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Via press release: It’s official! The 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-12) will take place on March 23-24 in Washington, DC. Attached is a flyer I hope you will read and forward to friends and foes alike. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States already is having a profound effect…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Scientific American thinks construction of President Trump’s border wall will dangerously exacerbate climate change. Trump’s Wall Could Cause Serious Environmental Damage The effects of building a massive concrete wall range from increased emissions to blocked wildlife migration routes. … And climate activists say that President Trump’s border wall with Mexico…
From the “twice as expensive, half as reliable” department comes this paper from SPRINGER where they seemed to have figured out (finally) that wind and solar just isn’t all that good for reliable power. Their solution? Overbuild. To me, that’s laughable, because regional weather patterns (such as a rex block high) can easily shut down not just…
From the “non-news in the MSM because it doesn’t support the cause” department comes this inconvenient study from the NIOZ ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH. Unexpected result: Ocean acidification can also promote shell formation Proton pumping accompanies calcification in foraminifera Fact: More carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air also acidifies the oceans. It seemed to…
From BROWN UNIVERSITY Earth’s orbital variations and sea ice synch glacial periods PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Earth is currently in what climatologists call an interglacial period, a warm pulse between long, cold ice ages when glaciers dominate our planet’s higher latitudes. For the past million years, these glacial-interglacial cycles have repeated roughly on a…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Al Gore is hosting his own cut down version of a Centers for Disease Control Climate Conference which was cancelled in the wake of the Trump victory. CDC’s canceled climate change conference is back on — thanks to Al Gore It turns out there will be a conference in Atlanta…
By Chris White President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Thursday indirectly targeting the Paris climate summit agreement signed by the Obama administration seeking to reduce carbon emission levels over the next two decades. Trump will sign two memos broadly eliminating funding for any United Nations (U.N.) agencies which give full membership to terrorist…
Cooling and warming the surface of the Earth without energy loss or energy gain: a natural mechanism Guest Post by Wim Röst Abstract Upwelling is a massive force, well visible on world maps. Data provide evidence that the last century ‘Warming period(s)’ just may be caused by ‘less deep sea cooling’. Data also show that…
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From the “EPA helped export the problem overseas” department, comes this press release from Berkeley Earth: Horrific Air Pollution in Europe Reaches 7 cigarettes per day equivalent, a pack a day in India and China It’s winter, and that’s the worst air pollution period for Europe and China. The levels over much of the continent…
Greens are outraged that ERM Power, an Australian electricity company, has chosen to pay a penalty for not buying green energy certificates, rather than “supporting” green energy companies. ERM Power criticised for choosing $123m fine over renewable energy certificates Company says it’s cheaper to pay the penalty, but the move is branded as ‘undermining of…
Guest Post by Werner Brozek, Edited by Just The Facts The table below ranks the warmest ten years according to the five data sets I cover. For each of these ten years, the year is given followed by the average anomaly for that year. In all cases, 2016 set a new record. The year 1998…
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach — crossposted from my blog, Skating Under The Ice Let me start by saying that I’m a huge fan and frequent user of our National Park System. I’m also a dedicated and lifelong conservationist, concerned with our natural environment that is the basis of all life. So please don’t take…
