Skeptics' Longest, Strongest Argument Kicks the Bucket

onMay 30, 2008 @ 06:58 PDT

The humble bucket turns out to be at the bottom of a perplexing anomaly in the climate records for the twentieth century.

Land and ocean temperature measurements show a strange cooling of about 0.3 °C in the global mean temperature in 1945. A US–British team of climate scientists has now found a surprisingly simple explanation for the long-standing conundrum. It turns out that the mysterious drop is due to differences in the way that British and US ships’ crews measured the sea surface temperature (SST) in the 1940s.

By Ross Gelbspan

Analysis

Mark Carney’s Pipeline MOU With Danielle Smith Has Been A Disaster

ByMitch Anderson

onMar 5, 2026 @ 12:36 PST

First Nations are furious, environmentalists feel betrayed, oil companies are demanding more, and the clock is ticking.

Series: Mark Carney’s Climate Betrayal

Series: Carney's Climate Betrayal

Telegraph Bidder Daily Mail Cashing in from Oil Industry Events

ByAdam Barnett

onMar 5, 2026 @ 05:31 PST

The Mail’s events business in the Middle East provides a quarter of its revenue. A previous Telegraph bid was rejected over petrostate influence fears.

Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money

Series: Defending-UK-Democracy

Opinion

Climate Deniers Expected More Resistance to Trump’s Fossil Fuel Blitz

ByRei Takver

onMar 4, 2026 @ 03:00 PST

‘I’ve never seen anything like this,” longtime denier Marc Morano said recently of Democrats, billionaires, activists and reporters going ‘silent’ on the issue.