Guest Essay by Kip Hansen A week ago I wrote an essay titled “Sarewitz’s Science Smörgåsbord” which was received here with varying degrees of acceptance, resistance and dismay. It…
Month: July 2019
Ok, we got time for dat
From Eclectic Method Published on Jul 15, 2019 This week is the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon. I’ve turned a bunch of NASA’s footage into…
The Strongest Summer Jet Stream to Hit the Pacific Northwest EVER!
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…
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Renewables “Crushing” Natural Gas
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…
UCI study blithely calls for $100 trillion shutdown of fossil plants to meet Paris climate goals
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…
Late registration opportunity – Please join me in Washington D.C. on July 25th
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…
WHO Declares a Global Ebola Health Emergency
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…
British MP Demands an End to Affordable Food, to Combat Obesity and Climate Change
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…
Using an Iterative Adiabatic Model to study the Climate of Titan.
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…
MMT could be used to pay for the Green New Deal
guest post by Joel O’Bryan PhD NPR news is running this story on Green New Deal financing by writer Scott Horsley: When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rolled out her “Green New…
Tesla Pickup Truck More Popular Than Ford F-150!
Guest “you couldn’t make this sort of schist up if you tried” by David Middleton Tesla’s ‘Cyberpunk’ Truck Is Already America’s New Favorite Pickup: Study By Sissi Cao • 07/03/19…
Elephants: The Solution to Climate Change!
Guest “you couldn’t make this sort of schist up if you tried” by David Middleton From the American Association of Science of America [1]… Hungry elephants fight climate change one…
Study: Pacific Islands Will Survive Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Who could have imagined that islands which survived rapid sea level rise at the end of the last ice age have no problem coping with…
CNN Fake News: Republican Feud Over Climate “Crisis”
Guest FAKE NEWS ALERT by David Middleton It’s Lindsey Graham vs. Donald Trump on climate crisisLauren DezenskiBy Lauren Dezenski, CNNUpdated 5:18 AM ET, Sun July 14, 2019 Washington (CNN) Sen.…
NASA Adds Events to Celebration of 50th Anniversary of Historic Moon Landing
Sorry, a day late, but still lots of information.~ctm From NASA July 16, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M19-070 Learn more about the history behind, and future in front of, the Apollo…
Remystifying Climate Feedback
By Joe Born 1. Introduction By presenting actual calculation results from a specific feedback-system example, the plots below will put some graphical meat on the verbal bones of Nick Stokes’…
Aussie Climate Crusader Turns Wind Power Nimby
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – Former Greens leader Bob Brown, leader of a recent high profile electric car expedition to protest the Adani coal mine, has finally…
Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: Climate Change is ‘not a clear and present danger’
My latest podcast – this one has some eye-opening discussion. Dr. Judith Curry is a climatologist, former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute…
NREL Energy Storage System Cost Benchmark
Guest post by Roger Caiazza One of the biggest issues with plans to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy is intermittency. At some point that can only be addressed by…
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