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,…
Month: February 2017
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…
Claim: 0.7C / Century is Exceptional
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study published in SAGE claims that 0.7C / century warming is exceptional, because on average temperature change over the last 9500 years, after…
Oroville dam spillway expected to collapse
UPDATE: Drone video over spillway added. Collapse of emergency spillway expected, evacuation ordered Department of Water Resources officials say they expect the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam to fail, and…
French Socialist Presidential Candidate Offers Asylum To US Climate Scientists
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Leading French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron has invited the entire US climate science community to relocate to France. Climate scientists wary of Trump: Please come…
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UPDATE: 8:30AM PST Sunday 2/12/17 This is some sort of glitch with WordPress.com, and it published last night instead of Eric Worrall’s piece on the French giving asylum to Climate…
Lessons learned from the end of California’s “permanent drought”
By Larry Kummer. Posted at the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The “permanent drought” in California, like the now ended “permanent drought” in Texas, is ending. But like the panic about…
Claim: New "Green" Danish Facebook Data Centre Will Increase CO2 Emissions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Information, a major Danish News Outlet, has claimed the rush to build “green” data centres in Denmark, to take advantage of Denmark’s abundant wind energy,…
Damaged Lake #OrovilleDam spillway being sacrificed with high releases – now about 4 feet to top
The Lake Oroville saga continues, yesterday we wondered if the collapse of the spillway might have been due to missing or substandard REBAR, and many experts weighed it on that…
Friday Funny: In California, 'children just aren't going to know what drought is'
Long-time WUWT readers will recognize the title as being a spoof on the infamous line about snow uttered by Dr. David Viner of the University of East Anglia some years…
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