Scientific American: “Nuclear Power Will Replace Oil By 2030”
When I saw this headline on RealClearEnergy, I thought it might be an article by Ted Nordhaus or Michael Schellenberger… But it went in a whole other direction…
Climate Change? Temperature Hits 100 Degrees Above Arctic Circle, Just Like 100 Years Ago
The Left’s Obsession with Russia continues – This time it’s a high temperature record.
Covid-19 Claims Another UN Climate Conference
On Monday evening, top climate diplomats decided the intersessional meeting which happens every year between UN climate summits in Bonn, Germany, where UN Climate Change is headquartered, would not be able to take place on the proposed dates of 4-12 October. A new date for the meeting is yet to be decided.
Did lockdowns really save 3 million COVID-19 deaths, as Flaxman et al. claim?
Key points about the recent Nature paper by Flaxman and other Imperial College modellers
The IEA’s Sustainable Recovery Plan Is Not Sustainable
Governments of the world, take note. The International Energy Agency has a plan for you. If you take the sagely advice of the IEA’s technocrats, you will do your citizens a huge favour as you struggle to recover from the ravages of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Update: Global Man-made CO2 emissions 1965 – 2019, BP data
Introduction Every June BP publish their statistical review of world energy. https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html One element of their comprehensive set of spreadsheets is a table of CO2 emissions by world countries since 1965. For the purposes of this post, the CO2 emissions data provided by BP here is assumed to be correct. That data is here and…
Minerals Council of Australia Fails to Appease Climate Activists
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Minerals Council of Australia has released a climate action plan which pleases nobody. Minerals Council slammed for “woefully inadequate” Climate Action Plan Sophie Vorrath 22 June 2020 Some six months after being named on a list of the world’s top 10 most powerful climate policy opponents, the Minerals Council of Australia…
NSW Government Offers Subsidised Infrastructure for Renewable Energy, Overwhelming Response
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The NSW government has offered support in the form of improved grid infrastructure and streamlined approvals for new wind farm projects in designated renewable energy zones. Government renewable energy investment program swamped by support By Peter HannamJune 23, 2020 — 12.00am Plans to open up the Central West of NSW to…
India Confirms No Increase in Tropical Cyclones Due to Climate Change
by Vijay Jayaraj One of the chief fears about climate change—or, more specifically, global warming—is that it will generate more frequent and more severe extreme weather events. Observed facts, however, should quiet those fears. India, one of the key members of the global climate change pact, has reiterated that there is no increase in cyclones…
NASA is Funding a Search for Alien Civilisations Powered by Solar Cells
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Maybe someone out there has solved the problem of renewable energy intermittency. With intelligent life in scant supply on Earth, boffins search for technosignatures of civilizations in the galaxy Pollution, sprawling cities of megastructures, any sign aliens are screwing up just like us… MON 22 JUN 2020 // 07:52 UTC Astronomers are on the hunt for…
Judges Acknowledge how Climate Litigation Proponents Try to Undermine Rule of Law
June 22, 2020 Washington D.C. – Phil Goldberg, Special Counsel for the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project, issued the following statement in response to Thursday’s decision by the Texas Court of Appeals, which reluctantly dismissed ExxonMobil’s petition to conduct pre-suit discovery against the lawyers, cities and foundations that have been waging the climate litigation campaign against it and other energy…
Greens promote child slave labor and ecological destruction
Why don’t African black lives and ecological values matter? or impacts in and beyond Virginia? Paul Driessen The US Supreme Court recently ruled 7-2 to reverse a lower court ruling that had invalidated a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which will bring West Virginia natural gas to Virginia and North Carolina, for home heating,…
Greenhouse effect: “How a cold atmosphere can warm the Earth’s surface”
Dr. Roy Spencer writes on Facebook: Wayne Rowley has asked me to explain how a cold atmosphere can warm the Earth’s surface (which is what happens in global warming theory), a question I’ve been asked many times in the last 20+ years. First of all, the temperature of anything depends upon the rates of energy GAIN…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #413
Quote of the Week: “Aqueous vapor [water vapor] is a blanket, more necessary to the vegetable life of England than clothing is to man. Remove for a single summer-night the aqueous vapor from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature. The…
Wind Energy in Scotland
Guest post by David Redfern, aka HotScot I was invited by Charles the Moderator to write an essay with the emphasis on Scottish wind derived electricity. I’m not a scientist, nor an engineer, in fact barely educated beyond high school, so, whilst you won’t get ‘shorthand’ scientific terms here, you will get something laymen can…
NASA: Exoplanets With Oceans Likely Common
Guest “if we could only book oil & gas reserves like this” by David Middleton June 18, 2020 Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It’s Likely, NASA Scientists Find Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system,…
Alex Epstein interviews Naomi Seibt on her fight against the German government
From Alex Epstein, host of Power Hour: On this week’s (6/17) episode of Power Hour I interview Naomi Seibt, the 19-year-old German teenager who has been called “the anti-Greta” for her articulate and outspoken challenges to climate catastrophism. The focus of our discussion is the outrageous attempt of the German government to take down her…
Blood Batteries? Climate Advocates Grappling with the Gruesome Human Cost of Renewable Energy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall As calls for more renewables and a green Covid recovery mount, renewable energy advocates are facing uncomfortable questions about the vast quantities of raw materials required for their green revolution, and allegations of child slave labour which haunt the base of their specialty material supply chains. Green Energy’s Dirty Side…
To Solve Climate Change: “stringent eco-taxes …, wealth redistribution … a maximum income, a guaranteed basic income … reduced working hours”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon, Climate Depot; Sustainability scientists from the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, ETH Zürich and University of Leeds in Britain have outlined their solution to global warming. Their plan involves wealth redistribution, public ownership of businesses and a cap on how much money people…
“Who Needs Geoscientists?” – Ask a stupid question…
Guest “who needs PhD’s?” by David Middleton Mrs. Middleton sent me this little gem… Who Needs Geoscientists?Mike Simmons, Andy Davies, Andy W. Hill and Mike StephensonThe evolving role of geoscience through the energy transition.This article appeared in Vol. 17, No. 3 – 2020 Who Needs Geoscientists? At the time of writing, the world is enduring…
Amazing Noctilucent Clouds
Reposted from The Cliff Mass Weather Blog Saturday, June 20, 2020 Amazing Noctilucent Clouds One of the most extraordinary and beautiful sights this time of year are the delicate noctilucent clouds that can appear after sunset and before sunrise. Take a look at a video made by Greg Johnson of Skunk Bay weather showing the…
Study: Solar Geoengineering Could Weaken Rainfall
Guest essay by Eric Worrall More bad news for geogengineering. Solar geoengineering could cause unwanted changes in climate, new modelling suggests 20 Jun 2020 … “Novel changes in climate” “Our results show that solar geoengineering will not simply reverse climate change,” Gertler explains. “Instead, it has the potential itself to induce novel changes in climate.”…
When ‘Social Justice’ Comes to Investing
Reposted from The PIPELINE Clarice Feldman • 20 Jun, 2020 • 6 Min Read ESG, anybody? Trillions of dollars sit in private trusts, pension and retirement accounts, and charitable endowments, and they are targets of those who wish to reshape domestic investments, corporate governance and means of energy production. I recall years earlier when people…
COVID-19: Understanding the Numbers #coronavirus
Guest post by Neil Lock As those acquainted with me will know, long ago I was trained as a mathematician. I’ve forgotten most of the specifics I learned. But I’ve retained the framework; even if it’s a bit rusty. For almost three months now, I’ve been looking at the numbers on the progress of the…
Energy giants want to thwart reforms that would help renewables and lower power bills
Daniel J Cass, University of Sydney Australia’s energy market is outdated. It doesn’t encourage competition and that’s holding back the transition to renewable energy. Important reforms to modernise the market are on the way, but big energy companies are seeking to use the cover of COVID-19 to prevent the change. This is bad for consumers,…
Claim: People Believe in Global Warming, But Choose Not to Act
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Sociology Professor Kari Norgaard thinks people believe in global warming, but behave as if it wasn’t an issue, by numbing themselves to the reality. Climate Change in the Age of Numbing “We live in one way, and we think in another. We learn to think in parallel. It’s a skill,…
Sky News: Aussie Royal Commission to Investigate how Climate Activists “Hijacked” Forestry Management
Guest essay by Eric Worrall There is growing pressure on the Australian Royal Commission investigating Bushfires to investigate how greens in positions of authority allegedly hijacked forestry management, to frustrate efforts to protect property and lives by back burning, to manage forest fuel load. Bushfire royal commission ‘to examine green movement to hijack back burns’…
Mass spectrometry and climate science. Part I: Determining past climates
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on June 16, 2020 by curryja by Roland Hirsch Mass spectrometry is essential for research in climate science. Understanding climate requires having sufficient knowledge about past climate and about the important factors that are influencing climate today, so that reliable models can be developed to predict future climate. Analytical chemistry enables…
Polar Bears and Climate Scares – the Real Truth Behind the Issue
By bucking the supposed consensus, Dr. Susan Crockford has face immense hurdles with her work on polar bears. Dr. Crockford joins me to tell the truth on polar bear populations and the climate scare. Dr. Crockford is a zoologist with more than 35 years of experience. Crockford’s work includes published work on the Holocene history…
Fauci: Americans “Don’t Believe Science”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, has just suggested Americans don’t believe science. Anthony Fauci: Americans ‘Don’t Believe Science and They Don’t Believe Authority’ JOSHUA CAPLAN 18 Jun 2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, served up harsh…
Some Random Quantum Thoughts
Guest post by Rud Istvan This guest post was inspired by a long delayed lunch (by Covid-19, with our first two traditional restaurants found still closed for lunch by Wuhan virus fears despite now open South Florida) between CtM and myself. We discussed much, including WUWT. I complemented Charles on the recent months more eclectic…
Climate Study: Black Expectant US Mothers Especially at Risk from Heat Exposure
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The meta study notes at least one study which did not find a significant connection between heat exposure and premature birth, but the consensus appears to be black expectant mothers are especially at risk from global warming. Climate crisis poses serious risks for pregnancy, investigation finds Air pollution and heat…
What is a derecho? An atmospheric scientist explains these rare but dangerous storm systems
Russ Schumacher, Colorado State University Thunderstorms are common across North America, especially in warm weather months. About 10% of them become severe, meaning they produce hail 1 inch or greater in diameter, winds gusting in excess of 50 knots (57.5 miles per hour), or a tornado. The U.S. recently has experienced two rarer events: organized…
Chinese virus: squashing the curve and heading for Gibraltar town
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Early in the Chinese-virus pandemic, Boris Johnson, the colorful British Prime Minister with the haystack-in-a-hurricane hairdon’t, talked of “squashing the sombrero”: for the curve of a pandemic that is allowed to progress until population-wide immunity is reached is approximately symmetrical about its peak, just as a sombrero is about its…
Climate Statistics 101: see the Slide Show AOC Tried, and Failed, to Censor
News 16 Jun, 2020 Climate Statistics 101: See the Slide Show AOC Tried, and Failed, to Censor [office src=”https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=http%3A%2F%2Fco2coalition%2Eorg%3A80%2Fwp%2Dcontent%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F06%2FLibertyCon%2DRossiter%2DPresentation%2Dfinal%2Epptx&wdAr=1.7777777777777777&Embed=1″%5D This is the slide show and 20-minute talk that Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chellie Pingree tried to censor at the LibertyCon 2020 conference in Washington, D.C. After Dr. Rossiter gave a climate talk at LibertyCon 2019,…
Arctic Ocean acidification worse than previously expected
University of Bern The Arctic Ocean will take up more CO2 over the 21st century than predicted by most climate models. This additional CO2 causes a distinctly stronger ocean acidification. These results were published in a study by climate scientists from the University of Bern and École normale supérieure in Paris. Ocean acidification threatens the…
Massive Saharan dust plume headed for the Gulf of Mexico, Florida
From WeatherBell Analytics: A mean looking dust plume will meander across the Atlantic during the next 10 days. It will help to keep a damper on any early-season tropical formation in the main development region. It isn’t uncommon for dust from the Sahara Desert to make its way to these regions, but this is a…
It’s All Over For The Green Blob’s Climate Billions Office
From The GWPF Date: 17/06/20 Ross Clark, Daily Mail Boris Johnson’s historic decision to abolish the standalone Department for International Development (Dfid) and roll its functions into the Foreign Office is long overdue. Ever since David Cameron expanded Britain’s aid budget to 0.7 per cent of GDP, scandal after scandal has emerged about millions of pounds of hard-pressed…
A Cautionary tale for Bloggers
We received this email yesterday from our contact page. Name: Mel Email:Mgallery161@aol.com Website:http://trapmul Message: Hi, This is Melika and I am a professional photographer. I was discouraged, to put it nicely, when I came across my images at your web-site. If you use a copyrighted image without my consent, you should be aware that you…
Forbes: Energy Hungry AI Researchers Could Contribute to Global Warming
Guest essay by Eric Worrall We’ve all heard how bitcoin miners use enough computer electricity power a small country. What is less well known is the prodigious and rapidly growing energy expenditure of big players in the AI arms race. According to a recent estimate, electric power use by companies on their AI systems is…
Global Warming: Facebook Thinks its Opinion is Better than Yours
Coalition Publications, Studies and Resources 12 Jun, 2020 Reposted from The CO2 Coalition Hyperpartisan “Fact-checkers” Appear to Find a Video Loophole in the 2019 Policy Change of Not Blocking Opinion Pieces The CO2 Coalition of climate scientists today published a Science & Policy Brief by Dr. Patrick Michaels, formerly the president of the association of…
Claim: Surgical General Anaesthetic is Contributing to Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York is apparently cutting back on use of general anaesthesia for hip and knee replacement surgery, to minimise the impact of surgical procedures on global warming. Gases used to knock patients out before they go under the knife are ‘fuelling climate change’ and…
Study: Burning Coal Contributed to the Permo-Triassic Extinction
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to a new study, vast quantities of burning coal contributed to the Permo-Triassic Extinction, which killed 70% of all vertebrate species. Coal-burning in Siberia after volcanic eruption led to climate change 250 million years ago Date:June 16, 2020 Source: Arizona State University Summary: A team of researchers has provided…
To Halt Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Leninism
From Jacobin Nothing is over the top any more. Insanity or hyperbole? You decide. Despite the obvious parallels with coronavirus shutdowns, states still show little determination to put in place the measures we’ll need to deal with the climate emergency. For Andreas Malm, we need to stop seeing climate change as a problem for the…
Mangroves at risk of collapse if emissions not reduced by 2050, international scientists predict
The University of Hong KongShare Print E-Mail An international research team comprising scientists from the University of Hong Kong, the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Macquarie University and the University of Wollongong (Australia) as well as Rutgers University (USA) has predicted that mangroves will not be able to survive with rising sea-level rates reached by 2050,…
Video: How simple math can help predict the melting of sea ice
Anurag Papolu, The Conversation To better predict climate change, scientists need accurate models which predict the behavior of many natural processes. One of these is the melting of arctic sea ice, which requires expensive and difficult data collection in the Arctic. Physicist Ivan Sudakov at the University of Dayton and his colleagues have developed a…
The Conversation: 21% of Rural Australia Ignores Climate Change News
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Surprise – people who live close to the land in bushfire alley are more likely to ignore media climate change claims. The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds by Caroline Fisher and Sora Park, The ConversationJUNE 16, 2020 Australian news consumers…
What if NASA’s new ocean satellite finds sea level rise isn’t the problem it’s touted to be?
New satellite set to launch this year will make the most accurate sea level measurements yet – or so they claim – Anthony From NASA Goddard: Once the state-of-the-art Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite launches in November, it will collect the most accurate data yet on sea level — a key indicator of how Earth’s warming…
Oil Demand To Spike In 2021 By 5.7 Million Barrels Daily As Oil Companies Slash Production: IEA
From The Daily Caller CHRIS WHITE TECH REPORTER June 16, 202012:45 PM ET FONT SIZE:00:4002:42 Cuts in oil supply and a record rebound in demand in 2021 will help put the fossil fuel industry on better footing even as the pandemic hammers oil demand, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. Demand for oil will rebound…
A carbon sink shrinks in the arctic
UD researchers show Canada Basin’s diminished capacity to absorb carbon dioxide University of Delaware New research by University of Delaware doctoral student Zhangxian Ouyang and oceanographer Wei-Jun Cai, and an international team of researchers, demonstrates that rapid warming and sea-ice loss have induced major changes in the western Arctic Ocean. The research team’s findings —…