Guest post by David Middleton Caribbean battered as Irma, most powerful hurricane ever, makes landfall Winds of 151mph recorded before monitoring equipment is destroyed by the storm, as eye of…
Month: September 2017
Claim: Big Oil Must Pay for Harvey and Irma
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study claims that the contribution of big oil companies to hurricane intensity can be calculated with sufficient precision to determine how much fossil…
The making of a climate skeptic – at University
Foreword by Anthony Watts. This essay is written by a student at the University of Wyoming, who finds herself in the middle of a set of circumstances that are pushing…
Beauty and the Beasts – Hurricanes #Katia #Irma and #Jose in one spectacular image
It is not often that you get to see two Atlantic and one Gulf of Mexico hurricanes all at once on a single satellite image, but we live in “interesting…
Hurricane Irma Is NOT the Most Powerful Atlantic Hurricane Ever Recorded.
Guest post by David Middleton Hurricane Irma is really bad. It may be the worst storm to hit the U.S. since 1935… But it is NOT the most powerful Atlantic…
Texas A&M Expert: Rainfall From Harvey Shattered Every Record
By Keith Randall, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications Hurricane Harvey was billed as a once-in-every-500-year event, and it more than lived up to its billing. It produced rainfall amounts that…
The sun belches out a 3rd X-class solar flare in as many days
Earlier this week, on Sept 4th, active sunspot AR2673 hurled a CME toward Earth. Now a second monster sized flare has been released from the same region. On Sept. 6th…
"Houston is open for business"
Guest post by David Middleton A week ago, this seemed unimaginable… Houston is open for business After much communication with those affected by Hurricane Harvey plus research, discussion, and intense…
Claim: Climate Change is Going to Kill Off All the Parasites
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Back in 2013 I celebrated that Australia’s unusually hot, dry Summer meant a lower risk of deadly tick bites, but apparently this is now a…
International Space Station gets dramatic view of hurricane #Irma
The International Space Station’s external cameras captured another dramatic view of Hurricane Irma as it made landfall in the Caribbean Sept. 6. The powerful Category 5 storm with sustained winds…
Founder of The Weather Channel to people staying in Florida: "put your ssn on your arm with a sharpie"
My friend John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has never been known for mincing words. He’s always been a “tell it like it is” kind of guy. This is…
Sun unleashes a SECOND Monster X class solar flare – strongest in a decade
Earlier this week, on Sept 4th, active sunspot AR2673 hurled a CME toward Earth. Now a second monster sized flare has been released from the same region. On Sept. 6th…
Aussie Politicians Panic Over Coal Closures
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australia’s green conservatives are panicking that after years of political vilification, coal businesses are abandoning their plants, leaving a gaping hole in Australia’s baseload power…
Global Temperature Report: August 2017
From UAH: Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade August temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.41 C (about 0.74 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for August.…
Solar storms linked to mass strandings of whales
Mass strandings of whales have often been documented, but their causes remain unclear. Researchers from Europe have just published a study in the International Journal of Astrobiology suggesting that some strandings are…
Tim Flannery Pushing Climate Seaweed Farms
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Tim Flannery, whose doom laden predictions of permanent drought in my opinion led to the waste of billions of dollars of taxpayer’s money, now wants…
The most fantastic eyewall video of a hurricane I've ever seen – #Irma
This was taken earlier today by the new GOES-16 weather satellite, which has been producing some fantastic hi-res imagery of Hurricane Irma, This video, from NASA’s Short-term Prediction Research and…
Claim: Just three years left to 'save the planet' from climate change
From the “flexible deadlines department” and the World Economic Forum. Prince Charles said back in 2009 that “we have 100 months to save the world”. That deadline looked like it wouldn’t…
In Official Climate Science Normal is Abnormal, and Natural is Unnatural. Hurricane Harvey Another Classic Example.
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball “The unnatural, that too is natural.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Throughout the entire environmental movement and its subset anthropogenic global warming (AGW) the proponents…
Study: Deforestation long overlooked as contributor to climate change
From CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, N.Y. – When it comes to tackling climate change, the focus often falls on reducing the use of fossil fuels and developing sustainable energy sources. But a…
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