Global Temperature Report: August 2018 Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade August Temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.19 C (+0.34 °F) above seasonal average Northern…
Month: September 2018
“Kids Say the Darndest Things”… Because Climate Change
Who else remembers this TV show? One of today’s Real Clear Energy headlines, wholly unrelated to energy, made me think of Kids Say the Darndest Things… Saudi Arabia’s Oil Price Sweet…
Antarctica is rising in response to change that started with end of last ice age
New study shows that the land underneath a part of West Antarctica is rising five times faster than expected as the ice melts, revealing a surprisingly soft Earth structure beneath…
Astronomer: Pluto should get planet status again, previous de-listing “sloppy”
Pluto is the second-most complex, interesting planet in our solar system behind Earth The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University…
Arctic Sea Ice not cooperating with doomsday climate predictions
This year’s Arctic sea ice minimum is just a few days away, but it isn’t going to be a new record low, in fact, it’s likely to come in within…
The Atlantic: Address Climate Change, or You Might End Up in a Cave Drinking Urine and Eating Radioactive Insects
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A sneak preview of the next level of climate activism. The Most Honest Book About Climate Change Yet William T. Vollmann’s latest opus is brilliant,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #327
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) William Happer – New Trump Appointment:…
Empirical Evidence Shows Temperature Increases Before CO2 Increase in ALL Records
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The question is how does the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) determine that an increase in atmospheric CO2 causes an increase in global temperature?…
Claim: Bangkok Climate Conference Failure USA’s Fault For Not Providing Money and Free Stuff
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Despite the overall failure to achieve their stated goals, the now concluded Bangkok climate conference actually made some progress – they all agreed to jointly…
Just like climate models over-predict the future, so do protest organizers and journalists
From the “adjustments required” department comes this “Inconvenient Truth”. A couple of days ago I carried a reference to this story in The Guardian that said there would be “hundreds…
With Florence approaching, Sea Surface Temperatures have been exceeded in the past, as far back as the 1860s
Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies of the Patch of Warmer-Than-Normal Waters in the North Atlantic Guest essay by Bob Tisdale With Hurricane/Tropical Storm Florence approaching the continental United States, the patch of…
Climatariat News Network: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke isn’t a geologist because climate change.
Guest CNN-bashing by David Middleton (a geologist) I ran across this April 2018 article while looking for something else. I totally missed this episode of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Secretary Zinke’s…
An Open Letter to “Nuclear for Climate”
by Mike Jonas Today I received an email from the “Nuclear for Climate” organisation in Australia. The email is headed “We can give Australia a massive Economic and Environmental Boost…
Was Extreme Ultraviolet an Andy Warhol Actress?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach When folks tell me that the sunspot-related changes in total solar irradiance make changes down here on the surface of our amazing planet, I suggest…
Study claims: Global warming induced by “Ancient Farmers” may have staved off ice-age
Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but profoundly changed Earth’s climate UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON MADISON – Millenia ago, ancient farmers cleared land to plant wheat and maize, potatoes and squash.…
BBC Issues Guidelines on Media Treatment of Climate Deniers
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr Willie Soon – according to leaked information obtained by the Carbon Brief, the taxpayer funded BBC is very concerned that “climate deniers” are…
Paris Agreement Won’t Prevent Australia From Building New Coal Plants!
Guest drive-by by David Middleton Proof that Paris was nothing but global virtue signalling… Paris climate deal doesn’t stop us building new coal plants, Canavan says Minister says agreement Australia…
The advantages of change, climate and otherwise
Foreword – Humanity has made tremendous strides over the last two centuries in energy, medical and other technologies – greatly improving living standards and life spans for billions of people.…
Study – Global Tree cover on the rise – possibly due to CO2/global warming
Global tree canopy cover increased by 2.24 million square kilometers (865,000 square miles) between 1982 and 2016, reports a new study in Nature. These new findings contradict earlier studies that reported a continuing…
Climate protests this weekend expected to bring “hundreds of thousands”
Just like models overestimate future climate, I’m betting they are overestimating the crowds. Oh, and for the entertainment factor, more civil disobedience! From the Guardian: Hundreds of thousands expected to…
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