Elizabeth Warren Uses Coldest ‘Polar Vortex’ In Decades To Call For ‘Green New Deal’ To Fight Global Warming

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren used the bitter cold sweeping the Midwest and Northeast to announce her full-throated support for a “Green…

Reassessing the RCPs

From Judith Curry’s Climate Etc Posted on January 28, 2019 by curryja | by Kevin Murphy A response to: “Is RCP8.5 an impossible scenario?”. This post demonstrates that RCP8.5 is…

NOAA 2018-19 Winter Outlook: Another Mild Winter

Guest essay by Eric Worrall As late as last October NOAA’s climate models were predicting a milder than normal winter. Another mild winter? NOAA’s 2018-19 winter outlook Author: Mike Halpert…

Quote of the week – Federal Judge: ‘Global warming is not starting these fires.’

SAN FRANCISCO — A day after PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection from what could be multi-billion dollar wildfire liability costs, a federal judge Wednesday declared the beleaguered utility in violation…

#PolarVortex2019 smashes records – 84 million people below 0°F

There has been almost a death watch going on for Chicago, looking for an all time new all-time low temperature record to beat the previous -27°F. For those wishing for…

Is China’s plan to use a nuclear bomb detonator to release shale gas in earthquake-prone Sichuan crazy or brilliant?

From The South China Morning Post Scientists have developed an ‘energy rod’ that can fire multiple shock waves to frack sedimentary rock at depths of up to 3.5km China has…

Bill Nye’s Latest Climate Warning: The US Will Have To Grow Its Food In Canada

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor Bill Nye “the Science Guy” has another global warming prediction — Americans will have to grow their food in Canada if…

The Guardian: Green Car Maker Tesla Just Laid Off a Quality Control Department

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – According to The Guardian, Tesla’s recent layoffs include an entire quality control department. ‘How do they expect to run without us?’ Tesla…

Fascinating animation showing the #polarvortex slamming the USA

From NASA Goddard: Desperately cold weather is now gripping the Midwest and Northern Plains of the United States, as well as interior Canada. The culprit is a familiar one: the…

Hell has frozen over – no, really!

There’s a town called “Hell”, in Michigan. That’s the sign from the city limits. Today, there was this bit of meteorological info on Twitter: It's -7 degrees in Hell, Michigan,…

Climate Fish Tales

What’s Natural? Guest essay by Jim Steele   American folk lore is filled with stories of how Native Americans observed changes in wildlife and foretold future weather changes. I was fascinated…

Uh, oh. California solar and wind projects at risk due to PG&E bankruptcy

Are California’s solar and wind projects at risk in PG&E bankruptcy? PG&E has asked a bankruptcy judge for the authority to nullify billions of dollars in contracts with solar and…

Climate Change Gets a New Language… Again

Guest whatever by David Middleton The New Language of Climate Change Scientists and meteorologists on the front lines of the climate wars are testing a new strategy to get through…

Frantic Climate Scientist Response to President Trump’s Latest Troll Tweet

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The frantic public efforts to “correct” President Trump’s tweets every time he trolls the warmists are revealing. US government scientists correct Trump over climate change…

China not ‘walking the walk’ on methane emissions

From EurekAlert! Public Release: 29-Jan-2019 Chinese regulations on coal mining have not curbed the nation’s growing methane emissions over the past five years as intended Carnegie Institution for Science Washington,…

70,000 March in Brussels to Demand Climate Action

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A message to French Yellow Vests that greens and EU supporters can field large groups of demonstrators. But half the pro-climate action marchers were school…

Mathematical modeling illusions

The global climate scare – and policies resulting from it – are based on models that do not work Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris For the past three decades,…

Planned German coal exit boosts case for Nord Stream 2

From euobserver Anti-coal protest in Germany in June 2018, days ahead of the coal commission’s first meeting. The commission published its report over the weekend (Photo: mw238) By Peter Teffer…

Epic fail of renewables causes Texas town to have $1200 per year higher power bills

Average yearly homeowner electric bill increase is $1219 Above: Dale Ross in 2017 when the green dream hadn’t yet turned to a nightmare. From Georgetown View. The following opinion piece…

Tesla May Not Make It Past Q1 Without Vendor Concessions Or A Capital Raise

From Seeking Alpha Jan. 25, 2019 4:09 PM ET  About: Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Summary Tesla is seeing an implosion of demand – not just in US but also internationally. European…

‘Clean energy leader’ PG&E Filing Bankruptcy – rejects investor bailout – massive rate hike looms

If only they’d spent more money on keeping their infrastructure maintained instead of chasing green dreams. From Zero Hedge late yesterday: Confirming earlier reports that distressed California utility PG&E had…

‘Polar Vortex’ Will Have Nearly 90 Percent Of US Below-Freezing

4:54 PM 01/28/2019 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor Nearly 90 percent of the continental U.S. will experience below-freezing temperatures over the next five days as Arctic air moves…

Anti-GMO attitudes study Nature 2019

Submitted by Joel O’Bryan, PhD From NPR on-line, there is this news item: “People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding Of Food Science, Study Finds” January 26, 2019 7:00 AM…

Trump trolls the warmists

And we thought deadly wind chill would be a “thing of the past”. A bit of humor here from the President, and while any one weather event doesn’t prove or…