Claim: Warmer Weather Reduces Birth Rates

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study published by the US National Bureau of Economic Research claims that every day over 80F per year dramatically reduces your chances of…

Paul Ehrlich: Australia will become a "third world country" if we don't abandon Mining

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Serial failed futurist Paul Ehrlich has warned that Australia will become a third world country, if we Australians don’t abandon one of our main sources…

Involuntary decarbonization

China is aware that its coal is running out and that it needs new sources of energy. The rest of the world blunders along on the assumption that fossil fuels…

Retracted claim: FOIA suggests #RICO20 leader Jagdish Shukla falsely claimed prestigious NASA medal.

UPDATE: (edited) My own research uncovers that the claim made by Steve Milloy is UNTRUE. See this NASA document: https://searchpub.nssc.nasa.gov/servlet/sm.web.Fetch/Agency_Awards_Historical_Recipient_List.pdf?rhid=1000&did=2120817&type=released Apparently Milloy’s FOIA request was not broad enough. I apologize…

The hilarious legacy of 'last chances' for climate, exposed

As the Paris Climate Talk aka COP21 approaches, we get this familiar cry from The Vatican: They say it is the ‘last effective opportunity’ to keep global warming to ‘a limit…

Antarctic warming and greenhouse gas connection: 'we lack sufficient evidence'; but the ice sheet will collapse anyway

The huge West Antarctic ice sheet would collapse completely if the comparatively small Amundsen Basin is destabilized, scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research find From the POTSDAM…

Closing on a quarter billion

Guest essay by Ric Werme As we close into the 250 millionth page view at WUWT (likely to happen in a few hours done), I’ve been thinking both back to…

Back To The Dark Ages: Top French Weatherman Fired Over Climate Change Book

From: France 24, 1 November 2015 (h/t to The GWPF) A popular weatherman announced Saturday evening he has been sacked by leading French news channel France Télévisions for publishing a book…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #203

The Week That Was: 2015-10-31 (October 31, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)…

Will Paris COP21 cost more to host than it raises in Green Pledges?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Christopher Booker, one of Britain’s most prominent climate skeptics, has written a brilliant expose about the shambolic leadup to the Paris COP21 conference. One of…

Al Jazeera: Climate "deniers" costing 400,000 lives / year

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Al Jazeera has made an outrageous claim that climate “denial” is helping to kill 400,000 people every year. According to Al Jazeera; “Other conspiracy theorists…

Ooops! New NASA study: Antarctica isn't losing ice mass after all !

From the “settled science” department and former chief alarmist Jay Zwally, who for years had said the Arctic was in big trouble (only to have his prediction falsified), comes this Emily…

Wine Makers NOT concerned about Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The International Organisation of Vine and Wine has stated it is not concerned about the impact of climate change, at least in the short to…

Vladimir Putin; Climate and Political Realist?

Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The Daily Caller headline said, Russia’s Putin Says Global Warming Is ‘A Fraud.” What Putin is doing and saying is nothing new. He always knew…

Greenland ice melt due to 'global warming' found not so bad after all

From the UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH and the “note the soot on the ice in the image they included above” department: Satellites shed light on Greenland Ice Sheet response to warming…

Friday funny – 97% Pause for a Food fight

Josh writes: The Pause has been in the news this week with the Karl et al paper, the ‘no-you-cant-have-our-emails’ story, and the Meehl paper with comment by David Whitehouse. It looks very much like a food fight to me – cheers again,…

October 2015 ENSO Update – Comparisons with the Other Satellite-Era Multiyear El Niño

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of last year’s 2014-15 El Niño Series.  For the posts…

Russian President: Climate Change is Fraud

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t DailyCaller – Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that he thinks the Western climate scare is a fraud, designed to restrain industrial development in…

Ozone hole worse than in recent years – due to colder than normal stratosphere in Antarctica

A couple of days ago we ran a piece at WUWT: Did We Really Save the Ozone Layer? In light of this press release, the question is worth pondering again. From the…

Limp Blimp Crimps Green Energy Pimps

A runaway JLENS aerostat highlights the uncertainty and risks of pie-in-the-sky green energy schemes. Guest essay by Tom Scott One reason that a fragile naked human species has adapted to…