Sunday, April 26, 2015

March gave us the warmest 12 months in a row. And the warmest 13 months, 14 months...20 months...40 months...59 months...

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... but not the warmest 60 months in a row , so climate change is a hoax. The warmest 60 months in a row happened in ancient history, from M...

Veep candidates bring a 0-5% increase in party vote in their home state

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Got into a conversation about this yesterday:  how much help does a vice-presidential candidate provide in winning that candidate's home...

Under what circumstance does McConnell's message to foreigners to do less on climate change help America rhetorical question?

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Slate has a good article on Republican politicians  siding with America's foreign rivals  when Democrats run the executive branch, multi...

EV costs at a tipping point for un-American countries

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Un-American developed countries, that is. See here: Bloomberg reprinted  the above graph from a  2011 McKinsey report , and I added t...

Man bites dog

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I've argued for a while that we should  make use of analogizing sports statistics with climate/weather data , and  Media Matters shows i...

Identifying specific people in the Philippines who were killed by climate change

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We know people have been killed by climate change. That's true both in the broader sense that every single weather event we experience i...

Franzen attacks Audubon's attempt to do something about climate, withholds info that he's on the board of competing organization

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There have been repeated attempts to find a "Third Way" between doing something about climate change versus not doing much. They h...

No SUVs on Mars, and no warming either

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After reading recently that  pits in the Mars polar CO2 ice caps were determined to be cyclical and not evidence of Martian climate change ,...

Pesticide drinks for thee but not for me

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Patrick Moore, the  climate denialist  who  falsely claims to have helped found Greenpeace  (UPDATE: facts are unclear, see  David Lewis...

Immature post of the day

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That is all.

A Rashomon update on climate betting

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So 2015 is coming in hot,  .75C in January and .79C above base period in February , and nothing indicating that March is cooling. The rest o...

No doubts about Merchants of Doubt

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I saw a sneak preview of Merchants of Doubt on Saturday - it's very good and very professionally made. Incredible how many of the me...

Okay, how about "global warm-hugging" or "climatic kitten snuggles"?

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Florida is making use of the power of positive thinking by  banning governmental use of the terms "global warming" and "clima...

Analysis: Soon's disclosure of non-controversial funding supports the conclusion that he deliberately omitted fossil fuel disclosures

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In the storm of controversy surrounding Willie Soon's  failure to disclose that his academic papers were funded by fossil fuel companies...

The silence of the Roberts

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Brief excursion into law-blogging here, following the morning Supreme Court hearing of the ridiculous challenge against Obamacare. Good summ...

Chu 'n' tobacco

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Last night I went to Palo Alto High School's Great Minds lecture by Steven Chu on climate change. For those unfamiliar with Palo Alt...

First Oslo, then the world

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Obviously no gas engines when there are no gas stations.  In 2013 I argued  that each percentage of vehicle sales that EVs take away from...

The coal divestment and oil divestment arguments are the same

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Some people make a qualitative distinction between divesting from coal businesses versus divesting from oil. I'll concede at the start t...

Nice place to rest

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Walking back through Stanford campus yesterday, I decided to detour through the New Guinea sculpture garden and came across this simple m...

The Professor Snowball lecture on coal carbon sequestration's record to date

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FutureGen 2.0 carbon sequestration just  lost most of its funding  - all that was left from the 2009 Obama federal stimulus funding, be...