I follow Kickstarter, and today they featured this “art” project in Copenhagen that plans to make the carbon footprint of a new powerplant visible city wide. Personally, I don’t see…
Month: August 2015
Better late than never: Danny is first Atlantic hurricane of the season
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Atlantic Ocean as Tropical Storm Danny intensified into the season’s first hurricane. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instrument that flies aboard NASA’s…
'Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change' suggests we are going to hell in a handbasket, links climate to Nepal earthquake
Apparently, this came out of the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium held on August 17-18, and is being touted as another run-up to COP21 in Paris. It seems like they want to…
Spin Cycle: EPA Deflates Climate Impacts, Inflates Significance
By PAUL C. “CHIP” KNAPPENBERGER and PATRICK J. MICHAELS By PAUL C. “CHIP” KNAPPENBERGER and PATRICK J. MICHAELS Well, well, well. The EPA has finally gone and done it.…
Ridiculous claim from Columbia University: 'Warming climate is deepening California drought '
From the THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the department of “intense droughts only occur in the age of the SUV” department, where they apparently failed to take the…
Is The Signal Detectable?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE] In the comments, Nick Stokes pointed out that although I thought that Dr. Shaviv’s harmonic solar component was a 12.6 year sine wave with…
Peer review is broken – Springer announces 64 papers retracted due to fake reviews
Science publishing giant Springer, with over 2900 journals, has announced on its website that 64 articles published in 10 of its journals are being retracted. Editorial staff found evidence of fake…
Claim: China has emitted 15% less CO2 than previously estimated
Guest essay by Eric Worrall China’s estimated total CO2 emissions to date may have to be revised down by 15%, according a study published in Nature, because the coal China…
How Does The IPCC Explain the Severe Storms Of History?
Guest Opinion Dr. Tim Ball Every day we hear that storms of greater intensity than ever before are occurring, and it will get worse because of global warming. These claims…
Climate Craziness of the Week: James Hansen is using children to sue US government over climate
So the question is, just how low will activists stoop? We predict that eventually Gina McCarthy will say “we are compelled by law to take stronger action”, just as Lisa…
The 'Arctic Methane Emergency' appears canceled due to methane eating bacteria
Many readers know that we’ve covered the supposed “ticking time bomb” of methane that is supposedly going to be released somewhere, somehow, either from methane clathrates on the sea floor…
The Missing ~ 11-Year Signal
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dr. Nir Shaviv and others strongly believe that there is an ~ 11-year solar signal visible in the sea level height data. I don’t think…
EPA's gross negligence at Gold King Mine includes disappearing 191 incident photos from their website
WUWT contributor Russell Cook notes: EPA has scrubbed all 191 photos off their photo log / list view pages http://www.epaosc.org/site/image_listview.aspx?site_id=11082 . If the #1 item at this page is an…
Cooling and Warming, Clouds and Thunderstorms
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following up on a suggestion made to me by one of my long-time scientific heroes, Dr. Fred Singer, I’ve been looking at the rainfall dataset…
Tuesday Tantrums, I get hate mail
People send me stuff… Readers may recall back on May 13th of this year I posted about a change in policy related to hate mail and hateful comments that get…
The next big worry: Claim of major U.S. aquifers contaminated by Uranium – but is it really a problem to health?
Study: 2 major US aquifers contaminated by natural uranium Naturally occurring uranium is being mobilized by farm-related pollution From the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nearly 2 million people throughout the…
Claim: A pioneer "frontier mentality" causes climate denial
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Naomi Klein has claimed that the reason Americans, British, Australians and Canadians are the world’s leading “climate deniers”, is that we share a “frontier mentality”.…
How we broke the climate change debates. Lessons learned for the future
From the Fabius Maximus website. By Larry Kummer Summary: This, my 305th post about climate, explains what I’ve learned so far. I believe that climate science as an institution has…
The recurrent problem of green scares that don't live up to the hype
By Matt Ridley (originally in the Wall Street Journal, sent to WUWT by the author) ‘We’ve heard these same stale arguments before,” said President Obama in his speech on climate…
My Thanks, Apologies, and Reply to Dr. Nir Shaviv
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dr. Nir Shaviv has kindly replied in the comments to my previous post. There, he says: Nir Shaviv August 15, 2015 at 2:51 pm There…
Claim: some coastal dwellers of US at high health risk from climate change
From the THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the “we need a task force and more money” department comes this ridiculous pandering claim. Gotta love the caveat “Although future…
July 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS through July 2015 and HADCRUT4 and…
Study: On Wikipedia, politically controversial science topics are vulnerable to information sabotage
The “William Connolley effect” gets quantified, apparently anything that is not “consensus science” is considered sabotage. When researching acid rain, evolution, and climate change — cast a critical eye on…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #192
The Week That Was: 2015-08-15 (August 15, 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…
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