By Richard D. Patton When examining penetrations of wind power, there seem to be two types of papers. In one type, wind penetration up to 20% is difficult but doable,…
Month: January 2019
Spot The Volcano, 1815 Edition
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s been a while since I played “Spot The Volcano”. The premise of the game is that the decrease in temperatures from volcanic eruptions is…
Growth of legal pot farms drives smog worries
From Science Mag Leaf enclosure measurements for determining volatile organic compound emission capacity from Cannabis spp. Summary Air pollution researchers are going to pot. The expansion of legal pot farms…
Inequality promotes deforestation in Latin America
What can’t you show with models?~ctm From EurekAlert! University of Bern Tropical deforestation is a major contributor to climate change and loss of local and global ecosystem functions. Latin America…
Dangerous, Record-Breaking Cold to Invade Midwest, Chicago
Reposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog January 24th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. A “Siberian Express” weather disturbance currently crossing the Arctic Ocean will meet up with the…
Green Electricity Grid Collapses During Aussie Heatwave
Guest essay by Eric Worrall South Australia’s green politicians recently demolished their last coal plant. Record heat blackouts: Tens of thousands without power across South Australia and Victoria By Gemma…
Saudi Aramco CEO: “Not losing any sleep over ‘peak oil demandʼ or ‘stranded resourcesʼ” and the reality of energy transition.
Guest post by David Middleton If Alexandria Occasional Cortex and the rest of the Green New Deal nitwits only had the mental capacity to understand Amin H. Nasser’s 2018 CERA presentation……
Friday Funny: Bob Ward loses, again.
Bob Ward has thrown his toys out of the pram, after he had yet another complaint rejected by IPSO. This time he complained about Booker’s article in the Mail last…
Claim: Climate Change Concern is Surging – But Nobody wants to Pay More Taxes
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Why do people say they are concerned about climate change, but refuse to pay more taxes to fix the problem? The Unprecedented Surge in Fear…
Nyquist, sampling, anomalies and all that
Guest post by Nick Stokes, Every now and then, in climate blogging, one hears a refrain that the traditional min/max daily temperature can’t be used because it “violates Nyquist”. In…
Claim: Climate change tipping point could be coming sooner than we think
IT WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT! ~ctm Climate change tipping point could be coming sooner than we think New study shows that vegetation may not be able to continue abating the…
French Doctors on Yellow Vest Carbon Tax Protestors: “Alarming” Number of Injuries
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French Doctors have sounded the alarm over apparent rough treatment by security forces of yellow vest protestors marching against President Macron’s carbon tax. Doctors Say…
Global Energy Balances … Except When It Doesn’t
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. I came across an interesting 2014 paper called “The energy balance over land and oceans: an assessment based on direct observations and CMIP5 climate models“. In…
Here’s a new one: “The Little Ice Age could offer a glimpse of our tumultuous future.”
Guest now I’ve heard everything by David Middleton From that eminent scientific publication, Foreign Policy… The Coming Climate Crisis The Little Ice Age could offer a glimpse of our tumultuous…
New study claims to establish a causal link between climate, conflict, and migration
This is another brick in the wall of my theory that all climate attribution studies are extended exercises in Texas Sharpshooting ~ctm From the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis…
First detection of climate change on another planet?
Satellite data reveals Venus is going through a change in it’s atmosphere, and the driver seems to be the sun. From the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) part…
Microsoft Now Decides if Climate Change News or Other Content is Reliable
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Microsoft have released a plugin for their Edge browser, which uses Newsguard ratings to mark Buzzfeed as reliable, and Breitbart, Drudge and Wikileaks as untrustworthy.…
Making Brazil Great Again “has scientists worried”… MBraGA!
Guest jab by David Middleton From the American Association for the Advancement of Science of America… Brazil’s new president has scientists worried. Here’s why By Herton EscobarJan. 22, 2019 ,…
A history of Dr. Ben Santer and his IPCC “trick”
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball I will not apologize for my outrage at being lectured to about my moral obligations concerning climate change from the likes of Benjamin Santer, from…
An open letter to RealClimate.org
Guest summary by Sheldon Walker RealClimate recently published an article called “The Climate Scientists are Alright“. The article is about the “climate scientist blues”. I posted the following comment under…
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