The Meat Wars: JAMA Stirs the Pot

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 20 January 2020   Rita Rubin, Senior Writer, JAMA Medical News & Perspectives,  has stirred the pot on the controversy surrounding a series of…

An obvious solution to the climate policy crisis

Reposted from the Fabius Maximus Blog By Larry Kummer, Editor / 11 Comments / 18 January 2020 Summary: After 30 years of climate policy gridlock, we can decide to take…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #395

The Week That Was: 2020-01-18 (January 18, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The day we see the truth…

Fight fires with facts – not fake science

Eliminate fuel, prevent ignition, stop arson, end irresponsible land management policies By Paul Driessen & Duggan Flanakin, “We are all born ignorant,” Benjamin Franklin once said, “but one must work…

Davos: “Climate Change seems to be Outgrowing the … Institutions … who have Dealt with it Until Now”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The World Economic Forum, which hosts the annual $71,000 / ticket private jet party in Davos, has published an article which urges climate action be…

Another Permian Basin Peak Oil Prediction… Yawn.

Guest “who fracking cares?” by David Middleton What is so newsworthy about peak oil predictions? The latest is from someone named Adam Waterous and it’s all over the news. This…

A Surfeit Of Temperatures

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My last two posts, one on Gavin’s claims and the other on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, have gotten me to thinking about the…

The Guardian Admits Climate Action Costs Jobs

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greens usually try to sidestep questions about the cost of their proposals, but occasionally they slip up and reveal the true pain their agenda would…

Chuck Schumer Votes No On USMCA Because It Doesn’t Address Climate Change

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter January 16, 2020 1:30 PM ET Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer voted against the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on Thursday, citing concerns…

Regional Forest Manager: Politicians are Using Climate Change to Deflect Blame for Bushfires

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova; According to a former regional forest manager with over 60 years experience managing bushfires, government incompetence, fuel load and local green activists are…

New 80-Year Deep-Ocean Temperature Dataset Compared to a 1D Climate Model

Reposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s site January 15th, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The increasing global ocean heat content (OHC) is often pointed to as the most quantitative…

The carbon footprint of dinner: How ‘green’ are fish sticks?

Popular products generate significant ‘post-catch’ emissions, underscoring the need to measure what happens after fish are caught University of California – Santa Cruz Processing Alaskan pollock into fish sticks, imitation…

Gavin’s Falsifiable Science

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Gavin Schmidt is a computer programmer with the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences (GISS) and a noted climate alarmist. He has a Ph.D. in applied…

Explaining the Discrepancies Between Hausfather et al. (2019) and Lewis&Curry (2018)

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. by Ross McKitrick Challenging the claim that a large set of climate model runs published since 1970’s are consistent with observations for the…

What’s a Climate Scientist to Wear During Awards Season?

From The Earth Institute at Columbia University. No, not a cult.  No. no. no.~cr They are at home coring trees in the backcountry of Mongolia, flying airborne missions over polar…

California energy policies are fueling the housing crisis and homelessness

By Ronald Stein Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California California’s green crusade direction and actions are increasing the costs of electricity and…

SMH: Drought Breaking Aussie Rain is a Disaster for Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Clarky of Oz; Australia’s parched Eastern states are finally seeing a little rain, but this is bad news for climate change according to the…

Appeasement: The Root Cause of the Australian Mega-Fires

Reposted from The Savvy Street By Vinay Kolhatkar I still remember 1994. My wife and I drove through the Royal National Park in Sydney’s south, several weeks after bushfires (or…

Climate Kidz case scuttled by 9th Circuit Court

The Ninth Circuit on Friday threw out a lawsuit filed by a group of children who say the federal government’s failure to act to curb climate change is endangering their…

Friday Funny – hottest decade evah! #showyourstipes @ed_hawkins

This week at the big 100 year anniversary shindig of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) there was a press release session that featured NOAA and NASA GISS talking about how their…