The short answer, is not all that well. On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James E. Hansen testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, where he expressed his “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the claimed CO2 induced “greenhouse effect and observed warming.” The 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen’s…
WUWT reader “Non Nomen” writes: Norway now wants to electrify domestic air traffic by 2040. Will they be able to recharge at every overhead power line? If they are on medication, they’d better stop that. If not, they’d better take their pills. Medication aside, I don’t think these people understand the concept and difficulty of…
Antarctic ice sheet is melting, but rising bedrock below could slow it down COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY An international team, led by DTU Space at the Technical University of Denmark with Colorado State University, has found that the bedrock below the remote West Antarctic Ice Sheet is rising much more rapidly than previously thought, in response…
High emissions findings undercut the case that gas offers substantial climate advantage over coal The U.S. oil and gas industry emits 13 million metric tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane from its operations each year, 60 percent more than estimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new study published today in…
From the “ship of fools” department and the UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND – INNER SPACE CENTRE Scientists, students to make first live, interactive broadcasts from Arctic Ocean’s Northwest Passage Expedition in August/September seeks to increase understanding about changing Arctic frontier; For citizen scientists, teachers, students, and the public worldwide: First interactive events from Northwest Passage, via…
Of all the threats and dangers in our age of false facts, the most concerning is surely CLIMATE-CRAFT. Devised and driven by global warming and climate alarmists, this new black art has deceived many credulous minds and academies. It now has followers everywhere, from the highest office of the Vatican to the lowest carbon cowboy.…
From the NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY and the “playing with climate models for doom outcomes is too stupid to be science” department. Envisioning a future where all the trees in Europe disappear Using climate models to take a deeper look at the regional effects of global warming Vegetation plays an important role in shaping…
As many of you regular readers know over the past few weeks I have done a complete migration of the website over to a new Cloud Server. The first week was a bit Rocky and we have some trouble with people being able to reach the side, but now everything seems to be pretty well…
From the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE — A just-published paper in Science changes the formula scientists should use when estimating the speed of huge ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica that flow into the ocean and drive mounting sea levels around the globe. The change in the formula for predicting ice flow — or basal sliding —…
From UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Climate change will have a rapidly increasing effect on the structure of global ecological communities over the next few decades, with amphibians and reptiles being significantly more affected than birds and mammals, a new report by UCL finds. The pace of change is set to outstrip loss to vertebrate communities caused…