Guest “counter-hyping” by David Middleton The stock market plunge of the past few days has largely been triggered by the rather modest spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) out of China.…
Month: February 2020
Some perspective on the #Coronavirus #COVID19 from the CDC
Folks fretting about the coronavirus are forgetting there’s another virus already running rampant in the United States, one that’s killed nearly 20 times as many people in this country alone.…
Hijacking the Winds of Change
Guest post by Jim Steele published in the Pacifica Tribune February 25, 2020 What’s Natural Low-tech weathervanes have provided farmers with sage weather advice. If winds were coming from the…
BREAKING: Michael Bloomberg’s climate money may have gotten his presidential campaign into IRS hot water
From Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO): IRS Complaint Filed Against Bloomberg Philanthropies for Use as Political Campaign Tool, Inuring to Private Benefit vs Public Interest “I bought that” candidate’s overlapping…
Republican Lawmakers Flee Oregon to Prevent a Carbon Trading Quorum
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; Oregon Republicans have walked out on attempts to pass a cap and trade bill, to deny the majority Democrats the Quorum…
Hollywood’s Carbon Footprint
Guest “Hooray for Hollywood” by David Middleton A couple of days ago, CTM forwarded a reader suggestion to me. “Cassandra” wanted to know what the carbon footprint of the movie…
Why are polar bears going extinct? (Spoiler: They’re not)
Reposted from Dr. Susan Crockford’s Polar Bear Science Posted on February 24, 2020 | Google says many people ask this question so here is the correct answer: polar bears are…
Mining Company Withdraws From $20B Oil Sands Project — Citing Trudeau’s Environmental Policies
From The Daily Caller David Krayden Ottawa Bureau Chief February 24, 2020 10:23 AM ET Canada’s Teck Resources Ltd. has withdrew its application for a $20.6 billion Alberta oil sands…
Taxpayer Funded NGO Releases Yet Another Climate Doomsday Report
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to MSM you can trust the “THE CENTER FOR CLIMATE & SECURITY” because they are non partisan experts. Report warns climate change could become…
Using Twitter Volume as Scientific Measure of “Climate Change” Is a Very, Very, Bad Idea
By Anthony Watts The headline of a recent story on CNBC claimed, “Scientists Are Using Twitter to Measure the Impact of Climate Change.” I did a double-take and checked the…
Blockbuster news from China about COVID-19
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Blog By Larry Kummer, Editor / 25 February 2020 Summary: Epidemics are like wars in that truth is the first casualty. I see comment threads…
Cost Of ‘Net Zero’ Will Be Astronomical, New Reports Warn
From The Global Warming Policy Foundation Date: 24/02/20 Press Release, Global Warming Policy Foundation Price will top £100,000 per household The cost of reaching the government’s “Net Zero” target will…
Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sun
Quantum breakthrough uses light’s quirky properties to boost 3D imaging, paving the way for enhanced performance in self-driving cars, medical imaging and deep-space communications Stevens Institute of Technology Researchers at…
Celebrating the Life and Career of Katherine Johnson
Feb. 24, 2020 Celebrating the Life and Career of Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson passed away Feb. 24, 2020, after living a life filled with trail-blazing achievements. Being handpicked to be…
Australian fires: Climate ‘truth bomb’?
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on February 24, 2020 by curryja | by Alan Longhurst Recipe for Australia’s climate ‘truth bomb’: dubious manipulations of the historical temperature…
Paris Agreement Architect Still Haunting the MSM
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Failed Paris Agreement architect Christiana Figueres is back, pushing a new book and telling everyone what they are doing wrong. World’s top climate negotiator condemns…
BBC: Climate Education is Failing Because Some Graduates Become Oil Executives
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A child activist interviewed by the BBC is disappointed that some “educated people” resist climate indoctrination enough to accept jobs from oil companies. Climate change:…
WaPo showcases the “Anti-Greta” Thunberg
In an interesting turn of events, the Washington Post has done a front-page feature on Naomi Seibt, a German climate skeptic and YouTuber that WaPo describes as “… 19-year-old German…
Transportation Climate Initiative Request to Comment
Watts Up With That Guest post by Roger Caiazza, I have previously described the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) framework and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This post summarizes my comments…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #400
The Week That Was: 2020-02-22 (February 22, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “I never guess. It is a…
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