The next IPCC report will include a chapter that discusses gender inequality, marginalized populations, and traditional knowledge. So much for providing “rigorous…scientific information.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Climate Change
Hockey Schtick: Paper finds Greenland unlikely to melt from climate change
A paper from a paleoclimatology workshop finds that the southern dome of Greenland did not melt away during the extreme natural climate change of the “Eemian interglacial (125,000 years ago), when annual mean temperatures over Greenland were [about] 5°C warmer than now for some millenia [thousands of years].” Continue reading
Doug L. Hoffman: New Climate Models Fall Short
The IPCC is working up to releasing pieces of its next climate report, starting in 2013. This has the world’s climate scientists scrambling to get their latest work included in that dubious document. Continue reading
Larry Bell: Global Warming Alarmism: When Science IS Fiction
Although global temperatures have been pretty flat despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels since the big 1998 El Nino, no one that I know disputes that climate changes. Continue reading
Pierre Gosselin: New PNAS Paper Shows Light Causes Atmospheric Aerosols To Grow – Impact Our Climate
Scientists keep finding major knowledge gaps in their “science-is-settled” field of climatology. Continue reading
Greenland’s current loss of ice mass
Loss through melting and iceberg calving during the last 10 years is unusually high compared to the last 50 years Continue reading
Old aerial photos supply new knowledge on glaciers in Greenland
In the early 1920s and 1930s, temperatures were high, similar to that of the present, and this affected the glacial melt. At the time many glaciers underwent a melt similar or even higher than what we have seen in the last ten years. When it became colder again in the 1950s and 1960s, glaciers actually started growing,” says Dr. Kurt H. Kjær Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged climate research, glacier advance, glacier melt, greenland
Is California preparing for climate change?
Dunno. Are they preparing for attacks by sea monsters and/or space aliens tired of “Friends” re-runs? These would appear risks of similar likelihood Continue reading
Roger Harrabin: Campaigners’ anger over agency’s shale gas report
The IEA shouldn’t be pitching climate crap at any time but the wackos are upset they aren’t doing it enough. Continue reading
Gas rebranded as green energy by EU
“Victory for gas lobby as aims of €80bn EU renewable energy programme altered to channel money to ‘low-carbon’ fossil fuel“
Ooh! Isn’t it exciting? This one has “secret documents” Continue reading
Using shale gas over coal does not help climate, says big gas investor
“Scottish Widows Investment Partnership says fracking companies not bothering to capture ‘fugitive methane’“
And neither should they – it simply isn’t economical to do so and has zero downside. “Global warming” is simply another risk that never was. Continue reading
Andrew Freedman: Will Our Luck Run Out? Major Hurricane Gap in U.S.
When the 2012 North Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, the U.S. will have gone a record 2,412 days since the last major hurricane — with sustained winds of 111 mph or greater — struck these shores. Continue reading
“Global warming” as a marketing tool
This piece in the Melbourne Age has all the usual biodiversity, global warming trappings – check out what it’s all really about: Continue reading
Supercomputer will help researchers map climate change down to the local level
No, it won’t. As Roger Pielke Sr. has pointed out many times, climate models are not down-scalable. Not that that matters here because climate models are of no value prognostically anyway – they are process models. For predicting future climate you might as well consult chicken viscera. Continue reading
NZ: Fight over climate change in coalmining continues
The fight over whether climate change should be considered when applications are made for coalmining continues as a West Coast mine seeks to expand. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Mining
Tagged climate hysteria, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, weather superstition
Climate change wiped out one of the world’s first, great civilisations more than 4,000 years ago
No doubt it was all those V8-powered yaks that further changed the changing climate they were exploiting. Will people never learn… Continue reading
Fund for ‘climate justice’ launched
A fund aimed at helping some of the world’s poorest communities tackle climate change will be launched in Scotland later this week. Continue reading
China’s Developing Nation Status Lets It Get Away With All Kinds Of Pollution
Another round of U.N. climate talks closed without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don’t agree on who is rich and who is poor. Continue reading
Posted in China, Climate Change, IPCC, UN
Tagged climate hysteria, kyoto protocol, weather superstition
Ernst & Young: Green Investors Fear UK Dash For Gas
Fears the UK will use gas-fired power stations to deal with its looming energy crisis rather than turn to renewable sources have seen the country drop out of the top five most attractive countries for clean energy investment. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Fracking, Oil and gas, Development, Economics
Tagged government subsidies, Wind power, energy subsidies, natural gas, solar power
Simon Kent: UN Climate Talks Nothing But Hot Air
Let’s start with a quick quiz.
Which of the following major world cities and/or seaside resorts has NOT hosted United Nations climate change talks since the inaugural meeting way back in 1997?
Marrakech, Morocco; Bali, Indonesia; Lyon, France; Bonn, Germany; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cancun, Mexico; The Hague, the Netherlands; Vienna, Austria; Montreal, Canada; Bangkok, Thailand; Barcelona, Spain; Durban, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Milan, Italy; Kyoto, Japan and New Delhi, India. Continue reading
