Yahoo! Finance ExxonMobil Divestment Fail

Guest slam dunk by David Middleton Yahoo! finance… A Major Shareholder Has Divested From Exxon Say Contributor July 2, 2019 One of ExxonMobil’s biggest shareholders, Legal & General Investment Management,…

Did 350.org Link California Earthquakes to Climate Change?

I couldn’t make this sort of schist up if I tried by David Middleton July 6, 2019350.org on Earthquakes in Southern California […] Scientists have made fresh connections between fracking…

Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism.

An excellent twitter thread by @RodgerPielkeJr concerning a paper by Hulme, M. Recommended reading: Hulme, M. (2011). Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism. Osiris,…

New method may resolve difficulty in measuring universe’s expansion

News Release 8-Jul-2019 Neutron star mergers can provide new ‘cosmic ruler’ National Radio Astronomy Observatory Astronomers using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes have demonstrated how a combination of gravitational-wave…

ZIKA: Climate Change Threat?

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   ZIKA!  A frightening new disease that burst onto the front pages in 2016 as “linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains.” …

Climate craziness of the week: seriously “ducked up” science

It was recently reported that journalism lost a lot of jobs this year, and again in July. After looking at this piece from the UK Telegraph, where the journalist couldn’t…

ANALYSIS: COST OF U.S. TRANSITION TO 100% RENEWABLES – $4.5 TRILLION

By Tim Benson A June 2019 analysis from Scottish consulting firm Wood Mackenzie estimates the cost of transitioning the United States to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, as recommended by the “Green…

L. A. Time’s sea level rise anti-science climate alarmist propaganda campaign

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The Los Angeles Times latest anti-science sea level rise propaganda campaign articles claims are devoid of any scientific data addressing the record of actual California…

Climate scientists’ pre-traumatic stress syndrome

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on July 8, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry It’s getting worse. About 5 years ago, I wrote two blog posts…

V’GER

From NASA July 8, 2019 A New Plan for Keeping NASA’s Oldest Explorers Going This artist’s concept depicts one of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, including the location of the cosmic ray…

BBC Faces Legal Challenge As Viewers Raise Thousands To Tackle ‘Bias’

From the GWPF Date: 08/07/19 Daily Express The BBC is facing a legal challenge over the way it monitors its impartiality amid accusations of biased coverage. Crowdfunding group Stop BBC…

“Planning in and for a post-growth and post-carbon economy”… Aeuhhh???

Guest aeuhhh??? by David Middleton H/T to Pop Piasa… Planning in and for a post-growth and post-carbon economy John BarryContribution to Cowell, R et al (eds), Routledge Companion Volume to…

Climate Extremists Offering Lessons to Activists on How to Use Super Glue

Guest essay by Eric Worrall An Aussie climate activist group is worried that their supporters can’t read the instructions on tubes of superglue, so they are holding training sessions to…

Behind the eco-curtain: How Bloomberg Pays to Prosecute the Trump EPA

By Chris Horner and Victoria Toensing The State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, a group created by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2017, is hiring and placing…

Educating kids to debate alarming climate claims

Important new project provides videos and short non-technical issue briefs for students Paul Driessen It’s time to challenge the steady diet of bias, false information and alarmism on climate change…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #366

The Week That Was: 2019-07-06 (July 6, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “There are some ideas so wrong…

Leaving the EU is ‘more vital than climate change’ says poll as 36 per cent of voters claim Brexit is the most important political issue

From The Daily Mail Climate change came third in list of priorities voters identified for Government Eleven per cent of participants mentioned climate as top issues facing country Second place…

CNN Calls for the Elimination of the US Nuclear Arsenal, Because Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to CNN, if the USA and other nations do not eliminate their nuclear weapons climate change will trigger a nuclear war. Climate change isn’t…

Berkeley to consider another environmental first with proposed ordinance banning new natural gas hookups.

From The East Bay Express As the United States has begun transitioning away from the use of coal and petroleum as a source of electricity and fuel, natural gas has…

Why toxicologists resisted and radiation geneticists supported EPA’S adoption of LNT for cancer risk assessment

Paper Via Junk Science Edward J. Calabresea,*, Robert J. Golden School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA,…