Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australian Federal Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher wants a new system of road charging, which ends the free ride enjoyed by electric cars which do…
Month: January 2018
Financial Times Blasts New York Mayor De Blasio’s Climate Stunts
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Financial Times asks, if De Blasio is so hot on tackling climate change, why does he ride in a SUV every day when he…
Mike Rowe schools a woman who labels him an “anti-education, science doubting, ultra-right wing conservative.”
This is great. Mike Rowe, of “Dirty Jobs” does a weekly podcast/Facebook posting called “How I Heard It”. His “Off the Wall” segments are always enlightening, because, Rowe dishes out…
Grist: Bernie Sanders, Sierra Club Impeding CO2 Reductions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Meteorologist and Grist author Eric Holthaus thinks the only way to save the planet from rising CO2 emissions is to embrace nuclear power. It’s time…
Green Call for the US Military to “Instruct” Civilians to Address Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Having failed to break the US political deadlock, greens are now looking to the US military to intervene in domestic politics, to save us all…
Fatally flawed paper: trees are proxies for the jet stream – and they say ‘now we have more extreme weather’
From the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA and the learn Liebigs Law before you make unsupportable claims department, comes this laughable paper that was conceived by the author, Valerie Trouet, at her parents house…
Claim: Birds of Prey Deliberately Setting Wildfires
Guest essay by Eric Worrall So much for fire control – JoNova reports that raptors have been photographed congregating on the edge of large Australian bushfires, picking up burning sticks,…
A Climate History Lesson: Extremism of Stories Like ‘Bomb Cyclone’ is a Good Thing
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The “Bomb Cyclone” of 2018 is another example of hyperbole and distortion designed to scare the public and promote false perceptions. It followed the pattern…
Morgan Stanley: Bitcoin Mining Consumed 20TWh Electricity in 2017, 140TWh Predicted 2018
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Bitcoin miners are expected to consume 0.6% of the global energy budget in 2018. Bitcoin Could End Up Using More Power Than Electric Cars By…
NPR: Spreading the Climate Change Message To Montana Barley Farmers
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Some of Montana’s dry field barley farmers had a bad year. Montana Barley Fields Become Front Line For Climate Change And Beer January 11, 20188:00…
Oh gosh, this is going to cause some heads to explode
People send me stuff….sometimes it’s hate mail, sometimes it’s requests for research, sometimes it’s silly science. I didn’t expect this one. Today I got this notice in the email. Name: Anuj…
Friday Funny: The One Holy Underlying Theory of All Weather
TOO FRIGID FOR GLOBAL WARMING? THIS IS WHY THEY REBRANDED IT ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ Date: 07/01/18 Rex Murphy, National Post Any variety of weather whatsoever can be traced, if you keep…
Proof that the recent global warming slowdown is statistically significant (at the 99% confidence level)
Guest analysis by Sheldon Walker NOTE: An update to this article is here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/17/proof-that-the-recent-slowdown-is-statistically-significant-correcting-for-autocorrelation/ Introduction In this article I will present convincing evidence that the recent slowdown was statistically significant…
Mother Jones: Climategate and the Democrat Email Hack were Both Russian Plots
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Willie Soon – Mother Jones thinks the Climategate email leak and the Democrat Podesta Email hack were all part of a grand Russian conspiracy…
Nature’s Climate Article Excels in Acronyms
By Renee Hannon The more the acronyms, the more respected the peer-reviewed article? I typically enjoy reading about climate science, oceanography and extreme weather. However, some of the technical articles…
Greens Demand Renewable Capacity to Replace the 2.3GW Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Green are worried they are about to get duped once again into facilitating a massive increase in Californian CO2 emissions. Diablo Canyon to Close Without…
In tomorrow’s WSJ – a tale of climate cash, collusion, and apparently, corruption
People send me stuff…this is from the Wall Street Journal editorial board. It will appear in the Friday January 12, 2018, print edition. Climate of Unaccountability Are foundations running state energy…
On Science and Nonscience
Guest essay by Neil Lock Today, I’m going to write about science. This won’t be a technical paper. It won’t be full of numbers or equations. Instead, I’m going to…
Claim: Climate Change Made the US Deep Freeze Warmer
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Snap frozen sharks and brutal winter cold will soon be a thing of the past, according to climate scientists. Cold snaps just ain’t what they…
A candid climate scientist explains how to ‘fix’ the debate
Lessons from the Alley-oops department. By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Here are brief excerpts and my comments from a speech by an eminent climate scientist. It…
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