Guest essay by Eric Worrall Former UNFCCC secretary Christiana Figueres, architect of the Paris Agreement, has called Australia’s planned giant new coal mine a “Kodak moment”, a doomed investment in…
Month: November 2017
Draining the Swamp: Office of Science and Technology Policy Edition
Guest swamp analysis by David Middleton By JACQUELINE ALEMANY CBS NEWS November 21, 2017, 5:00 AM Donald Trump’s science office is a ghost town In its 41-year-old history as the…
Significant finding: Study shows why Europe’s climate varied over the past 3000 years
From CARDIFF UNIVERSITY and the “motion from the ocean makes or breaks English vineyards” department. Ocean floor mud reveals secrets of past European climate Samples of sediment taken from the ocean…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #293
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Hypothesis Testing: Following up on work by the late Bob Carter,…
Do Greens Mainly Win Support in Urban Jungles?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The recent State election in Queensland, Australia has thrown up some interesting voting patterns. Votes for green leaning left wing candidates seem to have mostly…
The big slide in renewable energy tells the real story
No, renewables are not taking over the world anytime soon. Guest essay by Bjørn Lomborg We have spent the last two centuries getting off renewables because they were mostly weak, costly…
The Guardian: Climate is Creating More Child Brides
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Photo journalist Gethin Chamberlain, crop failures force third world farmers to sell off their kids. Why climate change is creating a new generation…
Is Climate Chaotic or Cyclical? The Transition from Uniformitarianism to Catastrophism.
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball In the 1990s a clear divide existed between the east (the Soviet Union and China) who said climate change is cyclical and the west (the…
Dark matter and dark energy: Do they really exist?
From the University of Geneva and the “soon we’ll have ‘dark climate’ as a way of explaining the pause” department comes this bit of science which is fascinating, but like…
A Green Tries to Defend Eco-Terrorism
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Emily Johnston, who admitted shutting down 5 pipelines last year with the help of four friends, has finally found a judge willing to hear her…
Can A Cold Object Warm A Hot Object?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Short answer? Of course not, that would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics … BUT it can leave the hot object warmer than it would…
After the “catastrophe signal’ – When science entered the policy greenhouse
Guest essay by Bernie Lewin A new book on the origins of the global warming movement tells how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was first pressed into policy based…
Grauniad: “Water divining is bunk. So why do myths continue to trump science?”
Guest lampooning by David Middleton Hopefully, this post won’t have as many typos as my last post. I just love ridiculing The Grauniad… The news that many water companies use dowsing to…
10.02 °C of Warming & Human Extinction by 2026!!! Film at 11.
Guest ridicule by David Middleton “Film at 11” is a US idiom from television news broadcasting, where the viewers are informed that footage of a breaking news story will be…
Thinking of buying a weather station for Christmas? Read this first.
Many readers of WUWT have an interest in weather, and specifically temperature. This being “Black Friday”, I thought I’d spend a few minutes talking about some of the home weather…
Friday Funny – ‘Flat Earth researcher’ likely to win a Darwin Award
You’ve all surely heard of the Darwin Awards, where some people remove themselves from the gene pool for the benefit of mankind by taunting natural selection: Natural selection deems that some…
Claim: Deep Fat Friers Are Cooling the Planet
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to British researchers, droplets of oil from deep fat friers are measurably contributing to a vast, cooling cloud over big cities, helping to mitigate…
Claim: Climate Driven Human Extinction “in the coming decades or sooner”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Toronto Now reporter Zach Ruiter has called the imminent extinction of mankind based on all the different climate scare stories he has read. Are we…
Besting the BEST surface temperature record
Guest essay by Patrick J. Michaels and Ryan Maue, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute JRA-55—BETTER THAN THE BEST GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE HISTORY, AND COOLER THAN THE REST. Let’s…
Playing the Cognitive Game – The Climate Skeptic’s Guide to Cognitive Biases
Guest essay by John Ridgway I don’t know about you, but I am getting pretty fed up with psychologists proclaiming the irrationality of climate change scepticism. Eagerly, they waste no…
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