IT’S CLIMATE CATASTROPHE DU JOUR SEASON, AGAIN!

Almost anything one can imagine that is bad in the world, alarmists have claimed, at one time or another, climate change is making it worse.

Climate Crisis Fail Twofer Du Jour

Guest drive-by twofer by David Middleton 1. Global Warming —> Climate Change: Bush’s Fault Our planet is in crisis. But until we call it a crisis, no one will listenWe…

Methane, The Panic Du Jour

Guest post by Steven Goddard The climate panic headline this week has been that the warming Arctic is burping out dangerous quantities of greenhouse gas Methane. Published on Friday, March…

IPCC gate Du Jour – Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50%

From World Climate Report: Another IPCC Error: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50% Figure 1. Trend in Antarctic ice extent, November 1978 through December 2006 (source: Comiso and Nishio,…

IPCC Gate Du Jour – now IPCC hurricane data questioned

Now IPCC hurricane data is questioned Open science: Got Excel? Debunk this By Andrew Orlowski The Register Above: Hurricane ACE data from Ryan Maue. Note where 2009 is in the scheme…

IPCC Gate Du Jour: Aussie Droughtgate

Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun digs up another issue with non peer reviewed World Wildlife Fund reports in the IPCC AR4. It turns out a new paper in GRL…

Gate Du Jour: IPCC AR4 references NYT story

“Cold Showers, Rotting Food, the Lights, Then Dancing” – Title of Pachauri’s next novel maybe? WUWT commenter “Galileonardo” writes: I found this reference to the New York Times in WGII…

Gate Du Jour: IPCC gets the boot (cleaned)

WUWT reader “ClimateQuoter” brings this latest IPCC AR 4 reference to our attention. It seems the issue is about preventing footwear borne biological contamination. It appears this has nothing to…

IPCC Gate Du Jour: UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article

It’s worse than we thought! Now the IPCC has been citing magazine articles, like this one from Climbing Magazine, issue 208, shown at left. We’ve heard the title before, according…

Gate du Jour – Now it's Greenpeace reports in the IPCC AR4

Donna Laframboise, who gave us the list of World Wildlife Fund non peer reviewed studies cited in the IPCC AR4 continues to make lists. Here’s her latest list. Those calm,…

Amazon flavor "gate du jour" leaves a bad taste

I reported yesterday on Dr. Richard Norths findings on what he coined “amazongate” related to yet another WWF reference in the IPCC AR4. Yesterday I sent him a comment from…

Du Jour-gate flavor: Amazon

The IPCC “Flavor of the day”-gate is now the Amazon Rain Forest. What will tomorrow’s flavor be? James Delingpole of the Telegraph says this better than I ever could, so…

Peer Reviewed Science Journal Report: ‘Electric Utility Industry’s Role in Promoting Climate Denial, Doubt, And Delay

If I had been permitted to fact-check review this paper, I would have barred it for publication because it contains a minimum of six major errors

Wall Street Journal hypes Biden’s climate alarmist absurd emissions reductions propaganda schemes

The latest WSJ article makes the same idiotic misguided and misleading comments about the U.S. 21.5% emissions reduction between 2005 and 2020 but further escalates its absurd pronouncements by noting…

ExxonMobil “Cancelled” by The Wall Street Journal… Dumped From DJIA

Guest “WTF?” by David Middleton A couple of days ago Charles forwarded me a reader request for commentary on the recent decision to dump ExxonMobil from the Dow Jones Industrial…

Climate Journalist Accidentally Makes the Case for Fossil Fuel Powered Industrialization

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A climate concerned journalist has accidentally hi-lighted the common factor uniting poor people suffering horrendously from a succession of severe weather disasters; lack of resources.…

The journal Nature is going to begin requiring reproducibility in submitted papers

From the Journal of Irreproducible Science – over 2/3s of researchers say they are unable to replicate study results WUWT Reader “QQBoss” writes: The BBC reports (shockingly), that the journal…

Friday Funny – facts don't matter to dumpster diving journalist Fox Van Allen

From Senator Inhofe’s office, more on the story about the melting street lamps in Oklahoma and follow up press release: =========================================================== Yesterday Inhofe revealed that a dumpster fire, not global…

Quote of the week – CRU is now a candidate for publication in the Journal of Irreproducible Results

From Andrew Orlowski, the Register UK: In Parliament’s enquiries into the Climategate Affair, Graham Stringer MP was surprised to learn that the CRU team couldn’t produce the same result twice.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #578

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell

Increase in U.S. Wildfires Due to Climate Change

Pro: Many media outlets are blaming “climate change” for the increased wildfires in the western United States. For example, this article from Vox: The West is burning. Climate change is making…

The Green Energy Wall Gradually Coming Into Focus

The best thing to end the wind/solar craziness will be to have one or two jurisdictions fail spectacularly as a lesson to everyone else. I wouldn’t have wanted my own…

Climate Change vs. Crop Production

Pro: Climate Change Will Cause Food Shortages Climate changes projected by global climate models are consistent with observed climate changes of concern to agriculture (Ch. 2: Climate).41,42,43 Climate change has the potential…

Claim: High Cost Green Policies will Reduce the Drug Epidemic

Well meaning researchers not checking their facts carefully enough.

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