Yes, Arctic sea ice has declined since satellite records began in 1979 but polar bears have adjusted well to this change, especially to the abrupt decline to low summer sea ice levels that have been the norm since 2007.

Some polar bear subpopulations have indeed spent more time on land in summer than in previous decades but this had little negative impact on health or survival and while polar bear attacks on humans appear to have increased in recent years (Wilder et al. 2017), the reasons for this are not clear: reduced summer sea ice is almost certainly not the causal factor (see previous post here).

Two hundred years ago, geologists determined that there was never a worldwide flood. But that view may be about to change thanks to the ground-breaking new book, ‘The Worldwide Flood: Uncovering and Correcting the Most Profound Error in the History of Science’ by geologist Michael Jaye, Ph.D.

Most plant CO2-enrichment studies tend to only examine the singular effects of rising atmospheric CO2 on plant growth. Fewer are the studies that introduce other variables, such as temperature or soil water status, and even fewer are those that examine three or more variables.

Former Vice President Al Gore compared the fight to end man-made global warming to the abolishment of slavery and the push for gay marriage.

Heidi Cullen’s Climate Central claims the Arctic is “crazy warm” and Arctic sea ice is doomed.

The Arctic Has Been Crazy Warm All Year. This Is What It Means for Sea Ice | Climate Central

The eight-legged micro-animal called a tardigrade could survive nearly all the way until the death of the sun, a new study suggests — long after humans are history.

On this date in 1936, Wisconsin hit 114 degrees and Michigan hit 112 degrees. Those were the hottest temperatures ever recorded in those states. The ten hottest July 13ths all occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. July 13 is no longer a hot day in the US. I was driving last night with the heater on.

Common genetic factors that influence muscle strength in humans have been identified for the first time in a study led by researchers from the University of Cambridge and published today in Nature Communications.

In the catastrophic man-made global warming hypothesis, the solar radiation absorbing surface area of the Earth is assumed to be the same as the infrared-emitting surface area of the Earth.  Let us rigorously examine this important assumption.

A giant iceberg has broken off the shelf of Antarctica. Naturally, the mainstream media is trying as best it can to hint that this is something serious, worrying and probably connected with “climate change.”

Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich has made a gaudy career of prophesying imminent ecological doom. “In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now,” he declared in his 1968 manifesto The Population Bomb.

If human beings were to vanish from the Earth, what would their effect on wildlife have been? A rash of extinctions, a lot of mixing up so that wallabies and parakeets live in England and rabbits and sparrows in Australia, but also — according to Chris Thomas — an eventual doubling in the number of species on the planet: a “sixth genesis”, as he calls it in reference to the five previous times that biodiversity has expanded rapidly after a mass extinction. We are causing a mass speciation.

New research suggests nickel is essential to the Earth’s magnetic field.

Earth’s magnetic field is generated by what’s called the “dynamo effect,” a unique combination of geophysical factors. Of these factors, the convection currents of Earth’s conductive, molten core and Earth’s constant rotation are the most important.

Seismologists at the University of California, Riverside studying earthquakes in the seismically and volcanically active Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone have found that “slow earthquakes” are occurring continuously, and could encourage damaging earthquakes.

An image and short film have been encoded in DNA, using the units of inheritance as a medium for storing information.

Former Vice President Al Gore says the newly-formed Larsen C iceberg is “a jarring reminder of why we must solve the climate crisis,” although scientists say the ice sheet breakup was driven by natural processes.