Guest essay by Eric Worrall Ship of Fools expedition leader Chris Turney shares more of his climate wisdom. Australia’s coastal living is at risk from sea level rise, but it’s…
Category: Ridiculae
Laughable science: worrying about impacts of ‘extreme weather’ on bugs in the city
From RUTGERS UNIVERSITY and the YGTBFKM department. I laughed out loud when I saw this study title. My first thought: Other than these researchers, who gives a flying roach (an…
The Horror! Global Warming to Bring Milder Winters, Longer Growing Seasons to Minnesota
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Lakeshore Weekly News has listed the terrifying consequences of global warming for icy Minnesota – milder winters, wetter, hotter summers, longer growing seasons. With climate…
Claim: Silicon Valley Retreating into a Renewable Energy Safe Space
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Wired author Clive Thompson, everything is going terribly wrong these days for Silicon Valley. But they are living on the hope that in…
Climate Explainers: Colder Winters – Because Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate explainers are struggling trying to tell us why it is all our fault that bitter cold is gripping the USA this winter, our fault…
Ridiculous study: Charcoal remains could accelerate CO2 emissions after forest fires
From HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY and the “one-sided science” department comes this ridiculous study that ignores two important things. 1) Forest fires are a natural process that creates forest rebirth, and had been…
Claim: “Climate Denial” is Dead – But Climate Apathy is Preventing Action
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Willie Soon – Business Green author Leo Barasi is worried people still don’t want to act to save the planet, despite the utter defeat…
“Don’t they Love Their Grandchildren?”: HuffPost Celebrates the Climate Wisdom of the Pre-Moderns
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the Huffington Post author and historian Evaggelos Vallianatos, climate wisdom ended when the rise of technology displaced Renaissance appreciation of the Greek Gods.…
Bitcoin Climate Dilemma: Mining Bitcoin Consumes an Entire Country Worth of Electricity
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Will latte sipping Silicon Valley Trendies give up their high carbon Cryptocurrencies to save the planet from global warming? THE HARD MATH BEHIND BITCOIN’S GLOBAL…
“Why did climate scientists emit 30,000 tonnes of CO2 this weekend?”
Guest rebuttal by David Middleton Q. Why did climate scientists emit 30,000 tonnes of CO2 this weekend? A. To get to New Orleans to attend the AGU’s Fall Meeting. From…
Weapons Grade Goofiness: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un can control the weather
From the and “here all along it was supposed to be CO2, but instead its imperious leader Kim Jong Un” department comes this hilarious news story. According to North Korea’s state…
Narwhals freeze? Really?
Guest essay by Mike Jonas The UK’s public broadcaster, the BBC, reported on 7 December 2017 that: Narwhal escape: Whales freeze and flee when frightened Scientists who fitted heart rate-monitoring…
Claim: Peeing in the Shower will Help Save the Climate
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Techly, an online publication aimed at Millennials, has advised its audience to save the world by peeing while taking a shower. Worried about climate change?…
10.02 °C of Warming & Human Extinction by 2026!!! Film at 11.
Guest ridicule by David Middleton “Film at 11” is a US idiom from television news broadcasting, where the viewers are informed that footage of a breaking news story will be…
Friday Funny – ‘Flat Earth researcher’ likely to win a Darwin Award
You’ve all surely heard of the Darwin Awards, where some people remove themselves from the gene pool for the benefit of mankind by taunting natural selection: Natural selection deems that some…
Claim: Deep Fat Friers Are Cooling the Planet
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to British researchers, droplets of oil from deep fat friers are measurably contributing to a vast, cooling cloud over big cities, helping to mitigate…
Latest Daft Green Marketing Idea: Pictures of Natural Disasters on the Sides of New Cars
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Professor Simon Dalby thinks the way to discourage buying petrol cars is to decorate new cars with mandatory images of climate disasters. Thank you for…
The Guardian: It is un-American to Avoid Watching Al Gore’s New Climate Flop
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate Scientist Mechanical Engineer John Abraham, writing for The Guardian, seems to think it is un-American to disagree with his views on climate change. An Inconvenient…
University of Pennsylvania : Israeli Tree Planting is Environmental Racism
Guest essay by Eric Worrall [UPDATE: Edited from Penn State to University of Pennsylvania 8:43 am Pacific Time ~ ctm] h/t Nick – If there was one Israeli initiative you…
President Trump Not Invited to the December Paris Climate Change Summit
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Reuters reports that an unnamed official has stated that President Trump will not receive an invitation to the Paris Climate Change Summit in December. Trump…
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