Britain may be about to pay a heavy price for their mad dash for renewables, and neglect of energy self sufficiency. As Brexit negotiations enter a standoff, France is threatening…
Month: October 2020
UN Climate Disaster Doubling Revisited
The claim is so bold that this requires more thorough analysis of the original data. Everyone can access the EM-DAT database by registering as EM-DAT user. Access is free for…
Request for Public Nominations for Authors and Scientific/Technical Inputs and Notice of Planned Public Engagement Opportunities for the Fifth National Climate Assessment
Request for public nominations for authors and scientific/technical inputs and notice of planned public engagement opportunities.
“New Dark Age Cometh”: Nobel Prize Biochemist Cancelled for Covid-19 Wrongthink
2013 Nobel Prize winning Stanford Biophysicist Michael Levitt has been disinvited from a bio-design conference, because other speakers threatened to quit rather than share a stage with a Covid-19 heretic.
A lullaby in memory of the late Professor Nils-Axel Mörner
“Speaking of Bob Carter [the late geologist and friend of scientific truth], I still use Lord Monckton’s Bob Carter’s Peal as the ringtone for my cellphone. It is a lovely…
NASA supercomputing study breaks ground for tree mapping, carbon research
Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering…
Crisis looms in alarmist climate science
Climate science is dominated by alarmists addicted to the idea that increasing carbon dioxide will cause dangerous global warming. How much warming is thus the central scientific question.
CNN: Climate Change is Driving Fatal Shark Attacks
According to CNN, Climate Change is making sharks more desperate by destroying the ecosystems which feed them, leading to a surge in fatal shark attacks on humans.
What Will Northwest Weather and Climate Be Like in 2050?
Knowing the future climate is very important, because we can take steps to adapt to climate change, saving lives and property. And the threat of unpleasant consequences can motivate society…
Watts Up With That FERC Carbon Pricing Policy Statement
On October 5 Anthony posted my article on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) technical conference regarding Carbon Pricing in Organized Wholesale Electricity Markets held on September 30, 2020. On…
Sludge-powered bacteria generate more electricity, faster
Changing the surface chemistry of electrodes leads to the preferential growth of a novel electroactive bacterium that could support improved energy-neutral wastewater treatment.
Science is ready to save us, maybe
Many scientists around the world have realised that the major emitters of greenhouse gases are not likely to cut back and cripple their economies any time soon. Even China has…
Michael Mann: Whether or not Trump gets re-elected … could determine the fate of our planet
According to Michael Mann, President Trump has emboldened world leaders like Australia’s Scott Morrison to be less ambitious on climate change. But why does Mann think Biden would make such…
What SAGE Has Got Wrong
SAGE made – and continues to make – two fatal errors in its assessment of the SAR-CoV-2 pandemic, rendering its predictions wildly inaccurate, with disastrous results. These errors led SAGE…
The Real Toll of Oregon Forest Losses.
There are other losses to our forests, however, that may not have been fully reported so far. Nearly one million acres burned in Oregon’s west-side Cascade forests. These were some…
Professor Nils-Axel Mörner, 1938-2020
Professor Nils-Axel Mörner, who died on Friday October 16 aged 83 after a short illness, knew more about sea level than did Poseidon himself. He wrote more than 650 papers…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Round Up #427
“It is well known that [scientific] reputation is hard to build and easy to lose; however, it is even harder to rebuild.”– Professor Leonid Tsybeskov, New Jersey Institute of Technology…
The Guardian: A $20+ Carbon Tax would Boost Economic Growth
From the “lets tax our way to prosperity” school of economics; According to Guardian author Greg Jericho, although it might seem like a massive carbon tax would hammer the economic…
The truth behind renewable energy
Can renewable energy sources supply the world with a large share of the energy it requires? While some environmentalists advocate the total replacement of fossil fuels by solar, wind and…
It’s a Good Time to Be Born
…Parents in the United States and in many other countries, and not just the very richest, are among the luckiest parents in history. We can, for the most part, hope…
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