Study: why CO2 levels are lower during global cold periods

From CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Deep-sea corals reveal why atmospheric carbon was reduced during colder time periods We know a lot about how carbon dioxide (CO2) levels can drive climate change,…

Surprising news about trend of America’s temperature and precipitation

By Larry Kummer. Posted at the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: News stories, in both local and national media, tend to describe climate change as a simple and omnipresent phenomenon. It’s…

Report: Trump Orders Massive UN Budget Cuts

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – According to http://foreignpolicy.com, the Trump White House has ordered the State Department to cut at least 50% of US contributions to the…

How Imminent is the RSS Pause? (Now Includes January and February Data)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek, Extended Comments from Barry and Edited by Just The Facts UAH (University of Alabama in Huntsville) and RSS (Remote Sensing Systems) are two major satellite…

Study: Ice age thermostat prevented extreme climate cooling

From the UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA and the “department of settled science” comes another global climate thermostat story. Just last week, we were told the Earth had no thermostat. Gotta…

Why did the buffalo cross the land bridge?

To get to the other side… Guest post by David Middleton “There has long been a controversy about the timing of bison arrival in North America,” said Shapiro. Bison arrival…

“Arctic ice loss driven by natural swings, not just mankind: study”

Guest post by David Middleton From the No Schist, Sherlock files… The “record low wintertime maximum extent” still looks pretty icy. By Alister Doyle | OSLO Natural swings in the…

South Australia Embraces a Command Economy to Fix Green Energy Woes

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Instead of coming clean on policy failures, South Australia, the world’s renewable energy crash test dummy, has announced a decision to ditch free markets and…

A perfect storm of fire and ice may have led to snowball Earth

From the HARVARD JOHN A. PAULSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES Explaining a ‘once-in-a-billion-year event’ What caused the largest glaciation event in Earth’s history, known as ‘snowball Earth’? Geologists…

What is the Opportunity Cost of Climate Waste?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall What do we miss out on because the world wastes so much money and attention on climate? Imagine if some of that squandered money was…

Renewable Energy, what is the cost?

By Andy May A key question to think about, do renewable fuels decrease fossil fuel use, or do they increase it? What are the costs of using renewable energy? The…

Game Changer: Huge Alaskan Oil Find

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Oilprice.com has announced discovery of 1.2 billion barrels of oil on Alaska’s North Slope, which they expect will revitalise Alaska’s oil industry. Huge Oil Find…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #262

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President The Climate Establishment Strikes Back: MIT Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences Richard…

British Foreign Aid Scandal: “Hundreds of Millions” Wasted on Useless Renewable Projects

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Telegraph, a major UK Newspaper, has investigated a scandalous waste of British taxpayer’s money on expensive renewables projects which deliver very little return for…

Some WUWT milestones and some housekeeping

Recently, this blog passed a few milestones that I thought would be worth sharing with readers. For all of our critics and the vitriol all they throw our way, I…

About those ‘devastating’ EPA budget reductions

Budget and personnel cuts reflect environmental progress and essential regulatory reforms Guest opinion by Paul Driessen The Trump White House wants significant reductions at the Environmental Protection Agency: two dozen…

Uh-oh, G-20 Poised To Signal Retreat From Paris Climate Deal Pledge

From Bloomberg, 11 March 2017 (h/t to GWPF) by Joe Ryan Finance ministers for the U.S., China, Germany and other members of the Group of 20 economies may scale back…

Aussie CSIRO Predicts the End of Wheat Yield Gains

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the Australian CSIRO, “The lines will cross” in 20 years, heralding the end of biotechnology’s ability to improve wheat yields. Climate change to…

New UCLA End of Snow Prediction

Guest essay by Eric Worrall UCLA thinks that by the end of the century, Climate will reduce the Sierra Nevada snowpack by 85%. Climate change puts California’s snowpack in jeopardy…

AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY – EVIDENCE OF REVISION OF SOLAR EXPOSURE DATA FOR 2013

Bruiser Murray writes: Several times I have commented that the BOM has falsified Solar Exposure data for 2013.  Recently “Griff” challenged me to substantiate the claim.  I have not had…