Tuvalu… No. The Seychelles… No. Bangladesh… No. Kiribati… No. Vanuatu… No. The Solomon Islands… No. Guest post by David Middleton The Country Most Vulnerable to Climate Change By Hakim Abdi…
Month: June 2017
Trump Supporter and Climate Skeptic Nigel Farage to Have a Major Role in the New UK Government
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The frantic effort to assemble a workable government out of Britain’s recent national election shambles has taken a delightful new twist, with a surprise demand…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #273
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Rule of Law? In a frank interview about President Trump’s withdraw from the…
Climate Science: Red Fish Blue Fish
Guest Commentary by Kip Hansen “Multiple scientific assessments have concluded that man-made climate change is real and poses risks to human health and the environment. Even so, Scott Pruitt, the…
Will the #ParisAgreement exit bring more rational climate policies in our future?
Trump’s Paris decision challenges bad science, economics and energy politics behind treaty Foreword: Al Gore says President Trump’s Exit Paris decision will bring “a global weather apocalypse.” Coal-billionaire Tom Steyer…
Snow in the Rockies, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada – in June!
Via weather.com and NOAA: Several inches of snow are possible in parts of the Cascades and northern Rockies starting this weekend. Snow levels could fall to as low as 5,000…
Former NASA Chief Scientist: America is "Under Siege" from Climate Disinformers
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Former NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan is worried some media outlets do not provide sufficiently apocalyptic climate views. Americans ‘under siege’ from climate disinformation –…
Evaporation Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking again about the question of evaporation and rainfall. I wrote about it here a few years ago. Short version—when the earth’s…
Indirect Effects of the Sun on Earth's Climate
Guest essay by Mike Jonas “And what might they be?” – Dr. Leif Svalgaard For a long time, I have been bitterly disappointed at the blinkered lopsided attitude of the…
French President Offers US Climate Scientists €1.5 Million Each to Move to France
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French President Emmanuel Macron has launched a new website which offers senior US climate researchers up to €1.5 Million (almost USD $1.7 million) each to…
From the Scientific Urban Legend Department: Slight Rise in Temperatures Tied to Heat Wave Deaths
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The Claim: The venerable NY Times carries this headline: “In India, Slight Rise in Temperatures Is Tied to Heat Wave Deaths”. The study…
A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 4: The global reconstruction
By Andy May In previous posts (here, here and here), we have shown reconstructions for the Antarctic, Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, the tropics, the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, and the Arctic. Here…
Climate alarmist problem solved – Hawaii signs law saying it will reduce CO2 emissions
Guest essay by Lawrence Hamlin In what has to be a clear indicator that climate alarmism issues are pure politics not science the New York Times, L A Times, Washington…
What's the Recovery Rate from Extinction?
Guest post by David Middleton It’s at least 67% among the Incilius genus of toads. AMPHIBIANS Frog not sighted in 30 years and declared extinct reappears in Costa Rica Published June 07,…
Unpalatable: Eating insects helps to curb climate change
This essay was sent unsolicited to me, and while I consider the topic pointless for western cultures, it’s worth a read just to see how other parts of the world…
Climate craziness of the week: climate change likely to induce food violence
Where climate change is most likely to induce food violence Study finds capable governments more important than weather From the OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY via Eurekalert COLUMBUS, Ohio – While climate…
UN Sustainability Advisor: "The next human-caused climate disasters should be named Typhoon Donald, Superstorm Ivanka, and Megaflood Jared"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development and of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has accused President Trump of being a…
USA Today: To Fight Climate Change, Start With Leonardo DiCaprio's Private Jet
Guest essay by Eric Worrall USA Today thinks celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and climate scientists attending conferences should set an example, by reducing their personal carbon footprints. To fight climate…
A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 3: The NH and Arctic
By Andy May In the last post (see here) we reexamined the Marcott, et al. (2013) proxies for the Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes and the tropics. In this post, we will…
Science Gone Stupid
Guest post by David Middleton This is perhaps the dumbest article I’ve ever read… How to avoid the stigma of a retracted paper? Don’t call it a retraction By Martin…
The Conversation: Dictatorships Are Better Climate Custodians Than Democracies
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor of Philosophy Firmin DeBrabander, Maryland Institute College of Art, has joined the growing list of greens who think “autocratic” governments like China are better…
California Once Again Tops the U.S. Clean Tech Leadership Index… But Falls a Penny Short of the Highest Electricity Prices in the Lower 48
Guest post by David Middleton The featured image is a photo of a greenschist from the French Alps. For some reason, the following article from EcoWatch and the NRDC made me…
Claim: El Niño and global warming combine to cause record-breaking heat in Southeast Asia
From the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN and the “what if it’s only El Niño, then what?” department: Scientists at The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that a…
Solar Update June 2017–the sun is slumping and headed even lower
Solar cycle 24 has seen very low solar activity thus far, likely the lowest in 100 years. Guest essay by David Archibald Figure 1: F10.7 Flux 2014 – 2017…
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