From the “30 years are part of a cycle” department: Experts express concern over cyclone trends in the British-Irish Isles By studying climate data in the British-Irish Isles over a…
Month: July 2015
Have Fossil Fuels Diminished the World’s Sustainability and Resilience?
Guest essay by Indur M. Goklany The recent Papal Encyclical on the environment’s endorsement of “changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat…warming,” and drastic reductions in carbon…
Whew! Climate change not likely to cause 'grolar bears'
From the University of Washington comes this sigh of relief. Risk of interbreeding due to climate change lower than expected One of the questions raised by climate change has been…
Slime and Punishment – How AGW believers have made their own Faustian Bargain
A lot of us look at the actions of climate change alarmists and wonder how what would seem to be educated people can justify their own actions given the way…
First Peoples: The warming alarm-dog that didn’t bark
Guest post by Alec Rawls Beneficial climate change allowed modern humans to emigrate out of Africa and spread around the globe says the new PBS documentary “First Peoples,” but it fails…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #186
The Week That Was: 2015-07-04 (July 4, 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 Pope's Encyclical Exposes Real Agenda Behind Global Warming
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Many times quotations are truncated to change the original meaning. When the larger quote is examined, a very different meaning often emerges. For example, most…
Climate concerns fading, despite Paris hype
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Google search trends, interest in climate change continues to bump along rock bottom, despite strenuous efforts by alarmists to hype climate issues, in…
2°C or not 2°C–that is the question
This note by The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley uses methods and data exclusively from mainstream climate science to constrain the interval of 21st-century global warming. In 2009 the Copenhagen climate…
An Ecologist's Perspective on Pope Francis's Encyclical Letter
Guest Contributor: Dan Botkin Throughout my career as an ecological scientist, I have been fascinated by the connections between the Judeo-Christian religious beliefs and modern environmental science, and have written…
Oddly, 'Nobel prize winner' Michael Mann was not invited to sign The Mainau Declaration for climate protection
This seems sort of odd, not only was Michael Mann excluded (probably for good reason) but the names of the signers seems to be a secret. Nobel Laureates appeal for…
A sad commentary on global warming alarmism: Science says one thing, scientists another
Andrew Montford at Bishop Hill kindly allows me to repost this here. Anyone would think there was a big climate conference coming up, because the BBC is pumping out the…
That Didn’t Take Long: North & South Carolina Shark Attacks Blamed on Global Warming
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale There has been a series of shark attacks off the Carolina coasts. As of last count, the number is 11 shark bites since mid-May. As…
New Pew Center study finds global warming to be a mostly political issue
The public’s political views are strongly linked to attitudes on environmental issues But political views are not a major factor on biomedical, food safety and space issues July 1, 2015…
El Niño begins to curtail the Pause
Global temperature update: no warming for 18 years 6 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley For 222 months, since January 1997, there has been no global warming at all (Fig.…
When EPA worries about regulating puddles, it has gone too far
By Luther Strange, Alabama Attorney General The latest example of Obama Administration overreach is here. A new regulation issued by the Environmental Protection Agency would greatly expand federal authority over…
One-sided science ignores the fact that ‘Sea ice is not a stable habitat for polar bears’
Guest essay by Dr. Susan Crockford, Zoologist A new paper by Dr. Susan Crockford, published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, explains a fundamental problem with polar bear conservation –…
About the Fourth of July and ISIS – from a friend who is a police officer, and a 'spook'
I realize this is way off-topic of the usual fare for WUWT, but I’d be remiss in my duty as a patriot and an American if I didn’t at least…
A Physician’s Perspective on the EPA’s “Data Derangement Syndrome”
Guest essay by Charles Battig M.D. Derived from Heartland Climate Conference, June 11-12, 2015 Presentation by Charles G. Battig, MD: Panel 8 “Human Health and Welfare” June 11, 2015 In…
Claim: Universe to end with a 'big rip' where 'atoms are ripped apart'
New model of cosmic stickiness favors ‘Big Rip’ demise of universe From Vanderbilt University: The universe can be a very sticky place, but just how sticky is a matter of…
Meet the Mutants – the latest Government effort to defeat Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall It would be wrong to think that the governments of the world are solely focussed on reducing CO2. Just in case the Paris conference fails…
With Pollution Levels Dropping, is Small Particle Air Pollution Really Killing Americans?
Guest essay by Steve Goreham Unnoticed by most citizens, last week the United States Senate introduced the “Secret Science Reform Act of 2015.” The act is aimed at the Environmental…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Center for Biological Diversity petitions EPA to list CO2 as a 'toxic substance'
From the “everybody breathes out poison” department. WUWT reader “Hell_Is_Like_Newark” writes: The Center for Biological Diversity has issued a petition to get CO2 listed as a toxic substance. CO2 will…
Climate change & ocean acidification set to cause global seafood crisis by 2050
Another computer model. Seafood supply altered by climate change From the University of British Columbia: The global supply of seafood is set to change substantially and many people will not…
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