Judges Explain Why They Are Knocking Down Enviro Attempts To Sue Oil Companies Into Oblivion

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter January 21, 2020 4:30 PM ET Activists who are working to level lawsuits on oil companies and the federal government are reeling…

Mars’ water was mineral-rich and salty

New study finds surface waters on early Mars may have been habitable for microbial life Tokyo Institute of Technology Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in…

Kiribati Man is Back: UN Rules Climate Refugees Cannot Be Rejected

Guest essay by Eric Worrall This judgement has implications for US border control, as unskilled illegal immigrants who attempt to enter the USA are starting to claim they are really…

Arctic sea ice can’t ‘bounce back’

University of Exeter [See my update at the end. -w.] Arctic sea ice cannot “quickly bounce back” if climate change causes it to melt, new research suggests. A team of…

Greta Thunberg Takes Her Message To Davos: ‘Our Emissions Have To Stop’

From The Daily Caller Energy Greta Thunberg Takes Her Message To Davos: ‘Our Emissions Have To Stop’ Leah Jessen Network Editor January 21, 2020 11:50 AM ET Teenage climate activist…

Wildlife Thriving Around Fukushima (and Chernobyl) – Therefore Thanos Was Right?

Guest sarcastic commentary by David Middleton I’d like to assume Ross Pomeroy’s title was sarcastic… Humans Are Worse for Wildlife Than Nuclear RadiationBy Ross Pomeroy – RCP Staff In the…

Study: Agricultural Irrigation Helps Shield the Tropics from Global Warming

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to a Swiss study, the Tropics are not warming as rapidly as expected because of large scale agricultural irrigation. Irrigation helps beat the heat…

Ozone-depleting substances caused half of late 20th-century Arctic warming, says study

Implicated in a third of overall global warming at the time Earth Institute at Columbia University A scientific paper published in 1985 was the first to report a burgeoning hole…

Top and Bottom of the Atmosphere

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Some days I learn a lot. Today was one of them. Let me start at the start. Back in 1987 in a paper entitled ‘The…

Want to know what climate change will do in your back yard? There’s a dataset for that

The 7-terabyte dataset, the largest of its kind, helps envision climate-change scenarios at scales as small as 1 kilometer; a new review validates and describes the dataset International Center for…

The Green Swan: BIS Urges Climate Action to Prevent a new GFC

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Banking globalists are piling on the pressure too try to wreck the coal industry and for governments to hand out lots of free cash, to…

On the Climate Road to Serfdom

BY ROBERT L. BRADLEY, JR. The political world is saying “no” to policies that make energy less available, more expensive, less reliable, and more intrusive. Hyperbole of peak demand is…

The Meat Wars: JAMA Stirs the Pot

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 20 January 2020   Rita Rubin, Senior Writer, JAMA Medical News & Perspectives,  has stirred the pot on the controversy surrounding a series of…

An obvious solution to the climate policy crisis

Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Blog By Larry Kummer, Editor / 11 Comments / 18 January 2020 Summary: After 30 years of climate policy gridlock, we can decide to take…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #395

The Week That Was: 2020-01-18 (January 18, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The day we see the truth…

Fight fires with facts – not fake science

Eliminate fuel, prevent ignition, stop arson, end irresponsible land management policies By Paul Driessen & Duggan Flanakin, “We are all born ignorant,” Benjamin Franklin once said, “but one must work…

Davos: “Climate Change seems to be Outgrowing the … Institutions … who have Dealt with it Until Now”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The World Economic Forum, which hosts the annual $71,000 / ticket private jet party in Davos, has published an article which urges climate action be…

Another Permian Basin Peak Oil Prediction… Yawn.

Guest “who fracking cares?” by David Middleton What is so newsworthy about peak oil predictions? The latest is from someone named Adam Waterous and it’s all over the news. This…

A Surfeit Of Temperatures

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My last two posts, one on Gavin’s claims and the other on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, have gotten me to thinking about the…

The Guardian Admits Climate Action Costs Jobs

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greens usually try to sidestep questions about the cost of their proposals, but occasionally they slip up and reveal the true pain their agenda would…