Dr. Katharine Hayhoe tries to scare Canadians with threats of warmer temperatures

Mass Public Indoctrination Program on Climate Change Introduced in ‘Alberta Narratives’ During Calgary Climate Symposium By Michelle Stirling and Trevor Marr CALGARY, Alberta, Canada As the IPCC Cities Conference progressed…

Icelandic President: Stop Joking about Global Warming

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The President of Iceland is concerned that his people don’t seem to be taking global warming seriously. In Iceland, global warming no longer a joke:…

Reuters: Blame Consumers, Not China for Global Warming

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Clinton Climate Initiative backed green group C40, heavy emitters like China are not responsible for climate change; consumers in big cities who provide…

Canadian Climate Conference: "Cities and Climate Change"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Edmonton, Canada is hosting an international “Cities and Climate Change” Conference, to give city government officials and politicians a chance to discuss what they would…

Climate Models Can't Even Approximate Reality Because Atmospheric Structure and Movements are Virtually Unknown

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball In his recent article on WUWT titled “HADCRU Power and Temperature” Andy May refers to the challenges of modelling the atmosphere. He wrote, The greenhouse…

Study: Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rarely linked to felt seismic tremors

From the UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, another political tool of the left bites the dust. Researchers find only one hydrocarbon-producing area where production is linked to increased seismic activities at the…

80,000 Yrs of Arctic Ice Melted in Single Weekend

News Brief by Kip Hansen   No, really…no kidding here…this is a real disaster.   This is not Fake News! Here’s the story, from the NY Times’ Tatiana Schlossberg (and here):…

Catastrophic Meltdown of Canadian Ice…

Cores! Guest post by David Middleton A precious collection of ice cores from the Canadian Arctic has suffered a catastrophic meltdown. A freezer failure at a cold storage facility in…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #242

The Week That Was: 2016-09-24 (September 24, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…

Alberta Carbon Tax Legislation Passed

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Carbon tax legislation, which the opposition estimates will increase household bills by $1000 / year, has just been passed by the Alberta Legislature. Alberta carbon…

Fort McMurray Wildfire – Climate or Incompetence?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The climate vultures are gathering – already attempts are being made to link the out of control Fort McMurray wildfire in Alberta, Canada with “climate…

Does Demonizing the Other Side Promote Constructive Debate Over Climate Change?

Guest essay by Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten Who are “climate skeptics”? Greg Garrard, Associate Professor of Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, thinks he knows. In fact,…

California Dreamin' Renewables

  Guest essay by Wayne Delbeke From the 180 on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Monday, March 21, 2016. The maximum California can realistically achieve from renewables is 18% of their…

Tuesday Tantrums, I get hate mail

People send me stuff… Readers may recall back on May 13th of this year I posted about a change in policy related to hate mail and hateful comments that get…

What Is A “Normal” Climate?

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball There is a form of argument called reductio ad absurdum. If you can reduce a position to the absurd, it was absurd in the first…

Climate Perception, Projection and Propaganda

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball A major reason why Al Gore’s deceptive use of the melting Arctic ice was so effective is because most people have little idea what the…

Steve Burnett's Hard vs. the Soft Sciences Essay; An Ongoing Debate Central To Climate

Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Steve Burnett’s “Hard vs. the Soft Sciences” essay is interesting but misses the problem in studying climate and other generalist areas in an era…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2013-12-07 (December 7, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: • “Absolute certainty is a…

IPCC Climate: A Product of Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Built On Inadequate Data

Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball “If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess” – Ronald Coase. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. – Anonymous.…

The WUWT Hotsheet for Monday Sept 30th, 2013

(Personal note – apologies for the light posting today, I’m overwhelmed with work, and exhausted from overwork – Anthony) The IPCC AR5 falls flat  Dr. Judith Curry has been making…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2013-06-01 (June 1, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week:. The great tragedy of Science…

Plants that got buried during the Little Ice Age come to life again

From the University of Alberta, this news release is making the rounds, but what many of the alarmists don’t get (Joe Romm for example) is that these plants had to…

Better living through chemistry climate science?

The American Chemical Society decides to put themselves into the climate communications business. From their press release: Understanding climate science: A scientist’s responsibility to communicate with the public NEW ORLEANS,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2013-02-16 (February 16, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “As long ago as 1994,…