Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – Major employers are getting fed up, as South Australia, rapidly becoming the world’s renewable energy crash test dummy, has again experienced a costly unscheduled blackout. BHP issues jobs warning after another SA blackout South Australia’s electricity system separated from the national power grid overnight, prompting a stern…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Tom Cheshire, Sky Technology Correspondent, has claimed that President-elect Donald Trump is a “climate denier” because of his legal battle to prevent offshore wind turbines messing up sea views at his Aberdeenshire Golf Course. Sky Views: Why Trump denies climate change Tom Cheshire, Technology Correspondent When the oceans rise and…
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see update] Well, the claims of the “first climate refugees” are coming up again. I think we’re up to the ninth first climate refugees, it’s hard to keep track. In any case, I came across this: International leaders gathering in Paris to address global warming face increasing pressure to tackle…
Guest Post By Walter Dnes In continuation of my Temperature Anomaly projections, the following are my November projections, as well as last month’s projections for October, to see how well they fared. Data Set Projected Actual Delta HadCRUT4 2016/10 +0.729 HadCRUT4 2016/11 +0.786 (incomplete data) GISS 2016/10 +0.87 +0.89 +0.02 GISS 2016/11 +0.95 UAHv6 2016/10…
Thanks to Bob Tisdale, we’ve covered the evolution, peak, and demise of the sea surface temperature phenomenon labeled as “The Blob” in the North Pacific for awhile now. According to Wikipedia: The Blob is the name given to a large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America.…
NOAA: First above-normal Atlantic hurricane season since 2012 produced five landfalling U.S. storms As the Atlantic, eastern Pacific and central Pacific 2016 hurricane seasons end today, NOAA scientists said that all three regions saw above-normal seasons. For the Atlantic, this was the first above-normal season since 2012. The Atlantic saw 15 named storms during 2016,…
From the UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Ancient rocks hold evidence for life before oxygen Somewhere between Earth’s creation and where we are today, scientists have demonstrated that some early life forms existed just fine without any oxygen. While researchers proclaim the first half of our 4.5 billion-year-old planet’s life as an important time for the development and…