From the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE and the “I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn” department. These fools really believe the horrendously flawed 97% consensus argument, which has been…
Month: December 2017
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #295
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President UN – Protection of Four Freedoms: On December 10, 1948, the…
Paris Climate Conference V2: “only real commitments of real money for tangible projects will be discussed”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French Climate Ambassador Laurence Tubiana has insisted that hollow promises will have no place at this year’s anniversary Paris climate “gimme the money” fly-in. The…
Starving polar bears are the fake news face of climate change
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Climate activists have made polar bears “the face of climate change.” This week we see how they have done so: with…
Weapons Grade Goofiness: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un can control the weather
From the and “here all along it was supposed to be CO2, but instead its imperious leader Kim Jong Un” department comes this hilarious news story. According to North Korea’s state…
Malthus Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that there’s another neo-Malthusian trying to convince us that global starvation and food riots are just around the corner. This time it’s David…
Importance of Aerosols (Particulates): Another Failure of the IPCC and ‘Modern’ Climate Science
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball I was halfway through the final draft of this article when the study appeared in Natural Geoscience titled “Substantial large-scale feedbacks between natural aerosols and…
Survey: South Australians Fed Up with Unreliable Expensive Green Power
Guest essay by Eric Worrall South Australians, the world’s renewable crash test dummies, have just overwhelmingly rated affordability and reliability of supply as more important than tackling climate change in…
Keystone is anti-hydrocarbon zealotry in microcosm
Radical environmentalists prefer dangerous, inhumane, ecologically destructive alternatives Guest essay by Paul Driessen The Nebraska Public Service Commission (NPSC) recently voted to approve the state’s segment of the 1,200-mile Keystone…
World Population and Food Security: Adding Some Granularity
Guest essay by David Archibald Things have improved over the last 25 years according to this recent WUWT post. The future doesn’t look so rosy if you look at a…
Claim: More Frequent Less Intense Rainfall is Now a Problem
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Lecturer in Physical Geography Michael Singer has noticed that climate hasn’t brought greater precipitation, as Trenberth predicted it would – but he still worries about…
Do humans harm the environment?
By Andy May This is the first of seven posts on the potential costs and hazards of human-caused global warming and the impact of humans on the environment in general.…
Study: a ‘statistically significant downward trend since 1950 exists’ in hurricane landfalls
This is going to rattle some cages, while at the same time vindicating Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. A new study in Geophysical research Letters studies hurricane activity in the Atlantic…
Narwhals freeze? Really?
Guest essay by Mike Jonas The UK’s public broadcaster, the BBC, reported on 7 December 2017 that: Narwhal escape: Whales freeze and flee when frightened Scientists who fitted heart rate-monitoring…
Winning: UA ordered to surrender emails to skeptics of human-caused climate change
PHOENIX — The University of Arizona has been ordered to surrender emails by two UA scientists that a group claims will help prove that theories about human-caused climate change are…
Claim: Transformation to wind and solar achievable with low indirect GHG emissions
From the POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (PIK) Different low carbon technologies from wind or solar energy to fossil carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) differ greatly when it comes to…
Some of the most encouraging graphs about the human condition you’ll ever see
Despite all the fear-mongering over the condition of our planet as well as the human condition, there is encouraging news. Dina D. Pomeranz writes on Twitter: (h/t to Steve McIntyre)…
Guardian: President Trump Distracts Journalists from Reporting Climate Disasters
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If you think you are being continuously bombarded with nonsense climate scares, think again – Guardian author Lisa Hymas wants more climate stories in the…
Malicious WUWT troll sees police show up at his door
Sometimes, you just have to fight back. This is a personal note that goes along with the recent news of the bullying of Dr. Susan Crockford and Dr. Judith Curry.…
Researchers nail down the long-sought source of ocean methane
From the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the “settled science” department. An abundant enzyme in marine microbes may be responsible for production of the greenhouse gas CAMBRIDGE, MA — Industrial and…
Shock news: The Arctic influences Eurasian weather and climate
From the INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and the “obvious science” department comes this stunning revelation. Arctic influences Eurasian weather and climate Over the past decades the Arctic…
The sad case of Dr. Sarah Myhre
Lately, we’ve watched a gang of 14 authors (including Mike Mann and Stephan Lewandowsky) gang up on a single scientist (Dr. Susan Crockford) over her published and peer-reviewed view on…
Claim: Peeing in the Shower will Help Save the Climate
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Techly, an online publication aimed at Millennials, has advised its audience to save the world by peeing while taking a shower. Worried about climate change?…
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