Nuclear power has provided low-carbon electricity to the UK for over 60 years and today it generates 17% of the country’s electricity. Until mid-2018, 15 nuclear reactors were the country’s…
Month: November 2020
Seeing dark matter in a new light
A small team of astronomers have found a new way to ‘see’ the elusive dark matter haloes that surround galaxies, with a new technique 10 times more precise than the…
Washington Post: “A Biden victory positions America for a 180-degree turn on climate change”
“You look at where California is now going, the federal government needs to get there.” – radical greens are rushing to offer their guidance to Joe Biden on climate policy.…
US Election Open Thread
Most of our readers realize that today’s media pronouncements are meaningless and we are in for a month or more of lawfare.
MIT Technology Review Discusses Bypassing the US Senate on Climate Policy
MIT Technology Review are deeply disappointed Biden may not have the numbers to pass the Green New Deal, but they are confident his executive actions, combined with slipping green spending…
Rivers melt Arctic ice, warming air and ocean
A new study shows that increased heat from Arctic rivers is melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and warming the atmosphere.
Preparing the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite for Launch
A U.S.-European partnership, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft will begin a five-and-a-half-year prime mission to collect the most accurate data yet on global sea level and how our oceans are…
The Conversation: Biden Could Hit Australia with Import Duties, to Punish Aussies for Lax Climate Policies
More greens celebrating the punishment Biden will allegedly inflict on Australia; According to The Conversation, if Biden wins Australia will be punished for Australia’s climate complacency
If US Fossil Fuel Fracking Dies, Kiss Goodbye to Affordable Home Loan Interest Rates
One thing which wasn’t made clear during the recent US election was how important domestic US energy production and fracking is to reducing the trade deficit, which in turn feeds…
How to Scare and Deceive without Lying: JPL Cries Wolf about Polar Glacial Melt
Yesterday NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory published “The Anatomy of Glacial Ice Loss.” For the most part it’s an interesting, though not particularly revolutionary, discussion of the various forces that add…
Carbon Credits: Irish Farmers Being Paid to Destroy Their Fields
Centuries of efforts to drain swamps to extend arable land in Ireland are being reversed, in an effort to trap more carbon.
Comparing USCRN and nClimDiv to USCHN
By Andy May Steven Mosher complained about my previous post on the difference between the final and raw temperatures in the conterminous 48 states (CONUS) as measured by NOAA’s USCHN.…
Perhaps the dumbest article title ever: “The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years”… AEUHHH???
Guest “you can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton The sad thing is that this was apparently written by two geoscience professors. The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million…
The Guardian: Tax Meat to Hit Paris Agreement Climate Targets
According to The Guardian, meat intake in rich countries must be cut, to help the world keep global warming under 1.5C.
IDMC: International Climate Refugees are a Myth
IDMC, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, thinks there are lots of climate refugees, but they mainly stay at home.
WHO Presses for More Action on Climate Change
In the midst of an ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, with many nations struggling with their response, the WHO has decided to focus their efforts on combatting climate change.
Western & Southern Hudson Bay polar bears experience earliest freeze-up in decades
This is shaping up to be one of the shortest ice-free seasons in at least 20 years for both Western and Southern Hudson Bay polar bears.
Global Cooling will kill us all!
By Andy May As Angus McFarlane shows in a 2018 well researched wattsupwiththat.com web post (McFarlane, 2018), some 65% of the peer-reviewed climate papers, that offered an opinion, published between…
Iranian Militia Covid-19 Lockdown: “Burn US Flags at Home”
Iran has cancelled their annual march to commemorate the Iranian Hostage Crisis over fears large public gatherings could worsen their raging Covid outbreak.
The Guardian: A Biden Presidency would Crack Down on Climate “Cheats”
The Guardian fantasising how Biden might use the USA’s economic might to bully other nations on climate policy.
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