Contact: Chris Vaccaro FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 301-713-0622 May 24, 2012 NOAA predicts a near-normal 2012 Atlantic hurricane season Anniversary of Hurricane Andrew underscores necessity to prepare every year Conditions in…
Month: May 2012
California Air Resources Board to make webcast on 'black carbon and other “short-lived” greenhouse gases. '
Short notice – this is on NOW. Worth watching, even if only for how they justify saying ‘black carbon and other “short-lived” greenhouse gases.’. I didn’t know black carbon was…
Newsbytes: Green Energy Transition: Germany Fears De-Industrialization
From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF As a result of Germany’s green energy transition, electricity prices are exploding. Consumers and businesses are paying the price while Germany faces gradual…
Using leaf veins to hindcast climate
From the University of California – Los Angeles Hacking code of leaf vein architecture solves mysteries, allows predictions of past climate UCLA life scientists have discovered new laws that determine…
UK embraces centralized energy planning policy
New Energy Bill Is A Disaster Press Release from The Global Warming Policy Foundation London, 23 May: With the publication of its draft Energy Bill, the government has announced its…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 5 – SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook forecasting contest for 2012
The Arctic sea ice extent forecasting contest is on again. As before I’ll allow readers to submit their best estimates in a poll, and I’ll submit those results as we’ve…
Text of Václav Klaus Heartland Institute Conference Speech
Many thanks for the invitation and for giving me the opportunity to address this distinguished audience. I am not for the first time in Chicago. It is also not for…
Hump day hilarity – 'Forecast the Facts' comically failed protest at the Heartland conference in Chicago
Brad Johnson’s (formerly of Climate Progress, now of “Forecast the Facts”) “Rally Against Corporate Climate Deniers” was a great bit of entertainment for many at the Heartland conference yesterday. I…
Oh the Entomology! Light pollution "radically altered" environment – making more bugs, more bug predators
From the University of Exeter , some buggy science. Next thing you know, PETA will be campaigning to have us shut off street lighting to “save the insects”. I’m surprised…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Scientifically it is sheer absurdity to think we can get a nice climate…
Obama wants the Electric Reliability Corporation to stop assessing electric reliability
Guest post by Alec Rawls NERC (the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) must have thought it was taking a step up when a 2005 law made the non-profit group an…
Gavin Schmidt issues corrections to the RealClimate Presentation of Modeled Global Ocean Heat Content
Guest post by Bob Tisdale For years, Tamino (aka Grant Foster) has complained about the placement of the GISS model projection at the start of the ARGO-era OHC data. Well,…
NASA Astronauts Announce Second Letter to NASA at Heartland Conference
This will be a top sticky post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one. At the Heartland Conference in Chicago this morning, four of the…
Does This Analysis Make My Tropics Look Big?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a new paper in Nature magazine that claims that the tropics are expanding. This would be worrisome because it could push the dry…
Measurements of Carbon in the Arctic Ocean – “Carbon is the currency of life."
New Study by WHOI Scientists Provides Baseline Measurements of Carbon in Arctic Ocean Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have conducted a new study to measure levels of…
At the conference
Been traveling all day. Finally made it. See heartland.org for live streaming. (Update: I published this originally from my phone, and somehow it was published as a password protected post…
The shonky world of Guardian reporting – they Fakegate themselves
UPDATE: 7:30PM PST I’ve been offline much of today in travel and then immediately attending the Heartland dinner, so I’m hours late with this update. Apparently, the story has now…
2012 Annular Eclipse
Seen from Pyramid Lake, NV 6:30PM PST May 20th, 2012,had to drive there to avoid high cirrus coming in from front approaching from coast Photo by Stacey Watts Canon 1D…
Open Thread Weekend
Off to chase the eclipse with my children, and then travel tomorrow to Heartland conference. Airplane has WiFi so may be able to keep up with posting en-route.
Premonitions of the Fall (in temperature)
Guest post by David Archibald The first prediction of the current climatic minimum was made by Hubbert Lamb in 1970 in a report (Weiss and Lamb) for the German Navy.…
EU violates Aarhus Convention in ‘20% renewable energy by 2020’ program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UN: EU violates Aarhus Convention The Compliance Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which enforces the Aarhus Convention to which…
A first hand report on Dr. Michael Mann's embarrassing Disneyland episode
Elevated from a comment. Roger Sowell describes first hand what led up to Mann denying a TV interview about his work. Apparently, for Dr. Mann, Disneyland is not “the happiest…
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