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…

South Australia's blackout apparently 'triggered by the violent fluctuations from the Snowtown wind farms'

Performance of wind farms and fossil fuel powered generators analysed Guest essay by Tom Quirk It looks like a natural disaster but brought on by the fragility of the South…

Fact-check Failures by @UCSUSA "Scientists" – Amplified and Abetted by Pliant Media

Guest opinion; Dr. Tim Ball The major goal of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was to prove that a human caused CO2 increase created global warming. They produced…

Friday Funny: Scientific blunders on parade

It isn’t just climate change where we see blunders being made daily,  the mistakes made by some of history’s greatest scientists are often useful, and they learned from them (unlike some…

September 2016 Projected Temperature Anomalies from NCEP/NCAR Data

Guest Post By Walter Dnes In continuation of my Temperature Anomaly projections, the following are my September projections, as well as last month’s projections for August, to see how well…

Inconvenient: Studies find methane and carbon dioxide release is highest in the Arctic during the region’s cold season

From San Diego State University and the “say anything to support the cause” department, comes this press release written by a fellow who obviously does not understand what it means…

Even dumber than the dumbest attack on ExxonMobil evah'

Guest post by David Middleton The Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Thursday, arguing that the company is violating several key water regulations at one of…

Scientists say Paris climate accord essentially useless, it's going to get warmer anyway

Scientists: World likely won’t avoid dangerous warming mark by Seth Borenstein (AP) A team of top scientists is telling world leaders to stop congratulating themselves on the Paris agreement to…

'State of Fear' by Michael Crichton Could Be the '1984' of Climate Alarmism

Revived today the best novel on “global warming” could be explosive. Guest essay by Walter Donway I guess that if I discovered “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton eleven years…

Bad timing: Study Claiming Less Rain Published in the Middle of a Flood

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study led by ANU Professor Neville Abram, which claims climate is driving clouds south, resulting in less rain reaching Australia’s Southern Coast, has been…

Earth's obliquity and temperature over the last 20,000 years

Recently, there was a timeline comic from XKCD about the history of Earth’s temperature over the Holocene which got quite a bit of play, due to the fact that it…

Climate Change Fraudsters Go To Jail

Pair was allegedly pocketing the money given by NASA for their startup instead of paying graduate students to do the work From AP and web reports: Professor, Wife Sentenced After…

With solar storm in progress, regional impact forecasts set to begin

According to NASA’s Spaceweather.com, a G1-class geomagnetic storm is ringing Earth’s poles on Sept. 29th as a high-speed (600+ km/s) stream of solar wind continues to buffet our planet’s magnetic field.…

Is NOAA adjusting data to make droughts look worse than they are?

Guest essay by Michael Hove [Please note, new update at the end] In the Spring of 2016, I was updating a North Dakota water resource presentation, which contained a Palmer…

Solar variability and the Earth's climate

Guest essay by Andy May According to Javier and the IPCC, total solar radiation output varies little, less than 0.1%. This is only 0.7 to 1.4 Watts/m2 compared to an…