Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #417

Unfortunately, scientists in a number of organizations, such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, confuse hypothesis testing with cherry picking – the selection of data that supports the hypothesis, ignoring…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #413

Quote of the Week: “I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that…

Podcast: Why the Oceans Really Aren’t “Acidifying” but the Term Is Being Abused by Science and Media

Science and media outlets claim ocean acidification is happening due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But objective data show the ocean is far from acidic according to Dr.…

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #406

The Week That Was: 2020-04-18 (April 18, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “It is the mark of an…

It’s Easy to be Fooled by a Climate Alarmist

Reposted by permission from Medium.com Dispelling the fallacies of a solar company owner Gregory Wrightstone Mar 6 · Gregory Wrightstone — March 6, 2020 Author of Inconvenient Facts — The…

Dissolving Dungeness?

By Jim Steele, Published in Pacifica Tribune March 8, 2020 What’s Natural Like New England’s lobsters, savory Dungeness crabs are San Francisco and the northwest’s iconic seafood. While fisheries around…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #397

The Week That Was: 2020-02-01 (February 1, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “”Facts are stubborn things; and whatever…

The Solution To Dissolution

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The British tabloid “The Guardian” has a new scare story about what is wrongly called “ocean acidification”. It opens as follows: Pacific Ocean’s rising acidity…

Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus

University of Washington Life as we know it requires phosphorus. It’s one of the six main chemical elements of life, it forms the backbone of DNA and RNA molecules, acts…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #391

The Week That Was: 2019-12-21 (December 21, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and…

Is it climate socialism – or eco-fascism?

Green New Deal climate alarm socialism is really intolerant, totalitarian eco-fascism Paul Driessen Green New Dealers have convinced themselves that our planet faces an imminent, existential, manmade climate cataclysm –…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #374

The Week That Was: 2019-08-31 (August 31, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: What I cannot create, I do…

Fraud, breach of right of privacy and libel by Nature Communications @NatureComms

Elisa de Ranieri, editor-in-chief, Nature Communications, David Gevaux, chief “physical-sciences” editor, Fiona Gillespie, managing editor, Jasper Franke, associate editor, “Earth team”, Alexander Michael Petersen, asst. professor, engineering, Emmanuel M. Vincent, “climate communications”, Anthony LeRoy Westerling 15…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #371

The Week That Was: 2019-08-10 (August 10, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: ““The aim of science is to…

The Total Myth of Ocean Acidification: Science! Edition

Guest myth-busting by David Middleton From the American Association of Science of America [1]… Ocean acidification could boost shell growth in snails and sea urchins By Katie Camero Jul. 23,…

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…

CO2 and ocean chemistry

by Dr. Daniele Mazza Oceans cover about 71% of the earth surface, but their influence on climate change is not only due to high heat capacity of water , not…

140 Years to a PETM-Style Doomsday!!! Another PETM/Chicken Little of the Sea Epic Fail

Guest geology lesson by David Middleton PETM = Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Research ArticleTemporal Scaling of Carbon Emission and Accumulation Rates: Modern Anthropogenic Emissions Compared to Estimates of PETM Onset Accumulation…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #356

The Week That Was: 2019-04-13 (April 13, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “To be ignorant of what occurred…

Stop the anti-climate science totalitarians

They want to upend and transform America, but demand No Debate on underlying “science” Paul Driessen Democrats, climate campaigners and renewable energy interests are in full outrage mode over news…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #349

The Week That Was: 2019-02-23 (February 23, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Don’t pay attention to ‘authorities,’ think…

Washington State Implementing “Eco-Friendly” Accelerated Composting of Dead People, to Reduce Carbon Emissions

From the almost “Soylent Green” department. Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – the text of the bill makes it clear the new law is to save energy and…

Chicken Little of the Sea Is Dissolving the Sea Floor!!! Run Away!!!

Guest lampooning by David Middleton Hat tip to Latitude… Human activities are dissolving the seafloor by the Office of Communications Nov. 5, 2018 2:07 p.m. With increasing carbon dioxide from…