The Meat Wars: JAMA Stirs the Pot

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 20 January 2020   Rita Rubin, Senior Writer, JAMA Medical News & Perspectives,  has stirred the pot on the controversy surrounding a series of…

More Junk Science From the AAAS of A: Bird Apocalypse Edition

Guest Science! (as in “she blinded me with”) critique by David Middleton One of the best things about my morning emails from the American Association for the Advancement of Science…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #381

The Week That Was: 2019-10-19 (October 19, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week – “The human mind is not…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #380

The Week That Was: 2019-10-12 (October 12, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week – “Beware of false knowledge; it…

“DON’T ASK HOW TO PAY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. ASK WHO”… Shouldn’t we ask why first?

Guest smack-down by David Middleton HENRY FARRELLSCIENCE08.02.1909:00 AMDON’T ASK HOW TO PAY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. ASK WHO LAST WEEK, CNN announced plans to host a climate crisis town hall with the Democratic presidential…

The Green New Deal is not analogous to the “Moon Shot”

The Green New Deal Is This Generation’s Moon ShotSending humans to the moon was a choice. Saving the earth is a necessity. By D.D. GuttenplanTwitter JULY 29, 2019 What is…

Why we do nothing to prepare for climate change

Reposted from the Fabius Maximus website By Larry Kummer, Editor Summary:  The results are meager from thirty years of debate about a public policy response to climate change. There is…

Divestment Goes Full-Billy Madison

Guest ridiculing by David Middleton This post employs Billy Madison as a euphemism. Fossil fuel divestment is, by definition, Billy Madisoned. It is a concerted effort hold back or slow…

Bogus Greenpeace claim that lost Russian polar bear is evidence of climate change

Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on April 18, 2019 | Comments Off on Bogus Greenpeace claim that lost Russian polar bear is evidence of climate change Another day, another…

The noble corruption of climate science

By Larry Kummer. Summary: This is a story of climate science, tracing from its enthusiastic beginnings as small field – warning of a global threat –to its rich and increasingly…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #343

The Week That Was: 2019-01-12 (January 12, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   Quote of the Week: “There is no such thing…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #342

The Week That Was: 2019-01-05 (January 5, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   Quote of the Week “The formulation of a problem…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #341

The Week That Was: 2018-12-22 (December 22, 2018) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   Quote of the Week: “On what principle is it…

Lessons from the failure of the climate change crusade

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Despite thirty years of efforts by most of the elite institutions of America, US governments have done little to fight climate…

SHAME: @350 is Turning children into climate activists by encouraging school strikes

350.org’s  Bill McKibben supports campaign of school-strikes over climate alarm this Friday 12/14/18 The aberration that is climate alarm had it’s ugliest moment a few years ago, when the ill-fated…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #335

The Week That Was: 2018-11-10 (November 10, 2018) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The people who are supposed to…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #334

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) Importance of Clouds: MIT Sloan Professor…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #333

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)   Biased: TWTW has been accused as being…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #332

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Specific Problems in IPCC Science: New Zealand is one country whose politicians…

Oil Production at 100 million bbl/d: “Twin peaks straining the system to the limit”? Or just another day at the office in a highly resilient industry?

Guest commentary by David Middleton From the International Energy Agency’s Oil Market Report (OMR): Home » Newsroom » News » 2018 » October OMR: Twin Peaks 12 October 2018 Both…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #328

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) An Experiment – Testing the Core Hypothesis…

Dangerous Pseudo-Science in Cyber Security

Note: this isn’t our normal fare on WUWT, but we do occasionally carry political pieces. What makes this interesting is that Steve McIntyre (ClimateAudit) is involved in researching it. -Anthony…

Hopeful news for us from the Horse Manure Crisis of 1894

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website.   Summary: We can better prepare for future threats by seeing how we defeated past ones. Here we compare a certain doom…

Polar bear alarmists double-down on message of future starving bears

It seems thicker sea ice in the region was the cause, but they ignore that fact. By Dr. Susan Crockford The really significant content of a new paper being heavily-hyped…