From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter December 03, 2019 12:16 PM ET The United States notched the country’s first month of exporting more petroleum products than it imported, according to newly released federal data. The news comes as Democratic presidential candidates campaign on nixing fossil fuels. The U.S. exported roughly 89,000 barrels of…
By Wallace Manheimer The industrial age, namely using coal, oil and gas to generate power instead of human and animal muscle, and wind and solar have lifted billions out of poverty. Before the industrial age, civilization was a thin veneer on top of a vast mound of human misery, that civilization maintained by such things…
From cartoonist to that’s Dr. Cartoonist to you!~cr News Release 3-Dec-2019 New game builds resilience against misinformation; ‘inoculates’ users against fake news on climate change; gamifies critical thinking George Mason University A George Mason University scientist is developing a mobile game that will teach users to defend themselves from ‘fake news’ on climate change. ProfessorJohn…
Guest post by Ronald Baron, “I have high cholesterol,” my mother sighed over the phone. “Just got back from my doctor, and my cholesterol reading was 523.” “Is that high?” I asked. I knew nothing about cholesterol to say nothing of medicine’s ability to measure it. But I know my mother. If the doctor found…
From Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog December 2nd, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for November, 2019 was +0.55 deg. C, up from the October value of +0.46 deg. C. The linear warming trend since January, 1979 remains at +0.13 C/decade (+0.11 C/decade over the…
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As many of you know I was part of a live stream put on by The Heartland Institute two days ago from Madrid. The segment that contained my portion of the overall presentation has now been posted on YouTube. I present it below without comment.
Guest post by Jim Steele, from What’s Natural? column published in Pacifica Tribune, December 4, 2019 Why Worse Wildfires? Part 2 Figure 1 Managing forest ground fuels Why worse wildfires? The short answer is more humans cause more wildfire ignitions in altered landscapes. Since 1970, California’s population doubled, adding 20 million people. As more human…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Shutting the UN bar at 5pm and cutting back their first class air travel budget has failed to close the projected budget shortfall. U.N. Cries Poor [Again]: Issues Unprecedented $29 Billion Emergency Funding Appeal The cash-strapped United Nations has issued an unprecedented global appeal for funds, claiming Wednesday it needs…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall An infant feeding specialist has called for curbs on the availability and use of baby formula, because of high CO2 emissions associated with its production. Call to curb baby formula emissions By AAP 3:31am Dec 4, 2019 … Dr Julie Smith, who has studied the economics of infant feeding for…
It’s been interesting, it’s been challenging, and it’s been exhausting. It has also been a bit surreal. What follows is a combination of my experiences and events taken from news reports and social media. Let’s start with my arrival at the airport Monday morning after a red-eye flight. Leaving baggage claim, the first thing I…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall US academic standards are stagnating, despite huge investment in trying to improve the education system. Maybe its about time politicians and academics started asking why. ‘It Just Isn’t Working’: PISA Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. Education Efforts An international exam shows that American 15-year-olds are stagnant in reading and…
Climate Litigation and Politics 2020: A Tale of Two Media Blackouts from Climate Litigation Watch Media mogul, climate activist and financier of the climate litigation industry Michael Bloomberg recently announced his candidacy for President of the United States. At the same time, a memo leaked about Bloomberg News’s plans to cover the Presidential election (or, in part, to not…
Guest eye-rolling by David Middleton From the American Association for the Advancement of Science of America… In unpublished paper, former White House climate adviser calls methane ‘irrelevant’ to climateBy Scott Waldman, E&E News Nov. 27, 2019 , 12:35 PM Originally published by E&E News A climate skeptic with ties to the White House is back—this…
From NASA Dec. 2, 2019 Just after its close flyby of Jupiter on Nov. 3, 2019, NASA’s Juno spacecraft caught this striking view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere as the spacecraft sped away from the giant planet. This image captures massive cyclones near Jupiter’s south pole, as well as the chaotic clouds of the folded filamentary…
