Daily Archives: September 27, 2010

Cancel all your European travel and vacation plans – carbon trading extortion is here

This is idiotic. The EU carbon trading cabal has decided to extort the rest of the air travel world starting in 2012. In a nutshell, they’ll ban flights from landing if the airlines don’t engage in carbon trading. It’s yet … Continue reading

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Posted in Carbon credits, Government idiocy | 143 Comments

Rebuild California! Vote for your favorite Jerry Brown commercial idea

The California governor’s race is heating up with former governor Jerry Brown (D) running against former EBay CEO Meg Whitman (R).  Brown, after decades in government has apparently run out of ideas for campaign commercials and is looking for people … Continue reading

Posted in Politics | Tagged , , | 44 Comments

Los Angeles laughs at recent “invisible summer” AP article

Downtown Los Angeles scorches with temperatures 110+ F … NWS Current temp at USC [UPDATE: 2:30 PM Pacific: USC station no longer reporting?- Ryan  2:52 FIXED LINK - Anthony]   WUWT:  oh little sensor: why did you stop reporting the temperature … Continue reading

Posted in heat wave, Weather | Tagged , , | 69 Comments

Examining Trenberth’s ‘The heat will come back to haunt us sooner or later’ statement

Inspired by a WUWT comment from Bill Illis in the Maybe they’ve found Trenberth’s missing heat thread, I’ve elevated this to full post status and provided the relevant graphics from the links Bill provided. From a National Science Foundation article on … Continue reading

Posted in Earth, Oceans | 160 Comments

Skeptical Science? John Cook – embarrassing himself

Another fall from grace.

Posted in Opinion | 120 Comments

New discovery may lead to a malaria vaccine

WUWT recently carried a guest post from Indur Goklany titled Smacking Down Malaria Misconceptions which generated a lot of contentious comments, inflammatory rebuttal posts, and even a permanent ban of Ed Darrell from WUWT because he claims I’ve called Rachel Carson … Continue reading

Posted in Economy-health | 56 Comments

Wasted Opportunities

Guest post by Thomas Fuller Although I’m a big fan of solar power and think it has a bright future, I must admit that our focus on the Big Three renewable energy sources–solar, wind and biofuels–has been a wasted opportunity, … Continue reading

Posted in Energy | 86 Comments

More follow up on the solar-neutrinos-radioactive decay story – experimental falsification

Getting out of the solar core, neutrinos are speed demons, photons are slugs. h/t to Leif Svalgaard for the graphical annotation inspiration. Solar core image from NASA. In August, WUWT carried a story that was rather shocking: some physicists published … Continue reading

Posted in Science | 90 Comments