Guest post by David Middleton Common sense from Roger Pielke Jr… COMMENTARY The Hurricane Lull Couldn’t Last The U.S. hadn’t been hit by a Category 3 or stronger storm since…
Month: September 2017
Hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue on Irma: 'plausible track & worst case scenario'
Models have lately been trending hurricane Irma to hit southern Florida, with a turn to the north, driving it through the center of the state as a Cat4 or Cat5…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #282
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Houston Flooding – Resilience Needed: America’s great fortune of no major…
Driving Forces
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new paper published in Nature Scientific Reports called “Identification of the driving forces of climate change using the longest instrumental temperature record”, by Geli…
A Comment on Hurricane Harvey Responsibility
Guest essay by Rud Istvan This (possible) guest post is a result of watching the MSM commentary on Hurricane Harvey in SE Texas (Houston), and the buildup to possible Cat…
President Trump Appoints New NASA Chief
Guest essay by Eric Worrall All the right people are complaining about President Trump’s new NASA chief Jim Bridenstine, who once demanded an apology from Obama for squandering money on…
Revisiting wind turbine impacts – Erroneous recent calculation highlights need to assess renewable energy sustainability claims
Guest essay by Paul Driessen Foreword: An article I wrote several weeks ago had a couple of stupid math errors. This column attempts to correct them – and take readers…
'Exceedingly early frost' possible for U.S. Corn Belt next week
From NOAA’s Climate prediction Center: PROGNOSTIC DISCUSSION FOR MONTHLY OUTLOOK NWS CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER COLLEGE PARK MD 300 PM EDT THU AUG 31 2017 30-DAY OUTLOOK DISCUSSION FOR SEPTEMBER 2017…
Pope and Patriarch, hear the cry of the poor! (because of climate change)
Open letter on behalf of the worldwide Catholic and Orthodox lay faithful in response to Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew on climate change by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley A FALSE…
Has Al Gore Remade Silicon Valley in his Image?
Al Gore played an enormous role in Silicon Valley’s transformation from technological marvel into marketing/finance/software/censorship hub, animated by Leftist passion for destruction and deep-ecology anti-humanism, both amplified by artificial intelligence
NYT: Lets Help Hurricane Harvey Survivors By Taxing Them
Guest essay by Eric Worrall As Hurricane Harvey survivors struggle with the aftermath, the cleanup, with power outages and portable generators, reporters far away in comfortable offices in New York…
New solar cell design is modeled after bugs eyes
Insect eyes inspire new solar cell design from Stanford Packing tiny solar cells together, like micro-lenses in the compound eye of an insect, could pave the way to a new…
War on Coal: California and New Mexico Celebrate Meaningless "Win"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A Californian judge ruled that President Trump’s administration acted illegally in suspending Obama era royalty hikes against resource projects on government land. But given the…
NASA and NOAA see massive rainfall and winds in Hurricane Irma – now Cat3
From NHC: DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK —————————— At 500 PM AST (2100 UTC), the center of Hurricane Irma was located near latitude 18.8 North, longitude 39.1 West. Irma is moving toward the…
NASA scientists seek to improve sea ice predictions
From the NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER. Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is in a downward spiral, with summer minimum extents about 40 percent smaller than in the 1980s. But…
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies asks ridiculous question: 'Can corals survive climate change?'
And the answer is, Yes. In fact, they’ve already survived millions of years of climate change. Age of corals since they first appeared on Earth: Corals are 500 million years old,…
Death of a Climate Icon – the polar bear’s demise as a useful poster child
By Dr. Susan Crockford Last week I asked: “What’s causing the death of the polar bear as a climate change icon?” I was echoing the conclusion of a commentator at the…
LA Times: "What would it take to persuade you to buy an electric car?"
Guest post by David Middleton Even with up to $10,000 in federal and state incentives, only 4% of car buyers in California chose electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles last year.…
Record-low 2016 Antarctic sea ice was due to a 'perfect storm' of tropical, polar conditions – not 'climate change'
While winter sea ice in the Arctic is declining so dramatically that ships can now navigate those waters without any icebreaker escort, the scene in the Southern Hemisphere is very…
Yet another renewable energy boondoggle
Guest essay by Paul Driessen Foreword: Wilkinson Solar wants to catch the solar wave, and make bundles of money sending electricity to the grid whenever it’s generated, even if it’s…
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