Guest essay by Eric Worrall Extinction Rebellion is incensed that New York Times isn’t providing enough coverage of the climate crisis. Arrests at protest over New York Times’ ‘unacceptable’ climate…
Month: June 2019
Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels
From NASA June 23, 2019 This week, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover found a surprising result: the largest amount of methane ever measured during the mission — about 21 parts per…
The Setup is like 1315
Guest Commentary by David Archibald The area planted for corn and soybeans this season is well below historic averages. This was mostly due to waterlogged fields and flooding which precluded…
The Oregon Standoff Continues
From ABC via MSN News We covered this story a couple of days ago. Republican state senators have gone into hiding to avoid capture. It’s TV drama time. Without a…
Terence Corcoran: Why the global fossil-fuel phase-out is a fantasy akin to time travel
From The Financial Post Terence Corcoran June 21, 2019 1:59 PM EDT To produce the power needed to offset fossil fuels, Canada would have to build two and a half…
Vox: Republican Generation Gap Over Climate Change Policy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Vox thinks the Republicans are torn between young members who want climate action, and older members who oppose a new carbon tax. But Vox are…
Will The Philadelphia Refinery Explosion Send Gas Prices Skyrocketing? Experts Weigh In
From The Daily Caller REUTERS Michael Bastasch Energy Editor June 21, 2019 10:59 AM ET Explosions at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery, the largest refinery on the East Coast,…
Trudeau Declares Climate Emergency… Then Approves Major Oil Pipeline
From OilPrice.com By Nick Cunningham – Jun 19, 2019, 6:00 PM CDT Join Our Community Canada declared a national climate emergency on Monday. The next day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…
Mad Dogs and Americans
News Brief by Kip Hansen The U.S. CDC has issued one of its Vital Signs press releases that readers in the United States should be aware of, especially those…
Ambitious 2050 climate goal relegated to footnote at EU summit
From Reuters Oh well, BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A push by most European Union nations for the world’s biggest economic bloc to go carbon-neutral by 2050 was dropped to a footnote…
A National Narrative for Media on Climate Change
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Those of you who closely watch the media — newspapers, broadcast & streaming news, national magazines, national public radio — may have noticed that…
Alexandria Occasional Cortex Blames Philadelphia Refinery Explosion on Climate Change
Guest WTF by David Middleton WTF? https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/22/aoc-blames-oil-refinery-explosion-on-climate-change/ Featured image…
Fort Lauderdale Deals Another Blow to Climate Litigation Campaign
From Energy in Depth June 4, 2019 | Erin Mundahl It’s a bright day for Fort Lauderdale. Despite a full-court press by climate activists, city officials have decided not to…
Climate science’s ‘masking bias’ problem
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on June 21, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry How valid conclusions often lay hidden within research reports, masked by plausible…
NASA Selects Missions to Study Our Sun, Its Effects on Space Weather
From NASA June 20, 2019 RELEASE 19-047 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/solarwind.png NASA has selected two new missions to advance our understanding of the Sun and its dynamic effects on space. One of the…
We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.
From Slate Slate accidentally stumbles onto something interesting, important, and probably factual. Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn’t actually true. By…
Oregon Democrats Order State Police to Force Republican Senators to Return, to Pass a CO2 Cap and Trade Bill
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A group of Republican senators are refusing to attend a session, denying Democrat senators the quorum required to pass a climate change bill. Oregon Republicans…
Forcing and Burning in Coal Country.
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A 2015 paper by Xiaochun Zhang and Ken Caldeira has come to my attention. Inter alia, the abstract says: For example, the global and time‐integrated…
Lumpy science from Ken Caldeira
On Twitter, people will say most anything if it aligns with their beliefs and their cause. In this case, climate scientist Ken Caldeira gets called out over some claims about…
‘Climate Emergency’: Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars While Planning Mass Third World Migration
From Breitbart Drivers will be forced off the roads in Ireland and the population packed into “higher density” cities under a long-awaited climate plan which will ‘revolutionise’ people’s lifestyle and…
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