Top Down Climate Wrangling
The Doha climate summit has closed without much progress. Advocates, politicians, and negotiators, flew half way around the world to discuss how terrible the climate change situation is, and agree to...
View ArticleManipulating the Masses
When does persuasion go too far? When does it become manipulation? If you think long about it, the difference is subtle. Persuasion is more organic and open. Manipulation is more pre-planned and...
View ArticleRecent AGW Rumblings
I have been covering and studying the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) ”situation” (science, media, politics) for over a decade now, yet I am continually amazed at the twists-n-turns of the topic and...
View ArticleExtreme Weather Then & Now
There is a lot of talk recently about how “extreme” the weather is now, and how it will get so much more “extreme” in the future (even more specualtion here). There are certainly some robust theories...
View ArticleLooking on the Bight Side
And now a little time for a segment known as “maybe-it-is-not-as-bad-as-originally-thought”. I do these from time-to-time because some new studies can promote a lot of sensationalized reports in the...
View ArticleBad for Science
A couple of really bad “science” stories have hit the media recently. One involves liability and the other dishes out mostly propaganda. Perhaps you already heard about this one involving the liability...
View ArticleProtesting AGW
You might have seen some of the scenes of recent pollution in China. The air quality was so bad in Bejing a couple of weeks ago that they could not even “chart” it. The pollution was so bad that it was...
View ArticleThe Efficacy of Climate Meetings
I almost pulled my hair out the other day. I know, there isn’t much left to pull out, but what little is left was close to removal. In a world full of many things you could pull-your-hair-out over,...
View ArticleClimate News Galore
Some interesting anthropogenic global warming (AGW) news has made some headlines recently. A lot has to do with pinning the blame (or not) on human activities. In recent years, the media, “climate...
View ArticleThe News Is Not All Bad
An interesting projection of arctic vegetation changes was published recently. As you can imagine, if the arctic continues to warm, more trees will grow. The study expects up to 50% more trees in...
View ArticleEnergy Efficiency in the USA
There was quite a stir in media, climate, and environmentalist circles recently when carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere as measured atop the mountain at Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii reached 400...
View ArticleFeeding the World
I while back, I heralded Norman Borlaug in the blog for finding a solution to feeding the world’s growing population. Some might argue that creating a new strain of wheat with a higher yield was not...
View ArticleAn Under-Reported Story
One of the most under-reported environmental stories of the last couple of years is the decrease in carbon emissions in the U.S. It is surprising (to some). It has defied almost every prediction,...
View ArticleLots of Rain
Some interesting things happening in Northcentral Wisconsin lately. We had the latest ever date in our snowmelt contest this year. In case you did not hear, the snow finally melted on June 30th. It did...
View ArticleMore Deciphering Results
With the large volume of scientific studies being published every day, it can be hard to understand or decipher it all. Many times it seems like a new research result will contradict an older study,...
View ArticlePeak Oil – A Busted Theory?
One of the issues I have followed over the last few years, almost a decade really, is the Peak Oil scenario. I became interested in the issue as it relates to energy and pollution. I even interviewed...
View ArticleRising Seas
Once again we come across some anthropogenic global warming (AGW) analysis, theory, and opinion using words like “irreversible”, “locked in” and “inevitable”. This theme has resurfaced in regards to...
View ArticleInteresting AGW Tidbits
Remember when potential influence of cosmic rays on cloud formation and climate was pilloried, when researchers pursuing this interesting angle of physics were essentially ”laughed out of the room”,...
View ArticleClimate Change News
Perhaps you’ve heard that the latest report of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released on September 26th. Actually they released the first of four sections. It is...
View ArticleAGW Lawsuits Again & Again
The interesting issue of climate reparations has reared its head again during the recent United Nations climate talks in Poland last week. I have ruminated more in-depth on this issue before. The basic...
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