We’ve known that the USA is in for a bi-coastal blast of cold air, snow, and heavy rains, but this map by Jesse Farrell shows just have much of the…
Month: January 2017
Study: 99% of Coral Will Bleach Every Year Within a Century
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Coral survived the Cretaceous / Paleogene extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs, when a 6 mile wide Asteroid crashed into the Gulf of Mexico…
Atmospheric river to take aim on California with major storm
A 1 in 10 year storm event is expected to hit Northern California this weekend. Rainfall totals could easily be twice the average precipitation for January. An atmospheric river will…
Maryland Legislature Urged to Overturn Governor Hogan Green Energy Bill Veto
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Green energy advocates are lobbying the Maryland legislature to overturn Governor Larry Hogan’s veto of a Green Energy Bill, which would have imposed rate rises…
The Overlooked Ecological Benefits of Fertilizer (and Fossil Fuel) Use
Guest essay by Indur M. Goklany The BBC in an otherwise good article by Tim Harford, the well-known economist and a regular contributor to The Financial Times and Slate, reminds…
Physical Constraints on the Climate Sensitivity
Guest essay by George White For matter that’s absorbing and emitting energy, the emissions consequential to its temperature can be calculated exactly using the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, 1) P = εσT4…
A colour based comparison of the temperature series used by Hausfather et al. 2017
Guest essay by Sheldon Walker It can be difficult to accurately estimate the warming rates of a temperature series, from a graph of temperature versus time. A global warming contour…
Energy and Society from now until 2040
By Andy May ExxonMobil released its 2017 Outlook for Energy, A View to 2040 in mid-December. David Middleton has written that the report reveals wind and solar will supply a…
Shocker: Climate change has mixed effects on migratory geese
From the UNIVERSITY OF EXETER and the “bids fly through all sorts of climate zones” department comes this study that has no surprising results at all, in fact, they sound downright…
RSS Global Lower Troposphere Temperature Data for 2016 Confirm Results from UAH
That is, for 2016, the Temperatures of Earth’s Atmosphere Nearest to Its Surface Were an Insignificant 0.02 Deg C Higher than the Previous El Niño-Related High in 1998. Guest Post…
Is Climate Alarmism Governance at War with the USA?
Guest essay by Leo Goldstein My essay The Command & Control Center of Climate Alarmism discussed the centralized structure of climate alarmism, and introduced the term Climate Alarmism Governance (CAG)…
'Worse than we thought…' another paper suggests collapse of the Atlantic current – citing science fiction
From YALE UNIVERSITY, another science paper that cites one of the worst ever science fiction movies. Sigh… Study finds potential instability in Atlantic Ocean water circulation system New Haven, Conn.…
Yet another study tries to erase "the pause" – but is missing a whole year of data
From UC Berkeley Earth comes this paper that tries some new statistical techniques to get “the pause” to go away, following on with the infamous Karl et al paper of…
Dr. Judith Curry chooses integrity over the state of climate science
Yesterday, I was saddened to learn that Dr. Judith Curry had resigned her position at Georgia Tech. At the same time, I was impressed by her reasoning, and with her candor.…
Obama's Parting Gift: EPA to fine Alaskans who Burn Wood to Stay Warm
Guest essay by Eric Worrall As Alaskan winter temperatures drop below -30F, the EPA is considering fining and prosecuting entire towns for breaching clean air laws, because of smoke from…
Wind and Solar to Provide 4% of Global Primary Energy by 2040!
Guest post by David Middleton They may need to nudge the Doomsday Clock a bit closer to midnight, if ExxonMobil’s 2017 Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 turns out to be an…
Study: Doomsday clock is ticking – Green tech is 10x behind in meeting Paris Climate agreement
Tenfold jump in green tech needed to meet global emissions targets Green innovations must be developed and spread globally 10 times faster than in the past if we are to…
2016 edges 1998 as warmest year in satellite record – by 0.02°C
Global Temperature Report: December 2016 Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade December temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.24 C (about 0.43 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year…
Who'll Stop The Rain?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I haven’t posted here at WUWT in a bit. I’ve been preoccupied writing for my own blog, Skating Under The Ice. It’s a work in…
"Heating Empty Buildings": Billion Pound British Biomass Subsidy Scandal
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – The Times reports that a badly designed British biomass subsidy has led to a gold rush of people cashing in, by heating…
Study: Fossil fuel formation enabled life as we know it to evolve
From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, comes this study sure to cause some left-leaning anti CO2 heads to explode. The bold in the PR is mine. Fossil fuel formation: Key to…
MIT: 'more extreme storms' for California due to warming – but history mocks the claim
From the “models can make you believe anything” department comes this breathless doom-laden press release from the same school that brought you the big wheel of silly climate model results.…
Documenting the Global Extent of the Medieval Warm Period
Guest essay by Angus McFarlane Introduction In this article I pose the following questions: Was the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) a global event? Where the MWP temperatures higher than recent times?…
John Christy Climate Video
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – The following is a video presentation by John Christy from 2015 (published a few days ago), in which Christy uses his tremendous…
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