Guest essay by Eric Worrall Sea Level Rise may displace up to 16 million Americans by 2100, according to researchers from the University of Georgia. But the study ignores history,…
Month: March 2016
Ridiculous offer from PG&E asks if I want to pay MORE for electricity to 'demonstrate my commitment to sustainability'
From the Department of Retarded Economics and the Pacific Gas and Electric company comes this unbelievable offer that asks if I want to pay more for electricity to be part…
Flaws discovered in Gavin Schmidt's new climate paper, not so 'marvel'ous after all
Bishop Hill writes: Over at Climate Audit, Nic Lewis has outlined the latest developments in the saga of the Marvel et al paper, which claimed to have demonstrated that climate…
Monday Mirthiness – hilarious hate mail
People send me stuff. Today I got one of the most ridiculous pieces of hate mail, ever, from some fool in Belgium who can’t seem to figure out that what…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #218
The Week That Was: 2016-03-12 (March 12, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
Global Sea Surface Temperature Responses to the 1997/98 and 2015/16 El Niño Events
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Alternate Title: Just in Case You Thought Sea Surface Temperatures around the Globe Responded Similarly to Strong El Niños This post will illustrate quite clearly…
A Warming Arctic Would Not Cause Increased Severe Weather or Temperature Extremes
Guest essay by Chuck Wiese, Meteorologist, Weatherwise, Inc. This essay is a critique Francis and Vavrus (2012), hereinafter FV (2012), by atmospheric scientists Jennifer Francis from Rutgers University and Steve…
Use of Fear to Silence Climate Skeptics Is An Assault On Reason
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason. Both fear and reasoning are essential to human survival, but the relationship between them is unbalanced. Reason…
Investigating global warming using a new graph style
Guest essay by Sheldon Walker I have developed a new type of graph, which I call a global warming contour map. It displays the warming rate, for every possible trend in…
UK Ocean Scientists: We're going to Investigate the Pause
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A fascinating rift is growing in the climate community. While US scientists appear to be doing everything in their power to bury the ongoing pause…
February 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
UPDATE (April 15, 2016): I discovered an error in the model-data comparison and model-data difference graphs (Figures 10 and 11) that impacted only the January 2016 value. The error has…
The Cook '97% consensus' paper, exposed by new book for the fraud that it really is
I don’t like to use the word “fraud”, and I can’t recall if I’ve ever used it in a title. In this case it is warranted. Brandon Shollenberger writes of…
One of the very first global warming films: 'The Greenhouse Conspiracy'
The Greenhouse Conspiracy (1990) A “Channel 4” documentary, was recently added to YouTube (h/t to Leo Hickman) Video follows. It is interesting to see what was being said 25 years ago…
Weather Ripples and Climate Tides
Letter to the Editor Every time a north wind blows hot air over Adelaide, some Chicken Little cries “Global Warming”. And when an El Nino predictably causes a hot year…
Quote of the week: personal energy and a poll
In comments on Dr. Roy’s Facebook page about him turning comments off on his blog because he’s simply tired of dealing with sockpuppeting troll Douglas J. Cotton, there was this…
Friday unfunny: How one obnoxious fool caused Dr. Roy Spencer to throw in the towel on his blog
Most members of the climate debate online have run across Doug J. Cotton. He’s been long banned from WUWT, and from several other blogs for his inability to take a…
$50 Million Renewable Energy Scam
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A Pennsylvania newspaper has reported details of a $50 million alleged renewable energy scam. More shocking is how easy it was, to allegedly defraud government…
March 2016 ENSO Update – We’ll Have to Keep an Eye on the Pocket of Warm Water South of the Equator
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of the 2014-15 El Niño Series. For the posts about…
Doomsday 2030: The latest Wild Climate Claim
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Researchers at University of Queensland and Griffith University have published a study, which claims global warming will exceed the green panic threshold of 2c by…
The Plastic Pollution Scare just Fizzled
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian reports, surprise, that a species of bacteria has been discovered which can eat plastic. Could a new plastic-eating bacteria help combat this pollution…
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