From the “It’s dead Jim” department comes this ruling from the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, and Judge Alsup: Some excerpts of the ruling: The…
Month: July 2018
NYT: Global Greening, Faster Plant Growth, is Bad
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Howard “Cork” Hayden – According to New York Times all the commercial greenhouse growers who artificially elevate CO2 in greenhouses to more than double…
USA Today Editorial Board: Climate Change Forecasts Validated… Because… “Hellish July”
Guest ridicule by David Middleton A hellish July validates climate change forecasts The Editorial Board, USA TODAY, July 30, 2018 With the cost of climate change to the U.S. economy…
Researchers: Never Let the Press Office Quote You
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen There are many ways that today’s researchers can have their work misrepresented in the press, often in embarrassing ways. The most common origin of…
Graph of the week – The strawman argument
As many WUWT readers know, there’s this push to “save the planet” by banning plastic straws. Like most liberal Earth saving fantasies, it’s rooted in shonky science, or in this…
A Geological Perspective of Wildfires
Guest essay by David Middleton Warning: This is a long post, >5,200 words. Introduction This post was inspired by Anthony Watts’ recent post about wildfires and their unwillingness to cooperate…
Environmentalist scare stories – Never mind!
Foreword: Environmental activists always claim they merely want better public policies, to save the Earth and its endangered species. Far too often, their real goal is acquiring more money and…
Pushing the Great American Desert Eastward – Reality or Hype?
Guest essay by Rick Yarnell In 1877 an explorer and scientist named John Wesley Powell conceived a dividing line in the North American continent that marked the separation of the…
Climatology’s startling error – an update
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Well, we sent out our paper On an error in defining temperature feedback to a leading journal for review. The reviewers did not like it…
IIASA: Carbon Taxes Increase the Risk of Food Insecurity, Worse than Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Who would have guessed that raising the cost of energy with regressive carbon taxes would harm a vital, low margin energy intensive economic activity? Climate…
Bad timing: Solar flares disrupted radio communications during September 2017 Atlantic hurricane relief effort
From the AGU: WASHINGTON — An unlucky coincidence of space and Earth weather in early September 2017 caused radio blackouts for hours during critical hurricane emergency response efforts, according to…
#CarrFire – Satellite Shows California Shrouded in Smoke
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural color image of the fires in California and the resultant smoke that has shrouded the state and swept eastward as far as Salt Lake…
UK Politician Amber Rudd: No Deal Brexit as Bad as Climate Denial
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Former British Secretary for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd, who admitted to “inadvertently” misleading parliament when she resigned as Home Secretary, has just conflated…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #323
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) The Next Cooling: SEPP Chairman emeritus…
Hilarious: Climate Advocates Trying to Harness Trump Derangement Syndrome for Profit
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Imagine if you could make a profit every time some green snowflake expresses a burst of irrational hatred towards President Trump. One group of greens…
GOOGLE and the ‘adjustment’ of inconvenient viewpoints, especially climate
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, Kip Hansen, and do not reflect the opinions of WUWT or…
Study: Global Warming Reduces Summer Mortality
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova, GWPF – Who would have guessed that we humans, who evolved in one of the hottest climates on Earth, suffer less respiratory distress…
The ‘Heartbeat’ of the Deep State, Climate, Corruption, and Lack of Accountability.
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The anthropogenic global warming deception was about deliberately misleading the public with false, misleading, and selective science, from the start. It was also about plausible…
Al Gore and other Climate Activists Celebrate their Youth and Naivety
Guest essay by Eric Worrall You couldn’t make it up – a week ago GOP Governor Candidate Scott Wagner called a young climate fanatic who questioned his integrity in a…
#CarrFire doubles overnight, from 48,312 to 80,906 acres
The news is not good. Video and satellite imagery follow. From Action News Now, interviewing a CalFire official: The “Carr Fire” burning in Shasta County has grown to 80,906 acres…
#CarrFire in Northern California so big it is making it’s own weather
Video of a “fire tornado” follows. My friend Kris Kuyper writes on Facebook: BIG Pyrocumulus clouds now forming above the smoke plume of the #CarrFire! The dirty part on the bottom…
Michael Mann: “We literally would not have seen these extremes in the absence of climate change.”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Alarmism in action. Extreme global weather is ‘the face of climate change’ says leading scientist Exclusive: Prof Michael Mann declares the impacts of global warming…
How to lie with maps and smoothing – NASA GISS in Antarctica
My friend in Europe, Marcel Crok writes to me saying: Hi Anthony The two images in the link above are being used wildly during the current heat wave we experience…
Friday Funny: The Miss Climate Beauty Pageant (no, really)
From the “♪ There she is, misssss climatology… ♫” department. You just can’t make this stuff up. Dr. Roy Spencer advises me of this: The president of our university forwarded…
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