Some corals adjusting to rising ocean temperatures, Stanford researchers say Research led by Stanford scientist Steve Palumbi reveals how some corals can quickly switch on or off certain genes in…
Month: April 2014
Svensmark's Cosmic Theory and Cloud Cover Depictions in Little Ice Age Art.
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Correlation between sunspot numbers and global temperature was known for decades, but with no proven mechanism it was correctly set aside. That changed when Henrik…
Quashing frack-fights with fools
From the American Chemical Society How to avoid water wars between ‘fracking’ industry and residents The shale gas boom has transformed the energy landscape in the U.S., but in some…
Hearing restoration with gene therapy – I knew this day would come
For me, this is a profound moment. It will be even more profound if many people can benefit from it. Some of you may know that I suffer about an…
America's Power Grid at the Limit: The Road to Electrical Blackouts
By Steve Goreham Originally published in Communities Digital News. Americans take electricity for granted. Electricity powers our lights, our computers, our offices, and our industries. But misguided environmental policies are…
The Empire of the Viscount Strikes Back!
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Professor Shaun Lovejoy, as he continues the active marketing of his latest paper purporting to prove that “the world desperately needs to drop the skepticism…
Best Dana-dodge™, ever
You just have to laugh. After being taken to task yesterday on the removal of IPCC language that was done purely to bolster his own lame argument about how preventing…
Claim: Odds of storm waters overflowing Manhattan seawall up 20-fold, new study shows
I think I know a practical reason for this, which I’ll cover in a post later, but I’d like readers to weigh in first. From AGU: Newfound rise of storm…
Alarmists are just now discovering 'Dynamic Atolls'
From the “we told you so” department, WUWT Reader Paul Carter says in Tips and Notes: A new study shows that Pacific Islands are resilient to sea level changes. “Dynamic…
March 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) Temperature Anomaly Update
INITIAL QUESTION Once upon a time, the NCDC published its monthly global land+ocean surface temperature anomaly data around the 15th of the month. They have recently relaxed the dates of…
Some hype sorting on the claim that Asian pollution is intensifying Pacific Storms
Is Asian Pollution Intensifying Pacific Storms? Separating the Hype from Reality. By Cliff Mass The media over the past week have given a lot of play to a paper in…
Climatologist Judith Curry levels both barrels against alarmist climate science
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin Alarmist claims: inference from incomplete, inadequate and ambiguous observations Climate scientist Dr. Judith Curry has recently posted a number of sharply worded essays providing stinging…
Dana Nuccitelli's lie of omission in the Guardian
In Bjørn Lomborg’s latest oped: Global Warming’s Upside-Down Narrative Lomborg points out the following: The IPCC says unmitigated climate change will cost 0.2-2% GDP/year in 2070. The IPCC says climate policies…
New paper finds solar UV-B output is correlated to global mean temperature
Map of correlations suggest it may be affecting biomass and planetary albedo. From the Hockey Schtick: A paper published today in Methods in Ecology and Evolution describes a new satellite…
Multi-million dollar global warming disaster epic 'Years of Living Dangerously' beaten in TV ratings by 'Bob's Burgers' reruns
UPDATE: Showbuzz weighs in with an actual ratings number for “Years of Living Dangerously” and it’s mind blowingly low. Even this blog reached more people on Sunday. See below. Showtime’s…
Believers in global warming unchanged since 2001, 1 in 4 Americans don't buy it at all
One in Four in U.S. Are Solidly Skeptical of Global Warming Nearly 40% are “Concerned Believers” in global warming, others are mixed by Lydia Saad, Gallup PRINCETON, NJ — Over…
Scientists with frickin' weather control lasers in their heads
From the University of Central Florida ‘Dressed’ laser aimed at clouds may be key to inducing rain, lightning UCF, Arizona researchers extend length of high-intensity laser with hope of stimulating…
Today's Antarctic region once as hot as California, Florida
From Yale University, where that means that even though Earth 40-50 million years ago had a completely different arrangement of continents and climate, it still somehow will “underscore the potential…
Idiots on parade: Portland water bureau's tenuous grasp of science
From ARStechnica and the stupid, it burns, department comes this ridiculous story of a bureaucrat gone off the rails. See the video that set off this pissing match below. The…
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