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…
Month: June 2017
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…
Study: Ambiguous pledges leave large uncertainty under Paris climate agreement
From the INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS and the “uncertainty monster hits both ways” department: Under the pledges made by countries under the Paris Agreement on climate change, greenhouse gas…
EPA’s Pruitt: Establish ‘Red Team, Blue Team’ of scientists to examine climate risk of CO2
Interviewed by Breitbart’s Joel Pollak, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says the American people deserve ‘a true legitimate, peer reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.’ Pruitt calls for the establishment of…
While dissing Trump for pulling out of the #ParisAgreement, the EU’s CO2 Emissions Are On The Rise
The EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2015 for the first time since 2010. According to new data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the 0.5% increase happened largely…
A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 2: More reconstructions
By Andy May In the last post (see here) we introduced a new Holocene temperature reconstruction for Antarctica using some of the Marcott, et al. (2013) proxies. In this post,…
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