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 Thirty years ago I…
Month: June 2015
Green Energy 'steals' from the Biosphere
An Opinion Piece by Viv Forbes, BScAppGeol, FAusIMM Scientist, mineral economist and grass farmer. Earth has only three significant sources of energy. First is geothermal energy from Earth’s molten core…
More methane seeps discovered in the deep ocean
Over a course of 12 days Dr. Giuliana Panieri and her colleagues from Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) collected images from seven areas of known methane…
UK MET Office: Fastest decline in solar activity since the last ice age
h/t Benny Peiser – the UK MET office has published a study which suggests solar activity is currently plummeting, the fastest rate of decline in 9300 years. The study…
Weak El Niños and La Niñas Come and Go from NOAA’s Oceanic NINO Index (ONI) with Each SST Dataset Revision
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Back in April of this year NOAA added the 2014/15 El Niño to their Oceanic NINO Index (a.k.a. ONI). See the former version of ONI…
Aussie government slashes renewable target
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian Abbott government has dramatically slashed the Australian renewable energy target, from 41,000 GWh / year, to 33,000 GWh / year. The leaked appointment…
Can heat be controlled as waves?
From the GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: A growing interest in thermoelectric materials — which convert waste heat to electricity — and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic…
Tuesday toon – Mont Doom
Josh writes: There is a hilarious transcript which was posted on BishopHill of a BBC Radio programme on the Lancet’s latest Alarm fest – all, no doubt, part of the run up to Paris in…
A shift in climate 'forcing' led to demise of Laurentide ice sheet 9000 years ago
I wonder what caused a shift in ‘radiative forcing’ 9,000 years ago? Good thing that it happened though, or we would likely not have the civilization we have today. Sudden…
Dr. Willie Soon on the Vatican’s repeat of its Galileo debacle
Putting papal authority behind yet another failed scientific paradigm Guest post by Alec Rawls As Galileo insisted about the perversity of his persecution by the Catholic Church: “[I]t is impossible for…
Wild Claim: 'climate change…could wipe out health progress over the past 50 years'
From UMEA UNIVERSITY Climate change could risk progress in health — or be a global health opportunity The threat climate change poses to human health is possibly so great that…
Historical sunspot numbers are about to be given an adjustment
UPDATE: Some commenters got the wrong idea about this article, see the footnote. Our resident solar physicist Dr. Leif Svalgaard is one of the scientists involved in the effort Dear…
Illegal EPA scheming on private email extended to GHG rules
Guest essay by Chris Horner Former Secretary of State, and presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not the only current or former Obama administration official facing investigation for use…
Just in time for Paris COP21 – EPA Report: For the US, Global Action Now Saves Lives and Avoids Significant Climate Change Damages
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 22, 2015 EPA Report: For the US, Global Action Now Saves Lives and Avoids Significant Climate Change Damages WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
They've lost the argument: Petition to ban 'climate deniers' from Facebook
Will hatred and intolerance of alternate viewpoints in science trump free speech? Some would have it that way. Via Climate NEXUS, a well funded daily newsletter run by a Madison…
The Hubbard Glacier defies 'climate change' – continues to grow
Hubbard Glacier could permanently dam the entrance to Russell Fiord in as little as 10 years From NOAA Earth Observatory: Since measurements began in 1895, Alaska’s Hubbard Glacier has been thickening…
Silver Ants
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I stumbled across a lovely article about the Saharan silver ant over at phys.org. These ants have special hairs that reflect strongly in the visual…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #184
The Week That Was: 2015-06-20 (June 20, 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…
Claim: Climate will inhibit bread dough from rising
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Bread dough prepared with flour grown in a future climate with elevated atmospheric CO2 may not rise properly, claims Dr Fitzgerald, a senior Australian research…
I wonder if the global ear can 'hear' climate change
It seems to me like somebody will try to have it listen, since there are many claims of “climate change” being ubiquitous. Nothing escapes The Global Ear: Nuclear tests, volcanoes, earthquakes…
UAH, MSU, TLT, and other Acronyms
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The satellite-based atmospheric temperature dataset is one of the better datasets in climate science. Drs. Roy Spencer and John Christy have long been scientific heroes…
Stanford research finds climate change regulation burden heaviest on poor
A bit dated, from Feb 28th of this year, but given the big push for Paris and the Pope’s encyclical, it is germane at the moment. -Anthony Stanford research reveals…
Progress on the problems with Australia's ACORN-SAT surface air temperature records
Dr David R.B. Stockwell writes, Progress on the surface temperature front as follows: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment Bob Baldwin established a Technical Advisory Forum comprised of leading scientists…
Claim: Mankind will be extinct in 100 years because climate
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The end of chocolate, the end of coffee, the end of beer left us unmoved. Even bundling the chocolate, beer and coffee scares into one…
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