Global Ice Story: What they don’t tell you

The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland, and part of Siberia and northern Alaska. Because of the absence of any land mass in the Arctic Ocean, most of area…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #434

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no…

Beyond Petroleum Part Deux: “BP sees ‘peak oil’ in 2020s”

Guest “Looney Toons” by David Middleton OPEC cuts oil demand forecasts, BP sees ‘peak oil’ in 2020sSeptember 14, 2020 LONDON (AP) — Developing countries’ difficulty in containing the spread of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #420

“What we observe is not Nature itself but Nature exposed to our methods of questioning.” –Werner Heisenberg, also “We have to remember that what we observe is not nature itself,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #418

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” —Thomas Paine (1776)

Climate litigation: big oil must fight on the science or die

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley This will be a long posting. You have been warned. The news that the Ninth Circus in California has decided that global warming is a…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #412

Quote of the Week: “It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some…

Cloud Feedback, if there is any, is Negative

Guest post by Mike Jonas, Maybe, after all the attention being paid to the Wuhan virus, it’s time to do a bit of climate science again. I have submitted a…

The Global CO2 lockdown problem

Guest post by Geoff Sherrington The global problem. In response to the threat of a global viral epidemic, countries announced lockdowns at various times near 25th March 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_lockdowns This…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #405

The Week That Was: 2020-04-04 (April 4, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “If I set forth a concrete…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #403

The Week That Was: 2020-03-21 (March 21, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “There must be no barriers to…

Climate alarmist banks go carbon-colonialist

Africa must move forward without them, using fossil and nuclear energy to build prosperity By Paul Driessen and David Wojick Africa has the world’s lowest electrification rate. Its power consumption…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #389

The Week That Was: 2019-12-07 (December 7, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The real problem in speech is…

170 Years of Earth Surface Temperature Data Show No Evidence of Significant Warming

Author: Thomas K. Bjorklund, University of Houston, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Science & Research [Notice: This November 2019 post is now updated with multiple changes on 5/3/2020 to…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #384

The Week That Was: 2019-11-02 (November 2, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Climatology is becoming an increasingly dubious…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #383

The Week That Was: 2019-10-26 (October 26, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week – “Beware of false knowledge; it…

Do Models Run Hot Or Not? A Process Control View

Guest post by Kevin Kilty Introduction This short essay was prompted by a recent article regarding improvements to uncertainty in a global mean temperature estimate.[1] However, much bandwidth has been…

Weekly Climate News and Energy Roundup #363

The Week That Was: 2019-06-15 (June 15, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Our experience during the early days…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #351

The Week That Was: 2019-03-09 (March 9, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “I would rather have questions that…

The Fork in the Climate Road: Eliminate fossil fuels by Monday or “we pass on a dying planet to our children.” An Anthropocene Fairy Tale.

Guest philosophizing by David Middleton There are three options in tackling climate change. Only one will work We’re now at a fork in the road: either we cut out fossil…

Back to the Cretaceous! Because… CLIMATE CHANGE!

Guest AEUHHH??? by David Middleton We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal Peter Forbes is a science writer whose work has appeared in New Scientist,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #329

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President McKitrick-Christy Hypothesis Test: Last week’s TWTW discussed a test on the ability…

Is climate alarmist consensus about to shatter?

Foreword by Paul Driessen A new study by climatologists Nicholas Lewis and Judith Curry concludes that Earth’s “equilibrium climate sensitivity” (ECS) to more atmospheric carbon dioxide is as much as…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #311

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Adjusting Data: SEPP Chairman emeritus Fred Singer has an essay in…