Recently a federal district judge found that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM, sorry it was their acronym first) arbitrarily relied on an aggressively scaled-back social cost of greenhouse gases…
Month: July 2020
New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for Earth
What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?
Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought – update
I showed in my May 10th article Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought that inhomogeneity within a population in the susceptibility and in the social-connectivity…
Admission: Climate Litigation is Tool to Make Industry Bend a Knee
acknowledgement by a Boulder City official, from early on in this second wave of “climate nuisance” litigation, about the objective. Here again we see its practitioners conceding that “nuisance” litigation…
If Facebook is any indicator, @RealDonaldTrump will win #2020Election by a blowout
People send me stuff. I got Facebook messages this past weekend inviting me to “like” both Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s pages. What I found most interesting was the HUGE…
One Fish, Two Fish, Sturddlefish
What is a struddlefish when it wakes up in the morning? A creature created by a mistake in a Hungarian fish breeding lab.
Mediterranean Sea was 2 degrees hotter during Roman Empire
The greatest time of the Roman Empire coincided with the warmest period of the last 2,000 years in the Mediterranean, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #418
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” —Thomas Paine (1776)
Alaska is getting wetter. That’s bad news for permafrost and the climate
Alaska is getting wetter. A new study spells out what that means for the permafrost that underlies about 85% of the state, and the consequences for Earth’s global climate.
FT: Big Fund Managers are Demanding Climate Action. But the USA is Leading a Pushback
Big fund managers like Blackrock and BNP Paribas are supporting shareholder climate resolutions, demanding big companies demonstrate their commitment to Paris Climate Agreement goals. But President Trump is supporting a…
Is the demise of polar bears being exaggerated to keep extinction panic alive?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could debate climate change for five minutes without hearing about polar bears or being subjected to footage of them perched precariously on a melting…
UK Journo Embarrasses Green Transport Minister
The future of Heathrow expansion is uncertain after leading judges ruled that the Government must reconsider its support for a third runway because of the environmental impact.
Mystery Mislabeled Seed Packets from China Being Received in Utah and Virginia
A very odd story, people in Utah and Virginia have reported receiving packets of seeds from China, mislabelled as Jewellery. Utah and Virginia Agriculture departments are investigating.
Greta Takes a Side
In the brewing Green Civil War, Ms. Thunberg has decided to jump in and fight. Here is Greta’s Facebook post Background from RealClear Energy Like many contemporary social movements—#metoo, Black…
Slate: The First Undeniable Climate Change Deaths
Guest essay by Eric Worrall When record breaking cold occurs it is just weather, but according to Slate, climate attribution, the science of retrofitting explanations to unusual weather events after…
Does Universal Mask Wearing Decrease or Increase the Spread of COVID-19?
A survey of peer-reviewed studies shows that universal mask wearing (as opposed to wearing masks in specific settings) does not decrease the transmission of respiratory viruses from people wearing masks…
UNSW Report Mixes Climate Change with Chinese Legal Reform
A report prepared by the University of New South Wales for UNICEF China is one of the strangest documents I’ve ever read. Much of the document makes sense, it discusses…
Humans inhabited North America in the depths of the last Ice Age, but didn’t thrive until the climate warmed
Humans lived in what is now Mexico up to 33,000 years ago and may have settled the Americas by travelling along the Pacific coast, according to two studies by myself…
Chaos and Weather
The pioneering study of Lorenz in 1963 and a follow-up presentation in 1972 changed our view on the predictability of weather by revealing the so-called butterfly effect, also known as…
Citizen science at heart of new study showing COVID-19 seismic noise reduction
Research published in the journal Science, using a mix of professional and Raspberry Shake citizen seismic data, finds that lockdown measures to slow the spread of the virus COVID-19 reduced…
Settled Science? New Climate Study Shifts the Goalposts to 2.6-3.9C
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new climate study has dismissed utterly implausible high end climate models. But the new study also seeks to raise the low end of the…
Lawsuit: Aussie Government Not Applying Climate Disclosure Rules to Government Bonds
A Melbourne law student is suing the Australian Government for not applying government climate disclosure regulations to the government’s own financial operations.
Modern Ancient Temperatures
OK, no need to torture me, I confess it—I’m a data junkie. And when I see a new (to me at least) high-resolution dataset, my knees get weak. Case in…
When a bird changes its song . . .
I like birds – big birds, small birds, common birds, rare birds – all kinds of birds. I have fed them in my backyard for years and watched then wherever…
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