From University of Southern California another lesson from the economic train wreck that is Greece; people stop worrying about the environment when you make cleaner fuels too expensive to use.…
Tag: associated press
Al Gore's 'polarbeargate' scientist forced to retire
WUWT readers may recall our coverage of Charles Monnett, whose antics with polar bear sitings and attribution led Al Gore to put this famous animated video clip into An Inconvenient…
Follow up: the bogus 'North Pole becomes a lake' story
Remember this Associated Press before and after image that purportedly showed the North Pole turning into a lake due to “global warming”? This was the day Brad Johnson of “Forecast…
Seth Borenstein on weather weirdness: Tweet first, ask questions later
Is Seth Borenstein a reporter or a swivel-eyed activist? Sometimes I wonder with dumb tweets like this: At this moment Helsinki at 5 pm is 84 dF same as miami…
Washington Post's photo phraud – it's deja vu all over again
Junkscience.com reports this is what the print copy looks like today for this article by Eugene Robinson. Note what looks like black unfiltered pollutants spewing skyward: But when you look…
Washington passes wind
Reader Richard Lyman submits this story from AP and the “What we all knew but Washington would never admit because it stinks to high heaven department“. It is about how…
New government report from NOAA says 2012 summer drought NOT caused by global warming
“This is what global warming looks like” turned out to be nothing but incorrect opinionated hype by AP Science correspondent Seth Borenstein and Dr. Michael Oppenheimer. From the “we told…
The Marcott gong show – before in the unquestioning press and after the blogosphere review as told by Ross McKitrick
Just last month, these were the claims: We’re screwed: 11,000 years’ worth of climate data prove it. It’s among the most compelling bits of proof out there that human beings…
Whac-a-moling Seth Borenstein at AP over his erroneous extreme weather claims
Comments on Yesterday’s paean to Global Warming Guest post by Dr. Richard Keen, Meteorologist Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder It’s like playing whac-a-mole. After every major storm or unusual (or…
Is this what global warming looks like? Over 2000 new low temperature records set in October
In the continental USA, there were 137 high temperature type records versus 857 low temperature type records this past week , a 6-1 difference. Last week there were 1154 low temperature type…
Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930's were you comparing to when you say July 2012 is the record warmest?
The press release is out, and the usual serial bloviators are rushing to trumpet the news. July 2012 was the hottest ever on record! “Yikes! We’re gonna roast! Global Warming!”…
Paging AP's Seth Borenstein – Hey Seth, where's the beef?
I sent some notes via Twitter yesterday and today to veterinarian turned NASA science writer Maria-Jose Vinas (who wrote yesterday’s self contradicting piece from NASA on Greenland) and AP’s Seth Borenstein…
The Kevin Trenberth / Seth Borenstein aided fact free folly on the USA heat wave
I cringe every time I see stories like the one being pushed in the Associated Press today by AP science writer Seth Borenstein. My Way News – This US summer…
Weather Channel absorbs Weather Underground, on-air temperatures expected to rise
The Weather Channel Companies Acquire Weather Underground ATLANTA & SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC) today announced an agreement to acquire Weather Underground,…
Tick Tick Tick
Ticks are spreading, and down in the article, you guessed it, the cause is speculated to be global warming aka climate change. From CBS in Charlotte, worry over a one…
A request to readers: write a "connect the dots" letter this weekend
Note – this will be pinned as a top post for a few days. Other posts will appear below this one. UPDATE: Josh weighs in with a Friday Funny. UPDATE2:…
So Many People … So Little Rain
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I started a post on Kiribati, but when it was half written I found Andi Cockroft had beaten me to it with his post.…
Winegate: Red wine health researcher falsified data
From Medical News Today, word of a major failure of peer review spanning years and 11 journals. Researcher Who Studied Benefits Of Red Wine Falsified Data Says University An extensive…
Honda being sued in small claims court by woman they ignored over hybrid gas-electric mileage claim
This is novel. A woman who is upset with Honda over lack of promised gas mileage on her HondaCivic Hybrid. It seems as the battery aged, the mileage went from…
Last minute Durban deal reached – extends life of Kyoto protocol
Kyoto has become a zombie, coming to life after being dead… Excerpts from Yahoo News (AP) — A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a complex and…
Pielke Senior on NCDC's recent "state of the climate" rehash
Continued Bias Reporting On The Climate System By Tom Karl and Peter Thorne By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Today, there were news articles concerning the state of the climate system; e.g.…
Associated Press gone wild: 2010 disaster article
2010’s world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards: The Associated Press has published one of the most interesting pieces of environmental science journalism in a long time, and that’s quite a…
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