From EurekAlert! Public Release: 19-Dec-2018 New environmental indicator for evaluating the positive climate impacts of products VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT and LUT University alongside with Finnish companies…
Year: 2018
Warming warning over turtle feminization
From EurekAlert! Public Release: 19-Dec-2018 Warming warning over turtle feminization University of Exeter Up to 93% of green turtle hatchlings could be female by 2100, as climate change causes “feminisation”…
The Hendy Wind Farm Scandal
Guest post by Robert Owens (where ‘saving the planet’ from climate change trumps democracy and the protection of the environment) A brief summary of the history of this national scandal,…
A 2019 resolution: Honesty in energy policy
Virginia wind project highlights the need in climate, sustainability and renewable energy arenas Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek In this season of New Year resolutions, we should insist that governors,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #341
The Week That Was: 2018-12-22 (December 22, 2018) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “On what principle is it…
“…it is the change in temperature compared to what we’ve been used to that matters.” – Part 3
In this post, we’re going to present monthly mean TMIN and TMAX Near-Land Surface Air Temperatures (not in anomaly form) for a group of ten (10) Countries in an effort…
Solar Panel Waste: A Disposal Problem
From Canada Free Press Solar photovoltaic energy is not as environmentally conscious a choice as many think it is Solar Panel Waste: A Disposal Problem By Jack Dini —— Bio…
Oreskes, Harvard and the Destruction of Scientific Revolutions
Guest post by Bradley Keyes consensus (kənˈsɛnsəs) — n. general or widespread agreement (esp. in the phrase consensus of opinion ) usage Since ‘consensus’ refers to a collective opinion, the…
Ocean Acidification Background Context
By Rud Istvan, This short post is drawn from the introductory section of essay Shell Games in my ebook Blowing Smoke, foreword from Prof. Judith Curry of Georgia Tech. The…
Humans Are the Superior Species with Every Right to Be on Earth. We are Not ‘Unnatural’ as Environmentalists Claim and the IPCC Assumes.
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Environmentalists are destroying environmentalism. As a subset of that destruction, creators of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) falsified science to claim that humans…
Climate Policy Prescription: We need to Convince the Yellow Vests to Trust the Government
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Wired contributor Daphne LePrince-Ringuet, the kind of anti climate policy protests which rocked France can be prevented with a few government handouts, and…
Carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. power sector have declined 28% since 2005
From EIA From December 17 through December 31, Today in Energy will feature a selection of our favorite articles from 2018. Today’s article was originally published on October 29. EIA’s…
End of Snow (Again): “under a high emissions scenario, skiing could be very limited … by the end of this century”
Guest essay by Eric Worrall They can’t help themselves, their models predict a level of warming which would melt most of the snow. Is skiing dead due to global warming?…
Biologists escalate conflict over Inuit management of polar bear populations
Reposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on December 20, 2018 | Comments Off on Biologists escalate conflict over Inuit management of polar bear populations Yesterday, two polar bear specialists and…
Cambridge academic caught on plane with £100,000 in a box of chocolates jailed over £2.8m green energy scam
From The Telegraph By Jamie Merrill 21 December 2018 • 8:28pm A Cambridge academic who stole £1m from a government green-energy project has been jailed for four years. Dr Ehsan Abdi-Jalebi,…
“Rescuing the Low-Carbon Energy Transition From Magical Thinking”… With More Magical Thinking
Guest commentary by David Middleton Lessons to Learn From the Carbon Tax Backlash By David Hart December 21, 2018 The “yellow vest” protesters in France hate it. Four Canadian provinces,…
Droughts boost emissions as hydropower dries up
From Eurekalert Public Release: 21-Dec-2018 Droughts boost emissions as hydropower dries up Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences When hydropower runs low in a drought, western states tend…
Angry Protestors Demand the BBC INCREASE Their Climate Change Coverage
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Angry “Extinction Rebellion” protestors shut down the BBC headquarters, while demanding the BBC start covering climate change as if it was a major war. BBC’s…
Regulators Confirm Trump’s Concern: Coal And Nuclear Closures Could Lead To Power Outages
From The Daily Caller 6:34 PM 12/18/2018 | Energy Jason Hopkins | Energy Investigator A stress test conducted by the regulatory authority that oversees North America’s electric grid lends credibility…
Debunked: Insect Decline in Rainforest caused by Climate Change
Guest Post by Bob Vislocky From the department of “use garbage temperature data to show causation by correlation” comes this recent Washington Post article which cites a report of a…
Another Look At The Fuel Mix
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After my previous post on the subject of the fuel mix that powers the planet, I thought I’d take another look at energy use, this…
Germany’s green transition has hit a brick wall
Even worse, its growing problems with wind and solar spell trouble all over the globe Oddvar Lundseng, Hans Johnsen and Stein Bergsmark More people are finally beginning to realize that…
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