The Reference Frame: Summer snow cripples Austria

While global warming is threatening the life of our planet if not the Milky Way, Austria woke up to something that mavericks like to enjoy at the end of the summer: snow.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper shows clouds have a large negative-feedback cooling effect

A paper published last week in the journal Meteorological Applications undermines a key assumption of the theory of man-made global warming, finding that the cooling effect of clouds far outweighs a supposed 'greenhouse' warming effect. Alarmists claim clouds have an overall 'positive-feedback' warming effect upon climate due to 'back-radiation' of the 'greenhouse' gas water vapor. This new paper based on satellite measurements finds instead that clouds have a large net cooling effect by blocking solar radiation and increasing radiative cooling outside the tropics. The cooling effect is found to be -21 Watts per meter squared, more than 17 times the supposed warming effect from a doubling of CO2 concentrations [1.2 W/m2]. Another key assumption of the AGW theory topples in the face of real-world data showing the net feedback from clouds is strongly negative.

Banning Incandescents: What Could Go Wrong?

China has tightened its grip on rare earth metals which has sent the price of compact fluorescent light bulbs through the roof, up 37% this year

Historian Douglas Brinkley: “We Need a Presidential Prime Time Address on Global Warming” | ThinkProgress

If you listen to the entire interview, then you heard Bashir say that when he interviewed Bill Nye the science guy, Nye was supposedly “absolutely clear that hurricanes like this were the result of climate change.”

As you can guess, Nye didn’t quite say that.