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- We ask if Lithium Ion Batteries are actually safe for use in home power storage systems or not? more
- The new solar batteries Comparison Table is now live. more
- The AGW alarmists seem to think the Feb 2016 sudden uptick in temperature is caused by Co2, this is not the case, its a strong El Niño... more
- This video exposes the gross hypocrisy of the Green movement and the damage their policies are causing to the environment and peoples standard... more
- Yesterday in the Senate the Carbon Tax was removed... more
- In the interests of free speech I'm reposting this article so it gets better exposure. more
- Second hand building materials offer an excellent way to reduce environmental impact, we show you how. more
- The Climate Commission is being reformed as the Climate Council, we ask who do they represent and what is their funding model? more
Blog from EcoWho
Brains for the Earth
- Let’s start out with my in-the-moment string of notes during the Press Preview at this year’s NAIAS (Detroit Auto Show). This covers the main ideas about this year’s...
- For an EcoGeek, there were many surprises at the 2017 edition of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). We’ve been watching the emphasis on green cars decline for...
- Residential power storage options are starting to get more competitive with a flow battery being introduced to the market in Australia. Flow batteries have been something we’ve...
- The “world’s largest aircraft,” the Airlander 10, is being readied for flights to begin later this year. The Airlander 10 is a massive hybrid aircraft that combines...
- Researchers are exploring the novel idea of using metals as fuels. This is not some new, exotic science-fiction material, but rather plentiful, ordinary metals such as iron that could...
- Nobody is trying to save the planet with green cars anymore. The days of green cars being featured at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) seem to be over. Gone are...
- Not every energy technology that is explored is going to lead to a successful new power industry. Osmosis power was one of the more unusual technologies we’ve come across. But now,...
Future-forward design for the world you inhabit
- MAD Architects to transform an ancient Chinese courtyard into a kindergarten with a "floating roof"
2 hours agoBeijing-based design practice MAD Architects has broken ground on the Courtyard Kindergarten, a striking adaptive reuse project that transform a traditional siheyuan courtyard from... - The California wildfires are raging on, but humans aren’t the only ones in danger. Thousands of pets and farm animals have received attention in Northern and Southern California while...
- Clad in jet black, corrugated metal siding and renewable Brazilian hardwood, the Draper is an impressive tiny home on wheels that is as tough as nails on the outside but surprisingly...
- For those looking to get a taste of tiny home living, this charming, energy-efficient home located on a working farm outside of Winston-Salem, North Carolina is just for you...
- Denver-based firefighter Regan Foster used to spend his days putting out fires, but while recovering from a work-related injury, Foster decided to try his hand at building his dream...
- Zagreb-based architectural office PROARH completed Issa Megaron, a family retreat in Croatia that’s disguised inside a rocky hillside with a zigzagging road...
- Elephants are thought to bring good luck, and that's certainly true for anyone lucky enough to stay in this elephant-shaped eco-resort in Sri Lanka. Located near the famous Yala National...
The voice of The Sietch community
- Day 633: Keep the focus on inequality Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it ‘CEOs don’t want this released’:...
- Day 632: Keep the focus on inequality Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it ‘CEOs don’t want this released’:...
- Day 628: Keep the focus on inequality Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it ‘CEOs don’t want this released’:...
- Day 627: Keep the focus on inequality Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it ‘CEOs don’t want this released’:...
- Day 626: Keep the focus on inequality Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it ‘CEOs don’t want this released’:...
- Day 625: Keep the focus on inequality Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it ‘CEOs don’t want this released’:...
- Day 625: Keep the focus on inequality Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it ‘CEOs don’t want this released’:...
- Resplandy et al. Part 2: Regression in the presence of trend and scale systematic errors
Thu, 8 Nov 18, 9:28amby Nic Lewis In a recent article I set out why I thought that the trend in ΔAPOClimate was overstated, and its uncertainty greatly understated, in the Resplandy et al... - by Nic Lewis Obviously doubtful claims about new research regarding ocean content reveal how unquestioning Nature, climate scientists and the MSM are. On November 1st there was extensive...
- Remarkable changes to carbon emission budgets in the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C
Fri, 19 Oct 18, 7:11amby Nic Lewis A close reading of Chapters 1 and 2 of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) reveals some interesting changes from the IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5),... - by Judith Curry On possibilities, known neglecteds, and the vicious positive feedback loop between scientific assessment and policy making that has created a climate Frankenstein...
- by Judith Curry The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C is now published [link]. The good news is that it is better written and with better diagrams — no more turgid...
- by Patrick J. Michaels We’ve long been fond of showing the satellite evidence for planetary greening caused by increasing carbon dioxide, particularly the work of Zhu et al.(2016):...
- by Judith Curry “Impending massive hurricanes bring the best out of weather twitter and the worst out of climate twitter” – Joseph Maykut Every time we have a tropical...
by Steve McIntyre
- The PAGES (2017) North American network consists entirely of tree rings. Climate Audit readers will recall the unique role of North American stripbark bristlecone chronologies in Mann...
- The most recent large-scale compilation of proxy records over the past two millennia is PAGES (2017). They made a concerted effort to archive data (to the credit of Julien Emile-Geay),...
- Central to the Mueller indictment is attribution to Russia of a spearphishing campaign from domains then located in Romania. It is therefore more than a little surprising that one of...
- Jordan Peterson, a fellow Torontonian who is obviously not shy about challenging authority, recently cited the World Health Organization (WHO) on Douma chemical attacks as follows:...
- In this post, I will provide a timeline of original appearances of videos and photos of the Douma chemical incident. There were two locations for these videos: (1) the emergency ward...
- The impact of recent forcing and ocean heat uptake data on estimates of climate sensitivity
Tue, 24 Apr 18, 5:54pmA guest post by Nic Lewis Judith Curry and I have now updated the LC15 paper with a new paper that has been published in the Journal of Climate There has been considerable scientific... - The two strongest potentially credible constraints, and conclusions A guest post by Nic Lewis In Part 1 of this article the nature and validity of emergent constraints[1] on equilibrium...
The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change
- Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to computer models created by Dr Giovanni Strona of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, working with Corey Bradshaw of Flinders...
- Book review by Kip Hansen Hans Rosling’s FACTFULNESS : Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think is currently Amazon’s...
- Guest humor by David Middleton It’s never too early to start Christmas (or whatever holiday) shopping and The Atlantic has some great gift ideas for the ‘Climate Hellscape’...
- MATH ERROR: Scientists Admit ‘Mistakes’ Led To Alarming Results In Major Global Warming Study
7 hours agoFrom The Daily Caller 9:18 AM 11/14/2018 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor Scientists behind a headline-grabbing climate study admitted they “really muffed” their... - I’m adding Two Graphs to my Monthly Global Surface and TLT Temperature Updates. The new graphs are being added for a simple reason: to provide different perspectives on the increases...
- Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired by the work done by Robert Rohde attempting to link May to October temperatures and rainfall to fires, I thought I’d take a look at the...
- I’m still settling in and I do things differently from Anthony, so to give you all the best experience, I need you to work with me. If any you want to tell me anything that needs...
- The best way to remember how entertaining (or horrifying) climate science, energy policy etc, was in 2017 is to buy a Cartoons by Josh Calendar.
Tags: josh - From Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s cancer agency dismissed and edited findings from a draft of its review of the weedkiller glyphosate...
- 'Daring to Doubt' Tony Abbot GWPF Annual Lecture 2017 - Cartoon notes by Josh
Tue, 10 Oct 17, 11:56pmClick image for larger version Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia, gave an excellent GWPF annual lecture last night. I will post the video of the talk as soon as it is... - A couple of weeks back, the BBC's Nick Robinson was bemoaning the fact that the general public is increasingly shunning the corporation, favouring instead the multitude of alternative...
- I've been playing about with DECC's 2050 calculator and I wondered if BH readers (if any of you are still popping by) to take a look at something.
Tags: energy biofuels - Last night Roger Peilke Jr gave a superb talk, hosted by The Global Warming Policy Foundation, on Climate change politics. It was timely, challenging and positive. I will post...
- It seems that Lord Stern is a very bad boy. Very bad indeed.
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A perfectly good civilization is going to waste...
- An update on the graph that is death to climate models Good people of Earth are spending thousands of billions of dollars to prevent a future predicted by models that we know don’t...
- Thanks to the Californian conflagration, Global Climate Superstition is here again to tell us that fires in coal plants cause fires in forests. Scientists, on the other hand, find...
- Like Prohibition is to Moonshine, Green divestment activists are a boon for coal investors
2 days agoWhen wowsers banned alcohol in the US, the price of beer rose sevenfold. Nick Cater points at rising coal share prices and declares that the Green divestment plan works just as well... - “Biggest crisis in a lifetime”, “worse than GFC” hits Australian business — electricity costs
Sun, 11 Nov 18, 4:22amThe closures and “heartbreaking” decisions are escalating as electricity contracts for businesses are being renegotiated in the new era of higher wholesale electricity prices... - White elephant solar panels: “force-feeding” high voltage, raising costs, breaking things, shutting themselves down
Fri, 9 Nov 18, 7:37pmSome days I wonder if I should spread stories that make us sound like a recidivist third-world backwater struggling to maintain our voltage. But the ABC is already smashing away. - Glaciers on the move: Two minutes of extreme climate change on Swiss Alps, Italian beaches
Thu, 8 Nov 18, 2:55amThe next ice coming to Europe might look something like the last ice age shown in this simulation. A time when Venice will be top of a long paddock that stretches to Albania. - Wind turbines either kill or scare away three quarters of buzzards, hawks and kites at three sites in India. That makes them the new “top predator” in the ecosystem according...
Because the world needs another opinion
- Media has lost any sense of normality. This is not my reality. The memes they present have nothing to do with me. If we accidentally accept it, You too can be a Muppet –...
- America is not allowed to elect a conservative president of any form. The deep state, fourth branch of government has declared that they now have critical mass to enforce their will...
- Flameout — Wiki with happy links.. including fuel starvation, compressor stall, insufficient oxygen (at high altitudes), foreign object damage (such as caused by birds, hail or...
- I am absolutely thrilled to see a tiny bit of sanity in our government. Every day the left gets loonier with one fake conspiracy after another dying when hit by fact, and every...
- I’m not sure how to reply to PSI. They’ve written a post which I don’t seem to be allowed to comment on or there is some technical problem. Read at your own risk,...
- So, to the couple hundred readers who still stop by, Anthony Watts has a fun activity going on. Kenji, the full fledged yet unvetted member of the union of concerned scientists, is...
- Definition of bigot : a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially: one who regards or treats the members of a group...
Just don't tell me the debate's over…
- One of the unfortunate consequences of rising early is the extended interview slot on ABC News Radio, broadcast at about 5.45 am. Frequently this will be a lengthy regurgitation of...
- Yes, despite all the technology that must go into HELE (high efficiency, low emission) coal fired power stations, they are STILL cheaper than farts and sunbeams...
- Long before the term fake news was even thought of, the activists at the Climate Institute, headed up by John Connor, were pushing it by the barrowload. Now its time is up, going out...
- This is the reality of efforts to alter the climate of the planet: huge expense for almost no result. Bjorn Lomborg’s 2016 paper on the impact of current climate proposals (full...
- Who cares that fewer and fewer people in Australia can afford this most basic necessity? At least we’re saving the planet, right? Actually no, since nothing Australia does makes...
- Would never have seen this coming, since Finkel is the magic pudding that cuts emissions and prices! A MAJOR electricity retailer has announced a $130-a-year price hike and blamed...
- Compare and contrast the following two current news stories: Australia will ‘Finkel around the edges’ of a tiny emissions footprint in order to make Malcolm look like he’s...
CO2 is NOT the climate control knob
- Gavin Schmidt and Richard Alley made some comments on extreme weather here. Dick Lindzen (via email) on cold and heat extremes:"Gavin and Alley both seem pretty ignorant. ...
- Released May 13, 2016. Press releaseFive PDFs, 190 pagesPages 1- 59Pages 60-102Pages 103-133Pages 134-178Pages 179-190Related post on Watts Up With ThatClick on this Twitter thread...
- Hillary Clinton tells thrilling tale of Obama/Clinton planet-saving heroism at Copenhagen 2009
Sun, 12 Apr 15, 3:46amFrom this December 2014 LCV speech (17 min mark).President Obama and I went to the global climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. We ran into a solid wall of opposition from... - "Limits to Growth" co-author "argues that capitalism and democracy will continue to hamper climate action"
Fri, 10 Apr 15, 9:35pm'Global warming going from bad to worse'Randers, co-author of the seminal 1972 report "Limits to Growth," which highlighted the devastating impacts of economic and population growth... - Obama emphasizes threat to public health as part of climate change [scam] push
Fri, 10 Apr 15, 11:04amObama emphasizes threat to public health as part of climate change push | US news | The Guardian - Warmer is better; 17th century--Global cooling caused "famines, wars and political upheaval"
Thu, 9 Apr 15, 6:34pmHistorian Reveals Climate Change Lessons from 17th Century - Judith Curry pulls no punches: Draft climate "statement is an embarrassment to the APS"
Wed, 8 Apr 15, 10:26amDraft APS Statement on Climate Change | Climate Etc.
Startup and Technology News
- Tesla, GM and Nissan are among a group of 15 companies that launched a new coalition aimed at reforming the electric vehicle tax credit. The group, called EV Drive Coalition, brings...
- Earlier this week in a new experimental newsletter I’ve been helping Danny Crichton on, we briefly discussed transit pundit Jarrett Walker’s article in The Atlantic arguing against...
- Netflix has persuaded everyone’s favorite naturalist, David Attenborough, to voice its forthcoming original nature documentary series, Our Planet, which is slated to put conservation...
- Former Intel Capital managing director Lisa Lambert has launched National Grid Partners.
Tags: greentech, venture capital, intel capital - The cost of energy storage has stalled adoption of renewable power. Energy Vault has a solution.
Thu, 8 Nov 18, 1:46amBecause solar and wind power are now cheaper to produce than energy from fossil fuels, the only obstacle that remains to the mass adoption of renewable power is the amount of money... - The continuing die-off of the world's coral reefs is a depressing reminder of the reality of climate change, but it's also something we can actively push back on...
- Google AI listens to 15 years of sea-bottom recordings for hidden whale songs
Tue, 30 Oct 18, 10:26amGoogle and a group of game cetologists have undertaken an AI-based investigation of years of undersea recordings, hoping to create a machine learning model that can spot humpback whale...
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- What does that blue butterfly do when you are not watching. We still have to discover exactly how the Eurasian large blue exploits Myrmica ants, but many of its relatives are either...
- For several years, excitement has been building over the Atlantic presence of Manta birostris and Manta cf birostris/ this is the classification system trying to tell us of a potential...
- Ocean plastic pollution could triple in a decade without action by the ocean economy. TOMRA CEO Stefan Ranstrand responds to the UK Government’s Foresight Future of the Sea report...
- Look at those modified wings and the bee antennae. But this is no stinger or biter. It’s a clearwing moth, and you can find similar species near your own location worldwide. It’s...
- There is a songster we have missed. He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe it’s about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts...
- There is a songster we have missed. He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe it’s about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts...
- You can deny climate change as much as you like. The evidence contradicts you. Any logical study takes account of scientific data which can be reproduced. That is the difference between...