So What Happened to the Philosophy? Guest essay by John Ridgway Many years ago, when I was studying at university, an old joke was doing the rounds in the corridors…
Month: October 2017
Inconvenient: oceans continue to cool
From the way media and climate scientists portray the global air temperature this past year, you’d think there was only one place to go – up. For example, Gavin is…
Spectacular UFO reported in Siberia
The Siberian Times reports: Reports of spectacular UFO – a giant glowing ball lighting the sky – in Siberia Fears from locals of ‘aliens arriving’, but there is a surprising explanation…
Quote of the Week: dissing McIntyre on ‘mental health’ …backfires
From the “upside down Mann” department; something I missed while on holiday this summer. Steve McIntyre writes below about a climate scientist at USC, who goes a bit too far,…
Warmth is no Worry but Cold Kills
Guest opinion by Viv Forbes It was ice, not global warming, that killed and entombed millions of mammoths and woolly rhinos in Siberia and Alaska. It was unrelenting cold and…
NASA discovers ancient ocean on Asteroid Ceres
Via the AGU: WASHINGTON D.C. — Minerals containing water are widespread on Ceres, suggesting the dwarf planet may have had a global ocean in the past. What became of that…
Deconstructing the Climate Demagoguery of the Wine Country Wildfire Tragedies
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism As sure as…
Our dizzy Universe: Hubble discovers ‘wobbling galaxies’
From the ESA/HUBBLE INFORMATION CENTRE Hubble discovers ‘wobbling galaxies’ Observations may hint at nature of dark matter Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the brightest galaxies within…
New tool in tracking climate change: bat poop
From the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF HEALTH) and the “bat signal” department comes this story about crap science paleo-guano. Bat Poop: A Reliable Source of Climate Change People have long known…
Another ‘adjustocene’ moment – cooling the oceans in the distant past makes the present temperature ‘unparalleled’
From ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE and the “adjusting the past” department: The oceans were colder than we thought A team of EPFL and European researchers has discovered a flaw in…
Saudi Aramco CEO: “it will be decades before” EV’s “shoulder a significant percentage of the energy mix.”
And why it won’t matter when they do… Guest mockery by David Middleton CEO of world’s largest oil company says it will be ‘decades’ before electric cars become real threat…
Claim: The Anthropocene started in the mid 1950s
From the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Determining when humans started impacting the planet on a large scale Humans have so profoundly altered the Earth that, some scientists argue, our current geologic…
Can open and honest scientists win public trust?
From MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EAST LANSING, Mich. — With the increased politicization of science, more and more people continue to be skeptical of research, especially when it comes to hot-button…
IMF Head on Climate: “we will be toasted, roasted and grilled”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall IMF head Christine Lagarde suggested we’re all in big trouble if we don’t address climate change, while speaking at a conference in Saudi Arabia. ‘We…
@algore Your ‘save the planet’ legacy – palm oil – is making Indonesia warmer
WUWT readers may recall Al Gore’s failed Goldman Sachs palm oil fantasy and the subsequent train wreck. Now, it gets even worse. Deforestation to make palm oil plantations is causing the very…
BBC accused of being a ‘left-wing mouthpiece’ today after a grovelling apology
James Tapsfield, Mail Online, via The GWPF The BBC was accused of being a ‘left-wing mouthpiece’ today after it issued a grovelling apology for failing to challenge Lord Lawson over a claim…
So far this year, 400 scientific papers debunk climate change alarm
400 Scientific Papers Published In 2017 Support A Skeptical Position On Climate Alarm by Kenneth Richard, No Tricks Zone During the first 10 months of 2017, 400 scientific papers have…
A Tale of Two Lease Sales
Or, more accurately, two tales about the same lease sale… Guest rant by David Middleton Earlier this year, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced that all available leases in the Gulf…
We should have seen it coming
The Global Warming Thought Police Want Climate Skeptics In ‘Jail’ Guest opinion by Kerry Jackson Conform or else! That’s the message of the global warming alarmists. Those who don’t buy…
Study: Ice sheets may melt rapidly in response to soot from distant volcanoes
Study of ancient eruptions shows modern ice sheets could be vulnerable From THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the “dirty ice” melts faster department Volcanic eruptions have been known…
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