The recent warming has been more pronounced in the Arctic Eurasia than in many other regions on our planet, but argues that only one out of 109 temperature records from this region exhibits a significant warming trend. I think that his conclusions were based on misguided analyses. The analysis did not sufficiently distinguish between signal [...]
That fossil fuels are bad for people and the planet is a cardinal tenet of both mainstream and radical environmentalism. Cato Institute scholar Indur Goklany offers a dramatically different assessment in Humanity Unbound: How Fossil Fuels Saved Humanity from Nature and Nature from Humanity. Global average life expectancy (the best single indicator of health) hardly changed through most of human [...]
A number of blogs were excited after having leaked the second-order draft of IPCC document, which they interpreted as a “game-changing admission of enhanced solar forcing”. However, little evidence remains for a link between galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and variations in Earth’s cloudiness. recently provided an extensive review of the study of the GCR and [...]
Eric Steig Regular followers of RealClimate will be aware of our publication in 2009 in Nature, showing that West Antarctica — the part of the Antarctic ice sheet that is currently contributing the most to sea level rise, and which has the potential to become unstable and contribute a lot more (3 meters!) to sea [...]
The wind energy production tax credit (PTC) expires at the stroke of midnight, Dec. 31, unless Congress votes to renew the tax break. A one-year extension would add an estimated $12.1 billion to deficit spending over 10 years. A six-year extension, advocated by the wind industry, could add $50 billion. The fiscal cliff looms and the [...]
My latest article spelling out who "we're all in this together" apparently doesn't apply when it comes to imposing a raft of new green energy levies.
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To see how the new UK energy bill is bumping up UK energy bills by tripling green subsidies (among other things) go here to Energy Tribune for the full published article.
In a fiery speech yesterday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) ”calls out” “climate deniers.” In the first half of the speech he goes ad hominem, attacking opponents as “front groups” who take payola from “polluters” to “confuse” the public by selling “doubt” as their product. First a bit of free advice for the good Senator: Your team has been playing nasty from day one. [...]
This blog post was written by Dr. Bonnie New, former Director of Health Professionals for Clean Air. Physicians treating patients with respiratory symptoms look for underlying causes or aggravators, and that includes exposure to air pollution. If that pollution involves particulate matter – also known as soot – their concerns intensify, because of its well-known [...]