Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #305

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Group Think: Author and journalist Christopher Booker has produced an extensive booklet…

Hilarious: "Last Chance" Tourism to See Climate Hotspots

Guest essay by Eric Worrall CNBC author Helen Zhao claims people are flocking to tourist destinations like the Australian Great Barrier Reef, because they believe this may be their last…

A must-read: The Politically Incorrect Guide® to Climate Change

My friend Marc Morano of Climate Depot has a new book out now “The Politically Incorrect Guide® to Climate Change” which is one of many books in the The Politically Incorrect Guide®…

Ross Ice Shelf Freezing, Not Melting: “It blew our minds.”

Guest post by David Middleton  Deep Bore Into Antarctica Finds Freezing Ice, Not Melting as Expected Scientists will leave sensors in the hole to better understand the long-term changes in…

The Weather Channel @TWC uses large rodent to warn of Tornadoes – no joke

Sometimes you just have to laugh, this is one of those times. This is both hilarious and sad at the same time. Perhaps they are trying for some sort of…

Something else to worry about: road salt and climate change

Scientists examine link between surface-water salinity, climate change Syracuse University Ph.D. candidate Kristina Gutchess authors paper on impact of road salts on Tioughnioga River watershed The interplay between surface-water salinity…

Study: Medieval Climate Change Existed in Africa

From the Institute for Hydrography, Geoecology and Climate Sciences comes this paper that is just one more piece of evidence that the Medieval Warm Period was global, and not regional.…

Sea Level to Rise by 1.2 Metres by 2300 – So What?

Guest essay by Andi Cockroft Firstly let me say that I am not one of the most technical writers you will see here. I regard myself pretty much as a…

Al Jazeera: Open Borders will Force Climate Action by Punishing the West with Refugees

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Al Jazeera author Jason Hickel, the West is dragging its feet on climate action because national borders shield us from the consequences of…

Citing Mann's legal case against Steyn, Jacobsen throws in the towel on defamation case

Via the Volokh Conspiracy: Jacobson Dismisses Defamation Lawsuit Against Other Scientists After an initial hearing, Stanford’s Mark Jacobson thinks better of pursuing a scientific disagreement in court. Jonathan H. Adler Jonathan…

Spanish Energy Boss: Interest Rate Rises will Trigger Renewable Business Collapses

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Willie Soon – the President of Spanish Energy Giant Iberdrola has suggested interest rate rises will wipe out large numbers of highly leveraged “unskilled”…

Study: city street & building layout determine intensity of the Urban Heat Island effect

How cities heat up The way streets and buildings are arranged makes a big difference in how heat builds up, study shows CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The arrangement of a city’s…

New heated airport runway concept may sharply bias 'global warming' signal in the global climate monitoring network

Recent winter-weather related airport delays have become something that airport managers and airline executive want to solve. This story from NBC’s today show back in January 2018 highlights the issue…

New discovery – 'magnetic cages' on the sun sometimes save us from massive solar eruptions

NASA’s SDO Reveals How Magnetic Cage on the Sun Stopped Solar Eruption A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun’s surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research…

The Price Of Eco-Madness: California's Oil Production Collapse

From the “everything is leaving California these days” department. The collapse of the oil industry in California, once our second-most-important producing state, is a very sad thing to see. The…

NASA satellite imagery reveals snow drought in the Rockies

A snow drought doesn’t just make for a bad ski season. If a snow deficit continues into late winter and spring, it can spell trouble for water managers and communities…

California Wildfires Excuse: Climate change is the real problem

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Electric Utilities are apparently claiming climate change is the real culprit, in response to accusations that their downed power lines triggered recent deadly California wildfires.…

Study: Jet stream induced weather will remain normal and predictable – despite 'climate change'

Weather should remain predictable despite climate change Simulations of jet stream behavior in a warming climate suggest ranges of forecasts in the mid-century will be similar to those in present…

Curve fitting and the number of parameters

Guest essay by Antero Ollila I have written blogs here in WUWT and represented some models of mine, which describe certain physical relationships of climate change. Every time I have…

Science debunks the "Arctic sea ice extent at its lowest for at least 1500 years" meme

These headlines have been recently making the rounds, such as this article at vox.com which describes “sudden scary ice melt in the Arctic, in three charts One of the charts…