By Andy May It came up in conversation: How much oil and gas goes into plastics and fertilizer production? It turns out the IEA has a 2018 report on this very topic. They have a separate 2020 report on total energy used in 2019. The reports contain some interesting graphs and data. Below is a comparison of total [...]
World leaders, do you realize how disruptive your energy policies are? Do you also realize how disruptive your lockdowns are? In his Christmas message to World Leaders, Guus Berkhout has three wake-up calls: 1. CO2 budgets and total lockdowns are based on fear; they limit human rights, feed extremism and push mankind [...]
The Green New Deal only plans to generate intermittent electricity, but no plans to replace crude oil, the only fossil fuel that is NOT used for electricity. By Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California and signee of the World Climate Declaration of CLINTEL As late as the 1800’s, the [...]
Reposted From the Cliff Mass Weather Blog Tornado damage, Courtesy of State Farm Insurance Powerful, long-lived tornadoes struck western Kentucky, southern Illinois, and the vicinity on Friday night. And within hours, major media outlets, national politicians, and several climate activists were claiming that global warming was partly or mainly to blame. [...]
Dear readers of the CLINTEL newsletter, friends, donators, Since 2018 we (Marcel Crok and three colleagues) are investigating the homogenization of daily temperatures by KNMI. This homogenization - introduced in 2016 - had the result of removing a lot of tropical days (days with T > 30 degrees Celsius) and heatwaves in the period [...]
This article was originally published at Science Under Attack. Melting due to climate change of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has led to widespread panic about the future impact of global warming. But, as we’ll see in this and a subsequent post, Antarctica may not be warming overall, while the rate of ice loss [...]
Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, gave a talk for the Irish Climate Science Forum and CLINTEL. His online presentation was titled: After COP26, with a looming energy crisis, is there a realistic alternative to Net Zero? The GWPF recently rebranded the name of their campaigning arm to Net [...]
On November 29th, our colleagues at the Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) sent a letter to the Irish government leaders in reponse to the Irish Climate Action Plan: “ICSF sees that the Government is set to embark on a Climate Action Plan which, though well intentioned, is unfortunately misinformed on many scientific, engineering [...]
The biosphere increases entropy, yet it produces interesting patterns. Credit: pernsanitfoto This article is written by Demetris Koutsoyiannis and G.-Fivos Sargentis National Technical University of Athens It's a more popular version of their peer reviewed paper Entropy and wealth. Full paper: D. Koutsoyiannis, and G.-F. Sargentis, Entropy and wealth, Entropy, 23 (10), 1356, [...]
By PROF. DR. IR. GUUS BERKHOUT This is the translated letter that Guus Berkhout of CLINTEL, published in De Telegraaf earlier this week. In recent years we have seen the strangest things happening to our universities. Professors must be extremely careful about what they teach. If they present scientific results that do not fit [...]
