From the Institute of Physics Re-routing flights could reduce climate impact, research suggests Aircraft can become more environmentally friendly by choosing flight paths that reduce the formation of their distinctive…
Month: June 2014
Study finds climate of the past behaved as hemispherical opposites
This is from a press release from the Korean Institute of Geoscience and Mineral resources (KIGAM) The English in the PR is not the best, but is does have an…
France surrenders their energy security to renewables
From the GWPF: French Socialists Follow Germany, Shift Away From Nuclear To Renewables Via Agency France-Press: France on Wednesday unveiled a much-anticipated bill to reduce the country’s dependency on nuclear…
'Climate Disruption' of the past seen in mummy DNA
One of the favorite boogeyman arguments used in climate alarmism is that climate has been stable for thousands of years, and that our recent industrialized era emissions will result in…
Tauntology in the Hinterlands
After a 239 post exchange on Facebook, an alarmist gets the last say. Mark Ruscoe, of Asheville NC writes. Anthony, Reading your latest post regarding the lengths to which “tauntology”…
Solar Update June 2014 – The sun is still slumping along
Guest essay by David Archibald The following is a series of graphs that depict the current and past state of the sun.
May 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
This post updates the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through May 2014 and HADCRUT4 and NCDC through April 2014—and of the two suppliers…
Sea Levels are Never Still
By Viv Forbes, Rosewood Qld Australia Sea levels have been rising and falling without any help from humans for as long as Earth’s oceans have existed. The fastest and most…
Pacific Leaders Worried About 'Climate Gravy Train' – Criticise Aussie PM Tony Abbott's Apostacy
Story submitted by Eric Worrall From Australia Network News: Pacific presidents speak out against Australia’s stand on climate change Leaders of small Pacific nations have spoken out against Tony Abbott’s…
Twenty-five Climate Models Can't All Be Wrong … Or Can They?
From the NIPCC report: As seemingly never-ending work on developing and improving climate models progresses, there is also a seemingly never-ending set of assessments of how that work is progressing;…
Poll: Californians Say Drought Is The "New Normal," But Favor Investments In Long-Term Solutions
Climate Change not among the top priorities per California voters. From the California Water Foundation: Californians believe this year’s record drought is the “new normal” and favor investments in long-term…
Climate Change is sucking funding away from biodiversity
From the “let’s include climate change is all our work so we’ll keep getting funded” department, comes this admission in the form of a press release from The University of…
Study: Illinois Renewable Energy Standard no help to state’s economy
From the Beacon Institute: (Boston, MA) Closing so-called loopholes in Illinois’s mandated use of renewable energy program, in an effort to expand ‘green’ industries, will harm the state’s economy, according…
The predicted 2014 El Niño is expected to benefit U.S. agriculture
Maybe this will temper the usual expected claims that this El Niño is all about global warming, because we can’t have global warming be beneficial, right? MANHATTAN — A Kansas…
Despite the hype, 'carbon-free' energy sources aren't gaining traction globally
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. tips us to this interesting yet inconvenient graph. The graph below shows data from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2014, which was released yesterday.…
And then they came for your home mortage tax deduction…
From Georgia State University and the department of “let’s just all live in uniform state sponsored mud huts“, comes this latest inanity, blaming carbon emissions on your ability to get…
Dual tornadoes on the ground in Nebraska
Stunning photo of dual tornadoes within a mile of each other on June 16th, 2014 Photo taken by stormchaser Matt Coker. Click image for full size.
$260 / ton for carbon – the price of salvation
Lord Stern: Models ‘grossly underestimate’ costs of global warming Submitted by Eric Worrall Lord Stern, the British Academic who prepared the “Stern Review” on global warming for Prime Minister Tony…
Wind turbine payback period claimed to be within 8 months
From Inderscience Publishers , something sure to make greens go “See, I told you!”, except for that little fatal mistake at the end. Read on. Wind turbine payback US researchers…
Claim: 'Arctic amplification' has actually reduced the risk of cold extremes in the Northern Hemisphere
From the University of Exeter Arctic warming linked to fewer European and US cold weather extremes, new study shows Climate change is unlikely to lead to more days of extreme…
Another example of 'team science' suppression
Over the past decade, we have seen many examples of what would be categorized as” team science” when it comes to suppressing ideas that are considered inconvenient or contrary to…
Mining proxies for the Southern Annular Mode
Steve McIntyre writes about what he considers another “completely worthless” exercise in statistical data mining, writing: =============================================================== In today’s post, I will look at a new Naturemag climate reconstruction claiming…
Nature abhors a positive feedback
Negative Feedback Prevents Harmful Temperatures from Carbon Dioxide Guest essay by Bryce Johnson The purpose of the article is to contribute to refuting the false alarm that has been generated…
Standard Deviation, The Overlooked But Essential Climate Statistic
Guest essay by Dr Tim Ball Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. Martin Friedman “Statistics: The only science that…
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