Guest essay by Eric Worrall Huffington Post wants former UN Climate Chief Christina Figueres to be the new UN Secretary General, on the grounds that only she understands the climate…
Month: August 2016
Job of the Week: New York Times Climate Editor
Guest essay by Eric Worrall New York Times is advertising for a chief editor to head up their new climate team. But in my opinion the job description is very…
Feet of clay: The official errors that exaggerated global warming
Part I: How the central estimate of global warming was exaggerated By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In this new series, I propose to explore the sequence of errors, large and…
Feds go after science journals for deceptive practices
FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers Complaint Alleges Company Made False Claims, Failed To Disclose Steep Publishing Fees FOR RELEASE August 26, 2016 The Federal Trade Commission…
Amsterdam Renewable Energy Incubator Announces Grant Programme
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A startup incubator firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, has announced help and grants for people who want to pursue renewable energy ideas. Start-ups brimming with…
China and US to ratify landmark Paris climate deal ahead of G20 summit, sources reveal
by Myron Ebell The South China Morning Post reported on Thursday that U. S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping “are set to jointly announce their ratification” of…
Inconvenient Study: Biofuels not as 'green' as many think – may be worse than Gasoline
From the “road to hell is paved with good intentions” department: Biofuels not as ‘green’ as many think Go back to basics when calculating the greenhouse impact and carbon neutrality…
Friday Funny: study says gender and political belief systems trump actual hurricane data
From PRINCETON UNIVERSITY and the “it’s not a lie, if you believe it” department comes this laughable study. Opinion is not hurricane data, and opinion doesn’t trump physical measurement. The one…
Svensmark publishes: Solar activity has a direct impact on Earth’s cloud cover
From Denmark Technical University Solar activity has a direct impact on Earth’s cloud cover Solar variations affect the abundance of clouds in our atmosphere, a new study lead by DTU…
Huge forecast uncertainty over possible Florida tropical storm #Invest99L #Hermine
A clear demonstration of model uncertainty in predicting ahead 7 days is evident in the difference in output for two highly used forecast models, one says we’ll have a signicant…
New climate reconstruction study claims humans have been causing warming since the onset of the Industrial Revolution.
From the ignoring natural variation with confirmation bias department Brian Lindauer writes Apparently it IS worse than we thought… A new paper published in Nature purports to find a connection…
Increasing Antarctic snowfall may offset sea-level rise
From THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY By mid-century, more Antarctic snowfall may help offset sea-level rise Increasing precipitation masked by natural variability — for now When Antarctica’s air temperature…
Earth sized planet found orbiting our sun’s nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri
From Nature (h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard) Astronomers have discovered evidence of a small, rocky planet orbiting our nearest star – and it may even be a bit like Earth.…
Claim: Extreme Global Warming caused mass extintion event 252 million years ago
From CAGE – CENTER FOR ARCTIC GAS HYDRATE, CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT and the unquestionable certainty about the past department: Extreme global warming caused a severe mass extinction of life on…
Blowback has started on Schneiderman and the #ExxonKnew AG's
From the Bend Bulletin: Editorial: What’s safe to say about climate change? We would appreciate it if Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum would tell us what we are supposed to…
Green Journalist: People prefer Playing Pokemon to Worrying About Climate Issues
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A green journalist is in despair that most people prefer playing trendy computer games, rather than listening to his urgent warnings about the imminent green…
Hump Day Hilarity – infinite carbon loop
Russell Cook writes: I kid you not. From tonight’s (8/23/16) PBS NewsHour broadcast segment titled “To combat climate change, these scientists are turning CO2 into rock“, these quotes from the…
The 'Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016' turned out to be not so great for sea ice doomsters
Last week I mentioned how WeatherUnderground was touting the ‘Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016’ as being a repeat of the ice crusher cyclone in the summer of 2012. People that want…
Study: Haze in China amplifies UHI effect
Study reveals surprising role of haze in the warming of Chinese cities Research reveals that impacts of haze pollution in the US and China vary significantly From the YALE SCHOOL…
What did ExxonMobil Know and When Did They Know it? (Part Quatre: "Is ExxonMobil Actually Only Worth A Fraction Of What It Says?")
Guest post by David Middleton In my previous posts regarding the lawless inquisition of ExxonMobil and its supposed climate cover-up, I’ve pretty well demonstrated that ExxonMobil (then Humble Oil, later Exxon)…
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