Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, 6/21/21. Published here at the request of the author. Howard C. Hayden1 1Prof. Emeritus of Physics, UConn, now in Pueblo West, Colorado (corkhayden@comcast.net) 1. Introduction…
Author: Anthony Watts
What it is like to be a climate realist
Some people like the herd mentality, it gives them a feeling of fitting in, or belonging. It also saves them the trouble of having to think for themselves. Definition of herd…
@thenorthface Gets a ‘pie in the face’ for virtue signaling without understanding their own products
The North Face Rejects Making Clothing for an Oil and Gas Company, Is Clueless Concerning the Source of Their Products In the news today is a hilarious case of lack…
Oreskes and the climate gang penned a smear in Scientific American @sciam refuses to print response by Koonin
Foreword: I was sent this by email, apparently “Scientific American” doesn’t believe in fairness. I stopped subscribing to SciAm years ago because they’ve turned into a socialist cesspool of opinion,…
Anthony on LiveStream – ‘What Climate Emergency?’
As you may know, I’ve been invited to speak at ICCC-14. From press release: As The Heartland Institute is getting ready for our big climate conference in Las Vegas October…
The ‘New Normal’ That Wasn’t
Guest essay by Dan Sutter Tornadoes killed 553 Americans in 2011, the deadliest year since 1925. May 22nd marked the 10th anniversary of the Joplin, Missouri tornado that killed 161,…
Friday Funny: A new addition to the climate DOOM lexicon
Down under in Australia, there’s this “Leader of the Australian Greens” wannabe politician by the name of Adam Bandt. He’s got his panties in a twist over the the now…
When wind turbines are no longer useful: They get explosive demolition
Video follows. Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, USA (acting as Explosives Design and Performance Subcontractor to Main Demolition Contractor, Dallas Demolition of Houston, Texas who was working for…
Poll: Viewers Of Conservative Media More Likely To Get The Facts Right On Climate Change
By Justin Haskins From April 29 to May 3, Rasmussen Reports and The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank, conducted a nationwide survey of 2,000 likely voters. Included in…
CAUGHT: ‘Inconvenient’ U.S. Wildfire Data Has Been ‘Disappeared’ by National Interagency Fire Center @NIFC_Fire
It’s been an open secret, ever since Dr. Michael Mann used “Mike’s Nature Trick” to “hide the decline” by covering up some inconvenient tree ring data in the hockey stick…
Something Smells Fishy: Allegations of Fraud in Ocean Acidification Research
While on tour in Australia in 2010, my friend, David Archibald said to me “Ocean Acidification is the last refuge of the climate scoundrels”. It appears he may be right.…
John Kerry, Biden’s ‘climate czar’ admits U.S. carbon dioxide emission cuts are pointless
Caught on video: John Kerry admitted U.S. CO2 emissions cuts are pointless at Joe Biden’s #LeadersClimateSummit. Watch the video: h/t to Steve Milloy. He also said essentially the same thing…
EIA: U.S. CO2 Emissions Declined 11% in 2020 – No Change in Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Climate change action proponents regularly tell us we have to reduce our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to prevent “climate change”, even to the point of curtailing industry, travel, and food…
Media finally notices that the RCP 8.5 climate model is over-hyped science fiction
First, a science fiction preview of DOOM courtesy of the RCP8.5 model: Some sensibility from the WSJ: Climate Media vs. Climate Science The good news is that scientists themselves have…
Finale’ – Peter Ridd vs. James Cook University
Dr. Peter Ridd writes on Facebook: We just got notification that the High Court appeal hearing will be by the Full Court at 10:00am on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 in…
Big win for common sense: New York City Loses Appeal Seeking to Hold Oil Firms Liable “Global Warming”
A big win for pro-energy groups today out of the 2nd Circuit Court The federal appeals court rejected New York City’s effort to hold five major oil companies (BP, Chevron,…
Monday Mirthiness: Latest idiocy from the “extinction rebellion”
From the same people that think “coronavirus is the cure”, meaning living humans are bad. If that’s the case then you first, you numptys. Media ReleaseFriday 26 March 2021 EMBARGOED:…
U.S. surface temperatures drop to the lowest in over 30 years during February
If you thought he cold last month was “unprecedented” and ” worse than we thought” you’d be right. Last month’s polar outbreaks in the United States caused record subzero temperatures,…
Oregon climate activist wants to ban diesel fuel
From the “How many protest big rigs do you want in your front yard?” department comes this lunacy out of the Oregon legislature courtesy of Representative Karin A. Power, Democrat –…
Major 8.1 Earthquake Near New Zealand
There may be a Tsunami as a result of this big quake. A previous quake reading 7.4 caused a Tsunami warning, which has sine been lifted. This new one may…
Hey @NSIDC Looks like we have a sea-ice sensor failure – again
12 years ago, I pointed out to NSIDC in this post: Errors in publicly presented data – Worth blogging about? Because they told me it “wasn’t worth blogging about” in…
Friday Funny- Fact Check?
Josh writes: Who fact checks the Fact Checkers? Inspired by this superb article by @aDissentient in @TheConWom … #FactCheck #ClimateFeedback
Friday Funny: nature makes a mockery of month-ahead model forecasts.
Sometimes, you just have to laugh. Earth is a complex system, and forecasting weather events in such a complex system is no easy task due to the built in entropy…
Hotel in Austin Texas sends letter to trapped guests: “we are out of food” – “use glowsticks for lighting”!
As we previously reported on the ice-storm Texas frozen wind power – outages ensue, electricity now at unheard of $9000 per megawatt-hour I have friends in Texas that are reporting…
