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  Above, a meme from an anti-wind forum inexplicably draws a connection between wind turbines and Obamacare. It’s an example of the confused, misinformed, aimless anger and hostility that the fossil fuel industry seeks to harness to slow the unstoppable…

Open Mind: At a town hall meeting near Philadelphia, 18-year-old Rose Strauss had a question for Scott Wagner, the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania: You’ve said that climate change is a result of people’s body heat, and are refusing…

There was a recent article by Roger Highfield called Scientists need to ditch tribalism and stop shouting down outsiders. It was mostly an interesting interview with Hannah Fry who said I think that scientists and science supporters often close ranks…

At a town hall meeting near Philadelphia, 18-year-old Rose Strauss had a question for Scott Wagner, the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania: You’ve said that climate change is a result of people’s body heat, and are refusing to take…

We’ve been looking at patterns of climate change in the conterminous USA (the “lower 48 states”) recently. Let’s see what’s been happening in the different seasons of the year. Specifically, let’s find out how temperature has been changing since 1985,…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick There Is No Escape for Corals Deep waters have long been seen as potential refuges for endangered corals, but a new…

They’re counting on you burning out. Don’t – we need you. Here’s help. Daily Kos: Today seems like the right time to do a thread I’ve been thinking about for a while on how to handle the seemingly never-ending deluge…

I really enjoyed interviewing Wind Developer Marty Lagina. Marty came from an Oil and Gas background, he’s an engineer – but he has seen the opportunity in wind, and lately, solar development, around Michigan. I asked him to address a…

Independent: Feeding seaweed to cows could slash the amount of climate change-inducing methane emissions from their burps. Preliminary research has indicated a small amount of marine algae added to cattle food can reduce methane emissions from cattle gut microbes by…

It’s easy to think the world is headed for disaster, and we can’t stop it. Ask those who suffered through the intense heat wave that hit California and the wildfires that came along with it. Ask those who removed a…

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Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted on an anti-carbon tax Resolution. The Resolution was introduced by Steve Scalise (R-LA) with essentially the same language as he introduced in 2013 and 2016. On those past versions, every Republican House member voted against carbon taxes. This time,…

As tempting as it is to tell Judith Curry to “Do the math!” — I don’t think she can handle it. A recent post at WUWT quotes her saying this little gem: It is possible that a shift to the…

I’ll be giving some presentations in coming weeks devoted entirely to newest developments in renewable energy. While a lot of readers of this blog may be well briefed on where renewables are, it’s astounding how little this story has percolated…

I excerpted the video above from Facebook in this month’s Yale vid, in the post above. It’s an example of a very large movement of tech companies into the renewable space – they need high quality electricity for expanding data…

In just two days, kids will be marching in Washington D.C. to urge our leaders to do more to fight against man-made climate change. I doubt the present leadership will listen. That doesn’t matter; what counts is that they are…

A good measure of drought severity is the Palmer Drought Severity Index, also called simply “PDSI.” One thing to keep in mind is that negative numbers indicated drought, the more negative the more severe, while positive numbers indicate wet conditions.…

Ocean Temperature – Part 2 We are coming back to the topic of sea-surface temperature measurements, which we have taken on in the article “Ocean Temperature – Part 1”. This time, we will discuss issues concerning satellite measurements. Pictet Mirrors…

Changes in outlet glaciers of Tanggula Shan in Landsat images from 1993 and 2015.  The Tanggula Shan is in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at the headwaters of the Yangtze River and host approximately 1000 square kilometers of glaciers. Ke et al…

I’d like to remind everyone that kids will be marching on Washington this Saturday, July 21st, to advocate for real action about climate change. Maybe the best thing you can donate to them is publicity. Got a facebook account? Post…

Last night’s post got me thinking I should review just where we are with “Next generation Nuclear power”. About where I thought. Lots of ideas. 2030 time frame for working prototypes, which will need a decade or so to prove…

Suggestion to US trading partners still in the Paris Agreement – If you’re going to have a trade war, well, could it be targeted on carbon emitters? Inside Climate News: As the Trump administration’s trade war heats up, a group…

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has published their data for global average temperature anomaly in June of this year. With June included, the latest data look like this: It’s not really a surprise; global temperature continues to fluctuate,…

Two most obvious existential threats to civilization – climate change and nuclear war. You could probably add in the odd asteroid strike, but that’s more hypothetical. The other two are demonstrably happening. ChannelNewsAsia: TOKYO: Japan has amassed enough plutonium to…

Glen Peters found a nifty way to plug in CO2 emissions per person during the World Cup: Who has the lowest CO₂ emissions per person? France – Croatia (#FRACRO)#FRA – #CRO#WorldCup #CO2WorldCup https://t.co/aqjMTmv8EK pic.twitter.com/2VkmPLo7dr — Glen Peters (@Peters_Glen) July 15,…

Part 21, Cooper time – night divides the day 5 Aug I half dragged myself out of bed this morning at 0630. Had just gotten my pants and socks on and was […]…

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This post was inspired by a long twitter discussion by Mike Mann on the subject of agricultural impacts on climate. This is a myth that was promoted by “Cowspiracy” and is based on erroneous math/accounting. See @UCSUSA: https://t.co/uXEOkI29bd https://t.co/fF69a9V8QH —…