That is the bottom line of a study reporting that we can have a lot of hurricanes or intense hurricanes — but not a lot of intense hurricanes. And no one knows what effect (if any) warming might have.
Continue reading NOAA admits: Can’t predict hurricane frequency or intensification in warmer climate
What is someone threw a scare but the damage didn’t really show up?
Continue reading Cost of climate change in Alaska is… negligible
The DC Court of Appeals rules that NRO did not hurt Michael Mann-child’s feelings all that much.
But Michael Mann v. Free Speech remains alive against Mark Steyn and CEI/Rand Simberg.
Continue reading Court dismisses Michael Mann defamation lawsuit against National Review
What the experiment really shows is that warming seedlings with infrared heaters was a fail. Continue reading Experimental Claim: Treeline may not shift upward in elevation with warming
“We do see some breakdown of peat on the surface, but not below 2 feet deep, where the bulk of the carbon is stored.”
“The integration of data and models provides further evidence that the Antarctic Ice Sheet has experienced much greater natural variability in the past than previously anticipated.”
Continue reading Oops… Mother Nature did it again; Antarctic sea expansion has natural explanation
From the UN IEA’s new report: “COAL: Medium-Term Market Report 2016.”
Continue reading UN: ‘The world is burning more coal than ever’
The rise of cheap natural gas from fracking only reduced coal use by an estimated 16%.
Continue reading Study: Obama ‘war on coal’ responsible for 84% of decline in coal use
” In contrast, the aquaculture industry was farming aquatic animals at CO2 levels that far exceed end-of-century climate change projections (sometimes >10 000 μatm) long before the term ‘ocean acidification’ was coined, with limited detrimental effects reported.”
Continue reading Boom… fish farms debunk ‘ocean acidification’ alarm
Pine Island Glacier is nearly two-thirds the size of the UK or the size of Texas. So what’s the cause since CO2 was only around 310 ppm in the 1940s?
Continue reading Oops… West Antarctic ice sheet melting as far back as 1940s
Claims to the contrary are “fake news.” The full transcript is below.
Continue reading Trump defends climate skepticism in New York Times meeting
Nice graph. But can you see what’s wrong with it?
Continue reading Claim: A warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2