Guest essay by Eric Worrall On Thursday President Trump liberated coal miners from the shackles of an Obama rule many in the industry believe was designed to destroy the coal…
Month: February 2017
Heads are exploding – Senate confirms Pruitt to Lead EPA
Via The Hill (h/t to ossqss) and the “your free range chickens have come home to roost” department. The Senate voted Friday to confirm Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental…
Oil – Will we run out?
By Andy May “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” (old Danish proverb, sometimes attributed to Niels Bohr or Yogi Berra) In November, 2016 the USGS (United States Geological…
Fake News: Fukushima Edition
Guest post by David Middleton Radiation levels recorded inside Fukushima’s crippled nuclear power station are at the highest levels since its catastrophic meltdown in 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings…
California's past megafloods – and the coming ARkStorm
Guest Essay By Larry Kummer. Posted at the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: To boost our fear, activists and journalists report the weather with amnesia about the past. Ten year records…
Vast Lake of Molten Carbonate Discovered Under the Continental USA
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Scientists have just discovered a 1.8 million square kilometre lake semi-molten carbonate (CO2) compounds under our feet – but still think the contribution of volcanoes…
"Energy Storage Set To Boom In 2017"… Yawn.
Guest post by David Middleton Real Clear Energy is always good for a daily laugh… The problem with today’s power grid isn’t the lack of electricity but rather the lack…
USGS records small Earthquakes near #OrovilleDam
Two small Earthquakes were recorded near Lake Oroville in the last 24 hrs, which appear to be a result of the fast lake level changes, and the subsequent release of…
Claim: Same Sex Marriage The Model for Climate Action
Guest essay by Eric Worrall David Hochschild, environmental commissioner on the California Energy Commission, thinks climate activists should learn lessons from the same sex marriage movement, about how to convince…
William Happer on Climate Science: "They’re glassy-eyed and they chant"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor William Happer, who has been tipped as front runner to replace John Holdren as the Whitehouse Science Advisor, has described climate scientists as a…
Trump Scaling Back EPA Climate Efforts
Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Trump is fulfilling his promise to remove the burden of intrusive EPA climate regulation on the US economy. But even more drastic action to…
Super-soaker: Atmospheric River taking aim on beleaguered #OrovilleDam
We’ve already had two big events like this so far this year, now forecasts show a clear pattern of a heavily moisture laden “atmospheric river” taking aim directly onto the…
More rain & snow forecast for California – will damaged #Oroville dam spillway weather the storm?
As the saying goes, when it rains, it pours. Over the last week, Murphy’s Law has been on overdrive in Northern California as Oroville dam suffered a series of mishaps,…
Study: Advancing glaciers in New Zealand are a sign of 'regional cooling'
Reader Phil Hutchings writes via email: This article in Nature Communications caught my eye! This is a beauty. This week, Nature Communications published an explanation as to why (at least)…
Claim: 'The blob' in the Pacific boosted Western US ozone levels
From the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ‘The blob’ of abnormal conditions boosted Western US ozone levels An unusually warm patch of seawater off the West Coast in late 2014 and 2015,…
Climate activists' final act, as they move into the last stage of grief
By Larry Kummer. Posted at the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Trump’s election, solidifying the Republican’s dominance at all levels of the US government, has disheartened climate activists. A new article…
Petition: Help Climate Scientists Avoid Personal CO2 Emissions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian ABC, a government news organisation, reports that 100s of scientists who attended a 4 day conference in Australia’s capital Canberra last week are…
Wild claim: Climate change impacts on endangered wildlife massively under reported
From the “please send money to solve this manufactured crisis” department and the WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY comes this giant load of bollocks. They can’t even separate what the difference between…
An oddity in the Karl et al. 2015 buoy data adjustments
Frank Lansner writes via email: I just want to make sure that people are aware of this little maybe-oddity regarding argumentation for ERSSTv4 data changes due to the shift from…
14 Reasons Why Silicon Valley Embraced Climate Alarmism
Guest essay by Leo Goldstein This essay attempts to address a rarely asked question: How did Silicon Valley, one of the greatest centers of wealth and brain power on Earth,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #258
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) Data Integrity: For several years,…
Quotes of the Week: Met Office vs NOAA
The Battle For Truth And Credibility Over Global Warming Pause A story in the Sunday Times confirms that the UK Met Office does not accept Karl et al.’s denial of…
Bloomberg: Green Energy "Prisoner's Dilemma"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t englandrichard – According to Bloomberg, Green energy shortages caused by extreme winter cold have turned the EU energy market into a gigantic Prisoner’s Dilemma,…
A Reverse Greenhouse Effect
Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach [See two Updates at the end] Here’s an oddity. Some very clever folks have invented a plastic film that cools surfaces by as much as…
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