pacific Winter Climate (30 June 2015)
Several shortcomings suggest the climate modelling community still has a significant way to go before they will be able to fully rectify several ENSO-related problems discussed in this study...
ENSO-Induced Rainfall Changes Derived from CMIP5 AOGCMs (29 June 2015)
How well do they compare with observations made throughout Central America and northwest South America from the late 1800s to the early 2000s?...
Plant Growth Database (29 June 2015)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Potato (Aien et al., 2014)...
Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment: Boon or Bane of the Biosphere? (26 June 2015)
We present a brief assessment of where Pope Francis recently made an unfortunate wrong turn on the subject by listening to people who have ulterior motives for wanting to eliminate the global usage of fossil fuels...
Are Sea Anemones Helped or Hindered by Ocean Acidification? (26 June 2015)
A pair of real-world in situ observational studies provide compelling evidence for the former of the two alternatives...
Climate Change vs. Urbanization: Which is the Greater Threat to the Longleaf Pine Ecosystems of the Southeastern USA? (26 June 2015)
The works of man can be both good and evil at one and the same time, especially when it comes to something as complex as impacting the planet's climate and its many diverse and unique ecosystems...
Plant Growth Database (26 June 2015)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Purging Nut (Kumar et al., 2014)...
Effects of Elevated CO2 on Medicinal Properties of Guava Plants (24 June 2015)
While the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 concentration enhances the health-promoting properties of Brazil's guava plants, it would also appear to enhance the well-being of the plants themselves ... by providing them with enhanced protection from herbivores and pathogens...
Warming Prompts Range Expansion of West Australian Reef Fish (23 June 2015)
Periodic warming of seawater in different parts of the world can enable the poleward expansion of the ranges of many fish species, such as the endemic reef fish Choerodon rubescens that is found along the western coast of Australia...
Assessing the Global Extent of Drought-Induced Forest Dieback (23 June 2015)
In light of the global warming that ceased nearly two decades ago, droughts have been predicted -- and are still periodically projected -- to become more severe and widespread in future decades, leading to the dieback of many of the world's forests. A new study, however, suggests these projections have little solid support in terms of real-world data...
Dying from Heat and Cold in 66 Different Chinese Communities (23 June 2015)
Another study of the subject adds to the growing realization that extreme cold is a much more deadly phenomenon than is extreme heat...
The Non-Stationary Precipitation Biases of Current Climate Models (19 June 2015)
A team of three Canadian researchers assesses the significance of the commonly-used bias correction technique for tweaking the precipitation projections of state-of-the-art climate models -- which projections, if left "un-tweaked," might otherwise significantly misrepresent reality...
Climate Model Inadequacies (Sea Ice) -- Summary (19 June 2015)
How many ways can a climate model fail to accurately predict the past behavior of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice? A review of the scientific literature suggests that the number is (unfortunately) somewhat akin to a baker's dozen...
Impact of Warming on Photosynthesis of Temperate and Boreal Trees (19 June 2015)
The results of a recently concluded two-year, two-site, two-temperature study of two boreal and four temperate deciduous tree species grown in the field reveal their ability to successfully acclimate to significant environmental warming...
Plant Growth Database (19 June 2015)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Potato (Aien et al., 2014)...
A Submerged Aquatic Plant in a CO2-Enriched and Warmer World (17 June 2015)
The "twin evils" of the climate alarmist crowd (global warming and water acidification) do no harm to a perennial macrophyte that is widely distributed throughout the waters of China's middle and lower Yangtze River basin. In fact, they help the important plant to grow even better than it does currently...
The Ability of a Common Flower to Adapt to Climate Change (17 June 2015)
It is more than sufficient to enable the plant to withstand the rigors of climate-model-projected CO2-induced global warming, along with all of the negative consequences that are claimed to accompany it...
Elevated CO2 Combats Water Stress in an Herb of the Mint Family (16 June 2015)
The effect of elevated CO2 levels on anti-oxidative defense systems is a major benefit to this plant species...
Lamenting the Double ITCZ Bias in CMIP5 Climate Models (16 June 2015)
It is becoming ever more difficult to put much faith in the ever-evolving -- but never quite getting to where they need to go -- climate models, which are now at the CMIP5 state of development and testing, but are still found to be suffering from numerous different biases...
The Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-10) (13 June 2015)
The Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-10) was held this past Thursday and Friday at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, DC. Dr. Craig D. Idso delivered a talk discussing serious flaws in the U.S. Government's official economic analysis of climate change. That presentation can be viewed here, where Dr. Idso's remarks begin at the 15 minute and 30 seconds mark. The text of his talk can be downloaded here, and the accompanying slides can be downloaded here. Presentations of other speakers can be accessed from the conference website, located here.
South Asian Summer Monsoon and Tropical SSTs in CMIP5 Models (13 June 2015)
An analysis of model simulations reveals "further diagnostic work on the relationship between snow and SASM in CMIP5 is clearly required" before the models get these features right...
A 2500-Year SST History of the northern South China Sea (SCS) (13 June 2015)
Like many other records, it reveals greater warmth occurred during the Roman and Medieval Periods than that experienced during the Current Warm Period...
Plant Growth Database (13 June 2015)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Tomato (Mamatha et al., 2014)...
Rising Temperature and OA Effects on Coral Organic Carbon Fluxes (9 June 2015)
A new study of the subject suggests that Earth's corals may well be far less at risk from the supposedly negative impacts of the two phenomena than has long been believed...
Microhabitats: Thermal Refugia for Rocky Intertidal Invertebrates (9 June 2015)
If the Earth ever begins to warm again, the authors of this paper explain how the microhabitats of the world's oceans that act as thermal refugia are likely to play a major role in mitigating the negative impacts of that warming on the numerous aquatic species that comprise the oceans' benthic communities...
Plant Growth Database (9 June 2015)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Purging Nut (Kumar et al., 2014)...
No Great Need to Worry about Earth's Kelp in a Warming World (8 June 2015)
They appear to be well equipped to deal with temperature stress, as the findings of this paper suggest "the scope for thermal adaptation and gametophyte performance of E. radiata across most of its Australian distribution is within projected levels of future warming"...
Redband Trout Feeling the Heat of a Desert ... But Adapting to It! (8 June 2015)
In a classic case of evolutionary adaptation to extreme thermal stress, redband trout from a desert climate have a much larger number of strongly differentially expressed genes in response to heat stress, which suggests that "a combination of genes has evolved for redband trout to adapt in their desert environment." And if redband trout can do it, many other species should also be able to take the heat of potential global warming and bask in its future progression...
CO2-Enriched Air Does Double Duty Fighting Heat and Drought (5 June 2015)
A 400 ppm increase in CO2 -- from 400 to 800 ppm -- works wonders for Kentucky Bluegrass, enhancing root and shoot biomass in the face of two severe environmental constraints, drought and heat...
Assessing the Uniqueness of the California Drought of 2012-2014 (4 June 2015)
We hear and read about it repeatedly in all forms of popular media, which have a natural tendency to emphasize the unusual and unique. But what does the less-visited peer-reviewed scientific literature have to say about the recent California drought?...
Plant Growth Database (4 June 2015)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Tomato (Mamatha et al., 2014)...
Open Letter to the American Physical Society (APS) (3 June 2015)
This letter was sent to the current President of the American Physical Society (APS), with a copy to members of the Society's Presidential Line Officers, in regard to the society's 2015 draft statement on climate change...
Two Centuries of Drought on the Eastern Mongolian Plateau (2 June 2015)
What do they tell us about the uniqueness - or not - of the region's droughts of the past two decades? Once again, we find yet another reliable reconstruction revealing there is nothing unusual, unnatural, or unprecedented about current (or past!) precipitation variability -- for either floods or droughts -- that would suggest a CO2-induced influence...
A New Regional Model for Simulating African Hydroclimate (2 June 2015)
Several model run simulations provide insight "on the challenges surrounding modelling of the climate variations across Africa," revealing a number problems remain to be overcome before the nature of precipitation throughout Africa can be correctly modeled...
How Temperature Impacts a Tropical Coral and its Symbionts (1 June 2015)
Lower, rather than higher, temperatures adversely affect Symbiodinium recruitment and coral survival...
Exploring a Plethora of Biases in State-of-the-Art Climate Models (1 June 2015)
Just as people have all sorts of biases about a number of different issues, so too do today's most advanced climate models possess a number of biases with respect to numerous phenomena that combine to determine the nature of regional climates throughout the world...