China unleashed Covid-19 on an unsuspecting world. It knew by early January 2020 (if not by December 2019 or earlier) that it was dealing with a vicious, fast-spreading disease in…
Month: July 2020
Michael Schellenberger: “Apocalypse Never” Slide Deck
Guest “nothing to add” by David Middleton Michael Schellenberger’s Environmental Progress page has published a very cool slide deck, related to his new book Apocalypse Never. Here are the first…
Australia Considers a New Household Solar Energy “Export” Tax
Who could have seen this coming? Comfortable middle class making money selling rooftop solar back to the grid, cash strapped governments…
NYT Slams Bjørn Lomborg’s New Climate Economics Book
According to Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz, writing in NYT, Bjørn Lomborg’s new book downplays the risk of allowing global warming to occur, and ignores a study prepared by…
The Media is Now Opinion-Checking
Today, university campuses are the locus of a new, and sadly misguided movement, the Anti-Free Speech Movement. Some refer to it as “Cancel Culture”, which is ill-defined, but in essence,…
Site Move Cancelled
We ran into many frustrating problems attempting the site move at this time. Moving a site this large is a formidable task. After days of repeated failure by tech support…
University Appeal Upheld, Peter Ridd Loses – We all Lose
On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when he called-out his colleague Terry Hughes for falsely claiming healthy…
Open Thread Weekend
We’re going idle this weekend in order to minimize complications of server move on Monday. Feel free to talk, discuss, yell, and play in the sand. Stay polite. Behave. Represent.…
Friday Funny: Hockeysticks are appearing in the sky, indicating the impending doom of climate change
From the universal boogeyman department. Dr. Roy Spencer captured this “Manntastic” footage that other day while looking for comet NEOWISE. Surely, it is a visual indicator of “end times”. The…
New posts suspended – WUWT moving to new server
A couple of days ago, I mentioned that WUWT was being deplatformed by our current hosting provider. We are moving again, after 2+ years on this hosting provider, we are…
Heat stress: The climate is putting European forests under sustained pressure
No year since weather records began was as hot and dry as 2018. A first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of this drought and heat event shows that central European…
Vice: The New Ford Bronco Is An Obscene Monument to Climate Denialism
Best free marketing campaign eva; According to Vice, if you drive one of the new Ford SUVs, you’re basically giving the finger to the sensibilities of green liberals. But this…
Federal Court Allows Dakota Access Pipeline To Keep Pumping Oil, Dealing Blow To Environmental Activist
The multi-billion dollar Dakota Access Pipeline can continue pumping oil for the time being, a federal court ruled Tuesday.
New Mygatt-Moore quarry research leads to prehistoric climate finds
Top predators dinosaurs like the Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus devouring dinosaur remains isn’t all that surprising, but the smaller creatures feasting on dinosaur remains may just give us a more complete…
NYT Editor Bari Weiss Resignation Letter: “The New McCarthyism”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall When President Trump unexpectedly won in 2016, the New York Times realised they had lost contact with a large segment of the American people. Opinion…
Pat Michaels: “Worse Than We Thought”
Guest “it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future” by David Middleton Climate Predictions “Worse Than We Thought”By Patrick J. MichaelsJuly 14, 2020 As the temperature of the eastern…
New Ontario Power Record: 895 days of Reliable, Uninterrupted 24×7 Zero Carbon Nuclear Power
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Crispin in Waterloo; As renewable operators make endless excuses for their failures, nuclear plant operators continue to set new records for producing utterly reliable,…
WUWT is being deplatformed – service interruptions the next few days
We’ve been given notice by our hosting provider that we need to move off the site. The reason is that we were suddenly faced with a big increase in hosting…
Faulty Forecasts and False Climate Narrative Hold Nations Hostage
The United States is the only major Western country that is not part of the Paris climate agreement, which seeks to restrict and reduce fossil fuel consumption across the world.…
Study Finds Coronavirus Immunity Could Be Lost In Months
A study released Saturday by King’s College London shows that people may lose their immunity to COVID-19 within months and could be susceptible to reinfection on a yearly basis.
Message to the President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
In the ongoing effort to clearly summarize their position, CLINTEL has published a Scientific Manifesto in the form of ten propositions. These specifically address, among other things, the role of…
Vox: “Many technologies needed to solve the climate crisis are nowhere near ready”
Vox author David Roberts starts well by pointing out renewable energy is not ready to power the world, and makes a passionate argument for increased funding of renewable energy innovation.…
Siberia on fire – every summer
Is there really an increasing trend of Siberia forest fires as the news suggests and what is continuously predicted based on climate models?
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