From the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA and the Gilda Radner School of Universal Climate Blame comes this “never mind” moment. You may recall that last year, blaming Florida’s red tide event was the low-hanging fruit for journos, like Angela Fritz of the Washington Post “Capital Weather Gang” who, without any direct evidence, speculated breathlessly: How…
Via Junkscience.com h/t to CTM Even minimal increases (1-4%) in wind/solar raise electricity prices 11-17%. Reducing CO2 emissions costs $130 to $460 per ton. Disaster. Don’t believe us. Believe the University of Chicago. Abstract : Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) are the largest and perhaps most popular climate policy in the US, having been enacted by…
The Week That Was: 2019-04-20 (April 20, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project [running a couple days late this week~ctm] Quote of the Week: “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intend us…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to NASA’s Gavin Schmidt, making personal lifestyle changes has very little impact on anthropogenic CO2 emissions. These Scientists Are Radically Changing How They Live To Cope With Climate Change When the US government is doing nothing to stop climate change, do your personal choices even matter? Here’s how climate…
Guest Seinfeld routine by David Middleton In part one of this series, we looked at Peak Oil and its irrelevance to energy production. In Part Deux, we will look at “abiotic oil,” a real(ish) thing that really doesn’t matter outside of academic discussions and SyFy blogs. A note on terminology Some refer to this as…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to a new study, poor countries are enjoying economic growth, but by comparing observations to a hypothetical growth rate which could have been achieved without climate change, study authors concluded that climate change is slowing progress. Climate Change Has Already Increased Global Inequality. It Will Only Get Worse BY JUSTIN…
by Javier I have maintained since 2015 that in the 2006-2007 season the Arctic underwent a cyclical phase shift, and the rapid sea-ice melting observed over the previous decades ended. A few scientists predicted or explained this shift based on their study of multi-decadal oscillations (see bibliography). They were ignored by mainstream climatology and the…
By Chris Horner, Climate Litigation Watch CLW readers recall Oregon State University’s (and State Climatologist) Phil Mote writing not once but twice about a “secret meeting at Harvard” at which he presented, along with other academics, activists and plaintiffs lawyers advancing their case for “potential state causes of action against major carbon producers.” Earlier open…
From the Heartland.org daily podcast Professor Peter Ridd, a marine geophysicist at James Cook University in Townsville AU, was terminated after rejecting research linking Great Barrier Reef changes to human action. Peter joins the show to share his side of the story. Proponents of anthropogenic, catastrophic climate change often point towards the Great Barrier Reef…
Having celebrated Earth Day and warned of various dimensions of environmental collapse since 1970, are there any circumstances even barely conceivable under which the environmental left would say that no more Earth Days are needed? By Benjamin Zycher Earth Day—Lenin’s birthday—stands for the proposition that environmental crises both immediate and looming are eternal, with mankind…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate action advocates are demanding MSM broadcast more climate change content, even if nobody wants to watch. The Media Are Complacent While the World Burns But there’s a brand-new playbook for journalists fighting for a 1.5°C world. By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle PopeAPRIL 22, 2019 Last summer, during the deadliest wildfire season in…
This young woman sounds increasingly like a millenarian weirdo. By Brendan O’Neill writing at Spiked Online Anyone who doubts that the green movement is morphing into a millenarian cult should take a close look at Greta Thunberg. This poor young woman increasingly looks and sounds like a cult member. The monotone voice. The look of…
Guest Seinfeld routine by David Middleton The plots of the Seinfeld TV show often revolved around trivializing important things and blowing trivial things out of proportion. While not a Seinfeld fanatic (I’m more of a Frasier fanatic), I thought the comedy routines were generally brilliant and quite effective. Peak Oil, abiotic oil and EROEI (energy…
From a paper by the same title published in AGU’s journal “Water Resources Resarch” and also “Commentaries on Hydrology and Earth Surface” h/t to CTM It is now well established that rising temperatures are increasing precipitation extremes. This has led many to believe that flood magnitude and hence risk are also increasing, while observational evidence…
Nicolas Loris, Bangor Daily News This Earth Day, it almost feels like we should be carving some turkey. Why? Because we have a lot to be thankful for since the first Earth Day event occurred 49 years ago. We should be thankful that the gloom-and-doom predictions made throughout the past several decades haven’t come true.…
