Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian reports that Japan this year killed more than 300 whales, for “research” purposes. Australia and New Zealand are criticised for not attempting to…
Category: Environment
What did ExxonMobil Know and when did they know it? (Part 3, Exxon: The Fork Not Taken)
Guest post by David Middleton This just keeps getting more hilarious… Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models The company chairman would later mock climate models…
What did ExxonMobil Know and when did they know it? (Part 1)
Guest post by David Middleton Maybe ExxonMobil should file a RICO lawsuit against the “Shukla 20”, Inside Climate, the LA Times and this gentleman… Exxon Knew Everything There Was to…
Claim: US West's power grid must be prepared for impacts of climate change – but environmentalism might be a bigger threat
From: Arizona State University TEMPE, Arizona — Electricity generation and distribution infrastructure in the Western United States must be “climate-proofed” to diminish the risk of future power shortages, according to…
Four Stories, Two Worlds
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach To start the four tales of the title, I noticed a couple of stories in the news lately about how critical inexpensive energy is for…
Questing Into The New Year
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s a cold clear night here along the north Pacific coast where I live, with a waxing moon surveying the scene. As befits New Years…
Big Numbers, Small Numbers
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I read a paper today that said that there are no less than 270,000,000 kilograms of plastic in the ocean, which is about half a…
Father of the 'Gaia hypothesis' James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
From the Guardian, where I find it surprising they actually printed it: Scientist behind the Gaia hypothesis says environment movement does not pay enough attention to facts and he was…
The Sierra Club might be surprised to learn that some of these emissions aren't soot
Tom Nelson writes: Water vapor as “pollution”?: Sierra Club’s claims are based on opacity, which measures the thickness of emissions from a smoke stack by how much light passes through…
Friday Funny – Great moments in Environmentalism: the '2 million' KXL comments – real or fake?
UPDATE: Bill McKibben doesn’t seem to want to address the question. See below. Earlier today, 350.org’s founder Bill McKibben tweeted this: [Source: http://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/442052998324551680 ] Tom Nelson asked about those boxes…
Study: Electric vehicles have little impact on US pollutant emissions
A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of…
New tax scheme: 'Environmental fiscal reform'
PR from Basque research: Environmental fiscal reform would improve the environment and reduce the informal economy The effect that the introduction of environmental fiscal reform would have on an economic…
Environmental concern disappears with economic instability
From University of Southern California another lesson from the economic train wreck that is Greece; people stop worrying about the environment when you make cleaner fuels too expensive to use.…
Is There an Equine Version of Wind Turbine Syndrome?
While not much gets past WUWT, this story from Portugal has only recently gotten some press, well after its posting in March, and I think it warrants attention here. While…
Better US air quality since 1990 offers health benefits
From Brigham Young University: Breathing better, living longer Arden Pope’s students know him as an excellent economics teacher, but some would be surprised to learn that, thanks to him, the…
EPA sues Oklahoma utility for obeying the law
Guest post by David Middleton Just when you think that the EPA cannot possibly get any more idiotic… U.S. EPA sues OG&E over work at Oklahoma coal power plants Tue…
How Environmental Organizations Are Destroying The Environment
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Washington Post reports: During an April visit to the San Francisco home of billionaire and environmental activist Tom Steyer, who created a political action…
Why The Parrotfish Should Be The National Bird
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Ecological alarmist scares have a lot in common with zombies. They seem to eat up people’s brains, they are mindless themselves, and most important, they…
Leveraging a Changing Climate: Recent advances in understanding how Species cope with Changing Conditions.
Guest essay by Daniel Bourke Introduction The concept of climate change has become a controversial one. By that it is not meant to be said that the happening of climate…
You must be logged in to post a comment.