Silly Headline of the Day – NYT: Climate Change Threatens to Strip the Identity of Glacier National Park

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale And the opening of the NewYorkTimes article reads: GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. — What will they call this place once the glaciers are gone? My…

Needed: Accurate climate forecasts

Focusing on carbon dioxide (because that’s where the money is) threatens forecasts, and lives Guest essay by Paul Driessen and David R. Legates President Obama’s agreement with China is about…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #157

The Week That Was: 2014-11-22 (November 22, 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…

People Starting To Ask About Motive For Massive IPCC Deception

Update: A guest post response, along with a comment from me has been posted, please see A big (goose) step backwards Guest Opinion: Dr.Tim Ball Skeptics have done a reasonable…

Finger puppets – the Green Blob finds its voice

Josh writes: Bishophill noted here that maybe we should be referring to Roger Harrabin as “Green blob spokesman Harrabin” I think we can include Bob Ward too. Posted by Josh

The Region of Unusual Sea Level Rise East of the Philippines Contributes Only a Little to the Global Rate

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The region east of the Philippines stands out on satellite-based sea level trend maps.  See Figure 1, which is from the Map of Sea Level…

Obama Ignored US Embassy's Warnings On Climate Change Speech

Obama’s Climate Fiasco Drives Aussies Closer To India & China Barack  Obama defied the advice of his embassy in Canberra to deliver a stinging attack on the Abbott government’s climate…

Worst drought in California history? Not really…

Guest essay by Robert Moore Is it true that we are in the worst drought in California history? Let’s look at the facts for the last 120 years (1895 to…

China’s New Energy Plan Forecasts Big Rise In CO2 Emissions

By Paul Homewood News from Enerdata that China has published a new Energy Development Strategy Action Plan (2014-2020), presumably following on from the US-China agreement last week. The State Council…

Shocker: Top Google Engineers Say Renewable Energy 'Simply won't work'

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A research effort by Google corporation to make renewable energy viable has been a complete failure, according to the scientists who led the programme. After…

Climate Research needs Re-direction

Guest essay by Viv Forbes Governments are running huge deficits, but still spend billions on “climate research” especially trying to model the effect of the atmosphere and its trace of…

Eek! Climate Change “…Might Cost Us…Chocolate”

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale A GlobalPost article by Sara Yasin includes the latest climate change and global warming scare. The headline: Our love for things that cause climate change…

Will Green Politics soon be a thing of the Past?

The electoral troubles of the green bullies Eric Worrall writes: Anyone following the recent G20 will be aware that skeptical politicians, such as Australia’s Tony Abbott and Canada’s Steve Harper,…

Surprise: sea water salinity matters to sea level on long time scales

LIVERMORE, California — Using ocean observations and a large suite of climate models, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have found that long-term salinity changes have a stronger influence on regional…

Introducing a New Blog – More on Miriam O’Brien’s HotWhopper

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Link to More on Miriam O’Brien’s HotWhopper. Please add it to your favorites. The following is a cross post of the introductory post at MoreOnMiriam’s:…

Renewable Energy – Solar and Wind-Power: capital costs and effectiveness compared

A comparison of both the Capital Cost and Energy Producing Effectiveness of the Renewable Energy investments of the USA, Germany and the UK. Guest essay by Ed Hoskins The summary diagram…

Fountain of Youth Underlies Antarctic Mountains

New Study Explains Why Peaks Buried in Ice Look So Young Images of the ice-covered Gamburtsev Mountains revealed water-filled valleys, as seen by the cluster of vertical lines in this…

Hotwhopper's Miriam O'Brien – Hoisted by Her Own Petard!

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism The blog Hotwhopper,…

Claim: Climate change will slow China's progress in reducing infectious diseases

From Emory University: Climate change will slow China’s progress in reducing infectious diseases China has made significant progress increasing access to tap water and sanitation services, and has sharply reduced…

It's always something: crops to blame for increased annual variation of CO2

From the University of Wisconsin-Madison @UWMadScience Crops play a major role in the annual CO2 cycle increase MADISON, Wis. — Each year, the planet balances its budget. The carbon dioxide…