Guest essay by Eric Worrall Al Jazeera, a news outlet of the Qatari Royal Family, has blamed climate for a deadly landslide in Sierra Leone, though they admit cutting down local trees might have contributed. Is climate change to blame in Freetown? Humanity may have worsened the conditions on the ground but is the weather…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A PNAS study claims that crop yields will fall by up to 7% for each degree celsius of global warming, assuming no CO2 fertilisation and no adaption measures. Climate change will cut crop yields: study August 15, 2017 Climate change will have a negative effect on key crops such as…
From Climate Sceptism Posted on 13 Aug 17 by Paul Matthews In many ways, the climate debate has hardly changed since I got interested in it about ten years ago. Public opinion wobbles up and down with hardly any real change. The same tired arguments and claims come round again: every climate conference is the…
From the “let’s limit our losses on this stinker” department. Last week I wrote about Gore’s movie, a sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth” coming in 35th on opening weekend, and being in only 4 theaters. I predicted it would be a bomb, and wondered why the film company Paramount, would only put it in 4…
Last night I attended a “special event” at the local Red River Theatres, a rather nice independent movie theater in Concord NH. The event was their premiere showing of “An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth to Power”. It was made special with a reception and introduction before the showing and an introduction featuring letters from our…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall “Settled” Climate Science apparently needs a lot more hands on deck to help explain to us how doomed we are if we don’t spend taxpayer’s money on climate stuff. More climate scientists urgently needed for Australia, academy says Peter Hannam Australia’s climate research is in “urgent” need of dozens more…
IT’S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT~ctm Public Release: 31-Jul-2017 From Eurekalert University of Colorado at Boulder Even if humans could instantly turn off all our emissions of greenhouse gases, the Earth would continue to heat up about two more degrees Fahrenheit by the turn of the century, according to a sophisticated new analysis published in Nature…
