Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2014-17-05 (May 17, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project  Quote of the Week: “It is dangerous to be right…

"One Guy With A Marker …" DECONSTRUCTED

Guest Posting by Ira Glickstein John Coleman (Co-Founder of The Weather Channel) made a comment on my: earlier WUWT posting  “Ira, please make a video that presents the counter argument…

Shollenberger calls Cook's and University of Queensland's legal bluff!

The 97% Thunderdome is revving up! Brandon Shollenberger has issued a direct challenge to Cook and UQ, and has published the threatening letter about that “secret” data for Cook’s “97%…

A press release I never quite finished reading

Nature Climate Change asks this: How does snow affect the amount of water in rivers? New research has shown for the first time that the amount of water flowing through…

A Queenslander's Guide to Australian Universities

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The university choices faced by my fellow Queenslanders leave much to be desired if you want to avoid being indoctrinated to global warming mantras. Here…

Ten Good Reasons Not To Worry About Polar Bears

Susan Crockford writes: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of an international agreement to protect polar bears from commercial and unregulated sport hunting. The devastating decades of uncontrolled slaughter…

Finally – real climate refugees? Funding axe may force climate scientists to 'leave the country in order to find work elsewhere'

Australian Government To Axe $5 Billion Of Climate Funding – Lydia Bradbury, Liberty Voice The funding for all government programs related to climate change is set to shrink at an…

Richard Muller: 'shale gas technology should be advanced as rapidly as possible'

by Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, University of Califoria at Berkeley Some oppose shale gas because it is a fossil fuel, a source of carbon dioxide. Some are concerned by…

A new format for WUWT

I’ve been wrestling with how to make improvements to WUWT for a few months, considering different options such as trying out the WordPress Enterprise that I was invited into last…

Why don't we all just agree on Global Warming?

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen David Victor, in a presentation in January at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography as part of a seminar series titled “Global Warming Denialism: What science…

Dial M for Maunder

Guest essay by David Archibald The Maunder Minimum was not completely devoid of sunspots, as shown by the following graphic using data from SIDC. Will global warming be attenuated due…