From the U.S. Senate Committe on Environment and Public Works Democrats Delay Global Warming Bill – Again Obama Agenda In “Disarray” Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking…
Category: Climate_change
Royal Society wants man-made volcanoes to fight climate change
Here’s an interesting story from the Times. One wonders if the Royal Society is ready to deal with all the unintended and unmodeled consequences of such actions? The last man-made…
Gavin Schmidt responds to criticism of his climate change picture book
A few months back, I posted a critique titled: Gavin Schmidt’s new climate picture book: Anti-Science? I found it ironic that Dr. Schmidt used photos to depict climate change, while…
Global dimming and brightening in the context of solar radiation
From the abstract of the lead paper by Martin Wild: Recent evidence suggests that solar radiation reaching the Earth’s surface has not been constant over time but has undergone substantial…
The Earth is on Fire! Gosh, who knew?
Title of new report from the Institute of Food and Resource Economics of the University of Copenhagen: Earth on Fire Hmmm. “E a r t h o n f i…
US Chamber of commerce wants trial on global warming issue. Reader poll inside
Excerpts from The LA Times story: U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks trial on global warming By Jim Tankersley August 25, 2009 Reporting from Washington The nation’s largest business lobby wants…
Atmospheric Temperature and Carbon Dioxide: Feedback or Equilibrium?
R. Taylor writes in to Tips and Notes to WUWT with this. Anthony: If you shift Vostok temperatures by reasonable time lags, and use reasonable parameters for an equilibrium between…
Warming could cause tilt in Earth's axis
As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about…. Earth’s axial tilt (or obliquity) and its relation to the rotation axis and plane of orbit. Image from Wikipedia. Excerpts…
Diane Feinstein: turbidity denier?
There was an interesting story in the Las Vegas Journal Review on August 20th. which had a passage and quote from California Senator Diane Feinstein (emphasis mine): Both U.S. Sen.…
Finding an answer to the faint sun paradox: Carbonyl Sulphide?
From a University of Copenhagen News Release First, read a primer on the Faint Sun Paradox here Normally, I wouldn’t use Wiki, but the article does include a reference to…
Global Wining: French wine "in danger", climate change "must be tackled"
Hmmm, maybe there’s something to that “Wines grown in England during the Medieval Warm Period” after all. I think maybe the French are upset that Scottish wine might be served…
A new video from CEI: Policy Peril
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis explains why we have more to fear from global warming policies than from global warming itself. I thought this video might be a…
Stopping Climate Change
Guest post by Richard S. Courtney There is need for a new policy on climate change to replace the rush to reduce emissions. The attempts at emissions reduction have failed…
Australia Rejects Climate Cap-and-Trade Bill
Australia Rejects Climate Cap-and-Trade Bill — Senators voted 42 to 30 against it: “It is a dog of a plan” Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Australia’s Senate rejected the government’s climate-change…
Ocean heat content and Earth’s radiation imbalance
This paper is to be published on-line on Friday in Physics Letters A Dr. Douglas graciously sent me an advance copy, of which I’m printing some excerpts. Douglas and Knox…
New Study Casts Doubt on Cause of Himalayan Glaciers Melting
Weather variations, not global warming cause glacier melt From the The Hindu, 9 August 2009 excerpts: New Delhi (PTI): Himalayan glaciers, including the world’s highest battlefield Siachen, are melting due…
Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages – solar and earth wobble – CO2 not main driver
From an Oregon State University Media Release (h/t to Leif Svalgaard) Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages – may also help predict future The above image shows…
A link between the Sun, cosmic rays, aerosols, and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale…
Svensmark has a new paper and it is a doozy: Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and clouds (full text PDF). The major conclusion: “A link between the Sun, cosmic…
McCain realization: “[The Waxman-Markey] 1,400-page bill is a farce.
McCain Echoes Hansen: Waxman-Markey is a ‘Farce’ (The Civil War widens among climate alarmists) by Robert Bradley MasterResource August 3, 2009 “[The Waxman-Markey] 1,400-page bill is a farce. They bought…
Cherry Picking Climate Catastrophes: Response to Conor Clarke
Cherry Picking Climate Catastrophes: Response to Conor Clarke, Part II WUWT Guest Post by Indur Goklany Conor Clarke at The Atlantic blog, raised several issues with my study, “What to…
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