Death of a carbon salesman: Chicago Climate Exchange

It was essentially dead when we announced on WUWT Chicago Climate Exchange(CCX) was halting carbon futures trading last year. Note the flatlined final price of 5 cents per ton: My…

Chicago Climate Exchange = FAIL, Now California opens "Pacific Carbon Exchange"

UPDATE: related story shows what can happen when emissions trading doesn’t have proper checks and balances – Carbon trading tempts firms to make greenhouse gas California hasn’t learned from the…

Chicago Climate Exchange drops 50%, new record low

The only lower price than today’s closing price on a ton of carbon is ZERO Perhaps reacting to the news yesterday about the IPCC getting taken to the woodshed, the…

Chicago Climate Exchange still flatlining – employee cuts

From the “unsustainable business” department, who wants carbon at 10 cents a ton? Apparently, nobody. Data below as of August 8 2010: Source: http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/market/data/summary.jsf From Reuters, news of layoffs. At…

New Zealand begins emissions trading scheme, meanwhile the Gore/Pachauri Chicago Climate Exchange is flatlining

The months of flatlining at the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) should be a hint to the rest of the world that carbon trading is dead. Time to take it off…

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…

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“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant  

An Unexplored Source of Climate Change: Land Evapotranspiration Changes Over Time.

This Model was created to encourage scientist to collect the information necessary to determine the Earth’s ET change over time, the area of “special parcels”  and plume size.  This Model…

“In Climate Debate, Exaggeration Is a Pitfall” (NYT article revisited)

The exaggeration continues with fundraising and political power as the prize.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #509

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

The temperature–CO2 climate connection: an epistemological reappraisal of ice-core messages

From History of Geo-and Space Sciences Hist. Geo Space. Sci., 12, 97–110, 2021https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-12-97-2021© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed underthe Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. The temperature–CO2 climate connection: an epistemological…

Climate Change Financial Risk: Commodity Futures Trading Commission Edition

What follows is a multipart story much richer than my last Atlantic SEAMS article; an even better illustration than Charles’ addendum thereto on how fake news gets manufactured and promulgated.…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #385

The Week That Was: 2019-11-09 (November 9, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “It’s a kind of scientific integrity,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #369

The Week That Was: 2019-07-27 (July 27, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “For a successful technology, reality must…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #332

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Specific Problems in IPCC Science: New Zealand is one country whose politicians…

Bill McKibben calls for civil disobedience… Because climate change.

Guest hit piece by David Middleton Talk about the poster child for irrelevance… Climate politicking isn’t working. We need climate civil disobedience By BILL MCKIBBEN OCT 09, 2018 | 12:45 PM The small…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #303

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   Quote of the Week.“Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #293

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Hypothesis Testing: Following up on work by the late Bob Carter,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #279

  Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Data Quality – Surface Temperatures: Writing in Energy Matters, Roger Andrews has…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #273

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Rule of Law? In a frank interview about President Trump’s withdraw from the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #257

By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Due to other commitments requiring refraining from public comments that may be misconstrued as suggesting policy, this TWTW will be…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #247

The Week That Was: 2016-11-05 (November 5, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…

Latest Climate Genius Financial Proposal: Government Control of All Bank Deposits

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian has promoted an idea for a new climate friendly financial system, to permanently halt economic growth. To deal with climate change we need…