From the Institute of Physics and the “children won’t know what snow is” department: The likelihood of record-breaking warm years in England is set to substantially increase as a result…
Month: April 2015
How plasma connects the Sun to the climate
Guest essay by Robert Johnson How plasma connects the Sun to the climate The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) are a plasma phenomenon caused by charged particles from the solar wind…
AMO fingered in newly discovered 200 year bipolar disorder lag
From Oregon State University and the department of “we fully understand Earth’s climate, we just need more funds” department comes this bit of a surprise. (h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard)…
Climate "wall of infamy"
James Delingpole, and other prominent British skeptics, have been immortalised on an art installation “wall of infamy”. According to James; I am one of several climate change sceptics to have…
The Spoils System Redux – Climate Version
Spoils system reinstated by choice of grant subject. Clifford Eddy, PhD writes: After James Garfield’s assassination, the spoils system of granting government jobs was replaced by the civil service system,…
Remember the poor – a visual epistle to the Pope
Josh writes: I don’t think this cartoon needs any words but many thanks to Cumbrian Lad for an inspiring post over on the BishopHill blog. Matt Ridley’s excellent article on Electricity for…
Climate Alarmists fighting a losing battle: Nearly Half Of Young Americans Are Climate Skeptics
New Survey: Nearly Half Of Young Americans Are Climate Skeptics The Younger They Are, The More Skeptical In fact, the age group that least agreed with the statement that…
New UAH Lower Troposphere Temperature Data Show No Global Warming for More Than 18 Years
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Dr. Roy Spencer introduced the updated and much corrected UAH atmospheric temperature data in his blog post Version 6.0 of the UAH Temperature Dataset Released:…
Claim: Climate change 'may' be responsible for the abrupt collapse of Tibetan civilization around 2000BC
From Washington State University: Closing the Case on an Ancient Archeological Mystery Solving 4,000-year-old mystery helps WSU archeologist find useful resource for a warmer future PULLMAN, Wash.–Climate change may be…
To whom does a Christian owe their loyalty?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Does a Christian owe their first loyalty to the Pope, or to God? If your conscience tells you one thing, and the Pope tells you…
Newsweek Disgracefully Links the Mt Everest Tragedy to Rising CO2
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 Its hard to…
BOMBSHELL: Scripps says Arctic Sea Ice may return, forecasts of loss based on 'oversimplified arguments'
From Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Highlight: Arctic Sea Ice Loss Likely To Be Reversible Scenarios of a sea ice tipping point leading to a permanently ice-free Arctic Ocean were…
The Guardian: Still hypocritical on pensions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian has launched an attack on pension funds which invest in fossil fuel assets, accusing them of “… taking an ill-advised gamble on climate…
Climate Change and the coming Encyclical
Guest essay by Joe Ronan Today we see another set of meetings in Rome. One is that of the Pontifical Academy of Science, and the other the Heartland Institute. Both…
Will Pope Francis Change Global Minds On Climate Change?
Cardinal Pell: Be Prudent With Climate Claims When the Pope talks, people listen. But as Pope Francis wades into the climate-change debate, will he change any minds? Francis will host…
More permafrost fears
From the University of Georgia, where apparently they didn’t read this paper before publishing their own and this press release. Warming climate may release vast amounts of carbon from long-frozen…
Very Brief El Niño Update – End of April 2015
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The weekly sea surface temperature anomalies for the four NINO regions across the equatorial Pacific were at or above the +1.0 deg C threshold of…
Opinion: CO2 is the Demon Because Malthus and Ehrlich Were Wrong About Overpopulation
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The world focus on CO2 is simply the end objective of a much larger political agenda. The Club of Rome (COR) and then UNEP’s Agenda…
Inquiry Launched Into Global Temperature Data Integrity
The International Temperature Data Review Project London, 26 April 2015 – The London-based think-tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation is today launching a major inquiry into the integrity of the…
I am a climate skeptic who believes in global warming
Guest essay by Richard J. Petschauer A skeptic that believes in global warming? How can that be? We have been told that climate skeptics, sometime incorrectly called “deniers”, still believe…
Raising Chicago – how the City of Chicago defeated flooding in the 1850s
Guest essay by Eric Worrall In the 1800s the City of Chicago had a problem. The city rests on low lying marshlands, on the shore of Lake Michigan. Floods were…
Heartland Institute Heads to Rome to Advise Pope Francis on Climate Policy
World’s Leading Scientific ‘Skeptics’ of Man-Caused Global Warming Invite Public and Press to Open Events April 27 and 28 Just Outside the Vatican The Heartland Institute is sending a team…
Climate Youth–The Next Generation Science Standards
Guest Opinion by James Sawhill – The Next Generation Science Standards provide two new science areas that teachers are to present, students are to learn, and for which K-12 US…
Claim: CO2 causes plant viruses to spread more easily
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Scientists working in Victoria, Australia, have claimed that barley yellow dwarf virus spreads more easily, when wheat plants are subject to elevated levels of CO2.…
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