The Floating Life – A Tale of the Vortex

“”To test our hypothesis that garbage patches may also be neuston seas, including the NPGP, we conducted a community science survey through the NPGP …”

Australia Goes Deep Green: Federal Election 2022

Although the dust hasn’t fully settled, its looking increasingly likely Australia will have one of the greenest governments in our history, after the panicked last minute conservative attempt to embrace…

HSBC Senior Banker Spanked After Dissing the Climate Crisis

“there was always some nut job telling me about the end of the world”, “apocalyptic warnings are ALWAYS wrong”. HSBC’s Stuart Kirk candidly sharing his frustration with economic ignorance of…

CO2 Enrichment Improves Plant Water-Use Efficiency

“Gratefully, nature does not have to wait another century or so for the air’s CO2 concentration to double before reaping benefits from enhanced water use efficiency. It has already begun to…

Go Organic, And Starve!

ning economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national experiment in organic agriculture this winter.

Claim: Climate Change Likely to Reduce the Amount of Sleep That People Get Per Year

The team says their findings suggest that by the year 2099, suboptimal temperatures may erode 50 to 58 hours of sleep per person per year.

Climate Change Weekly #435: Power Off? Grid Operators Expect More Outages

The Heartland Institute has repeatedly explained why prematurely shuttering economically viable power plants and replacing them with wind and solar invariably leads to greater profits for utilities and higher prices…

What is the Full Cost?

The idea of ‘free energy’ available from solar panels or the wind has had to be abandoned – there simply “ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” (h/t Robert…

Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation

According to Research Associate Flossie Kingsbury, learning how your ancestors exploited the natives and burned lots of coal helps you embrace the idea of climate reparations.

Faculty Freedom of Speech and Diversity is Threatened at the University of Washington

  Threats reminiscent of the loyalty oaths of the late 1940s and early 1950s.  Subtle and overt pressure against faculty holding the “wrong views”, with University faculty increasingly pushed towards…

Discovery Of ‘Ghost’ Fossils Reveals Plankton Resilience to Past Global Warming Events

An international team of scientists have discovered a new type of fossilisation Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON An international team of scientists from UCL (University College London), the Swedish Museum…

How Fast-Growing Algae Could Enhance Growth Of Food Crops

A new study provides a framework to boost crop growth by incorporating a strategy adopted from a fast-growing species of green algae.

Blackouts… Because Climate Change! Blame Natural Gas!

Guest “They got it bass-ackwards, once again” by David Middleton Electricity operators must wake up to climate change — or brace for summer outagesBY ROMANY M. WEBB, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR –…

Which Woke Mediocrity will Replace the Outgoing UN Climate Chief?

If you think the current UN climate chief is bad, wait until you see the new candidates.

Monash Professor: Eat Kangaroo to Prevent Climate Change

Greens offering a compromise? Instead of eating insects every day, on some days we can eat Kangaroo.

North America May See Natural Gas Prices Follow Global Ones – A Frightening Taste of The Agony Developing Countries Are Facing

They can show up quietly and more deadly in the form of shuttered businesses, unliveable utility bills, and soaring inflation for anything that relies on natural gas as an input.

Claim: For Wetland Plants, Sea-level Rise Stamps Out Benefits of Higher CO2

Beneficial effects of rising CO2 for plants disappear under flooding, 33-year field experiment reveals

German Conservationists Score Win In Battle To Protect 1000-Year Old “Grimm’s Fairytale Forest” From Green Insanity

The legal fight to rescue the treasured forest from windpark industrialization has begun. 

Claim: “Cryptocurrency price collapse offers hope for slowing climate change”

Cryptocurrency, which until recently received a climate pass from Californian anarchy money advocates, is increasingly being seen as a climate villain.

Polynyas are Critical for Polar Bear Spring Feeding

Sea ice is still abundant in spring (April-June), which is the critical feeding period for polar bears: they must consume about 2/3 of the total calories they need for the…