Open Letter to President Donald Trump

Subject: Has the UN’s Human-Induced Global Warming/Climate Change Movement Always Been Based on International “anti-growth, anti-capitalist, anti-American” Agendas?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #298

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) Frigid Weather: Since Christmas North America,…

Australian East Coast Narrowly Avoids a Widespread Blackout – Thanks to Coal

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australia’s policy of shuttering of dispatchable power sources in favour of unreliables finally appears to be biting into the stability of the Australian electricity grid.…

The Horror! Global Warming to Bring Milder Winters, Longer Growing Seasons to Minnesota

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Lakeshore Weekly News has listed the terrifying consequences of global warming for icy Minnesota – milder winters, wetter, hotter summers, longer growing seasons. With climate…

Cold Snap Brings Snowfall to the Sahara Desert – for the second winter in a row

As much of the northern hemisphere endures record cold temperatures, we get this report from Severe Weather EU via Twitter: Spectacular scenes today in Algeria as snow covered the sand…

FAIL: NOAA’s winter climate outlook claimed ‘warmer than normal’ temperature

Global warming/climate change advocates want us to believe that computer models will accurately predict temperature out to the year 2100, yet NOAA, which uses computer models to predict the next…

Despite What You’ve Heard, Global Warming Isn’t Making Weather More Extreme

From Investors Business Daily Climate Myths: We keep reading about how the extreme weather of 2017 is the “new normal” thanks to global warming — even if the weather in question is frigid…

Claim: Silicon Valley Retreating into a Renewable Energy Safe Space

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Wired author Clive Thompson, everything is going terribly wrong these days for Silicon Valley. But they are living on the hope that in…

Dad, Why Are You A Global Warming Denier?: A Short Story That’s Right for the Times

Dad, Why Are You A Global Warming Denier? by Bob Tisdale is only available, and will only be available, from Amazon in Kindle reader format. Its introduction begins: I penned…

British MPs Demand a “Latte Levy” on Disposable Coffee Cups

Guest essay by Eric Worrall British MPs waging a war on plastic are demanding a “latte levy”, to try to contain the growing environmental catastrophe caused by millions of latte…

Goremongering and Mannhandling the reality of winter weather ‘bombs’

This happened a couple of days ago, where Gore quotes failed climate science promoter (note Dr. Mann that I didn’t say carnival barker as is your favorite slur) and while…

Obama Federal Climate Advisory Committee Reconvenes

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Do climate scientists require Federal Government funding? The answer surprisingly appears to be no; President Obama’s former Federal Climate Advisory Committee have secured other sources…

Bad Science: NSIDC disappears Arctic sea ice extent going back years

From the “Arctic is screaming louder thanks to Mark Serreze and his adjustment shenanigans” department, I don’t think this is going to fly. Some of the adjustments are as much…

Blaming AGW for rainfall records in China, while giving El Niño caveats

From the INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and the “we think but we aren’t sure, but let’s blame AGW anyway” department. Scientists find culprits for extreme rainfall over…

“Argentinian geoscientist faces criminal charges” for not committing scientific fraud in glacier survey.

Guest post by David Middleton George Orwell on steroids… Argentinian geoscientist faces criminal charges over glacier survey Government researcher Ricardo Villalba stands accused of shaping a study to benefit mining…

Elon Musk’s Latest Corporate Welfare Effort?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall If the “Fire and Fury” Musk excerpt is true, Elon Musk appears to be rapidly adapting to the spending priorities of the Trump era –…

The Myth of the Anti-Science Denier

Guest essay by John Ridgway I’ll tell you what you don’t get to see that often nowadays: Death by Chocolate. There was a time, not so long ago, when no…

Climate Advocates Push Floating Houses to Defeat Future Hurricanes And Floods

Guest essay by Eric Worrall There have been a few stories in the press lately about climate proof floating houses. As someone who used to live next to a river,…

The Button Collector Revisited: Graphs, Trends and Hypotheses

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Prologue:    This essay is a follow-up to two previous essays on the topic of the usefulness of trend lines [trends] in prediction.  Readers may…

Trump Administration to open 90% of US Offshore to leasing and roll back Obama-era drilling regulations

Guest post by David Middleton The plan is to open almost everything in the 2019-2024 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, with Eastern Gulf leasing beginning when the Congressional moratorium expires…