The primary government actions to limit CO2 emissions have been to mandate a change in the fuels used to generate electrical power. The Green thinking requires the substitution of fossils…
Month: November 2020
Prince Harry: Max Two Children for Climate Change
That special royal moment when you accidentally describe your brother, the future King of England as a planet wrecker; British Royal Prince Harry thinks families should limit themselves to two…
How ancient dust from the sea floor helps to explain climate history
During the last Ice Age about 20,000 years ago, iron-containing dust acted as a fertilizer for marine phytoplankton in the South Pacific, promoting CO2 sequestration and thus the glacial cooling…
The Conversation: “International Momentum” and Green Jobs will Persuade Republicans to Back Biden’s Green New Deal
Two British Political Science professors expect Republicans to resist the inevitability of our green future, at least at first, but they believe the rise of green jobs and “international momentum”…
Utility-Scale Battery Costs “Fall” to $625/kWh
Guest “Now that’s funny right there!” by David Middleton OCTOBER 23, 2020Utility-scale battery storage costs decreased nearly 70% between 2015 and 2018 The average energy capacity cost of utility-scale battery…
Facts and Theories, Updated
By Andy May In 2016, I published a post entitled “Facts and Theories.” It has been one of my most popular posts and often reblogged. I updated the post extensively…
Improving high-energy lithium-ion batteries with carbon filler
WASHINGTON, November 10, 2020 — Lithium-ion batteries are the major rechargeable power source for many portable devices as well as electric vehicles, but their use is limited, because they do…
Michael Kuperberg Fired from National Climate Assessment Post
President Trump has fired Michael Kuperberg from managing the national climate assessment. The NYT is worried climate skeptic David Legates might be put in charge.
Study: UK Imports 32% of Fruit and Vegetables from “Climate Vulnerable” Countries
A LSE study expresses concern that if the UK keeps importing food from an increasingly diverse range of sources any climate upset could cause prices to rise and availability to…
The Great Covid-19 Bicycle Shortage
Commuters seem to have lost their enthusiasm for being squished into a poorly ventilated box with suspiciously unhealthy looking fellow strangers. The resulting rush for healthier alternatives has triggered an…
Free science is here and growing fast
The good news is that the scientific community is responding big time to this extensive popular interest. We are in the midst of a huge wave of activities designed to…
SAR, the Turning Point
SAR is an abbreviation for the second IPCC assessment report, Climate Change 1995 (IPCC, 1996). As explained in my new book, Politics and Climate Change: A History, this IPCC report…
Put More Money into Renewable Energy or We’ll Report You to Joe Biden?
According to The Guardian, Boris Johnson has only pledged £4 billion per year of an estimated £33 billion per year which is required to fund Britain’s zero carbon conversion to…
Vindication of HCQ
Because of the medication’s politicization, and the pernicious tendency for dissenting perspectives to be silenced during the pandemic, data supporting hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness have been almost inaudible. But a recent analysis…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #430
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language…
GWPF calls for urgent inquiry into rising blackout risk, threatening national security
For two days running, (4th and 5th November), National Grid, UK’s Electricity System Operator has issued System Warnings in the form of an Electricity Margin Notice, alerting the markets to…
The Guardian: Joe Biden’s $1.7 Trillion Investment Could Reduce Global Warming by 0.1C
The Guardian has inadvertently revealed the utter futility of throwing trillions of dollars of borrowed government money into the bottomless renewable energy pit.
Boy Child, Girl Child
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve said before that I consider myself a climate heretic rather than a climate skeptic. A skeptic doubts parts of things. A heretic questions the…
Fancy Leaving the Planet? Virgin Galactic Announces a November Flight
Virgin Galactic has announced their first flight from Spaceport America to be launched from November 19-23rd.
Students develop tool to predict the carbon footprint of algorithms
On a daily basis, and perhaps without realizing it, most of us are in close contact with advanced AI methods known as deep learning. Deep learning algorithms churn whenever we…
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