From Carnegie Mellon and the “BLT’s must be carbon neutral then” department comes this story sure to strike fear into the hearts of vegetarian climate activists everywhere. Vegetarian and ‘healthy’ diets…
Month: December 2015
COP21: Shortest Climate Agreement Honeymoon Ever?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The initial explosion of green Euphoria at the announcement of the COP21 climate agreement, is rapidly giving way to dismay, as various environmentalists and other…
New research shows Earth's tilt influences climate change
From the LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY and the department of tilt-a-whirl, comes this Milankovitch moment. LSU paleoclimatologist Kristine DeLong contributed to an international research breakthrough that sheds new light on how the…
November 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale As you’ll recall from last month’s update, the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index jumped upwards more than 0.2 deg C from September to October 2014, assumedly…
Gavin's admission about the satellite record versus the surface temperature record
This has to be the Twitter conversation of the year, in the “hottest year ever”. Kudos to this guy for getting this from Gavin.
#AGU15 NASA says the repurposed decades old 'Gore-sat' is actually doing something useful
Readers may recall that the Al Gore inspired satellite called “TRIANA” that was put in storage for over a decade got launched earlier this year, renamed as the Deep Space Climate…
James Hansen at #AGU15 Why Are Scientists Holding Back on Sea Level Projections?
Session today: James Hansen, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Hansen coauthored a widely discussed paper this year that projects sea levels could surge up to 10 feet this century. He…
#AGU15 It's not the killer heat, but the killer humidity
This looked interesting, but then I saw that Noah Diffenbaugh was involved, and it looks like just more of the same gloom and doom he’s been professing for years. Maybe…
Suing Climate Appeasers: The New Green Eldorado?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A series of climate lawsuits, which mainly appear to be targeting energy businesses which attempted to appease the green blob, have recently been launched around…
Length of day increase and sea level rise linked
Via press release today from the University of Alberta. The days are getting longer Scientists reveal that the rotation of Earth’s core holds a clue to understanding global sea-level rise Scientists…
Reporting from #AGU15
I’m in San Francisco at the American Geophysical Union convention and I will be reporting from here all week. Postings may be a bit erratic, as I have to juggle…
Aussie Carbon Pricing is Back
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Remember back when Australian voters thought they were electing a government which was committed to abolishing carbon taxes? The following are the words of Australia’s…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #209
The Week That Was: 2015-12-12 (December 12, 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 'Binding' Paris treaty is now just voluntary mush
But Obama still wants to send US energy use and living standards backward Guest essay by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek Paris climate talks this week descended into madcap all-night…
Paris #COP21 agreement – Watered down but still dangerous
Guest essay by Craig Rucker, CFACT.org The UN is celebrating at COP 21, but what did they really achieve? President Obama called the Paris climate agreement the best chance we’ve…
America, We Have a Problem
Guest essay by E. Calvin Beisner Kindergartners are running the country. Or liars. Or both. Honest. That was my strongest impression during the nearly three-hour “Data or Dogma: Promoting Open…
Saturday Silliness – Speak softly and carry a big Hockey Stick to the Senate
Since there was so much coverage of Mark Steyn’s take no prisoners testimony at the Senate hearing this week, (full text and video) I commissioned Josh to create a cartoon…
Final draft of #COP21 reached – with a 1 year "opt out" clause
Opinion by Anthony Watts A final draft of the Paris climate agreement has emerged after days – and years – of negotiation. Laurent Fabius, the president of COP21, called the…
James Hansen: Paris Talks are "a fraud"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall James Hansen, the godfather of the Global Warming movement, has weighed into the Paris COP21 climate circus, by dismissing the climate conference as fraudulent and…
Underwater Balloons – a new idea in Energy Storage?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Hydrostor has created an interesting innovation in energy storage. The energy is stored as compressed air, in giant underwater balloons. Hydrostor’s system works in several…
Is climate forecasting immune from Occam's razor?
Guest essay by Kesten Green Several authors have argued that the hypothesis of dangerous manmade global warming fails the test of Occam’s razor because the simple hypothesis of natural variation…
Attribution of Surplus CO2 in the Atmosphere
Guest essay by Leo Goldstein While we are watching the 21st episode of the Clowns on Parade series (COP21), we should remind the leading participants of a couple of facts…
Modern Day Versions of King Canute Find It Difficult To Replace God
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball I learned in school that King Canute (990 – 1035 AD) was the most stupid King in English history (Figure 1). He was so ignorant…
Stephan Lewandowsky's "Moon Landing Paper" scathingly criticized by team of psychologists in a new book
There is a new book about to be published titled: The Social Psychology of Morality, which is to be published by the Psychology Press. I and several other skeptic bloggers have been given…
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