By Andy May OMG! The world is going to end, and we caused it. This story, in one form or another, goes back to biblical times. According to Genesis (6:9…
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Biofuels
By Andy May According to Exxon-Mobil, 9% of the world’s energy came from biofuels in 2017. They do not expect this percentage to increase by 2040, and it may go…
Do We Really Have Only 12 Years to Live?
By Andy May Why have uninformed celebrities and politicians been telling everyone, who will listen, we are all going to die in a climate catastrophe in 10 to 30 years?…
Wash your Trash! Is recycling working?
By Andy May The recycling movement started in the 1970s and it has been very popular in Western countries. Participation varies with location, but in our small community of The…
Climate Change is not a problem: Unless we make it one.
Guest Post by Martin Capages Jr. PhD PE INTRODUCTION As long as humans have been on Earth, they have been adapting to changes in regional climates. A regional climate is…
The Corona Epidemic – A Dangerous and a Less Dangerous Form
Guest Post by Wim Röst Abstract Nearly all the deadly infections of the corona virus are localized in the centre of the epidemic in and near Wuhan in the province…
Greenland Ice Core CO2 Concentrations Deserve Reconsideration
Guest post by Renee Hannon IntroductionIce cores datasets are important tools when reconstructing Earth’s paleoclimate. Antarctic ice core data are routinely used as proxies for past CO2 concentrations. This is…
Earth’s Ice Ages
By Andy May The phrase “Ice Age” is poorly defined and often abused, so let’s first define the climate state during most ice ages. It is called “Icehouse Earth.” The…
The big Arctic Sea-Ice shift of 2007: Ice refuses to melt
by Javier I have maintained since 2015 that in the 2006-2007 season the Arctic underwent a cyclical phase shift, and the rapid sea-ice melting observed over the previous decades ended.…
Strong Arctic sea-ice growth this year
Guest Post by Javier February is not over, and Arctic sea-ice extent is already over half a million square kilometers higher than last year at this day. The growing season…
Why the Green New Deal is a Bad Deal for America
Dr. Martin Capages has written an excellent new book entitled Why the Green New Deal is a Bad Deal for America. He very effectively deconstructs the “Green New Deal.” He kindly…
The planet is no longer warming
Guest Post By Javier We define “warming” as a positive rate of temperature change over time. According to the main hypothesis, warming since 1951 has been…
The Heartland Greenpeace Business Report
By Andy May An intriguing report on the Greenpeace business model and philosophy has just been published by the Heartland Institute and can be downloaded here. The report was researched…
Modern Climate Wavelet Patterns
Guest Post by Renee Hannon Wavelet analyses of modern global temperature anomalies provides an excellent visualization tool of temperature signal characteristics and patterns over the past 150 years. Scafetta recognized…
An Assessment of the 4th National Climate Assessment
By Andy May The U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) Volume II is out and generating a lot of discussion. Volume II, Impacts Risks and Adaptation in the United States to climate…
We can eliminate fossil fuels, no problem!
By Andy May French President Macron has implemented a new fuel tax to discourage drivers from burning fossil fuels in their cars. The resulting higher fuel prices have caused more…
Environmental Collusion
By Andy May Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a report (Law Enforcement for Rent) in August of 2018 detailing an unprecedented level of cooperation between the state governments…
The state of Shale Gas and Oil in the U.S.A. today
By Andy May A few news items from The Shale Gas News, by Bill desRosiers of Cabot Oil & Gas. The main paragraphs below are adapted from desRosiers, but I’ve added…
Shale Reservoirs, do they work, will they spread?
By Andy May Popular accounts of shale oil and gas reservoirs are often riddled with errors and, even when technically correct, often misleading. As a shale petrophysicist, retired from Devon…
How Bad is HadCRUT4 Data?
Guest Essay by Renee Hannon Introduction This post is a coarse screening assessment of HadCRUT4 global temperature anomalies to determine the impact, if any, of data quality and data coverage.…
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