From the L.A. Times: A generating tower at the world’s largest solar energy plant was shut down Thursday after a mirror misalignment caused sunlight to burn through electrical wiring and start a small fire, according…
Month: May 2016
A MUST READ – WUWT Housekeeping: ongoing issues, updates, fixes, and polls
NOTE: This will be a top post until Monday, new stories follow below. A couple of Saturdays ago, I posted an “Open Thread” with a question about “What could we…
The Economic Impact of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Image licensed from Shutterstock Guest essay by Ken Gregory Energy Balance Climate Sensitivity The most important parameter in determining the economic impact of climate change is the sensitivity of the…
Claim: Climate Causes More Young Girls to be Raped
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Reuters, in Guatemala, young girls don’t get raped because they are stalked by filthy perverts, who are shielded by what appears to be…
Bill McKibben Despairs at the failure of Shareholder Climate Activism
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Prominent climate activist Bill McKibben is unhappy that fund managers seem to be putting profits ahead of action to curb climate change. Let’s give up…
The morality of METI – should we broadcast to let aliens know "we're here" ?
Dr. Leif Svalgaard advises us of this paper via email. Apparently some people want to ring the “cosmic dinner bell” by broadcasting powerful radio transmissions to get the attention of possible…
Laughable Claim: Antarctic snowfall accumulation won't save us from sea level rise because weather patterns were different 10,000 years ago
From the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON comes this desperate piece from Eric Steig of RealClimate and the “Antarctica is warming but now busted” department. Via Eurekalert: Will more snow over Antarctica…
Aussie Climate Professor: "Governments may need extraordinary emergency powers"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Yet another Aussie academic attack on Democracy, Mark Diesendorf, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, UNSW, UNSW Australia has demanded wide ranging social changes, a “wartime…
Bill Nye, Celebrity from “Dancing With the Stars”, Attempts to Make Global Warming a Focal Point for the U.S. Presidential Elections
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale For those not familiar with Dancing With the Stars, it’s a television dance contest that pairs professional dancers with celebrities. Bill Nye was a celebrity…
Changes to the GISS Land Surface Air Temperature-Based Dataset Have Increased Reported Long-Term Global Warming
No surprise there. But there are also periods when reported shorter-term global warming and global cooling have been decreased. Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post discusses changes to a…
Rural Mass Migration to Cities: Must be Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Remember history lessons about the Industrial Revolution – about how the rise of city based factory jobs, and more efficient farming practices, caused mass migration…
Climate science appears to be obsessively focused on modeling – Billions of research dollars are being spent in this single minded process
Climate Modeling Dominates Climate Science By PATRICK J. MICHAELS and David E. Wojick What we did We found two pairs of surprising statistics. To do this we first searched the…
A rough guide to spotting bad climate science
Guest essay by John Davies * Being able to evaluate the evidence behind any scientific claim is important. Being able to recognize bad science reporting or faults in scientific studies is…
Earthshine project reports on Earth's reflectance over the last 16 years
In the early days of WUWT, I reported on this project here: Earth’s Albedo Tells an Interesting Story Now data has been release in a new paper. From the INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA…
Another geoengineering scheme plans to use planes and ships to cool the planet
From the UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND, and the unexpected consequence of Geoengineering Department, comes this thesis from a grad student: Atmospheric aerosols can significantly cool down climate It is possible…
Greens Panic at Evidence of Polar Bear Climate Adaptability
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The discovery of a rare wild Grolar bear, a fertile Grizzly / Polar bear hybrid, is being treated as a terrifying sign of global warming…
Claim: GMO Crops are good for Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new schism appears to be opening in the green movement, comparable to the divisions over the climate benefits of nuclear power, about whether GM…
Uh, oh: House Committee Scrutinizes Motive of “Green 20” Attorneys General
Washington, D.C. – Today, 13 Science, Space, and Technology Committee Republicans sent letters to 17 state attorneys general and eight environmental activist organizations. The letters request documents related to the groups’ coordinated…
The Coral Bleaching Debate: Is Bleaching the Legacy of a Marvelous Adaptation Mechanism or A Prelude to Extirpation?
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 A Warm Evolutionary…
Ingenious or Misleading Rationale for the "Pause"?
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein “A glass of ice water in a hot place is certainly warming,” said the confident questioner, “despite the thermometer ‘pausing’ at freeing until most of…
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