From the “Tuvalu needs another climate handout” department comes this paper that says what we’ve been saying on WUWT for years – the sea level rise will overwhelm coral atolls…
Month: May 2015
22 Very Inconvenient Climate Truths
Here are 22 good reasons not to believe the statements made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guest essay by Jean-Pierre Bardinet. According to the official statements of…
Gigantic asteroid near miss coming this Thursday
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Express reports that a colossal one mile wide asteroid will brush past the Earth this Thursday, with a closest approach of 3 million kilometres…
Lewandowsky's Competing Theories for Source of Bias in Scientific Research
You Ought to Have a Look: By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger Two papers were announced this week that sought to examine the sources of bias in…
A benefit of increased Carbon Dioxide: increased efficiency in tree growth, no "Mike's Nature trick" needed
Gosh, whouda thunk it? There goes Mann’s hockey stick. No wonder he had to truncate all the data after 1960 and splice on the instrumental record. Of course, as I’ve…
Consensus-smensus: 97% of UK voters hiding in the deep ocean
Josh writes: One of the main things we learned from the recent UK General Election was that the forecasters got it catastrophically wrong – catastrophic in that the pollsters reputations…
Well, at least the daphnia will survive 'climate change'
There’s lots of worries about “species extinction” due to climate change, and so far the track record on those predictions isn’t doing so good, such as the First animal claimed…
Slow motion landslide devours road and power lines – no it's not melting permafrost
Remember the craters in Russian permafrost supposedly caused by global warming (that turned out to be pingos) story? Well, there’s a new potential “climate boogeyman” afoot in Russia. When I…
A few models wandered over the pause…
Dana Nuccitelli has written a defence of climate models, in which he appears to claim that a few models randomly replicating the pause should be considered evidence that climate modelling…
On the Pause in Global Sea Ice Anomalies
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I just finished the illustrations and text for another chapter of my upcoming book. The latest was about sea ice data. I believe you’ll be…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #179
The Week That Was: 2015-05-09 (May 9, 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…
The Iceman Cometh?
Could a quiescent sun portend a new little ice age: a chilly era for humanity and agriculture? Guest opinion by Paul Driessen President Obama, Al Gore and other alarmists continue…
An Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change
Guest opinion by Tom Quirk Your Holiness: April 27, 2015—As world leaders contemplate a climate agreement, many look to you for guidance. We commend you for your care for the…
The Caribbean Climate Summit – for people who can't wait until Paris
TeleSur reports that the French President visited the beautiful island of Martinique on Saturday, to chair the Caribbean climate summit. According to TeleSur; The Caribbean Climate 2015 summit will be…
Plants encouraged as CO2 levels reach 400 ppm
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball is writing on behalf of the plants. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that global monthly CO2 levels reached 400 ppm. They present…
Stunning Photo Reveals How Vatican Learned to Spin Global Warming
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale. Pope Francis’s entry into the political climate-change debate was welcomed by some, frowned on by others. A new photo reveals who taught the Pope the…
Temperature and TOA Forcing
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been thinking about temperature and top-of-atmosphere (TOA) forcing. TOA forcing is the imbalance between the TOA upwelling and downwelling radiation. The CERES satellite dataset…
NASA observes 'significant solar flare' on the sun that thankfully missed Earth
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, has sent back pictures of a massive, X-class solar flare. The X-class flares are the strongest, and this one received an X2.7 rating. It wasn’t pointed…
New chemical recipe to store solar energy, release it as heat, such as for creating steam
From the Faculty of Science – University of Copenhagen Chemistry student in sun harvest breakthrough (via Eurekalert) The Sun is a huge source of energy. In just one hour planet…
"… The real agenda is concentrated political authority. Global warming is the hook."
Maurice Newman, the chairman of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Business Advisory Council, has accused the UN of attempting to subvert democracy, of attempting to establish a worldwide authoritarian regime, with…
KPMG: Addressing Britain's energy crisis is a priority
Guest essay by Eric Worrall On the first day of the new British Government, Simon Virley, UK chair of energy and natural resources at KPMG, has warned that a priority…
Proof positive that the University of Western Australia is an intolerant organization
(via Bishop Hill) Remember this just a couple of weeks ago? Aussie Government gives $4 million to Bjørn Lomborg, to set up a “Consensus Centre” at Lewandowsky’s old university The…
Newsbytes: UK Climate Minister Voted Out, Green LibDems Wiped Out in Election
David Cameron wins majority for Conservatives in Election 2015 victory Britain’s Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has lost his seat to the Conservative party, in an election night that has…
Solar Cycle Update
Guest essay by David Archibald Two useful things we would like to know are the length of Solar Cycle 24 and the amplitude of Solar Cycle 25. Figure 1 below…
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