From the “lack of understanding about the cold California Current” department, comes this bit of excessively stupid reporting, via NewsBusters. A bit of history helps too: Since 1850, only seven…
Month: August 2018
Observing glaciers in “real time”
From ETH Zurich and the “slow as molasses in winter” department. Hot summers cause glaciers to melt. That not only changes the makeup of the landscape and hence the maps…
“It looks like August is going to be a hot month”… Because climate change.
Guest sarcasm by David Middleton From the It Must Be Climate Change Files of the The Los Angeles Times via Real Clear Energy (WTF does this have to do with energy?):…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
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) Transparency in Regulatory Science: On August…
Climate Claim: “All Available Options Should be Assessed” for Reducing Population Growth
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to ScienceMag, the issue of Climate Change is now so urgent that all available options should be considered to reduce population growth in fast…
The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 4
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This is Part 4 of a four part series. If you are not familiar with The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 1, Part…
Aussie PM Humiliating Backdown on Paris Agreement Pledges
Guest essay by Eric Worrall With the growing likelihood of an open party revolt and a leadership challenge, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been forced into a humiliating backdown…
Academic Criticises California Governor Jerry Brown for Normalising Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Governor Jerry Brown recently called events like the California Fires “The New Normal”, but climate scientists don’t want to be normal. One environmental scientist at…
Weather and Climate in the Real World
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball My overall career interest is the impact of weather and climate on human history and the human condition. Much of this involved the impact on…
Taming the EPA Regulatory Hydra: An essential first step
Foreword by Paul Dreissen In recent years, the US Environmental Protection Agency published over 25% of all pages of regulations issued by all federal government agencies, including 13 of the…
Bitcoin mining now consuming the annual energy consumption of Ireland.
The Energy to Sustain Blockchain – The debate rages on as the energy consumption increases Guest essay by Shea Karssing Earlier this year, we published an article (https://smarterbusiness.co.uk/bitcoin-electricity-energy-sustain-blockchain/) on Bitcoin energy…
Remember when they told us coral bleaching was a sure result of recent man-made global warming? Never mind.
From the “science eventually self-corrects” department, new science showing coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef is a centuries-old problem, well before “climate change” became a buzzword and rising CO2…
The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 3
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This is Part 3 of a four part series. If you are not familiar with The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 1 and Part…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory makes a stunning portrayal of the Sun’s magnetic field
From the cool stuff department and NASA Goddard, comes this. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of the Sun’s magnetic field on…
Gaffe down under- ‘Final Solution’ Was Bad. But So Is ‘Climate Denier’
Columnist Andrew Bolt writes: Fraser Anning using the phrase “final solution” has outraged dozens of politicians from Labor and the Greens because of the link to the Holocaust. Will Labor…
Guardian Economics Editor Promotes the Authoritarian Chinese “Directed Capitalism” Solution to Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall “People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful” – John Mitchell, Chief Research Scientist British MET Capitalism can crack climate change.…
Why does climate sensitivity increase over time in models? A look at two possibilities
Guest analysis by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador Note: if the terms used in this article seem confusing, check out the previous one. Introduction It’s well known that climate models show increasing sensitivity…
Drought Proofing a Dry Continent
Guest essay by Viv Forbes Earth is a blue watery planet. 70% of its surface is covered by oceans of salt water, some of which are extremely deep. These oceans…
Group that used children as litigious climate pawns gets shot down by judge
Washington judge throws out children’s climate change lawsuit by John Siciliano A judge in Washington state on Tuesday dismissed a climate change lawsuit filed against the state by a group of child…
Alabama’s State Climatologist John Christy Debunks This Month’s Climate Hysterics
WRITTEN BY JEREMY BEAMAN There is one particular word that Dr. John Christy turns to frequently for describing climate science: murky. It’s a point of view foundational to his own research,…
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