From the “Day of the Killer Tomatoes” department comes this curious story from the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY about food science and making tomatoes great again…at least the store bought ones.…
Month: March 2017
Good news! Study says the foundation of aquatic life can rapidly adapt to global warming
From the UNIVERSITY OF EXETER The foundation of aquatic life can rapidly adapt to global warming, new research suggests Important microscopic creatures which produce half of the oxygen in the atmosphere…
Government websites break their own rules to cater to ‘climate cult’
When will .GOV Domains be Reset to Comply with the First Amendment? Guest essay by Leo Goldstein Government publications, including websites, must be free of partisan propaganda. The Obama administration…
Claim: Climate Increases Diabetes Rates
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study claims a warmer climate is associated with higher rates of diabetes. But even if the authors are right, obesity, diet, age and…
Lack of correlation between tornadoes and temperature increase in the USA
Guest essay by Alberto Z. Comendador Temperatures in the USA have generally increased since the 1950s. Of course, anything that mostly increases over time will have a positive correlation with…
“No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there.”
Guest post David Middleton Multiple Choice Quiz “No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there.” a. Chairman of BP Capital Management,…
Solar Slump: The Sun has been blank for two weeks straight
Over the weekend, we reviewed the state of the solar data for March 2017. Now, there’s a two week straight lack of sunspots, the longest stretch since 2010. Overview The…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #263
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President False Precision: In their early education, many students of science faced the…
Great News! “The fossil fuel industry’s invisible colonization of academia”
Guest post by David Middleton Note: The original version of this article included a significant error. The post has now been edited accordingly (DHM 3/21/2017). On February 16, the Harvard…
A serious climate opportunity
Why does government refuse to do the one thing that would help our forests and climate? Guest essay by Greg Walcher For years, politicians have waged war on coal, stifled…
Aussie Climate Scientist: Having a Baby is an “ethical entanglement”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall For a climate activist, having babies is apparently a troubling ethical dilemma, a distressing personal contribution to the global anthropogenic carbon footprint. But somehow they…
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Sux
Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach Bizarrely, and unlike almost every other industrialized country, the US has fuel efficiency standards for cars. Each corporation (Ford, Chevy, etc.) has to meet certain…
The 300th Anniversary of the Great Colonial Snowcover of 1717
The recent nor’easter (blizzard to some) here in New England reminded me that I better get moving on a post here about the 300th anniversary of what was likely the…
Scientists try to restore Pluto’s planet status
From the “Make Pluto Great Again” department, new definition raises number of planets in solar system to about 110 Johns Hopkins University scientist Kirby Runyon wants to make one thing…
Solar Update March 2017 – still slumping
Guest essay by David Archibald Our divination of solar parameters is aimed to elucidating two things – the length of Solar Cycle 24 and the amplitude of Solar Cycle 25.…
If only we had listened to climate scientists back in 1979…here’s what would have happened
Guest essay by Alberto Z. Comendador In two previous articles I made a point that seems inarguable but that advocates of emission cuts seldom acknowledge: the only worthy metric of…
Response to the New York Times primer on climate change: ‘Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change’
Guest essay by Lance Wallace For several months, the New York Times has been running a permanent feature on climate change. They direct their readers to this feature with the…
Exergy and Power Plants
By Andy May Key question: Can renewables ever replace fossil fuels and nuclear? Understanding the value of renewables, vis-à-vis fossil fuels and nuclear power, requires that we consider that all…
The G-20 Drops Climate Change From Communique
Opposition from the United States, Saudi Arabia and others has forced Germany to drop a reference to financing programs to combat climate change from the draft communique at a G20…
Study: Extensive ice cap once covered sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia
From the UNIVERSITY OF EXETER A new study reveals the sub-antarctic island of South Georgia — famous for its wildlife — was covered by a massive ice cap during the last…
On the Reproducibility of the IPCC’s climate sensitivity
Guest essay by Dr. Antero Ollila The highest ranked scientific journal Nature published on the 28th of July 2016 an article based on the survey for 1,576 researchers. More than…
Shocker: little known ‘Financial Stability Board’ has huge climate deceit
FSB, Climate Cabal expand power and wealth, by targeting financial and insurance industries Foreword: A powerful international organization, the Financial Stability Board, includes a task force that is helping to…
White House Budget Director: Climate Spending “a waste of your money”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney answering questions at a press conference, explained that the reason the President wants to slash…
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