By Chris Martz | September 16, 2019 There are plenty of climate scientists in the world that I highly respect, many of whom I don’t share the same views with on climate change. However, these scientists are respectful towards others, they’re pretty honest with their data, and still have scientific integrity. There are a select…
h/t Chris Gilham; Tim Flannery has finally admitted his efforts have all been a big waste of time. The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children September 17, 2019 6.39am AESTTim Flannery Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes,…
By Dr. Lars Schernikau Dr. Lars Schernikau has founded, worked, and advised many organizations in the energy, raw material, and coal sectors in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. Lars finished his PhD on the economics of energy, commodities, and the global coal business and published two industry trade books (Springer, available on Amazon) in…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall I guess we have an answer to why the kid got so much attention so quickly. Can the rest of the world save itself from climate breakdown without the US? Mark Hertsgaard @markhertsgaardMon 16 Sep 2019 22.33 AESTLast modified on Tue 17 Sep 2019 01.31 AEST With Trump expected to skip the UN…
Guest ridiculing of science “journalism” by David Middleton The blood-red photos accompanying this screed of climate crisis wailing reminded me of the classic Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode… In Irwin Allen’s TV adaptation of RCP8.5, the Van Allen Radiation Belt had ignited the atmosphere . This was also the basis of the…
Guest post by Charles G. Battig, M.D. At the September 4, 2019 Albemarle County board of supervisors meeting, members of an environmentalist group spoke in support of a county plan to meet the goals of the U.N. Paris Climate Accord. The following is a rebuttal to that proposal. It will be presented at the board…
guest post by Nick Stokes There has been a lot of discussion lately of error propagation in climate models, eg here and here. I have spent much of my professional life in computational fluid dynamics, dealing with exactly that problem. GCM’s are a special kind of CFD, and both are applications of the numerical solution…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; Only solutions which don’t involve extractive industries or capitalism seem to interest Aussie greens. Environmental groups warn against push for nuclear power in Australia Paul Karp @Paul_KarpMon 16 Sep 2019 04.00 AESTLast modified on Mon 16 Sep 2019 10.02 AEST Joint submission calls nuclear ‘a dangerous distraction’ from…
From Argus Media Published date: 10 September 2019 Brazil’s grains and oilseeds crop rose by 6.4pc to a record 242mn metric tonnes (t) in the 2018-2019 harvest, boosted by increased corn and cotton output. The total compared with 227.7mn t from last year’s crop, the country’s agricultural statistics agency Conab said in its final report…
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on September 11, 2019 by curryja | by Dr. Paul Viminitz Of the things I care most about, AGW is near the bottom. But because, as George W. Bush put it, either you’re with us or you’re against them, I think I’d rather be interestingly wrong than…
The Week That Was: 2019-09-14 (September 14, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week – “If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as…
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From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter September 12, 2019 4:32 PM ET New York’s public schools announced Thursday afternoon that they will excuse students who plan on attending various climate strikes throughout the city. “@NYCschools will excuse absences of students participating in the #ClimateStrike on Friday 9/20,” the NYC Public School’s Twitter account…
From Adelaide Now Alistair Smout, Reuters September 13, 2019 8:29pm Climate-change activists who had hoped to bring Europe’s biggest airport, London Heathrow, to a standstill have found instead that it was their drones that struggled to get off the ground. Last December, reported drone sightings near London’s Gatwick airport prevented hundreds of flights taking off,…
Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) – Federal and state authorities on Friday criminally charged climate change protesters for shutting down the largest U.S. energy-export port for a day by dangling from a bridge. The protest organized by Greenpeace closed part of the Houston Ship Channel on Thursday. The Harris County District Attorney’s office said its charges…
