Multiple media outlets, including the BBC and Reuters, claim that a recent West African heatwave would be “impossible” without global warming.

The 8.2 kiloyear (ky) event is a prominent cooling event in the Earth’s climatic history that occurred approximately 8,200 years before the present (BP) and lasted for about 160 years.

A Conservative MP in the UK has called for a thorough review of government higher education funding after it was revealed that taxpayer money is being spent on ridiculous university courses, including a PhD researcher who has chose to explore “Transphobic Invocations of Archaeology.”

China is positioned to adversely influence lithium-ion battery production worldwide

This article looks at studies on the effects of infrasound and low-frequency noise on mammals

We can all accept that a better diet, fitness, body weight, and good sleep all would contribute to improvements in human health.

A friend just sent me the following report from Australia, and he asked me what could be causing this alarming trend

Among the many destructive ideas loose in American education is that black students should not be expected to master standard English because doing so is demeaning and demoralizing for them

A new study finds that natural gas is the most effective energy source meeting growing energy demands affordably and reliably, while balancing environmental and human impact

As of Monday, Alberta Health Services has updated its guidance on mRNA COVID-19 booster shots to an extra shot after three months, beginning with six-month-old immunocompromised babies

Is Greece on its way to becoming Europe’s renewable power outlet? Euronews reporter Hans von der Brelie investigates why the location of wind farms is so important and why everyone is not on board. [emphasis, links added]

BBC oddball Chris Packham has hit back at claims reported on Neil Oliver‘s GB News show that half the world’s population could die if Net Zero was implemented in full.

Is Greece on its way to becoming Europe’s renewable power outlet? Euronews reporter Hans von der Brelie investigates why the location of wind farms is so important and why everyone is not on board. [emphasis, links added]

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Evaporation is supposed to increase with warming. But, per a new study (Jin et al., 2024), “observation results around the world have shown that evaporation has been steadily declining since the 1950s.” [emphasis, links added]

By the 1970’s, the Earth had experienced three decades of declining temperatures, which Hubert Lamb described as “longest-continued downward trend since temperature records began”.