The Week That Was: 2015-10-10 (October 10, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental…
Month: October 2015
Scientific Urban Legends
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have a category that I call “scientific urban legends”. These include things like the idea that rising seas will drown atolls, when Darwin showed…
Study: high CO2 levels equated to "warm average temperatures and flourishing life" low CO2, "preceding an ice age and eventual mass extinction"
From the UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA: Paleoclimate researchers find connection between carbon cycles, climate trends Carbon cycling research can help scientists predict global warming and cooling trends COLUMBIA, Mo. – Making…
Surprise Volkswagen Share Price Rise
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Volkswagen share prices have risen sharply in the last few days, apparently on the back of news that Volkswagen was already negotiating a settlement with…
Stop The Devastation of Peoples Lives By Speculating with No Data: Remembering Cattle And Methane Emissions
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Release of early data from NASA’s OCO2 satellite triggered the typical nonsense. The usual people talked about the modern equivalent of how many angels on…
Glacial Erosion – the new climate scare?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian ABC has published details of a new climate scare – the possibility that global warming will lubricate the worlds glaciers with meltwater, causing…
USGS puts the kibosh on '1000 year flood' and 'caused by climate change' claims over South Carolina flooding
From the “looks like a win for skeptics” department. USGS publishes new information that quashes widespread media and activist claims that the flood in South Carolina was caused by climate change; nor…
Are We Chasing Imaginary Numbers?
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Spoiler Alert: This essay is not about the mathematical entity the imaginary number. I do think that an essay here about imaginary numbers of…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Fictional movie inspires fictional climate modeling
From the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON and the “lets study science fiction by using climate model fiction” department. Could ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ happen? A researcher from the University of Southampton…
An attempt to link climate change to moulins in Greenland
From the UNIVERSITY OF EXETER and the “don’t ignore the black soot left at the bottom after the drainage” department. Greenland’s ice sheet plumbing system revealed Pioneering new research sheds…
'Brilliant tricks' with D cells and electromagnets save 70% on your electric bill
You know, marketing is sometimes ridiculous, and this one is no exception. I spotted this ad over on the Sierra Club website that was obviously targeted for “low information voters”.…
OECD calls for the elimination of fossil fuel taxes
Guest opinion by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador There comes a point in your Internet life when you know what an article will be like before hitting the first dot. Not what…
There’s life in the old Pause yet
Still no global warming at all for 18 years 8 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley To the growing embarrassment of the world-government wannabes who are preparing to meet in…
A Short Summary of Soon, Connolly and Connolly, 2015; “Re-evaluating the role of solar variability on Northern Hemisphere temperature trends since the 19th Century”
Guest essay by Andy May Soon, Connolly and Connolly (2015) is an excellent paper (pay walled, for the authors preprint, go here) that casts some doubt about two critical IPCC…
Solar Update October 2015
Guest essay by David Archibald Introduction While Solar Cycle 24 is well into its decline in terms of F10.7 flux and sunspot number, several types of solar activity have risen…
Update: About those claims of declining bird populations due to ‘climate change’
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Science is a wonderful thing. As time moves on, in a single direction, Science, as an endeavor, corrects past misunderstandings. Unfortunately, corrections seldom hit…
Atmospheric concentration of an ozone destroying chemical drops mysteriously
From the “possible measurement error” department. Larry O’Hanlon (via AGU blogs) writes: Something strange has happened to the atmospheric concentration of a newly discovered, human-made, ozone-destroying gas: it has suddenly…
Global Temperature Report: September 2015 – In the tropics, warmest September in the satellite temperature record
From UAH via press release: Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.11 C per decade September temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.25 C (about 0.45 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year…
Hump Day Hilarity: Newly appointed IPCC chairman worked for Exxon
Yesterday the IPCC announced they’d found a new leader to replace the oversexed Rajendra Pachauri, who is currently embroiled in a sexual harassment case in India. The new guy is…
Study: CO2 "acidification" does not harm Coral
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study, pH homeostasis during coral calcification in a free ocean CO2 enrichment (FOCE) experiment, Heron Island reef flat, Great Barrier Reef led by researcher…
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