Guest essay by Eric Worrall If you thought New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was a hardline green, wait until you see the alternative; Sex in the City star Cynthia Nixon…
Month: April 2018
Balancing nuclear and renewable energy
By Cathy Milostan, Argonne National Laboratory Nuclear power plants typically run either at full capacity or not at all. Yet the plants have the technical ability to adjust to the…
Britain Cuts Climate Change Diplomatic Staff by 25%
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian is upset that the British Government foreign minister Boris Johnson has cut the number of staff tasked with negotiating international acceptance of global…
Uniformitarian Impact Craters… "Same as it ever was."
Guest essay by David Middleton Over the past few years (2010-2018), WUWT has featured at least 14 posts on the possibility that the Younger Dryas stadial could have been triggered…
China's Urban Heat Island Problem
How does urban-induced warming in Beijing interact with air temperature in summer? INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Beijing has undergone several important urbanization development stages since late…
Study: Light from energy saving LED's may be giving us cancer
From the “law of unintended consequences” department comes this finding, suggesting that the push for eco-friendly energy savings may be doing more harm to us than good. Study links night…
Study: cut down trees in California to save billions of gallons of water
From the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION and the “tree huggers nightmare” department Billions of gallons of water saved by thinning forests Too many trees in Sierra Nevada forests stress water supplies, scientists…
A Look at the Shape of Temperature Change Over Time
Guest essay by Mark Fife There are many times, when dealing with the analysis of real world data, looking at the average alone really doesn’t provide a complete picture of…
A positive perspective on electric vehicles
Because we recently ran a story that was highly critical of electric cars, here’s a positive story for balance. – Anthony Guest essay by Jan Kjetil Andersen, Jkandersen.no Csens.org I…
How Solar And Wind Are Causing Electricity Prices To Skyrocket
The following article was written by a leading environmental activist, who’s also running for governor of California, not some fossil-fuel advocate. Guest essay by Michael Schellenberger Over the last year,…
The Conversation: Climate Change NOT a Key Cause of Third World Conflict
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Conversation has published details of a study which casts doubt on the climate change = conflict narrative. The main cause of conflict turns out…
EPA to end "secret science" with new transparency law
This is why liberals are really mad at Scott Pruitt and demand his resignation – he’s demanding accountability and transparency in environmental science, something they didn’t have to do before…
Did official climatology know its predictions were nonsense?
Guest opinion by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In this series, we have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt, that after correction of the giant error of physics by which official climatology defined…
The PBS Newshour Whale Oil Myth
By Andy May While researching fossil fuel history recently, I discovered a PBS article entitled “The Whale Oil Myth.” You can see the full article here. It is based on…
New data imply lower climate sensitivity, thus slower global warming
New paper by Nic Lewis and Judith Curry suggests future warming would be a third to nearly half of what the IPCC claims. A paper just published by the Journal…
Claim: Baby Birds Can't Cope with Climate Change
All the baby birds will starve unless we change our wicked ways. Climate change leaves birds hungry as chicks hatch too late to eat caterpillars Earlier springs in UK are…
Study: California to get "climate whiplash" between drought and floods
Biblical 40 days and 40 nights rain events forecast to increase. From the “models are always accurate in climateland for the next 80 years” department comes this claim of “weather,…
Claim: "Climate change" is enticing monkeys to have more promiscuous inter-species sex
From FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY and the “now if only climate change could cure the ‘I have a headache’ department comes this study that in the end, attributes change in behavior to…
FLASHBACK: Twenty years ago today, the infamous "hockey stick" was published in Nature
Twenty years ago today: The infamous “hockey stick” graph that crystalized global warming and ignited the climate wars was published, and became known as MBH98. The science in it was…
Eye roller reporting from CBS: Climate Change ‘Making Allergy Season Worse’
From “the stupid, it burns” department and Breitbart. Global warming is fueling the growth of plants, which means that allergy sufferers can expect more pollen, and in turn more sneezing…
Reality check: Nunatsiavut wildlife manager says polar bears not starving, public misinformed
Inconvenient rebound in polar bear numbers. Polar bears not starving, says Nunatsiavut wildlife manager Geoff Bartlett · CBC News One of the people who oversees an Indigenous hunt of polar bears says…
Study: Less Svalbard polar bear habitat during the early Holocene than now
Guest essay by Dr. Susan Crockford of Polar Bear Science Svalbard in the western Barents Sea has recently had less sea ice extent than it had in the 1980s, especially…
Michael Bloomberg Pays USA's Paris Agreement Tithe
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Michael Bloomberg has fulfilled an earlier promise by commiting to paying $4.5 million dollars to the United Nations, money which federal taxpayers would have paid…
Earth Day should Celebrate “Engines and Electricity”
Guest opinion by Viv Forbes Most chapters of human history are defined by the tools and machines that were used. In the Stone Age, the first tools were “green tools”…
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