Category Archives: Disaster

Dilbert becomes skeptical of climate change disaster

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

From Scott Adams (creator of the Dilbert comic strip) blog, who seems to have stumbled across an interview with the author of this video we recently highlighted at WUWT. Scott Adams writes: ================================= Fact Checking: Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters … Continue reading →

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Posted in Climate_change, Disaster | 129 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

A problem that is bigger than global warming

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

In light of what happened yesterday, this story is even more relevant now. It was written before the meteor event in Russia. Asteroid 2012 DA14 makes its closest approach at 2:24 p.m. EST/1924 GMT today. One wonders if yesterday’s meteor … Continue reading →

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How to learn nothing from the 2010 flooding in Brisbane

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

From Griffith University Flood research shows human habits die hard Climate Change experts examine rebuilding New research has come up with ways to quickly assess flood damage to houses while also showing most people didn’t intend to make changes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, flooding, Weather | Tagged , , | 34 Comments

The Atlantic Magazine’s ’5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried’… Worried about scientific illiteracy.

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA and then launches into a graphical cornucopia of nonsense. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Climate Craziness of the Week, Climate FAIL, Climate_change, Current News, Disaster, Drought, Environment, extreme weather, Fun_stuff, Greenland ice sheet, Humor, media, Paleoclimatology, Tabloid Climatology, Wildfires | Tagged , , , , , , | 88 Comments

Climate Alarmists Target the Arabunna People – With No Evidence

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Arabunna people live in the area around Lake Eyre in Southern Australia. It is a hot, hostile desert region, which is no surprise, because … well … it’s in Australia. Here’s the general area … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Climate ugliness, Disaster, Drought | Tagged , , , , , | 128 Comments

More Glacial Junk Science Journalism

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

[Note: this post (and a few others) was lost in WordPress, and I had no notification of its existence. While a bit dated, it is still valid - note to guest authors with WUWT WordPress privileges - when you submit … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Current News, Disaster, Glaciers, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 81 Comments

Newsbytes – the SREx feeding frenzy

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

From the GWPF, news about the current media feeding frenzy on the IPCC SREx report. Even Revkin in a Tweet (via Tom Nelson) thinks the coverage is “overheated”. Amid overheated coverage of IPCC climate extremes… [Revkin] Amid overheated coverage of … Continue reading →

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50 years ago: The Great Atlantic Storm of 1962

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

Guest post by Ric Werme This week marks the 50th anniversary of a destructive nor’easter named “The Great Atlantic Storm of 1962″ by the NWS and just “The Ash Wednesday Storm” by others. I lived in Ohio at the time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, flooding, hurricanes, snowfall | Tagged , , , | 26 Comments

Why, yes, linking climate change to Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes DOES seem “to be bordering on the insane”

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Don’t worry, this guy is just trying to sell a book conveniently located on the left sidebar of the Guardian. I hear there’s a two for one special with Chariots of the Gods on Amazon. Get a load of some … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, Earthquakes, GLOC, Ridiculae | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 181 Comments

NOAA and “climate disasters” – made up words?

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

I got a chuckle out of this new buzzword that NOAA has created in this press release: “climate disasters”. Personally, I think they’ve been caught up the disaster hype. Why? Well, because the term is undefined. It isn’t even in … Continue reading →

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NOAA’s Weather Ready Nation

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

This press release from NOAA came in an email today. I’m not too impressed by the “2011 Ties Record for Billion Dollar Disasters” statement because as inflation and property values rise, so will monetary estimates for “most expensive disaster year”. … Continue reading →

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Quantifying the Fukushima reactor leak with atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

From the University of California – San Diego  via Eurekalert First quantitative measure of radiation leaked from Fukushima reactor Observations of radioactive sulfur that formed when seawater was used to cool reactors and spent fuel ponds reveal the amount of … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Disaster, Radiation | 42 Comments

The folly of linking tornado outbreaks to “climate change”

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

In times of tragedy, there always seems to be hucksters about trying to use that tragedy to sell a position, a product, or a belief. In ancient times, tragedy was the impetus used to appease the gods and to embrace … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate_change, Current News, Disaster, Opinion, thunderstorms, tornadoes, Weather | Tagged , , , , , | 69 Comments

The negligent promotion of nuclear panic

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

It pains me to see large parts of the media still hyperventilating over the very modest amounts of radioactive material coming from the Fukushima Daiichi plant on the east coast of Japan. Nothing has been made more plain that most … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Disaster, media, Opinion, Tsunami | Tagged , , , | 288 Comments

Good news from Japan: Situation ‘fairly stable’, says IAEA

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

IAEA= International Atomic Energy Agency – update here Story below from the Register: The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, badly damaged during the extremely severe earthquake and tsunami there a week ago, continues to stabilise. It … Continue reading →

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Nuke Tsunami Makes Clean Coal Look Better

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

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 backup cooling systems that resulted in hydrogen gas explosions and … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Disaster, Energy, Politics, Tsunami | Tagged , , | 111 Comments

Really? You had to ask this question?

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Click image for the story. h/t to WUWT reader “Eric”. I’m always amazed at the lack of historical perspective some people have related to natural disasters. It’s doubly amazing when reporters who work in newspapers, who have huge archive resources … Continue reading →

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More on ARKstorm

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

I covered this earlier in a post here.  Atmospheric Rivers can cause this sort of pattern, read more about them here. If the goal of press releases like this one from USC and the ones from USGS is to scare … Continue reading →

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6.3 quake in Christchurch, NZ, 65 deaths reported

Posted on February 22, 2011 by

Note aftershocks ranging from  5.6 to 4.5 have also been felt in the last few hours. Here is a list of quakes. We wish our Kiwi friends well, and hope that the quake is not as bad as first reports … Continue reading →

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