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
Senators Lautenberg and Vitter Announce Bipartisan Chemical Safety Improvement Act
Wish-Washing
Milestones
Why MOOCs fail
The Tornados of Tomorrow
Consensus: Behind #s
Quickies
Is climate change a choice between education and surrender?
Senate Committee Approves Gina McCarthy Nomination for EPA Administrator
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
Author mixes science-related questions, American politics
Prolific
Prolific
House votes to take Keystone decision out Obama'...
In GOP-run House, has science left building?
House Attempts To Force Approval Of Keystone Pip...
Could Chinese carbon cap pave way for global cli...
Climate activists to protest@Obama group's clima...
No-Water-Gate: Scandalous NY Times Piece On Dust...
IRS Sleuths Were on the Right Track: Big Tobacco Created Tea Party in 1994
Gulf Coast refineries accidentally belch out lot...
Tesla Motors Pays Back Energy Department Loan 9 ...
This electric car runs on tweets
Croatia training honeybees to locate landmines
L.A. on green streak: New mayor pledges allegian...
Is sharing economy skidding out?
This solar panel printer can make 33 feet solar ...
Widespread Greenland Melting To Become The Norm In Next Two Decades
Exxon Knew of Dangerous Contamination from Arkansas Spill, Yet Claimed Area “Oil Free”
FOIA Facts 3 - More Plagiarism - Get Grants Or Claim Credit
What Sarah Palin's Facebook Post About Her 'Gluteous Maximus' Says About Climate And Cold Weather
Frackalypse Now: Mark Fiore Spoofs Oil Industry's PSYOPS Campaign To Derail Fracking "Insurgency"
Tornadoes, Extreme Weather And Climate Change, Revisited
"Gasland 2" Grassroots Premiere in Illinois Highlights Industry PSYOPS and Ongoing Fracking Fights
FOIA Facts 2 - No Pro Bono - Federal Funds Mis-Used For Wegman Report And Much More
Obama Admin. Approves ALEC Model Bill for Fracking Chemical Fluid Disclosure on Public Lands
FOIA Facts 1 - More Misdeeds By Ed Wegman, Yasmin Said, George Mason University
Friday Trash Dump: Obama DOE Approves 2nd Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal
10 Reasons Canada Needs to Rethink the Tar Sands
Misc
Misc
On the value of consensus in climate communication
After our Consensus paper was published with extensive media coverage, law profess...
"The US disconnect over climate change"
We joined scientists Michael Mann and Dana Nucitelli on the Al Jazeera English "In...
Quantifying, once again, the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters, drawing on a very large d...
Moore Tornado an EF-5; $2 Billion Damage Estimate: 3rd Costliest Tornado in History
The Truth about the Anti-Wind Movement: A Tiny, Paranoid, Disinformed, Koch-Funded Fringe
The Maginot Line Defence and moral imagination: climate change isn't real; maybe it is; we should all give up!
Streets are for People
How Much Does Keystone Really Cost?
Global climate agreements: useful, next to useless or completely useless? (Reprint)
Desertification of New Mexico
Sensitivity and consensus; theory and practice
2013 SkS News Bulletin #13: Alberta Tar Sands and Keystone XL Pipeline
10 Reasons Canada Needs to Rethink the Tar Sands A black mound of Canadian oi...
Arctic sea ice presentation template
Violent EF-5 Tornado Causes Catastrophic Damage in Moore, Oklahoma
Guest Post: Same Old GOP on Climate?
Germany Continues to Export Power Despite Nuclear Exit
Crank alert! Organisers of the Oregon petition also have a cure for cancer
Violent tornado devastates Moore, Oklahoma
House Science Committee chair twists climate science in Washington Post
A Washington Post op-ed today by House Science, Space, and Technology Committee ch...
Stopped clocks, bad debts and climate sceptics: or why the latest paper on climate sensitivity does not vindicate the sceptics (nor suggests complacency)
Help close the consensus gap using social media
Over the last few days, there has been intense interest in our consensus paper and...
The Four Charts That Really Matter
2013 SkS Weekly Digest #20
SkS Highlights On May 15, the peer-reviewed paper, Quantifying the consensus on a...
The Song of the Gallic Rooster
2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #20B
Burning tar sands = 'unsolvable' climate crisis: Hansen Climate change has sh...
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...
Measure the climate consensus yourself with our Interactive Rating System
The Consensus Project was a long, ambitious effort by many volunteers, lasting 12 ...
400 ppm and counting
Triple-Digit Temperatures Crush Northern Plains/Midwest Heat Records; All-Time May Record at Sioux City
The scientific consensus on climate change: Still pivotal and more pervasive than ever
2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #20A
A change in temperature Arctic waters growing alarmingly acidic 'Best estima...
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,...
Communication
OnCommunication
On the science communication value of communicating "scientific consensus": an exchange
Cultural resistance to the science of science communication
Antievolution bills die in Missouri
What is to be done?
NCSE's Scott honored by Chapman University
Quantifying the consensus on climate
#278) TV gooood, not baaaaad
Climate Change in the Visual Story Lab
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
[jules' pics] NCAR
[jules' pics] Madness
[jules' pics] The world from the air
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
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...
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...
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
A wonderful new progressive failure rockslide video
GOES East Weather Satellite May Be Dead
Better Flu Vaccine Made from Self-Assembling Sculptures
Getting To Know Your Inner Mushroom
Whale’s Battle with Nets Is Revealed Through Monitoring Device
The Obesity Apologists
Help for Moore, Oklahoma
A Guide for Scientists on Giving Comments to Journalists
Large Majority of Americans Believe Global Warming Should be a Priority, Poll Shows
Interview: For Solar Sisters, Off-Grid Electricity is Power
For Africa’s Solar Sisters, Off-Grid Electricity is Power
Under the bridge
Meet Your New Symbionts: Trillions of Viruses
When Memories are Remembered, They Can Be Rewritten
System Converts Pig Waste Into Biogas and Fertilizer at Chinese Pig Farms
A Plague of Deforestation Sweeps Across Southeast Asia
Ant Bodyguards Get Exclusive Contract from Trees
Unfussy Female Poison Frogs Just Go For Closest Male
Living Polymers (Science Ink Sunday)
I've got your missing links right here (18 May 2013)
‘Artificial Forest’ Nanosystem Mimics Photosynthesis, Researchers Say
Q&A: Shaun McKinnon, veteran water reporter
In Post-Tsunami Japan, A Push To Rebuild Coast in Concrete
Scientist’s U.S. Road Trip Reveals Higher Methane Emissions Than Previously Known
Glaciers on Everest Disappearing as Temperatures Rise, Snowfall Declines
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
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
SomeJournos/ToPublic
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?)