From the EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION Antarctic explorers help make discovery — 100 years after their epic adventures Heroes of Antarctic exploration have played a crucial role in research that suggests the…
Month: November 2016
Arizona Professor: Forget Climate, Humans "Don't Have 10 Years"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor-emeritus Guy McPherson of University of Arizona, speaking in New Zealand, thinks we don’t have to worry about climate change, because the “6th mass extinction”…
EU Pension Funds Now Required to Assess "Climate Risk"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The cash strapped European Union has usurped greater control over three trillion Euros of private pension funds, by issuing a directive which requires EU based…
The Bray (Hallstatt) Cycle
Guest essay by Andy May and Javier The evidence for a persistent irregular climate cycle with a period of 2400 ±200 years is strong. There is compelling evidence of a…
Salon: Here's a List of Potential Climate Budget Cuts
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Salon has helpfully provided Americans with a list of Federal climate budget cuts which can be applied on day one of the new Trump administration.…
Trump Crackdown on "Politicized Science": NASA Climate Division to be Stripped of Funding
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Bob Walker, senior campaign adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, has re-affirmed Trump’s commitment to NASA focussing on space exploration, by stating that NASA’s Earth Science…
Climate model predictions are telling a consistent (if wrong) story
From AARHUS UNIVERSITY and the department of shredded wheat, comes this story. Maybe they should get out more. Climate model predictions are telling a consistent story Three independent methods of modelling…
Lame Duck EPA Chief : "Trump can’t halt U.S. shift to clean energy"… While the Swamp Draining Gets Underway
Guest post by David Middleton Much of the sarcasm in this post, as well as some of the material, was borrowed from previous posts of mine. At first glance, I…
ITER Nuclear Fusion Project: First Burn Delayed until 2035
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new ITER Nuclear Fusion timetable has been agreed, which slips the first scheduled Deuterium / Tritium burn to 2035 – 8 years after the…
"The Needle in the Haystack": Pat Frank's Devastating Expose of Climate Model Error
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Janice – This video dates back to July, so it might not be news for some viewers. But the video elucidates in clear and…
Trump on the Paris Climate Agreement: "I'm looking at it very closely"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate advocates are hanging their hopes on President-elect Trump’s alleged softening on the Paris climate agreement, and Trump’s admission that he thinks humans contribute to…
Climate and Popular Revolution
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball My major research interest in climatology is historical climate, but particularly the impact of climate and climate change on human history and the human condition.…
"The Trump-Climate Freakout… 'I’m going to die from climate change!'"
Guest post by David Middleton WARNING: This post is very sarcastic! by OREN CASS November 22, 2016 4:00 AM He will reverse a policy that isn’t working anyway. Given the…
The UN Poll Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A while back I discussed the UN Global Poll regarding what people around the world think is important to them. At that point there were…
Trump: Climate Skeptic Nigel Farage "would do a great job" as UK Ambassador
Guest essay by Eric Worrall President-elect Trump has piled pressure on the British political establishment, which almost universally backed Clinton, by suggesting Climate Skeptic UKIP leader Nigel Farage should be…
Green Incoherence: Reaching Out to the Deplorables
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Realisation is growing amongst greens that the left has lost touch with the working class, particularly the white working class – but how do greens…
Lack of pollution, decline in carbon emissions, has 'negative implications'
From the HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH – UFZ The decline in emissions also has negative implications Scientists clarify the causes of the increasing brown colouration of the water in reservoirs…
State of the art weather satellite launched over the weekend promises huge gains in many areas
NOAA’s GOES-R satellite launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this weekend at 6;42pm on November 19, 2016. Click here to read more about the launch of GOES-R. But what’s…
Oh, darn. Study: Most meltwater in Greenland fjords likely comes from icebergs, not glaciers
From the AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION Most meltwater in Greenland fjords likely comes from icebergs, not glaciers WASHINGTON, DC — Icebergs contribute more meltwater to Greenland’s fjords than previously thought, losing…
Whoops, turns out concrete is actually a carbon sink
From the “settled science” department and the University or California Irvine, comes this inconvenient fact. For years we’ve been told by academics that cement is another nasty global warming contributor,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #249
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) “Not With a Bang But a…
Mother Jones on possible Trump appointees: "Be afraid."
Guest post by David Middleton Look at All the Climate Change Deniers Vying for Jobs in the Trump Administration This can’t be good is grrreat!!! JEREMY SCHULMANNOV. 18, 2016 Donald…
Claim: Global Warming will Impede Volcanic Cooling
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research claims that global warming will impede the ability of volcanoes to push sulphur compounds into the…
TV Climate Advocate: "I want to grab Trump by the Crotch…"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall TV Cosmologist, Astrophysicist and climate advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson wants to “grab Trump by the Crotch” when he meets the President-elect to talk about science,…
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