Category: Climate & Energy

In D.C., we have a believer, the ancient Bob Ryan. Continue reading Your weatherman probably denies global warming

“Eastern Russia is so freezing — minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and counting — that the traffic lights recently stopped working in the city of Yakutsk.” But if it was CO2-caused global warming, Eastern Russia ought to be warmer. Continue reading NYTimes: Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide

“by including landfalling tropical cyclones in the Climate Extremes Index for 2012, NOAA lowered the ranking, but gives the public the impression that landfalling tropical cyclones contributed to the high ranking—when, in reality, tropical cyclones lowered the 2012 ranking.” Continue reading Another glitch on the NCDC State of the Climate report

As Lord Monckton might say… ‘Mee-thane is the problem.’ Continue reading New Green Horror: Composting

“The Met Office is very cross with me. Well you can hardly blame it given that I’ve just published a big piece explaining what a spectacular waste of taxpayers’ money it is.” Continue reading Delingpole: The Met Office – defending the indefensible, as per usual

You can’t draw a graph with data points that are defined differently — unless you are NOAA. Continue reading Hottest year ever? Skeptics question revisions to climate data

Imagine giant cigarettes, burning tobacco to heat water to spin turbines. Continue reading Germans develop new politically correct use for tobacco — biomass

If the future is junk science-based-totalitarianism, you can maybe understand our concerns. Continue reading James Murray: Skeptics 'hate the future'

Memo to the Union of Concerned Scientists: Not many Republicans are “ashamed to be an American” and not many wives of Republicans have renounced their citizenship. Continue reading Alarmists (again) trot out Kerry Emanuel as Republican global warming believer in video

“Here at Exxon, we hate your children.” Continue reading 'Exxon hates your children' video ad debuts this Friday on MSNBC

“A new report issued by the National Research Council (NRC), “The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate,” lays out some of the surprisingly complex ways that solar activity can make itself felt on our planet.” Continue reading NASA on the sun: ‘…tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate'