Climate Friendly Lithium Battery Horror: Lawsuit Accuses Alphabet, Apple, Dell and Tesla of Complicity in Child Exploitation

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to International Rights Advocates, Alphabet, Apple, Dell and Tesla have structured their supply chain oversight procedures in a way which makes them inaccessible to…

Comment by Cowtan & Jacobs on Lewis & Curry 2018 and Reply: Part 1

From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on December 16, 2019 by niclewis | 52 Comments By Nic Lewis A comment on LC18 (recent paper by Lewis and Curry on…

Climate change legislation, media coverage drives oil companies’ ad spending, study finds

Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Major oil corporations tend to spend the most money on advertising and promotional campaigns at moments when they face negative media coverage and/or…

A plea from a Washington State Reader

From MCR, Washington State voters have, over the course of the last few years defeated multiple, repeated attempts to have Carbon Trading Schemes enacted and enforced in that once-great State.…

More evidence that a cold climate kills – while trying to sell “stop Brexit”

From the EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the “Columbia’s press release writers have no shame” department comes this load of tosh presser trying to give readers a lesson on…

The Atlantic: Investment Bankers Will Save Us from Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to The Atlantic, while governments squabble Investment Bankers are acting to save the planet from global warming. Why Goldman Sachs Is Fighting Climate Change—And…

The Grapes of Climate Wrath

Recently, this billboard was spotted in the DC Metro Subway by Heartland Senior Fellow Edward Hudgins.  The implication is that more carbon dioxide—produced from driving your car instead of taking…

Tiny shells reveal waters off California are acidifying twice as fast as the global ocean

NOAA Headquarters In first-of-its-kind research, NOAA scientists and academic partners used 100 years of microscopic shells to show that the coastal waters off California are acidifying twice as fast as…

Governor Newsom doubling down to dismantle the California economy

By Ronald Stein Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California Published December 16, 2019 at California Political Review http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/stein-governor-newsom-doubling-down-to-dismantle-the-california-economy/ With California’s energy costs…

Guardian: Aussie Bushfires are Australia’s Climate Change “Chernobyl Moment”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; According to The Guardian, a few months of Aussie bushfires, as has happened many times before, is somehow politically equivalent to…

Seal Takes Ocean Heat Transport Data to New Depths

From NASA By Esprit Smith, NASA’s Earth Science News Team A tagged elephant seal basks on Kerguelen Island, a French territory in the Antarctic. Elephant seals are tagged as part…

UN bureaucrats chow down on burgers – while attacking meat

Reporting right from Madrid, where climate hypocrisy was alive and well at COP-25 Craig Rucker They came for your car, your light bulb, your dishwasher and washing machine, your toilet,…

My Thoughts: Post-Madrid #COP25

The Heartland Institute’s Climate Reality Forum provided a powerful counterweight to COP 25, with speakers ranging from Dr. Will Happer, former science adviser to President Trump, to Chilean engineer Douglas…

It’s official: we are in a “deep” solar minimum.

SUNSPOTS BREAK A SPACE AGE RECORD: Solar physicist Dr. Tony Phillips writes via email: Solar Minimum is officially “deep.” 2019 has just broken a Space Age record for days without…

Al Gore Says Democratic Candidates Should Absolutely Run On AOC’s Green New Deal: Report

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter December 13, 2019 1:07 PM ET Former Vice President Al Gore believes the Green New Deal (GND) could be a winning issue…

Monday Mirthiness @ScottAdamsSays nails the universal boogeyman

Dilbert gets it. I’ve always said that “climate change” has become the universal boogeyman, which you can blame anything on, much like in ancient history where bad weather was blamed…

NASA’s Operation IceBridge Completes Eleven Years of Polar Surveys

From NASA Global Climate Change NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a ten-year mission to collect polar data between ICESat and ICESat-2, may be coming to a close, but its hundreds of terabytes…

A conversation with Susan J. Crockford—for Association des climato-réalistes

Interview by Grégoire Canlorbe Susan Janet Crockford is a Canadian zoologist, author, and blogger specializing in Holocene mammals. From 2004 to 2019 she was an adjunct professor in Anthropology at…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #390

The Week That Was: 2019-12-14 (December 14, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “In general, we look for a…

No seat! Climate Brat Greta Thunberg Learns the Hard Way Why Many People Prefer to Fly

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Deutsche Bahn apologised for allegedly making Greta Thunberg sit on the floor for part of her journey, while travelling on an overcrowded train in Germany.…