Guest post by David Middleton ABC News Key points: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must begin evaluating how many power plants and coal mining jobs are lost because of air…
Month: October 2016
Newly created for the climate lexicon: 'flash droughts'
From the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH comes this twist of the long used “flash flood” term used to describe a weather event. The definition of flash…
Battery Pack Prices Plunge!!! Down to $200/kWh
Guest post by David Middleton So-called renewable energy sources face many economic and thermodynamic hurdles; all of which are routinely ignored by the government officials who spend our tax dollars.…
Define Irony: Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect
Guest post by David Middleton From the Department of All Things Ironic… Solar panels, while they mitigate the effects of global warming by replacing fossil fuels, can add heat in…
Serendipity yields a process to convert carbon dioxide directly into ethanol
OAK RIDGE, Tenn.,—In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon…
September 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides updates of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS through September 2016 and HADCRUT4 and NCEI…
'Global warming vs global greening' GWPF lecture by Matt Ridley
Josh writes: Last night Matt Ridley gave the Global Warming Policy Foundation annual lecture titled ‘Global warming vs global greening’. Here are my cartoon notes. You can read Matt’s text and slides here. Cartoons by…
Climate Alarmists Try To Redefine What A Hurricane Is So We'll Have More Of Them
This op-ed from IBD points out what we have been saying for years, that even though there is no trend in hurricane frequency of intensity, alarmists like Mashable’s Andrew Freedman…
UK MET Office to Push Inaccurate Forecasts out to 12 Months
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The UK MET is celebrating that their new £97 million computer can now create slightly better 12 month predictions than tossing a coin. The Met…
Monday Mirthiness – hilarious rant on October temperature: 'This is what we get for not electing Al Gore back in the day''
Sometimes, you just have to laugh, and that’s really about all we can do here, because simple facts have no effect. Tom Nelson made the mistake of trying to show…
Leaked Clinton campaign memo on 'climate change' shows it's really about politics, not science
From Larry Kummer at the Fabius Maximus website Memorandum: “Climate: A unifying theory to the case“, Emailed from John Podesta to Chris Lehane, 28 January 2014. This memo was emailed…
Gene sequencing tech to make 'climate tolerant' cabernet sauvignon
From the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – DAVIS and the “GMO wine department” comes this news: Genomics breakthrough paves way for climate-tolerant wine grape varieties A new sequencing technology, combined with…
Australia Trialling Lessons in Climate Self Hatred for 8yr Olds
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Daily Telegraph reports that the Australian NSW Government is trialling lessons about climate doomsday on children, to see what impact being taught to hate…
The Cosmic Problem With Rays
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Normal carbon has six neutrons and six protons, for an atomic weight of twelve. However, there is a slightly different form of carbon which has…
Stormy climate deception – hurricane #Matthew becomes latest enviro-excuse
Hurricane Matthew has given climate change alarmists yet another excuse to rail against fossil use and demand a “fundamental transformation” of the US and world energy and economic systems. Reality…
The Sun's coronal tail wags its photospheric dog
From the NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Solar physicists have long viewed the rotation of sunspots as a primary generator of solar flares – the sudden, powerful blasts of electromagnetic…
The Two Faces of "Green" Hillary Clinton
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Politico – According to Wikileaks, at the same time Hillary Clinton was wooing the support of radical greens, at a behind closed doors meeting…
Scientific Integrity is Constant Challenge: A Classic Historical Example
Guest opinion: Tim Ball If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men…
De-hyping the Pacific Northwest 'Typhoon' packing 150 mph winds formerly known as Songda
I’ve been getting a few worried queries on Facebook from people that want my opinion about the “Mega-storm packing 150 mph winds and 50-foot waves set to pummel West Coast” that…
Global Precipitation Measurement mission tallies up huge rainfall totals for hurricane #Matthew
A NASA rainfall analysis estimated the amount of rainfall generated by Hurricane Matthew when it moved over the Carolinas. Hurricane Matthew dropped a lot of rain, caused flooding and deaths…
30 peer reviewed studies show no connection between climate change and hurricanes
This list is useful for refuting those misguided people that insist that there was a climate component to hurricane Mathew. There’s also my earlier refutation titled: Why trying to link…
Ooops. Leonardo DiCaprio Urged to Step Down From UN Climate Change Role
A rainforest charity calls on the star to either denounce his connection to individuals involved in a Malaysian corruption scandal and return laundered money he allegedly received or give up…
Friday Funny: Study models snow piles for use as air conditioners (yes, really)
From the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA OKANAGAN CAMPUS and the “department of bad science fair submissions” comes this study, complete with ridiculous photo. There’s only one problem, most housing and…
Green Nightmare: War On Coal Can’t Stop Fuel’s Enduring Demand
You know the war on coal isn’t working when it’s up more than 50 percent this year. “The strength in coal is amazing,” said Trevor Sikorski, an analyst at Energy Aspects…
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