The problem is that we’re not there yet. Solar doesn’t work at night, the output slips in cloudy weather, and turbines stand idle when the wind doesn’t blow.
Day: August 10, 2020
Cascading fallacies in climate risk assessment
This is not about New Zealand. The authors of the assessment make clear that theirs is a new approach which they hope will be used globally. So this is about…
NASA Goes Woke: Bye Bye ‘Eskimo Nebula’ & ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’
“It has become clear that certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive but can be actively harmful. NASA is examining its use of unofficial terminology for cosmic objects as part…
Shellenberger: Do We Have to Destroy the Earth to Save It?
From PragerU: Do wind turbines and solar farms hold the keys to saving the environment? Michael Shellenberger, founder of Environmental Progress and noted climate activist, used to think so. Now…
Polar Bears Defy SCIENCE! by Refusing to Die.
This pattern of bears staying out on the ice long after the so-called ‘critical threshold’ of 50% concentration has passed has been going on since at least 2015 and many…
Florida current is weaker now than at any point in the past century
A key component of the Gulf Stream has markedly slowed over the past century–that’s the conclusion of a new research paper in Nature Communications published on August 7.
Monday Mirthiness – Follow The #COVID19 Science You Like
These days, these very weird days, pick up any newspaper or read any news website and you are bombarded with conflicting “science” information. usually these are prefaced with “a new…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #420
“What we observe is not Nature itself but Nature exposed to our methods of questioning.” –Werner Heisenberg, also “We have to remember that what we observe is not nature itself,…
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