There are three big drivers of weather for any place on Earth – the latitude, the local environment and solar system cycles. The biggest weather factor is latitude – are you in the torrid, temperate or frigid zone? These climatic zones are defined by the intensity of heat delivered to Earth’s surface by the sun.

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Here are some articles and stories that are minimally reported, if at all, because they do not fit the agenda that humans, fossil fuels, and CO2 are causing disastrous global warming, aka climate change.

Looking up at a platform holding a lit candle and ice on a pedestal, a typical thermal imaging camera shows that the ice is appreciably warmer than the clear blue background sky. Assuming a 0.95 emissivity, ice at 0°C would be radiating about 299.88 watts per square meter. This means that a typical thermal imaging camera is capable of detecting 300 W/m² of thermal radiation.

Sunspot Numbers – Maunder Minimum – Wikipedia

Prior to the widespread adoption of the superstition that a 0.0001-mole fraction increase in CO2 over the past century controls the climate, scientists took a more rational approach.

When we learn about human genetics in high school biology class, one of the most basic things we learn about is the DNA double helix, the twisting ladder-shaped structure that holds our genetic code.

But scientists have long suspected there’s another type of DNA that looks quite different from the famous Watson-Crick model. They theorized that it’s knot-shaped, though they’d never observed it in a living cell … until now.

A recent essay (https://principia-scientific.com/a-natural-laboratory-and-an-eastern-south-dakota-blizzard-part-1/) was an attempt to validate the U.S. Climate Reference Network’s (USCRN’s) measurement of the surface skin (radiative) temperature.

During the Roman Warm Period ~2,000 years ago, sea levels were significantly higher than they are now.  Modern coastlines are 2 miles down from where they were during the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, strongly implying that surface air temperatures were much warmer ~2,000 years ago compared to today.

Concentrated solar power is not delivering on green energy promises. Behind the hype these futuristic molten-salt power towers are generating only 13 percent of predicted capacity. But their most worrying issues concern problems with thermal energy storage.

Sea ice in the Bering Sea this winter was said to be the lowest since the 1850s, largely driven by persistent winds from the south rather than the usual north winds although warm Pacific water was a factor early in the season (AIRC 2018).

One of world’s most baffling mysteries became even more mysterious after new archaeological findings announced earlier this month appeared to cast a strange new light on the question of who built the ancient stone circle monument known as Stonehenge.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has proposed to end the longstanding EPA practice of using secretive, often questionable, even deceptive science to support agency policy and regulatory initiatives.

His proposed rules will ensure that any science underlying agency actions is transparent and publicly available for independent experts to examine and validate – or point out its flaws.

Canadian skeptical climatologist Dr Tim Ball still battles gamely in the British Columbia Supreme Court defending against the world’s worst perpetrator of secretive junk climate science: Dr Michael E Mann.

There has always been some suspicion that pharmaceutical companies would rather keep people sick and on drugs than cure them in one shot and lose the ability to create return customers.

Scientists at the B612 Foundation, based in the US, are “100 percent certain” that the rogue space rocks will smash into Earth. Only 18,000 asteroids are tracked globally, with the majority not even monitored, according to Australian site News.com.au.

Scientists say that the Yellowstone supervolcano gets stronger every year, and they now think they know why.  An 1,800-mile deep “hotspot” has been discovered under the caldera which scientists believe is the volcano’s heat source.