Major Media FAIL on Reporting the Pacific Northwest Heatwave
The headline in E&E News, WOWT-TV, Scientific American, WorldNewsNetwork, and other media outlets this week, “Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest Driven by Climate Change” couldn’t possibly be more unscientific. With absolutely no analysis, no……
The Big Heat Post Mortem and the Next Few Days
Reposted from The Cliff Mass Weather Blog It’s over. Throughout the region, all-time temperature records have been broken, if not smashed. Just to name a few: SeaTac hit 108F,……
Global Warming 33 Year Birthday a Celebration of Failures
A detailed review of the testimony from that hearing after 33 years of recorded climate history reveals a litany of the hearings flawed and failed speculation, conjecture and predictions of climate outcomes establishing the fact that the hearing got everything wrong from start to finish and in fact represents a celebration of an extraordinary number of failed predictions.…
The Conversation: Earth Exhibits a Cold Climate Species Distribution
Academics Emma Dunne and Bethany Allen think we are heading into a new climate driven mass extinction – but they admit Earth still has polar icecaps, and global species diversity shows an “ice house” pattern of peaking in warm tropical latitudes.…
UK Government Explicitly Exempts Rich People and Other Elites from Covid Lockdown Rules
Following the very recent embarrassment of the minister for lockdowns Matt Hancock breaching his own lockdown rules, while having a fling with a staffer, the British Government has decided to avoid future problems by granting people they consider to be important an explicit exemption from the lockdown rules which ordinary people have to follow.…
Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Electric System Reliability
In assessing the risk from extreme weather events, I advise clients to develop an understanding of the entire historical record of events impacting the locale, as well as any relevant paleoclimatic data that is available. If it has happened before, it can happen again.…