Another pie in the sky green scheme for using that excess atmospheric CO2

From the “there’s a shedload of carbon on the surface” department comes this “green solution” that will “overcome the environmental sins of our past”. Oy. Converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into…

Long Satellite Pauses Ending (Now Includes January Data)

Guest Post by Werner Brozek, Excerpted From Nick Stokes, Edited by Just The Facts: Image Credit: Nick Stokes Before beginning the discussion, I just want to comment on the authors.…

Report: Bin Laden Planned to Destabilise America using the Climate Issue

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Reuters reports that the terrorist Osama Bin Laden intended to use the climate issue to spread chaos in the United States, by calling for people…

Climate Alarmism on steroids, we are in a "global climate crisis"

You just gotta love the phrase “unprecedented shift in temperature”, as if somehow people aren’t able to handle climate shifts say, like the difference in average annual temperature between New…

New publication demonstrates that scientists have routinely exaggerated the "evil twin of climate change" aka ocean acidification

A new paper published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science puts the issue of “ocean acidification” to the test, and finds that there has been significant exaggeration in the issue.…

Climate Models are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 4

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Alternate Title: Climate Models Undermine the Hypothesis of Human-Induced Global Warming According to the hypothesis of human-induced global warming, manmade greenhouse gases create an energy…

Huff Post Explains the Insurance Business to Warren Buffett

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Warren Buffett doesn’t understand the insurance industry; Or so suggests the Huffington Post, in a rather hysterical critique of Buffett’s lukewarm acceptance of climate dogma.…

Milton Friedman’s advice about climate models, & how to win the policy debate

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The vital public policy debate over climate change is deadlocked. This is the sixth in a series about ways to restart…

Another negative climate feedback found, this time in grasslands

In grasslands, longer spring growing season offsets higher summer temperatures North American grasslands face mixed bag of climate change effects From the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Grasslands across North America will…

The Kevin Trenberth Effect: Pulling Science Back to the Dark Ages. Part two – The Big Snow Job

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 Trenberth’s 1999 paper…

Uh, oh. U.S. Lawmakers Expand Probe Of Hiatus-Denying NOAA Study

Back in the summer of 2015, I sent Dr. Tom Peterson of NOAA/NCEI a private email saying that I’d lost my trust in him as an unbiased scientist and that…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #216

The Week That Was: 2016-02-27 (February 27, 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…

Climate Models are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 3

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE:  See the update below Figure 1.24-8 for the IPCC’s correction of their Figure 9.17 from the 5th Assessment Report.  Thanks, Nic. # # #…

Warren Buffet, Climate Change and Pascal's Wager

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Legendary businessman Warren Buffet has waded into the climate issue, with his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway investors. Buffet seems to believe climate change is…

The Complicity of Journals and Magazines in Pushing Flawed IPCC Climate Science

Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The public face of climate science practiced by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and their offspring the Intergovernmental Panel…

Another thing not in climate models 'Synchronized leaf aging' in the tropics

From the DOE/BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY Synchronized leaf aging in the Amazon responsible for seasonal increases in photosynthesis High-tech photography in the Amazon reveals that young leaves grow in at the…

Ghent Cathedral bells ring out Bob Carter's Peal

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Bob Carter’s Peal, a clock tune composed in memory of the late Professor Bob Carter, seems to have gone viral. In no time at all,…

Exxon Stands Up to the Green Bullies

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Exxon Mobile has courageously rejected suggestions that it should include the impact of the Paris Accord on its business model, in its financial disclosures to…

Claim: Psychology Will Save Us from Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Can psychology help manipulate people into accepting climate alarmism, and adjusting their personal lifestyles? According to The Conversation, the answer might be yes – but…

Claim: Consumers care about carbon footprint

This study reminded me of one of the most ridiculous green marketing campaigns ever, “carbon free” Domino sugar. My view is that the only consumers that care about a carbon…