By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley » Several members of the American Physical Society have contacted me to ask how they should respond to a tokenistic “consultation” by the Society’s…
Month: April 2015
The Secret Life of Half-Life
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see update at the end of the head post] I first got introduced to the idea of “half-life” in the 1950s because the topic of…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #177
The Week That Was: 2015-04-18 (April 18, 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…
NASA Gavin Schmidt's whacky sea level rise advice
Guest essay by Eric Worrall NASA’s Gavin Schmidt has provided some bizarre advice, for people building homes on the sea front, which might not be “sea level rise smart”. According…
The giant spider climate story which simply won't die
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The giant spider climate story is making the rounds again. The story is, if we don’t mend our wicked ways, we’re going to end living…
Too Many Wild Cards in the Climate Game
Guest essay by Viv Forbes Climate alarmists claim incessantly that all bad weather is caused by man’s use of hydro-carbon fuels – oil, gas and coal. They insist that man-made…
Peak Oil Re-visited
Guest essay by Mike Jonas In January 2012, my article “Peak Oil – the R/P Ratio re-visited” was posted on WUWT. 3 years on, maybe this ever-controversial subject is…
Claim: Graduates shunning climate studies
The Economic Times reports that there is a profound shortage of scientists choosing to study climate change – that advanced Physics and Maths graduates are being attracted to more interesting…
Claim: Rabbits will be impacted by climate change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall PLOS ONE has published a study which suggests two thirds of rabbit species will be severely affected by climate change. The authors of the study…
Audubon Society: Climate Science or just Sticking Feathers on PIGs?
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 September 2014 the…
Friday funny – or not. Guardian and BBC go abhorrent on fossil fuel divestment
Josh writes: Divesting from Fossil fuels seems to be flavour of the week, see here, here and here, but leaves a bitter taste. The Bishophill troll known as “aTTP” makes an appearence. Cartoons by Josh
Ridiculous claim by Marco Tedesco: 'Darkening of the Greenland Ice Sheet is projected to continue as a consequence of continued climate warming'
Via Eurekalert, maybe Tedesco just isn’t looking hard enough, or maybe he only looks at data, as these and other photos previously published on WUWT and Mother Jones demonstrate: …
NYT: Developing world abandoning Obama's green agenda, turning to China for help
h/t James Delingpole – The New York Times reports that the developing world is abandoning green tainted US backed global banking institutions, and is looking to China for infrastructure finance.…
Aussie Government gives $4 million to Bjørn Lomborg, to set up a "Consensus Centre" at Lewandowsky's old university
The Australian Abbott government has granted Bjørn Lomborg $4 million, to set up a “consensus centre” at the University of West Australia. According to The Guardian; The Abbott government found…
Angry Birds to raise Global Warming "awareness"
Blanca Juti, chief brand officer for Rovio Entertainment, wants to leverage the popularity of their blockbuster Angry Birds game franchise, to raise awareness of “global warming”. According to Bloomberg; “You…
Claim: Global warming will affect your taste in music
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t DailyCaller – British researchers have claimed that global warming strongly influences our taste in music. According to FirstPost; Fancy listening to the Beatles’ ‘Here…
Obama Expected to Bind US to CO2 Reduction at Paris Climate Meeting This Year
Guest essay by S. Fred Singer Much ado about nothing. I expect very little from the much-ballyhooed Paris conference: maybe a White-House claim of a “breakthrough” climate accord – but…
The Paris Paradigm: The What is your 'Skeptic Score'?
This essay covers the seven beliefs that are necessary for a Paris Protocol to make sense. The reader is invited to rate the probability of each belief being true. Using…
The Large Cliff Top Pueblos at Mesa Verde, Colorado and Treeflow Data from Lees Ferry, Arizona
Guest essay by Samuel I Outcalt The Data: The major tourist attractions at Mesa Verde National Park (near Cortez, Colorado) are the large cliff top pueblos inhabited by the Anasazi…
Dr. Judith Curry's Testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology Hearing on the President’s UN Climate Pledge
Here is the content of Dr. Curry’s verbal testimony: The central issue in the scientific debate on climate change is the extent to which the recent (and future) warming is…
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