Clemson University Climate Change Rant: “Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – Professor Todd May thinks that when you consider the pain we inflict on animals through climate change, any reasonable assessment suggests humans…

Shot and chaser in Whistler

Shot Whistler ski resort in British Columbia Canada tried to extort money from the oil industry because of climate change effects to their resort. https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/whistler-wants-albertan-oil-and-gas-company-to-pay-for-resorts-climate-change-costs Chaser The oil company fired…

“We are still in” totalitarians flunk basic reality

They raged against energy and climate realists in Katowice, but should serve time for fraud Paul Driessen The 30,000 alarmists gathered in Katowice, Poland expected to slam-dunk their report proclaiming…

Inside The Acceleration Factory

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Nerem and Fasullo have a new paper called OBSERVATIONS OF THE RATE AND ACCELERATION OF GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVEL CHANGE, available here. In it, we…

Wondering about the probability of a white Christmas where you live?

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Here’s a handy map. Click it or follow this link to zoom in interactively on your city or town. Minnesota. Maine. Upstate New…

Allstate Insurance is misleading their customers over weather events

Dr. Roy Spencer notes: Allstate Should Pull this Ad and Apologize for Misleading the Public I’ve been meaning to comment about this TV ad for Allstate insurance, which enraged me…

Organic food worse for the climate

From Eurekalert Organically farmed food has a bigger climate impact than conventionally farmed food, due to the greater areas of land required. This is the finding of a new international…

Modern Climate Wavelet Patterns

Guest Post by Renee Hannon Wavelet analyses of modern global temperature anomalies provides an excellent visualization tool of temperature signal characteristics and patterns over the past 150 years. Scafetta recognized…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #340

The Week That Was: 2018-12-15 (December 15, 2018) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   Quote of the Week: “Science is a way of…

IRS Will Stop Handing Out Subsidies To Tesla Buyers In 2020

From The Daily Caller 3:20 PM 12/14/2018 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor The Treasury Department announced it would phase out electric vehicle subsidies for Tesla buyers at the…

A Christmas mercury miracle

From the IEA Clean Coal Centre – when the data fit the model, and mercury emissions come for free Mercury is a menace. It is an environmental liability and global…

Doctors cite climate change for rise in animal bites, U.S. health care costs

From NBC News (Researchers also note that poorer families are at higher risk of animal bites.) Dec. 12, 2018 / 3:37 PM ‎EST By Shamard Charles, M.D. Stanford researchers warn…

Josh says COP24 is a “huge success”

As many of you know, the past two weeks have seen the 24th “Conference of Parties” aka COP24 where a bunch of folks get together to “save” the climate of…

Wasting days and wasting nights

I wonder what the actual energy and resource cost is to put this recycled plastic solar powered expedition together? Thank goodness they are saving the planet. The hobbies of rich…

Ten years ago, @AlGore predicted the North polar ice cap would be gone. Inconveniently, it’s still there

On December 14, 2008, former presidential candidate Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years. As reported on WUWT, Gore made the prediction…

There is hope amidst environmental anxiety, says a scholar of ecotheology

From Eurekalert University of Helsinki Eco-anxiety encompasses difficult emotions experienced to a significant degree due to environmental issues. Environmental researcher Panu Pihkala says that related symptoms can be positioned between…

An Example of AR4 WG2 False Alarmism

By Rud Istvan, This post is a lightly reworked last third of much longer essay No Bodies in ebook Blowing Smoke, foreword by Professor Judith Curry of Georgia Tech. It…

Californian Climate Scientists Discover Farmers Adapt to Changed Conditions

Diligent Californian climate researchers have pieced together the solution to the mystery of why corn yields are rising, in defiance of climate model predictions of falling corn yields. But we…

Jerry Brown Tells UN That Trump ‘Does Not Represent The People’ Of The US

5:25 PM 12/14/2018 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor California Gov. Jerry Brown excoriated the Trump administration’s “behavior” at the United Nations climate summit in Poland, arguing it did…

Surging levels of greenhouses gases are making people tired and stupid, scientists claim

Or: Surging levels of greenhouses gases are making people tired and stupid, scientists claim From The Daily Mail Higher CO2 in poorly ventilated places can make workers feel tired and…

How complexity science can quickly detect climate record anomalies Santa Fe Institute

From Eurekalert Public Release: 14-Dec-2018 The history of our climate is written in ice. Reading it is a matter of deciphering the complex signals pulled from tens of thousands of…

Stop the Personal Attacks and Answer the Climate Questions

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball When you realize you are losing an argument, it is common to abandon the argument and attack the person. It is one of many forms…

The Social Benefit Of Carbon

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After my recent post on the futility of the US cutting down on CO2 emissions, I got to thinking about what is called the “social…

U.N. conference climate alarmists out of touch with energy reality as world’s nations embrace increased use of fossil fuels

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The L. A. Times published an article addressing a panel discussion at the latest U.N. climate alarmist confab in Poland touting protests by attendees regarding…