As many of you regular readers know over the past few weeks I have done a complete migration of the website over to a new Cloud Server. The first week was a bit Rocky and we have some trouble with people being able to reach the side, but now everything seems to be pretty well…
By Grégoire Canlorbe, Vice President of the Parti National-Libéral “The agreement of the Paris COP 21 was not signed to save the planet and to prevent us from roasting due to an imaginary temperature increase of +2°C. Behind all that masquerade is hidden, as always, the ugly face of power, greed, and profit. All the…
From the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE — A just-published paper in Science changes the formula scientists should use when estimating the speed of huge ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica that flow into the ocean and drive mounting sea levels around the globe. The change in the formula for predicting ice flow — or basal sliding —…
From UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Climate change will have a rapidly increasing effect on the structure of global ecological communities over the next few decades, with amphibians and reptiles being significantly more affected than birds and mammals, a new report by UCL finds. The pace of change is set to outstrip loss to vertebrate communities caused…
From PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Ocean’s heat cycle shows that atmospheric carbon may be headed elsewhere As humans continue to pump the atmosphere with carbon, it’s crucial for scientists to understand how and where the planet absorbs and naturally emits carbon. A recent study in the journal Nature Geosciences examined the global carbon cycle and suggests that existing studies…
Light pollution a reason for insect decline Artificial lighting at night could be a reason for declining insect populations Climate change, pesticides and land use changes alone cannot fully explain the decline in insect populations in Germany. Scientists from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have now discovered that regions that have…
From the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE and the “learn garbage in, get garbage out” department. Machine learning may be a game-changer for climate prediction New York, NY–June 19, 2018–A major challenge in current climate prediction models is how to accurately represent clouds and their atmospheric heating and moistening. This challenge is behind…
Guest ridicule by David Middleton From ARS Technica, one of the most incoherent things I’ve ever read… WAIT, THERE IS HOPE! — What happened last time it was as warm as it’s going to get later this century? Kids today will be grandparents when most climate projections end—does the past have more hints? HOWARD LEE…
Legendary climate activist James Hansen has cut loose at everyone over their climate failings, and has not spared politicians whom he says are “fraudulently” claiming to be taking climate action. But James Hansen’s rant sheds light on an unlikely figure who took a final opportunity to do the right thing. Ex-Nasa scientist: 30 years on,…
From ScienceAlert and the “you knew it was just a matter of time before some misguided social justice warrior made the claim” department. h/t to WUWT reader “ozspeakup” Racist Attitudes And Climate Denial Have a Disturbing Link We Never Knew About Something is very wrong here. PETER DOCKRILL – ScienceAlert The drivers behind climate change…
By H. STERLING BURNETT It seems that Pope Francis has learned little since his 2015 papal encyclical calling on the world to fight climate change by limiting the use of modern technologies and fossil fuels. At a recent Vatican meeting, he called many of the world’s leading oil company executives to the carpet. Francis told the…
Dear All, Just a little news on what has been happening. The legal matters are slowly grinding through the system. We were successful this week in a legal hearing to combine the two legal matters (first censure and the termination) so that it will now all be done in one court thus saving funds. At…
Yesterday, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. responded to Seth Borenstein’s Tweet about his article in the Associated Press on the upcoming 30 year anniversary of Dr. James Hansen’s Climate Predictions from 1988. Borensteins title was: ” Warned 30 years ago, global warming ‘is in our living room’ Thirty years later, it’s clear that Hansen and other…
Guest drive-by by David Middleton Well… Happy 30th birthday, 3 days early… AP Was There: The age of climate change begins By GUY DARST, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Jun 18, 2018 On June 23, 1988, a top NASA scientist told Congress and the world that global warming had arrived. NASA scientist James Hansen predicted that…
From the “skating on thin ice” department. According to a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, the observed mean thickness of the sea ice in the region north of (Arctic) Svalbard was substantially thinner (0.94 m) in 1955 than it has been in recent years (~1.6 m, 2015/2017). Graph Source: Rösel et al., 2018 In 1955,…