Tag Archives: california

Lomborg: Californians are paying ridiculous subsidies for electric cars

Posted on May 12, 2013 by

 Guest post by Bjørn Lomborg I’ve said electric cars get subsidized too much. Turns out I was wrong. In California, they are subsidized ridiculously too much. Tesla gets $45,000 for each car it sells in state and federal subsidies. The … Continue reading →

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San Jose State University Meteorology decides burning books they don’t agree with is better than reading them

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

From the Fahrenheit 451 department comes this indictment of California’s higher education’s “tolerance” for opposing views. When I first got the tip on this, I thought to myself “nobody can be this stupid to photograph themselves doing this” but, here … Continue reading →

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California to quantify UHI statewide

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

From the if we can quantify it we’ll figure out a way to tax it department comes this short press release (h/t Kakatoa) The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research is joining with Cal/EPA and several other State agencies on … Continue reading →

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Dust’s excellent global adventure ends in California’s Sierra Nevada

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

From the Scripps Institute: Saharan and Asian Dust, Biological Particles End Global Journey in California UCSD, NOAA study is the first to show that dust and other aerosols from one side of the world influence rainfall in another Scripps Institution … Continue reading →

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Oh that’s gonna leave a mark – EU carbon trading ‘worthless’

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

From the I’ve been telling you so for some time now department comes this headline from Bloomberg. And it is getting desperate in the carbon market. Readers may recall last week I reported two new record lows on the EU … Continue reading →

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Moronomics

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Reading my Sunday paper today, I find the following: Customers Can Sell Back Solar Power. The Los Angeles District of Water and Power will allow customers to sell back excess solar energy created on their … Continue reading →

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Peter Gleick misses chilly cook-off in California

Posted on January 13, 2013 by

While the eastern United States is warm, prompting the clueless to claim the climate is being “mucked with” (point: the reason for the Tornado Watch is the clash of cold air against the warmer air, something called a “front”)… …at … Continue reading →

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We Had To Pave The Environment In Order To Save It

Posted on January 5, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Trading food for fuel, in a world where high food prices already affect the poor, has always seemed like a bad idea to me. If I have a choice between growing corn to fuel SUVs … Continue reading →

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Mercury in California fog linked to ocean upwelling

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

From the AGU fall meeting in SFO and the University of California – Santa Cruz  comes this rather odd statement that I thought was interesting. It seems like an ecological horror story until you realize it is all natural processes … Continue reading →

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Northern California’s coming super soaker event via the ‘Pineapple Express’

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

UPDATE: Added this HiDef imag showing a trio of lows (commas shaped clouds) in the Gulf of Alaska and southward: There’s lots of buzz here in Northern California about a series of upcoming storms starting today and through the weekend … Continue reading →

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More ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ from Seinfeld

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

I’ve always said that the global warming story is just like another product of Vandelay Industries, as some of the more alarming parts foisted on us are simply sitcom variety fiction. Even Jim Hansen’s NASA GISS office has a hilarious … Continue reading →

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Government Gone Wild: California Department of Fish and Game diverts fishing and hunting license monies to study climate change

Posted on September 10, 2012 by

This is excerpts from a column that appeared Sunday by Chico Enterprise-Record editor David Little. To say he’s annoyed would be an understatement, especially when he titles it ‘Another startling episode of ‘Your Tax Dollars At Work’  – Anthony By … Continue reading →

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And it’s gone…Governor Brown’s office responds to WUWT

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

Sunday, I point out the glaring error in California Governor Jerry Brown’s website with a climate time-series that only showed 1/3 of the year, January-April: I got an email for the direct of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research … Continue reading →

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Never before published paper on UHI and siting – Goodridge 1987

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

Plus answers to yesterday’s Fun puzzle: Name these official stations. Given that California Governor Jerry Brown has recently setup a website at the governor’s office basically telling skeptics to “shut up” I thought this would be a good time to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, ENSO, James Hansen, UHI, Weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , , | 104 Comments

Fun puzzle: Name these official stations

Posted on August 15, 2012 by

Here’s a fun little puzzle for you, two older station siting photographs from former California State Climatologist, Jim Goodridge, circa the 1980′s. I had Jim find these because I was recently interviewed for a national network newscast, and when I … Continue reading →

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Apparently Governor Brown, you’ve never visited the weather station at Lake Tahoe

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

I had to laugh. Governor Jerry “moonbeam” Brown has created a comical clone of the Skeptical Science website at his state office website, and announced it today in lake Tahoe with this missive via the Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Alert: The … Continue reading →

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In other news…”Ten Reasons Why Fracking is (not) Doomed”

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

Guest Post by David Middleton I ran across a really funny story on Real Clear Energy last Friday… Once you get past all of the nonsense about fracking polluting groundwater and global warming hysteria, the article really gets “interesting.”

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John Coleman on the California Cap and Trade Law

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel, writes on his Facebook Page: I will be presenting a skeptical report on the new California Cap and Trade law on the KUSI News at 6 PM and 10 PM today. It will … Continue reading →

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California Air Resources Board cap and trade program circumvents state open meeting laws with a Moonbeam assist

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

Strong headline, I know, but I didn’t believe this was true until I researched it myself. First some background; I once served as an elected official on my local school board. During orientation and virtually every annual CSBA meeting after … Continue reading →

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The National Academy of Sciences Loses The Plot

Posted on June 23, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A man who has a daughter is a pretty pathetic specimen, ruled by the vicissitudes of hormones and hairspray. So when my daughter told me this morning “Hey, Dad, I put the newspaper on your … Continue reading →

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