Guest essay by Eric Worrall Elon Musk has announced the release of a new storage battery for home use. The new battery in principle dramatically reduces the cost of going “off grid” – powering your house entirely from solar or wind, and using the battery to provide backup power, to ensure continuous supply. According to…
Weakest Solar Cycle In More Than A Century The sun is almost completely blank. The main driver of all weather and climate, the entity which occupies 99.86% of all of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of fire in the sky has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Daily Caller – The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee has just approved a bill which directs NASA to spend more resources exploring space, and less money on Earth sciences, such as climate research. According to the official government committee website; “Today’s bill is a step in the right…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Coffee drinkers face a climate catastrophe, reports The Guardian, reporting on a study published by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). According to the Guardian, interviewing Dr Peter Läderach, a CCAFS climate change specialist and co-author…
From Princeton University, where they may not have read this paper that just happens to talk about the same area: West Antarctica. Numerous volcanoes exist in Marie Byrd Land, a highland region of West Antarctica. High heat flow through the crust in this region may influence the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet The…
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I ran across that headline in Google News today. With the thought, what animals would I like to see go extinct first due to climate change? I had great hopes for the answer. Sadly, the linked article here at NationalGeographic.com was an introductory alarmist blurb about the 2015 paper by…
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Guest essay by James Sawhill Climate reporting seems formulaic but science authors paste in those climate alarms too. Turns out, it’s not a coincidence. h/t to Robin for alerting us to CRED Effective communication in matters of uncertainty, such as catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, has been elevated to high art, actually higher education. The Center…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Norway’s finance minister, who is also leader of the right wing Progress Party, stated in a press interview that she is skeptical that humans are causing climate change. According to ABC News; Norway’s finance minister says she doubts that global warming is man-made, seemingly contradicting the country’s official position in…
Josh writes: There is a General Election this next week in the UK. Good luck to everyone especially as it looks like there won’t be a clear winner. So after the vote next Thursday there could be days, even weeks, of horse-trading – or should that be fish-trading – as the different parties work out who will work…
From the Institute of Physics and the “children won’t know what snow is” department: The likelihood of record-breaking warm years in England is set to substantially increase as a result of the human influence on the climate, new research suggests. In a study published today, 1 May, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, an…
Guest essay by Robert Johnson How plasma connects the Sun to the climate The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) are a plasma phenomenon caused by charged particles from the solar wind entering the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Magnetic storms in the ionosphere, which have occasionally damaged satellites in orbit, are also evidence that the Earth’s upper atmosphere…
From Oregon State University and the department of “we fully understand Earth’s climate, we just need more funds” department comes this bit of a surprise. (h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard) Researchers find 200-year lag between climate events in Greenland, Antarctica CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study using evidence from a highly detailed ice core from…
