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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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Did a short sharp Geomagnetic storm contribute to the Callide Coal plant...

Ben Davidson speaks from Spaceweathernews.com and claims that there was a short sharp geomagnetic storm over the East Coast of Australia around the time the Queensland Callide Power plant exploded. The...

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The Tongan eruption sent shockwaves around the world

Scott Manley has done an excellent summary video of the Tongan volcano, much of the science and history of it as well as the effects thousands of miles away. The area around the volcano had completely...

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Did volcanic dust from Hunga Tonga cause flooding in Australia?

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai By Jo Nova Unusual rain in Australia started within days of the Hunga Tonga dust cloud travelling across the continent On January 15th, Hunga Tonga launched a magma-powered...

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Around the world seismic measurements were quieter during lockdown

Something that marks how strange times are, was that in March and April, a group of seismologists found seismic activity fell by 50% at 185 stations around the world (at least in certain high frequency...

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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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Glaciers on the move: Two minutes of extreme climate change on Swiss Alps,...

The next ice coming to Europe might look something like the last ice age shown in this simulation. A time when Venice will be top of a long paddock that stretches to Albania. In school children are...

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1970s Spock documentary — Climate scientists believe the next ice age may...

Watch Spock in the 1970s describing how climate scientists were predicting a mile high wall of ice that could cover Canada down to Boston “in your lifetime”, and it may already have started. Commenter...

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Stop the press: Solar panels could stop Earthquakes

Experts predict a warmer world will be “geologically turbulent”. Join the dots, get a solar panel, and stop the world cracking up ok? Below one national news outlet speculates about the effects storms,...

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Was the 2nd heaviest day of rain in Australia caused by a volcano in Chile?

Photo of the 2015 explosion of Calbuco Volcano in Chile, by Keraunos ob, posted on the Earth of Fire blog by Bernard Duyck.   By Jo Nova A year ago I wrote about the odd link between the Hunga Tonga...

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A map that might change the way you think about the world

By Jo Nova Where do people live? These marvelous spike maps mark out a 3D representation of the population density on each two-kilometer-square pixel of Earth’s surface. There are no outlines for...

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Jo Nova talks to Mark Steyn about Volcanoes and free speech

Watch on SteynOnline or ADH TV By Jo Nova My appearance with the wonderful Mark Steyn Tuesday is playing at SteynOnline, or on the Australian ADH TV. Mark was tickled with the idea from my article last...

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Only 6,000 years ago the world was warmer and the Sahara was lush green and wet

Image by Hoeneisen from Pixabay By Jo Nova Perhaps Africa could use some global warming? Thanks and credit to Kenneth Richard at NoTricksZone: New Study Finds The Early-Mid Holocene Sahara Had Lakes...

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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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