Guest post by Alec Rawls The upcoming rule: … will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced.…
Month: March 2012
Crack in the Antarctic!
From the University of Texas at Austin, a press release to tell us the ice shelves in the Antarctic peninsula are losing their grip and cracking a bit. That could…
Asking a personal favor for my community – all I need is a click
Personal note: I need a little help for my community. Since the State of California is morally and fiscally bankrupt, they have pulled the plug on the treasure of our…
Ramanathan and Almost-Black Carbon
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My thanks to Nick Stokes and Joel Shore. In the comments to my post on the effects of atmospheric black carbon, Extremely Black Carbon, they…
Thank you Senator Kerry, for saying what we already know
This just in from The Daily Climate, Kerry tells us we are winning, but the blames the usual suspects rather than the message itself. I love the part about where…
Yes, I know, I covered it first: The Medieval Warm Period was Global
I must have had 20 tips and notes/contacts over the past 24 hours like this one: New temperature proxy discovered An article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2120512/Global-warming-Earth-heated-medieval-times-human-CO2-emissions.html) in the Mail Online describes a paper…
Will Happer's WSJ rebuttal to NOAA's Lubchenco and Karl
Readers may recall seeing this article in Physics Today titled Predicting and managing extreme weather events by Jane Lubchenco and Thomas R. Karl I had to laugh when I saw…
NCSE: When Is purported Science not Science?
Rejected letter to NCSE in response to the awful polemic by David Morrison in NCSE Reports 31(5), along with some preliminary commentary Guest post by Pat Frank Most everyone at…
Vampire bats? Must be a slow news day at Climate Progress
Almost every day, the ridiculo-meter pegs over at Joe Romm’s place. But today is special. He neuters his own headline in the very first paragraph. I just had to share…
Oh noes! State of the planet: We saw a 'Great Acceleration'.
From the Earth System Science Partnership where they feel licensed to tell the rest of us about the “state of the planet” we have this press release admonishing an “unequivocal…
Dr. Roy Spencer on Fox's John Stossel show
I’ve been waiting for this video to show up, Dr. Spencer advises me it is now available. Well worth watching, video below:
Quote of the Week – a warmer turns cooler
I’ve had a feud with David Appell ever since he brought my deceased mother into an attack article about me, which I retort in: David Appell denies he has any class…
Norfolk police give indications that Climategate investigation is (effectively) closed
Bishop Hill Writes: A surprise from Norfolk Constabulary Norfolk Constabulary have previously released details of their spend on the UEA emails investigation – Operation Cabin. This showed that no money had been…
Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make green
How Green Gullibility, Hyperpartisanship Are Wrecking The Climate Movement by Walter Russell Mead The American Interest (excerpted) One of the biggest intellectual failures of the global green movement against climate…
Weather is climate, or loaded dice, or something
From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) more instituitional worrying turned press release leading up to the upcoming WMO report. I wonder where they get the increase in…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: “I am always happy to be in the minority. Concerning the climate models, I know enough of the details to be sure that they are unreliable.…
Bastardi's reply to Tom Yulsman's article on cherry picking
[Note: I don’t agree with everything Joe has said here 100%, but I provide his comment in full edited for punctuation and format and turning image links into images to…
"Indiana James" Hansen on "Why I must speak out about climate change"
This came out some days ago, but I never got around to posting it, this corrects my oversight. The description of the TED video reads: Top climate scientist James Hansen…
Royal Blatherfest
Ray G writes: Donna Laframboise has a post up on the upcoming Royal Society-sponsored meeting with 2,500 attendees expected. the topic is climate change. Donna holds up the ridicule the…
Letters I get letters – show me a sign – removed
I got some email exchanges earlier today from Gordon Fulks regarding Sherri Quammen and interaction with her, which I posted, and in that comment thread she said: Please remove from…
Eco-rout down under: 'A mini-van will have more seats than the Labour party in the new parliament.'
Australians come to their senses – March 24th will be remembered as the day they collectively said “we’re tired of this sh**” Commenter “truthseeker” writes in comments: ============================================================ Anthony, You…
Where there's a need for immunity, there's a crime – Green climate fund looking to UN for diplomatic immunity protection from lawsuits.
It seems to me, that if you are asking for immunity up-front, you already know that something has been done that without immunity, would land somebody in the slammer. From…
Friday Funny – a glass half hot or half cold?
Gordon Fulks writes in about this humorous headline showing how the media catastrophises even simple things like a pleasant weekend forecast: Hello Everyone: Just to provide a little balance to…
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