The latest travesty in ‘consensus enforcement’

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on August 14, 2019 by curryja The latest travesty in consensus ‘enforcement’, published by Nature. There is a new paper published in…

Media and USGS biologist sensationalize recent report of a polar bear encounter in Alaska

From Polar Bear Science Posted on August 12, 2019 | It’s been a slow summer for polar bear news to hype, so we shouldn’t be surprised that a local report…

Delingpole: Boris Johnson’s Looming Wind Disaster

From Breitbart by James Delingpole 12 Aug 2019 Boris Johnson’s government is shuffling towards a gigantic cliff edge which has nothing to do with Brexit. The looming disaster can be…

Icebergs delay Southern Hemisphere future warming

Institute for Basic Science New research, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, has found that Antarctic icebergs can weaken and delay the effect of Global Warming in the…

California has no land in drought conditions and all reservoirs are above historic average levels

From the U.S. Drought Portal And from the California Department of water resources. All reservoirs currently above normal historical average. HT/KK

USA finally updates Endangered Species Act after 45 years & the decision is final

Reposted from Dr. Susan Crockford’s Polar Bear Science Posted on August 12, 2019 | Comments Off on USA finally updates Endangered Species Act after 45 years & the decision is…

Is Global Warming an Existential Threat? Probably Not, But Still a Serious Issue.

Reposted from Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog During the recent presidential debate, a number of candidates suggested that global warming represents an existential threat to mankind, and thus requires…

SA blackout blows wind farms into court

From The Advertiser Tim Dornin, Australian Associated Press August 7, 2019 2:27am The Australian Energy Regular will take four South Australian wind farm operators to court accusing them of failing…

Warm And Glowing: Team Of Scientists Creates ‘Atomik’ Chernobyl Vodka

From The Daily Caller Kyle Hooten Contributor August 09, 2019 10:05 AM ET A team of scientists have created a new vodka made with crops and water from inside Chernobyl’s…

Climate Change and Land: discussion thread

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on August 10, 2019 by curryja by Judith Curry Discussion thread on the new IPCC Report on Climate Change and Land. The…

Farm unions accuses media of “inflating” IPCC report

From The GWPF British Farmers Accuse News Media Of Climate Alarmism By bennypeiser. National Farmers’ Union president Minette Batters has accused the British media of “inflating” the findings of a…

Poop less for a cleaner planet, says Brazil’s president

From Yahoo News Brasília (AFP) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested Friday that people “poop every other day” as a way to save the environment, after he came under fire…

A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon

From Wired Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are microscopic animals that can survive for years without food or water. And now they’re on the moon! It was just before…

Transport chaos across England and Wales after major power cuts

From The Guardian Failure on National Grid network affects train services and road users Large parts of England and Wales have been left without electricity following a major power cut,…

Michael Moore-backed Doc, ‘Planet of the Humans,’ Tackles ‘False Promises’ of Green Energy

From Breitbart LOS ANGELES (AP) — What if alternative energy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? That’s the provocative question explored in the documentary Planet of the Humans, which…

More unsettled science-previously unseen ancestors of elliptical galaxies

ALMA finds previously unseen ancestors of elliptical galaxies News Release from the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array Astronomy Now An artist’s impression of remote galaxies seen by ALMA that are not…

How much energy storage costs must fall to reach renewable energy’s full potential

Cell Press The cost of energy storage will be critical in determining how much renewable energy can contribute to the decarbonization of electricity. But how far must energy storage costs…

Persistent plume

Analysis of massive 2017 cloud of wildfire smoke will help calibrate climate models, including modeling of nuclear winter, geoengineering University of Colorado at Boulder Thunderstorms generated by a group of…

How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation at the Moon

From NASA August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the fields were brown and dry, and people tried to…

China coal mine approvals surge despite climate pledges

From Reuters David Stanway, Muyu Xu SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Approvals for new coal mine construction in China have surged in 2019, government documents showed, with Beijing expecting consumption of the…

Cislunar blueprint to propel space research for the next 50 years

Driving the orbital area around the Earth and Moon Purdue University In its inaugural call to action, Purdue Engineering’s Cislunar Initiative took a giant leap forward in advancing humankind’s presence…

‘Spin’ found in over half of clinical trial abstracts published in top psychiatry journals

Findings raise concerns about potential impact on doctors’ treatment decisions BMJ ‘Spin’–exaggerating the clinical significance of a particular treatment without the statistics to back it up–is apparent in more than…

In Search of the Enchanted Larch of Yamal

International team to study effect of climate change on the arctic Anthropologist Peter Ungar will study impact on the ecology of people and mammals University of Arkansas Peter Ungar, Distinguished…

Fake news: an open letter to the Editor of the Washington Post

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Ø Yet again, the hard-Left Washington Post has libeled Dr Willie Soon, whom many of us know to be one of the most dedicated scientists…