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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
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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
- Nestle, the world’s largest packaged food company, is on a mission to reduce plastic waste. This week, the Swiss group announced they will be dropping plastic straws from their products...
- China has taken a major step toward long-term space exploration. Earlier this month, the Chinese moon probe Chang’e 4 carried a container with cotton, mustard and potato seeds, yeast...
- A race car made from flax and hemp? Count on Porsche to pull that off. The second generation Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport is built with the typical handling and speed capabilities...
- Located just south of Amsterdam, the Vinkeveense Plassen is known for its incredible lakes and surrounding nature. When one family approached Dutch firm, i29 Interior Architects and...
- A trio of high rises are expected to outreach Utrecht, Netherlands' tallest building and be a beacon of sustainable urban living in the historic city. The MARK Vertical Village, designed...
- Refugees arrive at Palabek refugee camp in Northern Uganda with the clothes on their back and what little they carried. New arrivals, many from South Sudan, receive a tarp, tent poles,...
- Due to limited space, designing a tiny home can be a very complicated task, but when designing a structure that can withstand extremely frigid temperatures, its a different beast entirely...
The voice of The Sietch community
- Day 683: 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 682: 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 668: 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 667: 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 666: 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 661: 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 660: 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’:...
- by Judith Curry There have several interesting papers on ocean heat content published in recent weeks, with some very important implications. The first paper has a narrative that ‘the...
- by Alan Cannell The new tropical lands: a carbon sink during formation and huge source of carbon dioxide and methane when lost to the sea. Why do Sea Level Changes Always Stop at about...
- Reconstructing a dataset of observed global temperatures 1950-2016 from human and natural influences
Fri, 4 Jan 19, 1:38pmby Frank Bosse A demonstration that multidecadal variation since 1950 leads to overestimation of the Transient Climate Response (TCR). Introduction Inspired by a recent paper ( Folland... - by Judith Curry “You can say I don’t believe in gravity. But if you step off the cliff you are going down. So we can say I don’t believe climate is changing, but it...
- by Judith Curry Happy New Year! In thinking about what to write for this post, I took a look at the previous end of year posts at Climate Etc. In the early years of the blog, I focused...
- by Judith Curry There is a disturbing story coming out of the University of Washington surrounding Cliff Mass. In preparing this article, I have received material from a member of the...
- By Nic Lewis An observational estimate of transient (multidecadal) warming relative to cumulative CO2 emissions is little over half that per IPCC AR5 projections...
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
- The Week That Was: 2019-01-19 (January 19, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Truth never dies but...
- Public Release: 19-Jan-2019 New study reveals local drivers of amplified Arctic warming Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology(UNIST) IMAGE: An international team of researchers,...
- I knew it would be coming, and it has arrived. First, a reminder image of that fateful day. Google Earth Pro (free app) has updated the aerial imagery for Paradise, CA to show the results...
- Guest essay by Eric Worrall Gets them every time. Dear Mr. President, that’s not how global warming works By Deanna Paul January 20 at 3:20 PM Sunday morning began with a stern, concerned...
- We need rational rules to protect environmental values – and meet essential societal needs Craig Liukko What does this country do for essential everyday minerals, when ideological...
- Guest essay by Eric Worrall Re-interpreting the words of dead people as support for climate action. Why Climate Change Would Have Alarmed Dr. Martin Luther King Jan 19, 2019, 08:39am...
- PREFACE It was a little more than 10 years ago that I published my first blog posts on the obvious upward steps in the sea surface temperatures of a large portion of the global oceans…upward...
- 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...
- The terror. Sit down I tell you. The ABC tells us that you should “Grab a latte while you still can”. Coffee beans |Image wiki Hesham Raouf In full, the true catastrophe...
- Third World Science with First World Funding Is James Cook University a grants machine or a research institute? James Cook University reviews ex-student’s ‘fishy’ findings, by...
- Man-made US bushfires caused by PG&E, being sued for $30b: may take down some renewables too
Wed, 16 Jan 19, 9:49pmEveryone “knows” fires are caused by climate change, but how many Australians know that when it comes to the huge Californian fires of October 2017 as many as 750 civil... - It’s not well known, but in the same way that climate change causes every hot weekend it also causes snow dumps, avalanches, and freak weather. The scientific link is just as...
- It’s not well known, but in the same way that climate change causes every hot weekend it also causes snow dumps, avalanches, and freak weather. The scientific link is just as...
- Millions of dollars will be burning on electricity tomorrow With normal hot summer days expected tomorrow price spikes are forecast. It’s not that hot These are hot, but not unusual...
- Look, another climate expert the BBC won’t be interviewing Anastasios Tsonis is emeritus distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee...
Because the world needs another opinion
- We are told again and again that cutting taxes increases the deficit. It’s so bad that people have invented stupid programs like the penny plan (which Hannity really promotes)...
- 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...
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
- A YC startup called GBatteries has come out of stealth with a bold claim: they can recharge an electric car as quickly as it takes to fill up a tank of gas...
Tags: energy, automotive, electric car, greentech - This weekend, I finished reading Oliver Morton’s The Planet Remade (thanks to reader Eliot Peper for recommending it). Morton has a multitude of goals with the book, but there were...
- Investors are still pouring millions into scooter startups, albeit sometimes at flat valuations. At the same time a little cash is flowing the other way, in cases where cities have...
- Oil and gas giants Chevron and Occidental are backing tech to combat carbon emissions
Thu, 10 Jan 19, 12:43pmCarbon Engineering, a Canadian company developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and process it for use in enhanced oil recovery or in the creation of new synthetic... - FloWater, an eight-year-old, Burlingame, Calif.-based company whose reusable water bottle refilling stations produce purified water, has raised $15 million in its first major round...
- One of the tallest buildings in the world, Taipei 101’s New Year’s Eve fireworks have become an iconic celebration since the first show at the end of 2004...
- Across the globe, a clutch of companies from Oxford, England to Redwood City, Calif. are working to commercialize a new solar technology that could further boost the adoption of renewable...
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- How can you describe the threats existing to species, both large and small? Using the highly-threatened primates, we can perhaps see how they have contrived to exist until the current...
- How can you describe the threats existing to species, both large and small? Using the highly-threatened primates, we can perhaps see how they have contrived to exist until the current...
- 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...