Guest essay by Dr. Susan Crockford of Polar Bear Science Svalbard in the western Barents Sea has recently had less sea ice extent than it had in the 1980s, especially in the west and north, but this is not unprecedented. New evidence from clams and mussels with temperature-sensitive habitat requirements confirm that warmer temperatures and…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Michael Bloomberg has fulfilled an earlier promise by commiting to paying $4.5 million dollars to the United Nations, money which federal taxpayers would have paid had President Trump kept the USA in the Paris Agreement. Bloomberg gives $4.5 million to help U.S. keep Paris climate accord commitment APR 22, 2018…
Guest opinion by Viv Forbes Most chapters of human history are defined by the tools and machines that were used. In the Stone Age, the first tools were “green tools” – digging sticks, spears, boomerangs, bows and arrows made of wood; and axes, clubs, knives and grinders made of stone. These were all powered by…
Some hypocritical findings after attending a climate conference at the University of California at Berkeley UC Berkeley is just a short drive away, about three hours. We are often told by the “holier than thou” types who lecture us on the evils of modern energy consumption that we should travel less, reduce our use of…
You think we had a bad winter here in the USA? Look at Japan where they have walls of snow 56 feet tall (almost the height of a 6-story building). There’s an avalanche of tourists coming to the Tateyama to see the walls of snow. This spectacular mountain route, reopened on Sunday after being closed…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t James Delingpole / Breitbart / Willie Soon – according to climate novelist William T. Vollmann, compulsion and coercion is the only way to convince people to comply with his climate ideals. “Are we prepared to endure lives with less comfort?”: William T. Vollmann on climate change. The famous novelist…
Tomorrow, Sunday, April 22, is Earth Day 2018 By Mark J. Perry, Ph.D. writing for the American Enterprise Institute In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article,…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The UK Government has announced a ban on cotton buds, drink stirrers and plastic drinking straws to combat the “scourge” of plastic pollution. Cotton buds and plastic straws could be banned in England next year Consultation to start later this year as Theresa May continues drive against single-use plastic waste…
NASA’s Operation IceBridge—the airborne mission flown annually over both polar regions—is now in its tenth year making flights over the Arctic. That’s a lot of flight hours spent mapping the region’s land ice and sea ice. But on April 14, 2018, IceBridge mission scientist John Sonntag spotted something he had never seen before. Sonntag snapped…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall What power system is most likely to survive a category six superstorm? Climate change may scuttle Caribbean’s post-hurricane plans for a renewable energy boom MASAŌ ASHTINE, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, MONA CAMPUS April 20, 2018 Updated: April 20, 2018 11:02am (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of…
No… Martian Muddy Waters is not an extraterrestrial blues musician. It’s just a catchy title that links Mars, mud and water together. Guest post by David Middleton Clear as mud: Desiccation cracks help reveal the shape of water on Mars BOULDER, CO, USA: As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet’s watery past comes…
Guest analysis by JAMAL MUNSHI (h/t to Adam Wildavsky) ABSTRACT: Homicides in England and Wales 1898-2003 are studied against the atmospheric carbon dioxide data for the same period. The Charney Equilibrium Sensitivity of homicides is found to be λ=1.7 thousands of additional annual homicides for each doubling of atmospheric CO2. The sensitivity estimate is supported by…
