Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2013-02-16 (February 16, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “As long ago as 1994,…

Carbon tax hallucinations

Carbon taxes will do nothing for revenues or climate, but will hurt job and economic growth Guest post by Paul Driessen Average planetary temperatures haven’t budged in 16 years. Hurricanes…

Blackmailing the Japanese Ambassador

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to talking and laughing with my lovely lady today about old Billy Bennett. Billy was a rascal and a rogue and an erstwhile…

Global Warming Consensus Looking More Like A Myth

Image Credit – Wood For Trees and Werner Brozek From the Investor’s Business Daily: The global warming alarmists repeat the line endlessly. They claim that there is a consensus among…

The Sanders-Boxer carbon tax will be 15 times costlier than letting warming happen

Inter-temporal investment appraisal of the Sanders/Boxer carbon tax bill by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Standard climatological and economic techniques, combined in an investment appraisal of the proposed Sanders/Boxer carbon dioxide…

Overhyped: The Human Cost of Climate Alarmism

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I do love tracing down how numbers kind of ricochet around the web. This investigation started when I ran across a book review in the…

Freighted With Memories

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my mind, freight trains have always held some kind of special mojo. As a kid, I’d read about them, and sung about them. I…

Another document refusal from NOAA via FOI

Your tax dollars at work….wait, not “at work”, but, um… Guest post by Christopher Horner, CEI Funny how so many people at NOAA have the same hobby they work on…

The Missing Cashbox and the Nguru Patrol

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This is a tale about one of the most beloved people in the Solomon Islands, my good friend Phil Palmer. Phil was white, but he…

Home Invasion

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach At some point, the ocean rolls in and out of many of my tales like a slightly demented uncle who lives upstairs who you only…

Open thread weekend

I have some other things to attend to this weekend, posting will be light from me. But I’ve arranged for some entertainment.

Bill McKibben is not what he seems to be – I catch him in a lie

While Bill McKibben tries to portray himself as just a concerned citizen out to change the world due to his fears of global warming, by running a “grassroots organization”, the…

A problem that is bigger than global warming

In light of what happened yesterday, this story is even more relevant now. It was written before the meteor event in Russia. Asteroid 2012 DA14 makes its closest approach at…

Large meteor in Russia caught on tape – building hit

VIDEO: Large meteorite caught on dash cameras in Russia Image from RT video, see below. People are a little jumpy with news of the close flyby of the asteroid 2012…

Even Scientists Need Love

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It being Valentines Day and all, I thought I’d write a Valentine message about the woman I generally describe as my “gorgeous ex-fiancee”, my wife…

New video from Bob Tisdale explains The Impact of Manmade Global Warming on a Blizzard Called Nemo and on Hurricane Sandy

Guest post by Bob Tisdale The following video is an examination and discussion of the sea surface temperature data associated with the recent blizzard called Nemo, and with hurricane Sandy.…

The monthly report NOAA never produces – from the Climate Reference Network

Here is the latest monthly value from the state of the art Climate Reference Network, (CRN) which never seems to make it into NOAA’s monthly and yearly climate reports. But,…

NOAA: Average temperature of the USA in January at freezing

National Summary Information – January 2013 Contiguous U.S. warmer and wetter than average for January Drought persists for central U.S.; above-average January snow cover extent for Lower 48 The average…

How to learn nothing from the 2010 flooding in Brisbane

From Griffith University Flood research shows human habits die hard Climate Change experts examine rebuilding New research has come up with ways to quickly assess flood damage to houses while…

Boxer's carbon tax proposal would enrich people already feeding from the public trough… meanwhile Suzanne Goldenberg bags her journalism skills

While the Guardian’s environmental amateur journo Suzanne Goldenberg bloviates about the horrible possibility that some climate skeptic think tanks may have actually gotten a drop in the bucket of funding…