Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism In part one,…
Month: June 2014
On ‘denying’ Hockey Sticks, USHCN data, and all that – part 2
In part one of this essay which you can see here, I got quite a lot of feedback on both sides of the climate debate. Some people thought that I…
'Climate Reparations' an idea that seems to be all about money
Climate Reparations—A New Demand Guest opinion by Peter Wood At the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009, leaders from more than a hundred nations gathered to consider an agenda…
Greens Go by Air – Greenpeace edition by Josh
Josh has a nice travel sticker for suitcases to offset this stupidity. From the National Post: One of Greenpeace’s most senior executives commutes 400 kilometres each way to work by…
Al Gore gets fooled at a press conference down under calling for end of the carbon tax
How A Coal Baron Fooled Al Gore And The Greens Andrew Bolt Herald Sun, 26 June 2014 What the hell was Al Gore doing at Palmer’s press conference? Why did…
Claim: An increase of 3.5°C will result in crippling the EU
From the European Commission Joint Research Centre New study quantifies the effects of climate change in Europe If no further action is taken and global temperature increases by 3.5°C, climate…
New battery technology will be great – if it is viable
We’ve seen so many press releases for a new battery technology that seems almost to good to be true over the years. A lot of them were and never made…
Study: the Greenland ice sheet collapsed 400,000 years ago
From Oregon State University Study links Greenland ice sheet collapse, sea level rise 400,000 years ago CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study suggests that a warming period more than 400,000…
On 'denying' Hockey Sticks, USHCN data, and all that – part 1
Part 2 is now online here. One of the things I am often accused of is “denying” the Mann hockey stick. And, by extension, the Romm Hockey stick that Mann…
Climate Warning to be Removed from Aussie Driving Handbook
While Al Gore brings his trademark ‘Gore Effect’ to Canberra, it seems some of the most ridiculous climate edicts of the KRudd/Gillard administrations are being purged. Eric Worrall writes: A…
The 'Gore Effect' Strikes Downunder
Craig Kelly, MP writes: With Al Gore visiting Canberra today, it’s little surprise that the ‘Al Gore Effect’ has struck again. The ‘Al Gore Effect’ is defined by the Urban…
Another excuse for 'the pause' – it's 'not so unusual'
New Lovejoy paper says the ‘pause’ is ‘not so unusual’ & ‘no more than natural variability’ Shaun Lovejoy has published a new paper which cites his prior claim of 99.9%…
Prominent Global Warming Skeptic Honored with Frederick Seitz Memorial Award
(PRweb) Dr. Sherwood B. Idso – the world’s leading authority on the effects of carbon dioxide on plants – will receive special recognition at an international conference on global warming…
Study: irrigation causes 'significant cooling of global average surface temperatures over land'
From the HockeySchtick: A paper published last week in Climate Dynamics finds man-made agricultural irrigation “causes significant cooling of global average surface air temperatures over land and dampens regional warming…
John Holdren: Abuse of Office, Power, and Science for a Political Agenda
Guest opinion by Dr. Tim Ball Recently, in reply to a charge that John Holdren made false claims about climate change by Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…
Like global temperature, 'climate jobs' seems to have peaked and are heading downward
From the “you too can be a professional climatologist” department comes this very interesting graph. Reader Shawn Fitzpatrick submits this graph after reading our earlier story “Climate burnout is fast…
Update on the 'zombie' ISEE-3 spacecraft
Watching my local news last night, I noted an interview with Dennis Wingo that was labeled Zombie Spacecraft Rescue Planned by Private Group. It seemed an apropos title so I’m going with…
Why would climate skeptics hold a conference in HOT Las Vegas?
That is a question that I’m sure is on a lot of people’s minds as they wonder if they should attend. It seems like the sort of thing warmists would…
The disagreement over what defines 'endorsment of AGW' by Cook et al. is revealed in raters remarks, and it sure isn't a 97% consensus
The Cook ratings document contains some incredible remarks, one of which is documented here. According to it, “the training period in the initial stages of the rating period” covered more…
Pro-AGW Economists Try to Discredit Skeptics, Succeed in Discrediting Fellow Warmists!
Guest essay by James McCown Oxford economists Felix Pretis and David Hendry (henceforth Pretis), published a critical paper, with a very patronizing and sanctimonious tone, in 2013 in Earth System…
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