March 12, 2013 – 6:52 am
I, and others, have posted material showing that electric cars and hybrids are not exactly environmentally nor hotcoldwetdry friendly. Here’s another in the Wall Street Journal (h/t Dana) Bjorn Lomborg: Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret Electric cars are promoted as the chic harbinger of an environmentally benign future. Ads assure us of “zero […]
March 8, 2013 – 2:28 pm
Bloomberg is flogging this story with the headline Most Insurers Lack a Plan to Address Climate Change, as if they’re doing something wrong, yet we learn (via Tom Nelson) Almost 90 percent of insurance companies lack a comprehensive plan to address climate change and fewer than half of them view it as a likely source […]
March 8, 2013 – 9:18 am
Wait, what? (NY Times) Scientists say that if natural factors were still governing the climate, the Northern Hemisphere would probably be destined to freeze over again in several thousand years. “We were on this downward slope, presumably going back toward another ice age,†Dr. Marcott said. Instead, scientists believe the enormous increase in greenhouse gases […]
March 7, 2013 – 11:03 am
Soros funded climate monkey Jeff Spross sprays his insanity over at Climate Progress The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere underwent one of its biggest single-year jumps ever in 2012, according to researchers at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2013, carbon dioxide levels increased by […]
March 5, 2013 – 12:56 pm
Via Climate Depot (which has the long history of the Gore Effect), we learn that the House Subcommittee on Environment will hold a hearing on Wed. with Warmists Dr. Judith Curry (fossil fueled trip from Georgia), Dr. William Chameides (fossil fueled trip from Durham, NC), and Dr. Bjørn Lomborg (wait, he’s from Copenhagen? Did he […]
March 5, 2013 – 9:29 am
Well, the editorial board doesn’t specifically call the climate astrologers idiots, but, it’s implies it Environmentalists are fighting the wrong battles Really, they’ve been fighting the wrong battles for over 20 years. Instead of dealing with real environmental issues and wisely pushing for cost effective alternative energy, they’ve been hysterical and wrapping every real issue […]
March 4, 2013 – 4:55 pm
Can volcanoes reduce global warming? Sure. But the point of this research is simply to provide cover for those who are pushing anthropogenic global warming in an age where atmospheric concentrations of CO2 continues to rise but the global temperature stagnates (Business Line) Sulphur dioxide emissions from moderate volcanoes around the world can mask some […]
March 2, 2013 – 11:23 am
Yeah, that is the real data for the global temperature since 1980. That big spike in 1998? El Nino. (via Real Science from WoodForTrees). Meanwhile, CFACT has a billboard campaign going that shows no change in the global temperature since 1997, using HADCrut4 data. Oh, and just to head the Warmists off at the pass, […]
March 1, 2013 – 11:10 am
In Warmist world, everything is linked in one way or another to “climate change”. If it isn’t, they’ll create a link The First Rule: Eat When You Can, Sleep When You Can, And Don’t Screw With The Climate! My prognosis is very likely to be very good, despite the ominous sounding diagnosis — a small […]
February 27, 2013 – 4:00 pm
All the doom and gloom talk about “extreme weather” has been debunked time and time again, yet the Warmists keep attempting to manufacture a link. Here’s the latest (Guardian) Global warming may have caused extreme events such as a 2011 drought in the United States and a 2003 heatwave in Europe by slowing vast, wave-like […]
