Reposted from Dr. Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on June 19, 2019 by curryja by Judith Curry Insights into the motivated reasoning of climate scientists, including my own efforts to sort…
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Global Man-made CO2 emissions 1965 – 2018: BP data
From edmhdotme 2018 Global CO2 emissions The following calculations and graphics are based on information on worldwide CO2 emissions published by BP in June 2019 for the period from 1965…
Scientists: Please Fund Us (or the microbes get it!)
From the Famous National Lampoon Cover department: Leaving microbes out of climate change conversation has major consequences, experts warn From the University of New South Wales (home of the Ship…
Earth system models underestimate carbon fixation by plants in the high latitudes
From Nature Communications. Abstract Most Earth system models agree that land will continue to store carbon due to the physiological effects of rising CO2 concentration and climatic changes favoring plant…
Wheat myth debunked
The pervasive myth that intensive breeding has made modern wheat cultivars weaker and more dependent on pesticides and fertilisers is debunked by a major new study University of Queensland The…
Downsize Your House? Downsize Your Family? NPR Pushes Beto on Climate Crackdown
From NewsBusters By Tim Graham | June 16, 2019 11:06 PM EDT Democratic candidates generally don’t have much to fear from interviews on National Public Radio, but Morning Edition anchor…
Boaty McBoatface mission gives new insight into warming ocean abyss
The first mission involving the autonomous submarine vehicle Autosub Long Range (better known as ‘Boaty McBoatface’) has for the first time shed light on a key process linking increasing Antarctic…
‘Power shift’ needed to improve gender balance in energy research, report says
University of Exeter “Power shift” needed to improve gender balance in energy research, report says Women still face significant barriers in forging successful and influential careers in UK energy research,…
California lawmakers are turning cap-and-trade into the slush fund critics long feared
From the LA Times For years, critics of California’s cap-and-trade program have lambasted it as a government slush fund. They say that politicians are able to dip into it to…
Seeing an Aurora From the Space Station
From NASA click on image for high resolution version~ctm June 13, 2019 Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Christina Koch snapped this image of an aurora, saying: “Years ago…
Green New Deal advocates: “Pipeline and resource development leads to man camps, human trafficking, and child-porn rings.”
From Public Energy Number One Green New Deal advocates: “Pipeline and resource development leads to man camps, human trafficking, and child-porn rings.” And these people want to govern a nation……
How an Atomic Clock Will Get Humans to Mars on Time
From NASA June 14, 2019 The Deep Space Atomic Clock, a new technology from NASA’s JPL, may change the way spacecraft navigate in space. Launching in late June aboard the…
The cost of this net zero madness? Even a trillion is an underestimate
From The Conservative Woman BY Andrew Montford June 14, 2019 THE £1trillion figure is propaganda, not analysis; you can pluck any number you want.’ So said Adair Turner, the former…
No laughing matter
From The Harvard Gazette The warming Arctic permafrost may be releasing more nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, than previously thought By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy Harvard Correspondent DateJune 6, 2019 About…
A Third Look at Radiation versus Temperature
Guest post by KEVIN KILTY Introduction In a post on June 8, 2019, Willis Eschenbach showed an interesting plot of monthly average surface temperature against total irradiance absorbed at the…
Why we do nothing to prepare for climate change
Reposted from the Fabius Maximus website By Larry Kummer, Editor Summary: The results are meager from thirty years of debate about a public policy response to climate change. There is…
Extremes
Reposted from Judith Curry’s Climate Etc by Judith Curry Politics versus science in attributing extreme weather events to manmade global warming. If you follow me on twitter, you may have…
Bitcoin causing CO2 emissions comparable to Hamburg
Hardware and IP addresses analyzed to assess the carbon footprint of the cryptocurrency Technical University of Munich (TUM) The use of Bitcoin causes around 22 megatons in CO2 emissions annually…
UN Chief Poses For TIME Cover Off ‘Sinking’ Pacific Island Nation That’s Actually Growing In Size
from The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor TIME magazine’s cover shows U.N. chief António Guterres standing in waters off a Pacific island that’s allegedly “sinking” into the sea…
How Fear of Nuclear Ends | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxCalPoly
A couple years old, but still relevant~ctm
75 Conservative Groups Oppose ‘Any Carbon Tax’ Days After Mitt Romney Was Reportedly ‘Looking At’ One
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor Dozens of conservative groups signed an open letter opposed to “any carbon tax” bill that Congress might consider. The letter comes after Republican Utah Sen.…
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