From the ABC Australia, video follows. Proof of something we’ve always said: You need a fossil fueled backup generator for any “green”wind/solar power project. Mawson Antarctic research station relying solely…
Month: November 2017
Astronomers find a ‘Zombie’ star that lived and died – twice
Star exploded, survived, and exploded again more than 50 years later Carnegie’s instrumentation specialist key to ‘zombie star’ discovery Pasadena, CA– It’s the celestial equivalent of a horror movie villain–a…
More Pacific island #COP23 Opportunism
Guest essay by John McLean Barry Brill’s report on Fiji’s relocation of a village doesn’t mean that it’s the only opportunistic Pacific island country when it comes to COP23. It’s…
In Defense of the Electric Car – part 3
Guest essay by John Hardy Full disclosure: I own an electric car, and I think they are useful for city transportation. However, having owned one for a decade, I can say…
The EU Blows $683 million (£520m) on a carbon capture project – that captured nothing!
From the “models didn’t predict this” and the “Climate Action” department: An investigation found that Brussels blew the colossal sum of cash on a drive to build underground storage facilities…
Electric Car Maker Tesla buys Perbix, which Designs Production Line Robots
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Having failed to hit their own production targets, Green car maker Tesla has bought a company which designs robotic production lines, apparently with the intent…
President Trump Not Invited to the December Paris Climate Change Summit
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Reuters reports that an unnamed official has stated that President Trump will not receive an invitation to the Paris Climate Change Summit in December. Trump…
Fiji’s ‘sinking’ Vunidogoloa Village – Victim of AGW or opportunistic at #COP23 ?
Guest essay by Barry Brill The popular press has dubbed this remote Fijian settlement as the world’s first community to be forced to migrate by climate-caused rising seas. But is…
NOAA’s USCRN Revisited – no significant warming in the USA in 12 years
Back in 2014, Anthony put up a post called “NOAA shows ‘the pause’ in the U.S. surface temperature record over nearly a decade“. In it, he discussed the record of…
The Oreskes question: Is Blood thicker than Objective Reporting @NPR ?
Guest essay by Russell Cook If anyone had engaged in a one-word internet search of the name “Oreskes” prior to October 31st, 2017, the results would have largely been for…
A call for an improved global climate measurement system
From the UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER and the “weather stations near heat sources aren’t measuring climate” department, something that we already have in the USA in the form of the…
Claim at #COP23 – The 2°C limit is attainable
From COP23 and the EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE JRC at COP23: A cleaner, greener planet is both possible and affordable Limiting global warming below the critical 2C level set out…
Claim: USA Should Stay in the Paris Agreement, Because Syria Has Signed
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate advocates are holding up alleged war criminal Bashar Al Assad’s announcement he will sign up to the Paris Agreement as the latest reason President…
#COP23 In one graph, best reason ever why the USA doesn’t need to be in the #ParisAgreement
While the COP23 climate conference is going on in Bonn this week, there has been renewed wailing and gnashing of teeth over President Trump’s withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate…
NASA: volcanic magma plume under Antarctica may explain ice sheet instability
From NASA’s Jet propulsion Laboratory and the “inconvenient science” department comes this study that dashes hopes of pinning melting in Antarctica entirely on human activity. Hot News from the Antarctic…
Ooops! Naomi Oreskes caught with biased numbers on #ExxonKnew
Exposed: Harvard Study Omitted Evidence to Allege ExxonMobil ‘Misled’ Public on Climate A recent report from Harvard researchers accusing ExxonMobil of misleading the public on climate change was based on an incomplete…
Blaming city dwellers for buying things outside the city limits, because, climate
From the POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (PIK) and the “buying from Amazon.com causes climate change” department comes this pointless paper that basically says people in cities should get their…
Moss Piglets: First Interstellar Travelers?
Guest post by David Middleton People are gearing up to spread life from our solar system out into the cosmos. But the first life-forms to make that journey won’t be…
In Defense of the Electric Car – part2
Full disclosure: I own an electric car, and I think they are useful for city transportation. However, having owned one for a decade, I can say that it hasn’t been practical…
Climatic Irony Found in An Old National Geographic Magazine
Guest essay by Doug Ferguson Having moved from Minnesota to Alaska this past summer, we have been making the rounds of thrift shops, stores and other venues to restock our…
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