Guest essay by Eric Worrall Most UK households use natural gas for home heating, largely because green policy inflated electricity costs are so high. But the Carbon Worriers in the…
Month: April 2016
Saturday silliness – Gavin loses it
Josh writes: When Steve MicIntyre writes “In the past few weeks, I’ve been re-examining the long-standing dispute over the discrepancy between models and observations in the tropical troposphere.” you might…
Open Thread Saturday – "What Could We do Better"?
I’m traveling today, and my ability to connect to the Internet will be hit and miss. Therefore, I’ve decided to run an open thread along with this question: What Could We…
"A Lighter Shade of Gray"
Bill Gray at the ICCC9 conference at Las Vegas in 2014. In WUWT’s announcement of the passing of Dr. Gray, Phil Klotzbach commented that he and a colleague were writing…
Climate science might become the most important casualty of the replication crisis
The replication crisis in science has just begun. It will be big. By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: After a decade of slow growth beneath public view,…
Friday Funny: Earth Day Hate Mail
Letters, I get letters, and even though the WUWT contact page says clearly: Contacts made under this form (especially hate mail and threats) are considered to be fair game for…
Seven Earth Day predictions that failed spectacularly
Never Trust The Doom-Mongers: Earth Day Predictions That Were All Wrong The Daily Caller, 22 April 2016 Andrew Follett Environmentalists truly believed and predicted that the planet was doomed during…
Friday funny – Subsidy Sam in the news!
Josh writes:’Subsidy Sam’ is a children’s story written by Lyndsey Ward to counter the shameless pro-wind propaganda allowed in schools. Lyndsey asked me to help out with a cartoon and I…
Reax: Obama to sign Paris accord today, Earth Day
From a press release: Heartland Institute Experts React to President Obama’s Signing of the Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day President Barack Obama plans to sign the controversial Paris climate…
Splitting degrees to say a half of degree warming matters
From EGU 1.5 C vs 2 C global warming: New study shows why half a degree matters European researchers have found substantially different climate change impacts for a global warming…
US Senate Considering Albedo Modification Geoengineering Proposal
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The US Senate is considering funding for albedo modification geoengineering experiments – pumping particles or aerosols into the stratosphere, to reflect sunlight back into space,…
Hubble captures birthday bubble
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, released to celebrate Hubble’s 26th year in orbit, captures in stunning clarity what looks like a gigantic cosmic soap bubble. The object, known…
Another record low in Arctic sea ice predicted this summer
From the ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE, HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH and “it’s an El Niño year” department comes this prediction: The Arctic is facing a decline in sea ice…
Does Demonizing the Other Side Promote Constructive Debate Over Climate Change?
Guest essay by Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten Who are “climate skeptics”? Greg Garrard, Associate Professor of Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, thinks he knows. In fact,…
Leaked email shows website Climate Feedback plans a propaganda push under guise of #StandWithScience
Plans to generate a crowd-funding campaign to help silence dissent on news articles. I’ve received this from two independent sources, which is said to be from a mailing list being…
CEEMD and Sunspots
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been investigating the use of the “complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition” (CEEMD) analysis method, which I discussed in a previous post entitled Noise-Assisted Data…
Guardian: Warmer, More Agreeable US Weather Undermining Climate Action
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian is distressed that the agreeable, pleasantly mild weather caused by global warming is undermining efforts to motivate ordinary people to address Climate Change.…
Columbia University begrudgingly admits the benefits of CO2 on crops
From the “what took them so long” department…. Could global warming’s top culprit help crops? Study looks at how carbon dioxide might cut effects of rising heat From THE EARTH…
Palestine Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Back in December of last year I put up a post which said in its entirety: Very short post. I read today that Palestine has been granted…
Vinerism strikes the snowmobiling industry
From the same sort of Dr. David Viner mindset that brought us “Snowfall will be a thing of the past” comes this teary-eyed missive: Snowobiling could be hard hit by…
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