There is nothing we can do about it, except to build dikes and sea walls a little bit higher. By  Fred Singer May 15, 2018 6:27 p.m. ET  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 41 COMMENTS Of all known and imagined consequences of climate change, many people fear sea-level rise most. But efforts to determine what causes seas to rise are marred by poor data and disagreements about methodology. The noted oceanographer Walter Munk referred to sea-level rise as an “enigma”; it has also been called a riddle and a puzzle. It is generally thought that sea-level rise accelerates mainly by thermal ..read more

New Insights on the Physical Nature of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Deduced from an Empirical Planetary Temperature Model Ned Nikolov* and Karl Zeller Ksubz LLC, 9401 Shoofly Lane, Wellington CO 80549, USA Corresponding Author: Ned Nikolov Ksubz LLC, 9401 Shoofly Lane Wellington CO 80549, USA Tel: 970-980-3303, 970-206-0700 E-mail: ntconsulting@comcast.net Received date: November 11, 2016; Accepted date: February 06, 2017; Published date: February 13, 2017 Citation: Nikolov N, Zeller K (2017) New Insights on the Physical Nature of the Atmospher ..read more

Change Would Be Healthy at U.S. Climate Agencies In the Obama era, it was routine for press releases to avoid mentioning any margin of error. Opinion Journal Video: Business World Columnist Holman Jenkins Jr. on why the Trump Administration should reform NOAA and NASA. Photo credit: Getty Images. By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Updated Feb. 4, 2017 8:33 a.m. ET   THE WALL STREET JOURNAL It will be hard to notice when President Trump does something worthy of hysteria if everything he does is greeted with hysteria. Take claims that he’s laying siege to the alleged chastity of climate scie ..read more

Keeping Cool About Hot Temperatures Last year was warmer by 0.04 Celsius, but it was also an El Niño year. Updated Jan. 19, 2017 8:21 p.m. ET    THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By now you’ve seen the headline: 2016 was the hottest year on record. The news has been paired with predictions of civilization’s imminent demise. But a closer look at the evidence reveals that the political heat is overwrought—and there’s still no reason to re-engineer the global economy to mitigate small climate fluctuations. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced this week that las ..read more

Climate Change Drivers by Dan Pangburn, MSME Summary Thermalization and the complete dominance of water vapor in reverse-thermalization explain why atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has no significant effect on climate. Reported average global temperature (AGT) since before 1900 is accurately (98% match with measured trend) explained by a combination of ocean cycles, sunspot number anomaly time-integral and increased atmospheric water vapor. Introduction The only way that energy can significantly leave earth is by thermal radiation. Only solid or liquid bodies and greenhouse gases (gh ..read more

The EPA’s Science Deniers The agency changes its view on fracking and water without evidence. ENLARGE Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy at the National Press Club November 21, 2016 in Washington, DC. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES Updated Dec. 18, 2016 5:41 p.m. ET 541 COMMENTS Speaking of fake news, the political scientists at the EPA have rewritten the conclusion of a report in order to cast doubt on the safety of hydraulic fracturing. Consider this EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy’s parting gift to Donald Trump. Last week the EPA issued the final ..read more

The Week That Was: 2016-12-17 (December 17, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “The data are reality. The model is fantasy. Why substitute fantasy for reality?” Statistician William Briggs ################################################### Number of the Week: 666 ################################################### THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Data Manipulation: As twice-elected pres ..read more

The Media Still Don’t Get Trump The public doesn’t care about what obsesses pundits—and the president-elect knows it. By  JASON L. RILEY Updated Dec. 13, 2016 7:25 p.m. ET       THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Republican pols and their supporters are accustomed to biased media coverage from a Washington press corps dominated by liberals, but there’s reason to believe that Donald Trump could have it worse than his GOP predecessors. We are told that Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks pose threats to the country ranging from merely grave to existential. Businessman Andy Puzde ..read more

The Week That Was: 2016-12-10 (December 10, 2016)  Brought to You by SEPP www.sepp.org  The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) PLEASE NOTE: The complete TWTW can be downloaded in an easily printable form at this web site: http://www.sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm... Please forward this Newsletter to those interested in Science and Environmental Policy. Thank you. Forward. Quote of the Week.  “In God we trust, all others bring data.” – Motto of the Apollo team. Number of the Week: 99.98% THIS WEEK ..read more

IMHO all the "math & visual information" necessary to completely understand why there is only a "true" gravito/thermal GHE, and why that gravito/thermal GHE and Arrhenius "radiative GHE" are just the dichotomy of Y/N ways anyone can rightly use to discuss "the GHE" as a "local and total thermo/dynamic equilibrium, which is what the "GHE" really is ..read more