Nine climate tipping points now ‘active,’ warn scientists

No, I don’t see a “climate communication”  blitz in the run up to the latest UN Climate Change Conference or anything like….that.~cr University of Exeter More than half of the…

Alito pens fiery dissent after court declines to hear dispute between climate professor, National Review

From Fox News By Tyler Olson | Fox News Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a fiery defense of free speech Monday morning as the high court announced it would…

UN Panic Button: Mass Extinctions By 2100 Even with Paris Agreement Climate Pledges

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the United Nations, waiting until the end of 2020 is not an option, the crisis has to be addressed now. U.N. warns world…

Two major storms impacting the nation this week

Guest post by Paul Dorian, The latest satellite image of the powerful storm over the eastern Pacific which will have a major impact on Oregon and California over the next…

California Takes Drastic Step Towards Reducing Emissions

From oilprice.com By Irina Slav – Nov 18, 2019, 11:30 AM CST California state agencies will stop buying gas-powered vehicles from a number of carmakers after the latter joined the…

Tom Steyer: Climate Change is Scarier than Threats to Democracy

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Billionaire Climate Activist and Democrat Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer has suggested the climate crisis is more frightening than what he perceives as threats to US…

Montney Python’s Frac’ing Circus

Guest geology by David Middleton In a recent post of mine (ExxonMobil & Chevron Eviscerate Democrat Frac’ing Ban Fantasies) I made this passing comment: There is no evidence whatsoever that…

No Plan B for Planet A

Replacing fossil fuels with “renewable” energy would devastate the only planet we’ve got Paul Driessen Environmentalists and Green New Deal proponents like to say we must take care of the…

FT: Chinese Nationalists Turn on Climate Messiah Greta Thunberg

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the Financial Times, the deteriorating relationship between the USA and China has triggered a collapse in renewable investment, a resurgence in coal, and…

Massachusetts Town Votes for Freezing in the Dark

Guest “too fracking funny” by David Middleton Brookline passes bylaw banning future use of oil, gas in new buildings Nov 21, 2019 BROOKLINE, Mass. — A Massachusetts town overwhelmingly voted…

Claim: US Climate Inaction is Driving Pacific Islands to Embrace China

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to The Strategist, Pacific Islanders are so upset about the USA’s failure to address climate change, they are switching their allegiance to China. Inaction…

More Than 50 Coal Companies Have Been Wiped Out Since Trump’s 2016 Victory

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter November 23, 2019 8:51 PM ET Coal producers are still finding life difficult even as President Donald Trump is easing regulations on…

Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #387

Quote of the Week: “We know what’s happening now. It’s the past that keeps changing.” – Old Russian Joke Number of the Week: 110 million people now drowning? THIS WEEK:…

A battle for the jet stream is raging above our heads

The northern hemisphere jet stream crossing Cape Breton Island in the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada. NASA/Wikimedia Commons Tim Woollings, University of Oxford When prolonged periods of severe weather strike,…

Scientists find a place on Earth where there is no life

FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Living beings, especially microorganisms, have a surprising ability to adapt to the most extreme environments on our planet, but there are still…

Fabulous lectures in Holland done: Munich conference forced to relocate

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on November 20, 2019 | My satisfaction over four successful lectures in and around Delft in the Netherlands over the last few days was…

Samoa climate change resilience challenges Western perceptions

Research from an alternate reality~ctm University of Otago Dr Anita Latai-Niusulu interviewing a Samoan farmer. Credit: Dr Anita Latai-Niusulu The resilience of Samoan communities in the face of climate change…

Climate Scientists Reduced to Hiding from Climate Thuggery in Germany

From Townhall James Taylor Posted: Nov 22, 2019 12:24 PM More than 200 people, including dozens of scientists, are in hiding right now in Germany. I am one of them.…

Stars Are Being Born in the Depths of a Black Hole

From NASA Stars Are Being Born in the Depths of a Black Hole Located about 5.8 billion light years from Earth in the Phoenix Constellation, astronomers have confirmed the first…

How “The Limits to Growth” Broke Australia’s Bipartisan Carbon Tax

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australia’s famously climate skeptic former Prime Minister Tony Abbott won leadership by a single vote, because a senior member of parliament had learned the hard…

Mark Hertsgaard is Back. Again. “Covering Climate Now.”

Reposted from The Gelbspan Files Similar to the February 2015 resurgence of Kert Davies, a long-time promulgator of the ‘industry-corrupted skeptic climate scientists’ accusation, enviro-activist writer Mark Hertsgaard has returned…

The Silly Notion of “Speed Limits for Ships”

By Steve Goreham Originally published in TheT&D. Occasionally a report appears which claims to be wisdom, but after careful analysis, offers solutions that don’t make much sense. Such a report…

How Much Sun Could A Sunshine Shine?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It has been pointed out that while many of the global climate models (GCMs) are not all that good at forecasting future climate, they all…

UN phony 1.5 Degree C “temperature limit” scam is kaput

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The UN IPCC’s politically contrived 2018 report claims that the world must take economically Draconian actions based upon global and regional speculative claimed outcomes spewed…