Visualising climate change Hotwhopper charts illustrate how much the world is warming: rising surface temperature, higher seas, disappearing sea ice and other signs.

Australia’s politicians from the Liberal, National and Labor parties all vow that now isn’t the right time to talk about climate change. Soon there’ll be not the tiniest gap between the droughts, ...

An interesting if ominous paper was recently published in Nature Climate Change. It came out just before Christmas, at the height of the holiday season here in Australia while fires were raging. For ...

The Twitter conversations I’ve written about before is giving more insight into the denial crowd. The bots and trolls are ramping up as the US election campaign gears up. (It goes on forever, doesn’t ...

A short, sweet and old-fashioned greeting to everyone. I’m sorry I’ve not been blogging much this past couple of years, but fear not (or fear, depending who you are), I shall return in 2020. Here is a ...

Ocean heat content data source: NODC/NOAA Radiative forcing and NH temperature data source: IPCC AR5 WG1 Technical Summary - Box TS.5, Figure 1 Atmospheric temperature and CO2 data source: IPCC AR5 ...

How (and why) does Russia keep moving its steampipes? Anthony doesn’t explain how or why Russia moves its steampipes around the world each January – from sparsely populated regions of Russia to North ...

How about helping out some researchers by taking a survey of climate blog readers. It’s for a project being done jointly by researchers at Cambridge University and Wageningen University. The results ...

Climate science facts vs denial and conspiracy theories The world is heating up very quickly. Much too quickly. Life on earth will change a lot over coming decades, and not just human life. We need to ...

Summary: 2019 was the second hottest year on record. December 2019 was the second hottest December on record. The last decade was the hottest decade on record. According to GISS NASA, the average ...

The Men's Playground NOTE: This is a slightly revamped version of an article originally posted on the HotWhopper blog in December 2012. I preserved the original as a blog post, with comments - click ...