Perceptions of climate impacts at odds with scientific data
There is no doubt our disgracefully biased media is largely responsible for this situation. Only a couple of weeks ago, I was chatting to my 80 year old neighbour and the conversation got round to climate change, to which she commented on how “it was getting much worse”!…
Big win for common sense: New York City Loses Appeal Seeking to Hold Oil Firms Liable “Global Warming”
A big win for pro-energy groups today out of the 2nd Circuit Court The federal appeals court rejected New York City’s effort to hold five major oil companies (BP, Chevron,……
Claim: Great Barrier Reef Set to Disappear Because of Global Warming
According to EU Official Virginijus Sinkevičius, Corals which survived the dinosaur killer, the Cretaceous / Paleogene Extinction event, will soon disappear because we have raised atmospheric CO2 a few parts per million.…
New NightShine Solar Panels “Game-Changers” In Fight Against Climate Change!
“Hitherto, daily and seasonal intermittency has been a killer for solar panels,” says Rickard Pierrot of TIC, one of the team behind the invention. “Only an idiot would make solar a major part of energy infrastructure in a developed country. But NightShine answers the sceptics, and then some.”…
Lakes on Greenland Ice Sheet can drain huge amounts of water, even in winter
Using satellite data to ‘see in the dark’, researchers have shown for the first time that lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet drain during winter, a finding with implications for the speed at which the world’s second-largest ice sheet flows to the ocean.…
Plant Growth Takes A Steep Toll On The Soil – Supposedly
Wow! Who would have thought that? When a plant grows, it extracts nutrients and carbon from the soil and converts that into its roots and stem and flowers and seeds. That sounds like something I learned at age 11 in Mr Collins’s Biology class, but Mr Collins was not a Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who worked on this research as a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford University, so perhaps I under-rated him all those years ago.…
Claim: We Need Bangladeshi Floating Gardens to Survive Global Warming
Guest essay by Eric Worrall For centuries Bangladeshis have been planting vegetables on floating beds of hyacinths, to secure food supplies against flooding. According to a new study we could……