Another green calls for "Deniers" to be jailed

Climate Depot reports that another prominent green, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, has called for climate “deniers” to be jailed. Is it just me, or is there something very wrong with…

Fun diversion – How long until Antarctic ice touches South America?

Eric Worrall writes: Based on the current rate of Antarctic ice growth, how long until an ice bridge forms between South America and Antarctica? Lets start with a simplification –…

An extraordinary meeting of climate skeptics and climate scientists in Bath

Many people wondered why I would travel halfway across the world to attend the Cook and Mann lectures. The answer to that question is: I decided to come on a…

It's time to stop the climate scare stories

Using faulty computer models to forecast climate chaos condemns millions to untimely deaths Guest opinion by Dr. Willie Soon and Christopher Monckton of Brenchley India Prime Minister Narendra Modi sensibly…

Sea Ice News Volume 5 #6 – Arctic sea ice extent turns the corner for 2014, new high sea ice record set in the Antarctic

From NSIDC: Arctic sea ice reaches minimum extent for 2014  September 22, 2014 On September 17, Arctic sea ice reached its likely minimum extent for 2014. This is now the…

Surprising PNAS paper: CO2 emissions not the cause of U.S. West Coast warming

The rise in temperatures along the U.S. West Coast during the past century is almost entirely the result of natural forces — not human emissions of greenhouse gases, according to…

Study: Fracked shale gas impacts have positive and negative benefits, but there's no reason not to make it part of the energy mix

From The University of Manchester: Fracking’s environmental impacts scrutinised Greenhouse gas emissions from the production and use of shale gas would be comparable to conventional natural gas, but the controversial…

Claim: Arctic sea ice helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere

From the University of Southern Denmark. This is a bit of a surprise, and may well be true, but I’m not too keen on the first couple of paragraphs. Summer…

More Than 310 Thousand People with Skewed Priorities Flood New York

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The numbers are rolling in…and they’re impressive in a odd way. Based on numerous news reports, somewhere in the neighborhood of 310 to 400 thousand…

Salmon, Climate, And Accountability

  Opinion by Dr Tim Ball Free speech is essential to freedom, but with it comes a level of personal responsibility. Supposedly, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes recognized this in his…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #150

The Week That Was: 2014-09-20 (September 20, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and…

'Paid volunteers' for the NYC climate march

People send me stuff. Below is an image from New York City of the 350.org “climate march” from their website today.  It’s the usual horde of useful idiots, holding up…

@CNN asks 'Why worry about ISIS when the danger of Climate Change is so much more clear and imminent? '

That is the gist of a story today at CNN by Sally Kohn titled: The imminent threat to the U.S. that gets ignored. Of course, it is a puff piece…

If you want to play the all-weather-is-influenced-by-global-warming game, you are going to lose

Chip Knappenberger writes: Should We Credit Global Warming When Disasters Don’t Happen? Every time there is some sort of weather disaster somewhere, someone blames it on human-caused global warming. Maybe…

A former White House science advisor speaks out about "settled science"

Feeling unsettled? Try new Climate Science™, now with extra certainty! Climate Science Is Not Settled We are very far from the knowledge needed to make good climate policy, writes leading…

Climate Craziness of the Week: White House fence jumper was “concerned that the atmosphere was collapsing” and wanted to alert the president

Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary identified the fence-jumper as Omar J. Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, Texas. According to court documents, he was carrying a folding knife with a 3.5-inch…

'The People's Climate March' – just another corporate multi-million-dollar fundraiser by 350.org and Avaaz

WUWT reader Policycritic writes in WUWT Tips and Notes: From Counterpunch, WEEKEND EDITION SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2014, How the People’s Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign—Business as Usual in Manhattan…

Royal Society In Trouble Over False Extinction Claim Paper

From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Obama’s Former Science Official: ‘Climate Science Is Not Settled’ It was presented as shocking evidence of the damage being done by climate change:…

My report on the Cook talk in Bristol – attendees are invited to leave their impressions

I attended John Cook’s talk at the University of Bristol Victoria rooms last night at 6 PM. Besides myself, about 20 other climate skeptics also attended the talk, making up…

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent sets new record, pierces 20 million square kilometer barrier

Sunshinehours reports that the Antarctic Sea Ice Extent for September 19th, 2014 is 20.11297 million square kilometers, which is 1,535,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 climatological mean. Another 58,000 sq…