Category Archives: Alarmism

Global warming is epic, long-term study says

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

Image Credit: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center From CNN with comments below by WUWT regular Just The Facts: Global warming has propelled Earth’s climate from one of its coldest decades since the last ice age to one of its hottest … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alarmism, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , | 102 Comments

“A [Junk] Scientist’s Misguided Crusade” Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Guest Post by David Middleton More improper activity from the Million Dollar Bureaucrat… A Scientist’s Misguided Crusade By JOE NOCERA Published: March 4, 2013 Last Friday, at 3:40 p.m., the State Department released its “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement” for … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Energy, Environment, James Hansen, NASA GISS, petroleum, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , | 47 Comments

Global Warming causing biblical plagues – like locusts

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

My first question when I read this headline was: With Passover Approaching, a Plague of Locusts Descends Upon Egypt “how long before somebody tries to blame this on global warming, today’s universal one-size-fits-all bogeyman?“ The answer is: 30 seconds, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Disaster, Ridiculae | Tagged , , , | 65 Comments

The 1970′s Global Cooling Compilation – looks much like today

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

A compilation of news articles on the global cooling scare of the 1970′s Does the bullet point list for solutions to global cooling at right look familiar? It reads almost like some of the manifestos we get from warmists today, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Global cooling | Tagged , | 183 Comments

Al Gore’s Reality Drop – Climate Change to Destroy Music?

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

Gosh, is there anything it can’t do? People send me stuff. I would not have believed this unless I saw it from Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, where I constantly wonder what sort of reality those people inhabit. See the … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, Ridiculae | Tagged , | 59 Comments

Global Warming to Endanger Breakfast by 2080!!!

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Guest Post by David Middleton First it was wheat and now it’s coffee. What’s next? Bacon & eggs? This is nothing but alarmist nonsense… Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum in … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, IPCC, James Hansen, Positive effects of CO2, Temperature | Tagged , , , | 61 Comments

‘King’ Obama to circumvent lawful due process on climate

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

FLASHBACK March 2011: Obama on Deporting Illegals ‘America Is a Nation of Laws,’ Presidential Action Not ‘Appropriate’ Obama Administration Moves Forward on Climate Change Without Congress Forthcoming regulation likely means no new coal-fired power plants will be built in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, extreme weather, Politics | Tagged , , | 129 Comments

Snowjobs are just a thing of the past…er, present

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

While we have a major winter snowstorm barreling through the USA Midwest, we know that the usual suspects will jostle for position to tell the media that this is just another signature of global warming climate change climate disruption extreme … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, ENSO, Snow, Weather | Tagged , , , , , | 36 Comments

New Climate Central writer tries to connect climate and extreme weather with love of bigger destructive storms

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

From the weather is not climate unless we say it is department comes this disturbing admission. From Tom Nelson, an illustration of the sort of defective thinking we see in some people who think climate and weather have no distinction: … Continue reading →

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Paging Chuck Rice at Kansas State – real data is calling you, collect

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

Oh Dear, Another Climate Scientist Makes A Fool Of Himself Guest post by Paul Homewood I sometimes get accused of being too dismissive of Climate Scientists, probably with justice. However, there are times when they just set themselves up to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Drought, records, Temperature, Weather | Tagged , , , | 94 Comments

Overhyped: The Human Cost of Climate Alarmism

Posted on February 16, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I do love tracing down how numbers kind of ricochet around the web. This investigation started when I ran across a book review in the South China Morning Post of a book called “Overheated: The … Continue reading →

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Keystone XL: NASA’s James Hansen risks arrest…. again

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

From @connect in my Twitter feed today: I count 39 in this photo, including half bodies at far left. IMHO, 39 angry activists don’t speak for the country. Hansen, seen standing at far left in the grey fedora, keeps coming … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, James Hansen, Politics, Ridiculae | Tagged , , , , | 111 Comments

It was the best of times, it was [will be] the worst of times.

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

My brother stumbled across an interesting pair of headlines today. Nothing very new, but a nice collection yin and yang. Weather vs climate. Observation vs model. Boom vs bust. First, the yang. WUWT already covered this at Another ‘Vinerism’, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Snow, snowfall | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 51 Comments

BBC edits out climate warming data in climbdown

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

Just like the IPCC and its reliance on reports from activist NGO’s has gotten them burned, so has the BBC. From the Daily Mail: The BBC has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over climate change claims made in Sir … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media, NGOs | 78 Comments

Paul Ehrlich joins the Royal Society, rants on Twitter

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

Josh writes: “All the text Paul Ehrlich is saying comes from his recent tweets.“ And the Bishop says “it’s a hoot”. I wonder where he got the idea that its was “the greatest snowstorm on record for the city” when … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Humor, Satire | Tagged , , | 60 Comments

Bob Tisdale shows how ‘Forecast the Facts” Brad Johnson (and now Dr. Heidi Cullen) are fecklessly factless about ocean warming and the blizzard

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

UPDATE2: Gosh. Shouldn’t Dr. Cullen know more than McKibben and Brad Johnson?!  (h/t to Marc Morano) – Anthony Here’s the SST anomaly map she cites as proof in her post about the issue at Climate Central. Note that actual temperatures … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Oceans, Sea Surface Temperature, Snow | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 81 Comments

Propagandist Brad Johnson of ‘Forecast the Facts’ tries to make the pending East Coast blizzard about the ocean ‘warming’ – Fails

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

You knew it was coming from shameless people like him. Unfortunately, Mr. Johnson doesn’t know the difference between what the Gulf Stream pattern looks like and the rest of the sea surface temperature. I had to laugh when he tweeted … Continue reading →

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The French surrender to Astronomers – my town likely to be next

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

Now enviro-policy to “end light pollution” has France on track to look like North Korea at night: From The Guardian: Lights out – France to force shops and offices to go dark overnight French light pollution law is expected to … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Astronomy, Ridiculae | Tagged , , , | 232 Comments

Playing the global warming morality card in my local newspaper – a religious experience?

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

Even ad engines see the religious connection to global warming Lately there’s been an ongoing series of rants in my local newspaper, the Chico Enterprise Record, from global warming activists posing as moralists with holier-than-thou views about how noble their … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Climate ugliness, Letters To The Editor, Local_issues | Tagged , , , , , , , | 145 Comments

Conventional Wisdom, Unconventional Oil

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a discussion over at Judith Curry’s excellent blog, about peak oil. I find the whole madness surrounding peak oil to be one more example of our human love for warnings of future disaster. Few … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Energy, petroleum | Tagged , , , , | 444 Comments