By Paul Dorian, Vencore Weather Overview El Nino strengthened significantly during 2015 and peaked in December as one of the strongest such episodes in the past fifty years. Even though…
Month: April 2016
Are You New To the Global Warming Debate? James Hansen Admits a Couple of Things about Global Temperatures and Sea Levels You Should Know
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Yale University’s Katherine Bagley interviewed James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in the post For James Hansen, the Science Demands Activism…
Stephen Hawking backs $100 Million Russian Effort to Build a Relativistic Space Probe
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The quest to send a physical probe to the nearest stars is heating up – renowned Physicist Stephen Hawking has teamed up with Russian billionaire…
Brazil Too Distracted by Internal Problems, to Ratify the Paris Climate Agreement?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Concerns are growing amongst greens, that climate and CO2 emissions reduction is taking a back seat in Brazil, because of a severe economic slowdown, and…
Environmentalists Going Nuclear on Pluto
Guest essay by James Wanliss Every technology has costs and benefits. Horses and oxen can draw carts but they also draw flies. Fire can cook food, but can also burn…
John Cook is cooking up more 97% consensus, while two papers refute his statistical sleights of hand
We’ve had the climate wars, now we have the consensus wars, and it appears Cook’s side and his publisher aren’t playing fair with the numbers, or with the review/rebuttal process.…
'Blind flying pig test' from climate model says islands will lack precipitation while being submerged by sea-level rise
From the University of Colorado at Boulder and “when pigs fly, climate models will capture all the missing details” department comes this oinker of a press release. Islands facing a…
Green EU Leader: People should Not be Allowed a Direct Vote on Some Issues
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Rebecca Harms, a senior member of the German Green Party, and co-President of a major Green Group in the European Parliament, thinks referendums, direct plebiscites,…
Hadley Climate data has been "corrected" thanks to alert climate skeptic
John McLean writes relative to our previous story on this issue: Friday Funny: more upside down data A few hours ago I received an email from John Kennedy at the Hadley…
Has the UK Steel Jobs Bloodbath Broken Union Support for Climate Action?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall There are intriguing signs of a softening of political resolve to act on Climate Change, on the left wing of Australian Politics. Perhaps the Climate…
NOAA/NWS to stop 'yelling' at the public in their forecasts
From NOAA Communications: National Weather Service will stop using all caps in its forecasts Farewell teletype, hello mixed-case characters LISTEN UP! BEGINNING ON MAY 11, NOAA’S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS…
Black hole with the mass of 17 billion suns discovered
From NASA Goddard: Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the…
More satellite problems with Arctic Sea Ice measurement
A few years ago in 2009, I was the first to notice and write about a failure of the instrumentation for one of the satellites used by the National Snow…
Headlines: What Climate Alarmists Write Versus What the Rest of Us See
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I always enjoy the headlines of climate alarmist news stories. This one caught my eye this week. Of course the headline included the infamous weasel…
Federal Court rules in Favour of Plaintiffs Demanding Climate Action
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Federal court Justice Thomas Coffin has ruled that child plaintiffs suing the Federal Government have a right to put their case, that the US Government…
Deep-sixing another useless climate myth
The vaunted “97% consensus” on dangerous manmade global warming is just more malarkey by Dr. David R. Legates By now, virtually everyone has heard that “97% of scientists agree: Climate…
Ecosystem Translocation: The latest Climate Engineering Brainstorm
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Stéphane Boyer, senior lecturer at UNITEC Institute of Technology is worried that plants and animals can’t move fast enough to survive climate change. His solution:…
Cosmic Disconnections
I read yesterday that someone had supposedly provided evidence in support of Svensmark’s hypothesis that cosmic rays affect the weather. So I went to look it up. The study is called…
Claim: Climate Change will Stop Women from Wanting Sex
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Women don’t like to sweat while having sex, so they are less likely to have sex in warm weather, according to the latest climate health…
A report on the hyperbole behind the politicized issue of 'fracking'
I wrote this report a couple of years ago, when local misguided fracktivists tried to get our local board of supervisors to issue a county-wide ban against fracking. I thought…
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