Forecasts 25% rise in annual CO2 emissions by 2035 Submitted by Eric Worrall – BP has controversially predicted that the huge rise in energy demand over the next 20 years…
Strange Allies in the War on Carbon Fuels
Guest opinion by Viv Forbes – What great cause could unite Prince Charles, President Obama, the Pope, the Arab Oil sheiks, the United Nations, the European Union, the Russians, the…
Science -vs- PR hype doesn't hold up: Satellite images reveal ocean acidification from space
I’m a bit skeptical of this claim, “Satellite images reveal ocean acidification from space” but it may be mostly due to how the press release is written, for example, nowhere…
New Paper Confirms the Hiatus Is Not Occurring at the Poles, Undermining the Efforts of Cowtan and Way
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Pierre Gosselin of NoTrickZone reports on a paper that confirms the slowdown in global surface warming has not been occurring at the poles. See Pierre’s…
From #AAAS Why Some (Many?) Scientists Tend to Hype their Findings
Guest essay By Indur M. Goklany In case there was any doubt that many scientists are like the rest of humanity, not to mention Brian Williams, the Pew Research Center…
Climate Propaganda from the Australian Academy of Science
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The Australia Academy of Science has recently published a Q&A about human-induced global warming titled The science of climate change. Their press release is here. …
Divestment ethics and realities
Eliminating fossil fuels from investment portfolios hurts colleges, workers and poor families Guest essay by Paul Driessen College students who support divestment of fossil fuel stocks are passionate about their…
January 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through January 2015 and HADCRUT4 and…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #168
The Week That Was: 2015-02-14 (February 14, 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…
Theory on the Pause – climate science has 'exhausted adjustment rationales'
Global Warming is real and is definitely caused by human-produced carbon . . . pencil lead, that is. Guest essay by Ralph Park Global Warming Theory – An impressive collection…
Mann tries to revive his dead hockey stick with a press release
From Penn State (via Eurekalert) and the ‘bad science keeps coming back from the dead’ department, comes this laughable PR hack which is disguised as a plug for Dr. Mann’s…
Solar Cycle 24 Update for February 2015
Solar cycle 24 contines to be lower than the vast majority of predictions that came out during the waning years of solar cycle 23. David Archibald gives an update on…
Advances in research of electric car batteries presented at #AAAS
A number of interesting things have occurred at the AAAS meeting in San Jose the last few days, here is one that caught my eye. As many readers know, I…
A new book in which I have a chapter: Climate Change: The Facts
From Steynonline: … Climate Change: The Facts has been put together by our friends at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia, edited by Alan Moran, and features 22 essays…
A new study shows climate skeptics have more knowledge on climate science than alarmists
Fox News reports: Study: Global warming skeptics know more about climate science Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science? Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal…
North and South Poles: Important Climate Differences
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball A favorite exam question in my first-year climate class was, “Why is the North Pole warmer than the South Pole? I changed it each year,…
Friday funnies! Cartoon notes from Josh
Josh writes: Here are the cartoon notes of a riveting talk given by Dr Christopher Essex last Wednesday,11th Feb, in the House of Lords, UK Parliament. Chris is Chairman, Permanent Monitoring…
Actual PR headline: 'Middle-aged men at highest risk of suicide after breathing poor air'
From University of Utah Health Sciences viua Eurekalert; I suppose it’s only a matter of time where somebody will publish a study saying that a 50ppm increase in CO2 causes…
New Paper: Unprecedented 21st-century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains
GUEST POST by Bob Tisdale That’s the title of a new paper by Cook et al. that’s been making the rounds in the mainstream media. The paper is available from…
UN Climate Agreement balloons into a carbon sequestration document
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The proposed draft UN climate agreement is reported to have ballooned to 100 pages, from the 38 page draft discussed at the Lima holiday conference.…
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