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…
Month: December 2017
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…
Laser-boron fusion now ‘leading contender’ for energy
From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES and the “coming to a power plant near you in 30 to 50 years” department A laser-driven technique for creating fusion that dispenses…
New study puts the 1.5°C and 2.0°C temperature limits of the Paris Agreement into a historical climate context
The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 during the COP21 climate conference stipulates that the increase in the global average temperature is to be kept well below 2°C above “pre-industrial…
Weubbles Gone Wild: presenting alarming new projections for US temperature
From the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN and the “worse than we thought” department, comes this claim that the “business as usual” scenario will make for intolerable summers. They claim…
Dueling science: One study says melting Antarctic ice sheet will flood US east coast, others say ‘uncertain’
From the “you really should get your stories straight” department. OK, here is press release #1 from the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF HEALTH) Melting of east Antarctic ice sheet could…
At #AGU17, in an attempt to prove ‘climate change creates more severe weather’, scientists resort to ‘p-hacking’
From the “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.- Ernest Rutherford” department. From the American Meteorological Society via press release: AMS TO RELEASE REPORT EXPLAINING…
French President Admits President Trump’s Climate Agenda is Winning
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French President Emanuel Macron has admitted that greens are losing because President Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement. Emmanuel Macron says the world is losing…
Trump Administration to Open Oil & Gas Leasing on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
Guest post by David Middleton Trump to Open the Door for Oil Drilling Off U.S.’s East Coast By Jennifer A Dlouhy December 11, 2017, 4:00 PM CST Proposal for Atlantic…
Hubble’s Messier celestial snow globe
From the NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER It’s beginning to look a lot like the holiday season in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a blizzard of stars, which resembles…
What we learned from the eclipse at #AGU17
On Dec. 11, 2017, at AGU 2017, six researchers discussed initial findings based on observations of the Sun and on Earth gathered during the solar eclipse that stretched across North…
NOAA’s Arctic report card released at #AGU17
Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades Despite relatively cool summer temperatures, observations in 2017 continue to indicate that the Arctic environmental system…
ExxonMobil caves to climate activists
by Mike Bastasch Oil giant ExxonMobil has capitulated to activist shareholders and will begin issuing detailed reports on potential risks “climate change policies” pose to its business operations. “These enhancements…
New mechanism for El Nino enhanced storm systems
From the INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES New mechanism to explain how El Niño influences East Asian and WN Pacific climate Western North Pacific anomalous anticyclone (WNPAC, or…
“Why did climate scientists emit 30,000 tonnes of CO2 this weekend?”
Guest rebuttal by David Middleton Q. Why did climate scientists emit 30,000 tonnes of CO2 this weekend? A. To get to New Orleans to attend the AGU’s Fall Meeting. From…
On the ‘IPCC climate model’
Guest essay by Dr. Antero Ollila WUWT previously published my essay on the Semi Empirical Climate Model’ on the 21st of November. In that essay I used the term “IPCC climate model”…
Study: finds a solar amplification mechanism by which solar activity & cosmic rays control climate
The HockeySchtick writes: A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds another potential solar amplification mechanism mediated by galactic cosmic rays [GCRs] (and distinct from Svensmark’s cosmic ray…
‘Safe AGU’ plan adopted for #AGU17 meeting or The sad case of Dr. Sarah Myhre, part 2
This is interesting. Given the recent political climate of harassers being forced to step down, I wonder if AGU will retroactively remove any AGU members who have harassed in the past?…
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