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6 01, 2022

Imagine electric vehicles in bad weather

By |2022-01-06T13:40:36+01:006 January 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Imagine electric vehicles in bad weather

With more than forty percent of the EV’s in America being in California at the end of 2020, the EV popularity in California has gotten President Biden so excited to want the rest of the country to follow California’s lead that Biden issued a new executive order that pushes for half of all new cars sold [...]

5 01, 2022

Judith Curry’s take on the movie Don’t Look up

By |2022-01-05T22:26:59+01:005 January 2022|Climate policy, News, USA|Comments Off on Judith Curry’s take on the movie Don’t Look up

by Judith Curry Reposted with her permission from her blog Climate Etc. Some reflections on the movie Don’t Look Up. Source: Netflix. If you haven’t seen the movie, it is worth watching (available on Netflix). The movie is a satirical black comedy, with a large number of A-list actors. It’s about scientists giving [...]

4 01, 2022

Lessons to be learned from eugenics

By |2022-01-04T19:57:20+01:004 January 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Lessons to be learned from eugenics

Projecting the impacts of science-based policy is never 100 percent certain, nor can we ever have complete confidence in how these impacts will be viewed by those living generations from now. Nevertheless, many scientists are continually frustrated by those whom they see as poorly informed and shortsighted. “It is indeed in laying [...]

4 01, 2022

Sudden Changes in Ocean Currents Warmed Arctic, Cooled Antarctic in Past

By |2022-01-04T16:00:28+01:004 January 2022|News, USA|Comments Off on Sudden Changes in Ocean Currents Warmed Arctic, Cooled Antarctic in Past

Abrupt changes in ocean currents – and not greenhouse gases – were responsible for sudden warming of the Arctic and for sudden cooling in the Antarctic at different times in the past, according to two recent research studies. The Antarctic cooling marked the genesis of the now massive Antarctic ice sheet. The [...]

23 12, 2021

Total Energy Used and petrochemicals

By |2021-12-23T12:10:59+01:0023 December 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Total Energy Used and petrochemicals

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 [...]

20 12, 2021

Decarbonization cannot manufacture the products demanded by civilization

By |2021-12-20T18:29:25+01:0020 December 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Decarbonization cannot manufacture the products demanded by civilization

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 [...]

18 12, 2021

Were the Recent Tornadoes the Result of Global Warming?

By |2021-12-18T15:50:10+01:0018 December 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Were the Recent Tornadoes the Result of Global Warming?

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.   [...]

3 12, 2021

Evidence That Antarctica Is Cooling, Not Warming

By |2021-12-03T11:43:38+01:003 December 2021|IPCC, News, USA|Comments Off on Evidence That Antarctica Is Cooling, Not Warming

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 [...]

15 11, 2021

Autocorrelation in CO2 and Temperature Time Series

By |2021-11-15T11:30:27+01:0015 November 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Autocorrelation in CO2 and Temperature Time Series

By Andy May In my last post I plotted the NASA CO2 and the HadCRUT5 records from 1850 to 2020 and compared them. This was in response to a plot posted on twitter by Robert Rohde implying they correlated well. The two records appear to correlate because the resulting R2 is 0.87. The least square’s function used made the global [...]

9 11, 2021

Without fossil fuel infrastructure we’re supposed to have an ENERGY CRISIS!

By |2021-11-09T12:54:05+01:009 November 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Without fossil fuel infrastructure we’re supposed to have an ENERGY CRISIS!

By Ronald Stein reposted from cfact.org Over the last decade, climate activists have successfully pressured governments, banks, and corporations to divest from crude oil and natural gas companies. The energy infrastructures are just like the “civil” infrastructures the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Report Cards constantly addresses, and the resultant poor “grades” given to [...]