Drying The Sky

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Eleven years ago I published a post here on Watts Up With That entitled “The Thermostat Hypothesis“. About a year after the post, the journal…

Harvard Economics Professor: Global Carbon Tax, Give the Money to China

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Harvard Professor and Guardian author Kenneth Rogoff thinks the best way to tackle climate change is to impose a global carbon tax, then use the…

Greenland Ice Core CO2 Concentrations Deserve Reconsideration

Guest post by Renee Hannon IntroductionIce cores datasets are important tools when reconstructing Earth’s paleoclimate. Antarctic ice core data are routinely used as proxies for past CO2 concentrations. This is…

“False Humility Will Not Save the Planet”

Guest post by David Middleton When I first saw this headline, I thought I was going to have fun ridiculing it… But once I started reading it, I realized that…

British TV Personalities Savage Aussie Politician Over Climate Action, Bushfires

Guest essay by Eric Worrall British TV personalities including Piers Morgan have attacked Aussie politician Craig Kelly on air during an interview, over Kelly’s claim that dry weather and the…

Climate Alarmists Winning the War of Words, Despite Evidence that Nothing Unusual is Happening

Opinion By Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris Thanks largely to Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders and 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, “existential’ was selected as the word of the year by…

Reform USAID energy aid policies now!

President Trump should direct USAID to support coal and gas, not just wind and solar Paul Driessen and David Wojick Apparently unable to grasp the cruel irony, USAID Commissioner Mark…

Could EV’s be used to “hack” the 2020 election?

Guest “I hope so” by David Middleton This is fracking hilarious… POWER TRIPHow electric vehicles could be used to hack the 2020 electionBy Justin Rohrlich December 11, 2019 When former…

FT: “Democracies are ill-suited to deal with climate change”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Another green attack on Democracy; According to the Financial Times, giving ordinary people a say over public policy impedes climate action, because we don’t care…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #393

The Week That Was: 2020-01-04 (January 4, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “And that is what science is:…

Tom Steyer: “Climate is my Number One Priority”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Democrat Candidate Tom Steyer, none of the other candidates are as focussed on climate change as he is. Tom Steyer talks climate change…

Bush bull

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley This will be a long posting, because it is necessary to nail the childish myth that global warming caused the bushfires in Australia. The long,…

MEMGA! Leviathan natural gas field comes online $150M under budget

Guest natural gas cheer-leading by David Middleton MEMGA! = Making the Eastern Mediterranean Great Again! It seems like just a few weeks ago that some nitwit was bemoaning the death…

Joe Biden’s Climate Advice to Coal Miners: “learn to code”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Joe Biden, coal miners worried about their future should retrain as software developers. Miners were less than impressed with Biden’s advice. Joe Biden…

Scientific American: Store Renewable Energy as Liquified Air

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Yet another renewable energy storage idea… To Store Renewable Energy, Try Freezing Air Such energy storage technology could help relieve congested transmission lines in places…

NYT: Australia is Committing Climate Suicide

h/t Grant Griffiths – The New York Times thinks leaders are ignoring the Australian people’s demand for climate action – despite voters electing a Conservative government last May. Australia Is…

NYT: President Trump to Drop Climate Change from Federal Infrastructure Planning

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to NYT, President Trump has moved to modify a 50 year old rule which requires Federal Agencies to consider the “cumulative consequences” of new…

Australia Fires … And Misfires

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I kept hearing so much about the Australian bushfires being the result of or driven by “climate change” or “global warming” that I thought I’d…

It has been hotter, fires have burnt larger areas

reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s blog January 4, 2020 By jennifer The word unprecedented is applied to almost every bad thing that happens at the moment, as though particular events could…

Lessons in thought policing – tweet about @realDonaldTrump, get shutoff by Twitter

I’ve had a Twitter account since September 2009. I’ve made over 28,600 Tweets in that over 10 years time. Not once have I ever been shutoff…until yesterday, when I made…