China’s Electric Vehicle Policy Not Turning Over November 6, 2014 By Robert O’Neill Toward the end of the past decade, China set itself an ambitious goal: to dramatically ramp…
Climate change – follow the money
One of the greatest inanities that occurs in the climate wars is the claim that skeptics are lavishly funded by “big oil” or other political interests. t is a claim…
On the Elusive Absolute Global Mean Surface Temperature – A Model-Data Comparison
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale With the publication of the IPCC 5th Synthesis Report, I thought there might be some interest in a presentation of how well (actually poorly) climate…
US Midterms: Sierra Club declares Victory
“… While we have lost friends in Congress, we are gaining them in the streets …” Eric Worrall writes: The President of the Sierra Club is confident of widespread and…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #155
The Week That Was: 2014-11-08 (November 8, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: it is “certain that the number…
Wrapped in Lew Papers: The psychology of climate psychologization – Part3
Guest essay by Andy West ∙Third of 3 posts examining papers by Lewandowsky & co-authors before ‘conspiracy ideation’ claims. These papers warn of cognitive bias effects, all of which occur…
UEA Claim: Global warming distracts bees by making them horny
Eric Worrall writes: At the University of East Anglia (UEA), the place that gave us Climategate, researchers have discovered climate change affects the ability of bees to pollinate a rare…
Man-made Global Warming (AGW) is Real: Men Really Created It
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Man-made global warming is real, because it was humans who created the idea and proved, independent of nature, that human activity was the cause. It…
An Empirical Review of Recent Trends in the Greenhouse Effect
Guest essay by Robin Pittwood, Kiwi Thinker Abstract The core of the human caused global warming proposition is that an increasing level of greenhouse gases acts to reduce heat loss…
The Ultimate Irony: Camille Parmesan argues “Texas textbooks need to get the facts straight” on global warming
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University In a recent Commentary posted to the Statesman.com here, Camille Parmesan and the AAAS want…
Irreversible
Josh writes: Following the IPCC Synthesis Report we have had many catastrophists describing the impacts of climate change as ‘Irreversible’ and using the phrase ‘Immorality of inaction’ – I can…
Wrapped in Lew Papers: The psychology of climate psychologization – Part2
This is the second of 3 posts by Andy West examining papers by Lewandowsky & co-authors before ‘conspiracy ideation’ claims. These papers warn of cognitive bias effects, all of which…
On climate, the Right is right – Global temperature update: the Pause is still 18 years 1 month
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley One of the most interesting statistics from the recent mid-terms was the New York Times’ exit poll (Fig. 1), showing that more than two-thirds of…
Waterless Fracking promises more energy, less trouble
Waterless Fracking may increase access to more energy, without the need to deal with the waste water.From the article: Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines claim they have developed…
“Warmest Year” Brings Record Harvests For UK
By Paul Homewood From YAHOO News: The UK is on course to experience the warmest and one of the wettest years since records began more than a century ago –…
ClimateProgress’s Joe Romm Translates the IPCC’s 2014 Synthesis Report
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale It’s been months since I’ve wandered over to the ClimateProgress wing of the political blog ThinkProgress. The title of the November 4, 2014 blog post…
"Propter nomen" — Because of the name
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen In the current round of discussion over at Climate Dialogue, which is about the effects of the Sun on Earth’s climate, one of the participants,…
Another government funded eye-roller: USGS bemoans climate change affecting your bird feeder
From the USGS: Who Will Come to Your Bird Feeder in 2075? Released: 11/5/2014 The distribution of birds in the United States today will probably look very different in 60…
Recovering Whales, Ocean Acidification, and Climate Horror Stories
Part 3 of Jim Steele’s Presentation to the Life Members of the International Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Jim is the author of “Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmental Journey to Climate…
Enthusiasm about a Double-Dip El Niño (?) And Global Warming
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale In this post we can learn from someone’s mistakes. The author of the post at Slate clearly misunderstands many aspects of El Niño and their…
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