Greens who celebrated China’s switch to gas are now worried the plans seem to be in disarray, as rushed conversions trigger a gas supply crisis. But behind the scenes, China…
Month: December 2017
Al Gore bilks people at Christmas – asking for ‘climate crisis’ money
The true mark of a shyster is to take advantage of every opportunity to milk a person for money, and especially when emotions and sympathy run high. Christmas is one…
A Christmas poem and jingle from ‘Lord Monckton’
A seasonal message from the Vicar of Bray ⇒ William York http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viw5JXopin0, with some adjustments by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, offers a little Christmas merriment with his new version of…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #297
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week. “Nullius in verba” – “Nobody’s word is final.” Motto of the Royal Society, Freeman Dyson…
MSM: Slash CO2 Emissions or the Reindeer Get It
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Must be Christmas, time for the traditional MSM stories about climate change melting Santa’s home in the Arctic. Climate change in Lapland: The impact of…
End of a dream as the nuclear power industry dies a slow death
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. With enhancements by Anthony Watts Summary: After decades of promises about its potential, the window of opportunity is closing for nuclear power.…
The Profound and Dominant Impact of Atmospheric Water Vapor upon Ozone Destruction
Guest essay by Michael Wallace, Hydrologist The prevailing model of seasonal and long term global ozone depletion is grounded in a principal assertion that emissions of industrial refrigerants and propellants…
Climate scientists take on the ‘it’s not the heat, its the humidity’ meme
From the THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and “the edge of wetness” department. Humidity may prove breaking point for some areas as temperatures rise, says study From US south to…
Science’s 2017 Breakthrough of the Year: The observation of two neutron stars merging
From the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Science has chosen as its 2017 Breakthrough of the Year the first observations of a neutron-star merger, a violent celestial event that transfixed…
Google Chairman Stepping Down to Fight Climate Skepticism? Or Run for President?
h/t Breitbart – Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, a hardcore climate advocate who has been heavily involved in Google’s Truth Algorithm, an effort to filter “fake” material from Google search results,…
Is the 97% climate consensus Fake News?
Guest essay by Jim Steele A recent survey conducted by Weather Central and George Mason University makes this claim: TV Weathercasters’ Views of Climate Change Appear to Be Rapidly Evolving…
An opinion on the ‘EPA Gravy Train’ – and why shutting it down is a good thing
Foreword by Paul Dreissen. Author, advisor and former US Senate aide and Colorado Department of Natural Resources director Greg Walcher has written an important article on how sue-and-settle lawsuits ignored…
Global Warming and Extreme Weather
By Andy May This is #6 of 7 posts on the hazards of global warming. If you can’t read the sign, it says “Global Warming, Absolute Truth that can not…
Where The Temperature Rules The Total Surface Absorption
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Reflecting upon my previous post, Where The Temperature Rules The Sun, I realized that while it was valid, it was just about temperature controlling downwelling…
#FakeNews L A Times hyping the start of China’s new carbon market – which actually isn’t starting and nobody knows when it will
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin On December 19, 2017 the L A Times published a front page article hyping that “China launches the world’s biggest carbon trading market” with great…
Apple admits they throttled #iPhones – one graph tells the whole story of why they are slow
While this isn’t our normal fare here, the Internet is abuzz today over the admission from Apple Inc. that they purposely slowed down older iPhones, and I have something VERY…
How science tamed the weather, keeping us safe while we sleep
Guest essay by Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Today’s post reviews a fun book about some of the systems that make us safe — but which we…
This junk again? ‘Hotter temperatures will accelerate migration of asylum-seekers to Europe’
Don’t these people ever learn from past mistakes? Apparently not. from COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the “50 million climate refugees by 2010 that never happened so they had to disappear it” department.…
Cutting edge statistics for climate
From the AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION. You have to love the title of the publication “CHANCE”. Special issue of Chance explores complexities of global climate change models that prove existence of climate…
While Jerry Brown claims ‘climate change’ is the source of the Thomas fire, NASA demonstrates that it’s weather helping to put it out
From NASA Goddard: What a difference a few days can make in the life cycle of a fire. In this particular case, the Thomas Fire that is ongoing in the…
Arctic Restoration — Go Beavers!
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Oh those busy, busy beavers — aren’t they great? There’s the little guy in the corner of the photo, he and his pals built…
Silicon Valley Frankenmeat to Save the World from Global Warming
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If Silicon Valley green tech giants have their way, real meat will become an unaffordable carbon taxed luxury item eaten by the very rich. The…
Jerry Brown vetoed enhanced requirements for undergrounding power lines, blames CA wildfires on nebulous “climate change”
While Brown proclaims larges wildfires “the new normal”, here’s some scrutiny on his own incompetence in preventing wildfires Guest essay by Larry Hamlin In September 2016 California Governor Brown vetoed…
Surprise! Greenland ice sheet melting being driven by ice-loving algae
From the American Geophysical Union and the “but we’ll still find a way to blame CO2, just you wait” department. It seems this is a frustrating day for climate-ice researchers,…
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