2018 reveals climate prediction failures: Maldives have NOT drowned, Lower Manhattan has NOT drowned, & the Arctic is NOT ice-free
https://realclimatescience.com/2018/10/2018-an-important-year-for-the-climate/ by Tony Heller As 2018 winds down, some solemn introspection on climate skepticism is necessary. This was the year the Maldives drowned, Lower Manhattan drowned, and the Arctic became ice-free. 26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands Stormy weather – Global warming – Salon.com The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search What is really sad, […]
New paper by Pielke Jr.: ‘Since 1990 both overall and weather/climate losses have decreased as proportion of global GDP’
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17477891.2018.1540343 Tracking progress on the economic costs of disasters under the indicators of the sustainable development goals Roger Pielke Received 08 Aug 2018, Accepted 18 Oct 2018, Published online: 27 Oct 2018 Download citation https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2018.1540343 ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals indicator framework identifies as an indicator of progress the objective of reducing disaster losses as […]
Young Students Going on Strike to Protest Climate Change Inaction
Young Students Going on Strike to Protest Climate Change Inaction https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/31/young-students-going-on-strike-to-protest-climate-change-inaction/ Guest essay by Eric Worrall The SMH has published a letter from students explaining why they have decided to go on strike. But in my opinion this strike action is a symptom of a deeper malaise within the Australian education system. Why we’re striking […]
Do clouds control the climate? Global Temperatures Rose As Cloud Cover Fell In the 1980s and 90s
Global Temperatures Rose As Cloud Cover Fell In the 1980s and 90s https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/global-temperatures-rose-as-cloud-cover-fell-in-the-1980s-and-90s/ By Paul Homewood We’ve been discussing the sudden rise in UK and European temperatures in the 1990s, and I was reminded about a study undertaken by Clive Best and Euan Mearns looking at the role of cloud cover four years ago: Clouds […]
Climate Dissenting EIKE Files Defamation Suit… Worst Assault On Scientific Dissent In Germany In Decades
Climate Dissenting EIKE Files Defamation Suit… Worst Assault On Scientific Dissent In Germany In Decades http://notrickszone.com/2018/10/31/dissenting-eike-files-defamation-suit-worst-assault-on-scientific-dissent-in-germany-in-decades/ Massive German public media, institutions move to brutally squash scientific dissent. Modest German organization EIKE now target of full-scale defamation in bid to ruin and silence climate dissent. Image source: Duxbury Church. For illustration purposes only, no affiliation. The […]
Midterm Elections: 5 States Could Wreck Their Economies In Futile Fight Against ‘Climate Change’
Midterm Elections: 5 States Could Wreck Their Economies In Futile Fight Against ‘Climate Change’ https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3701531/posts Election 2018: Next week, voters in five states will decide whether they want to raise their own taxes, kill jobs and lower their standards of living. All in a fanciful effort to stop “global warming.” They’d be better off letting […]
UN Climate Negotiations Costing $150 million Annually
UN Climate Negotiations Costing $150 million Annually http://www.thegwpf.com/un-climate-negotiations-costing-150-million-annually/ by bennypeiser / U.N. climate negotiations have siphoned off more than $150 million a year, according to economist Richard Tol. The cost of United Nations climate summits have ballooned in tandem with the carbon dioxide emissions officials are trying to restrain, according to estimates put together by […]
REBUTTAL: IPCC SR15 Climate Change Report is Based on Faulty Premises
REBUTTAL: IPCC SR15 Climate Change Report is Based on Faulty Premises https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/31/rebuttal-ipcc-sr15-climate-change-report-is-based-on-faulty-premises/ Via Friends of Science, Press Release today. IPCC SR15 Climate Change Report is Based on Faulty Premises that Will Lead to Poor Public Policy says Friends of Science Society in New Rebuttal Friends of Science Society has issued a new report entitled “Faulty […]
IEA Opposed To Cheap Energy For Developing Nations
IEA Opposed To Cheap Energy For Developing Nations https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/iea-opposed-to-cheap-energy-for-developing-nations/ By Paul Homewood h/t Robin Guenier Once again, the IEA is trying to stir things up re “fossil fuel subsidies”: Worldwide fossil fuel consumption subsidies almost halved between 2012 and 2016, from a high point in 2012 of more than half a trillion dollars. But the […]
“100s of Millions of People will Die” – ACF Climate Change Warning about Breaching the 1.5C Limit
“100s of Millions of People will Die” – ACF Climate Change Warning about Breaching the 1.5C Limit https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/31/100s-of-millions-of-people-will-die-acf-climate-change-warning-about-breaching-the-1-5c-limit/ Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Bob in Castlemaine; The Head of the Australian Conservation Foundation Kelly O’Shanassy delivered a solemn warning last Tuesday to a packed audience of journalists, claiming that if we continue to burn […]