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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 & [...]
There is no climate emergency
A global network of
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scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message. Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.