From Florida State University and the “correlation is not causation unless we want to blame climate change” department. A stinging report: FSU research shows climate change a major threat to…
Month: September 2017
China's New State Climate Change Religion
Guest essay by Eric Worrall China has stepped up its efforts to promote sham green narratives, while simultaneously waging a brutal crackdown against Christianity and other faiths. China Pushes Electric…
Climate models overheat
Guest essay by Michel de Rougemont Without questioning the observed global warming or the emissions to the atmosphere of infrared-absorbing gases, three central issues remain without properly quantified responses, without…
What Happened to the Armchair Environmentalists and Climate Alarmists When the Hurricanes Hit?
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball There are two ways to get ahead. Pull yourself up or push other people down. There are few better exponents of the pushdown option than…
Claim: Phoenix Water Shortage will Lead to Middle East style Resource Conflict
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Clean Technica’s Steve Hanley claims that looming water shortages in Phoenix, Arizona and large scale internal US migrations will lead to Middle East style resource…
New financial product aims to solve 'valley of death' for promising energy technologies
From Eurekalert Public Release: 28-Sep-2017 Case Western Reserve University IMAGE: This is Anurag Gupta. view more Credit: CWRU With a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), researchers at…
The Media Suggests We Label Puerto Ricans As ‘Climate Refugees’
From The Daily Caller Energy Media outlets are already suggesting the thousands of people predicted to leave Puerto Rico over the next year could be America’s first massive wave…
What natural disasters should teach us
Hurricanes, landslides and other disasters show Africans why we need fossil fuels Steven Lyazi I express my deepest sympathies to the people in the Caribbean and United States who have…
Claim: Climate Change will Make Roads Rougher
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to a study by Arizona State University, global warming will accelerate deterioration of roads because the original asphalt won’t cope with the anticipated rapid…
More than 100 schools sign on to teach health risks of climate change
From Eurekalert A growing movement in higher education responds to a shortage of health professionals and researchers trained in climate change and health Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health The…
'Why haven't we done something already?': California mulling ban on fossil-fuel vehicles
From The National Post China will also likely order an end to sales of all polluting vehicles by 2030, the chairman of electric-carmaker BYD Co. said Thursday The internal combustion…
Quote of the Week: The cost of daring to write about climate
Matt Ridley: “I’ve written about many controversial issues during my career,” Ridley said. “Never, have I ever experienced anything like what happens when you write about climate, which is a systematic…
Study: Early Earth gobbled up mini-planets to grow
The volatile processes that shaped the Earth Oxford University scientists have shed new light on how the Earth was first formed. Based on observations of newly-forming stars, scientists know that…
'Catastrophic' sea level rise in the past may have drowned corals in Hawaii
From the UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Did rapid sea-level rise drown fossil coral reefs around Hawaii? Investigations to predict changes in sea levels and their impacts on coastal systems are a…
Claim: Summer could be one long heatwave if planet hits 2 degrees C
How heatwaves will change around the world for every 1°C increase in global average temperatures From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Summer in some regions of the world will…
Can We Stop Pretending China Actually Cares About Global Warming?
Energy From The Daily Caller Environmental activists have called China as the world’s de facto “leader” on fighting global warming, but energy experts don’t think the communist nation will actually…
UK's green bank abandons Britain: Promise to back UK ditched in rush to privatise firm
From This is Money.co.uk By Rachel Millard For The Daily Mail Published: 16:51 EDT, 25 September 2017 | Updated: 16:51 EDT, 25 September 2017 The newly privatised investment bank that…
Iron Seeding of the Pacific Ocean May Have Played a Role in Global Climate Change
From Newswise Newswise — A Texas A&M University research team has examined a 100,000-year-old ocean core and found that there have been at least eight occurrences of iron penetrating the…
Are Climate Models Overstating Warming?
From Climate Etc. by Ross McKitrick A number of authors, including the IPCC, have argued that climate models have systematically overstated the rate of global warming in recent decades. A…
From "The Stupid, It Burns" Department: "Climate Change Is Already Making People Sicker"
Guest rant by David Middleton Climate change is a central issue at this year’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with multiple high-level meetings on the issue happening amid several devastating natural disasters. Hurricane…
Frequently Asked Questions 9.1*: A Critique
NCAR Guest Post by Clyde Spencer Because of recent WUWT guest posts, and their comments, I decided to do what I have been putting off for too long – reading…
Gavin's Twitter Trick
Last week, Larry Kummer posted a very thoughtful article here on WUWT: A climate science milestone: a successful 10-year forecast! At first glance, this did look like “a successful 10-year…
It’s worse than They thought: warming is slower than predicted
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley When The Times, a Murdoch paper previously slavish in kow-towing to the Party Line on climate, leads with a story picked up from the more…