Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent post here on WattsUpWithThat, the claim was made that the El Nino influences rainfall. They showed a correlation between various historical proxies…
Month: June 2016
The 2016 BP Statistical Review of World Energy
Guest essay by Philip Lloyd, Energy Institute, Cape Peninsula University of Technology The annual Review has just been published. The data is readily downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet. A few minutes…
An Open Letter to the #ExxonKnew #RICO20 Attorneys General about Climate Change
From the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation: Dear Attorneys General, You’re not stupid. Stupid people don’t graduate from law school. Neither are you generally ignorant. You know lots…
Friday Funny: Study claiming psychotic traits linked to conservatism gets reversed–finds liberalism more likely to have those traits
From the friends of Stephan Lewandowsky, and upside-down Mann department Ralph Dave Westfall submits this story: Here’s an interesting example of possibly politicized research findings getting blown out of the…
Claim: Global Warming will Cause Extreme Tropical Population Shifts
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study has just been published which claims a few degrees global warming will cause extreme population migrations in the tropics. But their model…
Bombshell study: past El Niño's 'may have amplified global climate fluctuations for hundreds of years at a time'
From AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY How El Niño impacts global temperatures El Niño oscillations in the Pacific Ocean may have amplified global climate fluctuations for hundreds of years at a time Scientists…
Surprise: Trump was Once Concerned about Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A number of stories have appeared recently, claiming that Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump’s position on Climate Change is inconsistent, because he used to support…
Desperate Claim: Greenland's 2015 melt records consistent with 'Arctic amplification'
From Columbia University and the “any weather event is now proof of global warming” department comes this reach of a paper trying to claim that a northern jet stream excursion…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 1: The Salt Wars
This is the first in a series of several essays that will discuss ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which are often referred to in the science press and…
Alberta Carbon Tax Legislation Passed
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Carbon tax legislation, which the opposition estimates will increase household bills by $1000 / year, has just been passed by the Alberta Legislature. Alberta carbon…
Weather Observers Misread Wind Speeds, Skewing a Major Hazards Database
Weather spotters who report storm measurements and observations to a U.S. national compendium of storm data often exaggerate winds speeds—by about one third, on average. By Elizabeth Deatrick EOS.org People…
Butte County, CA passes a pointless law to ban fracking, where fracking isn't being done
WUWT readers may recall that I wrote an analysis in 2014 that was provided to the Butte County Board of Supervisors: A report on the hyperbole behind the politicized issue of…
Churchill’s Inconvenient Truth regarding Al Gore's claims on Lake Chad
Story submitted by LeRoy Demarest According to Al Gore’s polemic Lake Chad is shrinking due to global warming, however, Winston Churchill noted the shrinking of the lake in 1899. One…
Boston to host 2017 US-China Climate Leaders Summit 2017
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has announced that Boston will host the 2017 US-China Climate Leaders Summit. The announcement was made By US Secretary of State…
The Climate Alarm Death Knell Sounds Again
By PAUL C. “CHIP” KNAPPENBERGER and PATRICK J. MICHAELS Currently, details are few, but apparently the results of a major scientific study on the effects of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds…
RICO actions on #ExxonKnew were planned before any 'investigative' stories were even published
InsideClimate: NY AG started RICO planning before any InsideClimate stories were released Katie Brown, Energy in Depth Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Scientists today believe the egg…
Claim: US counties could gain $1 million in annual health benefits from a power plant carbon standard
From the HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH and the “it’s only a benefit until you don’t have any power at night or in the winter” department comes this…
The 'social cost of carbon' may have just gone negative
Ross McKittrick writes on his personal web page: (h/t to David L. Hagen) I have just released a working paper with Kevin Dayaratna and David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation…
Denmark Cancels All Coastal Wind Farms, Delays New Builds Until 2025
Europe Is Falling Out Of Love With Renewables The Danish government has announced a new proposal to resolve the problem of the renewable energy tax (PSO) which the EU believes…
National Coalition Against Censorship Criticises the Portland Climate Book Ban
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Portland’s recent ban of educational books which question alarmist climate narratives has attracted strong criticism from the NCAC. The National Coalition Against Censorship is a…
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