Hilary Ostrov writes about another Internet poll gone horribly wrong: ============================================================== Back in March of this year, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced an “innovative initiative” in which participants…
Tag: environment
Carbon sequestration driver: Spiders, why did it have to be spiders?
From the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies New study shows predators affect the carbon cycle A new study shows that the predator-prey relationship can affect the flow of…
Essay: carbon footprint as 'original sin'
This essay appears today in The Chronicle Review and it makes an interesting claim: What is the carbon footprint, after all, if not the gaseous equivalent of Original Sin, the…
NZ Greens lose interest in global warming – 'no hellfire, no brimstone'
Joe Romm must be upset that NZ greens are ignoring his trademark “hell and high water”. From the New Zealand Business Review (h/t to Bishop Hill):
UCLA pulls a "children aren't going to know what snow is"
From the University of California – Los Angeles, apparently there will be no more skiing at Big Bear. UCLA climate study predicts dramatic loss in local snowfall By midcentury, snowfall…
U.N. Delegate: a cold summer proves global warming
CFACT was at the Bonn climate conference (which collapsed by the way) interviewed a number of ahem, shall we say, “interesting” people. They write: At the UN Climate Conference in…
WUWT: 150 million hits and counting
WUWT recently passed the 150 million counter mark as seen of the right sidebar. By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The world’s most viewed site on global warming goes from strength…
DOE Green Energy Loans: $11.45 million per job and a rounding error's worth of averted carbon emissions.
Guest Post by David Middleton The cost of each taxpayer-financed green energy job created since 2009: $26.32 billion divided by 2,298 jobs = $11.45 million per job… Green energy jobs…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Economist Tom Schelling makes NYT's Paul Krugman look rational
Steve Milloy writes at junkscience.com about this off the rails Nobel prize winner: Nobel Economist says skeptics are deniers like Holocaust-denier Ahmadinejad University of Maryland economist Tom Schelling goes off on…
Watch Mann and Lewandowsky make fools of themselves live
The AGU Chapman gabfest is being streamed live. Up this AM, are two notable alarmists who will surely provide back to back entertainment. Times are U.S. Mountain. 10:05 a.m. —…
CO2 by the numbers: having the courage to do nothing
Guest essay by Ed Hoskins. Some simple numbers on the effect of CO2 concentration on temperature As the temperature increasing effect of atmospheric CO2 is known to diminish logarithmically with…
An Open Letter To Ed Davey
By Paul Homewood Ed Davey, the UK Secretary of State for Energy, has made a speech attacking the press for reporting the views of climate sceptics, saying “But some sections…
Gosh, 'hidden' climate change may threaten eelgrass meadows
From the University of Gothenburg , the stuff that keeps some people awake at night. A question; why should we care? And, why should we take any of this seriously…
Testimony of Climate Depot’s Marc Morano at Congressional Hearing on Climate Change
Love him or hate him, he’s making an impact. I thought it worthwhile to make his testimony available to read.
Mike Mann's global warming = tobacco claims on Al Jazeera
You just have to laugh. Mike, Dana, and some other guy named Rick Piltz, get face-time on Al Jazeera and the best they can do is cite “false balance” and…
A Brief Introduction to the Detection of Climate and Weather Transitions using Hurst Rescaling
Guest essay by Sam Outcalt Introduction: The object of this document is to present a brief and concise introduction to Hurst ReScaling. More detail is presented in a paper by…
Lysenkoism and Global Warming Theory
From Forbes: The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory Trofim Lysenko became the Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the 1930s under…
Fact check for Andrew Glikson – Ocean heat has paused too
Over at The Conversation Andrew Glikson asks Fact check: has global warming paused? citing an old Skeptical Science favorite graph, and that’s the problem; it’s old data. He writes: As some…
Finally, a climate forecast model that works?
Note: Short term predictions are relatively easy, it remains to be seen if this holds up over the long term. I have my doubts. – Anthony Guest post by Frank…
EU carbon sinks to new record low – loses nearly 40% of value in January
From the told ya so department, after a small dead cat bounce yesterday due to an auction, traders are unloading today. Yesterday’s closing price was 5.02, today it is 4.64.…
Finally, one of Gore's trained presenters debates a climate skeptic
People send me stuff. Finally … finally! … a person trained by Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project agreed to face off in a public debate on global warming. As WUWT…
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