'Why haven't we done something already?': California mulling ban on fossil-fuel vehicles

From The National Post China will also likely order an end to sales of all polluting vehicles by 2030, the chairman of electric-carmaker BYD Co. said Thursday The internal combustion…

Can We Stop Pretending China Actually Cares About Global Warming?

Energy From The Daily Caller  Environmental activists have called China as the world’s de facto “leader” on fighting global warming, but energy experts don’t think the communist nation will actually…

UK's green bank abandons Britain: Promise to back UK ditched in rush to privatise firm

From This is Money.co.uk By Rachel Millard For The Daily Mail Published: 16:51 EDT, 25 September 2017 | Updated: 16:51 EDT, 25 September 2017 The newly privatised investment bank that…

Iron Seeding of the Pacific Ocean May Have Played a Role in Global Climate Change

From Newswise Newswise — A Texas A&M University research team has examined a 100,000-year-old ocean core and found that there have been at least eight occurrences of iron penetrating the…

Discovery: Bernie Sanders spider

From Eurekalert A scientist at the University of Vermont and four of his undergraduate students have discovered 15 new species of “smiley-faced” spiders–and named them after, among others, David Attenborough,…

JUDITH CURRY INTERVIEW WITH TUCKER CARLSON (9/25/2017)

Just thought I’d put this here for everyone. ~ ctm And here is another video.

One Relatively Unknown Federal Agency Will Play A Big Role In Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Agenda

Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 1:00 PM 09/23/2017 Most people probably haven’t heard of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), but this agency will be a major driver…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #285

The Week That Was: 2017-09-23 (September 23, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “Long run is a misleading…

Reasons For Optimism About Climate Hysteria

From Manhattan Contrarian September 22, 2017/ Francis Menton Large numbers of my friends and acquaintances are climate skeptics, and many of them spend a good deal of their time feeling…

Thousands flee 'imminent' Bali volcano eruption

[Update 9/25 12:05 am.  I have change the title from 240,000 to thousands to reflect the change in the underlying story and am modifying the first sentence of the post…

UN Admits It Can’t Link Global Warming To The Spike In World Hunger, Then Does It Anyway

Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 11:51 am 09/22/2017 A United Nations report admits it’s “impossible” to link man-made global warming to a jump in world hunger statistics, but…

Oops! Climate Cultist Destroys Own Position

September 22, 2017 From American Thinker By Daren Jonescu Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been doing the leftist media interview circuit recently, pressing his peculiar thesis that professional (i.e., paid)…

Ancient tree reveals cause of spike in Arctic temperature

Hmmmm……what does everyone think of this? ~ ctm Here is the abstract: Contrasting Greenland and Antarctic temperatures during the last glacial period (115,000 to 11,650 years ago) are thought to…

Germany Probably Won’t Meet Its Global Warming Goal, Despite Shelling Out $800 Billion For Green Energy

Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch  2:50 PM 09/22/2017 A recent report claims Germany is not on track to meet its goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 40 percent…

Yale announces collaboration with WBCSD to improve corporate reporting

From Eurekalert   (Don’t we all want our corporate investments to be “inclusive“) ~ctm Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Recognizing the critical role that private capital flows will play…

Oil sands crude pellets touted as cure for industry's transport headaches

From BNN.ca The Canadian Press A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta , The Canadian Press CALGARY — A…

San Francisco and Oakland sue top five oil and gas companies over costs of climate change

From PR Newswire Companies knew for decades that their products caused climate change and posed ‘catastrophic’ risk, but misled the public and continued to make enormous profits News provided by…

Scientists Go After The Media For Highlighting A Study Showing IPCC Climate Models Were Wrong

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 9:16 AM 09/20/2017 A climate model expert told The Washington Post there would be “extra eyes really scrutinizing” a new study claiming climate models…

Scientist Smacks Down Al Gore's Claim That Harvey Brought '500,000 year rains'

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 4:08 PM 09/18/2017 Former President Al Gore said Monday that Hurricane Harvey brought once in 500,000 year rainfall to parts of Texas, only to…

'Confusion and resistance' slows down UK smart meter rollout

Public Release: 18-Sep-2017 From Eurekalert University of Sussex IMAGE: Smart meter campaign poster in London Underground. view more Credit: Image by Benjamin Sovacool Lack of consumer engagement, insufficient information, and…