California has seen a range of natural extremes this summer, from heat waves to wildfires. The state can now add to the list record-warm ocean temperatures. On August 1, 2018,…
Month: August 2018
Claim: Failure to Control CO2 Emissions will Lead to Global Fascism
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A climate scientist has shared his insight into the dystopian future which will occur unless we do as he says. Don’t despair – climate change…
Quartz: Climate Studies Need Hot Weather to Persuade
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Quartz, proper stage management and timing is required to make climate studies persuasive. To get people talking about climate change, publish your study…
Hothouse Earth – an extremely dodgy preposition
No new science, no new data, no new scenario and consequently no new cause for panic. Dr David Whitehouse, GWPF Science Editor It’s been a long heatwave in much of…
Josh: Zombie Climate Science is back! (now with extra zombies)
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,…
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…
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