Some cheesy jokes about this Saturday’s March By Sam Kazman Back in February, Yale Computer Science Professor David Gelernter, who may become the next White House science advisor, had this…
Month: April 2017
"Hard Lessons From the Great Algae Biofuel Bubble"
Guest post by David Middleton From 2005 to 2012, dozens of companies managed to extract hundreds of millions in cash from VCs in hopes of ultimately extracting fuel oil from…
The 20th Anniversary of Massachusett's April Fool's Day Nor'easter
I wasn’t planning to write a series on notable springtime storms of the northeast, but I was considering writing something about this storm’s 20th anniversary. Instead, I spent much of…
Vox: Telling Parents They're Hurting Sick Children Maximises Climate Compliance
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Vox, one of the most influential emotional levers available to promote compliance with the climate conservation agenda is guilt about hurting children. Why…
Proof the New York Times Stealthily Revises its Articles after Publication
Guest essay by Leo Goldstein NY Times regularly revises its articles after publication. The revisions are substantial, undisclosed, and are nothing like real time updates in developing stories. These are…
California Governor Brown acknowledges other states aren’t buying his climate hype…
…but fails to address climate science flaws and failures Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The L A Times interviewed California Governor Brown about the states climate campaign with the results…
The Lure of Free Energy Part II
Guest essay by John Popovich “Too cheap to meter” is typically attributed to Strauss, but “The Concise Untold History of The United States” includes the following on Pg. 155 (In…
Clean Coal: Carbon Capture and Enhanced Oil Recovery
Guest post by David Middleton THE 240MWE FACILITY IS THE LARGEST POST-COMBUSTION CARBON CAPTURE PROJECT IN THE WORLD WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took part in a…
White House cancels meeting on considering Paris climate accord action
The White House scrapped a much-anticipated meeting Tuesday to decide whether it would exit from the Paris climate change agreement. A White House spokeswoman said the meeting was postponed due…
‘Detergent’ molecules may be driving fluctuations in atmospheric methane concentrations
New study suggests hydroxyl radicals may be behind unexplained recent increase in methane levels from the CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY During the early 2000s, environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed…
CEI Releases Ad Urging Trump to Withdraw from Paris Climate Treaty
April 18, 2017 WASHINGTON — Today, White House senior advisers are scheduled to meet about the future of U.S. involvement in the Paris Climate Treaty, even though President Trump made…
New ‘Karl-buster’ paper confirms ‘the pause’, and climate models failure
The “uncertainty monster” strikes again We’ve been highly critical for some time of the paper in summer 2015 by Karl et al. that claimed “the pause” or hiatus went away…
Slingo Speaks: ‘…no extreme weather or climate event can be attributed solely to climate change”
Weather and climate: in the eye of the storm By Julio Slingo, published in the Financial Times, 13 April 2017 (h/t to Larry Kummer) Julia Slingo is the former chief…
The Good, the Bad and the Null Hypothesis
Guest post by David Middleton Introduction When debating the merits of the CAGW (catastrophic anthropogenic global warming) hypothesis, I often encounter this sort of straw man fallacy: All that stuff…
L A Times article deceptively hides 750 million metric tons of U.S. Greenhouse Gas emission reductions
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin An April 16, 2017 L A Times article entitled “Climate goal in peril” presents a graph which portrays US greenhouse gas emission reductions as falling…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #266
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Bounding the Fear: Last week’s TWTW discussed a presentation by Hal Doiron…
Brexit Britain on EU Green Targets: “Trade and growth are now priorities for all posts”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Britain is preparing to ditch EU Green Targets, on the grounds they promote useless renewables at the expense of plausible solutions to reducing greenhouse gas…
Where I get hate mail from an unhinged eco-warrior
People send me stuff, sometimes it’s irrational hate mail from snowflakes…like this one. Per our WUWT policy on such things, anonymity is not guaranteed, though it probably a fake email…
Real science must guide policy
Climate alarmists use faulty science and bald assertions to demand end to fossil fuels Guest opinion by Paul Driessen All too many alarmist climate scientists have received millions in taxpayer…
Discussion: Five reasons blog posts are of higher scientific quality than journal articles
Dr. Judith Curry tips me to this interesting blog post by Daniel Lakens, an experimental psychologist at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. The 20%…
EPA Head / Paris Agreement: “It’s something we need to exit in my opinion.”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – President Trump’s EPA Head Scott Pruitt has given unequivocal support to cancelling US participation in the Paris agreement. EPA Chief Scott Pruitt…
China Chief Climate Negotiator: Where’s the Money?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Top Chinese Climate Negotiator Xie Zhenhua has responded to a parade of official reassurances about the Paris Climate Agreement, by demanding to know when “developed”…
Huge Ancient Methane Seeps Discovered in the Canadian High Arctic
From the GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Boulder, Colo., USA: Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant methane release from the seafloor, indicating potential for similar destabilization of gas hydrates under modern…
The Lure of Free Energy
Guest essay by John Popovich In the 1950s we were assured by the best scientific minds and the U.S. President that nuclear electricity would be of such low cost that…
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