Hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue says today: Eye continues to warm now +20°C … if convection flares or clouds cool (more pink) then Hurricane #Irma should reach 200 mph. 190…
Month: September 2017
Claim: Warmer world may bring more local, less global, temperature variability
Climate model looks ahead, not back, and finds different scenario DURHAM, N.C. — Many tropical or subtropical regions could see sharp increases in natural temperature variability as Earth’s climate warms…
Climate Craziness of the Week – @kurteichenwald: "I predicted Irma using 'climate equation' 100% correct"
From the ‘I’m not a scientist but I play one in Vanity Fair” department comes this ridiculous tweet from writer Kurt Eichenwald. Via Wikipedia: no mention of climate or weather skill:…
Hurricane expert Maue: extrapolating scale, #Irma could be a "Category 6"
Dr. Ryan Maue said this morning: Hurricane #Irma is still intensifying. Now up to 155-knots (180 mph) Extrapolating Saffir-Simpson scale, 158-knots would be Category 6. NWS says: (bold mine) Hurricane…
#Irma at Category 5: hoping the forecasts are wrong – #uncertainty
The news of the day of course is that Florida is bracing for a Category 5 hurricane impact, and the governor has declared a state of emergency along with all…
Hurricane #Irma just entered "Beast Mode" – satellite estimates Cat5
Hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue says tonight: Oh my … Hurricane #Irma just entered “beast mode” … incredible convection flaring. Satellite estimates now > T 7.0 and Category 5. He…
Attributing Hurricane Harvey to climate change is 'murky science'
Hurricane Harvey and Climate Change Extreme weather events attribution science yields murky results By Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine Ronald Bailey Rainfall from Hurricane Harvey so far has averaged around 30 inches,…
Correlation of Accumulated Cyclone Energy and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations
Guest essay by Michel de Rougemont Various sources, scientists publishing their opinion in the media, claim that Tropical Storm Harvey, recently landed in Texas, is one more signal of the…
Roger Pielke Jr.: "The Hurricane Lull Couldn’t Last"
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…
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…
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