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…
Month: April 2016
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…
The "Exxon Climate Papers" show what Exxon and climate science knew and shared
If they withheld or suppressed climate research from the public or shareholders, it is not apparent in these documents. Guest essay by Andy May New York Attorney General Eric T.…
CEI formally objects to climate Witch Hunt from Virgin Islands attorney general
By Andrew Restuccia A lawyer representing the Competitive Enterprise Institute today formally objected to a subpoena from U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker that demands a decade’s worth of internal documents…
Study claims: Ancient tectonic activity was trigger for ice ages
From the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the “thank goodness we have plenty of free CO2 in the atmosphere today” department comes this claim: Continental shifting may have acted as…
Hump day hilarity – Democracy poll toll
Josh writes: There is a delightful story in the UK news this week: After Internet users overwhelmingly voted to christen Britain’s new $300 million research ship “Boaty McBoatface” in an online naming poll, a government official suggested the name…
Kevin Trenberth’s Climate Attribution Studies versus Useful Science – Part 1 Hurricane Sandy
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Useful climate science…
Aussie Attorney General: "If the [climate] science is settled, why do we need research scientists to continue inquiring into the settled science?"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian Attorney General George Brandis has stirred the climate pot down under, by asking a simple yet devastating question. “If the science is settled,…
Harnessing Infinity: The Promise of Quantum Computing
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Register has published a fascinating video about Quantum Computing, an interview with D-Wave, a company which manufactures what they claim are quantum computing systems.…
Newsbytes: Big Science Is Broken
Also: Poll: Just 6 Percent Of Americans Say They Trust News Media From the Lewpaper department: Science is broken. That’s the thesis of a must-read article in First Things magazine,…
Sea level rise: Plenty of time for Noah to build the Ark
Guest essay by Albert Parker We may consider all the tide gauges in the latest PSMSL survey of relative mean sea level secular trends (http://www.psmsl.org/products/trends/trends.txt ). The population changes year…
Curious: A Total Solar Irradiance nosedive seen in SORCE data
I don’t know if this is a real measurement, and that the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) measured by the SORCE project is real, or if we are seeing another sensor…
Systematic Error in Climate Measurements: The surface air temperature record
Guest essay by Pat Frank Presented at World Federation of Scientists, Erice, Sicily, 20 August 2015 This is a version of the talk I gave about uncertainty in the global…
4ft of Global Warming Cancels Denver Cannabis Rally
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Twitchy – A large public event, a celebration of Cannabis culture, was cancelled in Denver on Sunday, because of heavy snowfall. According to Twitchy,…
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