Category: Climate & Energy

Like warmism, the Sophie Prize, too, is dying. This is the final year for the award, which James Hansen won in 2010. Continue reading Bill McKibben wins $100,000 Sophie Prize for ‘fighting immensely powerful interests’

Will Obama release a plan before November 2014? Continue reading EU puts Obama on climate hot seat: Long-term action plan demanded by end of 2014

The Bad Astronomer is happy to go on and on about melting Arctic ice, but when it comes to supporting his claim that it’s increasing sea level, we get crickets. Continue reading Memo to Bad Astronomer Phil Plait — So where is the sea level rise?

For all their professed worship of evolution, warmists routinely avoid applying it their dire forecasts of climate change. Continue reading Corn Production in the USA Is Already Adapting to Warming

“The environmental movement has failed to capture the public’s imagination or to engage and inspire them to demand a green agenda from their governments.” Continue reading Enviro: For all the Nobel prizes and predictions of global apocalypse and preaching to the converted, the climate change sceptics are winning

“In response to multiple inquiries from media and global warming advocates, Friends of Science issue this release to expose the statistical manipulation evident from the break down of the Cook et al paper.” Continue reading Nonsensus: Only 65 of 12,000 papers agree with IPCC that most warming manmade, says Friends of Science

The Pottstown Mercury takes a look at some statements made this weekend by Secretary of State John Kerry. Continue reading Paper slams John Kerry for exaggerating U.S. emissions cuts

CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday spent fifteen minutes discussing climate change and amongst other things its impact on tornadoes – in particular the EF-5 that hit Moore, Oklahoma, last week… As not one global warming skeptic was invited to participate in the panel… Continue reading Global Warming Skeptics Rebut Face the Nation Segment on Climate Change and Moore Tornado

From an Austin American-Statesman report on University of Texas “star climatologist” Camille Parmesan: Continue reading UTexas warmist: Anti-science politicians only in the U.S. and Islamic nations

“The issue here is the claim that “the temperature rise since about 1880 is statistically significant”, which was made by the Met Office in response to the original Question (HL3050). The basis for that claim has now been effectively acknowledged to be untenable. Possibly there is some other basis for the claim, but that seems extremely implausible: the claim does not seem to have any valid basis.” Continue reading UK Met Office admits claims of significant temperature rise untenable

“Right now we’re seeing the same kind of major events on a regional scale that occurred the last time the Pacific Ocean shifted its temperature phase from warm to cold when the Atlantic was in a warm phase, and globally, the Earth’s temps have fallen about .05C in the last four years.” Continue reading Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: Blaming extreme weather on global warming is extreme nonsense