What Can You See, Indicating Sea Levels are Rising?

Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog December 28, 2019 By jennifer 3 Many Australians are fearful of catastrophic human-caused climate change because this is what the state-sponsored propaganda on the Australian…

FT: Low Interest Rates are an Opportunity to Spend Big on Renewable Energy

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to FT, cheap interest rates should be an opportunity for businesses to max out the corporate credit card on renewable energy infrastructure. Low rates…

Another year, and still no increase in severe U.S. tornadoes

By Paul Homewood Climate scientists love to blame every bad weather event on global warming. Yet we never hear them cite climate change for the relative absence of bad weather!…

Chevron’s $10B Impairment: “another symptom of peak oil demand and the demise of the oil industry”?

Guest oil patch news by David Middleton Chevron recently announced that it would take a $10-11 billion charge against net earnings in Q4 2019, largely due to its exposure to…

Failed Serial Doomcasting

People sometimes ask me why I don’t believe the endless climate/energy use predictions of impending doom and gloom for the year 2050 or 2100. The reason is, neither the climate…

Morocco’s Anti-Atlas Mountains

Dec. 26, 2019 The Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco formed as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates about 80 million years ago. This collision destroyed…

Congress Says Nay to Expanding EV Tax Credits

From The Truth About Cars By Matt Posky on December 23, 2019 Prior to Congress taking the rest of the month off to relax and presumably gear up for an…

British Police Admit Electric Vehicles are Useless for Police Work

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart; Police forces in Britain are facing questions over the waste of millions of pounds purchasing electric vehicles which are not up to the…

Is Betelgeuse in Orion about to explode in a SuperNova?

Somethings going on in the sky. In Orion, the red supergiant star known as Betelgeuse is looking faint, dropping rapidly in brightness since October and is now at ~1.3 to…

A Decided Lack Of Equilibrium

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about the lack of progress in estimating the “equilibrium climate sensitivity”, known as ECS. The ECS measures how much the temperature…

Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment

From The Daily Caller Luke Rosiak Investigative Reporter December 23, 2019 3:52 PM ET Font Size: Democrats in Virginia may override local zoning to bring high-density housing, including public housing,…

NASA’s Moon to Mars Plans, Artemis Lunar Program Gets Fast Tracked in 2019

From NASA Dec. 23, 2019 RELEASE 19-095 In 2019, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Apollo 11 Moon landing, the most historic moment in space exploration, while also…

Wet Years, Dry Years

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading all kinds of claims that the slight warming we’ve been experiencing over the last century has already led to an increase in…

Former Bolivian Dictator Accuses the USA of a Lithium Coup D’etat

Guest essay by Eric worrall Former Bolivian President Evo Morales, who served an unconstitutional third term and fled the country at the start of his even more dubious fourth term…

Bloomberg: RCP8.5 Climate Catastrophe is Unlikely – Because of Cheap Renewables

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Bloomberg columnist Noah Smith, untold suffering is pretty much locked in, but we won’t have to dismantle Capitalism, because cheap solar energy will…

The best Christmas present to humanity, ever: We’ve Just Had The Best Decade In Human History

by Matt Ridley Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living…

Reverse Polarity Sunspots appear on the Sun – ending a 39 day stretch of spotless days

Dr. Tony Phillips writes: A new solar cycle is coming. Today, two sunspots emerged on the solar disk. Their reversed magnetic polarity marks them as members of new Solar Cycle…

Lasers learn to accurately spot space junk

Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in Earth’s orbit threatening spacecraft safety American Institute of Physics WASHINGTON,…

3 degrees C?

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on December 23, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry Is 3 C warming over the 21st century now the ‘best estimate’? …

Climate Nags are Trying to Ruin Christmas

From the “Greta the Grinch” department. By H. Sterling Burnett For the religious among us, at least those professing to be Christians, Christmas is a time of reflection on the birth…

Blowtorch Christmas? I Think Not

Reposted from Chris Martz Weather Posted on 21 Dec 2019 by Chris Martz Figure 1. ECMWF 500 millibar height anomaly map for North America; five-day average – WeatherBELL Analytics, L.L.C.…

Stellar Snowflake Cluster

From NASA Dec. 23, 2019 Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.…

Eco-builders are clutching at straws

UK climate eco-nutjobs now building houses out of hay. What could go wrong?https://t.co/foqytVvsRd — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 23, 2019 Full article here. The comments on the twitter thread are…

We gave our rulers the greatest gift that we can give

From the Fabius Maximus Website By Larry Kummer, Editor Summary: We gave our elites the greatest gift that America can give. Understanding this, we can make a powerful resolution for…