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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588
There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…
Scientists Look to Fight Climate Change by Dumping 6,000 Gallons of Chemicals into Ocean Near Martha’s Vineyard
A team of scientists is looking to dump chemicals into waters off the coast of Massachusetts this summer to research whether doing so could be an effective counter to ocean…
St Ives Bay Carbon Capture Trial ‘Very Low Risk’ – Report
…the idea of chucking large volumes of chemicals into one small area of sea seems highly irresponsible.
Everything Climate
The 130-Degree F Reading in Death Valley Is A World Record Con: 134 degrees in 1913 is still the official record and there is no reason to change it. But…
Ocean Acidification
Pro: Carbon Dioxide is Dangerously Changing Ocean pH For more than 200 years, or since the industrial revolution, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has increased due…
Primary School Children Targeted with Green Propaganda by Just Stop Oil Millionaire Funder
Recently, Packham gave his backing to eco-protesters breaking the law and suggested that a “radical flank” could attempt to blow up oil refineries.
Climate Experiment to Dump Minerals in Cornish Sea to Absorb Carbon
But as Sue Sayer points out, there could be unintended effects from messing around with the natural eco-systems.
Elite Billionaire Foundations Fund Wave of Green Climate Propaganda Flooding into British Schools
…flooding into British schools, funded, it would appear, by the dark green money of elite billionaire foundations
New Zealand Carbon Farming
What is at fault are successive governments and a failure to look after the public interest.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #526
“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question…
Claim: Scientists find link between fast-melting Arctic ice and ocean acidification
An international team of researchers have sounded new alarm bells about the changing chemistry of the western region of the Arctic Ocean after discovering acidity levels increasing three to four times faster than…
Weekly Climate and Energy New Roundup #505
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them. – Erwin Schrödinger:…
What We Learned from the Space Station this Past Year
As the International Space Station enters its third decade of continuous human presence, the impact of microgravity research conducted there keeps growing. The months between Nov. 2020 and Nov. 2021 saw publication…
Fundamentals of Ocean pH
We are often told that the CO2 released from burning fossil fuels will cause dangerous ocean acidification. Actually the oceans will remain comfortably alkaline and hospitable to life for the…
Energy Transition: Blue Oil Edition
Guest “Responding to a reader request” by David Middleton Hat tip to Mike Higton for requesting a deeper dive into “Blue Oil” Mike was referring to this post of mine…
Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #448
“Aqueous vapor [water vapor] is a blanket more necessary to the vegetable life of England than clothing is to man. Remove for a single summer-night the aqueous vapour from the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #439
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.” – Booker T. Washington
Overview: ‘Ocean Acidification’
And then there is this new pteropod nonsense, deliberately ignoring the large difference that sea water temperature makes to their metabolism and hence shell formation. Even though the issue was…
Designing batteries for easier recycling could avert a looming e-waste crisis
As concern mounts over the impacts of climate change, many experts are calling for greater use of electricity as a substitute for fossil fuels. Powered by advancements in battery technology,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #423
“A few days ago, a Master of Arts, who is still a young man, and therefore the recipient of a modern education, stated to me that until he had reached…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #419
Quote of the Week: “The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.” –…
Acid Oceans? & Oyster Shells
What’s Natural? Guest post by Jim Steele Published July 14, 2020 in the Pacifica Tribune (I wrote a white paper for the CO2 Coalition, providing more details and references to…
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