“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is quite another to do so when the environmental…
Month: June 2021
David King Crawls Back Out Of Woodwork
Several of the world’s leading scientists plan to launch an independent expert group this week to advise, warn and criticise global policymakers about the climate and nature crises.
Run Away: New analysis discusses role of managed retreat as a climate change response
“Managed retreat can be more effective in reducing risk–in ways that are socially equitable and economically efficient–if it is a proactive component of climate-driven transformations,” said Mach, an associate professor…
Covid Problems Disrupting UN Climate Negotiations
You couldn’t make it up; Internet glitches, delegates too lazy to match timezones, and China objecting to the presence of observers at negotiations on transparency.
Ice Follies
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading that one of the horrible terrible predicted consequences of the ~ 300-year gradual warming since the depths of the Little Ice in…
The Looming Oil Shock
Guest “You get what you pay for” by David Middleton Hat tip to Jan from the Netherlands… It’s Too Late To Avoid A Major Oil Supply CrisisBy David Messler –…
Euro Courts Infringing On Freedom Of Science…Climate Science Being Decided By Courts Instead Of By Proof
The Federal Constitutional Court considers itself authorized to decide on scientific questions by judgement instead of by scientific proof, as is usually the case. This might be regarded as a…
Aussie Acting Prime Minister: “Hell Will Freeze Over Before I Start Listening to the Greens” on Climate Change
A hilarious week in Australia politics, during which acting PM Michael McCormack has labeled the Aussie Greens leader a “traitor to Australia”, because the green leader wrote to foreign governments…
New NASA Study Claim: Earth has been trapping heat at an alarming new rate
What bothers me is the alarmist language attached to (1) such a tiny number, and (2) the likelihood that no one will bother to mention the authors attribute part of…
Bloomberg Celebrates an International Banker Effort to Dictate Climate Policy
Climate policy is rapidly becoming a test bed, for how much control international bankers can exert over the policy decisions of elected governments, through boycotting the purchase of government bonds.
COP26 heading for the rocks?
Unsurprisingly, the reluctance of Western governments to deliver its pledge of an annual $100 billion transfer fund to more than 100 developing countries is threatening to unravel COP26.
ICCC-14 Preview, Ep. 4: Roy Spencer on “What Recent Ocean Warming Suggests About Future Warming”
The warming predicted by the latest climate models in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 averages close to 4C. Using an updated model – and even assuming all warming…
What it is like to be a climate realist
Some people like the herd mentality, it gives them a feeling of fitting in, or belonging. It also saves them the trouble of having to think for themselves. Definition of herd…
Washington Examiner: Climate activists invest in property on beaches they say are disappearing
Utterly shameless – Washington Examiner has produced a list of climate hypocrites who spend millions buying exclusive beachfront properties, while telling everyone else that such properties will soon be destroyed…
Claim: An acceleration of coastal overtopping around the world
[editor’s note. It’s really hard to take this press release seriously if they consider the Katrina flooding an indicator of sea level rise. Unmaintained levies break. Absolutely nothing to do…
World Report Card: The Inexorable March Toward Zero Carbon Emissions (Not!)
As we all know, the most important task currently facing the world is the elimination of carbon emissions from energy consumption in order to save the planet from the existential…
Greta’s Movement Is Imploding
It appears School Strike 4 Climate has hit a crossroads. A New Zealand chapter recently shut itself down to to it being an overwhelmingly white movement. Is this the beginning…
Global fossil fuel use similar to decade ago in energy mix
The authors of the report don’t seem to have worked out that countries such as China and India don’t want them for the simple reason that they don’t work. They…
Polar bear habitat update and the progress of breakup on Hudson Bay
From Polar Bear Science Posted on June 17, 2021 At mid-month, there is still an abundance of thick first year ice over much of Hudson Bay, suggesting that – yet again…
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