Guest “we told you so” by David Middleton This is not related to the 60-day procedural mortarium currently in place. While this is based on anonymous sources, I did hear…
Month: January 2021
Mark Steyn files an eviscerating Motion for Summary Judgement in the Michael Mann libel suit
Twitter thread from Stephen McIntyre Mark Steyn has filed an eviscerating and well-informed Motion for Summary Judgement in the Michael Mann vanity libel suit. https://www.steynonline.com/documents/10973.pdf with memorandum 2/ Steyn, for…
Hibernating lemurs may be the key to cryogenic sleep for human space travel
But how can we safely ease humans into hibernation and then bring them back when the time is right, without risking muscle and bone wasting, to name a few challenges?…
Boebert bill to block Paris climate agreement reignites Senate ratification debate
From The Washington Times Valerie Richardson writes in the The Washington Times: Rep. Lauren Boebert, Colorado Republican, has introduced a bill to block the Biden administration from reentering the Paris agreement…
Observation of the onset of a blue jet into the stratosphere
We propose that the microsecond flashes are the optical equivalent of negative narrow bipolar events observed in radio waves. These are known to initiate lightning within the cloud and to…
Overview: ‘Ocean Acidification’
And then there is this new pteropod nonsense, deliberately ignoring the large difference that sea water temperature makes to their metabolism and hence shell formation. Even though the issue was…
Climate Warrior John Kerry Notices China’s Global Coal Funding Spree
“Some countries are funding coal-fired power plants around the world, some countries are planning to bring increased coal-fired power online” – But Kerry can’t quite bring himself to say the…
A Million Young People Wearing Synthetic Fabrics Demand More Climate Action
What is wrong with a picture of people wearing the products of an energy intensive high tech civilisation demanding more climate action?
6 Things to Know About NASA’s Mars Helicopter on Its Way to Mars
From NASA Jan. 21, 2021 Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars on…
Surprise! Study finds solar winds hit north pole more than south
From the UA website and the not THAT Mann department: University of Alberta physicists have discovered a surprising imbalance in how the Earth responds to space weather driven by the…
Claim: Climate and carbon cycle trends of the past 50 million years reconciled
Predictions of future climate change require a clear and nuanced understanding of Earth’s past climate. In a study published today in Science Advances, University of Hawai’i (UH) at Mānoa oceanographers…
Another New Study Says Warming And CO2-Induced Greening Leads To COOLING Of Land Surface Temperatures
Since the 1980s, warming and rising CO2 fertilization have spawned a global-scale greening trend. This leads to an “Earth greening-induced cooling effect” of land surface temperatures.
Rare earths first? Or last?
Biden’s Green New Deal won’t work without mining, especially for rare earth elementsDuggan Flanakin As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take the reins of government and launch their program to…
Canada is Warming at Only 1/2 the Rate of Climate Model Simulations
Canada has huge year-to-year variability in temperatures due to its strong continental climate. So, to examine how observed surface temperature trends compare to climate model simulations, you need many of…
A New Look at the Urban Heat Island Effect
By Andy May Nicola Scafetta has just published a new paper in Climate Dynamics examining evidence of the urban heat island (UHI) effect (Scafetta, 2021). The paper is not paywalled…
Latest Climate Change Solution: Direct Air Capture Powered by Geothermal Energy
Why bother with capturing concentrated CO2 from combustion exhaust, when you can spend “a wartime level of funding” capturing trace concentrations of CO2 directly out of the air?
Biden Suspends Federal Oil and Gas Permits, Because Climate Change
As promised, Biden has launched a full frontal assault on the USA’s oil and gas jobs, while he investigates the impact of US domestic energy independence on climate change.
A Chain Of Effects
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In looking at the climate I’m often reminded of Sufi stories. The Sufis are an ancient mystical sect. They are often associated with Islam, and…
Woolly mammoths may have lived thousands of years after supposed extinction
Scientists have discovered the DNA of some 2,100 kinds of plants and 180 animals — including American horses and woolly mammoths – dating to thousands of years after their supposed…
Late rainy season reliably predicts drought in regions prone to food insecurity
The onset date of the yearly rainy season reliably predicts if seasonal drought will occur in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa that are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity, and could help…
US Rejoins Paris Agreement.
This email received from the White House Press Office this evening. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2020 ACCEPTANCE ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President…
Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom
If you read one book on climate change, let it be this one By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley There are many books on climate change, from both sides of the…
Claim: Acidification impedes shell development of plankton off the US West Coast
Along the coast, upwelling from deeper water layers brings cold, carbon dioxide-rich waters of relatively low pH to the surface. The research, by a team of Dutch and American scientists,…
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