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Eradicating the world of crude oil usage, without first having a replacement in mind, would be immoral and evil, as extreme shortages of the products now manufactured from fossil fuels will result in billions of fatalities...

Private companies have in recent years started to disclose information about their exposure and responses to climate risks.

by Judith Curry How did the state of New Jersey come to adopt sea level rise projections for their adaptation planning that are more than twice as high as the IPCC’s values? Part I introduced the challenges facing New...

by Judith Curry New Jersey has a sea level rise problem.  How should this be managed? New Jersey’s peninsular geography makes it especially vulnerable to sea level rise. The problem Sea level is rising along the New...

Somewhere in the world, there is a climate disaster unfolding every week. According to the leading disaster risk reduction adviser for the United Nation’s secretary general, climate related disasters are affecting thousands...

By Jim Steele Good news continues to accumulate regards corals’ ability to rapidly adjust to changing climates. The view of coral resilience has been dominated by the narrative of a few scientists. In the 1990s they advocated...

Reposted from Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on March 25, 2019 by curryja  by Judith Curry “For decades, scientists and policymakers have framed the climate-policy debate in a simple way: scientists analyse long-term...

Most Americans have personally experienced a federally declared, weather-related disaster in the last decade. In fact, the number is 96 percent of the population. Both science and personal testimonies indicate that extreme...

By Rud Istvan WUWT has posted several excellent articles by Jim Steele on how global warming alarmism uses corals as the poster child for warming and acidifying oceans, none of which is scientifically justified...

by Telis Koskinas On February 2017, Oroville Dam gained worldwide attention when its main spillway suddenly failed, seemingly without precedent, under natural operating conditions...

For the first time, rice grown in diluted saltwater has yielded a crop sufficient enough to be commercially viable, according to a new study by Chinese scientists...

by Javier A possible mechanism for the effect of solar variability on climate, whereby solar variability acts over the stratospheric pressure system transmitting the changes top-down, and over ocean temperatures bottom-up...

By Rud Istvan A sound bite summary* The climate consensus now has two derogation levels for those who disagree. Climate ‘contrarians’ like Bjørn Lomborg disagree about mitigation policies. Climate ‘deniers’ like...

by Judith Curry Design with the natural cycle in mind to ensure that carbon ends up in the right places. — William McDonough Nature has published a provocative essay entitled Carbon is not the enemy (full text available...

by Judith Curry Can we have a good, even great, anthropocene? I’ve been planning a post on the Breakthrough Institute’s An Ecomodernist Manifesto,  Their main point is that   “knowledge and technology, applied...