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SUMMARY: Despite three years of La Nina, 2022 was the SIXTH HOTTEST YEAR on record. The last decade was the hottest decade on record. As you all know by now, we're causing the world to he...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2023/01/the-last-10-years-are-hottest-ever-yet.html

Victor Venema died earlier this month. His friends, colleagues and everyone who knew of him were shocked and felt an immense sadness when his friend and colleague, Frank Sonntag, let us know . ...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2022/12/victor-venema-climate-scientist-valued.html

I've been with the same hosting company for many years. Yesterday (Australian time), first time ever, their email servers went down for several hours. It's back again now.  If anyone tried t...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2021/08/email-went-down-now-its-back.html

The IPCC Summary for Policymakers WG1 report has just been released. You can download it here . I will be going through it and the technical report (when it comes out) over the next few days. ...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2021/08/weve-got-to-get-serious-about-climate.html

Sorry for not following up my last post sooner. There'll be another climate post shortly.  My excuse is being consumed by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. Not me personally, I hasten to add. I...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2021/08/alert-for-hotwhopper-email-subscribers.html

Today I'm going to tackle a difficult but important topic - internal conflict. Given the number of people involved, the number and complexity of the issues, and the decades over which the climate...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2021/07/beware-of-internal-conflicts-rivalries.html

I spent a lot of time in western Canada in the early 1970s. That's 50 years ago for all you young ones. The world was very different then. Edmonton was experiencing it's longest winter since, alm...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2021/07/where-to-from-here.html

Anthony Watts has set up a new website for climate disinformers and wilful deniers. (H/t CJ in the comments here  at HotWhopper.) His disinformation website is called Everything Climate. Tra...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2021/01/everything-climate-disinformation-from.html

Climate science deniers can be grouped in different ways. Having observed them for more than a decade now, this is how I see them: THE UNINFORMED - ignorant about climate, doesn't read art...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2021/01/rating-climate-science-deniers-to.html

 As we approach the end of this unbelievably horrid year, my greetings are more muted. I wish all of you a happy time, whether you're with friends, family or on your lonesome. There are better...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/12/greetings-of-season-happy-hols-stay-safe.html

 What can I say? This is climate change. FIGURE 1 | NOVEMBER MEAN TEMPERATURE ANOMALY AUSTRALIA. Source: Bureau of Meteorology We're in the midst of a La Niña so it's not meant to be ho...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/12/hottest-november-in-australia-during-la.html

Congratulations to the people of the USA, who turned out in record numbers and finally got rid of Donald Trump, his family and the various remaining hangers on who've occupied the White House for...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/11/election-denial-epidemiology-denial-and.html

I woke up this morning to find that something has changed at Google and broke this blog. I've reverted it to a standard theme so you'll find some things missing (like the menu). It might be a...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/08/apologies.html

Every three or four years Anthony Watts (who owns a conspiracy blog called Watts Up with That, or WUWT) claims steam pipes in vast empty spaces in remote and largely unpopulated areas of Russia ...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/03/anthony-watts-russian-steampipes-move.html

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 ragin...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/02/hot-enough-for-you-faster-it-warms.html

It's been brought to my attention that there's another set of projections guesses about global surface temperature floating about, this time from Judith Curry . I don't have time to go into her...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/02/judith-currys-temperature-predictions.html

I sometimes wonder at the shameless way deniers boast about their ignorance, particularly their lack of understanding of basic science. Willis Eschenbach is a prime example. He doesn't understan...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/01/willis-eschenbach-radiates-more.html

Wildflowers & snowgum The weird get weirder. A bloke called Paul Driessen, whose job includes telling lies about climate change and bringing back smog to the USA, has come up with a wild id...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/01/paul-driessen-at-wuwt-suggests.html

It's hard to believe but poor Anthony Watts, despite all the help offered him over the years, is still totally befuddled, perplexed and bamboozled by the notion of temperature anomalies. You kno...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/01/more-than-10-years-on-anthony-watts-at.html

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...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/01/2019-was-second-hottest-year-on-record.html

Know what? If I see another know-nothing denier try to claim "it's not climate change it's arson" or "backburning" or "not enough prescribed burns" or "it's not happening", I'll scream. I was ...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/01/its-climate-change-on-top-of-drought.html

Australia has just had another "hottest year" on record beating the last by quite a way. The average mean annual temperature was a huge 1.52 C above the 1961-1990 mean. The average maximum was a ...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/01/2019-goes-out-with-many-bangs.html

Fires in East and Far East Gippsland and the high country exploded on Monday. We were warned. Some people who I thought would have known better were sceptical of the warning from Emergency Serv...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2020/01/australia-is-burning.html

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. ...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2019/12/seasons-greetings-to-all.html

From Mount Beauty Dec 2006 The fires across Australia this year are horrific. Because the smoke is inundating the biggest capital city (not good), people are taking notice (which is good). T...

http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2019/12/fires-follow-your-plan-but-expect.html