Remember
when polar amplification was the rage? So much for that theory
Antarctica is twice the size of the US or Australia. Buried 2 km deep
under domes of snow, it holds 58 meters of global sea level to ransom.
The IPCC have been predicting its demise-by-climate-change for a decade
or two. A new paper looks at 60 sites across Antarctica, considering
everything from ice, lake and marine cores to
How many sentient mammals died to make that vegan hamburger? Tasmanian
farmer Matthew Evans has added up the inconvenient numbers and written
“One Eating Meat”. The death toll for vegetarian foods means vegans kill
less cows, but more mice, lizards and ducks. Preachy vegans should be
silenced by new book on true cost of plant-based diets Susie O’Brien,
Herald Sun (paywalled) For every 75 hectare
So some people have a mental illness. Unbridled, baseless Climate-Panic
makes that worse. Now those victims are advertising material: Climate
Despair is making people give up on life Mike Pearl, Vice. There’s
nothing like a bit of unprecedented misery made possible by
unprecedented history denial: “This is painful,” [Renee] Lertzman said.
“It’s super painful to be a human being right now at this
Do
we need wind farms to save the world or not? Not, says Bob Brown.
Robbins Island, North West Tasmania People can have sleep and health and
their views destroyed, but that didn’t matter til a farmer on a remote
island off Tasmania made a deal to build one of the largest wind “farms”
in the world. Graham Lloyd, The Australian Former Greens leader and
veteran activist Bob Brown is campaigning to s
Jul 13
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Jul 10
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Jul 09
Jennifer Marohasy is speaking on Sunday in Maroochydore. Details at her
blog. Jen’s mother on Heron Island, mid 1950s. From Jennifer Marohasy:
Corals usually grow-up to just below the lowest mean spring tide. Corals
are particularly vulnerable to extremely low tides and in particular
low tides in the middle of the day when there is also high solar
radiation. The damage from such events may leave
Smashing
plan — raising funds to call for a judicial review of BBC bias David
Keighley has a great strategy — instead of debating “the facts” with an
organisation that accepts whatever an unaudited foreign committee says —
he’s going for the jugular — how do they measure and define
impartiality? They aimed initially to reach £30,000 to cover our legal
fees but have already achieved that in mere da
Jul 07
Snow
again in Western Australia? South West WA got snow at Easter this year,
a remarkable event, and then snow a week ago with predictions of more –
which maybe fell on July 5. Concerned that two or three* bouts of snow
didn’t fit the narrative, the ABC and BOM suddenly found an interest in
our historic weather archives: Snow has been falling in Western
Australia since records began Australian sno
Jul 06
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Jul 03
But
who doesn’t love using junk data to create a fake scare? Another pound
of panic with cherry picked data measured on junk equipment and adjusted
by secret methods. June 2019 was the hottest ever recorded on Earth:
European satellite agency New data released Tuesday found the average
temperature in Europe for June 2019 was higher than any other June on
record. According to the data, the average
Jul 01
If only coral researchers read skeptic blogs, they’d know that corals
have been getting bleached and wrecked by cyclones for millions of
years. They have adaptable genes, honed by 500 million years of natural
selection, plus epigenetic tricks, and with safe zones to seed recovery.
The Great Barrier Reef spans 2,000 kilometers and five degrees Celsius
from 27 to 32°C and we’re still finding reefs
Progress?
Australia has more fashionable energy but less ability to protect
elders from the cold Deaths in elderly folk from hypothermia or cold
related conditions are up 34% in last ten years. These are people who
can’t afford heating. Power prices were up 117% in the same period,
undoubtedly due to policies that put weather control 100-years-from-now,
above the present day quality of life. Watch
Jun 30
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Jun 29
News today is filled with “record heat” in France — whatever, it might
be the hottest since thermometers started measuring, but it’s been
hotter before. Even if it’s real, it’s only a technicality because we
only started records recently. At most it can only be the hottest in 130
years or so, and we know it was just as hot in medieval times, hotter
7,000 years ago, hotter 130,000 years ago, and s
Jun 28
Unfortunately this survey closes Saturday Sunday at 5pm EST. One DAY to
go now. [Correction: Day was wrong, go for it. h/t Eric Worrall].
Apologies to those who would have liked to send in a submission.
Hopefully I covered much on your behalf. The National Environmental
Science Programs wants feedback and to figure out priorities for
environmental research in one specific program. This funding is
Jun 27
Let’s
set national policy by “Embarrassment”? Great way to run the country
(into the ground). Skeptics: send in your submissions before July 12. A
coal generator has asked the Emissions Reductions Fund to pay for carbon
credits if it upgrades its turbines and makes less CO2. “The Specialist
Reporting Team’s” Penny Timms, of the ABC, quotes two activists, asks
no skeptics, no engineers, no electric
Jun 26
Oregon’s Eleven Update: The eleven Republican Senators remain in hiding
to block a vote on the HB2020 Cap N Trade bill. The ruling Democrats
have now said the bill is dead — even suggesting that they don’t have
the numbers in the Senate themselves. But Republicans are wondering if
that’s just a ploy to trick them into returning. After all, if the
Democrats didn’t have enough votes from their own
Once upon a time Australians were rich enough to afford electricity on
demand Now obedient Australian’s are impressed with getting tiny refund
for having voluntary mini-kinda-blackout. Presumably, people are either
desperate or already so trained in paying unnecessarily exorbitant
electricity bills that they are grateful just to get a tiny fraction of
their electricity payments back as an incenti
Jun 25
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Religious
leaders dump coal, declare “no faith” There goes my world. Who knew
they had faith in coal? So forget science, climate change is a moral
problem. Is climate sensitivity 1 degree or 3? Ask a priest. A group
called Australians Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) has
badgered 150 soft targets in the religious world to sign a grandiose
letter making coal into the new Lucifer. The Gu
Jun 24
State troopers have been called in to get Oregon’s Republican senators
back to vote on a climate change bill, but all 11 senators are in secret
locations apparently interstate. No vote can take place on anything
without at least one of those senators being in the chamber to vote. …
Oregon’s Republican state senators go into hiding over climate change
vote amid militia threat ABC News USA. Eleven
Jun 23
The Climate Change River of Gravy is so wide and so fast it pulls other
Big-Gov religions into the flow. Kind of like a Bernoulli Effect of
Bureaucracy. The vacuum of common sense sucks. Or fast flowing nonsense
attracts more nonsense. Here, two deep state clan members fly to a joint
junket in Bonn. The climate sect does a feminist-indigenous handshake
as a test of social rank. Will Australia pas
Jun 22
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The IPA team interview Peter Ridd. He explains that what’s happening on
the Great Barrier Reef with coral bleaching is a normal cycle. He tells
his story of being censured at James Cook university, but admits the
state of free speech at universities in Australia is non-existent — even
after his win. They discuss how we might reform science with audits
(universities are almost a lost cause). We’ll
Jun 21
Humans are a gregarious species. Most people do the right thing, and
it’s this altruism, or self-identification as a “good person” that the
climate industry preys on. In a new study, researchers pretended to be
tourists dropping 17,000 wallets they’d “found” into banks, offices,
theatres and such, then tracking which ones got returned. To most
people’s astonishment (lay person and expert) not onl
Jun 20
Expensive
birds California Valley Solar Ranch Photo Credit: Sarah Swenty/USFWS
Oops. On June 5th, an event described as “an avian incident” started a
fire at the California Valley Solar Ranch plant in California. The 250MW
plant was reduced to 40MW of generation. It’s expected to be back up
and running on July 1. By then the incident will have cost the company
$8m. ‘Avian Incident’ Knocks Out 84%
Jun 19
Remember
when we were told coal was dying? Donald Trump is changing the rules
which will keep older cheap coal plants running. Trump ditches sole
climate rule that aimed to reduce coal plant pollution Emily Holden, The
Guardian Donald Trump’s administration is finalizing plans to roll back
the US government’s only direct efforts to curb coal-fired power plant
pollution that is heating the planet.
Jun 18
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Congratulations
to Malcolm! It’s great news. Six more years for the die-hard skeptic in
the senate. I know Malcolm has some big plans. One Nation’s Malcolm
Roberts will rejoin the Senate, almost two years after he fell victim to
the dual citizenship saga and was kicked out of parliament. This time
they can’t run the fake news line that “he only got 77 votes”.
Meanwhile: Worst result in 70 years: m
Jun 16
New
research shows that the impending climate disaster puts the world in
danger of growing too much corn and soy. People won’t know what starving
is! H/t to CO2Science Qiao et al discovered that when temperatures are
raised by a “catastrophic” 2 degrees C, and CO2 is raised to 700
unthinkable ppm corn (aka maize) increases its yield by a remarkable
25%. When hit by both high temperatures and extra
Jun 15
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