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…
Month: June 2019
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…
Sun spotless for 33 days straight – airline travelers getting dosed with up to 70 times more radiation [than at sea level]
Are we in a solar grand minimum? We’ve seen this before, but now predictions are for an extremely weak solar cycle ahead. Today is the summer solstice in the northern…
Climate Change to Wipe Out 40% of Primates… Riiight
Guest slam-dunk by David Middleton Climate change threatens nearly 40% of the world’s primates, study says By Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNNUpdated 12:58 PM ET, Mon June 17, 2019…
New Scientist: The Catholic Church Needs to “Up its game” on their Climate Gospel
Guest essay by Eric Worrall New Scientist is dissatisfied with the climate gospel being preached by the Catholic Church. Religion must rise to the challenge of climate change too No…
Birthstrikers: The Selfless Activist Effort to Cede the Future to Climate Skeptics
Guest essay by Eric Worrall CNN is celebrating green efforts to ensure that any genetic tendency towards being a climate alarmist is eliminated from the human gene pool. BirthStrike: The…
Dr. Peter Ridd on the Free Speech Crisis At Universities
Marine Geophysicist, Dr Peter Ridd, has said his experience with James Cook University, and the slow take up by universities to the free speech model code proposed by former High…
50 Years Ago: One Month til Apollo 11 Liftoff
From NASA June 17, 2019 50 Years Ago: One Month til Apollo 11 Liftoff The achievement of President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and…
Skinny polar bear far inland in Siberia not due to sea ice loss but a rare normal event
Reposted from Polar Bear Science A thin polar bear has wandered more than 1000km south of the Kara Sea into the Siberian town of Norilsk, which has happened at least…
New York’s Climate and Community Protection Act of 2019
By Roger Caiazza I lived most of my life as a New York State resident. Most of the time I have been proud of that fact albeit always carefully mentioning…
Most Germans do not compromise on holidays for climate:survey
From Xinhua Source: Xinhua| 2019-06-18 22:11:17|Editor: xuxin BERLIN, June 18 (Xinhua) — A large majority of Germans said that the current climate debate has no influence on this year’s holiday…
Trump’s EPA Finalizes Plan To Repeal And Replace Obama-Era Coal Plant Regulations
From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its plan to repeal and replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. EPA replaced the Clean…
NY State Passes Greenest Fantasy EVER!
And retrofitting homes that burn oil or natural gas? Well, it will certainly create jobs. Of course, re-painting my house each summer would create jobs, but it makes no economic…
If “Greenland is catastrophically melting”, how do alarmists explain NASA’s growing Greenland glacier?
This photo of a dog sled team going through some meltwater on ice in Greenland has made headlines….but it’s just a snapshot of one place, with summer approaching. Nothing really…
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