Monetizing the Effects of Carbon
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that the New York Times (NYT) is going to close their environmental desk. Given that there still are actual environmental problems on the planet, I consider the...
View ArticleNote to Scientific American’s Bora Zivkovic: “If you want to practice...
I found this humorous. h/t to Andrew Revkin. Over at Scientific American, Bora Zivkovic writes about Why the NYTimes “Green Blog” Is Now Essential Andrew Revkin of the NYT found the story worth...
View ArticleThe NYT corrects a global temperature mistake – meanwhile, James Hansen’s...
First, here is a letter from Harold Ambler which went ignored, he writes: When I found a rather major error in a New York Times article about climate change, I took the trouble to write the editors. I...
View ArticleEurekalert’s lack of press release standards – a systemic problem with...
I noted a link to WUWT in this NYT essay by Andrew Revkin titled: When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in Climate Science (Part One). I liked Andy’s bit of artwork to go with it, seen at right below. I...
View ArticleQuote of the week – meet the new ‘deniers’
Oh, this is hilarious. On Monday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe,” New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argued that “deficit things” aren’t something to be worried about,...
View ArticleBREAKING: an encouraging admission of lower climate sensitivity by a ‘hockey...
UPDATE: Annan now suggests the IPCC “is in a bit of a pickle”, see below. UPDATE2: Title has been changed to reflect Annan’s new essay, suggesting lying for political purposes inside the IPCC. Also...
View ArticleThe Revkin-Gavin debate on lower climate sensitivity
Lower climate sensitivity is getting some mainstream discussion. Last week at WUWT, we had this story: BREAKING: an encouraging admission of lower climate sensitivity by a ‘hockey team’ scientist,...
View ArticleQuote of the Week – NYT on James Hansen & Bill McKibben’s ‘boneheaded’ efforts
Whoo-boy. NASA’s James Hansen disses McKibben in an email to an NYT reporter. Hansen was speaking candidly, never thinking this email would see the light of day. But that’s not the punchline… Hansen on...
View ArticleJuliet Eilperin out at Washington Post environment beat
It seems shakeups in green reporting are all the rage this year. First we heard that NYT is closing its environment desk: New York Times Dismantles Its Environment Desk Then last Friday late in the...
View Article“A [Junk] Scientist’s Misguided Crusade” Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Guest Post by David Middleton More improper activity from the Million Dollar Bureaucrat… A Scientist’s Misguided Crusade By JOE NOCERA Published: March 4, 2013 Last Friday, at 3:40 p.m., the State...
View ArticleAGW Proponents Fight Rearguard Action As Political Climate Science Fails
Guest post by Dr. Tim Ball Proponents of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis are cornered. They made a political choice to prove rather than disprove the hypothesis, as the scientific...
View ArticleBREAKING: James Hansen to leave NASA to be full time activist
I checked first, thinking this was some April Fools joke, it appears legit. (h/t to Tom Nelson and Skiphil) Climate Alarmist Jim Hansen leaving NASA on Wed. to devote himself to legal and political...
View ArticleHow a scientist becomes a con man
Fraud and deceit are a slippery slope Story submitted by Bruce Webster An article in the New York Times chronicles the descent of a sociologist into wholesale fraud. It is worth reading the whole...
View ArticleThe Kepler spacecraft has a failure
Two of four reaction wheels seized up, critical for precise photometry Excerpt from the Kepler Mission Manager Update. (h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard) At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013,...
View ArticleThe warming ‘plateau’ may extend back even further
Despite recent claims by Justin Gillis in this NYT piece that the plateau in surface temperatures is misunderstood by scientists… …given how much is riding on the scientific forecast, the practitioners...
View ArticleLomborg: New York Times environmental journalist Justin Gillis is wrong
Guest essay by Bjørn Lomborg Justin Gillis tells NPR how much sea levels will rise: “experts believe sea levels will rise at least 3 feet in the next century, and that number could be as much as 6...
View ArticleQuote of the week – the death of ‘Popular Science’ commentary
Apparently, the science was too popular, so what do these fools do? Alienate their readers of course: Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here’s why....
View ArticleJust in Time for Halloween Come Some Scary Global Warming Predictions
By Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels Global warming beater Justin Gillis of the New York Times had an article yesterday describing a new paper in the current issue of Nature...
View ArticleThe Krugman Effect
Roger Pielke, Jr. Fri Jun 06, 05:24:00 PM MDT writes: A delightful comment at the NY Times under Krugman’s post: Link:...
View ArticleNew York Times: World’s nations building huge numbers of new coal plants...
By Larry Hamlin, A recent article discussed at Watts Up With That? exposed that many of the world’s largest CO2 emitting nations are proceeding with energy policies involving the building of huge...
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