KXL was AWOL from SOTU – along with real energy, job, economic and revenue solutions Guest essay by Paul Driessen President Obama frequently says he wants to turn the economy…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-02-01 (February 1, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Whatever the UK is deciding to…
Josh on 'The Uncomfortable Pause"
Josh writes in with a new cartoon. This is a spoof on the xkcd.com/1321/ cartoon that was doing the Twitter rounds the other day. First, the XKCD cartoon on global…
If 99 Doctors Said…
We’ve seen the “If 99 doctors said…” argument, or facsimiles, used often by global warming enthusiasts in recent months. George Clooney used it when interviewed at the Britannia Awards. (See…
The January Leading Indicator
By Walter Dnes – Edited by Just The Facts Investopedia defines “Leading Indicator” thusly… A measurable economic factor that changes before the economy starts to follow a particular pattern or…
Michael Mann the 'reluctant public figure' and 'typewriter expert'
One of the hurdles Michael Mann has to overcome in his lawsuit against NRO/Steyn is the tenet that public figures are expected to have a higher level of tolerance when…
A Displaced Polar Vortex and Its Causes
By WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” If you aren’t familiar with Stratospheric Polar Vortexes, you can get acquainted here, here and here. “A strong link exists between stratospheric variability and…
Chicken al la still not a king
The royal prince in waiting of Britain labels climate skeptics as “headless chickens”. From The Telegraph: Prince Charles has criticised climate change deniers, describing them as the “headless chicken brigade”…
Case study: how to fight the Sierra Club with no money
John Droz, Jr. sends this new item In October of 2013, a major wind project was targeted for coastal North Carolina. I decided to use this as a test case…
KXL pipeline gets green light from State Department
Keith Sketchley writes: Today the US State Department reported ‘no major environmental objections to the proposed $7 billion Keystone pipeline’. I wonder what Obamas and Kerrys reasons for further delay…
Study: Green roofs suck at solving global warming
White roofs three times as effective as green roofs From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and some members of the BEST team comes this surprise. “We conclude that the choice of…
Better living through carbon conversion chemistry
UD catalyst can convert CO2 to CO with 92 percent efficiency A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has developed a highly selective catalyst capable of electrochemically converting…
Friday Funny: If you thought Mann's lawsuit was ridiculous, take a look at this one
Remember this before and after picture in the news recently from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity? Well, it appears there’s a conspiracy theory under every rock, more fodder for Lewandowsky…
Open Letter to Kevin Trenberth – NCAR
Date: January 31, 2014 Subject: Your Blog Post at SkepticalScience and an Invitation from WattsUpWithThat From: Bob Tisdale To: Kevin Trenberth – NCAR Dear Kevin: I note that you were…
Response to the SOTU address: Efforts to cap CO2 emissions are adverse to human health and welfare
OPINION By Craig D. Idso, Ph.D. In his State of the Union address, President Obama advocated an energy policy aimed at reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), which he claims…
Asteroid Diversity Points to a 'Snow Globe' Solar System
As of today, there are currently 1453 known potentially hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth and cause a real planetary catastrophe. Given the new diverse “snow globe” model of our…
Mann look-alike thinks Mann's lawsuit will wipe out National Review
Damon Linker writes at THE WEEK: Is National Review doomed? The conservative movement’s leading magazine faces a lawsuit that could bring it to its knees. This part made me laugh:
Tweet of the Week – 'big climate' and 'big tobacco'
Skeptics routinely get smeared by Al Gore, Michael Mann, and others of being like and/or in the employ of “Big Oil’, ‘Big Coal’, or “Big Tobacco’. Yet many of the…
A report on the AR5 hearings: 'Unsettling the “Settled Science” of Climate Change'
Video of the session 2 follows. The committee for Energy and Climate Change must be in line for an award. Its performance this week was exceptional. The mental level of…
Is the Climate SELL Signal Imminent?
What a simple statistical investment tool can tell us about the climate Guest essay by Eric Worrall One of the simplest statistical tools used by investors is a moving average…
You must be logged in to post a comment.