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…
Month: June 2015
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…
The journalistic self-immolation of Newsweek's Zoë Schlanger
Every once in a while a new reporter arrives onto the climate scene that immediately thinks they know everything there is to know about climate, and therefore doesn’t need to…
Renewables industry fury at new Wind commissioner appointment
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian Renewables industry has reacted with fury to a leaked suggestion that a new “wind commissioner” will be appointed, to handle complaints about turbine…
ClimateProgress’s Joe Romm Is Promoting a Skeptical View of Global Warming: El Niño-Caused Steps
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I wasn’t too surprised to find Joe Romm’s June 16, 2015 blog post 2015 May Bring Long-Awaited Step Jump in Global Temperatures at the climate…
The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science
They are behaving like sixteenth-century priests who do not think the Bible should be translated into English. Guest essay by Matt Ridley (Note: due to the length of this essay,…
French Minister apologises for Nutella Climate Claim
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French Ecology Minister Segolene Royal has apologised for claiming the popular breakfast spread Nutella exacerbates climate change. According to the Sydney Morning Herald; “A thousand…
NOAA Releases New Pause-Buster Global Surface Temperature Data and Immediately Claims Record-High Temps for May 2015 – What a Surprise!
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale NOAA recently published their State of the Climate Report for May 2015. Under the heading of Global Summary Information, they note: Note: With this report…
Study: Global Warming won't reduce winter deaths
Note: the graph above is not part of the IOP press release, but provided for comparison. From the Institute of Physics: In a study that contradicts the received wisdom on…
Is The Catholic Church Burned By The Sun Again?
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Spanish-born American Philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The recent Papal Encyclical announced the…
No surprise here: Jet contrails affect surface temperatures
From Penn State High in the sky where the cirrus ice crystal clouds form, jet contrails draw their crisscross patterns. Now researchers have found that these elevated ice cloud trails…
Thoughts on the papal encyclical on environment
Guest opinion by Joe Ronan Laudato Si – A cry for the poor Why is Pope Francis writing about climate change? Because he cares for the poor, and wants us…
The Pope puts the kibosh on carbon credit trading, calling it a 'ploy'
Maurizio Morabito originally observed that the Pope’s climate encyclical was a “damp squib”. For the most part it is harmless, but it does confront carbon credits and a “ploy”, albeit Pope…
Greenpeace India rocked by Sexual Misconduct Scandal
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greenpeace India has admitted a failure to create a “gender sensitive environment”, in the wake of allegations of serious sexual misconduct, including the alleged rape…
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