Guest essay by Eric Worrall Scientific American thinks construction of President Trump’s border wall will dangerously exacerbate climate change. Trump’s Wall Could Cause Serious Environmental Damage The effects of building a massive concrete wall range from increased emissions to blocked wildlife migration routes. … And climate activists say that President Trump’s border wall with Mexico…
From the “twice as expensive, half as reliable” department comes this paper from SPRINGER where they seemed to have figured out (finally) that wind and solar just isn’t all that good for reliable power. Their solution? Overbuild. To me, that’s laughable, because regional weather patterns (such as a rex block high) can easily shut down not just…
From the “non-news in the MSM because it doesn’t support the cause” department comes this inconvenient study from the NIOZ ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH. Unexpected result: Ocean acidification can also promote shell formation Proton pumping accompanies calcification in foraminifera Fact: More carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air also acidifies the oceans. It seemed to…
From BROWN UNIVERSITY Earth’s orbital variations and sea ice synch glacial periods PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Earth is currently in what climatologists call an interglacial period, a warm pulse between long, cold ice ages when glaciers dominate our planet’s higher latitudes. For the past million years, these glacial-interglacial cycles have repeated roughly on a…