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28 04, 2021

Clouds and Global Warming

By |2021-04-28T15:16:15+02:0028 April 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Clouds and Global Warming

This post is inspired by an old post on the CERES cloud data by Willis Eschenbach that I’ve read and re-read a lot, “Estimating Cloud Feedback Using CERES Data.” The reason for my interest is I had trouble understanding it, but it looked fascinating because Willis was comparing CERES measured cloud data to IPCC modeled cloud feedback. I [...]

26 04, 2021

Unsettled, Steven Koonin’s new book

By |2021-04-26T14:04:27+02:0026 April 2021|Book review, News, USA|Comments Off on Unsettled, Steven Koonin’s new book

I was honored to be chosen by NYU Professor Steven E. Koonin to review his wonderful new book, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why We Got It Wrong. According to Amazon.com, if you order the Kindle version (Koonin, 2021) now, it will download on May 4th. Professor Koonin sent me a near final [...]

7 04, 2021

The Happy Warrior Saves His Best Climate Writing for Last

By |2021-04-07T21:06:55+02:007 April 2021|Book review, News, USA|Comments Off on The Happy Warrior Saves His Best Climate Writing for Last

Bookreview By Patrick J. Michaels April 06, 2021 S. Fred Singer, who died last year, was an emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, well-known for his written and spoken clarity. His last book, the Third Edition of Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate, is the most lucid example of his [...]

5 04, 2021

The Imaginary Climate Crisis: How can we Change the Message? A talk by Richard Lindzen

By |2021-04-07T13:08:21+02:005 April 2021|News, USA, Videos|Comments Off on The Imaginary Climate Crisis: How can we Change the Message? A talk by Richard Lindzen

The Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) in cooperation with CLINTEL hosted a lecture by the world-renowned climate scientist Richard Lindzen. The online lecture was attended by around 200 people from around the world (including a group of climate activists who disturbed the talk. The recorded talk can be viewed here. Professor Lindzen kindly [...]

22 03, 2021

It takes big energy to back up wind and solar

By |2021-03-23T15:09:27+01:0022 March 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on It takes big energy to back up wind and solar

Power system design can be extremely complex but there is one simple number that is painfully obvious. At least it is painful to the advocates of wind and solar power, which may be why we never hear about it. It is a big, bad number. To my knowledge this big number has no [...]

16 03, 2021

States sue to block “social cost” of carbon

By |2021-03-23T13:02:23+01:0016 March 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on States sue to block “social cost” of carbon

Twelve states have asked a Federal Court to keep federal agencies from using the so-called Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases to calculate the benefits of emission reduction regulations. The new cost estimates, ordered by President Biden on day one, claim enormous distant future damages from today’s emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous [...]

7 03, 2021

The Left declares war on gas

By |2021-03-07T17:57:54+01:007 March 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on The Left declares war on gas

The so-called CLEAN Future Act just introduced by the Democrat leaders of the house energy Committee calls for the elimination of gas-fired electric power generation, some immediately, some by 2023 and all by 2035. That is just 14 years from now. Coal-fired power will also be gone, the war on coal finally over [...]

1 03, 2021

We may never learn the truth about the Texas blackout

By |2021-03-07T17:53:43+01:001 March 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on We may never learn the truth about the Texas blackout

The reasons for the grid collapse are now a matter of intense debate. In the absence of detailed data the debate is mostly over general statistics, which do not establish causality. For example: Frozen wind turbines caused it. A gas shortage caused it. The gas shortage was caused by electrification of the pipelines. [...]

25 02, 2021

UN calls for contraction and convergence to low living standards

By |2021-03-07T17:48:56+01:0025 February 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on UN calls for contraction and convergence to low living standards

The UN just published its first ever environmental synthesis report, with the expectedly scary title “Making Peace With Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies.” That’s right, now there are (hyperbolically) three emergencies, not just the climate one. In fact according to the UN we now have a “Planetary [...]

21 02, 2021

Cold Snaps Expose Climate Science Fragility

By |2021-02-21T10:39:58+01:0021 February 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Cold Snaps Expose Climate Science Fragility

Guest article by Jim Steele Cold snaps can be deadly. A 2014 National Health Statistics report found, “During 2006–2010, about 2,000 U.S. residents died each year from weather-related deaths; 63% were attributed to exposure to natural cold. The recent cold snap in Texas and Germany highlighted our energy system’s vulnerabilities. During times of our greatest need, inadequate natural gas [...]