SeaLevel.info blog roll

WattsUpWithThat.com ("WUWT") is the indispensable blog site of climatologist Anthony Watts, and the #1 climate blog on the Internet. He's a prominent “climate skeptic” (“lukewarmer”). WUWT has a very comprehensive collection of climate-related news, and other resources, such as book reviews.
See also Ric Werme's Guide (WUWT by Categories).
Sealevel.info webmaster Dave Burton has contributed to a few of the articles there, and posted many comments. ↑
RealClimate.org ("RC") used to be the top Climate Movement (“alarmist”) blog, but activity there has diminished. Censorship is also a big problem there. However, they also have a useful (though biased) collection of links to climate data sources. Because of that, and because of their former prominence, I've reluctantly made an exception to my usual rule of not listing blogs which are censored to enforce a particular viewpoint. But I can't really recommend them. ↑
DailyClimate.org is a news-aggregator site for climate-related articles. It is firmly in the alarmist camp, and a cheerleader for the parasitic wind and solar “renewable” power industries, but the site is nevertheless useful. (~~ReportingClimateScience.com~~ was a similar site, but it is no longer active.) ↑
The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) is a “positive alternative voice on issues of environment and development,” with a nice site and a useful email list.
CFACT's Climate Depot project is a news-aggregator site on the skeptical/lukewarmist side of the debate, which provides a nice balance to DailyClimate. I highly recommend subscribing to their email list, for daily news updates. (Look where it says, “Get Email Updates,” on the right side of the page, here.) ↑
UK-based TheGWPF.org (the “Global Warming Policy Foundation”) and TheGWPF.com (the “Global Warming Policy Forum”) are skeptic/lukewarmer sites by Dr. Benny Peiser and an all-star Academic Advisory Council. ↑
Net Zero Watch is another excellent UK-based climate realist organization, with connections to GWPF. I highly recommend subscribing to their YouTube channel and Twitter feed. ↑
Climate Central is another major Climate Movement ("alarmist") site. ↑
Despite the scary name, Steve Carson's Science Of Doom blog has a better ratio of real, in-depth science to hype than probably any other alarmist blog on the Internet. ↑
WoodForTrees.org is Paul Clark's very useful web site for analysis and interactive graphing of climate temperature data. (See the Resources page for similar tools.) ↑
ClimateData.info is also a useful resource, with many climate-related graphs & statistics. ↑
ClimateAudit.org is the blog site of Canadian mathematician Steve McIntyre, “the man who busted Mann's Hockey Stick.” ↑
Australian Joanne Nova (“JoNova”) is a prominent climate skeptic who is consistently insightful, and I highly recommend her blog. She and her husband, Dr. David Evans , also have a company and web site called ScienceSpeak.com. ↑
Dr. Jennifer Marohasy is another insightful Australian. Along with Prof. Peter Ridd[2], and Dr. Walter Starck (who also writes in Quadrant Online), Dr. Marohasy is essential reading for anyone concerned about coral reefs, and especially Australia's Great Barrier Reef (which is doing fine, BTW[1][2][3]). ↑
The blog of Prof. Judith Curry is called "Climate Etc." She's a “moderate” or middle-of-the-roader on climate issues, and her blog is essential reading for anyone interested in climate." ↑
Dr. Roy Spencer is one of the most insightful and accomplished climatologists in the world, and his blog is essential reading for anyone interested in climate. ↑
Petrophysicist and geologist Andy May is also consistently insightful. ↑
So is physicist Clive Best. ↑
Erl Happ is an Australian original thinker with a keen interest in climate. ↑
The Blackboard is Lucia Liljegren's excellent climate blog. (The only problem with this blog is that Lucia does not permit archive.org, archive.is, webcitation.org, etc. to archive the content, so its permanence is questionable.) ↑
The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation is a Christian environmentalist organization, let by Dr. Calvin Beisner. They have a strong dedication to both scientific and theological accuracy, and a generally realist/skeptic perspective on climate alarmism. I'm on their email updates list, and if you have an interest in climate issues then you probably should be, too. ↑
Tamsin Edwards' All Models Are Wrong is one of the better blogs in the climate alarmist camp. ↑
Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. is a thoughtful “lukewarmist” with a website at RogerPielkeJr.com, and a Substack site at RogerPielkeJr.substack.com. His blog, The Climate Fix, is dormant. ↑
Prof. William van Wijngaarden is Physicist at York University, with a deep understanding of climate-related radiative processes. Like me, he's a member of the CO2 Coalition. ↑
Nick Stokes is one of the more thoughtful people on the frequently irrational & shrill alarmist side of the climate debate. He is a frequent commenter at WUWT, and he has an interesting blog which he calls Moyhu. ↑
Warning: don't read Brad Keyes' work while sipping coffee. He's one of about a dozen authors collaborating at the interesting British CliScep blog. Other authors there include (alphabetically) Geoff Chambers, Richard Drake, Thomas Fuller, Jaime Jessop, Paul Matthews, Ben Pile, John Ridgeway, Ian Woolley, and a few others. ↑
IceCap.us is an excellent site. ↑
So is Willis Eschenbach's “Skating on the underside of the ice” blog. ↑
So is Bob Tisdale's Climate Observations blog. ↑
So is Andrew Montford's Bishop Hill. ↑
So is Paul Homewood's "Not A Lot Of People Know That" blog. ↑
So is Tom Moriarty's ClimateSanity blog, and Tom has done a lot of excellent sea-level analysis work. ↑
Norwegian environmentalist Jan Kjetil Andersen has also done some good sea-level analysis work. He has created an environmental analysis site, csens.org, and an informative article for WUWT. ↑
So are Thomas Fuller's Lukewarmer's Way and 3000 Quads blogs. (Thomas also blogs at CliScep.) ↑
Environmentalist Jim Steele epitomizes the careful, thoughtful scientist. He calls his blog Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism. (As you might guess from the blog name, his strength is depth of examination, not brevity!) He has also written many insightful articles for WUWT. ↑
Kevin Marshall's ManicBeancounter blog is very good. ↑
So is c3headlines.com ↑
So is Pierre Gosselin's No Tricks Zone, usually. Unfortunately, not always, though. In 2019 they published a guest submission by Kenneth Richard and PSI's Nasif S. Nahle, disputing the basic physics of so-called (albeit misnamed) “greenhouse warming.” That article is complete nonsense. ↑
I'm hesitant to recommend Climate Change Dispatch (CCD). They publish some original articles, but they're mainly an aggregator of “skeptical” climate news articles from other sources. That's useful, but, unfortunately, they're rather indiscriminate with respect to what they republish. On two occasions[1][2] I've seen them republish junk-science articles by people associated with the crackpot Principia-Scientific (PSI) website. Caveat Lector. ↑
Australian David Stockwell has some fascinating & diverse material on his “Niche Modeling” blog (formerly landshape.org). ↑
Simon at Australian Climate Madness is another insightful climate skeptic Down Under. ↑
Roger Andrews' & Euan Mearns' “Energy Matters” blog is excellent. ↑
So is Chiefio (E.M. Smith's blog), and he has some very useful technical information about how to "scrape" (copy) a web site. ↑
WorldClimateReport.com is “The Web's Longest-Running Climate Change Blog.” Its chief editor is climatologist Patrick J. Michaels. Unfortunately, it is dormant. ↑
Leo Goldstein is always interesting! He takes a hard line against climate alarmism on his DefyCCC blog, which features in-depth essays and a very useful Climate Search Engine. ↑
Francis Massen's “meteoLCD” blog and the Luxembourg-based Meteo LCD meteorological station site are also very good. ↑
So are Warren Meyer's climate-skeptic.com and Coyote Blog sites, though Coyote Blog is not exclusively about climate. This is the article which first brought Warren's blogs to my attention. He also has an impressive PowerPoint presentation (including his famous slide 49), and he's written a number of excellent articles for Forbes. ↑
Dr. Duane Thresher and his wife, Dr. Claudia Kubatzki, are climate scientists who rebelled against the culture of corruption in the alarmist climate science community. They don't pull any punches telling you about it on their “RealClimatologists” web site. Jo Nova also wrote a good article about them and their web site. ↑
Dave Middleton's Debunk House blog is also great. ↑
Greg Goodman doesn't post often on his ClimateGrog site, but when he does it is worth reading. ↑
Likewise, Dr. Charles Battig's climateis.com blog posts are infrequent, but well worth reading. ↑
I don't know who "UC" is, but he (or she) is very sharp. He has a blog here (moved from here), but it has, unfortunately, been inactive for the last couple of years. ↑
a-sceptical-mind.com is similar: good, but anonymous, and dormant. For some articles the links to current versions are broken, but older, archived versions are intact ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). ↑
Popular Technology specializes in archives of skeptical climate resources, such as a list of 100 articles from the 1970s about the global cooling scare, and a list of over 1350 peer-reviewed papers expressing skepticism about various aspects of the global warming scare. ↑
AGW Observer is the web site of Finnish climate activist Ari Jokimäki. He specializes in compiling lists of alarmist climate papers, mostly related to GCMs, including papers about sea-level rise, feedbacks, and climate sensitivity. ↑
German Rudolf Kipp has analyzed (in German) the results of the adjustments of the ESA and U.Colorado satellite sea level data. His conclusion: "Even though the [satellite-measured] sea level rise rate has decreased over the years, the rate of sea level rise was kept more or less constant at above 3 mm/year by applying various adjustments." (or google-translated to English) ↑
The Kalte Sonne (“cold sun”) blog is in German, but it has a “translate to English” link at the top, which works pretty well. ↑
CLINTEL is Stichting Climate Intelligence (the Climate Intelligence Foundation), an independent foundation that reports objectively about climate change and climate policy, in The Netherlands. ↑
John Brignell's “Number Watch” site was “devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media.” He also used to maintain a “complete list of things [said to be] caused by global warming.”
Update 2019-01-18: I'm saddened to report that I learned today that Prof. Brignell has passed away, apparently in 2018. ↑
The “Global Warming Solved” blog of Michael, Ronan & Imelda Connolly is not very active, but when they do post something it is well worth reading — like this essay on sea-level. ↑
The goal of “The Saltbush Club” in Australia (and the affiliated Carbon Sense Coalition) is “to change the climate of public opinion” about climate change. They have some excellent content! ↑
Tony Thomas sometimes blogs on climate. ↑
The Candian Friends of Science nonprofit takes the position that Solar variation has a larger influence on the Earth's climate than does anthropogenic GHG emissions. I doubt that, but they have a large and very useful collection of lectures by various experts on their YouTube channel. ↑
Beware of scientific-sounding gibberish from sites with scientific-sounding names like “Principia Scientific” (PSI, led by Joe Postma, Joe Olson, etc.), or claims that “correct physics proves carbon dioxide does not warm us,” or “radiation from a colder atmosphere cannot heat a surface that is already warmer,” or similar.
That's such pure, refined ignorance that it inspired me to wax poetic. With apologies to the late, great Ogden Nash, I give you:
Sky Dragons
The Second Law they twist and shove,
to slay their dragons from up above.
But this I know by actual test:
Use a blanket and you'll shiver less.
The title is from the name of a truly awful book entitled, “Slaying the Sky-Dragons.” Avoid it, unless you like being lied to and confused.
A nickname for people who've been confused by that book and its authors is “slayers” (see venn diagram). ↑
Crackpots can be found at both ends of the spectrum. Other crackpot sites to avoid (in addition to PSI) include ClimateScienceNews, Guy McPherson's “Nature Bats Last,” HotWhopper, and “Health Ranger” Mike Adams (not to be confused with the late Prof. Mike S. Adams, a/k/a “the good Mike Adams).”
These sites are about as trustworthy and reliable as a stopped clock. They might occasionally get something right, but you can't trust them.
Q: What do you call someone who sometimes lies and sometimes tells the truth?
A: A liar. ↑
The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) has a impressive collection of information on energy and the environment, including climate issues. ↑
Clear Energy Alliance: “Videos on energy issues, it's what [they] do.” ↑
Physicist Norm Rogers has two useful web sites: ClimateViews.com ~~and DumbEnergyDepot.com~~, on climate and energy topics, respectively. ↑
Isaac Held's blog, hosted at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory web site, has in-depth discussions of more than six dozen climate-related topics. ↑
WarwickHughes.com is the (old) web site of Australian scientist Warwick S. Hughes, and his colleague, Douglas Hoyt. Their (new) blog is https://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/.
Warwick was one of the first “volunteer climate auditors,” examining the data and challenging the dubious climate alarmism promoted by the IPCC.
Phil Jones wasn't happy about that. When Warwick asked for the station data Jones replied, “Even if WMO agrees, I will still not pass on the data. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.” ↑
The Klima-Fakten (Climate Facts) blog of German physicist Joachim Dengler is balenced and impressively comprehensive, and presented in both German and English. It is subtitled, “Platform for an unbiased scientifically founded discussion on climate.” ↑
The Trust, Yet Verify blog is run by a Belgian blogger named Michel, who used to be a climate alarmist, until he discovered the scientific weakness of the alarmist case. ↑
John Robson's Climate Discussion Nexus site has a wealth of good information, including blog posts, videos on YouTube and Rumble, messaging on Twitter, Gettr & Facebook, podcasts on Spotify & Google, and a weekly newsletter. ↑
Phil Salmon often has thought-provoking things to say, and he has a knack for finding interesting things written by others, as well, which he reposts on his blog. ↑
Australia's Institute of Public Affairs is not “new,” except to me. It is one of Australia's leading non-profit public policy think tanks, which is “dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom,” since it was founded in 1943.
The IPA has done a particularly excellent job covering the persecution of Prof. Peter Ridd, who was fired by James Cook University for challenging climate alarmists' claims about the effects of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef.[2] (For more on that topic, see the excellent web site and blog of Dr. Jennifer Marohasy.) ↑
Steve Milloy's JunkScience.com site is essential reading for anyone concerned about the corruption of science by politics. (Steve also helps with another good site, BurnMoreCoal.com, which extols the benefits of coal-powered energy production.) ↑
The best source of information about polar bears is the polarbearscience.com blog of polar bear biologist Dr. Susan J. Crockford. ↑
I don't know how I managed to omit The Air Vent from this list. Sorry about that, Jeff! ↑
Biologist Rodger Nelson is an expert on wildfires. He calls his blog “Eschewing Obfuscation.” ↑
Earth Science Prof. Matthew Wielicki has two substack blogs, called noclimateemergency.substack.com and irrationalfear.substack.com. ↑
NEW! Eric Peterson's website has a wealth of weather and climate data & graphs, and Python code. (He's @purplesuit on twitter.) ↑
It might seem odd to have a cartoonist on a list of climate-related blogs and web sites, but Dilbert creator Scott Adams is a very original thinker, and his blog will make you think, too. ↑
Perhaps the most effective real environmentalist of our day is Russ George, who rejuvenated the Pacific Salmon fisheries with his famous iron fertilization experiment. His experiment made a lot of people furious, mostly the sort of bedwetters who are terrified by the idea of anyone doing anything at all without government or at least IRB review and approval. Here's an article about his experiment, by a guy who hated the idea, but grudgingly admits its success. ↑
Retired software engineer & meteorologist Steve McGee has an interesting new substack blog that he calls Climate Observer. ↑
On the Left (gloves-off): Here's a huge list of climate alarmist propaganda sites (which I cannot recommend). Most Climate Movement (alarmist) blogs and channels are censored to limit dissent (including RealClimate, Yale Climate Forum, SeaMonster, DeSmogBlog, SkepticalScience, Tamino, RobertScribbler, GregLaden, ClimateState, etc.). ~~However, I've found one which is not: Peter Sinclair's Climate Crocks.~~
3/16/2014 Update: I'm sorry to report that Climate Crocks is now censored, too. If anyone knows of a high-activity Climate Movement (alarmist) blog which permits uncensored polite dissent, please send me an email.
3/16/2021 Update: Seven years have elapsed, and I've still not found a high-activity climate alarmist blog which permits uncensored (polite) dissent. It appears that such a blog does not exist. However, I've found a few low-activity alarmist possibilities: Steve Carson's Science Of Doom, Tamsin Edwards' All Models Are Wrong, ~~Ken Rice's And Then There's Physics (formerly WottsUpWithThat)~~, and the whimsically named Protons for Breakfast blog of charmingly alarmist Michael de Podesta. Perhaps some of them will are exceptions to the pattern of heavy-handed censorship, which prevails at alarmist climate blogs. ↑

On the Right (gloves-off): the Real Science (old) and Real Climate Science (new) blogs of Tony Heller (a/k/a Steve Goddard) provide a nice counterbalance to Climate Crocks. Tony takes on NASA's sea-level team here. He also has a YouTube channel. ↑

Mike Haseler has a very comprehensive list of climate blogs. ↑

See also: the sealevel.info “Resources” page (some of the sites listed there are blogs, too), and Dave's Quora answers about climate change (and here).

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