Earth Is Sucking Down Way More Water Than We Thought, And No One’s Sure Where It’s Going

From Science Alert WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS 25 NOV 2018 Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth…

“Green v black: Power struggle across Asean”

By Tilak K Doshi (https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/power-struggle ) Once again, the outlook through 2040 for rapid coal power capacity growth in Southeast Asia, next only to India in incremental global capacity (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/15/iea-global-coal-demand-bounced-back-in-2017/…

Cartoons by Josh Calendar 2019

Josh writes: It’s here! I now have the beautifully printed Cartoons by Josh Calendar 2019 – a great Christmas present for yourself, for your nearest and dearest or for that…

Having Fun With the Fourth National Climate Assessment Report

Guest context by David Middleton The headlines… What’s actually in the report Volume I of NCA4 (Climate Science Special Report) features this nifty image of projected global temperatures (°F) for several…

UN Climate Report Recommends Taxing Carbon and Discouraging Agriculture

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon – The latest UN Emissions Gap Report provides psychological advice for defeating political opposition to carbon pricing, and suggests discouraging farming…

Seaweed could make cows burp less methane and cut their carbon hoofprint

From MIT Technology Review   Sustainable Energy Seaweed could make cows burp less methane and cut their carbon hoofprint A diet supplemented with red algae could lessen the huge amounts…

Is Kids Climate Case Coming to an End?

From The Volokh Conspiracy The “trial of the century” may not happen after all. Jonathan H. Adler|Nov. 26, 2018 6:09 pm On the eve of Thanksgiving, a federal district court…

Extreme heat increasing in both summer and winter

From Eurekalert Public Release: 26-Nov-2018 American Geophysical Union IMAGE: Soybeans show the effect of the Texas drought near Navasota, TX on Aug. 21, 2013. Credit: USDA WASHINGTON, DC –A new study shows…

GM to kill Chevrolet Volt, Cruze, Impala as Americans ditch passenger cars

From USA Today GM to kill Chevrolet Volt, Cruze, Impala as Americans ditch passenger cars General Motors will close three assembly plants by the end of 2019, and lay off…

Vehicle Electrification, EV Batteries—A New Hope (Followup)

By Rud Istvan, EV Batteries—and A New Hope This is the second of two loosely related guest posts that ctm and I recently discussed, drawing on my subject matter expertise…

Energy Poverty Kills More People Than Coal and Cecil B. DeMille… Combined!

Guest sequel by David Middleton This is sort of a sequel to Environmental Groups Claim Coal Killed 7,600 People in Europe in 2016… Can’t Name Any of the Victims. Air…

Geo-engineering: Ignoring the consequences

Governments charge ahead on engineering Earth’s climate, ignoring possible harmful effects Tim Ball and Tom Harris The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report said we have only 12…

CAGW: a ‘snarl’ word?

Reposted From Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. By Andy West The term ‘CAGW’  has both appropriate and inappropriate usage. Introduction Rational Wiki says: ‘“CAGW”, for “catastrophic anthropogenic global warming”, is a…

NYT: Climate Deniers are Depraved and Corrupt

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Marc Morano – NYT columnist Paul Krugman believes climate “deniers” are depraved and corrupt, because he read a book written by Michael “Hide the…

What Was Earth’s Preindustrial Global Mean Surface Temperature, In Absolute Terms Not Anomalies, Supposed to Be?

And What Have the Average Temperatures of Earth’s Surfaces Been Recently in Absolute Terms, Not Anomalies? The answers may surprise you. THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED. The update is near the end…

Trump Responds To Dire Predictions In The Latest US Climate Report

From The Daily Caller 5:07 PM 11/26/2018 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor President Donald Trump disagreed with the dire economic projections in the U.S. government’s latest climate report.…

Why Japan finds coal hard to quit

Addiction to coal-fired power undermines Tokyo’s green credentials From Nikkei Asian Review ERI SUGIURA and AKANE OKUTSU, Nikkei staff writers November 21, 2018 15:17 JST TOKYO/KOBE, Japan — In Japan’s…

UK Secretary of State Michael Gove Announces Climate Cash Giveaways, Quotes WWF Report

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Providing billions of pounds of cash to fund climate projects in poor countries is still a priority for the British Government, despite distracting local problems…

Vehicle Electrification Common Sense

By Rud Istvan, This is the first of two loosely related technology posts that ctm suggested might be interesting to WUWT. In full disclosure, the details stem from my financial…

New paper shows no climate trend in hurricane damage losses

Dr. Roger Pielke Junior writes: Our major update to the CONUS normalized hurricane loss dataset has now been published, after several years of effort and an intensive review process by…