Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog Thursday, July 18, 2019 The Strongest Summer Jet Stream to Hit the Pacific Northwest EVER! An extraordinary weather event has been occurring above our heads during the past 24-hour. A record that was not only broken, but shattered to little pieces. The strongest summer jet stream…
Guest Excelling by David Middleton Every year since at least 2014 the U.S. Energy Information Administration has published a report called Levelized Cost and Levelized Avoided Cost of New Generation Resources as part of their Annual Energy Outlook. I went through each report since 2014 and built an Excel spreadsheet to look at the year-to-year…
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The Los Angeles Times cavalierly suggests based upon a UCI study published in the journal Nature that the world needs to retire its fossil fuel plants to meet the Paris Agreement’s politically driven schemes requiring the pipe dream of global abandonment of fossil energy. The article grossly misrepresents the magnitude…
UPDATE: last minute registration with promo discount code is available – see below. Hello, Last minute opportunity – there are still a few registration spots available. In case you aren’t aware yet, I will be speaking at the ICCC13 at the Trump Hotel in Washington DC on Thursday July 25th, 2019. And I have a special…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Given documented cases of Ebola survivors becoming long term symptomless carriers, this outbreak should worry everyone, though for now the WHO claims the risk of the Ebola outbreak spreading outside the afflicted region is not high. Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a Public Health Emergency…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon – According to British MP Michael Gove, cheap food damages the environment and encourages poor people to overeat. True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission Damian Carrington Environment editor@dpcarringtonTue 16 Jul 2019 06.00 BST Radical change needed to make UK food and farming…
Using an Iterative Adiabatic Model to study the Climate of Titan. Guest Post by P Mulholland and Stephen Wilde. July 2019 “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” Richard P. Feynman. In this dual scene montage, we see on the left in natural colour the moon Titan…