By Larry Hamlin With all the focus these days by the mainstream media on exposing Americans that have had undisclosed meetings with Russians a little clearing of the air seems…
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Moonbeam Brown Unhinged: 'Existence of humanity rests on extending California's cap and tax law'
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin, Existence of humanity rests on extending Governor Brown’s cap and tax law. Just watch Jerry Brown in his rant over the issue on July 14th:…
Eclipseocalypse – Electrics Brace for Solar Darkness
When the sun goes dark, California will lose the equivalent of five nuclear power plants of power. Martin Rosenberg | Jun 29, 2017 The Energy Times California is bracing…
'Houston, we have a dumbass problem'
I’m truly sorry about the title, but nothing else really describes the ridiculousness of the pronouncement by the White House aide John Podesta over these two satellite images in a…
Fabricating Climate Doom – Part 1: Parmesan's Butterfly Effect
Addendum by Anthony: This graph is an eyebrow raiser. The infrastructure at Yosemite has increased to handle increased tourism, and the weather station records this by a reversal of the…
Prescient: 'Fallen Angels' – a 1991 satire of climate alarmism
As a new Ice Age imperils the world, a lunatic fringe of the environmental movement has taken control of the U.S. government. Guest essay by Eric Worrall When outsiders like…
King Canuccitelli plans to tax carbon right out of the air
Many readers know the story of the Viking turned King who was said to be able to hold back the sea, only to realize that he had no such power.…
An image of the Powerhouse Fire in California
From NASA: NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color satellite image of California’s Powerhouse Fire with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on June 1, 2013. Actively burning areas, detected…
I, For One, Welcome Our New Energy Overlord
Guest essay by Kevin D. Knoebel In case you missed it, physicist Ernest J. Moniz was sworn in on May 21, 2013 as the new US Secretary of Energy. Born…
Congressional Budget Office says US carbon tax will generate $1.2 trillion
Lance Wallace writes in Tips and Notes: The Congressional Budget Office has released an analysis of the effects of a carbon tax. At $20 a ton. they estimate about $1.2…
Lomborg: Californians are paying ridiculous subsidies for electric cars
Guest post by Bjørn Lomborg I’ve said electric cars get subsidized too much. Turns out I was wrong. In California, they are subsidized ridiculously too much. Tesla gets $45,000 for…
San Jose State University Meteorology decides burning books they don't agree with is better than reading them
From the Fahrenheit 451 department comes this indictment of California’s higher education’s “tolerance” for opposing views. When I first got the tip on this, I thought to myself “nobody can…
California to quantify UHI statewide
From the if we can quantify it we’ll figure out a way to tax it department comes this short press release (h/t Kakatoa) The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research…
Dust's excellent global adventure ends in California's Sierra Nevada
From the Scripps Institute: Saharan and Asian Dust, Biological Particles End Global Journey in California UCSD, NOAA study is the first to show that dust and other aerosols from one…
Oh that's gonna leave a mark – EU carbon trading 'worthless'
From the I’ve been telling you so for some time now department comes this headline from Bloomberg. And it is getting desperate in the carbon market. Readers may recall last…
Moronomics
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Reading my Sunday paper today, I find the following: Customers Can Sell Back Solar Power. The Los Angeles District of Water and Power will allow…
Peter Gleick misses chilly cook-off in California
While the eastern United States is warm, prompting the clueless to claim the climate is being “mucked with” (point: the reason for the Tornado Watch is the clash of cold…
We Had To Pave The Environment In Order To Save It
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Trading food for fuel, in a world where high food prices already affect the poor, has always seemed like a bad idea to me. If…
Mercury in California fog linked to ocean upwelling
From the AGU fall meeting in SFO and the University of California – Santa Cruz comes this rather odd statement that I thought was interesting. It seems like an ecological…
Northern California's coming super soaker event via the 'Pineapple Express'
UPDATE: Added this HiDef imag showing a trio of lows (commas shaped clouds) in the Gulf of Alaska and southward: There’s lots of buzz here in Northern California about a…
More 'truth is stranger than fiction' from Seinfeld
I’ve always said that the global warming story is just like another product of Vandelay Industries, as some of the more alarming parts foisted on us are simply sitcom variety…
Government Gone Wild: California Department of Fish and Game diverts fishing and hunting license monies to study climate change
This is excerpts from a column that appeared Sunday by Chico Enterprise-Record editor David Little. To say he’s annoyed would be an understatement, especially when he titles it ‘Another startling…
And it's gone…Governor Brown's office responds to WUWT
Sunday, I point out the glaring error in California Governor Jerry Brown’s website with a climate time-series that only showed 1/3 of the year, January-April: I got an email for…
Never before published paper on UHI and siting – Goodridge 1987
Plus answers to yesterday’s Fun puzzle: Name these official stations. Given that California Governor Jerry Brown has recently setup a website at the governor’s office basically telling skeptics to “shut…
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