Thinning surface layer of ocean leaves waters more susceptible to extreme warming events UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER Research News When thick, the surface layer of the ocean acts as…
Month: January 2021
Claim: Important climate change mystery solved by scientists
The long-standing mystery is called the “Holocene temperature conundrum,” with some skeptics contending that climate model predictions of future warming must be wrong. The scientists say their findings will challenge…
UN WHO Asks Rich Nations to Pause Covid Vaccination, so Others can Catch Up
WHO Spokesperson Margaret Harris wants rich nations including the USA to allow some of their people die, so more vaccines can be diverted to poor nations to allow them to…
New Zealand Government Proposes Breeding Larger Cattle to Defeat Climate Change
According to the New Zealand government, so long as farmers continue productivity improvements, increasing the meat content per head of cattle, it should be possible to maintain current meat production…
China nixes Antony Blinken climate appeal over Uighur genocide claims
WASHINGTON — China’s Communist government smacked-down Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s appeals to work together on climate change after he said he agreed that the Chinese government’s treatment of Uighur…
Increasing Hurricane Intensity Study Fatally Flawed
The data shows that the global results are driven largely by a single basin, the North Atlantic. The proportion of major wind speeds increased by 72% in the North Atlantic,…
Biden Cabinet Nominee Open to New Taxes to Pay for “Climate Agenda”
Raimondo continued the line that the “climate” agenda spending ambitions cost a lot of money, “We need funds”, and someone’s just going to have to suck it up and hand…
Guardian: “The Trump years may well have been the death rattle of influential [climate] denialism”
According to the Guardian, despite “unease among some unions” about destroyed jobs, Biden’s transformative first week will set the course for America’s future. But nobody has a coherent explanation for…
Interview: Climate Change – A Different Perspective with Judith Curry
The real issue is the magnitude of man-made warming relative to the whole host of other things that go on in the natural climate system. And then the bigger issue…
EU Carbon Border Levy: A Recipe for Failure
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If the upcoming COP26 Climate Conference in November fails to make progress towards a global carbon pricing scheme, the EU will impose a Carbon Border…
Could Recent U.S. Warming Trends be Largely Spurious?
The official datasets of land surface temperature are (we are told) already adjusted for Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects. But as far as I know, it has never been demonstrated…
Past river activity in northern Africa reveals multiple Sahara greenings
“By combining the sediment analyses with results from our computer simulation, we can now precisely understand the climatic processes at work to explain the drastic changes in North African environments…
Gizmodo: US Should Demilitarise and Withdraw to Reduce CO2 Emissions
According to Gizmodo, as the USA switches away from fossil fuel there will no longer be a need for a US military presence in global hotspots.
China Promotes Anal Probe Covid-19 Tests
Chinese scientists believe you are more likely to receive an accurate Covid-19 test result if they shove that fuzzy swab thing up your butt, rather than up your nose.
Biden policies already creating job losses, energy costs will skyrocket
But the linkage is not to be trusted. What is ignored is the lack of long term global temperature data to make any reasonable assessment. Data before the 1980s was…
New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) has a net-zero by 2050 goal. In the past year New York’s strategies to implement this legislation have started to take…
Friday Funny: Another last chance to save the world from Climate Change
Another last chance, but this is the best one Kerry says. Well, of course it is. THIS year’s climate summit in Scotland is the world’s “last best chance” to avert…
Biden’s energy & climate incompetence on full display
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin On his very first day in office Biden killed the TC Energy Keystone pipeline project as reported upon by the Wall Street Journal thereby demonstrating his and…
Vaccine Wars: EU Demands Seizure of Covid Vaccines Made in Britain
Following the recently announced failure of French vaccine trials, the EU appears to have panicked, and is attempting to seize vaccines made under contract for the UK. They are even…
SMH Climate Rant: “Humanity appears to be like a mistletoe on the planet, … smothering the host”
The author is hoping that the people she appears to describe as parasitic organisms will settle their differences and work together to create a better future.
Job Killer Joe’s Climate Team Promises to Replace the Fossil Fuel Jobs they “Sacrifice”
Perhaps it might have been a good idea to create these promised new green jobs, before destroying the old jobs?
Adaptation is more profitable than mitigation
Clintel.org has just issued a nice press release about the idea of preparing to adapt to climate changes, rather than the more controversial idea of destroying the fossil fuel industry…
Weather and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster which occurred on January 28, 1986, when the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger (mission STS-51-L) broke apart 73 seconds…
Global Ice Story: What they don’t tell you
The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland, and part of Siberia and northern Alaska. Because of the absence of any land mass in the Arctic Ocean, most of area…