New DOI and DOA policy to cut overgrown, diseased, dead and burned trees is long overdue Paul Driessen President Trump promised to bring fresh ideas and policies to Washington. Now…
Month: September 2017
Claim: Chocolate CAUSES Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Chocolate Climate Worriers have switched tactics, from claiming that climate is going to kill all the cocoa plants, to claiming we should feel guilty…
Ah, crap – Trump Administration Won’t Withdraw from Paris Climate Deal – or not?
SEE UPDATE BELOW – looks like the WSJ got punked. From the broken promises department and the WSJ: NEW YORK—Trump administration officials said Saturday the U.S. wouldn’t pull out of…
Now available on Amazon: 'Climate Change: The Facts 2017'
Climate Change: The Facts 2017 contains 22 essays by internationally-renowned experts and commentators, including Dr Bjorn Lomborg, Dr Matt Ridley, Professor Peter Ridd, Dr Willie Soon, Dr Ian Plimer, Dr Roy…
Climate Models Can't Even Approximate Reality Because Atmospheric Structure and Movements are Virtually Unknown
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball In his recent article on WUWT titled “HADCRU Power and Temperature” Andy May refers to the challenges of modelling the atmosphere. He wrote, The greenhouse…
Arctic sea ice melt may have turned the corner this season – with no new record low
This was the news from NSIDC on Sept 5th, 2017: Average sea ice extent for August 2017 ended up third lowest in the satellite record. Ice loss rates through August were…
Forest fires discovered during the cold climate of the last ice-age
Forest fires are not limited to hot or temperate climates A joint Canada-France study shows that there were wildfires in the Alps during an ice age 20,000 years ago UNIVERSITY…
What you need to know and are not told about hurricanes
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website Summary: Millions of words were expended reporting about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but too little about the science connecting them to climate…
Hubble telescope observes strange 'pitch black' planet
From the ESA/HUBBLE INFORMATION CENTRE Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the…
Report: Ocean Cycles, Not Humans, May Be Behind Most Observed Climate Change
An eminent atmospheric scientist says that natural cycles may be largely responsible for climate changes seen in recent decades. In a new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Anastasios…
Claim: Cost of not adapting to climate change would be at least five times higher
A study on damage to coastal considered only real estate loss. If nothing is done, researchers say, losses might be up to ten times higher if the predicament includes the…
Hurricane Harvey and the impact of sea level changes
Guest essay by Philip Lloyd Hurricane Harvey broke the 12-year pause in Major tropical cyclones making landfall on the continental US. Inevitably, believers in Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming [CAGW] had…
Study: Now we have to worry about climatic 'existential' threats
New climate risk classification created to account for potential ‘existential’ threats Researchers identify a one-in-20 chance of temperature increase causing catastrophic damage or worse by 2050 From the UNIVERSITY OF…
Evidence of Recent Volcanic Eruptions Under the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet
Guest post by David Middleton The discovery of volcanoes under the Antarctic ice sheet may be old news, but now we have evidence that at least some of them have…
House Defunds Obama Era Methane Rules
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Willie Soon – the House has voted to defund an Obama era EPA initiative to limit methane emissions from fossil fuel mining operations. House…
Study reveals that Mann's Bristlecone pine trees may not be good "treemometers" after all
Dr. Michael Mann used tree ring core samples from Bristlecone pines in the Western United states as one of the most heavily weighted proxies used to make his infamous “hockey…
CAGW Canary in the Coal Mine Dies of Hypothermia
Tom Barr writes via email: From the “End of the Interglacial Department”: A Borough Council in Surrey, U.K. is set to spend up to £100 million to protect rare birds…
Low-level radiation exposure less harmful to health than other modern lifestyle risks
From the “I thought sure Fukashima was going to kill me” department Oxford Martin restatement finds that risks from radiation exposure are extensively studied and small relative to smoking, obesity…
New planet discovered: An inferno world with titanium skies
A team of astronomers led by Elyar Sedaghati, an ESO fellow and recent graduate of TU Berlin, has examined the atmosphere of the exoplanet [WASP-19b] in greater detail than ever…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 1
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen In remembrance of the victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma: I have held off publishing this essay until after the damage from Hurricane Irma could…
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