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…
Month: December 2017
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,…
France24: US Climate Scientists Emigrating to France
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French government broadcaster France24 claims President Macron’s offer of fifty grants is luring climate scientists away from the US to work in France. US researchers…
Where The Temperature Rules The Sun
I’ve held for a long time that there is a regulatory mechanism in the tropics that keeps the earth’s temperature within very narrow bounds on average (e.g. ± 0.3°C over…
Robusting the chances of a megadrought in the U.S.
From CORNELL UNIVERSITY and “Hansen’s loaded dice” department comes this “robust” investigation (they use the word three times, so it must be extra robust). It is worth mentioning that without enhanced…
Clean Energy Researchers Recommend More Research Money
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Clean energy researchers have recommended more money, a more reliable supply of money, and less oversight over their work to help save the planet. Clean…
More entries for ‘worse than we thought week’: climate change could accelerate by mid-century
From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE and the “Aliens could also descend upon us and eat our brains by mid century” department comes this science press release with “beware” right…
Is climate change REALLY the culprit causing California’s wildfires?
We’re told that climate change caused or intensified California’s wildfires — and that such fires are getting worse. As usual for such scary stories, these claims are only weakly supported…
Claim: Climate change made Harvey rainfall 15 percent more intense
From RICE UNIVERSITY World Weather Attribution study: Climate change made Harvey 3 times more likely A team of scientists from World Weather Attribution, including researchers from Rice University and other institutions…
Calculating the Cost of Global Warming
By Andy May Hopefully, the first two posts in this series, “Do humans harm the environment” and “Population Growth and the Food Supply” have convinced the reader that man-made climate…
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