Readers may recall yesterday that I posted about a wacky paper that said Earth was on it’s way to a “hothouse state”. The press release for it was so bad,…
Month: August 2018
NBC News: The Climate Campaign Against Meat is Distracting Attention From the Campaign Against Fossil Fuels
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate campaigners are worried that greens who go vegetarian to save the planet think they have done their bit. Can vegetarians save the planet? Why…
Failed Prognostications of Climate Alarm
By Rob Bradley writing at IER “If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees…
Claim: Children are highly vulnerable to health risks of a changing climate
From the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH and the “say anything” department. Young children are far more vulnerable to climate-related disasters and the onus is on adults to provide…
Wacky claim: Planet now at risk of heading toward ‘hothouse Earth’ state
From the Stockholm Resilience Center and the mind of Hans Joachim Schellnhuber comes this nutball press release. Keeping global warming to within 1.5-2 degrees C may be more difficult than…
Science studies say heatwaves were more common in USA during the 1930’s
During the 1930s, when the atmospheric CO2 concentration was about 100 ppm lower than today (310 ppm vs. 410 ppm), United States heat waves were just as if not more…
Laughable weather station maintenance causes highest ever temperature record in Spain
h/t to Dr. Ryan Maue In Spain, Paco Eslava García has been following my lead on the poor quality of weather stations that produce record-high temperatures. I recently pointed out how the…
Michael Mann Wants to Give Capitalism a Chance to Solve Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If we behave we won’t have to accept a full command economy to save the planet. On climate change, it’s time to start panicking The…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #324
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) Group Think-Bureaucratic Science: Last week’s TWTW…
Claim: In 2070 400 Million Chinese will be Forced to Flee to Colder Climates
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to scientists China’s irrigation system is increasing humidity, raising the risk of deadly heat combined with humanity exceeding the “wet bulb” limit. Climate change…
New York Times Lies about Trump Lies
By Andy May The New York Times published a list of Trump’s “lies,” told during the period January 21 through November 2017, on December 14, 2017 here. It contains 106…
‘This Is How Global Warming Will Play Out:’ 1931 Ocean Temp Record Broken By…0.2 Degrees?
By Mike Bastasch Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography recorded the warmest sea surface temperature taken in 102 years off the school’s pier in Southern California. Scripps researchers recorded…
Bizarre rogue planet discovered wandering in our galaxy
A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from the Sun. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical Journal, this strange, nomadic world has an…
Climate Change Breakthrough: Feeding Carcinogenic, Persistent Environmental Pollutants to Cows Prevents Flatulence
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greens are celebrating that feeding algae to cows which breaks down into the organo-halide Bromoform seems to drastically reduce their flatulence of powerful greenhouse gasses.…
Understanding the Climate and History of California Fires
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball There is no hope for the truth when world leaders like Governor Brown of California (he runs the 19th largest economy in the world) can…
The Tale Told by the Heliospheric Tilt Angle
Guest essay by David Archibald Some of the ancients worshipped the Sun as the source of all life. It is much the same today. Most of the energy we use…
New Study Shows Some Corals Might Adapt to Climate Changes
UM Rosenstiel School-led study exposes two threatened corals to future climate change conditions MIAMI—New research shows that not all corals respond the same to changes in climate. The University of…
Twelve Invisible Eco-Catastrophes and Threats of Doom That are Actually Fake
Guest essay by Patrick Moore, PhD Some time ago it struck me that the majority of alleged environmental catastrophes and threats are invisible or very remote, thus making it virtually impossible…
SEC Drops Probe of Exxon’s ‘Climate-Change Disclosures’
From the WSJ, fallout over the recent #ExxonKnew lawsuit being dismissed. Regulators decided against trying to penalize the energy giant over its disclosures and how it accounted for oil and gas…
ATLANTIC ‘TRIPOLE’ OF OCEAN TEMPERATURES DRIVING HURRICANE SEASON AND EUROPE’S CRAZY SUMMER
Guest weather analysis by Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow. It has been for northern Europe a hot summer. Is it climate change as the media would like to have us…
The Guardian: The Rise of Post Denialism – Celebrating the Holocaust, Denying Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t michel – According to Guardian author Keith Kahn-Harris, Trump’s enabling of climate “deniers” is comparable to and possibly influenced by the allegedly growing tendency…
Gov. Brown blames “greenhouse gases” for his flawed forest management policy leading to wildfire devastation
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The L A Times published yet another climate alarmist Ca. wildfire story quoting Gov. Brown claim that the states recent wildfires are driven by man…
UEA Philosophy Teacher Rebels Against Publicly Debating Climate “Deniers”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall University of East Anglia Philosophy teacher Rupert Read is outraged that the government funded BBC would invite a climate “denier” to appear on the same…
Death Valley’s “hottest month ever” was likely a product of nearby solar panels and RV’s
The environment around the weather station used to measure the official temperature changed dramatically in the past few years. There’s this headline circulation in the news, thanks to the Associated…
You must be logged in to post a comment.