From DDP 38th Annual Meeting, August 16, 2020, Las Vegas, NV
Month: August 2020
BP and Chevron: A Difference in Style or Substance?
In the high road of the climate crusade, marked by corporate brochures extolling social responsibility and environmental sustainability, BP was first past the post among the big oil majors.
‘Gaps’ In Renewable Energy Led To Blackouts For Millions Of Californians, Gov Newsom Says
The elimination of fossil fuel products as a major form of energy production and the shift to solar power and other forms of green energy has led to what Newsom…
Green California Has the Nation’s Worst Power Grid
When high temperatures caused customer demand to exceed the power available, California electrical utilities used rotating outages to force a reduction in demand. The California grid is the worst in…
The dark side of California – the sunshine state
Our resident cartoonist Josh has come up with a political cartoon response to the “rolling blackouts” in California. For some background, see these two WUWT posts: CAISO President: California Power…
Time to Stand UP! Against Academic Suppression
CLINTEL has issued the Magna Carta Universitatum 2020. This short document is basically an aspirational code of conduct for freedom of inquiry and speech at universities.
CAISO President: California Power Grid teetering close to the edge of collapse
You are trading the loss of 3000 megawatts for the collapse of the entire system of California and perhaps the entire West. […] When you’re at the very edge and…
Legal Motion Filed to Stop FOIA Stonewalling on Paris Climate Treaty
From govoversight.org via press release: As Biden vows immediate re-entry into climate pact, State stops processing FOIA request: litigation seeks to reveal whether Memo asserting false premise for “disturbing contempt”…
Chevron’s Answer to Climate Change: Drill, Baby, Drill!
Guest “this is fracking hilarious” by David Middleton Chevron’s Answer to Climate Change Is to Keep Drilling for OilThe energy giant believes it can still wring years of profits from…
The excess costs of Weather Dependent Renewable power generation in the USA
“roughly how much would it cost to generate the same amount of power as is produced by the 2016 fleet of United States Weather Dependent Renewables, using conventional generation technologies,…
Is Joe Biden Copying the Mistakes of Australia’s “Unloseable” Climate Election?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova; Democrat Presidential Candidate Joe Biden is rushing to the polls with a plan to slam everyone with a raft of new green taxes.…
MIT: Five Grand Thermal Challenges to Decarbonise the Global Economy
What would it take to make renewable energy viable, and reduce emissions from industrial processes? MIT professors Asegun Henry, Ravi Prasher & Arun Majumdar describe five thermal challenges which must…
COVID-19: Is there an opportunity in the crisis? Jane M. Orient, M.D.
DDP 38th Annual Meeting August 16, 2020, Las Vegas, NV
Media hypes new 130°F Death Valley Temperature – but it’s still short of the 134°F all-time record
On Sunday, August 16th the National Weather Service in Las Vegas, Nevada sent out a Tweet highlighting a new maximum daily temperature of 130°F in Death Valley: Predictably, the media jumped on…
Central Planning Gone Wild!
Indeed, the main purpose of reopening businesses is to prevent further deterioration of our economy by generating profits and provide incomes that many citizens desperately need. However, for employees in…
Early spread of COVID-19 appears far greater than initially reported
Patients with undiagnosed flu symptoms who actually had COVID-19 last winter were among thousands of undetected early cases of the disease at the beginning of this year.
Researchers one step closer to bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts
If you want to enhance a locust to be used as a bomb-sniffing bug, there are a few technical challenges that need solving before sending it into the field.
UNSW Academic Repeats Tired “Dams will Never Fill” Climate Change Myth
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to UNSW academic Dr. Clara Stephens, future extreme rainfall will fail to fill Aussie dams, because the drier ground will absorb too much moisture.…
Study shows frequently used serology test may not detect antibodies that could confirm protection against reinfection of COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2 antibody serology assays developed by MD Anderson researchers accurately detect neutralizing antibodies
Few bears on the ice off Western Hudson Bay at 14 August but will be onshore soon
Polar bear biologist Andrew Derocher published a tracking map of his collared polar bear females that shows one bear (out of 11) still on the rapidly diminishing ice north of…
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