I’m in Townsville, Queensland, Australia (a rather tropical place) on a speaking tour, and as I walked up to my hotel room I felt a wave of heat, and some stale water smell. My trusty guide, Nigel, pointed to the reason and said: “Perfect place for a thermometer, eh mate”? The population explosion of a/c…
By charles the moderator From the “No matter what happens we can attribute it to Anthropogenic Climate Change” Department. In a story in physorg.com James Overland of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, makes a few claims which will give some of our readers pause. While it may seem counter-intuitive, warmer Arctic climes caused…
Wind turbines are a poor way to harness energy – but a very good way to generate public subsidies, says Andrew Gilligan. By Andrew Gilligan from The UK Telegraph Published: 7:00AM BST 13 Jun 2010 A general view of Europe’s biggest onshore wind farm, Whitelee Windfarm on the outskirts of Glasgow Photo: PA From the…
By Steven Goddard From The Declining Spring Snowcover Department Yesterday afternoon, the Cache La Poudre River set its June 12 stream flow record flowing through Fort Collins, Colorado. At 1:30 and 2:45 PM, the river hit 5,600 cubic feet per second, which broke the previous record of 5,540 feet per second set in 1983. This…
Over at Climate Audit Steve McIntyre has started a new series on the “the trick.” To this day the trick is still largely misunderstood by nearly everyone discussing it, except Steve and a few of his readers. The trick deniers, are back at it using some old stupid pet tricks –moving the pea under the…