Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #276

The Week That Was: 2017-07-08 (July 8, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “Whoever is careless with the…

Venus and Hawking's Scientific Illiteracy

From The Reference Frame by Luboš Motl Five days ago, Stephen Hawking – or someone who has hacked his computerized speech generator – has told us that Donald Trump is…

NASA to Test Fission Power for Future Mars Colony

By Irene Klotz, Space.com Contributor, Original Story on Space.com Here An artist’s impression of a nuclear power system, consisting of four separate fission reactors, for Mars habitats. Credit: NASA/Kilopower As…

The Crisis of Integrity-deficient Science

This post comes to us via Paul Driessen of CFACT.  He highlights a very serious problem.  Readers may want to weigh in with their own examples, some thoughts on why this is happening, and what…

Eclipseocalypse – Electrics Brace for Solar Darkness

When the sun goes dark, California will lose the equivalent of five nuclear power plants of power. Martin Rosenberg | Jun 29, 2017 The Energy Times   California is bracing…

France will 'ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040'

Environment minister unveils five-year-plan to fulfil country’s commitments under Paris Agreement Chloe Farand from the UK Independent France plans to ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, the country’s…

A Red Team to end the climate wars: fun but likely to fail.

A Red Team to end the climate wars: fun but likely to fail. By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Team Trump has proposed a Red Team project…

Electric Car Maker Tesla Share Price Plunges

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Elon Musk’s Tesla shares have plunged in value this week. Analysts cite competition and production concerns. Tesla’s Stock Selloff Messes Up Musk’s Big Week By…

Another benefit of warming – California projected to get wetter through this century

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Under business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions, climate models predict California will get warmer during the rest of the century and most also predict the state will get drier. But,…

Talking Truth to Climate Consensus

By Rud Istvan A sound bite summary* The climate consensus now has two derogation levels for those who disagree. Climate ‘contrarians’ like Bjørn Lomborg disagree about mitigation policies. Climate ‘deniers’…

Comments on the New RSS Lower Tropospheric Temperature Dataset

Reposted from Roy Spencer’s Blog.  Original here. July 6th, 2017 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. It was inevitable that the new RSS mid-tropospheric (MT) temperature dataset, which showed more…

How They airbrushed out the Inconvenient Pause

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In November 2015, just before the faithful gathered around their capering, gibbering witch-doctors and shamans in Paris for the New Superstition’s annual festival of thanks…

G20: Climate Change Not a Key Objective for Britain

Guest essay by Eric Worrall German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s efforts to present a united front against President Trump’s climate skepticism took a blow today, with the British government admitting that…

Game of Thrones: Who is Michael Mann?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Vanity Fair asked academics to name which Game of Thrones characters match the personality and roles of their climate heroes. Who Is the Jon Snow…

See the cost to America of damage from climate change in the 21st century

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Another peer-reviewed paper predicting disaster from climate change by misrepresenting and exaggerating the science. We can still learn much from it.…

Bombshell study: Temperature Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Government Climate Data

Guest essay by Michael Bastasch A new study found adjustments made to global surface temperature readings by scientists in recent years “are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and…

Reconciling predictions of climate change

From Eurekalert, New framework accounts for conflicting estimates of global temperature increases Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences   AUDIO: SEAS researchers Peter Huybers and Cristian…

Why are Search Engines so Hostile to Climate Realism?

A large cluster of interlinked climate alarmist web sites clutters the web.  It heavily overlaps the cluster of the leftist, international, government, and academic sites. A content-neutral ranking algorithm would…

Why Climate Models Run Hot

by Rud Istvan,   EPA administrator Pruitt wants to “Red Team” the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) consensus best reflected in the IPCC assessment reports (AR). At its core, CAGW…

Another Manntastic Claim: "scientists live by a covenant"

Had a bit of insomnia tonight (from falling asleep early), and this popped up in my message stream on Facebook. I didn’t expect to post again so soon, but his…