What is the computational power of the universe? What if we consider the cosmos to be the output of a 13.7-billion-year computation? Can a close look at the universe give us…
Month: November 2017
An indicator of rock bottom for the solar minimum
Solar minimum surprisingly constant More than half a century of observation yields new discovery NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES Using more than half a century of observations, Japanese astronomers have…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #292
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week. “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”…
Latest Daft Green Marketing Idea: Pictures of Natural Disasters on the Sides of New Cars
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor Simon Dalby thinks the way to discourage buying petrol cars is to decorate new cars with mandatory images of climate disasters. Thank you for…
Irony can be so… Ironic – Trump’s solution to AGW: “Drill, Baby, Drill!”
Guest commentary by David Middleton Daily Comment In Bonn, Trump’s Answer to Global Warming? Drill, Baby, Drill! By Elizabeth Kolbert November 15, 2017 Every year around this time, negotiators from across the…
Fantastic visualization of Earth’s atmosphere in 2017
How can you see the atmosphere? By tracking what is carried on the wind. Tiny aerosol particles such as smoke, dust, and sea salt are transported across the globe, making…
Radiative Heat Transfer by CO2 or “what’s the quality of your radiation?”
Note: This is a contentious subject, and I have often shied away from it because it often erupts in food fights. However, Mr. Gill is making a good-faith effort here,…
Virginia goes Don Quixote
State will defy Trump, double down on renewables and CO2 reductions – and hurt poor families Guest essay by Paul Driessen Democrat Ralph Northam had barely won the Virginia governor’s…
Climate Hypocrite President Macron Sucking Coal Power from Britain
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to The Guardian, a temporary shortage of nuclear power in France forced France to buy substantial amounts of “dirty” coal power from Britain –…
A Reply to Cook and Oreskes on Climate Science Consensus
By Warren Pearce, , Reiner Grundmann, Mike Hulme, Sujatha Raman, Eleanor Hadley Kershaw and Judith Tsouvalis Published in: Environmental Communication In their replies to our paper (Pearce et al., 2017), both Cook (2017) and…
Claim: plant respiration of CO2 into atmosphere underestimated by 30%
From the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA and the “blame the plants not the humans for climate model failures” department. Carbon emissions by plant respiration will have large impact on climate Study finds…
Institutional decay in climate science
Roger Pielke Jr. describes the decay of climate science By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website Summary: Science and public policy collide in climate science as they have in…
Oreskes Inability to Keep Her Mouth Shut & the Big Erik Conway Problem
Guest essay by Russell Cook Excerpt: If Conway and Oreskes were placed under oath in courtroom appearances or in congressional hearing appearances, would their narratives be forced to line up…
Quote of the Week – effects of “The Science Police”
From Keith Kloor’s excellent article this past summer “The Science Police” which in my opinion is well worth a read. In an ideal world, it shouldn’t matter. But in the zero-sum…
Exploding Meteor lights up the Arctic
Video follows. On the evening of Nov. 16th, aurora tour guide Tony Bateman of northern Finland was indoors, warming up between auroras, when his surroundings began to vibrate. “There was a huge…
Study: Warmer Water is Pressuring Scottish Shags
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study claims that Scottish sea birds are being forced to diversify their diet by a shortage of their favourite prey species. But in…
Claim: climate change will stunt Chinese manufacturing
From the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SANTA BARBARA, and the “temperature in Chinese sweatshops may go up a degree” department. Hot and bothered Environmental economists studying the impact of climate…
A paleoclimatology tool is shown to give false positives
A popular tool to trace Earth’s oxygen history can give false positives From the GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the “settled science” department: For researchers pursuing the primordial history of…
Climate Clown Macron Taunts Trump, Demands Green Trade Tariffs
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French President Climate Clown Emmanuel Macron has demanded green trade tariffs be raised against countries which do no share the EU’s climate goals. Emmanuel Macron…
NBC: “having a child … is one of the worst things you can do for the environment”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – Climate Philosopher and parent Travis Rieder is back, demanding that other people refrain from having children for the sake of the planet.…
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