Study suggests that in the last 60 years up to half the observed warming and associated sea level rise in low- and mid- latitudes of the Atlantic Ocean is due…
Month: January 2019
New study attempts to “squeeze out” uncertainty in climate models
From the “we’re gonna need a bigger computer” department. Climate model uncertainties ripe to be squeezed The latest climate models and observations offer unprecedented opportunities to reduce the remaining uncertainties…
PBS: Washing Clothes in Cold Water can Help Prevent Global Warming, If we Overcome the “Dragons of Inaction”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall To make progress we need to overcome the “Dragons of Inaction” – our distressing tendency to believe what our senses tell us, instead of listening…
Massive snowfall closes I-80 in California
Two cold storms from the Pacific over the weekend have dumped snow on the Sierra Nevada, causing road closures due to heavy snow and whiteout conditions. I-80 is closed in…
Claim: The Anthropogenic Global Warming Jellyfish Apocalypse is Upon Us
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Journalists and several scientists who noticed a few recent jellyfish blooms have leapt to their catch all explanation. Jellyfish are causing mayhem as pollution, climate…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #342
The Week That Was: 2019-01-05 (January 5, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week “The formulation of a problem…
Climate warming experiment finds unexpected results
From Phys.org January 4, 2019 by Emily Pontecorvo, American Geophysical Union Tropical forests store about a third of Earth’s carbon and about two-thirds of its above-ground biomass. Most climate change…
On oldie, but a goody… “7 years later, failed Waxman-Markey bill still”… FAILED
Guest nostalgia by David Middleton When writing my last post on Nancy Peolosi’s Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, I ran across this gem… CLIMATE 7 years later, failed Waxman-Markey bill…
Hansen’s 1988 Predictions Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over in the Tweeterverse, someone sent me the link to the revered climate scientist James Hansen’s 1988 Senate testimony and told me “Here’s what we…
Nancy Pelosi: “We must … face the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis”… We?
Guest commentary by David Middleton From Politico… ‘The existential threat of our time’: Pelosi elevates climate change on Day One By ANTHONY ADRAGNA and ZACK COLMAN 01/03/2019 […] Speaker Nancy…
Forget El Nino, StormFest is about to Hit the West Coast
Reposted from Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog Thursday, January 3, 2019 Forget El Nino, StormFest is about to Hit the West Coast Things often calm down after January 1…
Melting ice sheets release tons of methane into the atmosphere, study finds
From EurekAlert! Public Release: 3-Jan-2019 Melting ice sheets release tons of methane into the atmosphere, study finds University of Bristol Melting ice sheet release tons of methane into the atmosphere,…
Ocean Cleanup device breaks down, well before ridding Pacific of plastics
From NBCNEWS Dutch inventor Boyan Slat said he still believed his $360 million plan could work. The Ocean Cleanup device floating in a lagoon in Alameda, California, in August 2018.The…
Sustainable choices on palm oil must be easier for consumers, says new study
Maybe they can add a #virtuesignal tag? ~ctm From EurekAlert! Public Release: 3-Jan-2019 Sustainable choices on palm oil must be easier for consumers, says new study IOP Publishing Consumer goods…
Ocasio-Cortez Demands 70% Tax to Pay for her Climate Change Policies
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to take inspiration from past efforts to confiscate wealth. Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Climate Plan By Sahil Kapur…
“Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely”… But “marine ice-cliff instability” is “just common sense”
Guest AEUHHH???? by David Middleton A Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely But experts warn that our overall picture of sea-level rise looks far scarier today than it…
China’s war on particulate air pollution is causing more severe ozone pollution
From Eurekalert! Public Release: 2-Jan-2019 PM 2.5 pollution is falling but ground-level ozone pollution is on the rise Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences In early…
Storage wars
From EurekAlert! UC Santa Barbara researcher conducts first-ever global-scale evaluation of the role of soil minerals in carbon storage University of California – Santa Barbara One answer to our greenhouse…
Al Gore Predicts a 2020 Political Climate Change Tipping Point
Guest essay by Eric Worrall I guess after getting the science wrong so many times Al Gore feels safer predicting a political tipping point than another dodgy “Ice Free Arctic”…
How to NOT find a slowdown
Sheldon Walker – (agree-to-disagree.com) The slowdown/pause/hiatus, would probably be only a dim memory, if Alarmists didn’t keep digging up the imaginary corpse, in order to show that it really is…
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