Earth at night – wildfires in Australia

From NASA – Wildfires Light Up Western Australia (nothing unusual here, it happens every year) A stunning video of the Earth at night follows. Careful observers of the new “Black…

D’oh! Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe

SCIENCE®!!!! discovers what my dad (a civil engineer) taught me more than 50 years ago.

CNN: “Australia is shaping up to be the villain of COP26 climate talks”

UN officials, British and US politicians are urging Aussies to take Australia’s alleged ongoing climate devastation more seriously.

Claim: Global Cooling – Because of Climate Change Driven Wildfires

Are Climate activists preparing their excuses in advance, for the imminent plunge in global temperatures predicted by Dr. Willie Soon?

Response to the Australian Bushfire Commission

The The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report has been released. But the commission’s apparent overt genuflection to climate disaster memes has already drawn harsh criticism from a…

Appeasement: The Root Cause of the Australian Mega-Fires

Reposted from The Savvy Street By Vinay Kolhatkar I still remember 1994. My wife and I drove through the Royal National Park in Sydney’s south, several weeks after bushfires (or…

Are Australia Bushfires Worsening from Human-Caused Climate Change?

Reposted from Dr Roy Spencer’s Blog January 8th, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Smoke plumes from bushfires in southeast Australia on January 4, 2020, as seen by the…

Hijacking Australian 2019 Bushfire Tragedies to Fearmonger Climate Change

Guest post by Jim Steele, director emeritus of the Sierra Nevada Field Campus, SFSU and author of Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism. As is customary now,…

Guardian: Aussie Bushfires are Australia’s Climate Change “Chernobyl Moment”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; According to The Guardian, a few months of Aussie bushfires, as has happened many times before, is somehow politically equivalent to…

Why Worse Wildfires? Part 2

Guest post by Jim Steele, from What’s Natural? column published in Pacifica Tribune, December 4, 2019 Why Worse Wildfires? Part 2 Figure 1 Managing forest ground fuels Why worse wildfires?…

Remember when the massive California wildfires of 2017 were blamed on global warming? Never mind.

On June 8th, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) made its first official announcement via press release that 12 big Northern California wildfires in October 2017…

Claim: Birds of Prey Deliberately Setting Wildfires

Guest essay by Eric Worrall So much for fire control – JoNova reports that raptors have been photographed congregating on the edge of large Australian bushfires, picking up burning sticks,…

Another hot model: Forest emissions, wildfires explain why ancient Earth was so hot

The release of volatile organic compounds from Earth’s forests and smoke from wildfires 3 million years ago had a far greater impact on global warming than ancient atmospheric levels of…

Sat imagery of Bushfires in New South Wales, Australia

From NASA: NASA’s Terra satellite detected dozens of bushfires continued raging in the Australian state of New South Wales, outside of Sydney. Sydney is the state capital and the most…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #593

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.…

Climate Change Weekly #501: Stream ‘Climate: The Movie’ Before It’s Censored

The movie features discussions from multi-award-winning climate researchers. The Climate Intelligence group Clintel is translating the program into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, and Danish, and it has…

Annotated Bibliography for Climate: The Movie

By Andy May Many viewers of Climate: The Movie have asked for more information on the topics discussed. In response, I selected the following 70 key statements from the movie…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588

There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…

Chile Forest Fires–Climate Change?

As noted, eucalyptus accounts for about a third of plantations. Is it any wonder these fires spread so rapidly nowadays.

No, Los Angeles Times, Climate Change Is Not ‘Supercharging’ the Latest Winter Storm

There’s no evidence supporting the LAT claim that climate change enhancing El Niño in a way that would cause heavier precipitation during the present storm in California.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #586

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes