COVID-19: Updated data implies that UK modelling hugely overestimates the expected death rates from infection

Reposted from Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on March 25, 2020 by niclewis | By Nic Lewis Introduction There has been much media coverage about the danger to life posed…

BBC Climate change: Green energy plant threat to wilderness areas

Guest essay by Eric Worrall “If we let these developments go ahead, the biodiversity will be gone long before climate change starts affecting it” Climate change: Green energy plant threat…

Astronaut Christina Koch Services a 3-D Biological Printer

From NASA In this image from Dec. 2019, astronaut Christina Koch handles media bags that enable the manufacturing of organ-like tissues using the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), a 3-D biological printer…

Greta Thunberg Says She And Her Father Likely Had The Coronavirus

From The Daily Caller Marlo Safi Contributor March 24, 2020 5:22 PM ET Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says it is “extremely likely” that she and her father contracted the…

Hump Day Hilarity – The Mouse That ….Coughed

Sometimes, life imitates art. Sometimes, the universe makes a hard left turn. Our resident cartoonist, Josh, came up with this after it was suggested on another blog. From the Wikipedia…

Guardian: Covid-19 Teaches Us Delaying Climate Action is “Deadly”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall In the minds of climate alarmists, the climate crisis is every bit as immediate and deadly as the Chinese Coronavirus epidemic. Delay is deadly: what…

Lunar Recession and the Age of the Earth: How Uniformitarianism Works

Guest “geology lessons” by David Middleton One of the things I love about writing for Watts Up With That, is the fact that reader comments often inspire me to research…

Ships’ emissions create measurable regional change in clouds

A container ship leaves a trail of white clouds in its wake that can linger in the air for hours. This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine,…

The Italian Connection

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Note updates at the end] Since the earliest days of the current pandemic, Italy has been the scary member of the family that you absolutely…

New 3D view of methane tracks sources

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s new 3-dimensional portrait of methane concentrations shows the world’s second largest contributor to greenhouse warming, the diversity of sources on the ground, and the behavior…

Chandra Data Tests ‘Theory of Everything’

March 19, 2020 One of the biggest ideas in physics is the possibility that all known forces, particles, and interactions can be connected in one framework. String theory is arguably…

COVID-19 tests: The non-fake news

Our system may not be the fastest, but it’s giving us trustworthy answers Guest post by Dvorah Richman, Federal officials recently testified before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and…

UN: Embrace the Paris Agreement to Solve the Covid-19 Crisis

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Speech by the UN Secretary General, urging countries to embrace the Paris Agreement and United Nations sustainability agenda as part of their response to the…

Sen Tom Cotton Calls Democrats’ Fight To Hold Coronavirus Bill Hostage Over Climate Change, Other Liberal Dreams A ‘Disgrace’

From The Daily Caller Energy Sen Tom Cotton Calls Democrats’ Fight To Hold Coronavirus Bill Hostage Over Climate Change, Other Liberal Dreams A ‘Disgrace’ Chris White Tech Reporter March 23,…

Monday Mirthiness – Greta

Now that the #Coronvirus has taken hold and schools are closing globally (along with everything else) Josh imagines that Greta’s minions who are stuck at home with parents, might be…

HKU marine biologist and international team unveil impacts of heatwave on reef fishes

The University of Hong Kong The marine heatwave of 2016 was one of longest and hottest thermal anomalies recorded on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, influencing multiple species of…

EU Green Leader Explains Climate Change and Democracy, and Why Chinese People should Accept Their Place

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Valentin Dupouey, head of communications for the European Greens, a pan-European federation of green parties, a major overhaul of Democracy is required to…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #403

The Week That Was: 2020-03-21 (March 21, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “There must be no barriers to…

Warming Improves Our Health – part 1

What’s Natural Guest post by Jim Steele, It’s deeply disturbing to hear people uncritically regurgitate media misinformation suggesting global warming threatens our health far worse than the COVID pandemic. Scientific…

Is the COVID-19 Economic Downturn Affecting Atmospheric CO2? Mauna Loa Data Say, Not Yet

Reposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog March 22nd, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Some global warming alarmists are celebrating the current economic downturn as just what is needed…