The pervasive myth that intensive breeding has made modern wheat cultivars weaker and more dependent on pesticides and fertilisers is debunked by a major new study University of Queensland The…
Month: June 2019
Downsize Your House? Downsize Your Family? NPR Pushes Beto on Climate Crackdown
From NewsBusters By Tim Graham | June 16, 2019 11:06 PM EDT Democratic candidates generally don’t have much to fear from interviews on National Public Radio, but Morning Edition anchor…
Boaty McBoatface mission gives new insight into warming ocean abyss
The first mission involving the autonomous submarine vehicle Autosub Long Range (better known as ‘Boaty McBoatface’) has for the first time shed light on a key process linking increasing Antarctic…
Climate Fail: Influential Aussie Politician Demands Cheaper Energy and a New Coal Plant
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Influential Australian politician Pauline Hanson, leader of minority party One Nation, has demanded infrastructure projects including a new coal power plant in return for supporting…
Climate Red Team Argument Heats Up: Koonin responds to Schmidt
Note: Dr. Schmidt argues points he doesn’t seem to fully grasp, perhaps purposely, then again, Schmidt is no stranger to pettiness. – Anthony Guest essay by Steve Koonin Gavin Schmidt…
‘Power shift’ needed to improve gender balance in energy research, report says
University of Exeter “Power shift” needed to improve gender balance in energy research, report says Women still face significant barriers in forging successful and influential careers in UK energy research,…
California lawmakers are turning cap-and-trade into the slush fund critics long feared
From the LA Times For years, critics of California’s cap-and-trade program have lambasted it as a government slush fund. They say that politicians are able to dip into it to…
Weekly Climate News and Energy Roundup #363
The Week That Was: 2019-06-15 (June 15, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Our experience during the early days…
Seeing an Aurora From the Space Station
From NASA click on image for high resolution version~ctm June 13, 2019 Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Christina Koch snapped this image of an aurora, saying: “Years ago…
GLOBAL POPULATION GROWTH
by BOB IRVINE With global population numbers due to stabilise in the next 50 years, the human geographical footprint should be our biggest environmental concern. I’m assuming here that every…
Reality bites Joe Biden’s “Clean Energy Revolution”
Tallying its huge impacts on our energy, industries, living standards and personal freedoms Guest Post by Paul Driessen Presidential candidate Joe Biden recently announced his “Plan for a Clean Energy…
Green New Deal advocates: “Pipeline and resource development leads to man camps, human trafficking, and child-porn rings.”
From Public Energy Number One Green New Deal advocates: “Pipeline and resource development leads to man camps, human trafficking, and child-porn rings.” And these people want to govern a nation……
Pope Francis Demands The World Implement Carbon Pricing
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Pope Francis has demanded governments of the world punish the poor with regressive carbon pricing, to prevent an allegedly imminent anthropogenic climate catastrophe. Pope to…
How an Atomic Clock Will Get Humans to Mars on Time
From NASA June 14, 2019 The Deep Space Atomic Clock, a new technology from NASA’s JPL, may change the way spacecraft navigate in space. Launching in late June aboard the…
The cost of this net zero madness? Even a trillion is an underestimate
From The Conservative Woman BY Andrew Montford June 14, 2019 THE £1trillion figure is propaganda, not analysis; you can pluck any number you want.’ So said Adair Turner, the former…
No laughing matter
From The Harvard Gazette The warming Arctic permafrost may be releasing more nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, than previously thought By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy Harvard Correspondent DateJune 6, 2019 About…
CO2, GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE AND ENERGY
CO2, GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE AND ENERGY by Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., P.Eng., June 2019 ABSTRACT Global warming alarmism, which falsely assumes that increasing atmospheric CO2 causes catastrophic global warming,…
A Third Look at Radiation versus Temperature
Guest post by KEVIN KILTY Introduction In a post on June 8, 2019, Willis Eschenbach showed an interesting plot of monthly average surface temperature against total irradiance absorbed at the…
Why we do nothing to prepare for climate change
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus website By Larry Kummer, Editor Summary: The results are meager from thirty years of debate about a public policy response to climate change. There is…
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