John Kerry Urges Private Enterprise to Produce a Renewables "Breakthrough"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Speaking at the Bloomberg Energy Finance Summit, US Secretary of State John Kerry thinks new breakthroughs are required to bring the renewable revolution “to the…

Abusing Semantics is the First and Last Refuge of Climatism

Guest essay by Leo Goldstein A few days ago the leftstream media ambushed the public with some survey results, insinuating that scores of meteorologists had converted to Climatism. Even some…

RCP 8.5: The "Mother of all" Junk Climate Science

Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from here. Nearly every catastrophic global warming doomsday scenario, particularity those involving icecap failures and Noah-size sea level rises are based on…

White House: Climate will Wreck Your Health

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new White House fact sheet claims that global warming will have severe effects on health and death rates. My question – why aren’t the…

Mann's Climate Madhouse Effect

From Mike Mann’s Facebook page: Cover of my new book w/ Tom Toles due out in September, “The ‪#‎MadHouseEffect‬: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying our Politics, and…

Prosecuting climate chaos skeptics with RICO

Al Gore, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat AGs threaten to silence and bankrupt skeptics Guest opinion by Paul Driessen It’s been a rough stretch for Climate Armageddon religionists and totalitarians. Real World…

March was 3rd warmest month in satellite record

From UAH: Global Temperature Report: March 2016 Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade March temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.73 C (about 1.31 degrees Fahrenheit)…

Monday Mirthiness – fossil fuels melt glaciers

This is a blast from the past. Were an ad like this to run today, it would cause eco-heads to explode globally, kind of like the ending of “Mars Attacks“.…

LA Times: Car Fuel Economy Standards Don't Reduce CO2

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The LA Times claims that changing land use policies would make more difference to CO2, than vehicle fuel efficiency standards. But their “solution” is to…

Freeze out in Northeast USA – temps in the teens overnight

During the “hottest year ever”, we had this yesterday for the opening day of Baseball in Pittsburgh between the Pirates and the Cardinals: Pittsburgh temps in mid-30s — warming into…

Quicky Early April 2016 ENSO Update: NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Still at the Threshold of a Strong El Niño

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale NOAA’s weekly sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO regions (based on the original Reynolds OI.v2 data) are furnished on Mondays. Today’s update for the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #221

The Week That Was: 2016-04-02 (April 2, 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…

"Green" Queensland approves Massive Carmichael Coal Mine

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australian Greens are furious that the government of the Australian State of Queensland, which has made a big show of their environmental concern, has just…

How Much Of Global Temperature Increase Is Due To El Niño?

Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Bob Tisdale wrote an “April Fools” article about the extreme nature of the 1998 El Niño. It was clever and humorous, but also fulfills Shakespeare’s…

New cause of exceptional Greenland melt in July 2012 revealed

From YORK UNIVERSITY and the “weather, not climate” department comes this study that adds to a previous study that suggests the Greenland surface “instamelt” of July 2012 was a short-term event…

Climate Alarmists: Does Climate Make it Immoral to Have Kids?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to The Guardian, having children is a moral dilemma, if you are concerned about Climate Change. But does the author really believe that the…

Another Diffenbaugh Claim: California drought patterns becoming more common

Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford is a well-known source of papers claiming alarming things about weather and climate. He churns out a paper about 2-3 times a year, with the typical…

The Size of Icy Reflections

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my continuing wanderings through the regions cryospherical, I find more side roads than main highways. In my last two posts here and here, I discussed the…

UAH Global Temperature for March Down Slightly

UAH V6 Global Temperature Update for March, 2016: +0.73 deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March, 2016…

A Solar Power Plant vs. A Natural Gas Power Plant: Capital Cost – Apples to Apples

Guest essay by Philip Dowd Here is a simple example that illustrates why current solar technology will be hard-pressed to replace existing carbon-fired power plants. Let’s suppose that a power…