Why did the EU invite the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to speak in Brussels instead of the Nobel Prize winning climate economist William Nordhaus? That question is answered…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet
The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size,…
History Confirms Democrat’s 1988 Senate Global Warming Hearing Got Everything Wrong from Start to Finish
The Democratic Party’s pattern of climate alarmist distortion and deception has continued for more than three decades and is thriving under the incompetent energy leadership of Biden, the Democratic Party…
EV’s not family workhorses, but short range second cars
In a recent Los Angeles Times article, citing Edmunds data, The number of battery-electric models available more than doubled from 2018 to 2019, but EV sales budged in the wrong…
Decarbonization and California’s 2020 Rolling Blackouts
Check you premises, California. Consider the consumer in terms of rates and reliability. Reverse course, don’t speed up. Acknowledge and respect the value of dense mineral energies for electrical generation.…
Aussie PM Joins the Biden Climate Push, Promises Not to Change Anything
OK, he is making one change. Aussie PM Scott Morrison will spend $263 million on carbon capture, and $275 million building coal powered clean hydrogen hubs, which won’t capture carbon,…
The Latest US CO2 Fantasy
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that Joe Biden is about to propose a new CO2 goal. This goal would be to get down to half of the 2005…
Trouble in Noonworld
So, on Noonworld, the Dark side partitioning ratio is always 𝛾ₒ = 0. The entire convective heat flux from the warm air always flows into the cold surface. Any other…
Next Doomsday “Crisis”: GLOBAL WATER SHORTAGE…Meat Lockdown Needed, Potsdam Scientist Suggests
That’s the aim: to turn everyone into vegetarians. The meat lockdown is in the pipeline.
Hansen’s 1988 global-warming prediction was thrice observation
Hansen’s business-as-usual scenario A is now universally recognized, even among the Thermageddonites, to have been a baseless and absurd exaggeration. It predicts two or three times as much warming as…
Global Warming? Devastating Frost Impacts 2021 French Wine Grapes
A third of this year’s French wine crop has reportedly been lost to a late season frost. Wine growers resorted to burning fossil fuel to save their plants.
URI oceanographers reveal links between migrating Gulf Stream and warming ocean waters
The URI research team noted the importance of finding that the satellite-observed signature of the Gulf Stream’s position relative to the Grand Banks precedes subsurface shelf warming by over a…
Claim: Marine life is fleeing the equator to cooler waters. History tells us this could trigger a mass extinction event
Losing species in tropical ecosystems means ecological resilience to environmental changes is reduced, potentially compromising ecosystem persistence. In subtropical ecosystems, species richness is increasing. This means there’ll be species invaders,…
WMO: “The climate is changing, and the impacts are already too costly for people and the planet”
According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the Climate Crisis is upon us. My question – did anyone notice the crisis?
Earth Day Connections: NASA Investigates Vegetation
Satellites can detect how “green” an area is – showing the health of plants that are growing in a particular site. While fires, deforestation and drought lead to the tropical…
Northern Red Sea corals live close to the threshold of resistance to cold temperatures
Coral reefs are highly sensitive to temperature change. Therefore, identifying those that respond differently to thermal stress aids in understanding the mechanisms of environmental adaptation in corals. In addition, researchers…
Listen To Hard Science, Reject Pop Science, To Lessen Global Catastrophe Risk.
“It is likely that we have to capitalize on the insecurity of the educated elite and make them look silly instead of superior and virtuous. We must remember that they…
The anatomy of past abrupt warmings recorded in Greenland ice
Data availability and temporal resolution make it challenging to unravel the anatomy (duration and temporal phasing) of the Last Glacial abrupt climate changes. Here, we address these limitations by investigating…
Claim: Study finds humans are directly influencing wind and weather over North Atlantic
MIAMI–A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provides evidence that humans are influencing wind and weather patterns across…
So Far Germany Seeing Coldest April In 104 Years, Second Coldest Since 1881, Snowiest Since 1986
Reposted from The NoTricksZone By P Gosselin on 18. April 2021 It’s been a really frosty April this year across Central Europe. Germany so far has seen it’s second coldest April since records…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #451
“In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to…
Horror Autopilot Tesla Crash Kills Two, 30,000 Gallons of Water Before Firefighters Gave Up
A horror Tesla crash in Houston involving an auto-pilot Tesla car has claimed two lives. According to firefighters, the high energy batteries kept re-igniting – firefighters attempted to douse the…
Africans reject demands to end fossil fuel use
Africa’s needs are too great to be met solely with expensive, intermittent green energy technologies, its finances too stretched to afford carbon-neutral energy, Moore and Ramachandran emphasize. Keeping Africa poor…