The Social Costs of Air Pollution from Cars in the UK

By Neil Lock August 2017 Back in April the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, introduced from the coming October a £10 a day “toxicity charge” for pre 2006 cars, both…

Arctic melt season changes and the Arctic regime shift

By Javier In sharp contrast with previous decades, the past 10 years have seen no change in Northern Hemisphere average sea ice extent, according to MASIE (may-zee, Multi-sensor Analyzed Sea…

When The Model Models Itself

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Eric Worrell posted an interesting article wherein a climate “scientist” says that falsifiability is not an integral part of science … now that’s bizarre madness…

So What Happened to the Science?

John Ridgway, “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi It…

Claim: Climate Science Does Not Have to be Falsifiable

Guest essay by Eric Worrall How do you falsify a climate model? Australian National University Climate scientist Sophie Lewis acknowledges that climate models are not falsifiable – yet claims we…

Rotten Tomatoes – An Inconvenient Sequel – An Awkward Reality

By: Duncan Smith The Rotten Tomatoes (RT) reviews are in for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power movie. According to RT, the movie is listed as a “Documentary”…

Drilling set to begin in British shale

From UPI Cuadrilla Resources says its drilling rig is on site and ready to tap into a natural gas basin in Lancashire. By Daniel J. Graeber    |   July 28,…

US Climate Report Edits Out Highly Embarrassing Section

Reposted from Paul Homewood’s Blog, Not A Lot Of People Know That. By Paul Homewood https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/climate/document-Draft-of-the-Climate-Science-Special-Report.html The plot thickens! I mentioned in my previous post that the latest draft climate…

Underground magma triggered Earth’s worst mass extinction with greenhouse gases

From The Guardian There are parallels between today’s and past greenhouse gas-driven climate changes Howard Lee Tuesday 1 August 2017 06.00 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 1 August 2017 06.02…

Extreme heat linked to climate change may adversely affect pregnancy

From Eurekalert Public Release: 8-Aug-2017 George Washington University WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 8, 2017) — Pregnant women are an important but thus far largely overlooked group vulnerable to the effects of…

Green Lunacy: Fossil Fuel Mandates, to Stabilise Mandated Renewable Electricity Supplies

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – A government green idea so stupid even Tesla is worried; The South Australian Government, the world’s renewable crash test dummy, plans to…

The good, the bad and the algae

From Eurekalert Public Release: 7-Aug-2017 Sandia tests Salton Sea-grown algae as new fuel source and pollution solution DOE/Sandia National Laboratories BRAWLEY, California — Sandia National Laboratories is testing whether one…

Here's How to Avoid Climate Panics

From Townhall Dennis Avery Posted: Aug 07, 2017 10:01 AM Americans have suffered needless climate-related panic for the past 40 years—not realizing that, since 1850, our newspapers have given us…

No longer water under the bridge, statistics yields new data on sea levels

From Eurekalert Public Release: 8-Aug-2017 Untraditional approach expected to save lives, businesses, and communities along East Coast shows rate accelerating at a pace in contrast to previously accepted data American…

'The Footprint of Energy: Land Use of U.S. Electricity Production'

  Guest post by David Middleton The Strata group at Utah State University recently published a study on the “footprint of energy.”  For each energy source, the calculated the full-cycle…

Warm periods in the 20th century are not unprecedented during the last 2,000 years

Public Release: 8-Aug-2017 From Eurekalert Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences   IMAGE: 2,000-year temperature reconstruction in China. view more Credit: Yang Liu & Jingyun Zheng A great…

NYT Caught Switching Out Documents To Fix Botched Climate Change Article

  From The Daily Caller Energy Michael Bastasch 2:31 PM 08/08/2017 The New York Times has quietly updated its Tuesday front page article on a “sweeping” global warming report some…

Nuclear Fusion / Fission Hybrid?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Building an energy producing nuclear fusion reactor remains elusive, but some companies are re-considering an old idea – combining nuclear fusion with nuclear fission in…

EXCLUSIVE: Researcher Claims To Have Evidence One Of EPA’s Most Successful Clean Air Rules Is Based On Fabricated Data

Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 9:06 PM 08/07/2017 One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) longest and most successful air pollution standards is based on a taxpayer-funded study…

Weather-related Natural Disasters: Should we be concerned about a reversion to the mean?

by Risk Frontiers July 31, 2017 Professor Roger Pielke Jr (University of Colorado Boulder) Roger is a long-term Research Fellow of Risk Frontiers and recently it was our pleasure to be…