From the UNIVERSITY OF YORK and the “that’s gonna leave a mark” department. For the first time scientists have directly observed living bacteria in polar ice and snow — an environment…
Month: December 2017
Global warming: ‘Fake news’ from the day it went before the U.S. Senate
Senator Tim Wirth, scientist James Hansen and others manufactured the climate “crisis” Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris President Donald Trump announced that the United States would…
Inconvenient: California Governor Jerry Brown has been usurped in the battle of greenhouse gases – by nature
This is hilarious, from Columnist Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee. Gov. Jerry Brown hopped around Europe for two weeks last month, telling the world that to avoid a climate…
BHP Breaks with the World Coal Association over Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – BHP, which last year derived 19% of its revenue from coal (p161, BHP annual report), has demanded industry bodies in which it…
Do the math: the ‘contribution’ of China and India to the Paris agreement is worthless
Guest essay by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador A common argument against the Paris agreement has been that the “pledges” to cut emissions are only that: promises, targets, hopes. There is no…
Snowfall on Alaska mountains has doubled – climate change blamed
From DARTMOUTH COLLEGE and the “snowfalls are a thing of the past” department. Unprecedented findings strengthen connections between winter storms and tropical waters HANOVER, N.H. – December 19, 2017 – Snowfall on…
New paper: The missing link between cosmic rays, clouds, and climate change on Earth
Last week I hinted at this upcoming paper, which was embargoed until this morning. I noted then something Dr. Roy Spencer said in his book about clouds: The Great Global Warming…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 3 – Computational Hubris
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Sea Level Rise: Measured from Space? In Parts 1 and 2 of this series (posted here at WUWT some time ago now — if…
Trump White House: Climate ACTIVISTS Are a National Security Threat
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – The directive which removed Climate Change from the list of national security threats also suggests that the real threat to US national…
Climate-related Deaths and Insecurity
By Andy May In the cartoon the guy being tortured is saying “OKAY! I believe mankind causes global warming!” The priest is saying “Very well… give the heretic back his…
More Fracking Nonsense: Frac’ing Shrinks Infants
Guest post by David Middleton This article and the underlying “study” can only be explained by a childhood diet rich in lead paint chips… Study finds pregnant women who live…
Delta T and Delta F
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The fundamental and to me incorrect assumption at the core of the modern view of climate is that changes in temperature are a linear function…
Politico: President Trump to Support US Solar Manufacturing
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Politico author Emily Holden, President Trump may be on the verge of erecting trade barriers against cheap imports of Chinese solar panels, to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #296
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause…
Microsoft Invests $50 Million in Our New Green AI Overlord
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to advocates the “AI For Earth” is here to help – but human Behaviour must Change to save the planet. Microsoft is Expanding “AI…
California sets new record for longest ever wildfire warning
Thomas Fire Still Growing Under Longest Running Red Flag Warning Brown smoke continues to spew from the Thomas Fire in this image captured by the Aqua satellite on December 14,…
Bitcoin Climate Dilemma: Mining Bitcoin Consumes an Entire Country Worth of Electricity
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Will latte sipping Silicon Valley Trendies give up their high carbon Cryptocurrencies to save the planet from global warming? THE HARD MATH BEHIND BITCOIN’S GLOBAL…
Extinctions and shutting down the Gulf Stream
By Andy May This is part four of our series on climate change costs and hazards. The first three parts were on humans and the environment, population and the food…
NAFTA Talks Stall Over Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Negotiations for a new North American Free Trade Agreement have reportedly stalled at least in part over whether climate change should be included in the…
The Polar-Bear-Gate Saga: How a picture is worth a thousand lies – Paul Nicklen and Michael Mann vs Susan Crockford
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism What oddly seems…
The sun is blank, NASA data shows it to be dimming
As the sun gets successively more blank with each day, due to lack of sunspots, it is also dimming. According to data from NASA’s Spaceweather, so far in 2017, 96 days…
Brown and Caldeira: A closer look shows global warming will not be greater than we thought
Serious flaws found in new paper purporting to be more skillful in predicting future warming as worse than expected Guest analysis by Nic Lewis Introduction Last week a paper predicting…
BREAKING: Trump to remove ‘climate change’ as a national security threat
This is encouraging news: The Trump administration will reverse course from previous Obama administration policy, eliminating climate change from a list of national security threats. The National Security Strategy…
Quote of the week: The clouds, the 1%, and the ‘holy grail’ of climate science
People send me stuff. Today my inbox got what some people might describe as an important clue to finding the “holy grail” of climate science. It’s a big step forward,…
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