You decide whether the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to be trusted on their interpretations of climate science and projections of future climate calamities.

How would alien civilizations solve a problem like global warming? Sounds like a science fiction novel, but a group of researchers is actually taking the question seriously.

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I hope to attend, but if I can’t I hope people in the audience can ask a few of the following questions:
1) If you control for H2O and isolate the impact of CO2 on atmospheric temperatures, you find that CO2 has zero impact. Antarctica, the ideal control for H2O, shows no warming over the past 50 years and 33% increase in CO2.

There is a continuing debate over sea level rise, especially how much will occur in the future. The most annoying part of the news media reporting on the issue is that they imply sea level rise is all the fault of humans.

In the past, it has been widely reported that high and abruptly changing CO2 concentrations during the Permian led to climate conditions that were “too hot for complex life to survive” on the planet.

Climate change could expand the agricultural feasibility of the global boreal region by 44 percent by the end of the century, according to a study. —Press Trust of India, 25 May 2018

Scientists call on the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer to re-evaluate the carcinogenicity of cell phone radiation after the Ramazzini Institute and US government studies report finding the same unusual cancers.

Because trees may only grow within narrowly-defined temperature ranges and elevations above sea level, perhaps the most reliable means of assessing the air temperatures of past climates is to collect ancient treeline evidence.

Since the 1950s the number of lives and the amount of money lost to floods have declined, despite little change to the frequency of catastrophic floods, according to the first comprehensive study of European historical records. If anything, the frequency of “extreme hydrological events” went down during the 20th century, despite global warming. –Oliver Moody, The Times, 30 May 2018

The peer reviewed journal Progress in Physics publishes a study that anticipates a new feature of the electron that is not predicted by Quantum Mechanics. This prediction is the existence of a Electron Toroidal Moment with a value of 10^(−40) Am3.

Christopher Booker exposes the BBC’s lamentable series, Climate Change and Me, this week:

In its drearily unscientific obsession with climate change, the BBC plumbed further depths last week when Radio 4 gave over its Book of the Week slot to a five-day series entitled “Climate Change and Me”, in which we were told that “scientists” would describe their personal experiences of global warming.

A (nearly) naked Sol… more the norm than the exception these days. Credit: NASA/SDO AIA 512/1600 imager.

Have you been keeping an eye on Sol lately? One of the top astronomy stories for 2018 may be what’s not happening, and how inactive our host star has become.