By Samuel Furfari reposted from Factuel Source: Shutterstock For some, COP28 seems to have been a breakthrough, with the word "energy" included in the conclusions for the first time. The mention of the "transition away" from fossil fuels caused a stir, but on analysis of the text, there are so many loopholes that [...]
Phasing out fossil fuels is going to cost way more than ordinary people will accept. Delegates to COP28 clearly didn't understand that Author of the article: Ross McKitrick, Special to Financial Post It’s tempting to dismiss the outcome of COP28, the recent United Nations climate change conference in the United Arab Emirates, as [...]
By Jo Nova The best kept secret in the world is that humans are using more coal than ever So much for the “stranded dead asset”. In 2022 the world set a new all-time record for coal use — reaching 8.4 billion tons. In 2023, despite all the Net Zero billions [...]
By Jo Nova A new paper tries to clean up the chicken entrail decrees of Mark Lynas (and earlier of John Cook) and concludes that their methodology is so bad, a 99.85% consensus could just as easily have been 32%. All the papers in between 32 and 99% were neutral on the cause [...]
By Ingemar Nordin There was quite a stir when the Norwegian Statistics centre published a paper by John K. Dagsvik and Sigmund H. Moen. The paper has the title “To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?” It was also noticed abroad: Source: Wall Street Journal The [...]
The historical victory of Geert Wilders of the PVV (Party for Freedom) in the Dutch General Elections of November 22nd was primarily linked to the theme of immigration. But let’s not forget that the PVV has also been a climate sceptic party for many years now. The party doesn’t want money-consuming climate plans [...]
By Nic Lewis reposted from Climate Etc. James Hansen’s latest paper “Global warming in the pipeline” (Hansen et al. (2023)) has already been heavily criticized in a lengthy comment by Michael Mann, author of the original IPCC ‘hockey stick’. However Mann does not deal with Hansen’s surprisingly high (4.8°C) new estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)ECS [...]
By Ralph B. Alexander reposted from Science Under Attack "If it [a scientific hypothesis] disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG." – Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman No Evidence That Today’s El Niños Are Any Stronger than in the Past The current exceptionally strong El Niño has revived discussion of a question [...]
by Judith Curry reposted from Climate Etc. Politically-motivated manufacture of scientific consensus corrupts the scientific process and leads to poor policy decisions An essay with excerpts from my new book Climate Uncertainty and Risk. In the 21st century, humankind is facing a myriad of complex societal problems that are characterized by deep uncertainties, [...]
The science is not settled. That is the central message in prof. Steven Koonin’s climate bestseller: Unsettled. Koonin, former Undersecretary for Science in the Obama Administration (2009-2011), demonstrates in his book that the climate problem is often exaggerated and that the proposed energy transition is unfeasible. On the occasion of the launch of the [...]
