From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter February 07, 2020 2:49 PM ET The climate change movement’s supposed whiteness drove one young activist to bail on her fellow environmentalists…
Month: February 2020
The Monarch Abundance Roller-Coaster- part 2
Guest Post By Jim Steele To be published in the Pacifica Tribune February 2020 What’s Natural Indeed, some Monarch populations have declined in recent decades. However, the species as a…
Cambridge Professor: “The only way to hit net zero [carbon] by 2050 is to stop flying”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; According to Cambridge Professor of Engineering Julian Allwood, zero carbon aviation is not going to happen in the foreseeable future. The…
Breaking down the last decade of climate change in 7 charts
This article on Grist (h/t to James Taylor, The Heartland Institute) tries to point out how “terrible” the last decade was due to “climate change”. They write: As this hottest-on-record, godforsaken…
The World Just Missed a Five Year Paris Agreement Deadline to Raise Climate Ambition
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; Further evidence that the Paris Agreement is so dead, most countries can’t be bothered to even pretend to care, even nations…
Climate Activist Plan to Use Dodd-Frank Banking Laws to Force Fossil Fuel Divestment
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Vox, the Obama era Dodd-Frank banking laws will provide a future Democrat President with all the power they need to force banks to…
UNSW Psychologist: “We are all Climate Deniers”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to UNSW psychology doctoral candidate Belinda Xie, everybody is somewhere on the spectrum of climate denial. Climate change denialism is something we all suffer…
Corrected RCP Scenario Removal Fractions
Reposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog February 6th, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Well, as I suspected (and warned everyone) in my blog post yesterday, a portion of…
Friday Funny: Manntastic claims require Manntastic evidence
Queensland Senator Malcolm Roberts of Australia recently gave this speech on the floor of Parliament, because Dr. Mann is in Australia (on sabbatical) making some pretty outlandish claims: Australia’s Wildfire…
What do you mean by “mean”: an essay on black boxes, emulators, and uncertainty
Guest post by Richard Booth, Ph.D References: [1] https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/07/propagation-of-error-and-the-reliability-of-global-air-temperature-projections-mark-ii/ [2] https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/15/why-roy-spencers-criticism-is-wrong Introduction I suspect that we can all remember childish arguments of the form “person A: what do you…
NASA to Industry: Send Ideas for Lunar Rovers
From NASA Feb. 6, 2020 As NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program mounts toward a robust decade of modern science, research, and human exploration at the Moon, the agency is asking…
Sugar ants’ preference for pee may reduce greenhouse gas emissions
News Release 6-Feb-2020 University of South Australia Sugar ants mining urine in sand on Kangaroo Island Credit UniSA / Sophie Petit An unlikely penchant for pee is putting a common…
Sanders And Warren Campaigns Paid Reparations For An Estimated 2,102 Tons Of Coal Worth Of Carbon In 2019
From The Daily Caller Andrew Kerr And Chris White Contributor February 05, 2020 8:07 PM ET Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren collectively spent $59,138 in carbon offsets in 2019…
Time Magazine: Climate Change Will Make Lethal Coronavirus Epidemics More Likely
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Time Magazine, Climate Change makes future Coronavirus epidemics more likely – though Climate probably wasn’t responsible for the current crisis. The Wuhan Coronavirus,…
Cooling the Past: Made Easy for Paul Barry
Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog February 6, 2020 By jennifer It is not disputed that Blair Trewin under the supervision of David Jones (both working at the Australian Bureau of…
Big Trouble with Spiders
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 6 February 2020 How deeply have you considered the social life of spiders? Are they social animals or solitary animals? Do they work together? …
How ESA-NASA’s Solar Orbiter Beats the Heat
From NASA Feb. 4, 2020 When Solar Orbiter launches on its journey to the Sun, there’s one key piece of engineering making this ESA-NASA mission possible: the heat shield. Seeking…
Aussie ABC: “Are economists globally understating or overstating the cost of climate change?”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall An almost balanced description of lukewarmer views; I had to check twice to verify this story was actually published on the Aussie ABC website. Are…
The Insignificance of Greenland’s Ice Mass Loss in Five Easy Charts…
Guest geological perspective by David Middleton This is a sort of a spin-off of Rutgers University Global Snow Lab and “the Snows of Yesteryear” and A Geological Perspective of the…
Global cooling after nuclear war would harm ocean life
Seafood production also may be impacted by increased acidification Rutgers University Corals, which are threatened by global climate change and ocean acidification, support a wide range of reef fish at…
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