Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #196

The Week That Was: 2015-09-12 (September 12, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…

Japan: Building coal plants is "climate finance"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Minerals Council of Australia has pushed back at coal divestment campaigns, by pointing out that Japan has joined the Asian infrastructure rush, by offering…

Alaska's climate scientists tell us the rest of the news, what Obama forgot to mention

By Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website Summary: Obama journeys to Alaska and says things. Our journalist-stenographers reprint this as news. They do not consult local experts, and so…

German newspaper Spiegel names WUWT the most prominent climate skeptic blog

Unfortunately, they didn’t get the name quite right. They also label climate science reports as “untrustworthy”. It is nice to see though that WUWT seems to be the polar opposite…

Mt. Baker glaciers disappearing? A response to the Seattle Times

by Don J. Easterbrook The headline of the September 8, 2015 Seattle Times states: ‘Disastrous’: Low snow, heat eat away at Northwest glaciers “Glaciers across the North Cascades could lose…