June 2017 Temperature Anomaly projections

Guest Post By Walter Dnes In continuation of my Temperature Anomaly projections, the following are my June projections, as well as last month’s projections for May, to see how well…

NASA: Global acreage burned by fire has dropped 24% since 1998

NASA detects drop in global fires Shifting livelihoods across the tropical forest frontiers of South America, the Eurasian Steppe, and the savannas of Africa are altering landscapes and leading to…

Life on Earth was nearly doomed by too little CO2

During the last ice age, too little atmospheric carbon dioxide almost eradicated mankind Guest Essay by Dennis T. Avery Aside from protests by Al Gore, Leonardo Di Caprio and friends,…

Claim: Oceans are warming rapidly, study says

From the INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and the “worse than we thought” mind of climate activist John Abraham comes this study, that frankly, isn’t very believable,…

The Guardian: "Climate change is an energy problem, so let's talk honestly about nuclear"

Guest post by David Middleton While I probably share some of the author’s views on nuclear power, I think we would have to start out by “talking honestly” about climate…

Standing up to the G-7 Climate Bully! Part Deux: The Bully Backs Down

Guest post by David Middleton This is a sequel to: Standing up to the G-7 Climate Bully! In our last episode President Trump had just punched the G-7 Climate Bully in…

President Trump: "We have near limitless supplies of energy"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Trump has promised Americans a new era of jobs, energy independence and American Energy Dominance – unlocking, exploiting and exporting American fossil fuel energy…

Waste From Solar Panels: 300 Times That of Nuclear Power

Note: The title of the post was changed at 5:12 PM CDT, June 29, 2017.  The original title was “Toxic Waste From Solar Panels: 300 Times That of Nuclear Power.”  Please…

Green Schism: Guardian Contributor Accuses Greenpeace of Misleading about Nuclear Power

Guest essay by Eric Worrall If Greens want to decarbonise the economy to prevent climate change, why are they so opposed to nuclear power? A small but growing number of…

"No evidence" is a useful scientific finding

Guest essay by Michel de Rougemont Heretic? You’re welcome! Hysteric? Please cool down! We hear that global warming is highly dependent on the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,…

Debunking Inside Climate's "5 Shades of Climate Denial"

Guest post by David Middleton Whether dismissing global warming as a hoax, questioning humanity’s role in it, exaggerating the unknowns, playing down the urgency of action, or playing up the…

Another paper shows that climate models and climate reality vary – greatly

A new paper has been published in Geophysical Research Letters that shows once again, that climate models and reality significantly vary. It confirms what Dr. John Christy has been saying…

New Report: Carbon capture would make renewables and nuclear energy look cheap

Eminent energy economist warns that carbon capture and storage will never be viable CCS would make renewables and nuclear energy look cheap That is the stark message of Professor Gordon…

Study: Another example of how California bollixes carbon regulation through biofuels

From the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, CONSUMER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Regulating the indirect land use carbon emissions imposes high hidden costs on fuel Farmers earn more profits when…

More Scared Climate Scientists Share Their "Feelings"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall What do you do when your feeble climate evidence fails to convince? Climate scientists reveal their fears for the future Cradling her newborn baby girl,…

In Search of the 3% Renewable Energy ‘Tipping Point’.

  Guest post by David Middleton In order to search for the 3% Renewable Energy ‘Tipping Point’, we must ascertain a definition of the phrase… Definition of tipping point : the…

Study: Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rarely linked to felt seismic tremors

From the UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, another political tool of the left bites the dust. Researchers find only one hydrocarbon-producing area where production is linked to increased seismic activities at the…

My excellent adventure into the March for Science

By Andy May I love visiting WUWT and Climate, Etc., but most of the visitors to these sites, like me, are skeptical that the current global warming is dangerous. I’ve…

2017 Global temperatures are leveling off – near 1980 temperature anomaly (depending on who you ask)

From the “dashed hopes for the warmest year evar!” department comes this update from Dr. Ryan Maue on the global surface temperature: Via Twitter: Global temperatures have generally settled to…

NYT coins ridiculous meme: 'Earth-scorching CO2'

Guest Commentary by Kip Hansen   The New York Times has set a new standard of scientific misrepresentation in this front page title to the latest climate change consensus salvo…

California dumps millions of dollars of unusable renewable electricity to other states

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin California’s renewable energy policy pushing huge mandated increases in wind and solar so the state’s globally irrelevant greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets can be met…

Fake News: "Top American Diplomat in China Resigns Over Trump’s Paris Climate Agreement Pull-Out"

Guest post by David Middleton My first thought up reading this headline was that Ambassador Terry Brandstad had resigned… Which would be odd because he is a Republican, Trump nominee and…

Another ridiculous scare tactic: 2 billion climate change refugees by 2100

From the “it didn’t work out with 50 million, so let’s go for 2 billion and date further our that can’t be verifed in our lifetime” department. Remember the “50…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #274

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Upheaval in Washington: One can describe the election of Donald Trump and the…