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The message from boreholes

There have been suggestions that Jo Nova might be trying to hide or ignore the most recent boreholes graph from Huang et al. So here it is. This is the last 2,000 years according to 6000 boreholes,...

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Dinosaurs wiped out by … Darkness and Cold

Now this is climate change. If you can believe this study, wow: “In the tropics, annual mean temperature fell from 27 to 5 degrees Celsius” And we worry about a warming of one degree in a century. “It...

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Now that was “climate change” 8200 years ago — California lashed by 150 years...

Don’t tell me that cold is nice and the climate was ever ideal A few scientists thought that the climate was stable and well behaved during the Holocene until we invented coal power and the Ford Model...

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Chinese scientists find 2,000 years of not-hockey stick

There was no Medieval Warm Period in China. No little ice age either. Not warm in Roman times either. Obviously CO2 controls this climate. (Click to enlarge) Quansheng et al show that weather is lumpy,...

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Unknown Miocene mystery where CO2 didn’t fit models, *Solved*

Strap yourself down – a puzzle you never knew existed has finally been solved! Nov 16, 2017: Scientists Solve 22 Million-Year-Old Climate Puzzle –“Paleoclimate Events Can Predict Earth’s Future” Solved...

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Scottish summers not doing anything they haven’t done for 800 years already

Gotta love a long unbroken proxy. Scientists looked at 44 pines sites across the Scottish Highlands and used their tree rings to create a continuous temperature series for the last 810 years. Showing...

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Climate change causes time travel? Humans turning clock back 50 million years

The Pliocene is coming to get you. The shocking news is that the world cooled for 50 million years, then, just like that, two hundred years ago, humans stopped the cooling, and turned the global clock,...

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The Sahara may flip from desert to grass every 20,000 years. Blame The Sun.

MIT researchers think they have solved a bit of a mystery regarding Sahara dust, but if they’re right it means the Sahara Desert has already come and gone 3 – 5 times since humans walked the Earth. The...

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Extinction level event? 42,000 years ago Earths magnetic field shrank to nothing

Don’t look now, it’s a climate disaster of massive proportions and it has nothing to do with CO2. Scientists have just discovered what they say was a wild era 42,000 years ago — where the Earth’s...

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Surprise: The Last Ice Age was colder than anyone thought. Blame CO2!

We panic about the next half degree of warming (above the 1.5 we’ve already had) but the depth of the ice age was savagely cold. For years the experts told us what Earth’s temperature was then, but...

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Record breaking DNA shows Mastodons roaming a hot North Greenland 2 million...

By Jo Nova Kap København is almost the closest point there is to the North Pole on dry land. The survival of some DNA for two million years is astounding all of itself — breaking the record for oldest...

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2,500 years of wild climate change in southern Europe: It was warmer in Roman...

By Jo Nova Nothing at all about the modern era stands out as unusual Thanks to David Whitehouse at NetZeroWatch who has found a remarkable paper: Pyrenean caves reveal a warmer past The new study on...

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