STUDY: Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible – Published in the journal Nature
https://www.yahoo.com/news/worst-case-global-warming-scenarios-not-credible-study-210401411.html By Marlowe HOOD Paris (AFP) – Earth’s surface will almost certainly not warm up four or five degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study released Wednesday which, if correct, voids worst-case UN climate change predictions. A revised calculation of how greenhouse gases drive up the planet’s temperature reduces the range of possible […]
New York’s Silly Climate Superstition Suit – ‘Our modern witches are the oil and coal companies’
New York’s Silly Climate Suit By Steve Goreham Republished with permission of The Washington Times. On January 10, the city of New York filed suit against BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell. The suit accuses oil companies of causing dangerous climate change and damage to New York City, seeking monetary compensation. But history will rank this […]
Fiat Chrysler CEO: Electric cars not worth investment
Ian Thibodeau, The Detroit NewsPublished 5:57 p.m. ET Jan. 15, 2018 | Updated 8:16 a.m. ET Jan. 16, 2018 (Photo: Daniel Mears / Detroit News) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 23COMMENTEMAILMORE Detroit — Electric vehicles aren’t profitable, and they show no sign of grabbing enough market share to warrant serious investment. At least not according to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV CEO Sergio […]
New skeptical film: ‘The Cloud Mystery’ challenges claims of CO2 as main driver of climate
The Cloud Mystery Duration: 52 minutes. Language: English “Our clouds take their orders from the stars,” says the Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark. That’s the amazing and provocative discovery reported here. Most experts thought the idea was crazy. The film records ten years of effort by the small team in Copenhagen that, in the end, solved the mystery […]
Laughable science: worrying about impacts of ‘extreme weather’ on bugs in the city
Laughable science: worrying about impacts of ‘extreme weather’ on bugs in the city https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/11/laughable-science-worrying-about-impacts-of-extreme-weather-on-bugs-in-the-city/ From RUTGERS UNIVERSITY and the YGTBFKM department. I laughed out loud when I saw this study title. My first thought: Other than these researchers, who gives a flying roach (an arthropod) about how bugs were affected by a hurricane in New […]
Earth doomed! Hawking offers to pay deniers fares to Venus
Earth doomed! Hawking offers to pay deniers fares to Venus: Jo says he can send himself to Mars http://joannenova.com.au/2018/01/earth-doomed-hawking-offers-to-pay-deniers-fares-to-venus-jo-says-he-can-send-himself-to-mars/ Forget 2 degrees of warming, Hawking says “460″. Oh, look, there goes another attention-seeking celebrity scientist — flaming out –watch the arc: In the second episode of his new series “Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places,” the British physicist […]
Proof that the recent global warming slowdown is statistically significant (at the 99% confidence level)
Proof that the recent global warming slowdown is statistically significant (at the 99% confidence level) https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/12/proof-that-the-recent-global-warming-slowdown-is-statistically-significant-at-the-99-confidence-level/ Guest analysis by Sheldon Walker Introduction In this article I will present convincing evidence that the recent slowdown was statistically significant (at the 99% confidence level). I will describe the method that I used in detail, so that other […]
Benny Peiser & Matt Ridley: Bad Weather Is No Reason for Climate Alarm
Benny Peiser & Matt Ridley: Bad Weather Is No Reason for Climate Alarm http://www.thegwpf.com/benny-peiser-matt-ridley-bad-weather-is-no-reason-for-climate-alarm/ Events such as hurricanes and wildfires are too often blamed on our slowly warming, slightly wetter planet Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump greeted the cold snap that was gripping much of the U.S. by tweeting, “Perhaps we could use a little […]
World Weather Attribution: Trump Was Right – America Could Have Done With Some Good Old Global Warming.
World Weather Attribution: Trump Was Right – America Could Have Done With Some Good Old Global Warming. http://cliscep.com/2018/01/13/world-weather-attribution-trump-was-right-america-could-have-done-with-some-good-old-global-warming/ The first responder team at World Weather Attribution have declared that the exceptionally cold winter thus far in the eastern US and and Canada is . . . . . “exceptional in the current climate”. Like, wow. […]
Grist: Bernie Sanders, Sierra Club Impeding CO2 Reductions
Grist: Bernie Sanders, Sierra Club Impeding CO2 Reductions https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/14/grist-bernie-sanders-sierra-club-impeding-co2-reductions/ Guest essay by Eric Worrall Meteorologist and Grist author Eric Holthaus thinks the only way to save the planet from rising CO2 emissions is to embrace nuclear power. It’s time to go nuclear in the fight against climate change By Eric Holthaus on Jan 12, 2018 […]