By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: How to deal with risks dominates our headlines, usually driven by single-interest groups that see only their favorite threat. Statistician Nassim…
Tol on Gulf Stream slowdown: "Cooling is probably a good bit more harmful than warming…"
Gulf Stream slowdown to spare Europe from worst of climate change From the UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX and Dr. Richard Tol. Europe will be spared the worst economic impacts of climate…
Climate tipping points: What do they mean for society?
From the “no tipping points observed, though many have been predicted” department and Rutgers University Rutgers and Harvard scientists lay out strategy for investigating societal consequences The phrase “tipping point”…
Great Barrier Reef Triage Panic
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Having failed to stir interest in the Great Barrier Reef during the recent cliffhanger Australian Federal Election, reef scientists are now demanding that the government…
From the Better-Than-We-Thought Dept: Major Diseases Are In Decline
Good News Update by Kip Hansen Science is a wonderful thing. As time moves on, in a single direction, Science, as an endeavor, discovers new things and improves our…
Carbon Traders Whine Permits are Too Cheap to Make a Profit
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – carbon traders are complaining that over-issuing of carbon permits, a lack of political will to make carbon trading work, has destroyed investor…
Alarmism: Claiming Normal as Abnormal Began on a Global Scale with Ozone
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of…
Open Thread Saturday
It has been awhile since we have had one. Feel free to comment on any topic within our normal guidelines.
Lets Cook Limestone to Raise Atmospheric CO2 to 1000ppm
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The world has a CO2 problem – there is not enough free CO2 in the atmosphere, to maximise food production, alleviate world hunger, green deserts,…
Claim: Climate change may shrink Adélie penguin range by end of century
From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Climate has influenced the distribution patterns of Adélie penguins across Antarctica for millions of years. The geologic record tells us that as glaciers expanded and covered…
Florida County Commissioners Propose new Climate Doomsday Property Tax
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Commissioners in Miami-Dade County have proposed a new climate change levy on property developers who want to create new housing in “environmentally sensitive” areas. Miami-Dade…
Move over Tatooine – a planet with triple suns has been discovered
A team of astronomers have used the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to image the first planet ever found in a wide orbit inside a triple-star system.…
Garbage Climate Science: Modeling ≠ Data when it comes to 2003 Paris heat wave deaths
You have to wonder about the logic behind such “science”. Instead of looking at actual data, such as actual causes on death certificates, researchers instead run a distributed model processing…
Green EU Commission President Claims ALIENS are Worried about Brexit
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Its not just Greens who are worried about Europe – the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker stated in a speech that leaders of…
Former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres Pitching for the Top Job
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The UN is looking for a replacement for retiring UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Christiana Figueres, who is credited with re-invigorating the global climate…
Party Line right, climate science wrong
Guest Opinion By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Ryan Cooper (left below), an innumerate journalist writing for The Week, asks (alongside the obligatory picture of a cuddly polar bear, right below)…
Lush Venus? Searing Earth? It could have happened
Rice University scientists propose that life in the solar system could have been very different If conditions had been just a little different an eon ago, there might be plentiful…
NASA plans GHG world tour
NASA’s Airborne Mission to Explore the Global Atmosphere Ice sheets, deserts, rivers, islands, coasts and oceans — the features of Earth’s surface are wildly different, spread across a vast geography.…
Climate Tensions Still Running Hot within the Democrat Party
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Christian Science Monitor has written about a fascinating climate split in the Democrat Party, between “cynical” politicians and “young hawks” who see climate as an…
Uh, oh. Committee Ramps Up Investigation, Threatens Use of Compulsory Process Against Members of #RICO20
WASHINGTON – Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today sent letters to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, and eight environmental…
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