SPOTLIGHT: History’s most momentous climate decision was made by people with substantial conflicts-of-interest.

BIG PICTURE: In November 1995, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared for the first time that humans were changing the climate. Its verdict turned on a single piece of then-unpublished research. Four months after the fact, the research was submitted to a prominent journal. Three months later it was published.

IN THE ARID, sun-soaked northwest corner of Australia, along the Tropic of Capricorn, the oldest face of Earth is exposed to the sky. Drive through the northern outback for a while, south of Port Hedlund on the coast, and you will come upon hills softened by time. They are part of a region called the Pilbara Craton, which formed about 3.5 billion years ago, when Earth was in its youth.

The ice sheet in Greenland is melting, but it turns out that the culprit is not global warming, as some people would like to have you believe. Instead, researchers have now found proof that a hidden heat source deep inside the planet is behind this melting that is pushing glaciers into the ocean.

The eastern U.S. is forecast to see “several rounds of Arctic cold” through early February, according to meteorologists.

While the western U.S. is forecast to stay warm and dry, the National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts at least a 50 percent chance the Northeast and Great Plains will see frigid winter weather starting from Feb. 3 to 7.

The latest meeting of the World Economic Forum(WEF), formerly (?) an invitation-only event held annually at Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, has just concluded. Official cost of attendance $85,000, of course, ex accommodation costs, etc.

Some three hundred invitees plus ten-times as many journalists and others from all over the world were in attendance. Some couldn’t make it due to unexpected large snowfalls in the area.

Scientists from the School of Nuclear Science & Engineering of Tomsk Polytechnic University are developing a technology enabling the creation of high-temperature gas-cool low-power reactors with thorium fuel. TPU scientists propose to burn weapons-grade plutonium in these units, converting it into power and thermal energy.

Thermal energy generated at thorium reactors may be used in hydrogen industrial production. The technology also makes it possible to desalinate water. The results of the study were published in Annals of Nuclear Energy.

Sandwiches carry with them the same carbon emission output as a car driven 12 miles, according to a study from the University of Manchester.

Researchers followed the whole life cycle of a sandwich, including the production of ingredients, and their packaging, as well as food waste. Bacon, ham, and sausages contribute the most to a sandwich’s carbon footprint.

This paper further explores the possibility of non-constant light speed, looking at two explanations offered by other dissident physicists.  First an example of tennis balls acquiring velocity of motion is extended to light.

Next is an examination of Curt Renshaw’s unique theory of light as traveling over an entire spectrum of speeds, like an expanding elastic psring,  with humans only able to observe that part of the spectrum (spring) traveling at exactly c.

Children are dying from the flu all across America, according to media reports. What the media isn’t reporting, however, is how many of the children who died were also vaccine recipients.

Make no mistake: If only unvaccinated children were dying from the flu, that would be the headline everywhere: “Unvaccinated Children Dying Across America” or even “Flu Shot Saves Children from Deadly Influenza.”

But of course you’re not seeing those headlines for the simple reason that vaccinated children are among those who are being killed by this year’s flu.

Five common tropes of global warming are examined along with a range of ‘position statements’ from influential institutions. This article identifies key flaws in them that undermines any so-called ‘climate consensus.’

Its always the same assumptions—the same assertions—that reappear in the mass media and most scientific journals:

Canadian psychologist, Jordan B Peterson is the big YouTube sensation of 2018: the most viewed academic online. Peterson is called the ‘denier’ of political correctness and has much in common with Dr Tim Ball, the ‘denier’ of man-made global warming.

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During winter when the nights are long and days short, getting up for work in the dark and coming home in the dark can be grim. Some of us succumb to the January blues, leading to increased illness, reduced productivity and a general feeling of melancholy. But can clever lighting improve our sleep patterns and lift our moods?

New algorithm technique used on official temperature records in Ireland uncovers astonishing proof that Ireland’s notorious 1846 potato famine was linked to an exceptionally warm winter. The catastrophe, which caused one million deaths due to starvation, triggered mass peasant migration to America.

The findings appear in the ground-breaking paper ‘New Algorithm to Identify Coldest and Hottest Time Periods. Case Study: Coldest Winters Recorded at Armagh Observatory over 161 Years between 1844 and 2004.’

The paper’s author, Dr Butina made the discovery while working to overcome the long-standing problem faced by government climate scientists who place high reliance on a ‘global model’ of temperature, which is scientifically inaccurate and unreliable. In a spectacular demonstration, Dr Butina’s new algorithm provides a more scientifically accurate analysis for revealing especially warm and cold winters.

For decades taxpayers and other innocents have supported a parasitic industry in academia, bureaucracy, law, media and the tax-exempt Green Alarm “Charities”, all studying, regulating, inspecting and writing about yet another “imminent threat to Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef.”