Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #301

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Skepticism: In an essay titled “Be…

"Atmosphere Cancer" – The Latest Name for Global Warming

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Business Insider, renowned marketing expert Seth Godin suggested in an interview that “atmosphere cancer” would be a far more engaging term to promote…

Determination of the CO2 doubling global mean temperature from observations

Guest essay by Girma Orssengo, PhD Orssengo at lycos dot com What is the expected global warming if the atmospheric CO2 concentration doubles from 400 to 800 ppm? The answer…

President Trump Reiterates His Demand for a Renegotiated Paris Agreement

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Mainstream Media demonstrating their lack of listening skills. President Trump’s Paris U-turn: I’d love to rejoin climate change accord … By Piers Morgan For The…

Timing Is Everything

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My theory about the climate is that the global temperature is regulated in large part by the timing and strength of the daily appearance of…

VOX Attacks the Sierra Club for their Anti-Nuclear, Anti-hydro Stance

Guest essay by Eric Worrall VOX author David Roberts worries the Sierra Club are not being practical, with their opposition to any low carbon power generation technology other than solar…

Rare January Event in California: Tornado evolves from waterspout

Video follows. The National Weather Service in Eureka writes: A waterspout developed over Humboldt Bay Thursday, January 25th around 4:40 pm and moved through the Woodley Island Marina, dissipating only…

Paris Flooding, Again

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Paris, France is flooding again.  The River Seine has risen over its banks and streets are covered with slowing moving yellowish water.  The Louvre…

What to believe? Models or GRACE data?

From the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN and the “not so amazing GRACE” department. Discrepancies between satellite and global model estimates of land water storage Research led by The University of…

EU Appoints Climate Skeptic as Environment Council President

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Pro-EU greens are in shock, after the appointment of Bulgarian Environment Minister, Trump fan and Climate Skeptic Neno Dimov as President of the EU Environment…

Long dead Zombie Satellite wakes up 13 years later

LONG-DEAD SPACECRAFT WAKES UP 13 YEARS LATER In 2005, a NASA spacecraft named “IMAGE” mysteriously went silent, abruptly ending a successful mission to study Earth’s magnetosphere. Thirteen years later, it’s…

Even the Tiniest Aerosol Particles Can Kick Up a Storm

From the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE A new study suggests that tiny aerosol particles from pollution plumes have a greater influence on stormy weather over pristine regions of…

Trump Derangement Syndrome Pushes 'Doomsday Clock' Back to 1953!

Guest [censored] by David Middleton Armageddon Update: ‘Doomsday Clock’ Stands at 2 Minutes to Midnight By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer | January 25, 2018 Updated at 11:52 a.m. The “Doomsday…

Blackrock Vice Chair: "We need to change Capitalism…" Because Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Mainstream media is reporting that Blackrock Vice Chairman Philipp Hildebrand thinks investors should consider environmental benefits rather than simply focussing on maximum return on investment.…

Climate Change Enables Storms to "Push 600-Ton Boulders Around"… Reality Check

Guest eye-rolling by David Middleton The featured image is a USGS picture of a boulder from a debris flow in Venezuela.  I chose not to use the photos from the…

Climate alarmists are now attacking…..sandwiches

From the UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER and the “I’m going to have a sandwich for lunch, just for spite” department comes this exercise in climate stupidity equating sandwich types to miles…

Some overheated rhetoric from Jonathan Overpeck

From the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA and the “El Nino is just a heat vent for greenhouse gases” department. Record jump in 2014-2016 global temperatures largest since 1900 Heat generated by…

2017 was warm. The next few years will be more important.

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The world’s temperature is in the news again, showing that 2017 was another warm year. Now that it is in the…

TAO Sea and Air Temperature Differences

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The TAO buoy array is an array of moored buoys in the equatorial tropical Pacific ocean. Here’s a map showing their locations along with the…

NASA James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt Paper: 10 More Years of Global Warming Pause (Maybe)

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Benny Peiser / GWPF – Former NASA GISS Director James Hansen and current director Gavin Schmidt think nature may conspire of the next ten…