The vaunted “97% consensus” on dangerous manmade global warming is just more malarkey by Dr. David R. Legates By now, virtually everyone has heard that “97% of scientists agree: Climate change is real, manmade and dangerous.” Even if you weren’t one of his 31 million followers who received this tweet from President Obama, you most…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Stéphane Boyer, senior lecturer at UNITEC Institute of Technology is worried that plants and animals can’t move fast enough to survive climate change. His solution: give nature a helping hand, by digging up entire ecosystems, and moving them hundreds of miles, to maintain optimum climatic conditions. Climate change threatens entire…
I read yesterday that someone had supposedly provided evidence in support of Svensmark’s hypothesis that cosmic rays affect the weather. So I went to look it up. The study is called Cloud cover anomalies at middle latitudes: links to troposphere dynamics and solar variability, by S. Veretenenkoa and M. Ogurtsova, paywalled here. Let’s look at this…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Women don’t like to sweat while having sex, so they are less likely to have sex in warm weather, according to the latest climate health claim. Climate change and your birthday: Is it too hot for sex? Have you ever wondered why March is a busy birthday month? A new…
I wrote this report a couple of years ago, when local misguided fracktivists tried to get our local board of supervisors to issue a county-wide ban against fracking. I thought it might do some good for my readers here, so I decided to publish it. A report to the Butte County Board of Supervisors and to…
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Quick answer: Over the long term, the answer is yes, but for shorter terms it depends on the sea surface temperature dataset and time period. And in recent years, as most people understand, the adjustments increase global warming trends. INTRODUCTION When discussing global surface warming, we often read comments around…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Competitive Enterprise Institute has just been subpoenaed, as part of Al Gore’s Climate Witch hunt. This is a move which so blatantly reeks of McCarthyite abuse of power, even some proponents of climate action are horrified at the attack on freedom which this subpoena represents. The following is the…
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball You learn right away when studying climate that geothermal heat is ignored as a possible heat source in the climate equation. Textbooks consider the Sun as the sole source of heat. I corrected the omission in the climate portion of a textbook I produced, but it didn’t change the situation.…
Lighter Cheaper More Powerful Battery Changes Renewable Economics Guest essay by Roger E. Sowell, Esq. Marina del Rey, California It is not often on SLB that I use the phrase “game-changer.” Most things progress, if they progress at all, in small increments. This time, though, is one of those that deserves the phrase game-changer. The innovation…
From the National Water and Climate Center Parts of the Southwest remain dry WASHINGTON, April 8, 2016 – During March, the Northwest received above average precipitation and the Southwest dried out, according to data from the fourth 2016 forecast by USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. “Early April is when the snowpack peaks in many areas,” NRCS…
Guest essay by Professor Philip Lloyd, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Daily we are told that we are wicked to burn fossil fuels. The carbon dioxide which is inevitably emitted accumulates in the atmosphere and the result is “climate change.” If the stories are to believed, disaster awaits us. Crops will wither, rivers will dry up,…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The long running Rossi E-CAT cold fusion saga may be about to collapse in a heap of lawsuits, with accusations flying, of intellectual property theft and fraudulent energy technology claims. The dispute appears to centre around the non-payment of an $89 million licensing fee, upon successful completion of a $11…
