According to the New York Times, a major solar power project in California has been canceled. It seems that even creating solar power in the middle of nowhere in a…
Category: Energy
Slump shows up in USA CO2 output for 2008 and 2009 – economy driven?
The Monthly Energy Review for August 2009 has been published by the US Energy Information Administration and it has some interesting CO2 production data which you can see here in…
Met Office supercomputer: A megawatt, here, a megawatt there, and pretty soon we're talking real carbon pollution
Weather supercomputer used to predict climate change is one of Britain’s worst polluters Excerpts from the story by the Daily Mail See WUWT’s original story on this The Met Office…
The Great Windfarm -vs- Lesser Prairie Chicken Fight
Just when the green energy movement thinks they have it all worked out, along comes a snail-darteresque moment that throws a monkey wrench in green plans. These are the big…
Soot And The Arctic Ice – A Win-Win Policy Based On Chinese Coal Fired Power Plants
Via Roger Pielke Senior’s new and improved Climate Science Blog: Kiminori Itoh of Yokohama National University has prepared a guest weblog for us. It is titled: “Soot And The Arctic…
Note to NCDC climate report authors: try using the telephone next time
Yesterday I reposted one of Warren Meyers essays on the hilariously flawed GCCI report from NCDC suggesting that the electrical grid is at risk due to increased weather related events…
Just where are those grid killing tornadoes anyway?
John Kerry and Tornadoes – not a good mix Warren Meyer over at climate-skeptic.com is a bit fired up over the NCDC sponsored, Los Angeles PR firm processed, Global Climate…
The climate science elephant footprint in the room
Even though written from a biased perspective, with comments such as “raving from a fringe minority”, this article speaks clearly to things like the absurdity of the Catlin Artic Ice…
The Thermostat Hypothesis
Guest Essay by Willis Eschenbach Abstract The Thermostat Hypothesis is that tropical clouds and thunderstorms, along with other emergent phenomena like dust devils, tornadoes, and the El Nino/La Nina alteration,…
Renewable energy – our downfall?
This essay below from Ralph Ellis was posted in comments a couple of days ago, and I decided to promote it to a full post. For the record, let me…
Energy Availability Is Almost Infinite
By Steven Goddard Energy Shortage? A favorite excuse to push the AGW agenda is that “energy is limited, so we have to preserve it for future generations.” But nothing could…
The Guardian Appears Ready to Power Glasgow 100% From Wind (Part 2)
By Steven Goddard There is that green jacket again In Wednesday’s Guardian, their lead environmental story made this bold claim about The Whitelee Wind Farm: Europe’s largest onshore wind farm,…
The Audacity of Cap and Trade
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://media.economist.com/images/20090418/D1609FN1.jpg Yesterday, president Obama announced emission standards which he said would raise the cost of automobiles by $1300. While the new fuel and emission standards…
Glasgow Looking To Freeze In The Dark
Guest post by Steven Goddard What Is Wrong With This Picture? The Telegraph has an article today about the latest addition to the UK wind energy grid, described as “Europe’s…
Now THAT'S a commencement speech
This speech at the 22nd Annual UVU Symposium on Environmental Ethics, held April 1st and 2nd at Utah Valley University is one of the most sensible and pragmatic ones I…
Britain’s only wind turbine plant to close
Who would have thunk? Maybe it had something to do with this video of a Vestas wind turbine: I wonder if it used “Lucas” electronic parts? I owned an Austin…
Electric Utility sues New York over CO2 regulation
“Of course you realize, this means war!” – Bugs War has been declared in the New York court system over global warming regulation. Indeck Corinth L.P., which operates the Corinth…
Earth Hour in California – Success or Bust? The CAISO Power graph tells the story.
Earth Hour in California – Success or Bust? Guest post by Russ Steele, NCWatch At our house we set the timer to remind us to turn on all the visible…
WUWT Poll: What are you going to do for "Earth Hour"?:
Earth Hour hopes to shed light on climate By James Bruggers, USA TODAY New York City’s Empire State Building is scheduled to go dark for one hour Saturday night. So…
Compared to the Sun's power, we are a fly speck on an elephant's butt
Note: A number of people sent this to me. This is a fictional account of what might happen if we get a large solar event, such as a Coronal Mass…
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