By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Burning coal contributes to pollution (many kinds) and is a major driver of anthropogenic climate change. Last month we looked at…
Month: May 2016
Full page ad in NYT today slams Attorneys General climate witch hunt
Today, CEI sponsored a full-page advertisement in The New York Times highlighting abusive efforts by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, and a coalition…
UEA Offers to Sell Faked Graduation Photographs to Students
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The University of East Anglia, home of the infamous Climatic Research Unit, has offered to photoshop images of graduate students throwing their mortar board hats…
Kaiser Permanente Health Consortium Commits an Unspecified Budget to Combat CO2 Emissions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Good news for the 9.6 million clients of Kaiser Permanente Health Consortium; They have just committed to spending an unknown amount of your health premiums,…
Global Sea-level Rise: Faster than Ever?
by Charles Clough In yet another instance of the media jumping on the climate alarmist bandwagon, The New York Times this past February boldly headlined “Seas Are Rising at Fastest…
Shukla's Emails Tell a Very Different Story About How NY AG’s RICO Campaign Started Off
From Energy In Depth (h/t to Matt Dempsey) A new batch of emails, released late Friday afternoon, pulls back the curtain further on the level of collusion and coordination between…
NSIDC resumes sea ice plots with provisional data
Daily sea ice extent updates resume with provisional data NSIDC has obtained data from the DMSP F-18 satellite and is in the process of intercalibrating the F-18 data with F-17…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #226
Note: late this week due to an email delivery problem. The Week That Was: 2016-05-14 (May 14, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project…
The correlation between global population and global CO2
Guest essay by Roger Graves Predictions of atmospheric CO2 levels at some future time are commonly made, usually with the object of assuring us that beyond a certain point our planet…
Colonialism, Racism and the Climate Movement
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If climate change is predicted to hit “poor people” worse than “rich people”, then why aren’t green efforts focussed on helping poor people overcome their…
Ocean bacteria are programmed to alter climate gases
CORVALLIS, Ore. – SAR11, the most abundant plankton in the world’s oceans, are pumping out massive amounts of two sulfur gases that play important roles in the Earth’s atmosphere, researchers…
"Five Pacific islands vanish from sight as sea levels rise." Part Deux: The Erosion Strikes Back
Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from USGS. As promised, here is the sequel to “Five Pacific islands vanish from sight as sea levels rise.” The thoroughly ridiculous…
Fighting back: CEI Asks Court To Fine AG Walker Based On Bad Faith And DC Anti-SLAPP Law
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today asked the District of Columbia Superior Court to fine U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker (AG Walker) for violating the organization’s First…
Texas attorney general calling for end to Virgin Islands' Exxon probe
By Andrew Restuccia Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is calling for a halt to the U.S. Virgin Islands’ investigation into ExxonMobil. Paxton is slated to hold a press conference this…
Ontario Climate Plan Leaked: All New Homes to use Electric Heating by 2030
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Globe and Mail claims to have seen a leaked confidential seven billion dollar Ontario master plan, for all new homes to use geothermal or…
Cowboys vs Farmers: Must be Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The history of the American Wild West is being replayed on the fringes of Nigeria, as heavily armed nomadic cattle herders compete with crop farmers…
A new lower estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity
Steve McIntyre calls attention to a new paper by J. Ray Bates of the Meteorology and Climate Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Ireland in a journal called Earth and Space Science. The paper…
April 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS through April 2016 and HADCRUT4 and…
Compulsory Courses for Any Curriculum; The Science Dilemma
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Science is pervasive directly and indirectly in every phase of modern life. While the majority are not directly involved in science, they need to understand…
Greens are Right about Capitalism and CO2 Emissions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Does Capitalism contribute to global warming? Australian Green Party Candidate Jim Casey wants to revive the debate – so lets start by agreeing with him,…
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