A broken pipe and flooding has closed down a key NOAA data facility in Silver Spring, Maryland, and there is no estimate of when this data source will become available.…
Year: 2021
The Problem with Climate Models
So it may well be, no, it is likely that once the underlying physics is properly understood, climate models will emerge that produce an ECS value considerably smaller than 1.8C.…
Biden & Democrats emission reduction schemes misguided, unrealistic, costly & globally irrelevant
Biden, his Democrats and his media cabal ignore and conceal the reality that his administration’s actions to mandate economically damaging emissions reductions, increased use of costly and unreliable renewables and…
Europe’s Green Deal in trouble as Biden administration warns EU against carbon border tax
Europe’s Green Deal and its planned carbon border tax are in serious trouble as the Biden administration raises concerns about its potentially disastrous fallout on international trade and relations.
Rumours Woke Radical Green Royal Meghan Markle will Run for US President
Before you dismiss this idea as too ridiculous to imagine, consider that a year ago many of us would have said the same thing about Joe Biden. Meghan Markle could…
Aussie Green Conservative Leader Obliterated in State Election
If you alienate your base, don’t expect them to vote for you. Aussie green conservative leader Zak Kirkup even lost his own seat, after running on a platform of building…
New Zealand Climate Commission Accused of Carbon Accounting Tricks
Robert Lachlan, Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics at Massey University, has accused the New Zealand climate commission of using dubious accounting tricks to exaggerate New Zealands progress towards achieving emissions…
U.S. surface temperatures drop to the lowest in over 30 years during February
If you thought he cold last month was “unprecedented” and ” worse than we thought” you’d be right. Last month’s polar outbreaks in the United States caused record subzero temperatures,…
Record Breaking Rain Claims Don’t Stand Up To Scrutiny
However, the fact that England & Wales are not seeing the same increases totally discredits the theory that a warmer atmosphere is driving heavier rain. Instead we need to look…
Major Survey Shocks: German Youth Rejecting Need For Radical Behavior Change To Fight ‘Climate Crisis’
But the results of the major climate survey of the European Investment Bank (EIB) don’t suggest this sort of generational difference. For example when it comes to products with the…
Oil in the ocean photooxidizes within hours to days, new study finds
Despite the significant consequences of this weathering pathway, photooxidation was not taken into account in oil spill models or the oil budget calculations during the Deepwater Horizon spill.
OECD Chooses “Climate Inactivist” Mathias Cormann as their New Head
A rare victory for fiscal sanity; A few days ago WUWT reported on the desperate green objections to “climate inactivist” and fiscal conservative Mathias Cormann’s bid for the OECD top…
Will low sea ice threaten harp seals & polar bears on Canada’s East Coast this year?
There is no way to sugar-coat this: there wasn’t much ice off the East Coast in early February, which was shaping up to be as bad or worse than the…
There Are Models And There Are Models
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’m 74, and I’ve been programming computers nearly as long as anyone alive. When I was 15, I’d been reading about computers in pulp science…
Climate adaptation follies. Part II: scenarios of future sea level rise
Global sea level rise projections provide a basis for projecting local sea level rise, such as for the New Jersey coast. The analysis in this section places the projections provided…
Asteroid 2001 FO32 Will Safely Pass by Earth March 21
Called 2001 FO32, the near-Earth asteroid will make its closest approach at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) – or 5 1/4 times the distance from…
Cheaper carbon capture is on the way
RICHLAND, Wash.–As part of a marathon research effort to lower the cost of carbon capture, chemists have now demonstrated a method to seize carbon dioxide (CO2) that reduces costs by…
BBC: Switching Consumers to Green Energy Tariffs Without Asking Permission Increases Acceptance
The BBC is excited that 80-90% of Swiss consumers are still on green tariffs, four years after power companies adopted expensive green energy as the default choice for consumers.
Climate adaptation follies. Part I: The New Jersey challenge
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on March 7, 2021 by curryja | by Judith Curry New Jersey has a sea level rise problem. How should this be managed? New Jersey’s peninsular…
Israeli Study: Aspirin Helps Protect against Covid-19
Do not take aspirin without consulting your doctor – aspirin use, even in small doses, can have nasty and sometimes fatal side effects. But a recent Israeli study of 10,477…
A Closer Look at What Happened in Texas During the Deep Freeze:
While no statewide records were broken, some of the records that were reported were quite shocking to say the least. The two coldest days were Monday, February 15 and Tuesday,…
In First, Scientists Trace Fastest Solar Particles to Their Roots on the Sun
“Normally, you have to infer this kind of thing – you’d say, ‘look we saw an SEP and a solar flare, and the SEP probably came from the solar flare,’”…
Face masks are a ticking plastic bomb
If not disposed of for recycling, like other plastic wastes, disposable masks can end up in the environment, freshwater systems, and oceans, where weathering can generate a large number of…
Media Amplification of Forister’s Feeble Butterfly Science and Climate Fearmongering
. Of course, in an age where chicken little catastrophes sell, only warming fall temperatures and butterfly extinctions could promote a profitable climate crisis. Worse, the public was misled to…
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