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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Wind energy subsidies to be discussed in Senate today–opportunity for input
Guest post By John Droz The matter of how much, if any, federal subsidies that wind energy will get is being discussed (and maybe resolved) today. Here is a video of the Senate Finance Committee hearing this morning on this … Continue reading
Posted in energy, politics, wind power
Tagged senate, subsidies, wind power, Wind turbine
54 Comments
Study: Getting the S out of jet fuel may cool the climate
This study from Yale University seems contradictory to what we know about aerosols. Generally more aerosols like SO2 cool the climate, but in this case they are saying “it’s offset by the cooling effect of nitrate that forms from nitrogen … Continue reading
The R/P Ratio
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In oil, as in other extractive industries, you have what is called the “R/P ratio”. In the R/P ratio, “R” is reserves of whatever it is you are extracting, and “P” is the production rate, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
515 Comments
National Academy of Sciences appointee caught “making up stuff” to win lawsuit, RICO lawsuit follows
Watch the video below, it is quite something. Amazing that they were stupid enough to tape themselves saying this much less turn it into a documentary! UPDATE: The legal pleading has been added, link below, quite a read. ————- Excerpt … Continue reading
Email from UNFCCC: “we won’t let Canada out of the Kyoto Convention responsibilities”
People send me stuff… UPDATE: See below for another interpretation Remember how this was phrased? “sign it, it’s just voluntary!” Recall Rio 1992 “Earth Summit” where the meme was “hey, it’s voluntary!…with a negotiating schedule attached”. Apparently, like a Roach … Continue reading
CSU’s Klotzbach and Gray Suspend December Hurricane Forecast
UPDATE: note to readers, Gray and Klotzbach are only discontinuing December forecasts for the season ahead due to limited predictive skill — for the time being. A main reason is the well-known “Spring barrier” in El Nino Southern Oscillation forecasts … Continue reading
Crops that are about adapting to weather, not climate
From the University of Edinburgh a suggestion that the food security issue raised by AGW alarmists might not be worrisome at all. Of course the next complaint will be that we shouldn’t use modified crops to our advantage and that … Continue reading
Higgs Boson announcement expected from CERN today
UPDATE 5:57 AM The live webcast from CERN is overloaded but it appears that uncertainty still exists about the HB, they may have glimpsed its signal around 126 GeV – see below – Anthony “The God Particle” may have been … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged CERN, Geneva, God Particle, Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, Particle physics, Standard Model, Wikipedia
119 Comments
To Sahel And Back
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Sahel, that stretch of harsh territory south of the Sahara desert, is a bleak region. I did some work there, in a couple three countries. I came away with the conviction that if every … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
151 Comments
Oxfam—Betraying its Roots and Sabotaging its Own Mission
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany On its website Oxfam reminds us that its name comes from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. Today it claims to work to “find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.” So imagine the surprise … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged Africa, Developing country, Durban, Famine Relief, Indur M. Goklany, Oxfam, Poverty, World Bank
71 Comments
Congressman Markey and Senator Inhofe agree to debate climate science
Inhofe ================================================= By Steve Milloy JunkScience.com So the debate’s not over after all. We’d pay for ringside seats. From Politico: Ralph Nader put on his Don King hat Monday with the hope of inspiring a made-for-TV showdown between two Capitol … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Capitol Hill, Debate, Don King, Ed Markey, Jim Inhofe, Nader, Oklahoma, Ralph Nader
86 Comments
Kyoto – in the past for Canada
Posted in politics
Tagged Canada, Durban, Kent, Kyoto, Kyoto Protocol, Peter Kent, South Africa, Toronto Sun
236 Comments
Plants and bees keep up with climate change where birds don’t?
Readers may recall last week when I highlighted a press release that said Birds apparently can’t outfly climate change. It seemed ridiculous and there were many questionable claims in that work. Now from Cornell University we have this today: As … Continue reading
More ursus bogus – this time with fake snow on BBC’s “Frozen Planet”
Readers may recall using photoshopped images of polar bears on CGI ice floes. Here we go again. Via the GWPF: Frozen Planet Fakery Row: Polar Bear Filmed In Zoo Using Fake Snow Monday, 12 December 2011 17:48 Euan Stretch, Daily … Continue reading
Posted in Alarmism, media
Tagged Arctic, BBC, Daily Mirror, David Attenborough, Frozen Planet, John Whittingdale, polar bear, Polar night
136 Comments
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: Sherlock Holmes: “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts”. From: “Scandal in Bohemia” A. Conan Doyle. [H/t … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Bonneville Power Administration, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, IPCC Second Assessment Report, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Roger Pielke, Science & Environmental Policy Project, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Tisdale on Climate Models Confirming Or Contradicting AGW
Part 2 – Do Observations and Climate Models Confirm Or Contradict The Hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming? Guest Post by Bob Tisdale OVERVIEW This is the second part of a two-part series. There are, however, two versions of part 1. The … Continue reading
Climate change blamed for dead trees in Africa
“Rainfall in the Sahel has dropped 20-30 percent in the 20th century, the world’s most severe long-term drought since measurements from rainfall gauges began in the mid-1800s,” said study lead author Patrick Gonzalez, who conducted the study while he was … Continue reading
Posted in Climate News
Tagged Africa, Celsius, Chad, climate change, Sahara, Sahel, Senegal, West Africa
93 Comments
Pielke Junior on: The climate debate is ‘over’
I have removed this guest post [by Shub Niggurath] because it has been brought to my attention that it is unfair and has caused inflamed reactions [especially in comments] that were unintended. It was my mistake for posting it without … Continue reading
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The Contribution of Fossil Fuels to (a) Feeding Humanity and (b) Habitat Conservation?
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Analyses of policies related to fossil fuel usage usually focus on the negative impacts from that usage, while generally ignoring the positive aspects, such as their contribution to global food production and, through … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
88 Comments
Topsy-Turvey Carbon Footprints from Nature Climate Change
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein The lastest issue of Nature Climate Change to reach my mailbox has some startling news, particularly considering that it comes from a generally Warmist publication. One might say is is “topsy-turvy” (upside down) from a … Continue reading
Kumi Brings The Good News
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I haven’t yet found a copy of whatever agreement they signed at Durban. But thanks to Kumi Naidoo, the radical head of Greenpeace International, I know that there’s nothing to worry about. He’s done the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
149 Comments
Quote of the Week – what Durban is really about
WUWT commenter Cal65 from Hawaii burns away all of the irrelevancy of posturing and pronouncements and gets to the core truth of what the Durban climate deal is really all about. He writes: The UN plan will shift wealth from … Continue reading
The Durban COPx ‘til we meet again, historically
By Christopher Horner The annual “historic agreement” to meet again later — wait, sorry, that’s “to save the planet” — has been agreed, to the also-annual teary-eyed hugging and standing ovations by EU delegates, at “COP-17”, the negotiations to replace … Continue reading
Posted in Durban Climate Conference
Tagged China, Chindia, Copenhagen, European Union, India, Kyoto, Kyoto Protocol, United States
51 Comments
The True Failure of Durban
Guest post by Dennis Ray Wingo First I want to say thanks to Anthony for providing this forum for the discussion of climate in a different sense, that is to focus on Durban and what this conference means from the … Continue reading
Last minute Durban deal reached – extends life of Kyoto protocol
Kyoto has become a zombie, coming to life after being dead… Excerpts from Yahoo News (AP) — A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a complex and far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the … Continue reading
