U.S. evolves into coal, gas and oil global energy giant supplying world’s hungry energy markets David Middleton’s excellent WUWT article addressing the resurgence of the American coal industry as well…
Month: July 2017
Who's Afraid of Sea-Level Acceleration?
by Joe Born This is kind of a coda to Willis Eschenbach’s recent post about sea-level rise. In that post Mr. Eschenbach argued against confidence in the recently observed accelerations’…
No Lye
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach “In Reading gaol by Reading town There is a pit of shame, And in it lies a wretched man Eaten by teeth of flame, In…
Could spraying particles into marine clouds help cool the planet?
From Eurekalert Public Release: 25-Jul-2017 University of Washington The idea of geoengineering, also known as climate engineering, is very controversial. But as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in our atmosphere,…
Predatory Journals Hit By ‘Star Wars’ Sting
From the “may the Farce be with you” department and the Neuroskeptic Blog @ Discover By Neuroskeptic | July 22, 2017 4:57 am A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted…
Campaigning on climate science consensus may backfire, warn scholars
We don’t have a “Boy Who Cried Wolf” catergory~ctm l From Eurekalert l Public Release: 23-Jul-2017 Taylor & Francis Group l Climate change campaigns that focus on correcting public beliefs about…
Video of Roger Pielke Jr. on ‘Climate Politics as Manichean Paranoia’
Talk by Prof Roger Pielke Jr. at the GWPF, London 20 July 2017
Trump administration lining up climate change 'red team'
From the Washington Examiner by John Siciliano | Jul 24, 2017, 12:02 AM The Trump administration is in the beginning stages of forming an adversarial “red team” to play…
Queensland chief scientist Professor Suzanne Miller sidelined over fraud charges
Breaking News: From the “trust me, I’m a scientist department” comes this story from soon-to-be-50%-renewables Queensland. By Peter Campion Photo: Professor Miller was appointed to the role of chief scientist…
Another paper confirms "the pause" in global warming – cites issues with methods of obtaining average temperature
Spatiotemporal Divergence of the Warming Hiatus over Land Based on Different Definitions of Mean Temperature Chunlüe Zhou & Kaicun Wang Abstract Existing studies of the recent warming hiatus over land are primarily…
Has Britain's Michael Gove Joined the Green Squishies?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall UK Environment Minister Michael Gove just slammed President Trump for walking out on the Paris Agreement. Michael Gove ‘deeply regrets’ Trump’s approach to Paris climate…
New save the planet scheme: 'cocktail geoengineering'
Could ‘cocktail geoengineering’ save the climate? From the CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE Geoengineering is a catch-all term that refers to various theoretical ideas for altering Earth’s energy balance to combat…
The Resurgence of the American Coal Industry. Part Trois: Going Dutch!
Guest post by David Middleton If President Obama was the “war on coal,” President Trump might just be the post-war “Marshall Plan”… U.S. Coal Finds Footing In European Markets By…
The Laws of Averages: Part 3, The Average Average
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is the third and last in a series of essays about Averages — their use and misuse. My interest is in…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #278
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week. “…it was clear that the first and greatest need was to establish the facts…
Ancient Italian fossils reveal risk of parasitic infections due to climate change
From Eurekalert Rise in trematodes could occur much sooner than thought, according to new Mizzou study University of Missouri-Columbia In 2014, a team of researchers led by a paleobiologist from…
Study: Sea Level Rise Revised Downward
Reposted from Roy Spencer’s Blog July 21st, 2017 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. If I had not looked past the headline of the press report on a new study,…
Josh on Pielke Jr. and Mann-ichean paranoia in Climate Science
Josh Live-tooned the talk at the GWPF recently by Roger Pielke Jr. cartoonsbyjosh.com Roger Pielke Jr.: Manichean paranoia has poisoned the climate debate The talk is posted on Twitter, follow…
What are the prospects for the HONEST Act?
By Peter Campion We Aussie climate sceptics are watching on in awe as the new US President begins systematically driving a stake a into the vampire heart of the climate-alarm…
Tesla battery, subsidy and sustainability fantasies
More subsidies from exhausted California taxpayers cannot compensate for hard realities Paul Driessen The first justification was that internal combustion engines polluted too much. But emissions steadily declined, and today’s…
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