“There are no climate deniers that live in South Florida’ claims fmr. Clinton official Donna Shalala – She spouts climate change kookery
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/audience/david-whitley/os-ae-shalala-climate-change-david-whitley-1026-story.html By David Whitley – Orlando Sentinel Did you know that when it comes to climate change, everybody south of Orlando thinks like Al Gore? Donna Shalala delivered that surprising bit of news this week in a speech, according to the Miami Herald. She is running for Florida’s 27th congressional district seat, and one of her campaign platforms is that Miami […]
100 Percent Renewable Energy—Poor Policy for Electricity Rate Payers
Special to Climate Depot 100 Percent Renewable Energy—Poor Policy for Electricity Rate Payers By Steve Goreham Originally published in Master Resource. Two states and more than 80 cities and counties have now announced a goal of receiving 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources. Wind, solar, and biofuels are proposed to replace electricity from coal, […]
Watch: Geologist Gregory Wrightstone: Recent temperature history puts the lie to CO2 driven warming
Rough transcript: a review of the recent temperature history dating back 100 years or more is not necessarily supportive of the notion that human caused carbon dioxide increases are the primary driver of temperature changes over the last century before we take a look at temperatures we need to understand when the co2 increases occurred […]
UK warns plastic becoming too expensive to recycle – ‘Homeowners’ efforts to sort through their waste may be futile’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/19/plastic-becoming-expensive-recycle-councils-say-giant-waste/ Plastic becoming too expensive to recycle, councils say, as giant waste mountain is discovered By Katie Morley & Yohannes Lowe 20 OCTOBER 2018 • 12:01AM Plastic is becoming too expensive to recycle, councils across Britain will warn on Saturday, raising fears that homeowners’ efforts to sort through their waste may be futile. The warning by […]
Cheers! TRUMP’S EPA MAY HAVE SHUT DOWN ITS ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ WEBSITE FOR GOOD
https://www.newsweek.com/epa-shits-down-climate-change-websites-1198362 BY ALEXANDRA HUTZLER ON 11/2/18 AT 10:59 AM The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped updating its websites with climate change information, instead leaving site visitors with error messages and blank pages. In April 2017, three months after noted climate-change skeptic Donald Trump took office, the EPA removed its climate change subdomains from public access. Overall, at least 80 […]
New Study: GLOBAL MORTALITY FROM STORM SURGES IS DECREASING
https://www.thegwpf.com/global-mortality-from-storm-surges-is-decreasing/ By Laurens M Bouwer and Sebastiaan N Jonkman, Environmental Research Letters A study published in Environmental Research Letters shows that there has been a global decrease in fatalities from storm surge events. Improved forecasting methods, better early warning systems, effective evacuation schemes, as well as coastal protection, risk-zoning and land-use planning have contributed to the declining number […]
Yet another new study finds global Medieval Warm Period: S. America and N. Hemisphere medieval warming ‘occurred largely synchronous, probably reaching comparable intensities’
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618218308322 Quaternary International The Medieval Climate Anomaly in South America Author links open overlay panelSebastianLüningaMariuszGałkabFlorencia PaulaBamontecFelipe GarcíaRodríguezd1FritzVahrenholte Show more https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.10.041Get rights and content Abstract The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is a climatic perturbation with a core period of 1000-1200 AD that is well-recognized in the Northern Hemisphere (NH). Its existence in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) […]
Media touts study of ocean heat claiming ‘global warming’ at ‘worst-case scenarios’ – But claims not based on actual thermometer data
From Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com There was NO “taking the ocean’s temperature” in this study. Ocean temp was guessed at from atmospheric CO2. From the article: “There are some caveats. This is a novel approach, and it is unclear if it will hold up to further scrutiny. ” From the New York Times’s October 31, […]
Alex Epstein: Is a carbon tax good for human flourishing?
http://industrialprogress.com/is-a-carbon-tax-good-for-human-flourishing/ By Alex Epstein Is a carbon tax good for human flourishing? This year I’ve had a couple discussions with Republicans considering supporting a carbon tax. Here’s how I’ve been breaking down the issue. Let me know what you think. 1: Pro-flourishing policy requires recognizing the fundamental importance of minimizing energy prices My goal in […]
New Study boasts: ‘the data, analytic methods, & study materials will not be made available to other researchers’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/19/nytimes-promotes-an-eff-you-level-of-irreproducible-science/ Anthony Watts / 2 weeks ago October 19, 2018 From the website: “Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science” by Andrew Gelman. h/t to Willie Soon So the NYT yesterday has a story about this study I am directed to it and am immediately concerned about all the things that make this study somewhat dubious. Forking paths in the definition of […]