Listen to the Trees!

Guest post by Jim Steele What’s Natural? Published in Pacifica. Tribune August 20,2019 This summer I taught a class on the Natural History of the Sierra Nevada for San Francisco…

Brazilian President Accuses Green NGOs of Setting Fire to the Amazon Rainforest

Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Bolsonaro has accused green NGOs of deliberately setting fire to the Amazon Rainforest, in retaliation for having their funding slashed. Igniting global outrage, Brazil’s…

UPDATE – Dr. Tim Ball wins @MichaelEMann lawsuit – Mann “hides the decline” AGAIN

Original title before update: Breaking: Dr. Tim Ball wins @MichaelEMann lawsuit – Mann has to pay See the update below. Readers surely recall that the easily offended Dr. Michael Mann…

Plastic recycling piles up in Hobart as councils urged to drop service fees

From ABC.net.au Updated Sat at 2:56am Photo The TLGA says it is “business as usual” at the Hobart facility despite plastic piling up. ABC News: Jessica Hayes Bales of plastic…

Re-evaluating the manufacture of the climate consensus

From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on August 21, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry A new book by Oppenheimer, Oreskes et al. entitled ‘Discerning Experts: The Practices…

Developing nations surging energy use shatters UN & California’s climate alarmism crusade

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin California has updated its GHG emissions data for year 2017 showing a decrease of about 5 million metric tons of GHG emissions since 2016. The…

The Greenland Purchase

Guest ROTFLMFAO by David Middleton I promise not to do this to Greenland! pic.twitter.com/03DdyVU6HA — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2019 No Joke: Trump Really Does Want To Buy…

Meatless Diet?

  News Brief by Kip Hansen   From the NY Times’ seemingly unlimited stockpile of odd activist efforts on behalf of “The Climate” — we have a new entry that…

Corn Belt Update Mid-August 2019

guest post by David Archibald The USDA continues to predict a big corn crop of 13.9 billion bushels at an average yield of 169.5 bushels per acre. AccuWeather’s estimate is…

China Criticises Australia for Not Doing Enough about Climate Change

China appears to have fanned the flames of Pacific Islander anger over Australia’s failure to provide heaps of extra money embrace a more pro-active approach to helping Pacific Islanders prepare…

Explaining Wind Turbine Lethality

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For reasons that will soon become evident, the comments on my previous wind turbine post reminded me of a long-ago sunset dinner with my gorgeous…

Walmart suing Tesla

Here’s a link to the suit. Notable excerpts: This is a breach of contract action arising from years of gross negligence and failure to live up to industry standards by…

You Might Be a Scientist…

Guest [fill in the blank] by David Middleton Am I really a scientist?BY NESSA CARSON 15 AUGUST 2019 Whether in a lab, an office or on a stage, we are no…

Offshore Oil and Gas Production Leaks Virtually No Methane

Guest zero-point-zero by David Middleton Offshore oil and gas rigs leak more greenhouse gas than expectedJohn Sullivan, Office of Engineering CommunicationsAug. 15, 2019 9:49 a.m. A survey of offshore installations…

Disconnect the National Grid: Bold Coal State Plan to Ditch the Green Energy Moochers

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova; Aussie Federal MP Keith Pitt has urged the coal rich Queensland State Government to disconnect from the national grid, to stop demand from…

BlueScope invests $1 billion in the US amid concerns of Australian energy prices

BlueScope invests $1 billion in the US amid concerns of Australian energy prices

Paying Much More For Much Less

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting and authoritative new [commenters pointed out it’s from 2012, I can’t find any newer research] study on the lifespan of those ugly…

Invasion of the lifestyle snatchers

Lately, some op-eds have been questioning whether Greta Thunberg is simply a mindless puppet. ” WITH cold, hard eyes, Greta Thunberg jabs a finger forward – like Lord Kitchener in…

Blacklist by Nature follows defamation by BioScience: journals reject ethics of science

From Polar Bear Science Posted on August 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Blacklist by Nature follows defamation by BioScience: journals reject ethics of science Along with hundreds of other…

NASA and SpaceX: Dragon Crew Extraction Rehearsal

From NASA [Lots of us have our issues with Musk, but %#%&&, look what he’s done for spacesuit style.~ctm] Aug. 15, 2019 On August 13, 2019, NASA at the Trident…