From the ‘CO2 must be assimilated’ department comes this press release from CSIRO. I have to wonder if this is a ‘spongeworthy’ project. ====================== CSIRO scientists have created a ‘solar…
Month: February 2013
New Climate Central writer tries to connect climate and extreme weather with love of bigger destructive storms
From the weather is not climate unless we say it is department comes this disturbing admission. From Tom Nelson, an illustration of the sort of defective thinking we see in…
Pielke Jr. appears to get booted from a journal for giving an unfavorable peer review to some shoddy science
UPDATE: Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. leaves this comment: Submitted on 2013/02/21 at 8:28 am Neil Adger sent me a response for posting. You can see it as an update on…
Modeling sea level rise is an 'uneven' proposition
From the British Antarctic Survey New projections of ‘uneven’ global sea-level rise Reporting in the journal Geophysical Research Letters researchers have looked ahead to the year 2100 to show how…
Now what is 'death train' Hansen going to do? Clean coal process developed to extract energy without burning or CO2
From James Hansen’s, Bill McKibben’s and Joe Romm’s worst nightmare department, comes this uplifting science story from the Ohio State University. Basically they found a way to oxidize coal and…
Paging Chuck Rice at Kansas State – real data is calling you, collect
Oh Dear, Another Climate Scientist Makes A Fool Of Himself Guest post by Paul Homewood I sometimes get accused of being too dismissive of Climate Scientists, probably with justice. However, there…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Harvard's McElroy: 'Bridges may be in the wrong place' for climate change
From Harvard University , where you can’t tell them much, comes this laughable press release. I loved this line “Bridges may be in the wrong place“. Then the author, Michael…
It's the Sun stupid – The minor significance of CO2
Guest post by Dr. Norman Page 1 The IPCC’s Core Problem The IPCC – Al Gore based Anthropogenic Global Warming scare has driven global Governments’ Climate and Energy Policies since the turn…
Predicting Power Madness at Decadal Scales
In light of the recent announcement by Ofgem chief executive Alistair Buchanan that the chances of avoiding power cuts looks very slim in the UK, Dr. John Brignell, proprietor of…
Wuebbles gone wild – hilarious claims of 'wall to wall' severe weather on cable news is not science
A couple of days ago there was this PR from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I decided it was just too ridiculous to get any traction. I was wrong,…
Gold Fever
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach I first met my friend Mel in the Army nuthouse. I wrote about him before, and the nuthouse, in a piece called “It’s Not About…
Boulder Escapes Global Warming
Guest post by Sam I. Outcalt Abstract: The historic record of the mean annual air temperature record at Boulder does not display the major “global” climate transitions detectable in the…
New paper from NOAA demonstrates that El Niño has more impacts than climate on winter weather in the USA
While AP’s Seth Borenstein cites opinions of activist scientists in erroneously claiming that ‘climate change’ increasing atmospheric moisture is the main driver for winter weather events, it turns out that…
BREAKING: 'Richard Windsor' EPA scandal spreads, EPA Administrator James Martin resigns over hidden email accounts
From a press release: Vitter: New Richard Windsor Emails Show EPA’s Transparency Problem More Widespread New emails show acting Administrator Perciasepe used non-official email to conduct official business. EPA Region…
Whac-a-moling Seth Borenstein at AP over his erroneous extreme weather claims
Comments on Yesterday’s paean to Global Warming Guest post by Dr. Richard Keen, Meteorologist Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder It’s like playing whac-a-mole. After every major storm or unusual (or…
Russian Chelyabinsk Meteor largest since 1908 Tunguska event
Image credit: Google Earth, NASA/JPL-Caltech › Larger view From the WSJ (NASA JPL Statement follows): The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed…
The Captain’s Daughter
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I come by my storytelling habits honestly—mostly I credit my grandmother for my love of a well-turned tale. I grew up way out in the…
Masters of disasters and Captain Uncertainty
From Stanford University Preparing for climate change-induced weather disasters The news sounds grim: mounting scientific evidence indicates climate change will lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather that affects…
350.org fudges the numbers again
Via Tom Nelson: “For “the biggest climate rally in history,” attendance was remarkably sparse. Those of us in the Light Brigade guessed 5,000” The Light Brigade Shines at the Shivering…
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