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 […]

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 […]

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 […]