The Biden administration has announced plans to borrow billions of dollars, presumably from China, to finance a green rival to the Chinese Belt and Road initiative, to counter China’s global…
Month: March 2021
DeSmog Blog Founder Opens Up About the “Bad Actors” Impeding Climate Action
De-Smog Blog co-founder James Hoggan seems to think people who oppose climate action are “bad actors”. My question – how is that confrontational approach working out for you, James?
The Latest Subsidisaster Paper
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study out in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences that’s being hyped by phys dot org under the headline Fossil…
African countries deem EU carbon border levy ‘protectionist’
Some African countries consider the EU’s planned carbon border levy to be “protectionist”. That was the upshot of a conference organised by the French government on Tuesday (23 March), which…
NASA Analysis: Earth Is Safe From Asteroid Apophis for 100-Plus Years
Estimated to be about 1,100 feet (340 meters) across, Apophis quickly gained notoriety as an asteroid that could pose a serious threat to Earth when astronomers predicted that it would…
Ten-Hut! Another Crowd Sourcing Request
A few weeks ago we requested constructive criticism and suggestion for a post on EverythingClimate.com. Suggestions have been compiled and will be incorporated. Mike Dubrasich and Nick Stokes gave some…
Russia Urges the World to Consider the Arctic as an Alternative to the Suez Canal
Russia wants nations to take up its offer to smash channels through the Arctic with its nuclear icebreaker fleet, to reduce global shipping dependency on the Suez Canal.
NSW Climate Floods? Greens Now Furiously Opposing Flood Control Efforts
Through causing panic by telling everyone climate change is making floods worse, Michael Mann may have inadvertently triggered the destruction of hundreds of square miles of pristine protected NSW wilderness.
Losing Ones Balance
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach According to NASA, we have the following exciting news about a new study. Direct Observations Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth’s Energy Budget off Balance…
Climate Dynamics: The True Control Knob of Climate Change
by Jim Steele The earth’s energy equilibrium is determined by the balance between incoming solar radiation versus radiative cooling that emits infrared radiation back to space. Water vapor primarily and…
Changes in ocean chemistry show how sea level affects global carbon cycle
“The new type of information we can read from the stable strontium isotopes now allows us to take a close look at the business end of the global carbon cycle,…
We should learn what lessons from Fukushima?
Thus, a decade later, we can contemplate the cumulative lessons learned. Above all, they are that nuclear power is far safer than anyone had thought. Even when dreaded core meltdowns…
New Nose Only Covid Masks
Advocates claim wearing a nose only mask under your regular mask allows you to stay protected when eating at restaurants. But I’m not sure having a contaminated surface just above…
Best Climate Change Temperatures
By Andy May I just gave an informal Zoom talk to a small group on measuring climate change through temperatures. The host, Dave Siegel, recorded it and has posted the…
Climate Grief: “Half the wildlife in Africa has died on my watch.”
Climate scientists want to be “stewards of grief, to hold the hand of society as we enter the unknown space of the climate crisis”.
PAGES 12K: The Ice Age Goeth
Guest “damning with faint praise” by David Middleton Kaufman, Mckay, Routson, et al., 2020 In my previous post, I noted a “funny pattern” in the latest Holocene climate reconstruction (Kaufman,…
Aerosol formation in clouds
“Our experimental setup allows us for the first time to precisely investigate the distribution of organic vapours at the air-water interface under near-environmental conditions,” says Houssni Lamkaddam, a researcher in…
Claim: Direct Observations Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth’s Energy Budget off Balance
The new technique is computationally faster than previous model-based methods, allowing researchers to monitor radiative forcing in almost real time. The method could be used to track how human emissions…
Joe Biden Pledges to Make Solar Panels More Environmentally Toxic
If you thought Arsenic doped Silicon or Gallium Arsenide on your roof was bad, how about solar cells made of organic Lead compounds, or Cadmium Telluride? Biden’s quest for cheaper…
Claim: If 80% of Australians care about climate action, why don’t they vote like it?
Poll after poll suggests a large majority of Australians cares about climate change. Yet in recent federal elections, this hasn’t translated into wins for parties with stronger policy platforms on…
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