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  • Latest Science Scare: Author Says Machines Will Take Over The World

    • Date: 08/12/13
    • William M Briggs blog
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    At the Singularity awaits The Beast. Or so says James Barrat in Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. Barrat says that one day—one day soon—Skynet will become self aware and decide our fate in a microsecond. The only difference he can figure between the Singularity and James Cameron’s imagination is that […]

  • Arctic Clouds And Sea Ice In Climate Models

    • Date: 08/12/13
    • CO2 Science
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    Simply put, climate models are unable to predict cloud formation and cloud coverage which makes reliably predicting climate conditions an impossible task. Reference Karlsson, J. and Svensson, G. 2013. Consequences of poor representation of Arctic sea-ice albedo and cloud-radiation interactions in the CMIP5 model ensemble. Geophysical Research Letters 40: 4374-4379. Background The authors write that “clouds significantly […]

  • Does The IPCC Do Science?

    • Date: 08/12/13
    • Donna Laframboise, No Frakking Consensus blog
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    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes itself as a “scientific body.” Where in its multi-year, multi-thousand-page bureaucratic report-writing process is science actually practiced? click to enlarge The deadline for submissions to the UK House of Commons committee examining the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is early next week. For the past several days, […]

  • In Fracking, Sand Is The New Gold

    • Date: 08/12/13
    • Alison Sider and Kristin Jones, The Wall Street Journal
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    The race to drill for oil in the U.S. is creating another boom—in sand, a key ingredient in fracking. A conveyor at a Pattison Sand Co. mining operation in Iowa. Stephen Mally for The Wall Street Journal Energy companies are expected to use 56.3 billion pounds of sand this year, blasting it down oil and natural […]

  • Global Warming ‘Pause’ Due To Pacific Ocean Cycle, New Paper

    • Date: 08/12/13
    • Leon Clifford, Reporting Climate Science
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    Leading climate scientist Kevin Trenberth has told reportingclimatescience.com that he believes the pause in global warming may be caused by long term changes in the Pacific Ocean. Trenberth and colleague John Fasullo argue in a new scientific paper that the massive El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event that occurred in 1997 and 1998 triggered the […]

  • The Highest Authority In Science Is The Data

    • Date: 08/12/13
    • David Evans and Jo Nova, Jo Nova blog
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    The climate alarmists may have “experts”, but the skeptics have the data. “97 percent of climate experts say man-made global warming is a major threat” The correct response: “So? The satellites, ocean buoys, and weather balloons disagree.” How do you find the truth about some disputed point in science? You find the most authoritative source of […]

  • We Shall Never Surrender, Sunshine

    • Date: 08/12/13
    • James Gillespie, The Sunday Times
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    A GREAT-GRANDSON of Winston Churchill is leading a battle to save his corner of the English countryside from solar farm developers. Jack Churchill fears big solar farms will spoil the countryside around Seend (Adrian Sherratt/Carlos Barria) Jack Churchill, 38, has launched the Wake Up Wiltshire campaign in his home village of Seend. It is situated […]

  • Christopher Booker: Wind Turbines Policy Is All At Sea

    • Date: 08/12/13
    • Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph
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    The wear and tear on offshore wind farms means that within a decade we will have to pay tens of billions of pounds to replace them Flawed: the effects of weather and salt corrosion will badly hit electricity output  Photo: ALAMY It has long been obvious that by far the most delusional element in the Government’s […]

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