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…
Month: November 2017
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…
Claim: Electric cars could ‘power our lives’
Energy from electric cars could power our lives — but only if we improve the system Two apparently contradictory studies come together with recommendations Oxford, November 22, 2017 – Power…
Google Truth Algorithm: Users are Part of the Problem
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Google’s efforts to filter out positions which they think are fake news, like climate skeptic posts, have hit an unexpected snag: Google have just noticed…
Southern California broils before Turkey Day with 2 dozen record highs
As we mentioned in our previous story today, unseasonably warm weather hit the Los Angeles area today. with 99 degrees at Camarillo being the hottest. Here is a temperature map…
Core of climate science is in the real-world data
The following was provided by Dr. Willie Soon, reproduced with permission from Dr Ian Flanigan. The Coalition referenced in the post is the current Australian Government, a Coalition between the…
Discovery: Lightning creates anti-matter in our atmosphere
From the “this is likely to push out chemtrails as the next big conspiracy theory” department. I posited back in 2009, when I first covered this story, that the huge…
Remember when the calving of the Petermann Glacier was a sure sign of ‘global warming’? Never mind.
WUWT readers may recall some articles we did years back debunking the alarm over the Petermann glacier calving off a large iceberg. In case you are unfamiliar, it’s what glaciers…
Record temps up to 100°F expected in SoCal at start of Thanksgiving holiday
From the “cook your turkey on the asphalt while waiting in a traffic jam” department Dr Ryan Maue of Weather.us has this informative forecast: Already in the 80s in Southern…
Study: When the sun pulses X-rays, Earth’s ionosphere pulses in sync
A team of scientists led by solar physicist Laura Hayes investigated a connection between solar flares and Earth’s atmosphere. They discovered pulses in the electrified layer of the atmosphere –…
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