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12 04, 2022

Blood on the blades: are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for “clean” energy

By |2022-04-12T11:13:35+02:0012 April 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Blood on the blades: are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for “clean” energy

By Gregory Wrightstone reposted from CO2 Coalition Last week the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they had sentenced ESI Energy for a “blatant disregard” of federal wildlife laws of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). In their guilty plea to multiple violations, ESI admitted to the killing of at least 150 bald [...]

9 04, 2022

The Many Benefits of Rising Atmospheric CO2 — An Introduction

By |2022-04-09T15:29:30+02:009 April 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on The Many Benefits of Rising Atmospheric CO2 — An Introduction

Dr. Craig Idso, Chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and a new principal at MasterResource, invites readers to join him in a new series of articles discussing the many ways in which rising atmospheric carbon dioxide benefits humanity and nature. Atmospheric carbon dioxide: you can’t see, hear, [...]

3 04, 2022

Chile’s Economic Destruction is a Preview of what’s in Store for Biden’s America

By |2022-04-03T19:41:32+02:003 April 2022|Chile, News, USA|Comments Off on Chile’s Economic Destruction is a Preview of what’s in Store for Biden’s America

Chile has huge hydroelectric power potential, were it not for misguided environmental policy by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris For some years now, we have followed the work of Douglas Pollock, a civil industrial engineer from the University of Chile, who shows what happened in his country when it followed the sort of [...]

1 04, 2022

Doubling CO2 increases absorption by only a few percent

By |2022-04-01T21:19:10+02:001 April 2022|Canada English, CLINTEL, News, USA|Comments Off on Doubling CO2 increases absorption by only a few percent

Prof. Kees de Lange met William Happer during his visit in The Netherlands last November. After that they exchanged several emails about the paper Happer en his colleague William van Wijngaarden wrote. De Lange kindly translated his knowledge of the paper into a blog article that is non-technical. This is an excellent paper [...]

23 03, 2022

A ‘Plan B’ for addressing climate change and the energy transition

By |2022-03-23T15:48:05+01:0023 March 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on A ‘Plan B’ for addressing climate change and the energy transition

by Judith Curry Reposted with her permission from her blog Climate Etc. I have a new article published in the latest issue of International Affairs Forum. The topic of this issue is Climate Change and Energy.  Mine is one of twenty papers.  A range of topics are covered.  My article is the least alarmed among them.  [...]

14 03, 2022

Comparing AR5 to AR6

By |2022-03-14T17:17:58+01:0014 March 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Comparing AR5 to AR6

The IPCC AR5 report was published in 2013 and the CMIP5 climate models they used, have been shown to predict faster warming than observed in the tropical troposphere at a statistically significant level by Ross McKitrick and John Christy.[1] This problem is acknowledged and discussed in the latest AR6 report, published in 2021, but brushed aside as unimportant. In [...]

11 03, 2022

Climate Model Democracy

By |2022-03-14T18:30:32+01:0011 March 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Climate Model Democracy

In my last post, I explained how the IPCC attempts to use climate models to show humans have caused the recent global warming. Models are useful for testing scientific ideas, but they are not proof an idea is correct unless they successfully and accurately predict future events. See the story of Arthur Eddington’s test [...]

4 03, 2022

Attributing global warming to humans

By |2022-03-04T18:23:32+01:004 March 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Attributing global warming to humans

The featured cartoon is by Josh, who graciously gave me permission to use it, his website is here. This cartoon is in Josh’s 2022 calendar, I think he still has a few to sell. My latest book,[1] just released, is about a climate change debate between Professor David Karoly of the University of Melbourne and Professor William [...]

1 03, 2022

Fracking in Poland

By |2022-03-04T18:13:26+01:001 March 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Fracking in Poland

So, what happened to European efforts to develop a shale gas and oil industry like we have in the United States? Recent shortages, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and high energy prices have proven that we are not remotely prepared to make it without fossil fuels. As Holman Jenkins explains in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (Jenkins, [...]

20 02, 2022

How we have mischaracterized climate risk

By |2022-02-20T21:31:18+01:0020 February 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on How we have mischaracterized climate risk

by Judith Curry “The current thinking and approaches guiding this conceptualization and description have been shown to lack scientific rigour, the consequence being that climate change risk and uncertainties are poorly presented. The climate change field needs to strengthen its risk science basis, to improve the current situation.” – Norwegian risk scientist Terje Aven [...]