Guest essay by Eric Worrall Mother Jones is celebrating that China has just committed $3.1 billion to help poor countries fight climate change. Mother Jones cautiously states they don’t know…
Month: September 2015
More facts against the Mann – 'late 20th century warming has not been unique within…the past 750 years '
Earlier this week, in Facts against the Mann, we noted how some ice core data cast doubt on Michael E. Mann’s recent claim that: “overall warmth of the globe and…
Claim: Global warming is shortening the tongues of Bumble Bees
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t The Register – A study published in Science claims that global warming is shortening the tongues of Bumble Bees, which may impact the ability…
Friday funny – Fiddle me this
Josh writes: Volkswagen has been found cheating on US emissions tests, but with the Green Blob fiddling everything from Renewables to Global Temperatures, it’s no wonder they thought this was ok. Some…
Climate scientists can restart the climate change debate & win: test the models!
By Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website Summary; Public policy about climate change has become politicized and gridlocked after 26 years of large-scale advocacy. We cannot even prepare for…
Approximately 66% of global surface temperature data consists of estimated values
Summary of GHCN Adjustment-Model Effects on Temperature Data Guest essay by John Goetz As the debate over whether or not this year will be the hottest year ever burns on,…
New computer model says human emissions can 'render Earth ice free'
From the “department of global roasting” and the UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS, where great ideas like this one are formed at Halloween parties, (yes really, see PR) comes this claim: UAF…
Another attempt at Cooking settling consensus on climate change
From the “Cooking up another 97% consensus” department and Purdue University: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University-led survey of nearly 700 scientists from non-climate disciplines shows that more than…
Pope Francis approves EPA Clean Air Initiative
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Pope Francis has demanded skeptics renounce climate skepticism, and affirmed his support for strongly partisan initiatives such as the EPA Clean Air Initiative. According to…
Quote of the Week: facts against the Mann
While ramping up his own invective to fit as much ad hominem as possible into a single sentence: Mr. Sauer parroted baseless talking points that have their origin in fossil-fuel…
When messaging collides with science: The 'Hottest Year Ever' Inside a Global Warming ‘Pause’?
Excerpt from a story by statistician William M. Briggs There are two stories floating around about the state of the earth’s atmosphere. Both are believed true by government-funded scientists and the…
The Associated Press drops the ugly climate term "denier" in their AP stylebook
From the AP Blog: (h/t to Thomas Hogg) An addition to AP Stylebook entry on global warming Sept. 22, 2015, by Paul Colford The AP Stylebook editors today informed AP staff…
Failed Kiribati Climate Refugee finally leaves New Zealand
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Kiribati man Ioane Teitiota, who attempted to claim climate refugee status when he overstayed his work visa, has finally left New Zealand. Accord to 3News;…
Claim: Permian extinction 252 million years ago '…a consequence of global climate change'
The Karoo Basin and the end Permian mass extinction From the GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Boulder, Colo., USA – Earth’s biosphere witnessed its greatest ecological catastrophe in the latest Permian,…
Skating on Thin Ice: the climate documentary that isn't
BY IAN WISHART, author of Totalitaria and Air Con It’s touted as an award-winning documentary on climate change, but if that’s true I’d like to know whether the judges were…
23! New! Papers!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Pierre Gosselin’s site, NoTricksZone, he’s trumpeting the fact that there are a bunch of new papers showing a solar effect on the climate.…
Hilarious claim: "we know when global (cough, cough) warming first appeared in the temperature record, er, models"
From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (via Eurekalert) and the “Where’s Waldo?” department comes this hilarious claim. Why hilarious? Because the headline says “global warming”, yet the research says that warming…
Green’ Cars Meltdown As VW Emissions Scandal Rocks Car Industry
Via The GWPF: The European car industry was shaken on Monday as Volkswagen’s share price fell almost 20 per cent over its admission that it cheated on US emissions tests,…
September 2015 ENSO Update – Sea Surface Temperatures Continue to Rise in the Central Equatorial Pacific
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of last year’s 2014-15 El Niño Series. The reference years…
Doubling up the sea level scare for Paris using the old 'one-two punch' line
From the THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY One-two punch of rising seas, bigger storms may greatly magnify US East coast floods New study quantifies synergy of 2 climate hazards…
Climate Insanity on steroids!
Economies collapsing, Middle East imploding – and Obama & Pals obsess over … the climate! Guest essay by Paul Driessen The Middle East is imploding. Islamic State butchers are annihilating…
NPR radio station WYPR gets an earful on climate change from an educated listener
Dr. Roger Stritmatter writes: For your information, I pass on this letter, which has just been sent to Anthony Brandon, WYPR station manager. If you think it is suitable, I…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #197
The Week That Was: 2015-09-19 (September 19, 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…
Climate Science Turned Monster
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Promoters of ‘official’ climate, which is defined as the works of the UN IPCC, are desperate. Twenty of them, including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
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