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…
Month: November 2018
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…
Environmental Groups Claim Coal Killed 7,600 People in Europe in 2016… Can’t Name Any of the Victims.
Guest commentary by David Middleton Groups target Europe’s coal companies over harmful emissions By FRANK JORDANS | November 20, 2018 BERLIN (AP) — Environmental groups claimed Tuesday that 10…
Musings about “…the crystal meth of social media”
From Instapundit, who shut his own Twitter feed down yesterday. TWITTER’S GONE CRAZY BANNING PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT, so I’ve deactivated my Twitter account. Flashback: Despite Twitter’s Protests, The Stifling of Conservative Speech On…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #337
The Week That Was: 2018-11-24 (November 24, 2018) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “I have observed that not…
Attack of the Malicious ads
If you see this DON’T RUN OR SAVE IT! We have been getting a number of complaints lately about malicious ads being served by the wordpress.com premium hosting service we…
‘A Form Of Violence’?
Date: 23/11/18 Andrew Montford, GWPF Some climate scientists still struggle to cope with people who disagree So a few days back, Cliff Mass – a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at…
Dozens of dead turtles wash ashore on Cape
From Cape Cod Times By Wheeler Cowperthwaite Posted Nov 22, 2018 at 11:40 AM Updated Nov 23, 2018 at 12:43 PM WELLFLEET — Low temperatures and high winds killed most…
When the Wind Doesn’t Blow
By John Hultquist, A brief look at the electrical balancing by the Bonneville Power Administration from Oregon and Washington, Nov. 2018 We live in central Washington State where the mighty…
Give thanks that we no longer live on the precipice
Fossil fuels helped humanity improve our health, living standards and longevity in just 200 years Paul Driessen Thanksgiving is a good time to express our sincere gratitude that we no…
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