RICHLAND, Wash.–As part of a marathon research effort to lower the cost of carbon capture, chemists have now demonstrated a method to seize carbon dioxide (CO2) that reduces costs by…
Month: March 2021
BBC: Switching Consumers to Green Energy Tariffs Without Asking Permission Increases Acceptance
The BBC is excited that 80-90% of Swiss consumers are still on green tariffs, four years after power companies adopted expensive green energy as the default choice for consumers.
Climate adaptation follies. Part I: The New Jersey challenge
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on March 7, 2021 by curryja | by Judith Curry New Jersey has a sea level rise problem. How should this be managed? New Jersey’s peninsular…
Israeli Study: Aspirin Helps Protect against Covid-19
Do not take aspirin without consulting your doctor – aspirin use, even in small doses, can have nasty and sometimes fatal side effects. But a recent Israeli study of 10,477…
A Closer Look at What Happened in Texas During the Deep Freeze:
While no statewide records were broken, some of the records that were reported were quite shocking to say the least. The two coldest days were Monday, February 15 and Tuesday,…
In First, Scientists Trace Fastest Solar Particles to Their Roots on the Sun
“Normally, you have to infer this kind of thing – you’d say, ‘look we saw an SEP and a solar flare, and the SEP probably came from the solar flare,’”…
Face masks are a ticking plastic bomb
If not disposed of for recycling, like other plastic wastes, disposable masks can end up in the environment, freshwater systems, and oceans, where weathering can generate a large number of…
Media Amplification of Forister’s Feeble Butterfly Science and Climate Fearmongering
. Of course, in an age where chicken little catastrophes sell, only warming fall temperatures and butterfly extinctions could promote a profitable climate crisis. Worse, the public was misled to…
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) goes full AGU…
Guest “Should I stay or should I go now?” by David Middleton I have been a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) since the summer of 1981… I…
Insatiable demand for cannabis has created a giant carbon footprint
It’s no secret that the United States’ $13 billion cannabis industry is big business. Less obvious to many is the environmental toll this booming business is taking, in the form…
Serendipitous Juno Spacecraft Detections Shatter Ideas About Origin of Zodiacal Light
From NASA Look up to the night sky just before dawn, or after dusk, and you might see a faint column of light extending up from the horizon. That luminous…
The science behind frozen wind turbines – and how to keep them spinning through the winter
Worldwide, nearly 800 gigawatts of wind power have been installed so far, including over 110 gigawatts in the U.S. alone. As the market quickly grows and wind power supplants higher-polluting…
Study: Global Warming is Raising the Tropical Wet Bulb Maximum Temperature
According to a study, for every degree of warming, peak wet bulb temperature in the tropics also rises by a degree, so even a small amount of warming is a…
The battery invented 120 years before its time—OR NOT
So, BBC implicitly suggests we use a battrolyzer to compressively store green ~30% of wind nameplate capacity (its capacity factor) at a battrolyzer efficiency of maybe 65%, netting (0.3*0.65*0.9) ~18%…
Claim: Antarctic Peninsula warming up due to heat in Tasman sea
Heating of the Tasman sea warms up the climate of Antarctic Peninsula via changes in wind patterns, new study by Japanese and Australian scientists shows RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND…
Compensation between cloud feedback + ECS and aerosol-cloud forcing in CMIP6 models
The new open-access paper – the senior author of which, Gabriel Vecchi, is a well known professor of geosciences at Princeton University – provides further evidence that high ECS CMIP6…
EV subsidies, fantasies and realities
Tesla may be synonymous with electric vehicles right now. But within a few years, GM, Volvo and many other manufacturers will be making mostly or only EVs, because they’re emission-free,…
Michael Mann Urges OECD to Reject “Climate Inactivist” Mathias Cormann’s Leadership Bid
Michael Mann and other greens are horrified the new OECD head might be former Aussie minister Mathias Corman, whom they describe as a “climate inactivist”.
The Revolutionary Weather Observers
Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog It is not well known that the founders of the American republic were avid amateur meteorologists, with many of them taking weather observations…
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