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Category Archives: Disaster
Extreme Nonsense by Krugman
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany 1. Krugman in Gradual Changes and Extreme Events forgets that there is a threshold on the left hand side, below which cold kills. In fact, in the moderate to higher latitudes more people die … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism, Disaster, Economy-health
Tagged climate change, Extreme weather, Paul Krugman
112 Comments
Same news, different century
They say those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Read this article in the Vancouver Sun, May 1982, and tell compare to the sorts of news stories we are seeing today about the same topic with … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster
Tagged Environmental disaster, United Nations Environment Programme, Vancouver Sun
91 Comments
Dueling Hypotheses
The Trenberth article contains so many glaring errors and biased assumptions, it’s hard to know where to start. First of all, the difference between theory and hypothesis: The problem is not with dueling hypotheses, it is with dueling theories regarding … Continue reading
Posted in Alarmism, Disaster, IPCC, media, Science
Tagged Global warming, greenhouse gas, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Science
137 Comments
Is the Brazilian flooding catastrophe evidence of another global warming era extreme ?
Guest post by Alexandre Aguiar, METSUL Communications Director, Brazil (note there’s much more here at METSUL’s blog) Corpses are still under tons of rocks and mud in the hills of Rio de Janeiro, but some experts are already rushing to … Continue reading
Bogus claims on Australian and Brazilian floods from ABC and Dr. Richard Sommerville
This ridiculous video story below from ABC news cites über alarmist Richard Somerville of Scripps in San Diego, and is backed up with this print story. Here’s what the print story headline said: Raging Waters In Australia and Brazil Product … Continue reading
The Australian cites covered up report of Brisbane flood danger
By Hedley Thomas, The Australian A SECRET report by scientific and engineering experts warned of significantly greater risks of vast destruction from Brisbane River flooding – and raised grave concerns with the Queensland government and the city’s council a decade … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster, Government idiocy
Tagged Australia, Brisbane, Brisbane River, flood, Queensland government
101 Comments
Australia’s tragic flooding – 30 feared dead
UPDATES ADDED: See updates below the read more line My heart goes out to Australia. The ugly side of this is that a portion of the tragedy may have been prevented with a dam to control floodwaters. But as James … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster, Government idiocy
Tagged Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, Mary River, Murphys Creek Queensland, Peter Garrett, Queensland, Toowoomba
132 Comments
Abandon all hope, ye who read this
Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios New paper in Nature Geoscience examines inertia of carbon dioxide emissions New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate_change, Disaster, Post-normal science, Satire
Tagged climate change, Nature Geoscience, University of Calgary
227 Comments
Contest
By Charles The Moderator, I have lived in California all my life, the first half in SoCal, the second half in NorCal. A funny thing happens ever year. If we have a below normal amount of rain, in the spring … Continue reading
Undetected crack causes unpredictable results
From Geekosystem: [This is a must watch video / safe for work] On Wednesday, thousands of Springfield, Ohio residents were left without power when a 275-foot smokestack being demolished fell the wrong way, knocking down two 12,500 volt power lines … Continue reading
35 years ago: The Witch of November Come Stealin
Today is the 35th anniversary of the sinking of the Great Lakes ore carrier, the Edmund Fitzgerald. The shipped was sunk by “The Witch of November”, a strong Lake Superior storm that often occurs around the same time each year. … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster, Weather
68 Comments
Failure to forecast morphs to criminal investigation
From an AGU press release, potential charges for failure to forecast an earthquake. h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard. Scientists May Face Manslaughter Charges After Earthquake 22 June 2010 AGU Science Policy Alert 10-18 Seven Italian scientists and government officials are … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster, Politics
107 Comments
NOAA on the Russian heat wave: blocking high, not global warming
The Russian Heat Wave of 2010 Draft Report by NOAA CSI The extreme surface warmth over western Russia during July and early August is mostly a product of the strong and persistent blocking high. … The indications are that the … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster, Weather
71 Comments
Interior Dept. Inspector General Investigating post facto falsified statements from engineers on drilling moratorium
While this isn’t our normal fare here at WUWT, I found it interesting and relevant, since WUWT covered the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling spill story early on here, with several follow ups. This story is a result of that spill. … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster, Energy, Environment, Government idiocy
83 Comments
Nasa warns solar flares from ‘huge space storm’ will cause devastation
From the Telegraph Video link here National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years. Senior space … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster, Earth, Solar, Space
470 Comments
New Dogs; IPCC tricks
Looks like they took lessons from Briffa. From Fox News The seven experts who advised President Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon explosion are accusing his administration of misrepresenting their views to make it … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster, Energy, Environment, Government idiocy, Politics, Uncategorized
68 Comments
The chasm between Apollo and the Gulf
There is no valid analogy between the Gulf spill and Apollo 13 I am honored to present this guest post by Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Dr. H. Harrison Schmitt – Anthony President Obama’s Administration and its supportive media repeatedly … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster, Opinion, Politics
215 Comments
The Gulf oil rig explosion – on the scene photos
Regular WUWT commenter Jimmy Haigh, a geologist by trade, sends along a PDF that is a compilation of on the scene photos taken right after the explosion and in the following two days. I’ve converted it to web format. These … Continue reading
Posted in Current News, Disaster, Energy, Environment, Technology
Tagged BP, British Petroleum, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Oil Rig, Louisiana, Rig explosion
216 Comments
