There is apparently no trend toward less rain in Germany in July, even with global warming. Anyone drew conclusions based on the below-average values after 2017 is simply confusing weather…
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Climate change: New report will highlight ‘stark reality’ of warming
Meanwhile global temperatures, following on from the record El Nino in 2015/16, are no higher now than they were two decades ago. Isn’t it strange that things like Germany’s floods…
Why the IPCC focuses on the scenarios that it does
It is more than a little silly to have a breathlessly-awaited, embargoed report presenting analysis of out-of-date scenarios, but here we are!
Comparing the world before 1900, to today
For thousands of years before 1900, the population of the world hovered around one billion on the entire planet. In the short 200 years since 1900 the world population has…
Baden-Württemberg Government Announces Plans To Clear Cut State Forest, Build 1000 Turbines
The news came only a few days after the flood disaster in North Rhine Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, where it was quite obvious that a lack of flood plains was the…
Polar bear attack in Greenland gratuitously blamed on recent ‘heat wave’
There is no specific evidence of cause and effect, of course. The news outlet reporting the incident cites some non-specified ‘experts’ as providing the generic ‘warming makes polar bears starve…
The knife through the heart of COP26
Any prospect that China would play ball at COP26 have surely now vanished with their latest power generation numbers.
UK MPs Condemn Government’s 2030 Ban on New Fossil Fueled Car Sales and The Ill-Informed Push for Us All to Drive Electric
In producing probably one of the most authoritative reports on the subject ever written, we have listened to thousands of road users, from cyclists, bikers, motorists, through to our vital…
Gratitude for CO2: It Continues to Feed the World
CO2 added to the atmosphere since the industrial era has had no observable impact on rainfall patterns whilst directly helping plants to grow better. In the big climate conferences no…
Boston Ties “Green” Jobs to the Pandemic and Future “Climate Shocks”
I’ve been an environmental professional for over 40 years and have yet to figure out what is a “green” job, unless it is one guaranteed to lose money and fail…
California Electricity Woes: More Intervention, Higher Prices, More Emissions (the back side of wind and solar)
Facing a 3,500 MW shortfall in power generation capacity to meet current peak demand, and predicting a 5,000 MW deficit next summer, California is adding regulation to regulation, reports Rob…
Are Climate Feedbacks Strongly Non-Linear?
Is it possible that the Earth’s system is strongly buffered with strong positive ice and dust feedbacks prevailing at colder temperatures, and strong negative convection/evaporation feedbacks prevailing in warmer times?
Comments On Federal Scientific Integrity
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is quite another to do so when the environmental…
The New Pause lengthens again
You can be quite sure that the unspeakable BBC and the now-unreliable Economist will somehow fail to report the surely not uninteresting fact that there has been no warming in…
UAH Global Temperature Update for July, 2021: +0.20 deg. C
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2021 was +0.20 deg. C, up from the June, 2021 value of -0.01 deg. C.
GHGs, California, and the EPA: a golden braid of off-the-rails
The unavoidable conclusions are that the SAFE Vehicle Rule serves no ameliorative purpose because the EPA CO2 endangerment finding has no scientific merit.
Sow the Wind Turbine, Reap the Wind Turbine Noise
As wind farms proliferate they are bound to invade residential areas and noise sensitive facilities with increasing frequency, making arguments over nuisance and health concerns increasingly acute and acrimonious. Yet,…
“Off Target”: Bad Economics of the Climate Crusade (mitigation not supported by mainstream analysis)
Why is such a temperature change bad? I can walk across the street and not notice the temperature change of the accumulated warming of the last century or more–and that has…
Polar bear habitat update for end July 2021 compared to previous years
I don’t see a looming sea ice catastrophe for 2021, do you see a looming sea ice catastrophe?
A Little Arithmetic: The Costs Of A Solar-Powered Grid Without Fossil Fuel Back-up
At current prices of around $200/KWH the 560 GWH of storage will run around $112 billion, or around half of the annual budget of the state government of California.
Forest Degradation A Major Climatic Warming Driver, Study Finds. CO2-Induced Tree Growth Cools?
“The conclusion is that forest managers therefore have some control in climate change over how much the forests entrusted to them heat up and are potentially damaged as a result.…
The Triumphant March Toward 100% “Renewable” Electricity: Germany and California
So far, they have almost nothing in the way of grid scale energy storage. In the evening, they ramp up the natural gas plants, and import power from Arizona and…
Europe’s Expensive Climate Club And Its Detractors
It is no surprise then that a senior economist at Deutsche Bank, one of Europe’s largest banks, warned that for the EU’s Green Deal to succeed, “a certain degree of eco-dictatorship will…
