Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to two high profile Bangladeshi academics, the majority of climate funds which reach poor countries are being spent on expensive outside consultants who arrive,…
Hurricane data from 1851 suggests #Matthew landfall on east coast of Florida is a longshot
Hurricane expert Dr. Philip Klotzbach (successor to Dr. Bill Gray) writes on Twitter along with this helpful chart: 0 hurricanes have made landfall along the east coast of Florida north…
Australian Energy Market Operator report says wind farms were the ultimate cause of blackout, network withstood pylon downings
While ecos and wind farm proponents tried to blame the blackout on downed powerlines, a detailed report from AEMO shows it was actually wind farms that were the cause. From…
DiCaprio Calls for "Deniers" to be Banned from Public Office: President Obama Stays Silent
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate advocate Leonardo DiCaprio has called for climate “deniers” to be banned from public office. President Obama, sharing a stage with DiCaprio, did not object…
Latest forecast spaghetti plots for Hurricane #Matthew
For those that have an interest, here are the 18Z model runs for track positions, plotted on Google Earth. Data from National Hurricane Center. Click image for a full size…
How Gaia and Coral Reefs Regulate Ocean pH
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Although some researchers…
New study suggests a link between the 11 year solar cycle and the tidal effects of Venus, the Earth and Jupiter
HZDR researchers suggest a link between the solar cycle and the tidal effects of Venus, the Earth and Jupiter From the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres via press release:…
#Matthew takes aim on Florida, likely to end 4000 day major hurricane drought for USA
Hurricane Matthew is very likely to end the over decade long major hurricane drought for the USA. The question is will it do it before or after the 4000 day…
Leading climate scientist Cess admits mathematical errors in the AGW theory
Guest essay by Kyoji Kimoto Dr. Robert D. Cess led the following Intercomparison Projects of GCMs for the IPCC Assessment Reports. 1989: Interpretation of Cloud-Climate Feedback as Produced by 14…
Wall Street Journal: Climate Skeptics Should Back a Carbon Tax, Just in Case
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Wall Street Journal thinks skeptics should embrace a carbon tax as a kind of insurance policy, against the possibility we are wrong about climate…
Latest forecast track shows hurricane #Matthew grazing Florida East Coast
I’ve been watching this awhile, as have many others, and now it looks like we might have some real trouble. Matthew looks to be strengthening – see the satellite loop…
September Global Temperature Unchanged from August – but still cooler than 1998 or 2010
From Dr. Roy Spencer: UAH Global Temperature Update for September 2016: +0.44 deg. C The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September 2016 is +0.44 deg.…
Eye roller: we measured sea levels in the wrong places, therefore it's 'worse than we thought'
From the UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA Historical records may underestimate global sea level rise New research published in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the longest and highest-quality records of…
Get your mind right – Embrace the 'Lewandowsky Hypothesis'
Guest essay by Peter O’Brien I gave up reading Robert Ludlum novels about forty years ago. The highly convoluted and improbable plots became just too irritating. But recently, thanks…
Claim: Reservoirs play substantial role in global warming
From Washington State University and “the EPA and ecos now have another new tool to prevent new reservoirs in California” department: VANCOUVER, Wash. – Washington State University researchers say the world’s…
Researcher succeeds creating a controlled rogue wave in realistic oceanic conditions
This is interesting, from AALTO UNIVERSITY: The 260-meter long German barge carrier MS München was lost mysteriously at sea in 1978. The final communication message was a garbled mayday message…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #243
The Week That Was: ending October 1, 2016 Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
James Lovelock on Climate Prediction: "I’ve grown up a bit since then."
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Richard – James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia hypothesis which underpins much of modern environmentalism, now thinks global warming is a religion. He also…
Study: Global Warming Causes Cold Winters
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research claims that global warming is the root cause of recent spate of cold winters in the…
South Australia's wind energy crisis & state wide blackout were foreseeable – and foreseen
From the “it’s a 50 year storm I tell you” department, comes this interesting find by Larry Hamlin. While apologists rush to blame “climate change enhanced severe weather” for failure…
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