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WSJ Op-ED: Gore's sloppiness with facts powerfully rebuts any notion that global warmism is a serious scientific endeavor 27 Aug 2013 | 12:47 am
The Incompetent Stenographer By James Toranto, WSJ Best of the Web Today WSJ.COM 8/26/13: On Friday we made fun of Al Gore for asserting, in an interview with the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, t...
New paper finds a decrease of wind speeds from 1975-2006 26 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
A paper published today in the International Journal of Climatology examines wind speeds over Turkey and finds a significant decrease over the period of study from 1975 to 2006. In addition, the paper...
New paper finds CO2-sequestering ocean plants thrive better with warmer temperatures & ocean 'acidification' 26 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
This is an image of the coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi, taken by lead author Ina Benner using the San Francisco State University FE-Scanning Electron Microscope. Carbon-Sequestering Ocean Plants ...
Solar energy receives 1,212 times more government subsidies per megawatt than fossil fuels 24 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm
The Energy Subsidy Tally Wind and solar get the most taxpayer help for the least production. WSJ.COM 8/17/13: President Obama traveled to Iowa Tuesday and touted wind energy subsidies as the path to...
New paper finds Pacific cyclones are at the lowest levels of the past 5,000 years 24 Aug 2013 | 10:24 pm
A paper published today in Quaternary Science Reviews reconstructs cyclones of the central Pacific and finds cyclone activity of the 21st century is at the lowest levels of the past 5,000 years. The p...
WSJ Op-Ed: Al Gore seeks to promote global warmism using racism, the nuclear arms race, slavery, apartheid & homosexuality 24 Aug 2013 | 12:16 pm
Is Green the New Black? Al Gore seeks to promote global warmism by imitating identity politics. By JAMES TARANTO WSJ Best of the Web Today CONNECT WSJ.COM 8/23/13: It's not surprising that A...
MIT paper finds Obama's 'social cost of carbon' models are bogus & based on fabricated numbers 23 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
MIT Economist on Bogus Climate Damage Functions Posted August 21, 2013 | By Robert Murphy, Institute for Energy Research In my previous post, I summarized Robert S. Pindyck’s scathing paper on the ...
Review finds the Medieval Warming Period in the Arctic was warmer than the present 23 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
A new review by Dr. Craig Idso of the peer-reviewed literature on the Medieval Warm Period in the Arctic concludes, "It is clear that the suite of measurements described in the studies reviewed above ...
An 'Inconvenient' Untruth: Al Gore isn't even honest about his own movie 23 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
An 'Inconvenient' Untruth Al Gore isn't even honest about his own movie. By JAMES TARANTO WSJ.COM 8/22/13: In case you've forgotten, "Al Gore was vice president of the United States from 1993-2001."...
Polar Bears Have Not Been Harmed by Sea Ice Declines in Summer - The Evidence 23 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
A new review paper from SPPI by Dr. Susan J. Crockford finds polar bear numbers are increasing and that they have not been harmed by a decline of Arctic sea ice: For the Full Report in PDF Form, plea...