Study: Brainwash the Next Generation to Promote Climate Action

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greens have finally worked out how to promote climate action: Create more greens, by “ingraining” children with their worldview. Study: inspiring action on climate change…

California Governor Brown imposing massive regulations for meaningless climate goals

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin California Governor Brown’s SB 32 law requiring the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to levels 40% below levels measured in 1990 is necessitating the…

Claim: Unwanted children the "fundamental cause of climate change"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Feminist icon Gloria Steinem thinks coercing women to have children they don’t want is the fundamental cause of climate change. … People argue that climate…

Study: trees in cities actually make pollution worse during heat waves

From the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY comes this counter-intuitive finding: During heat waves, urban trees can increase ground-level ozone Planting trees is a popular strategy to help make cities “greener,” both…

Oh noes! Antarctica 'greening' due to climate change

From the “greening of the planet must be a bad thing” department and the UNIVERSITY OF EXETER comes this breathless missive. Note: one species of moss is not equal to the…

Claim: Planting trees cannot replace cutting CO2 emissions

From the “has anyone told Earth yet?” department and the wild alarmists of the Schellnhuber school of climate doom, comes this claim that’s just another headline grabber made up mostly…

New list of extreme weather mortality events shows events of the past were worse than today

Measuring the human impact of weather WMO issues new records of weather impacts in terms of lives lost ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced today world…

Claim: Pope will Convert President Trump to Climate Action

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, has claimed in an interview that Pope Francis will “convince” President Trump to take action…

For Our Canadian Audience – a must see video

On an earlier post  this week about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, I posted a video in the comments section.  This video showed one of the most egregious displays of…

NASA: Human activities now affecting space

From the “worse than we thought” department and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center comes this: Space weather events linked to human activity Our Cold War history is now offering scientists…

Cool science: Watch water droplets navigate a maze

From the American Chemical Society. WASHINGTON — Have you ever seen a drop of water navigate a maze? It’s possible thanks to the same phenomenon that lets you know if…

Claim: Dams are major driver of global environmental change

From the UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Water reservoirs created by damming rivers could have significant impacts on the world’s carbon cycle and climate system that aren’t being accounted for, a new…

Greens Forgive China their Coal Plants

The Center for American Progress, a well connected green left wing Washington Think Tank, has written an article full of glowing praise for China’s high efficiency coal plants, and the…

The "expert" fallacy: The stark differences between MD's and PhD's

Guest opinion by Leo Goldstein One of the most popular alarmist arguments is likening the “consensus climate scientists”  to medical doctors.  For example, this essay on “climate denial” from Andrew…

Climate Hypocrite Trudeau Government Blocks Canadian Carbon Audit

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Auditor General Michael Ferguson has complained to the Canadian Parliament that the finance ministry refused to hand over documents required for him to complete an…

Study: Earth is becoming GREENER, not BROWNER due to climate change

Guest essay by Dr. Patrick J. Michaels It’s hard to say how many punny posts we came up with using those words when Carol Browner was Bill Clinton’s EPA Administrator,…

Claim: Arctic warming to increase Eurasian extreme cold events

From the INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and the “it’s called weather” department. In recent years, Arctic warming and extreme events have attracted widespread attention of the world.…

New Tech: US flag could act as a speaker to play the National Anthem

This is curious new technology; imagine the US Flag being able to play the National Anthem from the flagpole! How scientists turned a flag into a loudspeaker MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY…

Alarmists Gone Wild: "Alarmist CO2 Headlines Create Confusion"… Particularly When Accompanied by Sea Level Alarmism.

Guest post by David Middleton Real Clear Science and Real Clear Energy are great aggregators of science and energy articles.  But, invariably, there is always at least one article that…

UN Bonn Climate Conference Demands $300 Billion per Year to Alleviate the Tedium

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The UNFCCC Bonn Climate Conference, due to end in a few days, has accepted a report which demands an additional $300 billion per year on…

Mysterious flashes of light from Earth captured by NASA satellite

WASHINGTON, DC — One million miles from Earth, a NASA camera is capturing unexpected flashes of light reflecting off our planet. The homeward-facing instrument on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory,…

Monday Mirthiness: #Dilbert gets Mann-handled

Oh, the hilarity. In case you missed it, over the weekend the Dilbert Sunday Comic took on “climate science” in a hilarious way. I predicted the usual suspects would have…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #270

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Biases in UAH Data? Repeated testing of assumptions, calculations, and models and publicly…

Diesel vehicles produce 50 percent more nitrogen oxide than originally thought

From the “settled science” department of the UNIVERSITY OF YORK and possibly inspired by Volkswagen… The research, led by the International Council on Clean Transportation and Environmental Health Analytics, LLC.,…