Monthly Archives: November 2011

CEO: “The market for carbon capture and storage is dead”

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

The Norwegian company Aker Clean Carbon may be closed. Its value is set to zero. The market for carbon capture and storage is dead according to their CEO. Guest Post by Geir Hasnes, Norway Article in today’s net edition of … Continue reading →

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Richard Black tells the BBC reporting team what to think

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

David Whitehouse: Biased BBC Advice Based On Sloppy Statistics. From the GWPF: The Observatory, 4 November 2011 Whatever you think about the BBC’s actual performance in reporting climate change, they are supposed to adhere to the highest standards of impartiality … Continue reading →

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Study: ‘green’ biofuels could be costing the earth

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

From the University of Leicester  department of inconvenient truths: New study suggests EU biofuels are as carbon intensive as petrol University of Leicester research into greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm plantations provides robust measures now being used to inform … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon footprint, Environment, Green tech, Land use land cover change | Tagged , , | 74 Comments

A Considered Critique of Berkeley Temperature Series

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

Guest post by Jeff Id I will leave this alone for another week or two while I wait for a reply to my emails to the BEST group, but there are three primary problems with the Berkeley temperature trends which … Continue reading →

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UAH Global temperature, down over half in October from September

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

UAH Global Temperature Update for October 2011: +0.11 deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for October, 2011 dropped , to +0.11 deg. C (click on the image for the full-size version): … Continue reading →

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Trenberth: null and void

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

Via Eurekalert and Wiley-Blackwell The human cause of climate change: Where does the burden of proof lie? Dr. Kevin Trenberth advocates reversing the ‘null hypothesis’ The debate may largely be drawn along political lines, but the human role in climate … Continue reading →

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Newsbytes: New Research Reveals IPCC In Bed With Green Lobbies

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

From Dr. Benny Peiser of The GWPF A scathing new expose on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which sets the world’s agenda when it comes to the current state of the climate — claims that its reports … Continue reading →

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NASA on the Antarctic Crack

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE – After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, NASA’s Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission and made the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major … Continue reading →

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The BEST flavor of the day

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

Via Tom Nelson: Muller: “I never said you shouldn’t be a skeptic. I never said that.” Richard Muller interview, Part 1 – YouTube Interviewed by Rob Nikolewski of Capitol Report New Mexico, 10/31/11. Around the 2:45 mark of Part 1, … Continue reading →

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Maryland, quite possibly even more la-la land than California

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

While California has committed economic suicide with their ridiculous carbon trading plan that nobody wants, Maryland seems to think that magically, green jobs and non baseload power sources will “improve reliability” of electric power. From my perspective, seeing how well … Continue reading →

Posted in cap-and-trade, carbon credits, carbon footprint, energy | Tagged , , , | 80 Comments

Michael Mann wades into the UVA thicket as intervenor

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

By Chris Horner, ATI Michael Mann made his way back to the Commonwealth of Virginia yesterday to watch his U.S. lawyer reprise the dark conspiracy theories previously weaved throughout his Canadian lawsuit against Tim Ball for repeating the old joke … Continue reading →

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Scientific consensus fails again: Start of “Anthropocene” pushed back to Late Pleistocene, scientist vindicated

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

Guest Post by David Middleton From The Seattle Times SEATTLE (AP) – It’s not unusual for an archaeologist to get stuck in the past, but Carl Gustafson may be the only one consumed by events on the Olympic Peninsula in … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | Tagged , , | 156 Comments

OCCUPY COP 17–CMP 7 !

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anyone concerned about the huge influence of Wall Street on our lives should definitely be protesting the influence of Wall Street on the upcoming climate conference in Durban, South Africa. Durban is the latest incarnation … Continue reading →

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Little Bubbles part 2 – Firn; The Great Equalizer

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Continued from part 1… Guest Post by Caleb Shaw I will now tell you what I’ve learned, so you can subject it to your kindly WUWT peer- review. I’m fairly certain I’ve gotten some of it wrong, because it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Thank you, Matt Ridley

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Required reading. UPDATE: Matt Ridley has graciously allowed me to repost his speech in entirety here. It follows below. If there’s one speech about the climate debate worth reading in your lifetime, this is it. Andrew Montford of Bishop Hill … Continue reading →

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Pre-Prints and Pre-Data

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Folks have said that I’m far too hard on Dr. Richard Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST Project). So let me stick to the facts. I fear I lost all respect for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature | 73 Comments

A short anthology of changing climate

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Guest post by Tony Brown Context is everything, and nowhere more so than in climate history, where a graphic such as this seems to illustrate an alarming uptick in temperatures that has been blamed on modern man and his profligate … Continue reading →

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Britain pulls the plug on solar subsidies

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

From the GWPF  At Last: Britain Pulls Plug On Green Energy Boondoggle The Government Giveth and the Government Taketh Away –-Famous green proverb Ministers have been accused of destroying 25,000 jobs and “bankrupting a whole industry”, after the Government unveiled … Continue reading →

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