Guest essay by Larry Hamlin On December 19, 2017 the L A Times published a front page article hyping that “China launches the world’s biggest carbon trading market” with great praise for China providing climate leadership. The Times article offered the following highly politicalized climate alarmist characterization of this stupendous event. “Experts say that China…
While this isn’t our normal fare here, the Internet is abuzz today over the admission from Apple Inc. that they purposely slowed down older iPhones, and I have something VERY interesting to add. Business insider has this headline: Apple confirmed a longtime conspiracy theory — and gave regular customers a big reason to distrust it…
Guest essay by Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Today’s post reviews a fun book about some of the systems that make us safe — but which we too often ignore or even mock. The headline is exaggeration for effect (progress has been beyond what most people would imagine a century ago, with…
Don’t these people ever learn from past mistakes? Apparently not. from COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the “50 million climate refugees by 2010 that never happened so they had to disappear it” department. Hotter temperatures will accelerate migration of asylum-seekers to Europe, says study EU could face a massive influx by 2100 if carbon emissions hold steady New…
From the AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION. You have to love the title of the publication “CHANCE”. Special issue of Chance explores complexities of global climate change models that prove existence of climate change, project future events and impact on mortality, economy ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Dec. 21, 2017) – Projecting the future of extreme weather events and their impact…
From NASA Goddard: What a difference a few days can make in the life cycle of a fire. In this particular case, the Thomas Fire that is ongoing in the Ventura County around (and surrounding) in Southern California. The following images were taken by the Terra and Aqua satellites on Dec. 16, 17, and 19,…
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Oh those busy, busy beavers — aren’t they great? There’s the little guy in the corner of the photo, he and his pals built that dam that slowed the stream and produced a large shallow beaver pond. The American beaver is a keystone species on the North American continent…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall If Silicon Valley green tech giants have their way, real meat will become an unaffordable carbon taxed luxury item eaten by the very rich. The rest of us will have to eat “meatless meat” – meat flavoured mashed vegetables and lab grown tissue cultures. Silicon Valley and the Search for…
While Brown proclaims larges wildfires “the new normal”, here’s some scrutiny on his own incompetence in preventing wildfires Guest essay by Larry Hamlin In September 2016 California Governor Brown vetoed Senate Bill 1463 which enhanced requirements for the CPUC and state Forestry and Fire Protection to facilitate the undergrounding of power lines in high fire…
From the American Geophysical Union and the “but we’ll still find a way to blame CO2, just you wait” department. It seems this is a frustrating day for climate-ice researchers, earlier, it was found that ice cores used to determine ancient CO2 levels are likely contaminated by microbes, and they altered the gas mixture balance.…
From the UNIVERSITY OF YORK and the “that’s gonna leave a mark” department. For the first time scientists have directly observed living bacteria in polar ice and snow — an environment once considered sterile For the first time scientists have directly observed living bacteria in polar ice and snow – an environment once considered sterile. The…
Senator Tim Wirth, scientist James Hansen and others manufactured the climate “crisis” Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change because it is a bad deal for America. He could have made the decision simply because the…
