Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Marrakesh COP22 climate conference has ended – and green groups are just waking up that without US financial support, nobody has committed any money…
Month: November 2016
What's That Musky Smell?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, the man who has made billions with a “b” by sponging off of your taxpayer dollars, the man you can always find face-down at the…
Storing carbon dioxide underground by turning it into rock
From the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, an idea that might actually work in a few places, but won’t really matter in the larger scheme of global CO2 volume. I also wonder about…
UK Researchers: Tax Food to Reduce Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A group of researchers in Oxford University, England have suggested that imposing a massive tax on carbon intensive foods – specifically protein rich foods like…
Corals survived massive Caribbean climate change – likely to do so again
From the SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Half of all coral species in the Caribbean went extinct between 1 and 2 million years ago, probably due to drastic environmental changes. Which…
Study: UHI in Hong Kong accounts for most 'warming' since 1970
From the INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES How much warmer has Hong Kong’s urban area become during the past 4 decades? Characterizing the urban temperature trend using…
RSS Resets Former Pause Length and 2016 Record Race (Now Includes September and October Data)
Below are the RSS annual averages for 1998 and from 2009 to 2015 and monthly values for 2016. Prior to 2009, the annual average differences varied from -0.001 to +…
Good news: Treatment may become available for terrified climate activists
From the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO comes this study that made me think that this study might very well apply to some well known climate activists, such as Bill McKibben…
Don't mess with Texas – #ExxonKnew AG's to be hauled into court
Judge to haul state AGs to Texas for deposition Hannah Hess and Benjamin Hulac, E&E News reporters A federal judge in Texas has ordered the attorney general of Massachusetts to…
Friday funny – a shadow falls
Josh writes: The Trump effect is already being felt at COP22 – “is it Game Over?” asks Ian Duncan We can but wait and see. Meanwhile the usual conversations are taking…
President Obama Blames the Internet for the Rise of Trump – Technology Needs "More Control"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – President Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel have jointly blamed the disruptive influence of the Internet for their political losses, and have demanded…
French Presidential Candidate Proposes Carbon Tax on All Imported US Goods
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Nicholas Sarkozy, former president of France, who is currently running again for President, has demanded Europe impose a carbon tax on imported US goods if…
WUWT milestone – 10 years
Foreword by Anthony, decade in review by Janice Moore. Ten years ago today, I started Watts Up With That with one simple blog entry. Since then, I’ve had 15,559 Posts…
Newsbytes: U.S. Geological Survey Discovers 'Largest Oil & Gas Deposit Ever Discovered In America'
The Never-Ending Shale Revolution That Keep On Giving On Tuesday, the USGS announced that a swath of West Texas known as the Wolfcamp shale contains 20 billion barrels of oil…
Gavin Schmidt Warns Donald Trump Not to Interfere with the NASA Climate Division
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has “warned” President-elect Donald Trump not to interfere with their climate activities. Schmidt maintains…
BP: Indonesia's Coal Consumption has Doubled Since 2010
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – According to BP, Indonesia’s coal consumption has doubled since 2010, promoting coal to be the largest source of Indonesian energy. Indonesia’s coal…
Claim: Climate is killing off the Reindeer
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor Bruce Forbes has speculated that increasing frequency of rain in the Arctic, which freezes to hard ice, is starving the reindeer by preventing them…
Let the wailing begin: 'Moral values influence level of climate change action'
From CORNELL UNIVERSITY and the “we have compassion and fairness and you don’t” department comes this eye-roller. One wonders how they might rate the compassion and fairness of this statement:…
Peak Oil Indefinitely Postponed
Guest post by David Middleton The U.S. Geological Survey has made its largest discovery of recoverable crude ever under parts of West Texas, the federal agency announced Tuesday. A recent assessment…
October 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 October 2016 and HADCRUT4 and NOAA…
NOAA: U.S. Tornadoes lowest since 1954 – during the "hottest year ever"
Latest data from NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center indicate that as of today, the total count for 2016 of US tornadoes are fewest in a calendar year since record-keeping began in…
President Trump: The Latest Excuse for Losing Climate Data?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall An Australian climate scientist is concerned that President Trump might shut down US government servers which hold climate data being used to prepare the next…
Ban Ki-Moon to Trump: Action on Climate Change is "Unstoppable"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has warned President-elect Trump that he will not have the power to derail climate programmes, even climate programmes in the…
How lightning strikes can improve storm forecasts
From the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Humans have always been frightened and fascinated by lightning. This month, NASA is scheduled to launch a new satellite that will provide the first nonstop, high-tech…
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