Over the past 150 years, global warming has more than undone the global cooling that occurred over the past six millennia, according to a major study published June 30 in…
Month: June 2020
Claim: New research shows the South Pole is warming faster than the rest of the world
Climate scientists long thought Antarctica’s interior may not be very sensitive to warming, but our research, published today, shows a dramatic change.
New Liberty Mutual Climate Policy: Coal Mines Owned by Liberty are Still OK
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Liberty Mutual as part of its new climate policy has pulled their support for the enormous Adani Carmichael coal project, but has decided to maintain…
Polar bear habitat in Canada and eastern Alaska compared at end of June 2012-2020
Here is a quick compare and contrast of sea ice habitat for polar bears in Canada and the Southern Beaufort region of eastern Alaska near the end of June, 2012-2020.
Russia Denies Nuclear Leak After Particles Detected In Another Country
From The Daily Caller Nicholas Elias Contributor June 29, 2020 11:58 AM ET Russia said Monday that it did not detect a radiation emergency after sensors discovered last week that…
The Calamity of Models – Podcast with Willis Eschenbach
Computer models are sometimes useful, and often wrong. In the case of climate and Coronavirus predictions, “wrong” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Amazing Grace Saves A Wretch
What’s Natural Guest post by Jim Steele, Published June 30, 2020 in the Pacifica Tribune It’s curious how we find threads of good fortune interwoven with tragedy. Over a month…
The Conversation: Buy Oil Shares to Combat Climate Change
Professors trying to explain that divestment puts money into the pockets of fossil fuel investors
The MIT Press and UC Berkeley launch Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 journal
Traditional peer review can take four or more weeks to complete, but RR:C19’s editorial team, led by editor-in-chief, Stefano M. Bertozzi, Professor of Health Policy and Management and Dean Emeritus…
Climate alarmism versus integrity at National Academies of Science
National Academies of Science should speak out against climate alarmism, not support it. This is the major message in a recent letter from Professor Guus Berkhout, president of CLINTEL, to…
Facebook and Twitter stocks tank as users and advertisers abandon the platforms.
Some similar and inconvenient stock numbers to report. FYI I recently moved to Parler given how I’ve apparently been “shadowbanned” by Twitter, and you can find me there @wattsupwiththat Facebook…
GWPF Launches “Energy For Africa” Week
In all the discussions about the developing world, about its poverty and its stuttering progress towards a developed future, it is all too easy to forget the ordinary people and…
Michael Shellenberger: “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare”
Forbes has published an apology by high profile environmental activist Michael Schellenberger for his role in helping to create the climate scare, and his explanation for why he chose to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #415
Quote of the Week: “Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably…
The progress of the COVID-19 epidemic in Sweden: an analysis
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on June 28, 2020 by niclewis | By Nic Lewis The course of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden is of great interest,…
NASA takes first step to allow computers to decide what to tell us in search for life on Mars
Scientists from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre have announced first results from new intelligent systems, to be installed in space probes, capable of identifying geochemical signatures of life from…
Brazil “Megaflash” lightning sets world record.
The UN’s weather agency announced Thursday the longest lightning bolt on record—a single flash in Brazil on October 31, 2018 that cut the sky across more than 700 kilometers.
Vermont Senate Passes Right to Sue if the State Fails to Meet Climate Targets
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The sad spectacle of greens losing climate lawsuit after lawsuit has prompted Vermont’s legislators to create a special law to allow activists to sue the…
CLAIM: 100 degrees in Siberia? 5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern
The Arctic heat wave that sent Siberian temperatures soaring to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit on the first day of summer put an exclamation point on an astonishing transformation of the…
Saharan Dust Analysis
Dust storms from Africa’s Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but the current dust storm has been quite expansive and NASA satellites have provided a look…
Guardian: “Rapid transformation needed, … particularly in lifestyles of rich” to Solve Climate Change
Former Deputy and Interim Director of the Tyndall Centre Professor Kevin Anderson has accused his fellow academics of compromising their scientific integrity to present climate mitigation proposals they think will…
A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science and Rationality
First there was Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans, then came Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm, and now Michael Schellenberger’s Apocalypse Never. All three authors sound the common theme that the…
CMIP6 Climate Models Producing 50% More Surface Warming than Observations since 1979
Those who defend climate model predictions often produce plots of observed surface temperature compared to the models which show very good agreement.
Extinction Rebellion Communication Head Quits After Researching Nuclear Power
“The facts didn’t really change, but once I understood them I did change my mind.” Former XR Chief Spokesperson Zion Lights has defected to the pro-nuclear Environmental Progress group
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