Guest essay by Charles Battig, M.D. Mike Huckabee’s recent comment about President Obama, “He would trust the Iranians and he would take the Israelis and basically march them to the…
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Hansen's Death Trains – now with extra scary 'coal fallout'
WUWT readers surely remember this: NASA’s Dr. James Hansen once again goes over the top. See his most recent article in the UK Guardian. Some excerpts: “The trains carrying coal…
Hansen on "death trains" and coal and CO2
NASA’s Dr. James Hansen once again goes over the top. See his most recent article in the UK Guardian. Some excerpts: “The trains carrying coal to power plants are death…
What Paris Agreement? Coal Consumption Hit a Record 8 billion tons in 2022
According to the IEA coal use will drop as soon as European renewables start displacing coal.
King Coal: Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (apologies to Mark Twain)
Due to coal’s relatively high carbon-dioxide emissions upon combustion, the fuel has been cast as arch-villain by the climate alarmists.
India Reopens 100 Coal Mines
In a bold and rebellious move, India has ordered reopening more than 100 dormant coal mines to meet skyrocketing domestic power demand.
Climate Doomed by Coal… Again
Guest “I don’t care who you are. That’s funny right there!” by David Middleton HOPPY’S COMMENTARYCoal is Back… For NowBy Hoppy KerchevalAugust 23, 2021 Coal is hot. Even as the…
The Resurgence of the American Coal Industry
Guest post by David Middleton America’s Biggest Coal Miner Is Joining the Comeback Under Trump by Tim Loh April 3, 2017, 4:28 PM CDT April 4, 2017, 1:14 PM CDT…
Hump Day Hilarity – actual study: 'diesel trains may expose passengers to diesel exhaust'
From the “I can’t believe we needed a study to determine this” and Hansen’s Death Trains department, the actual unedited press release is below, commentary follows. Diesel trains may expose…
Pacific Export Terminals: The Raging Environmental War on Coal
Originally published in The Washington Times. Guest post by Steve Goreham Exports from the Pacific Northwest are an ongoing battleground in the environmental war on coal. Last week, the Sierra…
130 mph biocoal steam engines – another high speed rail boondoggle?
My grandfather made steam engines, my father made a scale steam locomotive for taking children on rides in the park and at the fair. Some of my happiest memories as…
Nuke Tsunami Makes Clean Coal Look Better
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein The recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which shut down several reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex in northeastern Japan, followed by a failure of the…
CO2 is Plant Food (Clean Coal, Say WATT?)
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. When Lord Monckton told Congress “CO2 is plant food”, the Global Warming activists went crazy because … well, because they know he spoke an inconvenient…
Clean Coal (Say WATT?) – Our Energy Future
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein The December 2010 issue of the Atlantic shows an amazing turn-around by some of the Global Warming warmists! Yes, they are still tuned in to…
Steam train rescues stranded passengers in Britain where electric trains failed
Both my father and grandfather, both of whom had connections to steam locomotives in their life are undoubtedly cheering this story(wherever they are) from the BBC. So am I. Inconveniently,…
U.S. Life Expectancy in an Era of Death Trains and Death Factories
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany In a recent op-ed in the Guardian that WUWT commented on, James Hansen of global warming fame, argued for closing coal fired power plants…
Trains
Yesterday while driving north on Highway 99 from Bakerfield, I passed a Union Pacific freight train. To my surprise, it was quite long, I counted over 120 cars. When I…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #499
“When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things: the debate
The Obvious Biomass Emissions Error
Guest essay by Steve Goreham When Thomas Edison established his Pearl Street power plant in New York City in 1892, he used coal for fuel, not wood. Wood fuel could…
The silence of the Anti Defamation League suggests they endorse defamation of climate skeptics
I’ve waited several days for a response since I sent a letter last Thursday, I’ve checked the ADL website, my Inbox, fax machine, and asked in the climate skeptic community…
CAGW bias in academia; Lesfrud and Meyer 2013 revisited.
Guest essay by Andy West Posts at WUWT have often featured scientific papers that are clearly impacted by a cultural bias towards CAGW. Given the impressive reach of WUWT and…
Warmists Are Never Wrong, Even When Supporting Genocide
Guest essay by Brandon Shollenberger Global warming proponents support genocide. That may seem hard to believe, but remember, they’ve said it’d be right to blow up dams and burn cities…
Desperate times in climate alarmism
Computer models, scare stories and ad hominem rants underscore the alarmists’ desperation Guest essay by Paul Driessen Al Gore is in full attack model, employing his ridiculous “Climate Reality Project”…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #595
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