This isn't explorer Will Steger's Global Warming 101 or the U of Chicago's "Open Climate 101" online course.

Blogs-Misc
Weblogs-Misc
A message from the recovery room
Consensus: Behind #s
Quickies
The Past is Prologue
Is climate change a choice between education and surrender?
Senate Committee Approves Gina McCarthy Nomination for EPA Administrator
Reprise
Junior College Students Put Climate Science Zombies Back Underground Thanks to Skeptical Science
400ppm
Courtney: Studying the Internal Ballistics of a Combustion Driven Potato Cannon using High-speed Video
The letter to Minister Oliver from climate scientists and energy experts (en francais)
McKinnon: The spatial structure of the annual cycle in surface temperature: amplitude, phase, and Lagrangian history
How anti-coal campaigners are protecting Australia’s economy
Two policy head-shakers
And sometimes (non-)metaphors are thrust upon us
Lehner: Amplified inception of European Little Ice Age by sea ice-ocean-atmosphere feedbacks
Talking about climate change in a hot and cold world
Debate-driven journalism: science debates as a tool and opportunity for science journalists
From the Other Side of the World…
The curious case of the White House and the Arctic death spiral
Another boring Leaf update
Assessing forecasts
Engaging the public without disengaging from science
Long term persistence & internal climate var...
GAO Issues Report on EPA's Effort to Enhance TSCA Chemical Regulation
Was ESMR screwy?
Documentairy 'Thin Ice' now available on web
One dare hardly predict
The inevitability of geoengineering
Bursting carbon's bubble
Against the Grain
It's STILL Rule 0, people
Will current efforts to reform the TSCA chemical control law actually roll back progress?
Author mixes science-related questions, American politics
The Internet: Saving Civilization or Trashing the Planet?
Prolific
Prolific
U.S. Now One Step Closer To Being Net Natural Ga...
Macklemore credits Seattle's park system wlaunch...
Cal grocery chain turns food waste into electric...
Take photo glacier — it'll last longer
Harvard researchers, on road to useful discoveri...
Top 5 Things You Need To Know About Immigrants&a...
Frackers get their own clothing line
EPA Is Required To Regulate Carbon Pollution Fro...
Draft fed rules would let frackers do whatever t...
Moniz confirmed as energy secretary, McCarthy's ...
Green roofs don't work unless you plant them wdi...
Holland better than we@everything, & they're...
Undead farm bill: Everyone's favorite legislativ...
10 Reasons Canada Needs to Rethink the Tar Sands
Climate Denial's Death Knell: 97 Percent of Peer-Reviewed Science Confirms Manmade Global Warming, Consensus Overwhelming
Study Finds Warming In Central China Far Greater Than Most Climate Models Indicated
Faulkner County: ExxonMobil's "Sacrifice Zone" for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking
Pegasus Pipeline Spill: Mayflower Residents Find Conflicting Advice from Arkansas Agencies
False Balance Lives: Bloomberg News Gives Equal Weight To Climate Disinformer And Scientists
Help Crowdfund The Dark Snow Project Research Trip To Greenland, As McKibben And Sinclair Join Jason Box
Could NAFTA Force Keystone XL On United States?
America's First Climate Refugees
Obama, Biden Parroting Bogus Gas Industry Talking Points
Will Future Generations Call Obama The ‘Environmental President’ Or An Abject Failure?
Into Wine: New Book by Olivier Magny Explores Terroirism, Soil Health and More
BC LNG Exports Blow Climate Targets Way, Way Out of the Water
Misc
Misc
2013 SkS News Bulletin #12: The Consensus Project
Obama tweets analysis that 97% of peer-reviewed science confirms human-caused ...
Great Plains tribal chairmen walk out on State Dept Keystone XL consultation
Indian Country Today Media Network reports: Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sover...
Global warming misconceptions on BBC radio
Much of a recent BBC radio segment focused on the short-term reduction in the ra...
Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors
U.S. has its 23rd coolest April; 16 tornadoes confirmed from Texas outbreak
China: Fed up With Growth at Any Cost
Measure the climate consensus yourself with our Interactive Rating System
The Consensus Project was a long, ambitious effort by many volunteers, lasting 12 ...
Andrew Bolt’s “The Death of Global Warmism”: Plimer's book sold 40k copies, ergo climate change not true (part 4 of 11)
Oil Sands Reality Check
Music Break: Across the Universe
400 ppm and counting
Obama retweets Cook paper finding 97% scientists agree AGW real to 31 million followers
Triple-Digit Temperatures Crush Northern Plains/Midwest Heat Records; All-Time May Record at Sioux City
Ecuador opening its rainforest to oil drilling despite bitter past experience
The scientific consensus on climate change: Still pivotal and more pervasive than ever
Study: 97% Agreement on Manmade Global Warming
EF-4 tornado kills 6 in Texas; Mahasen makes landfall in Bangladesh, killing 10
2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #20A
A change in temperature Arctic waters growing alarmingly acidic 'Best estima...
97% or 32.6% consensus (?) – Watts failing to grasp elementary methodology of Cook paper; intellectually dishonest
97% – Study of 12,000 peer-reviewed papers shows overwhelming consensus that climate change is happening
When the Arctic was 8 °C warmer
U.S. Arctic strategy aims to exploit oil and gas for 'national security'
The U.S. National Strategy for the Arctic, announced by the White House on May 10,...
Climate Scientist Andrew Weaver wins the first ever Green party seat in BC election
Federal budget sequestration begins to undercut extreme event preparedness
So it begins: The 2013 wildfire season finds the government facing cutbacks in fi...
Rodney’s rubbish rides again
The last time carbon dioxide concentrations were around 400ppm: a snapshot from Arctic Siberia
Synopsis During the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene Series of the Cenozoic Er...
The Seneca effect visually shown
2013 SkS News Bulletin #11: Alberta Tar Sands and Keystone XL Pipeline
Al Gore tells Obama to cancel Keystone XL Alberta oil sands production likely...
Party like it's 1989
Another Piece of the Global Warming Puzzle - More Efficient Ocean Heat Uptake
Although it is still within the range of model simulations, the rate of global sur...
Hot Topic interruptus
"4 Pinocchios" for Rep. Chris Stewart's dishonest statement about climate science experts
The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog awarded "Four Pinocchios" to Rep. Chris St...
2013 SkS Weekly Digest #19
SkS Highlights KK Tung posted part 2 of his article, The anthropogenic global wa...
2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #19B
Are we doomed to food insecurity? Big Oil may destroy world's largest rain fo...
What you need to know about climate sensitivity
This is a partial re-post of my latest in the Guardian's Climate Consensus " the...
Communication
OnCommunication
Quantifying the consensus on climate
Annual "new study" finds 97% of climate scientists believe in man-made climate change; public consensus sure to follow once news gets out
Nature's tribute to NCSE
#278) TV gooood, not baaaaad
Motivated reasoning & its cognates
Climate Change in the Visual Story Lab
Louisiana to repeal 1981 creationist law?
Bolsen, Druckman & Cook working paper addresses critical issue in Science of #Scicom: What triggers public conflict over policy-relevant science?
Climate Resilience – Deconstructing the New Buzz Word
The Climate Immigration Intersection: Co-Creating a Broad Movement (and Standing Up to Mark Zuckerberg)
#277) Improv at it's Best: The Groundlings 'Crazy Uncle Joe Show' — go see it!
#276) Animal Truthiness: Fudging a Chimp Movie
It’s (not just) the environment stupid!
Climate change: bad for our health
Time to ask the public: Why 2 degrees?
Harvard Shorenstein Paper on "Nature's Prophet: Bill McKibben as Journalist, Public Intellectual and Activist"
BMC Medical Ethics Study Evaluates the Media Impact of Rebecca Skloot's Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
A Reply to Time Magazine's Michael Grunwald: Why Analysis and Critical Reflection on the XL Tar Sands Pipeline Is Needed
Diversifying the Climate Movement
Earth's Library: Estimating Book Publishing Trends Related to Climate Change
Talk at Boston University on Dec. 6: Journalists as Public Intellectuals in the Climate Change Debate
Engaging the Public On the Health Threats Posed by Climate Change in a Post Sandy World
So lonely, misunderstood…
The Special Mission of Universities in a Post Sandy World
As NYC Rations Gas, A Study On How Americans View the Risks of Gas Price Volatility And Scarcity
Perceptions of Promise: Art as a Vehicle for Science Communication
Weathergirl goes rogue! LOL
Only tree-huggers believe in climate change? Guess again…
Lawrence Hall of Science, in brief
NOAA's Science on a Sphere: Climate visualization & other suggestions for viewing at science museums
NOAA's PPI goals&objectives fall short of the ACC policy&outreach recommendations
CSResearchers
CSResearchers
Rebuttal to Former Senator Bob Bennett
A couple weeks ago, former U.S. Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) published an op-ed in...
37. Tropical rainfall and inter-hemispheric energy transport
Yet more sensitivity
National Journal: The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change
A number of Republicans like me believe we are shooting ourselves in the foot by a...
[jules' pics] Temples
Possible futures
WaPo Fact Checker on Rep. Stewart
In my last post, I linked to a Salt Lake Tribune op-ed by Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Ut...
[jules' pics] "summer" ?
Unforced Variations: May 2013
This month's open thread.
The answer is blowing in the wind: The warming went into the deep end
There has been an unusual surge of interest in the climate sensitivity based on th...
The PAGES-2k synthesis
Guest commentary by Darrell Kaufman (N. Arizona U.) In a major step forward in pro...
My Response to Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah)
The editorial board for The Salt Lake Tribune has been mercilessly criticizing Rep...
New habitable planets found? The Climate of Kepler 62e and f
Boston
Ice hockey
Eric Steig It is well known that ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula have colla...
Worth More than a Thousand Words
Not Just the Facts — the Wrong Conclusions Too
Junk (filter) science
Verification of regional model trends
Guest post by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Sybren Drijfhout a...
Pipeline to Disaster & Climate Maverick
Faustian Bargain & The Missing Climate Data
36. A diffusive model of atmospheric heat transport
Thin Ice — the movie
Some of my friends have made a film, Thin Ice, which tells the story of CO2 and cl...
The Monckton Files: The New Zealand Blues
Fellow Moncktonophiles, This piece about Monckton's recent 'barnstorming' tour of ...
Tuning to the climate signal
Should regional climate models take the blame?
recently provided a critical review of regional climate models ('RCMs'). I think h...
Movie review: SWITCH
This year, the Geological Society of America is rolling out their SWITCH Energy Aw...
Unforced Variations: Apr 2013
Open thread for April...
Response by Marcott et al.
Readers will be aware of the paper by Shaun Marcott and colleagues, that they publ...
35. Atlantic multi-decadal variability and aerosols
The Monckton Files: Bickmore's First and Second Laws of Monckton
A few years ago, a biologist at my university became enamored with Lord Christophe...
Utah Republican Legislator Floats Climate Change Bill…!!!
I'm gobsmacked.  A Republican legislator from Heber City, Kraig Powell, has submi...
Storms of My Grandchildren's Opa
Betting on Climate Change
Physicist Mark Boslough proposes a sort of climate futures trading market that car...
The Monckton Files: Now it's Al Gore Going to JAIL!!!
In my last few posts, I reported on how The Gibraltar Chronicle had printed severa...
Nuclear/Science
Science
Friday fold: Rorschach blot
Was the Bingham Canyon landslide the largest historic non-volcanic landslip in North America?
‘Artificial Forest’ Nanosystem Mimics Photosynthesis, Researchers Say
Deja Vu: Remembering the 1947 Texas City (Fertilizer) Explosion
Ladybird Invader Carries Deadly Parasite as Biological Weapon
Q&A: Shaun McKinnon, veteran water reporter
In Post-Tsunami Japan, A Push To Rebuild Coast in Concrete
How To Evolve a Dog's Brain (And A Human One, While We're At It)
The Gaboon Viper Has Ultra-Black Scales So You Can’t See It
Scientist’s U.S. Road Trip Reveals Higher Methane Emissions Than Previously Known
Two New Fossils Reveal Details of Ape/Monkey Split
How The 'Anternet' Succeeds by Showing Restraint
Glaciers on Everest Disappearing as Temperatures Rise, Snowfall Declines
How To Fall In Love With Ants
Could DNA Databases Curb Human Trafficking?
3-D Scans Reveal Caterpillars Turning Into Butterflies
Tracing Breast Cancer's History
Shifting Petrel Diets Suggest Effect of Humans on Ocean Food Web, Study Says
Interview: Climate Pioneer’s Son Ponders a Worrisome CO2 Milestone
Son of Climate Science Pioneer Ponders A Sobering Milestone
The Mucus-Lover that Stops Mice from Getting Fat
Project Looks to Quantify Power Plant Emissions Through Crowdsourcing
True Nature: Revising Ideas On What is Pristine and Wild
A bogus boycott
U.S. Web Tool Aims to Bolster Research on Climate and Health Links
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom
Third Coal Export Proposal Falls By Wayside in Pacific Northwest
The law of straightness
How Mussel Farming Could Help to Clean Fouled Waters
Little green in Arab Spring
Declining Snow Cover Imperils Plant and Animal Species, Study Says
A new 'golden era'?
Battery-Equipped Wind Turbine Better Integrates Green Energy Onto Grid
Back on the Brink: Will the Lead In Bullets Finally Kill Off the Condor?
Solar-Powered Airplane Completes First Leg of Coast-to-Coast U.S. Trip
Youth/Papers/AntiDisinfo/
Caveat
(Caveat: I don't read or index the sites below, but have included them because others might want to, since they're directly focused on rebutting some higher-profile one-sided-skeptic sites. Are they useful?)