From the department of ENSO denial, “the Brady Bunch” and NOAA’s weather.gov comes this ridiculous statement: Was El Niño solely responsible for the record warm winter for the contiguous United States?…
Month: March 2016
Friday Funny – the SciFi terror of inadequate anomalies
With this missive from NYT’s Andrew Revkin who is singing the praises of alarmism by AP’s Seth Borenstein, I’ve come to think that climate alarmists are little more than garden…
Venezuela Green Energy Emergency Shutdown
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – Venezuela, a major oil exporter, has ordered an emergency week long industrial shutdown, to try to prevent electricity demands from exceeding their…
Greens Declare Victory over CO2
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Scientific American reports that the world economy is growing without increases in CO2 emissions, which the author attributes to the rise of green energy. However,…
Europe Struggling to Decide Whether Climate is Still a Priority
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Reuters reports that climate and green energy are back on the next EU summit agenda, after reports the climate issue was pushed off the agenda…
FAIL: Ivanpah solar power plant not producing enough electricity, may be forced to close
From the road to green hell is paved with good intentions (and dead birds) department and MarketWatch comes this unsurprising news: A federally backed, $2.2 billion solar project in…
Hubble telescope unveils never before seen 'monster stars'
An international team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has combined images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) with the unprecedented ultraviolet spatial resolution of the…
Cycle 24 Solar activity slowly ramping up (this month)
After being in a slump last month, it seems that sunspots are starting to pick up again as this latest SDO image shows: This of course is just a minor…
New study: Temperate Plants Love Milder Temperatures
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A field study has suggested that plants growing in cool temperate regions respond well to milder temperatures. The abstract of the study; Boreal and temperate…
In the 'warmest year ever', U.S. tornado deaths were near lowest ever
While pundits such as AP’s Seth Borenstein are trying to link some climate and weather connections in a new study, this sobering fact is worth noting. Since record keeping began in 1875,…
NASA testing whether Potatoes can Grow on Mars
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The humble potato is apparently so adaptable to different climatic conditions, NASA scientists are conducting serious tests, to see if the hardiest varieties could grow…
The IPCC has been Deceiving the Public about the Carbon Cycle from the Start
Guest essay by Leo Goldstein Many people hold the opinion that the early full reports of the IPCC Working Group I were scientifically wholesome, at least for some time. This…
Climate variations analyzed 5 million years back in time show repeating fractal patterns
From the UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN – NIELS BOHR INSTITUTE When we talk about climate change today, we have to look at what the climate was previously like in order to recognise…
Alarmism Cranked Up to Absurd Level
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale With the El Niño-related uptick in the February 2016 GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index, Figure 1, alarmism has reached beyond the Spinal Tap 11 volume setting,…
Searching for Warming in USHCN Data
Guest essay by Leland Park Before Climate Science, basic physics differentiated between the terms heat and temperature because they are related – but do not have the same meaning. The…
Japan Plans to meet Paris Commitments, by Building Coal Plants
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Japan, which hilariously defined investment in high efficiency coal plants as “climate finance“, now plans to meet Paris commitments, by building even more coal plants.…
One graph proves that record high year of 2015 and record months of 2016 are not AGW driven
Dr Ryan Maue of Weatherbell follows the data, wherever that data leads him. He’s not shy of telling it like it is. Yesterday he released what I consider the most…
Quote of the Week – The Galileo Syndrome redux
Climate skeptics are routinely pilloried and shunned for daring to question the perceived scientific consensus on climate change, or even the cooked up 97% consensus. There are tactics of fear…
Warming ocean water undercuts Antarctic ice shelves
From the UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER “Upside-down rivers” of warm ocean water threaten the stability of floating ice shelves in Antarctica, according to a new study led by researchers at…
Claim: Economists are Mistakenly Failing to Predict Climageddon
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Age, an Australian newspaper, complains that economists who try to model the impact of climate change, say by measuring the impact of heatwaves, and…
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