Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Obama has announced a climate “pact” with Canada; but this executive action seems likely to once again raise questions about the limits of executive…
Month: March 2016
The Warmer The Icier Part II
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the first part of this disquisition, I discussed the oddity that the warmer it gets around Antarctica, the more ice accumulates on the Antarctic…
Deposition sheds troubling new light on the #RICO20/DOJ “potential investigation of climate deniers”
14 of the RICO20 Guest essay by Chris Horner Yesterday, in a Senate hearing, Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged internal discussions about possible Department of Justice racketeering investigations into political…
Claim: Greenhouse gas 'bookkeeping' turned on its head
From the CARNEGIE INSTITUTION and the “worse than we thought” department Washington, D.C.–For the first time scientists have looked at the net balance of the three major greenhouse gases–carbon dioxide,…
A case study bearing on the nature of “consensus” in normal science and in the AGW controversy
Guest essay by Rick Wallace A useful method for gaining an initial understanding of complex social-psychological phenomena is to collect and compare case studies. Despite the humble character of such…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Pumping sea level rise away onto Antarctica
Actual headline from press release: Sea-level rise too big to be pumped away From the POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (PIK) Future sea-level rise is a problem…
We can end the climate policy wars: demand a test of the models
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: This is the last of my series about ways to resolve the public policy debate about climate change. It puts my…
Global warming increases rain in world's driest areas
Not only does the wet get wetter over land, but the driest areas get wetter too From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES and the “Flannery says permanent drought over…
Wrecked in a Hurricane
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Bemused by claims about connections between solar radiation, shipwrecks, and hurricanes in the pre-publication press release of a paywalled study highlighted by Anthony here on…
President Obama just gave $500 million of Your Money to the UN Green Fund
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Tyrants and dictators, shady international arms dealers, brutal leaders of broken, basket case nations like President for Life Robert Mugabe, will be celebrating today; President…
Claim: Human influence on climate dates back to 1930s
From the AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION and the Australian “ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science” (you know, that outfit that gave “Ship of Fools” Chris Turney an award) comes…
A response to being Mann-handled
Full Disclosure – by Tim Ball and Anthony Watts In a recent set of Tweets (seen in the image above) Dr. Michael Mann of ‘hockey stick’ infamy, accused Tim Ball…
Dana Nuccitelli: Climate TV Coverage Falling
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – Climate activist Dana Nuccitelli, who was hilariously outed as an employee of big oil, has made a shock discovery: Telling people the…
Positive water feedback not found in the Mt. Pinatubo eruption
Guest essay by Dr. Antero Ollila Water vapor feedback has remained a topic of debate since 1990. The laymen do not know that water has an essential role in calculating…
Green Fury at Warren Buffett's Climate Heresy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A week after Warren Buffett broke the green taboo, by suggesting climate change will not be universally disastrous for his business, the overheated activist outrage…
Study: fewer Caribbean hurricanes during Maunder Minimum of solar activity
“We didn’t go looking for the Maunder Minimum, it just popped out of the data.” From the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Shipwrecks, tree rings reveal Caribbean hurricanes in buccaneer era Records…
Flawed Claim of New Study: 'Extreme Tornado Outbreaks Have Become More Common'
A new paper shows that the average number of tornadoes per outbreak has grown by more than 40% over the last half century. The likelihood of extreme outbreaks – those with many…
Mongolia: Deadly Cold, Heavy Snow blamed on Global Warming
Guest essay by Eric Worrall More evidence that global warming is spreading its icy tentacles across the entire Northern Hemisphere; devex reports that global warming is freezing Mongolian livestock, and…
Monday Mirthiness: Mann Flies the Friendly Skies
From the “I’m sorry sir, you’ll have to check that ego with baggage, you can’t carry it on” department comes this ironic missive from Michael Mann. Gate agents have quite…
Hubble telescope sees 13.4 billion years into the past
Hubble team breaks cosmic distance record By pushing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest…
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