It has taken me a couple of days to bring myself to write this. It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my dear friend and mentor,…
Month: January 2020
NASA’s TESS mission uncovers its first world with two stars
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center In 2019, when Wolf Cukier finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, he joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,…
Are Australia Bushfires Worsening from Human-Caused Climate Change?
Reposted from Dr Roy Spencer’s Blog January 8th, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Smoke plumes from bushfires in southeast Australia on January 4, 2020, as seen by the…
“Reckless and Selfish”: Aussie Politicians Urge Climate Activists to Cancel Protest
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Government of the Australian state of Victoria has urged climate protestors to cancel their planned protest on Friday, to avoid diverting police away from…
Bernie Sanders Attacks Bezos, Backs Amazon Climate Activists
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Bernie Sanders has recorded a video with the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, attacking Amazon’s alleged climate failings and alleged mistreatment of their climate whistleblowers.…
Poplar genetically modified not to harm air quality grow as well as non-modified trees
[cough..shades of Reagan…cough~] University of Arizona While providing benefits to the environment, some trees also emit gases to the atmosphere that worsen air pollution and alter climate. Field trials in…
The Climate Decade that Was: Failed Predictions, Tour De Paris, and the Gretas
by Vijay Jayaraj As we step into a new decade, here’s a look at the climate drama that just ended. The 2010s were dominated by the failure of doomsday prophecies,…
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale
Sebastian Sippel, Nicolai Meinshausen, Erich M. Fischer, Enikő Székely & Reto Knutti Nature Climate Change volume 10, pages35–41(2020)Cite this article Abstract For generations, climate scientists have educated the public that…
TESS Finds First Earth-Size Planet in the Habitable Zone
From NASA Jan. 7, 2020 In a galaxy 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado sits a planetary system named TOI 700. It is home to TOI 700 d, the…
German Greens: Use Climate Emergency Declarations to Jail Deniers
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t NoTricksZone, William Astley; A Solar Energy publication in Germany has demanded that politicians use climate emergency declarations as a justification to punish climate “saboteurs”,…
Rutan, Lovelock & Branson
Guest post by David Archibald, Burt Rutan is one of the most interesting men on the planet. He has designed 46 aircraft, six of which are included in the collection…
Drying The Sky
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Eleven years ago I published a post here on Watts Up With That entitled “The Thermostat Hypothesis“. About a year after the post, the journal…
Harvard Economics Professor: Global Carbon Tax, Give the Money to China
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Harvard Professor and Guardian author Kenneth Rogoff thinks the best way to tackle climate change is to impose a global carbon tax, then use the…
Greenland Ice Core CO2 Concentrations Deserve Reconsideration
Guest post by Renee Hannon IntroductionIce cores datasets are important tools when reconstructing Earth’s paleoclimate. Antarctic ice core data are routinely used as proxies for past CO2 concentrations. This is…
“False Humility Will Not Save the Planet”
Guest post by David Middleton When I first saw this headline, I thought I was going to have fun ridiculing it… But once I started reading it, I realized that…
British TV Personalities Savage Aussie Politician Over Climate Action, Bushfires
Guest essay by Eric Worrall British TV personalities including Piers Morgan have attacked Aussie politician Craig Kelly on air during an interview, over Kelly’s claim that dry weather and the…
Climate Alarmists Winning the War of Words, Despite Evidence that Nothing Unusual is Happening
Opinion By Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris Thanks largely to Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders and 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, “existential’ was selected as the word of the year by…
Reform USAID energy aid policies now!
President Trump should direct USAID to support coal and gas, not just wind and solar Paul Driessen and David Wojick Apparently unable to grasp the cruel irony, USAID Commissioner Mark…
Could EV’s be used to “hack” the 2020 election?
Guest “I hope so” by David Middleton This is fracking hilarious… POWER TRIPHow electric vehicles could be used to hack the 2020 electionBy Justin Rohrlich December 11, 2019 When former…
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