10 06, 2021

Good news for Australia’s Barrier Reef you’ll likely not hear about in the media

By |2021-06-16T21:05:54+02:0010 June 2021|Australia, News|Comments Off on Good news for Australia’s Barrier Reef you’ll likely not hear about in the media

Dr. Peter Ridd writes on his Facebook page: In 2016, there was a major bleaching event in the northern section of the Reef. There were doom headlines around the world and Prof Hughes, who led the monitoring of the coral, famously tweeted“I showed the results of the aerial surveys of bleaching on the GBR to [...]

6 06, 2021

Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

By |2021-06-06T18:45:43+02:006 June 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

This is a re-post from the CO2 Coalition, here. Re-posted with permission. [Ed. Note] The number of opinion pieces disguised as “Fact Checks,” and the use of them to censor one side of scientific debates has reached epidemic proportions. We need to fight back against this abhorrent trend. Science is all about debate. The debate [...]

3 06, 2021

Unsettled: “most important book on climate science in decades”

By |2021-06-03T13:52:57+02:003 June 2021|Book review, News, United Kingdom, USA|Comments Off on Unsettled: “most important book on climate science in decades”

Reviewed by Rupert Darwall May 20, 2021 On January 8, 2014, at New York University in Brooklyn, there occurred a unique event in the annals of global warming: nearly eight hours of structured debate between three climate scientists supporting the consensus on manmade global warming and three climate scientists who dispute it, moderated by [...]

3 06, 2021

Hit piece against Koonin’s book Unsettled lacks substance

By |2021-06-03T12:55:42+02:003 June 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Hit piece against Koonin’s book Unsettled lacks substance

The left-wing Scientific American published a so-called review of Steven Koonin’s new book, Unsettled, by a number of prominent left-wing scientists. The article is headed by the mandatory sunset photo of steam coming out of powerplant chimneys. The article is not really a review, their substantive claims are very weak, it is really a hit piece to trash Koonin [...]

2 06, 2021

In memoriam Cornelis de Jager, astronomer (1921-2021)

By |2021-06-02T17:51:51+02:002 June 2021|News, The Netherlands|Comments Off on In memoriam Cornelis de Jager, astronomer (1921-2021)

Kees de Jager in 2016 during an interview at his home on the island Texel. © 2021 De Loods mediaproducties / Stichting Beeldlijn Guest article by Prof. Ed van den Heuvel Professor Cornelis de Jager (“Kees”), world-renowned astronomer, pioneer of Dutch and European space research, inspiring teacher, great popularizer of science and fighter against [...]

29 05, 2021

Greatest Single Day Gains In Greenland Ice Happening Now.

By |2021-05-29T13:19:37+02:0029 May 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Greatest Single Day Gains In Greenland Ice Happening Now.

Guest article by Jim Steele Despite warming, the Greatest single day gains in Greeenland ice and its SMB (surface mass balance) is happening the past days. Ice gain/loss in Greenland is function of the location of the Icelandic Low and how moisture is delivered to Greenland. It is not about changes in [...]

25 05, 2021

The Union of Concerned Scientists tries to “cancel” Steve Koonin

By |2021-05-25T11:35:08+02:0025 May 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on The Union of Concerned Scientists tries to “cancel” Steve Koonin

I’ve written about the far left-wing Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and their anti-democratic attempts to suppress free-speech and free-thought before (see here). There are more details about their chicanery in my latest book: Politics and Climate Science: A History. ExxonMobil totally humiliated them and their gang when they tried to accuse the company of [...]

21 05, 2021

The 1.5°C Hysteria

By |2021-05-21T21:11:35+02:0021 May 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on The 1.5°C Hysteria

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Lots of folks are up in arms about some rumored “CLIMATE CRISIS!!!” or “CLIMATE EMERGENCY!!!” These terms refer to all the terrible things that are supposed to happen when we get 2°C warmer, or 1.5°C warmer, than the “pre-industrial” temperature. Greta Thunberg, for example, keeps screaming about how [...]

17 05, 2021

Fact checking Steven Koonin’s Fact Checkers

By |2021-05-17T12:17:29+02:0017 May 2021|Book review, News, USA|Comments Off on Fact checking Steven Koonin’s Fact Checkers

By Andy May The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a review of Steven Koonin’s new book Unsettled on April 25, a little over a week before it went on sale. A blog called “Climate Feedback” published a “Fact Check” of the book review on May 3rd, the day before the book came out. This so-called fact check was [...]

13 05, 2021

Presentation Ross McKitrick: is a worst case scenario really bad?

By |2021-07-01T10:13:49+02:0013 May 2021|Canada English, Ireland, News, Presentation, Videos|Comments Off on Presentation Ross McKitrick: is a worst case scenario really bad?

Ross McKitrick, the Canadian economics professor who publishes regularly in climate journals, gave an online talk for the Irish Climate Science Forum and the international CLINTEL Foundation (of which I am the cofounder). I have some sort of special bond with both McKitrick and McIntyre, because back in 2004, when I was an [...]