Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australia is suffering a rare “cyclone sandwich” – two gigantic tropical cyclones, Cyclone Marcia (cat 5 – like Katrina) and Cyclone Lam (cat 4) are…
Month: February 2015
Twenty good reasons not to worry about polar bears and climate change
Via Dr. Susan Crockford at polarbearscience.com: Here’s a new resource for cooling the polar bear spin, all in one place. I’ve updated and expanded my previous summary of reasons not…
Eye roller: Study finds climate change induced 'extreme weather' may dramatically reduce wheat production
From Kansas State University, where they apparently don’t look at crop reports like this one: MANHATTAN, Kansas — A recent study involving Kansas State University researchers finds that in the…
4 of the 5 Great Lakes about to freeze over
Corky Boyd writes: The latest NATICE graphics show Lake Erie totally covered with 9/10+ ice, Lakes Superior and Huron are nearly totally covered with 9/10+ and Ontario about 80% covered…
Fawlty Towers and Ivory Towers
Guest opinion by Charles Battig John Cleese’s 1970’s “Fawlty Towers” of BBC fame provided a satirical view of an inept hotel manager in his dealings with potential guests, “who is…
Can we stop the doom mongering?
A letter to the editor which appeared in the Norman, OK Transcript on Tuesday, February 17th, reprinted here with permission of the author, Dr. David Deming: I write in rebuttal…
The UN Climate End Game
Guest opinion by David Archibald “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” was a 1985 song by Tears For Fears. Now in 2015, a number of parties are doing their best…
Newspaper: U.N. IPCC chair Rajenda Pachauri faces sexual harassment charges – story then disappears from website
From the this sounds familiar department…comes this hot, steamy, but not climatic turn of events, along with the near immediate disappearance of the story down the memory hole. Via Dr.…
Jim Hansen's 99% Surety on Global Warming Doesn't Hold Up
Guest essay by Pat Frank – When Jim Hansen testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, on June 23, 1988, he said that he was 99% sure…
TAO And TAO Again
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Impelled by my restless curiosity, I’ve returned to the TAO buoy dataset to investigate a claim by Dr. Ramanathan of a “super-greenhouse” effect. The TAO…
BP: CO2 reduction efforts futile
Forecasts 25% rise in annual CO2 emissions by 2035 Submitted by Eric Worrall – BP has controversially predicted that the huge rise in energy demand over the next 20 years…
Strange Allies in the War on Carbon Fuels
Guest opinion by Viv Forbes – What great cause could unite Prince Charles, President Obama, the Pope, the Arab Oil sheiks, the United Nations, the European Union, the Russians, the…
Science -vs- PR hype doesn't hold up: Satellite images reveal ocean acidification from space
I’m a bit skeptical of this claim, “Satellite images reveal ocean acidification from space” but it may be mostly due to how the press release is written, for example, nowhere…
New Paper Confirms the Hiatus Is Not Occurring at the Poles, Undermining the Efforts of Cowtan and Way
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Pierre Gosselin of NoTrickZone reports on a paper that confirms the slowdown in global surface warming has not been occurring at the poles. See Pierre’s…
From #AAAS Why Some (Many?) Scientists Tend to Hype their Findings
Guest essay By Indur M. Goklany In case there was any doubt that many scientists are like the rest of humanity, not to mention Brian Williams, the Pew Research Center…
Climate Propaganda from the Australian Academy of Science
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The Australia Academy of Science has recently published a Q&A about human-induced global warming titled The science of climate change. Their press release is here. …
Divestment ethics and realities
Eliminating fossil fuels from investment portfolios hurts colleges, workers and poor families Guest essay by Paul Driessen College students who support divestment of fossil fuel stocks are passionate about their…
January 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through January 2015 and HADCRUT4 and…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #168
The Week That Was: 2015-02-14 (February 14, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
Theory on the Pause – climate science has 'exhausted adjustment rationales'
Global Warming is real and is definitely caused by human-produced carbon . . . pencil lead, that is. Guest essay by Ralph Park Global Warming Theory – An impressive collection…
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