2016: The Warmest Year on Record, with a Dip in the Second Half of the Year 2016 was the warmest year since humans began keeping records, by a wide margin.…
Month: January 2017
Because of the GISS and NOAA Press Conference about 2016 Global Surface Temperatures…
…A Reminder of How Horribly Climate Models Simulate the Surface Temperatures of Earth’s Oceans. Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post serves as the annual model-data comparison for sea surface…
Come off it, Offit!
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley When a medical doctor with no prior record of publication in the learned journals of climate science wanders off the reservation and writes for a…
XKCD's Cri de Coeur
Guest essay by David Archibald Even people who are logical enough to write software, and gifted enough to work on research projects at NASA, feel the need to believe in…
Interesting finding: it's freezing inside a Tornado
Montreal, January 17, 2018 [sic] — With winter upon us in full force, outdoor temperatures are plummeting. But inside an intense tornado, it’s always chilly — no matter the time…
Chinese Climate Negotiator: Trump has "Softened His Tone" on Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Chinese Chief Climate Negotiator Xie Zhenhua has expressed skepticism about President-elect Trump’s commitment to keep his campaign promises, claiming that Trump has “softened his tone”…
Trump and International Energy Poverty: Five Steps
Guest essay by Caleb Rossiter Primum non nocere — above all, do no harm, says the medical maxim. In public policy, where every action has different effects on different people,…
Aussie Climate Scientist Predicts Rainfall Will Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Aussie Climate Scientist Steve Sherwood, Director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, thinks in the future Australia will…
Can Trump link increased coal consumption with decreasing future wildfire risk by reversing the Obama Clean Power Plan?
By Bruce Beaver, Chemistry Professor, Fossil Energy Expert & Practical Environmentalist The last several decades have seen massive destructive wildfires in regions as diverse as Alaska, Alberta, California, Colorado and…
New book holds the EPA's feet to the fire
by Charles G. Battig Steve Milloy is one persistent gentleman. Combining his legal and statistics education, he has spent most of his years ferreting out the false use of statistical…
A medical case for 'hotness'
This came up in my feed today, and while it isn’t our usual fare about “heat”, but given the benefits touted by the study, I thought it was a good…
Open Letter to the President-Elect Supporting Scott Pruitt for EPA Administrator
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., Founder & National Spokesman The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation Dear President-elect Donald J. Trump: We write to you as evangelical and mainline Protestant,…
New York Announces Nuclear Shutdown To Fight Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall New York governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to shut down the zero carbon Indiana Point Nuclear Plant, as part of his grand strategy to…
Davos Globalist Elite Bet on Trump Climate Failure
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The invitation only World Economic Forum, a gathering of politicians and billionaires in Davos, Switzerland, is betting they can brush aside President-elect Trump’s efforts to…
Todays Disastrous Climate and Energy Policies – What Not to Do
Canadian, Maurice Strong, Created Todays Disastrous Climate and Energy Policies, in Ontario and Canada. A Possible Positive Side is The World Learning What Not to Do Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim…
Toronto Sun Accuses Trudeau of Gross Green Hypocrisy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The green Toronto Sun has finally noticed the gross carbon footprint hypocrisy of the jetset leaders of the environmental movement. Trudeau’s cheap talk on climate…
NOAA Jumps The Shark In Tampa Bay
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see Update at the end] I thought I might write about how I research a subject. Over at Dr. Judith’s excellent website, she periodically puts…
Not Tired Of Winning Yet
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been discussing cost-benefit analyses lately. The AP has the story of a Federal judge who has just made a most excellent and far-reaching ruling…
How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs
From the POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (PIK) How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs started the ascent…
New CYA End of Snow Prediction
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate scientists finally seem to be learning from the acute embarrassment of colleagues who rashly trumpet the predictions of their climate models, as if they…
George Will: Academia may now be beyond satire
Note to readers: This Sunday column by George Will appeared in my local newspaper this week, and I thought it relevant to repeat the headline and excerpts of it here,…
There's no one-size-fits-all solution to climate change
From the Field Museum New study shows where carbon finance should — and shouldn’t — drive conservation efforts The world’s forests are crucial to slowing climate change, but they’re often…
California may get hit by another big wet storm next week
Having just finished one storm, another atmospheric river storm is possible for California next week. Details are uncertain this far out, but the system could bring heavy rainfall, higher snow…
Obama Whitehouse: GDP has been Decoupled from CO2 Emissions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Obama’s administration thinks CO2 emissions have been decoupled from GDP. The reality is many of the manufacturing jobs, and the CO2 emissions which went…
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