An oopsie in the Doran/Zimmerman 97% consensus claim

David Burton writes: I just realized the obvious answer to a question that has been nagging in the back of my mind for nearly a year and a half. In…

Extinction Rebellion Attacks an Electric Vehicle at the New York Auto Show

There is no path to appeasement – nothing is ever green enough for climate fanatics.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #571

It is found that even ·an increase by a factor of 8 in the amount of CO2 , which is highly unlikely in the next several thousand years, will produce…

A Conversation with Google Bard on the Consensus

By Andy May It turns out it is trivially easy to get Google’s AI product “Bard” to admit it is biased about climate change. Others, like Jonathan Cohler have managed…

SMH: Aussie Hydrogen Export Plans At Risk from US Hydrogen Development

Who could have guessed than an absurdly expensive and suicidally dangerous green vanity fuel would falter in the face of other vanity fuel projects?

Should Nations Stop Using Fossil Fuels? (Part II)

I get the impression that the drag on prosperity is unknown to these promoters, supporters, and activists

The Dangers of Narrative Journalism

“Some Narrative Journalism Concerns:   One of the biggest worries editors and publishers have about narrative journalism is that because it’s a blend of facts and feelings, problems can occur. Recently,…

Climate “crisis” to eradicate world’s beaches by 2100

Guest “Son of a beach!” by David Middleton Gregory Wrightstone linked to the Fox News version of this article on his LinkedIn page, the comments from fellow geologists were fracking…

What do you mean by “mean”: an essay on black boxes, emulators, and uncertainty

Guest post by Richard Booth, Ph.D References: [1] https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/07/propagation-of-error-and-the-reliability-of-global-air-temperature-projections-mark-ii/ [2] https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/15/why-roy-spencers-criticism-is-wrong   Introduction I suspect that we can all remember childish arguments of the form “person A: what do you…

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Has a Close Encounter with Jupiter

Jan. 14, 2020 NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Has a Close Encounter with Jupiter A multitude of swirling clouds in Jupiter’s dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from…

NASA’s Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery

great images~cr From NASA Dec. 12, 2019 NASA’s Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery A new, smaller cyclone can be seen at the lower right of this infrared image of…

America Being Misled by Cook, Oreskes, Lewandowsky and Maibach

Guest “liar, liar, pants on fire” by David Middleton Hat tip to Dr. Willie Soon… America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change Over the…

What would life be like without fossil fuels such as gas and oil?

Leftists like Bill McKibben of 350.org suffer from irrational fantasies that lead them to believe that we can move society forward without all the benefits that petroleum brings to our…

President “Trump thinks scientists are split on climate change”… He’s right, Dana Nuccitelli is wrong

Guest rebuttal by David Middleton Trump thinks scientists are split on climate change. So do most Americans There’s a 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming, but most Americans are…

Lawyer in Chevron Ecuadorian climate case loses license due to ‘coercion, fraud and bribery’

WUWT reader “Neo” writes in with this tip: An attorney who won an $8.6 billion award in an Ecuadoran court against Chevron Corp. over pollution of the Amazon rain forest…

American Climate Denial: Frack Yeah!

Guest ridicule by David Middleton Earther, the folks who reported that Gorebal Warming is deforming the seafloor,  have an interesting perspective of American exceptionalism. SCIENCE Climate Denial is a Form of American Exceptionalism…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #312

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) Which Trends? Last week’s TWTW may…

Friday Funny – 'Passing the Sniff Test' over Los Angeles smog

Environmentalism shows why ‘mental’ is part of the word. Josh is on the case. This story appeared in The Times: Shampoo ‘as bad a health risk as car fumes’ Shampoo,…

“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood”… Except in the case of climate change.

Guest post by David Middleton This item on Real Clear Science caught my eye today… What Causes Science Denial?  Steven Novella, Neurologica Blog Dr. Novella discussed another paper which found…

Scientific Literacy Leads to More Politically Polarized Opinions on Climate Change

Guest post by David Middleton Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on controversial science topics Caitlin Drummonda,1 and Baruch Fischhoffb,c Author Affiliations Edited by Roger E.…

Climate scientist Josh Willis shows you how to deal with your climate change denying uncle – but fails

Guest essay by Dave Burton Josh Willis, of NASA JPL, has a new video out entitled, “Straw Men of the Apocalypse – How to deal with your climate change denying…

Heartland Institute Tries to Influence K-12 Teachers… Journalist Calls for Them to Be Burned at the Stake!!!

Guest post by David Middleton OK… My “burned at the stake” comment was mostly sarcastic hyperbole… But the author of this CSM article really deserves a heaping dose of sarcastic…

Why are "utility investors and renewable energy investors… like oil and water"?

Guest post by David Middleton It was supposed to be an easy transition for NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) from utility giant to renewable energy powerhouse. The company had billions in cash…

Dr. Neil Frank on Climate and Caring for Creation: A Book of Good Intentions but Poor Science

Guest essay by Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. As an evangelical Christian, I believe we should be good stewards of God’s planet. We should strive to reduce pollution to protect human…