Guest essay by Eric Worrall Democrats are reportedly desperate to rein in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s wild attacks on the Democrat establishment, such as her fury at being denied her new green…
Year: 2019
Ben Santer: We Need Understanding, Not Physical Walls, to Address Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon – University of East Anglia alumni Ben “Beat the cr*p out of him” Santer offering President Trump lessons on fostering international…
Integrated pathways for meeting climate targets and ensuring access to safe water
From EurekAlert! Public Release: 11-Jan-2019 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis IIASA researchers have led work to develop new pathways showing how the world can develop water and energy infrastructure…
Pielke and Lomborg accused of “fact mongering”
Reposted from cliscep.com Posted on 10 Jan 19 by Paul Matthews Here’s a remarkable example of the post-truthiness of some elements of contemporary academia. A magazine called Issues in Science…
The Middle East, Africa, and Asia now drive nearly all global energy consumption growth
From The EIA January 9, 2019 The Middle East, Africa, and Asia now drive nearly all global energy consumption growth Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics Energy consumption…
Limits to Solar and Wind Power in Australia
By Richard D. Patton South Australia (SA) is the smallest state in Australia and its government has made a goal of being a leader in renewable energy production. As a…
Climate change intensifies war of the birds
From EurekAlert! Public Release: 10-Jan-2019 Why great tits kill pied flycatchers in their next boxes University of Groningen IMAGE: This is Jelmer Samplonius with a pied flycatcher. Credit: Rob Buiter…
Does the IPCC say we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophic global warming?
From Patrick T. Brown, PhD’s blog Posted on January 4, 2019 by ptbrown31 In late 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report on the impacts associated…
Revkin on Climate – the long view of the big picture
This is well worth a read. Andrew Revkin, who wrote an opinion blog and sometines opinion columns for the New York Times wrote an essay describing his years of reporting…
There is no [statistically significant] snow cover trend due to global warming since 1972 in the Northern Hemisphere
From the “alarmists and their cats are grumpy over this” department. There’s been some recent hubbub over decreasing snowfall in the northern hemisphere by the usual suspects, who claim that…
A Small Margin Of Error
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that Zeke Hausfather and others are claiming that 2018 is the warmest year on record for the ocean down to a depth of…
Sea Level Rise (SLR) Satellite Altimetry—Fit for Purpose?
by Rud Istvan, ctm and I were having lunch recently near our mutually admired South Florida coral reef system, and over conversation we started speculating about ARGO. I brought up…
Of discount rates and candy-canes
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, Of cabbages and kings, And why the…
China says no to wind and solar tech unless it can compete with coal on price
China has said it will not approve wind and solar power projects unless they can compete with coal power prices. Beijing pulled the plug on support for large solar projects, which had…
Massive Government Cash Giveaways Needed to Defeat Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Despite billions already invested in renewables, and wild claims that renewables are now “cheaper than coal”, more government subsidy money is required. Climate change: focusing…
Update: The Global Warming Challenge
Reposted from theclimatebet.com 2018 year ends on a low note, temperature wise The UAH global mean temperature anomaly data for December 2018 is out: the figure of 0.25°C. The average…
Kenya: Solar motorcycles take on Nairobi smog
From The Mail & Guardian Sophie Mbuguah , Deutsche Welle06 Jan 2019 11:45 No comment. But they did win prize money ~ctm Nairobi’s reliance on motorcycles is hindering efforts to…
Racial Inequality in the Deployment Of Rooftop Solar Energy in the US
From EurekAlert! Fewer rooftop solar photovoltaics installations exist in African-American and Hispanic-dominant neighborhoods than in white-dominant neighborhoods, even when controlling for household income and home ownership Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass.…
Funding the Climate-Industrial Complex
Why Big Green energy investors rely on the man-made global warming myth Tom D. Tamarkin Supposedly “green” or “renewable” energy has become a trillion-dollar-plus annual industry that has spawned tens…
Climate Change Claim: Existentialism Will Help Silence Objections to Restricting Individual Choice
Guest essay by Eric Worrall By emphasising the collective conscience implicit in the philosophy of Existentialism, policy planners might win more support for climate action. Existentialism: A guiding philosophy for…
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