Hans von Storch On WGBU: “Suffering From Planet-Rescue Fantasies” … Neil Cavuto On Gore: “He’s Nuts”

Today I bring an assortment of short, unrelated stories.

Model says Hawaii will get 2-3 times the number of hurricanes – in contrast to other models saying the opposite | Watts Up With That?

From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST, coin flip climatology?

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds another non-hockey-stick in Chile

A new paper published in Climate of the Past reconstructs temperatures in the South American Andes [Chile] and finds temperatures were warmer during the 1940's-1950's than at the end of the record in 2005.

Quark Soup by David Appell: Carbon Bubbles -- Who's Kidding Who?

In the real world, assets worth (at least) hundreds of trillions of dollars don't get held out of the market just because it makes Bill McKibben happy.
The left is living in a dream world if they think so.
The world is going to burn its oil and gas and a fair piece of its coal. Granted, it's going to cause a lot of climate change, but we're going to burn it anyway.
Because you and me don't want to ride our bikes to the store under the hot sun, and we want to fly to Albuquerque when we want to, on the exact day we want to.
No renewables are anywhere near providing the lifestyle we want, and it's far from clear than any can.
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So Bill McKibben can organize all he wants -- while, of course, flying anywhere he needs to fly to at a moment's notice -- and there's no point pretending otherwise.

[Reader DB writes: It is no wonder the economy and the state of climate science are such a mess. Economists don't share data, either] - Bloomberg

Even getting authors to share the data needed to replicate a study can be a challenge. In one study, a team of determined replicators tried to examine 54 articles published in a leading macroeconomics journal in the 1980s. Many authors never responded to repeated requests for programs and data. Others refused or sent raw and often unintelligible computer files. When replication was possible, it frequently uncovered errors. All told, the team was able to replicate the findings exactly in only two articles.