FT: “Democracies are ill-suited to deal with climate change”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Another green attack on Democracy; According to the Financial Times, giving ordinary people a say over public policy impedes climate action, because we don’t care…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #393

The Week That Was: 2020-01-04 (January 4, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “And that is what science is:…

Tom Steyer: “Climate is my Number One Priority”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Democrat Candidate Tom Steyer, none of the other candidates are as focussed on climate change as he is. Tom Steyer talks climate change…

Bush bull

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley This will be a long posting, because it is necessary to nail the childish myth that global warming caused the bushfires in Australia. The long,…

MEMGA! Leviathan natural gas field comes online $150M under budget

Guest natural gas cheer-leading by David Middleton MEMGA! = Making the Eastern Mediterranean Great Again! It seems like just a few weeks ago that some nitwit was bemoaning the death…

Joe Biden’s Climate Advice to Coal Miners: “learn to code”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Joe Biden, coal miners worried about their future should retrain as software developers. Miners were less than impressed with Biden’s advice. Joe Biden…

Scientific American: Store Renewable Energy as Liquified Air

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Yet another renewable energy storage idea… To Store Renewable Energy, Try Freezing Air Such energy storage technology could help relieve congested transmission lines in places…

NYT: Australia is Committing Climate Suicide

h/t Grant Griffiths – The New York Times thinks leaders are ignoring the Australian people’s demand for climate action – despite voters electing a Conservative government last May. Australia Is…

NYT: President Trump to Drop Climate Change from Federal Infrastructure Planning

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to NYT, President Trump has moved to modify a 50 year old rule which requires Federal Agencies to consider the “cumulative consequences” of new…

Australia Fires … And Misfires

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I kept hearing so much about the Australian bushfires being the result of or driven by “climate change” or “global warming” that I thought I’d…

It has been hotter, fires have burnt larger areas

reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s blog January 4, 2020 By jennifer The word unprecedented is applied to almost every bad thing that happens at the moment, as though particular events could…

Lessons in thought policing – tweet about @realDonaldTrump, get shutoff by Twitter

I’ve had a Twitter account since September 2009. I’ve made over 28,600 Tweets in that over 10 years time. Not once have I ever been shutoff…until yesterday, when I made…

Hijacking Australian 2019 Bushfire Tragedies to Fearmonger Climate Change

Guest post by Jim Steele, director emeritus of the Sierra Nevada Field Campus, SFSU and author of Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism. As is customary now,…

Greens Pushing Hard to Blame Aussie Climate Policies for Bushfires

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison attempt to play both sides of the climate game has spectacularly backfired. By claiming to care about climate change but…

Meat Loaf: Greta Thunberg has been “Brainwashed”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Rock star Meat Loaf has thrown the media into a spin, by claiming Greta Thunberg has been brainwashed into believing her radical climate change beliefs.…

2004 Climate Apocalypse Prediction Bites the Dust

Guest relaying of good news by David Middleton It seems like climate apocalypses are experiencing a bit of an apocalypse… Nolte: Department of Defense Predicted Climate Change Would Destroy Us…

Scientists Reach 100% Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming

From the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society James Powell First Published November 20, 2019 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1177/0270467619886266 Abstract The consensus among research scientists on anthropogenic global warming has grown…

That time when @realDonaldTrump read and retweeted WUWT

From the “heads will explode now if they didn’t before” department. Being the most-read website on climate in the world has its advantages – we reach a lot of people.…

The Guardian: Termination Threat for Employees who Criticise Amazon’s Climate Policy

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the Guardian, Amazon has threatened to fire employees who publicly call for Amazon to do more about climate change. Amazon threatened to fire…

Earth’s Ice Ages

By Andy May The phrase “Ice Age” is poorly defined and often abused, so let’s first define the climate state during most ice ages. It is called “Icehouse Earth.” The…