Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism In 2002, Scripps’…
Month: March 2015
Mann on the run – latest paper 'dead at birth', rejected by German warmist scientists, deletes inconvenient Facebook challenge
Pierre Gosselin over at “No Tricks Zone” is reporting that within a day of its publication, the paper from the German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has now been…
Michael Mann and Stefan Rahmstorf claim the Gulf Stream is slowing due to Greenland ice melt, except reality says otherwise
UPDATED – see below From your “Day after Tomorrow” department (where a slowing Gulf Stream turned NYC into an icebox) comes this claim from the bowels of Mannian Science. Unfortunately,…
Ooops! Posited pine beetle to increased wildfire risk debunked by CU study
It has been posited by paid alarmists like Joe Romm that global warming will increase pine beetle outbreaks, thus increasing the chances of wildfire. For example, in April 2013 Romm…
World's largest asteroid impacts found in central Australia
A 400 kilometer-wide impact zone from a huge meteorite that broke in two moments before it slammed into the Earth has been found in Central Australia From Australian National University:…
Don't believe in global warming at the state level? FEMA will yank your Federal disaster money
From Inside Climate News: The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster preparedness funds…
No wonder they call him 'moonbeam' – California Governor Jerry Brown claims Global Warming causes extreme cold
Remember this eye roller from Brown where he claimed LAX was at risk from sea level rise, only to have to walkback the claim the next day after it was…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #173
The Week That Was: 2015-03-21 (March 21, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental…
So far, 2015 seems to be a bad year for the 'severe weather caused by climate change" meme
Looks like another “divergence problem” as tornadoes don’t follow the climatology From NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center: NORMAN, Okla. During a month when severe weather typically strikes, this March has been…
Relative Homogeneity of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and The Little Ice Age (LIA)
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “Hockey Stick” graph produced solutions for three facts challenging the claims of key IPCC climate scientists at…
Neat video: Total Solar Eclipse In 30 Seconds Seen From From a Plane
This is neat. The Total Solar Eclipse In 30 Seconds Seen From From a Plane Over The Faroe Islands, a perspective few will see. Video follows Here is another view…
While warning us of 'rising oceans' in SOTU, did Obama just buy a beachfront mansion?
Story submitted by Eric Worrall Rumours are flying that the owner of a beachfront mansion in Hawaii, which was once used to film the hit TV series “Magnum PI”, is…
Another 'polar bears are in trouble' story….yawwwn
From the University of Washington and the department of unbearable press releases: First global review on the status, future of Arctic marine mammals For Arctic marine mammals, the future is…
Is the Solar System's Galactic Motion Imprinted in the Phanerozoic Climate?
Guest essay by Kirby Schlaht Nir Joseph Shaviv is an Israeli-American physics professor, carrying out research in the fields of astrophysics and climate science. He is a professor at the…
Claim: Did volcanic induced climate change wipe out Neanderthals 40,000 years ago?
From the Geological Society of America: Boulder, Colo., USA – The Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in Italy 40,000 years ago was one of the largest volcanic cataclysms in Europe and…
Another ship of fools? More craziness about Antarctic Ice
Guest essay by Eric Worrall In the real world, Antarctic ice is growing at a ferocious rate, hitting a new record extent every other year. But on planet Green, Antarctic…
An attempt to link past ice ages to CO2, rather than orbital cycles
International study raises questions about cause of global ice ages From Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. – A new international study casts doubt on the leading theory of what causes ice…
New Study: Climate Alarmism Takes One Helluva Beating
Climate Sensitivity Takes Another Tumble (via the GWPF) Since [the publication of the IPCC’s] AR5, various papers concerning aerosol forcing have been published, without really narrowing down the uncertainty…
The Geography of USCRN Average Air Temperature Trends during the 2004-2014 Decade over the Contiguous United States
Guest essay by Samuel I Outcalt The USCRN monthly average air temperature records were searched for continuous records covering the 2004 to 2014 decade over the contiguous United States. The…
Another climate geo-engineering pipe dream proves futile
Ocean pipes ‘not cool,’ would end up warming climate From the Carnegie Institution Washington, D.C.–To combat global climate change caused by greenhouse gases, alternative energy sources and other types of…
'Climate to Severe Weather Linkage' Falls Flat – No US tornadoes reported in March
For The First Time Since 1969, No US Tornadoes Reported In March The US tornado count for March 2015? Zero. That’s right, so far this month there have been no…
Claim: computer model says thawing permafrost will run a lopsided carbon game in the Arctic
From DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computer sims: In climatic tug of war, carbon released from thawing permafrost wins handily There’s a carbon showdown brewing in the Arctic as Earth’s climate…
States Should Defy Unlawful EPA Carbon Dioxide Rules
Guest opinion by Steve Goreham Originally published in Communities Digital News. Last June, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed its Clean Power Plan as a nationwide regulation to reduce carbon…
Anatomy of a Collapsing Climate Paradigm
Guest post by David Middleton Paradigm: A framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community. Paradigm Shift: These…
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