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

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,...

A new way of building roads with recycled plastic is being developed by Dutch company KWS Infra. As a resident of Michigan, where the combination of hard northern winters and a legislature...

Whether you get an iced latte to-go in the morning, your restaurant leftovers in a plastic takeaway container, or forget to take a reusable bags to the store, there are numerous ways disposable...

Amsterdam-based designer Frederike Top just unveiled her latest work - and it's literally brilliant. Reflected Sequence is a series of reflective mobiles that use geometric panels and...

Is the Donald Trump administration reassigning employees who speak out on the dangers of climate change? Joel Clement, former Office of Policy Analysis director at the Department of...

Sometimes, there are benefits to being clumsy - so discovered 9-year-old Jude Sparks on a recent hike in New Mexico's Orange Mountains. On a trip with his family, Sparks tripped over...

Indoor vertical farming is on the rise, if a recent funding round for San Francisco startup Plenty is any indication. The company just scored what they say is the largest agriculture...

Scientists have been stumped for years over why the southern Amazon rainforest's rainy season begins two to three months earlier than they'd expect. But now an international team that...

Need a quiet space to get away from it all? French architecture firm, Les Etablissements Tourneux has created a multi-use wooden shelter that hangs from the tree tops...

Day 185: It’s going to be bad, but we are still going to fight : Happy Sunday. Further Reading: Donald Trump to be blocked from easing Russia sanctions after US Congress agrees...

Day 184: These idiots can’t help but incriminate themselves : Go outside, ride your bike, recharge and get ready for the fight on Monday. Further Reading: Donald Trump says ‘US...

Day 183: The robots keep going long after the humans have perished : What we have right now is a bunch of republicans who are still trying to pass a massive tax cut dressed up as a...

Day 182: These people are all fucking horrible: They really are.   Further Reading: Nothing about the Trump presidency is normal. Keep remembering that Trump warns Mueller against...

Day 181: The Russian Thing: Ok, lets take a second and clear up the Russian thing.  It seems pretty clear to me that Trump has been in bed with lets say “Russian mobsters”...

Day 180: Time To Counter Punch: When your opponent is on the ropes, and about about to fall, do not just sit there and let them get their stamina back, punch them in the god damn face!...

Day 179: None of this should surprise you: Read “1984”, read “Amusing Ourselves To Death”, read “Listen Liberal” read “Capital in the 21st...

by Mike Smith For a decade, the weathercaster and broadcast meteorology communities have been subject of a focused campaign to force them to cover global warming in a manner acceptable...

by Javier In Part A, we established the existence of a ~ 2400-year climate cycle, discovered in 1968 by Roger Bray. This climate cycle correlates in period and phase with a ~ 2400-year...

by Judith Curry The climate change debate has entered what we might call the “Campfire Phase”, in which the goal is to tell the scariest story. – Oren Cass (twitter)...

By Javier The existence of a ~ 2400-year climate cycle, discovered in 1968 by Roger Bray, is supported by abundant evidence from vegetation changes, glacier re-advances, atmospheric...

by Judith Curry There is an opportunity to steer the proposed red team exercise in a useful direction.  The first step is to frame the problem to be addressed. The climate red team...

by Nic Lewis A new paper in Science Advances by Cristian Proistosescu and Peter Huybers (hereafter PH17) claims that accounting for the decline in feedback strength over time that occurs...

by Vincent Randall A perspective on economists’ grappling with the ‘uncertainty monster.’ In this essay I am going to try to introduce non-economists who work in fields...

Arctic lake sediment series have been an important component of recent multiproxy studies.  These series have been discussed on many occasions at Climate Audit (tag), mostly very critical....

Rosanne D’Arrigo once explained to an astounded National Academy of Sciences panel that you had to pick cherries if you wanted to make cherry pie – a practice followed by...

Recently, there has been controversy over allegations that former FBI Director Comey leaked classified information, an issue that I mentioned on twitter  a month ago...

A guest post by Nic Lewis A new paper in Science Advances by Cristian Proistosescu and Peter Huybers “Slow climate mode reconciles historical and model-based estimates of climate...

A guest article by Frank Bosse (posted by Nic Lewis) A recent paper by the authors Stolpe, Medhaug and Knutti (thereafter S. 17) deals with a longstanding question: By how much are...

A guest post by Nic Lewis Introduction Global surface temperature (GMST) changes and trends derived from the standard GISTEMP[1] record over its full 1880-2016 length exceed those per...

November 18 marks the centenary of the end of the Battle of the Somme, an event that passed essentially unnoticed, though it was a seminal event in the development of modern Canada. Its...

From Eurekalert Rise in trematodes could occur much sooner than thought, according to new Mizzou study University of Missouri-Columbia In 2014, a team of researchers led by a paleobiologist...

Reposted from Roy Spencer’s Blog July 21st, 2017 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. If I had not looked past the headline of the press report on a new study, I would have just filed it...

Josh Live-tooned the talk at the GWPF recently by Roger Pielke Jr. cartoonsbyjosh.com Roger Pielke Jr.: Manichean paranoia has poisoned the climate debate The talk is posted on Twitter,...

By Peter Campion We Aussie climate sceptics are watching on in awe as the new US President begins systematically driving a stake a into the vampire heart of the climate-alarm industry. ...

More subsidies from exhausted California taxpayers cannot compensate for hard realities Paul Driessen The first justification was that internal combustion engines polluted too much...

I have struggled to think of appropriate commentary on this, but feel I can’t say anything that is not potentially insulting to some Catholics or is overtly political, so I’ll...

By Larry Hamlin Governor Brown who claims that China is “leading” the fight against climate change alongside California seems incredibly oblivious to the reality that China...

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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I've been taking a look at the BEIS committee's report on the effects of Brexit on climate and energy policy, and in particular the section on investor confidence, which struck me as...

Theresa May is fun to draw and it looks like she might have a bigger battle on her hands in the coming years if she is wins the one on 8th June.
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Chris Essex was at GWPF last night to lecture on "The Great Climate Change Fervour". Josh sends his cartoon notes.
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Thanks to everyone who has sent good wishes for my new role at GWPF, or passed them on in person at Chris Essex's lecture last night. 
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Sir David King admits they got it wrong in another example of how the green blob trashes the planet while pretending to save it.
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Apparently human emissions of CO2 have stopped growing in the last few years, but atmospheric levels of CO2 are rising anyway.
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Hurry Now and Save Trillions! A 500 trillion, gazillion dollar bill is coming for you unless you buy my solar-panel-techno-wind-battery gizmo NOW! Don’t miss out...

Poor Bill Nye -he’s thinks somehow most people are as religious about climate change as he is, and will keep their naively unscientific beliefs about our ability to control the...

What’s the word for competitive-but-needs-a-subsidy?  Broke… One hundred solar PV companies are forecast to collapse in Japan this year alone. Up to 100 solar PV firms...

Funny, Al Gore didn’t say anything about 2017 being “less devastating”:
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As long as “climate change” is on the agenda in Western politics it will keep tearing the right-conservative side of politics apart. Because it is built on a mistake, the...

CNN is  “freaking out” about the latest large iceberg. But John Sutter doesn’t mention that there was an iceberg twice its size in the year 2000 which was 11,000km2,...

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...

So the election went well for America.   For those who live outside of the  US, you won’t understand just how much regulation the largest government on the planet can inflict,...

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...

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...

From 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...

'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 push | US news | The Guardian

Historian Reveals Climate Change Lessons from 17th Century

Draft APS Statement on Climate Change | Climate Etc.

 Tesla has added two new independent directors to its board, including 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch and Johnson Publishing Company CEO and Chairman Linda Johnson Rice...

 It’s here: The first ever production Model 3 has rolled of Tesla’s assembly line, and into the possession of its owner – Elon Musk. The founder and CEO tweeted...

 Tesla will up its game in the renewable energy storage market with the largest lithium-ion battery storage facility in the world, to be built for Australia’s Hornsdale Wind...

 Just one day after we found out that Volvo intends to stop selling cars with exclusively internal combustion engine drivetrains by 2019, France’s minister of the environment...

 BMW’s i3 high-capacity batteries, which it uses in its i3 compact electric vehicle, has applications beyond BMW’s own – case in point, the car maker is now supplying...

 Volvo is done with entirely traditional engines and exclusively gas-powered vehicles, the company announced. By 2019, Volvo group intends to offer only either fully electric or...

 Swedish tech startup Einride has built a full-scale prototype of its T-Pod, the electric autonomous transport vehicle it hopes will eventually replace smaller heavy-duty trucks,...

How important are our streams and rivers to us in this age of pollution and interference with natural systems? The effect of conifer plantations is generally negative, but the positive...

Fairtrade was only the beginning. It’s becoming
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The extinction of small and large, plant and animal is a daily event now, as climate change increasingly joins the other anthropogenic influences on the species of our planet...

The polyploids among the animals are the focus of the latest research, given the vast number of plant polyploids and the potential of species that have such enhanced genetic capability!

It’s that season when the bees, wasps and ants are building to a climax in the Northern Hemisphere. ID can be useful, especially when you consider some of the exotic species, but...

How will Paris be implemented? Will farming be a major player in preserving our environment as we feed more people than ever existed? The questions for future generations will be thorny,...

After banning free plastic bags, can stores begin the process of cutting out all plastic packaging? The alternatives could be much less damaging to our health, our fertility, our wildlife...