Daily Archives: September 20, 2010

URGENT – A call to action for the WUWT community

Posted on September 20, 2010 by

NOTE: Updates have been posted below, including the tally. I need your help, because they need your help. Please read this whole story and consider if you can help. WUWT readers may recall this story: Death of a Feedlot Operator …in … Continue reading →

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Posted in Announcements | 412 Comments

Quote of the week – zzzzz

Posted on September 20, 2010 by

Some weeks we are given gifts from on high. This week was one of them. Give thanks to George Monbiot for this gem, from his essay: Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. But now it’s dead

Posted in Quote of the Week | 96 Comments

Walrus-gate 2.0: media recycles climate change claims from exactly year ago

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One year ago [Sept 19, 2009], WUWT reported upon the alarming problem of walrus stampedes and dead carcasses washing up on beaches.  Now, exactly one-year later, the NBC Today Show in concert with environmental groups are pushing the exact same … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Sea ice | Tagged , , , | 82 Comments

Pollution monitoring? There’s an app for that.

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USC lab releases smartphone app that measures particulate air pollution ‘Visibility’ now available for download; developers hope users can help fill in the many blanks in existing air quality maps University of Southern California computer scientists have found a way … Continue reading →

Posted in Aerosols, Technology | 16 Comments

Physicist says fossil fuel burning is insignificant in the global carbon pool

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Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement, calling it a ‘corrupt social phenomenon’. He writes this in an essay on science … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Earth, Energy | 243 Comments

Low-tech garbage heap makes for simplest carbon sequestration

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From the Washington Post By Hugh Price In New Haven, W.Va., the Mountaineer Power Plant is using a complicated chemical process to capture about 1.5 percent of the carbon dioxide it produces. The gas is cooled to a liquid at … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon sequestration | 72 Comments

New Zealand’s ETS law will surely fix this

Posted on September 20, 2010 by

It has been just 2.5 months since the carbon Emissions Trading Scheme kicked in for New Zealand. I’m sure if they give it a little more time, spring snows like this one will be “a thing of the past“. MARK … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snowfall, Weather | 67 Comments