The Week That Was: 2015-01-03 (January 3, 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…
Year: 2015
The Pope’s Mistaken Moral Calculus On Global Warming
Guest essay by H. Sterling Burnett Pope Francis evidently has decided to make fighting global warming an important papal cause in 2015. He praised the United Nations’ climate treaty efforts…
New version of common antibiotic could eliminate risk of hearing loss
This is a note of personal interest, since my acute hearing loss was caused by antibiotics that damaged the nerve cells of my cochlea. This is truly a breakthrough that…
Baked Alaska? Propaganda film suggests children in Alaska have no snow
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Over at the Dot Earth blog at the New York Times, Andy Revkin highlighted a cute YouTube made by James Barthelman, an elementary school teacher…
The Great Pause lengthens again
Global temperature update: the Pause is now 18 years 3 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since October 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This…
Snow in Palermo, Sicily
[on Jan 1, 2015] “In Rome, arctic-inspired winds brought temperatures as low as minus eight degrees Celsius,” says this video by David DuByne. “Palermo woke up under a white blanket,”Dozens…
A Neutral View of Oceanic pH
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following up on my previous investigations into the oceanic pH dataset, I’ve taken a deeper look at what the 2.5 million pH data points from…
Climate And Truth: A Tale Of Immorality?
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The most recent aberration of climate science is the apparent cherry picking of ocean temperature data by government scientists, Richard Feely and Christopher Sabine. The…
An open letter to politifact.com
Guest essay by Andy May This is an open letter to Lauren Carroll regarding her Politifact.com article on December 17, 2014. I have sent a very similar letter to her…
NASA's new Orbiting Carbon Observatory shows potential tectonically-induced CO2 input from the ocean?
Guest essay by Martin Hovland, Geophysiscist and Professor Emeritus, Center for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Norway The newly released satellite OCO2-data indicates that there is CO2 input in tectonically active…
Questing Into The New Year
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s a cold clear night here along the north Pacific coast where I live, with a waxing moon surveying the scene. As befits New Years…
IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group out-lived its usefulness 20 years ago
The IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) should have been disbanded in 1996, the year polar bears were down-graded from a status of ‘vulnerable to extinction’ to ‘lower risk –…
Has NOAA Once Again Tried to Adjust Data to Match Climate Models?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The topic of discussion is their new sea surface temperature dataset, ERSST.v4. Based on a breakpoint analysis recently promoted by RealClimate, NOAA appears to have…
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