Tag Archives: United States

To NCDC: We Haven’t Seen an El Nino since 2009/10, What Do You Expect?

Posted on June 14, 2013 by

This desperate sounding tweet came in a few minutes ago and will be sure to get the peccatogenesists all stirred up with laughable claims of “poisoned weather” etc. June 11 U.S. Drought Monitor Update: moderate to exceptional #drought covers 44.1% of … Continue reading →

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Leading the way with an unbiased climate panel

Posted on June 14, 2013 by

Guest essay by Tom Harris Last month, U.S. Rep. David McKinley (R.-WV) hosted an unbiased climate change panel discussion in Fairmont, West Virginia. Experts from both sides of the climate debate participated without restrictions of any kind. McKinley’s open-minded approach … Continue reading →

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DOE Green Energy Loans: $11.45 million per job and a rounding error’s worth of averted carbon emissions.

Posted on June 11, 2013 by

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 and DOE loans are tallied under programs 1703 and 1705 … Continue reading →

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Bloomberg’s Climate Fantasy

Posted on June 11, 2013 by

From the New York Daily News: The data doesn’t support him. The temperature rise seems to have slowed in the past few years, here is NYC’s Central Park data:

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Offshore Wind: The Enormously Expensive Energy Alternative

Posted on June 7, 2013 by

By Steve Goreham Originally published by The Washington Times The US Department of the Interior announced the first offshore wind energy lease sale earlier this month. Interior plans a July auction of 164,750 acres off the southern coasts of Rhode … Continue reading →

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Pollution in Northern Hemisphere helped cause 1980s African drought

Posted on June 7, 2013 by

From the University of Washington: Decades of drought in central Africa reached their worst point in the 1980s, causing Lake Chad, a shallow lake used to water crops in neighboring countries, to almost dry out completely. The shrinking lake and … Continue reading →

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Humor: U.N. Climate delegates unaware of ‘the pause’ in global warming

Posted on June 6, 2013 by

Craig Rucker of CFACT writes: You’d be surprised at what they don’t know at the UN climate conference in Bonn. Then again, maybe you wouldn’t. Although the evidence keeps mounting up, most of the delegates in Bonn are unaware that … Continue reading →

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Whoops! An inconvenient truth for ‘global warming makes more rain’ advocates: reduced pollution increases rainfall

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

From the “Department of Unintended Consequences” and Georgia State University  comes this oops moment in science. And all that time we are being told by people like Peter Stott that it was the increase in “global warming” that has increased … Continue reading →

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CET cooling in line with solar model prediction

Posted on June 3, 2013 by

Yesterday, WUWT carried the headline: Coldest Spring In England Since 1891.  This essay offers what could be an explanation for it. Judge for yourself. – Anthony Guest essay by David Archibald Back in 2006, I published my first paper in … Continue reading →

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Congressional Budget Office says US carbon tax will generate $1.2 trillion

Posted on May 30, 2013 by

Lance Wallace writes in Tips and Notes: The Congressional Budget Office has released an analysis of the effects of a carbon tax. At $20 a ton. they estimate about $1.2 trillion in revenues over a 10-year period. A money quote … Continue reading →

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Is it a failure to communicate, or faulty climate science?

Posted on May 29, 2013 by

Guest essay by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times. Earlier this month, a New York Times article by Andy Revkin voiced concern over a gap between “the consensus” of climate scientists and public acceptance of the theory of … Continue reading →

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Anti-information in climate models

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Climate History: Cato Boffins Discovered “Anti-information” By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger While doing some historical studies in preparation for an article in Cato’s Regulation magazine, we found that we  once discovered the information equivalent of antimatter, … Continue reading →

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Mike Mann’s global warming = tobacco claims on Al Jazeera

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

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 “tobacco disinformation campaigns” to bolster their weak 97% argument? Of … Continue reading →

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Another blow to the ‘extreme weather is climate’ alarmism meme – Australian cyclone activity down

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

We’ve mentioned many times the lack of major landfalling hurricanes on the USA being in a record drought. When the Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1st, 13 days from now, it will have been (barring a miracle storm) 2,777 … Continue reading →

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CO2 sequestration research stumbles onto something useful: a big lithium strike in Wyoming

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls Most lithium (the lightest metal) is now mined in the Andes (image above), but it looks like the U.S. has more than a little of it too: [T]he Rock Springs Uplift’s 18 million tons of potential … 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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Lysenkoism and Global Warming Theory

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

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 Josef Stalin.  He was an advocate of the theory that … Continue reading →

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Forget the need for a U.S. carbon tax – the economy has put a big dent in gasoline use and driving

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

UPDATED: see below A few days ago I did a report on the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) numbers for carbon dioxide emissions, showing that it was clearly down, and back to levels not seen since 1994, and noting that … Continue reading →

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Government bureaucrats delay life-saving road projects, but let wind turbines butcher bats

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

Cut fingers, cancer, bats and birds Guest post by Paul Driessen and James H. Rust Georgia residents recently learned that a rare bat has stalled state highway improvements. The May 2012 sighting of an endangered Indiana brown bat in a … Continue reading →

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USA meets Kyoto protocol goal – without ever embracing it

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

New EIA data shows USA inadvertently meets 1997 Kyoto protocol CO2 emission reductions without ever signing on thanks to a stagnant economy. Lowest level of CO2 emissions since 1994. In 2012, a surprising twist and without ever ratifying it, the … Continue reading →

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