Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #384

The Week That Was: 2019-11-02 (November 2, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Climatology is becoming an increasingly dubious…

Ancient Air Challenges Prominent Explanation For A Shift In Glacial Cycles

From Nature An analysis of air up to 2 million years old, trapped in Antarctic ice, shows that a major shift in the periodicity of glacial cycles was probably not…

California Governor to President Trump: You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart; The governor of inclusive California only wants ideas and feedback from people who agree with him. This response was triggered by a series…

Any Suggestions? Greta Thunberg Pleads for Help and a Carbon-Free Lift Across the Atlantic

From Breitbart Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is looking to the world for suggestions as to how she can re-cross the Atlantic after next month’s U.N. climate summit in Chile…

California Wildfires, Climate Change, and the Hot-Dry-Windy Fire Weather Index

Reposted from Dr Roy Spencers Blog California Wildfires, Climate Change, and the Hot-Dry-Windy Fire Weather Index November 1st, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Summer and early Fall are…

Here’s How State Regulators Played A Role In California’s Rolling Blackouts, Wildfires

REUTERS/Jessica Orellana Chris White Tech Reporter November 02, 2019 7:34 PM ET California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other critics are blasting the public utility company responsible for rolling blackouts, but…

Sea Level Rise ‘Alarmist Agitprop’

Guest post by Rud Istvan Fabius Maximus alerted Charles the Moderator to a new alarming ‘agitprop’ paper in Nature Communications (here) concerning global warming induced sea level rise (SLR). Since…

Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular

From Bloomberg Local politics are a bigger problem for renewable energy growth than competition from fossil fuels. By Leonid Bershidsky October 31, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT Despite their surging popularity…

Nigel Farage Exposes Extinction Rebellion’s Plan to Topple Representative Democracy

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Extinction Rebellion’s Sarah Lunnon, representative democracy, at least on climate policy and economic management, should be subordinated to citizens assemblies composed of people…

California NOT “fighting climate change”, climate change NOT driving wildfires – claims are propaganda

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The L A Times is at it again making completely idiotic claims that California is “fighting climate change” and alleging that wildfires and blackouts will…

Desperate Efforts to Drag the Climate Change Drought Narrative Back on Track

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Aussie Climate Scientists are rushing to fill the breach caused by Professor Andy Pitman’s stunning admission there is no long term drying trend in drought…

Big Tech Suppresses Information About the Health Damage It Inflicts on Kids

We believe that modern technology platforms, such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple, are even more powerful than most people realize – Eric Schmidt, Google, 2014 There is a preponderance…

Activists sail four weeks across Atlantic for climate change summit — then learn it is canceled

From CNN (CNN)A group of climate activists crossing the Atlantic by sailboat to a UN summit in Chile were shocked to learn the event was canceled — four weeks into…

Naomi Oreskes – the gift that keeps on giving, Pt 1

Reposted from GelbspanFiles.com Harvard science history professor Naomi Oreskes was one of the witnesses appearing under oath at the 10/23/19 House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s “Examining the Oil Industry’s…

Climategate: Nearly ten years later

Climate alarmists are still promoting junk science, fossil fuel bans and wealth redistribution Dr. Kelvin Kemm This 17th of this month marks the tenth anniversary of “Climategate” – the release…

Quiet sun sets new record for spotless days

As of November 1st, the current stretch of days without any observable sunspots in solar cycle 24 has reached a total of 228 spotless days in 2019 so far That’s 75% of…

Academics Demand More Time Off From Work to Save Planet From Climate Change

Guest “I couldn’t make this sort of schist up, if I was trying,” by David Middleton Academics Demand Sabbaticals to Save World from Climate Change by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.…

Expensive Climate Policies Sparked Chile Riots and #COP25 climate conference cancellation

From the unintended consequences department. The COP25 climate conference in Santiago Chile was cancelled, and now moved at the last minute to Madrid, Spain. By: James Taylor Climate activists and…

Friday Funny: The complete Halloween climate scare roundup

In case you missed the series, here are all of the climate scare debunked videos. – Anthony For environmental activists, every day is Halloween as they try to scare children…

Southeast Asia: Coal Demand To Double By 2040

From The GWPF Date: 31/10/19 Bloomberg There’s just no stopping coal in Southeast Asia. Surging investments in wind and solar energy won’t be enough to shake the fuel’s dominance in…

The Snow will all have gone from Australia by 2050 – Really?

Guest post by Mike Jonas Snow levels are important to the people of Australia’s Snowy Mountains because the ski industry provides a large proportion of the region’s income. There has…