Story submitted by Eric Worrall: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a taxpayer funded media organization, has just asked whether we should consider restructuring democracy to ensure an efficient response to the…
Month: September 2014
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Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach (Part 5 of the voyage, see also Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3, and Part 4) … After going to sleep at sea just outside Cape Flattery, with a clear night,…
Analysis: Solar & wind power costs are huge compared to natural gas fired generation
Ed Hoskins has done an analysis of cost ratios, and no matter what your viewpoint of economics might be, the numbers here don’t lie. Without being propped up by subsidies,…
HadSST3 Sets Records, RSS Not So Much (Now Includes July Data)
Guest Post By Werner Brozek, Edited by Just The Facts: Note: Featured image and text below updated based upon input from rgbatduke. The graph shows HadSST3 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and…
The 'Skeptical Science' kidz are up to no good again
Ah those kidz, what are they up to now? (Update: It has been figured out, see below) The image you see is from their “new” web page [www.skepticalscience.com/nsh/?] which is…
Pittsburgh Tribune editorial calls the IPCC 'climate-clucking Chicken Littles'
Slowly, sanity is returning as witnessed by this pragmatic editorial on Sept 2nd: The world’s loudest climate-clucking Chicken Littles foresee grain harvests diminishing, Greenland’s ice sheet melting, sea levels rising…
Awww… Mike Mann's summer vacation was ruined by the 'spectre of climate change'
“Hockey stick” conjurer Michael Mann’s recent article bemoaned how, even on vacation, he couldn’t get away from his work. He traveled to Glacier National Park and was confronted with the…
Oops! Obama administration dietary recommendations may be tied to increased greenhouse gas emissions
From the University of Michigan, everything you eat is bad for GHG’s apparently, so only eat what the government says. Oh, wait. ANN ARBOR—If Americans altered their menus to conform…
Is John Kerry mentally ill? 'Scriptures Commands America To Protect Muslims From Global Warming '
At first, I thought this had to be a joke in the style of “The Onion”. Sadly, no. I have video of this dolt saying this on C-Span. I don’t…
Friday Funny – what to do when you've been 'hiatused'
Josh writes: The hiatus is all the rage these days. Many thanks to Matt Ridley for his inspirational WSJ article.
Good news from a new report: Effective Climate Agreement Not Likely
From the Research Council of Norway According to a group of Norwegian researchers, the prospects for achieving an effective international climate treaty are poor. The measures that are politically feasible…
Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Possibly Get Any Sleazier, the Return of Climate Porn, WMO Style
Plus Obama’s Name-and-Shame Deal in a Different Light Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Climate Porn is the title of a February 21, 2007 article in Cosmos Magazine authored by Tom…
Matt Ridley in the WSJ: Whatever Happened to Global Warming?
Now come climate scientists’ implausible explanations for why the ‘hiatus’ has passed the 15-year mark.By MATT RIDLEY Sept. 4, 2014 7:20 p.m. ET THE WALL STREET JOURNAL On Sept.…
The Strait of Juan de Fuca
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (Part 4 of the voyage, see also Part 1, Part 2 , and Part 3) …Up early and we’re off for Galiano Island, where the Captain has a good…
Global Temperature Update – No global warming for 17 years 11 months
… or 19 years, according to a key statistical paper. By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley | The Great Pause has now persisted for 17 years 11 months. Indeed, to three…
Past temperature in Greenland adjusted to fit new theory
From the University of Copenhagen – Niels Bohr Institute (BTW, the phrase “Past temperature in Greenland adjusted” in the headline is their choice of words, not mine.) One of the…
But what about the oceans? Research shows declining levels of acidity in Sierra Nevada lakes
From the University of California – Riverside, something that makes me wonder: if the oceans are supposedly becoming more acidified due to CO2 in the atmosphere, why aren’t lakes in…
1960's satellite imagery of polar ice discovers “enormous holes” in the sea ice
NSIDC has announced the discovery and recovery of space footage of Earth’s polar icecaps, dating back to 1964. The recovered photographs have yielded some startling surprises, according to David Gallaher,…
One good use for temperature change
Changing temperature powers sensors in hard-to-reach places From the University of Washington by Michelle Ma A centuries-old clock built for a king is the inspiration for a group of computer…
Laughable new paper claims 99.999% certainty global warming over past 25 years is man-made
I was tipped off to this paper by a Tweet from SkS Reichfurher John Cook, and I started on writing a rebuttal, but discovered The Hockey Schtick had already done…
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