USA SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN EPA CLIMATE POLICY

This piece explains what has happened and the effect on Obama's climate agenda. This seems to be a major blow for the climate alarmists, and will undermine their attempts to by-pass the Senate and Congress.

Update. Below is an extract sent to me by CFACT.

Professor Willie Soon and CFACT senior policy advisor Paul Driessen co-authored an article regarding the EPA’s mercury rule that provides valuable perspective.  In it they note:

"The latest government, university and independent studies reveal that those power plants emit an estimated 41-48 tons of mercury per year. However, U.S. forest fires emit at least 44 tons per year; cremation of human remains discharges 26 tpy; Chinese power plants eject 400 tpy; and volcanoes, subsea vents, geysers and other sources spew out 9,000-10,000 additional tons per year!”

All these emissions enter the global atmospheric system and become part of the U.S. air mass.

Thus, U.S. power plants account for less than 0.5% of all the mercury in the air Americans breathe. Even eliminating every milligram of this mercury will do nothing about the other 99.5% in America’s atmosphere."

USA CONGRESS TRIES TO KILL OFF OBAMA'S CLIMATE POLICY

This piece gives the details. I guess that, in the longer term, a lot depends on who becomes the next president and whether he or she supports the policies of Obama.

UK FRACKING DECISION WILL BE MADE ON MONDAY

This article gives the details of the planning case being decided in Lancashire by the Council. Legal advisers have warned the councillors that they have no legitimate grounds for refusal.

DIMMER SUN COULD CAUSE A NEW MAUNDER MINIMUM IN 2050 SAYS MET OFFICE REPORT

Here is the article which cites the report. Before you start thinking of a frozen Thames, the Met Office are quick to say that this will not actually stop global warming, it will just slow it down for a while. Even so this is a surprising admission and I can only conclude that it is an attempt to get their excuse in early to explain the continued lack of warming. How long can a theory of global warming continue without said warming showing up?

IS THIS THE REAL REASON FOR THE PAUSE?

This article looks at average temperatures for the earth's surface at different times throughout the year and in the northern and southern hemispheres and finds some interesting connections.

THE CLIMATE WAR IS DESTROYING THE REPUTATION OF SCIENCE

This excellent article by Matt Ridley is a real tour de force of the damage being caused to the reputation of science by the distortions and exaggerations being put out by those determined to keep the fear of climate change through global warming alive.

UPDATE ON DATA TAMPERING IN AUSTRALIA

Here is the update which looks at the review being carried out to see what has gone wrong. The point is that all the revisions seem to go one way - to show greater warming, which seems to most people to be a little fishy.

GOOD ARTICLE ON OCEAN 'ACIDIFICATION'

This piece gives a concise overview of the topic and concludes that it is in fact a scare story and that there is no evidence that shows that the slight reduction in pH due to take up of CO2 by the oceans is causing, or is likely to cause any harm to marine life.

NEW YORK POLITICIANS TRY TO STOP FRACKING IN THE UK

This article from the BBC news explains what is happening. There is clearly a determination among these politicians to prevent fracking from taking place here in the UK. I suppose it is possible that they are doing this for purely altruistic motives, but on the other hand they may be true believers in the cult of CAGW (catastrophic anthropogenic global warming) and this is to push the 'cause'. I hope the councillors of Lancashire will ignore this and give the approval for the test drilling to go ahead.

ROYAL SOCIETY WON'T CHANGE ITS MIND ON CLIMATE FOR 50 YEARS

Even if there is no more warming, or indeed cooling occurs they have said that they will not change their position for 50 years from now, according to this report.

THE STATE OF THE CLIMATE DEBATE IN THE USA

This lecture given to the UK's House of Lords by Prof Judith Curry gives a great deal of insight into how the politics is playing out there. What is apparent is that there is far more debate and disagreement in the USA than in Europe or the UK, and so the response of the USA is much more uncertain.

MESSAGE FOR THE POPE ON CLIMATE POLICY

This short video from a USA think tank is aimed at the Pope to try and get him to see how damaging climate change policies are to the poor. I wonder if he is listening?  

EVIDENCE FOR SUN AFFECTING GW IN NEW STUDY

Here is the link to the new study. It focuses on the role of the stratosphere and the link to ozone levels, which are the main greenhouse gas at that level.

PAPERS PROMOTE ALARMIST PRESS RELEASES WITHOUT QUESTION

This article looks at the kind of thing being put out. It is low grade stuff and each point can easily be debunked as the author has done for the piece on beer. What is so bad though is that the reporters put it out unquestioningly and many readers simply accept it in the same way. Some will ignore it, but it still adds to the myth that we are being subjected to serious climate change, when in fact temperatures have hardly change for 17 years, but this is hardly ever mentioned.

BRILLIANT SPEECH BY UK MP DESTROYS REASON FOR CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

This short speech by a back bench Conservative MP is really worth watching. The MP, David Davies, shows himself to be both moderate and well-informed. Sadly the House of Commons was only sparsely populated and this speech has so far only reached a small audience .

More from this MP here in this video of a debate. Here is a link to the Q and A session that followed the debate.

GLOBAL WIND SCAM DAY

This article looks at the downside of wind energy as the wind industry celebrate "Global Wind Day" today, 15th June. 

THE SCIENCE TOO BIG TO FAIL

This article is a great run down on where global warming is today. It contains some good ideas, here are some that stood out for me:-

"The IPCC has become to science what FIFA is to soccer; bloated, un-accountable and out of touch."

 “The IPCC is un-reformable and the Fifth Assessment Report should be the IPCC’s last.” Yet both the science and the process have become too big to fail."

 

GREEN DEAL A LIKELY CASUALTY OF GOVERNMENT CUTS

This report gives the details. So much for the "green dream". When idealism comes up against realism there is only one winner. This says all that needs to be said about the fate of the /climate Change Act. It will gradually be watered down and finally ditched.

UK's NEW CLIMATE CHANGE MINISTER SAYS 'MORE ATTRACTIVE BUILDINGS' WILL HELP US LIKE NUCLEAR POWER

That is according to this article in the Independent. She also said that she was going to arrange to meet with Lord Lawson and hoped to "win him over" to the climate alarmist position. These are the pronouncements of our new Energy and Climate Change Minister, Amber Rudd, and I think it tells us rather a lot about her and her ideas on her brief. She seems to have a lot of confidence, though sadly misplaced.

FRACKING DECLARED SAFE BY THE EPA

The USA's Environmental Protection Agency has carried out a thorough investigation of fracking and given it a clean bill of health according to this article. Surely this should reassure all those, except the green zealots who will never be convinced.

GREAT NEWS - UK WILL SURVIVE CAGW

That is according to the article discussed here. The logic of the article makes very good sense. Survival depends on being wealthy and so being able to adapt. Logically this means that what poor nations need to do is start generating cheap energy and develop, just as the Western nations have done. But this logic somehow escapes the climate change zealots. Instead they want the West to give large hand-outs to the poorer nations in return for them not developing. This isn't going to happen. 

ATTEMPT TO REMOVE THE PAUSE IN GW DEBUNKED WITH EASE

This article looks at the new paper that tries to remove the pause in global warming from the record and is not impressed. The more this kind of thing is debunked the more damage is done to the whole concept of catastrophic man-made global warming or as it is now known "climate change".

EU DIVIDED OVER CO2 EMISSION POLICIES

Here are the details of the arguments. If some countries are severely disadvantaged, then it does not seem likely that the policies can be agreed. If the EU cannot agree then what chance is there for the talks in Paris?

SOUTH UK OILFIELD MUCH BIGGER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT

According to this report the oilfield, near Gatwick airport, contains oil worth £300 billion and it won't even need fracking. Drill baby, drill!

EU CLIMATE POLICIES DESTROYING USA's FORESTS

This article from the Washington Post explains how the demand for wood pellets for EU biomass power stations is actually leading to a loss of forests in the USA. Not what the Greens would have wanted and it is causing some members of the Green Movement some angst. 

FRANCE DESPARATE TO GET A DEAL IN DECEMBER PARIS TALKS

This article looks at the pre-conference meetings that the French are organising to try and broker a deal on CO2 emissions. However hard they try, there is no way they will get an agreement of any worth, as the Indians and Chinese are not interested, neither are the Japanese or the Australians. Only a fudge will be achieved to try and save face.

CLIMATE CHANGE DOOM MERCHANTS FORCED TO FACE REALITY

The reality is that the doom merchants got it wrong as can be seen in this piece. It is clear that this sort of good news story never makes the main TV news for the simple reason that it does not fit the global warming narrative.

DRAMATIC CLIMATE CHANGE TOOK PLACE 10,000 YEARS AGO

It is important to understand that climate change has always occurred and there have been some dramatic examples from the past, much more dramatic than what is happening now. Here is a good example from around 10,000 years ago in the region of what is now the Sahara Desert.

IMF PROPAGANDA IS JUST DISHONEST

When the IMF recently published a paper which made out that fossil fuels were heavily subsidised, they were using the word subsidised in an entirely new way. As this article explains, they were simply engaging is blatant propaganda.  This seems to be an attempt to convince the political elite that they must step up their war on fossil fuels for the greater good of humanity.

Roger Helmer MEP has a good article on this subject on his blog.

ATLANTIC CURRENT TO CAUSE COOLING OVER THE NEXT 20 TO 30 YEARS

This report from a study by Southampton Oceanography Centre confirms earlier reports that the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation is about to go into a negative phase and cause temperatures to drop slightly.