Return to Earth

Guest post by Philip Mulholland and Stephen Wilde “No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of…

The Water Future of Earth’s ‘Third Pole’

From NASA June 26, 2019 Himalaya. Karakoram. Hindu Kush. The names of Asia’s high mountain ranges conjure up adventure to those living far away, but for more than a billion…

How Cold Air Caused a Heatwave

Guest Post from Jim Steele From What’s Natural? Column published in Pacifica Tribune June 26, 2019 I was recently asked if the record June 2019 heat in the San Francisco…

Part of the Pacific Ocean is not warming as expected, but why?

From Phy.org June 25, 2019 by Kevin Krajick, Columbia University The tropical Pacific Ocean (Australia and South America in gray, left and right). Top map shows what climate models say…

Supreme Court dishes property owners a Fifth Amendment victory

From CFACT By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |June 25th, 2019|Property| In a decision that sent chills down the spines of environmental groups and raised the spirits of property rights advocates,…

Invitation: attend the Washington D.C. climate conference with me at a special rate

Hello, In case you aren’t aware yet, I will be speaking at the ICCC13 at the Trump Hotel in Washington DC on Thursday July 25th, 2019. And I have a…

Why Politicians Who Don’t Understand the Science of Global Warming Don’t Need to Act.

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball My last article chastised leaders for their apparent inability to understand or even question the evidence that shows CO2 is causing global warming. I can…

AI Researchers Tout their Wares to the Climate Science Community

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Fantasy problem meet fantasy solution. Here’s how AI can help fight climate change according to the field’s top thinkers From monitoring deforestation to designing low-carbon…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #364

The Week That Was: 2019-06-22 (June 22, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The battle against global warming: an…

MY EYES! Abandon all hope, ye who click here

For entertainment only. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m soooooo sorry. Really….sorry.

Listening to climate doomsters makes our situation worse

Reposted from Fabius Maximus Website Larry Kummer, Editor Summary: Climate science shows how America assimilates information, assesses threats, and allocate resources. We do it poorly. Doomsters are part of the…

Resolution and Hockey Sticks, Part 1

Guest sciency schist by David Middleton Resolution vs. Detection Geoscientists in the oil & gas industry spend much of our time integrating data sets of vastly different resolutions.  Geological data,…

Hearing on climate change and natural disasters: Today (Now)

Reposted from Dr. Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on June 25, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry The House Oversight and Reform Environmental Subcommittee in a Hearing on Recovery, Resilience…

Michael Mann Accuses the Trump Administration of Burying Climate Studies

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Mann has accused the Trump administration of trying to bury climate reports, because some reports don’t get their own press release. Agriculture Department buries studies…

House Democrats Spread ‘Lies’ About Climate Change And Hurricanes, Scientist Says

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch Energy Editor June 24, 2019 11:17 AM ET House Democrats published “inaccurate” climate change claims on a committee website, according to a scientist. Democrats…

Academic air travel has a limited influence on professional success

From the Journal of Cleaner Production. SethWynes, Simon D.Donner, SteuartTannason, NoniNabors https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.109 We found no significant difference between Green and Not-green academics in total air travel emissions, or in the…

Columbia researchers provide new evidence on the reliability of climate modeling

Observational data of equatorial circulation pattern confirms that the pattern is weakening, a development with important consequences for future rainfall in the subtropics Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied…

Media Attacks Should Be a Signal to Trump: Focus on Flawed Climate Science

BY TOM HARRIS AND DR. JAY LEHR President Donald Trump is clearly on the right track on climate change. One of the strongest indicators of this is the mainstream media’s intense…

Hearing on climate change & extreme weather

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on June 23, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry On Tuesday June 25, I will be testifying before the House Oversight…

MODTRAN: ITS QUIRKS AND USES.

Guest post by KEVIN KILTY An Atmospheric Transmission Model Introduction This post is not one I planned to do. It has grown from work I was doing with MODTRAN (moderate…