Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #451

“In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to…

Horror Autopilot Tesla Crash Kills Two, 30,000 Gallons of Water Before Firefighters Gave Up

A horror Tesla crash in Houston involving an auto-pilot Tesla car has claimed two lives. According to firefighters, the high energy batteries kept re-igniting – firefighters attempted to douse the…

Africans reject demands to end fossil fuel use

Africa’s needs are too great to be met solely with expensive, intermittent green energy technologies, its finances too stretched to afford carbon-neutral energy, Moore and Ramachandran emphasize. Keeping Africa poor…

What climate science tells us, what it doesn’t & why it matters

Thus an interesting experiment will be his and other Democrats’ response to a book by Steven Koonin, who was chief scientist of the Obama Energy Department. Mr. Koonin argues not…

Companies announce world’s first CO2-free gas plants

Unlike at a conventional natural gas plant, the energy startup’s technology burns natural gas with pure oxygen, instead of the air, only producing carbon dioxide and water as byproducts. Most…

Deconstructing Wilde and Mulholland’s Analysis of Earth’s Energy Budget

Unfortunately, I expect that it is impossible to say, a priori, what the energy recycling fraction β of an atmosphere will be. I believe it is an emergent property of…

Review of Seim and Olsen paper: “The influence of IR Absorption and Backscatter Radiation from CO2…”

Thus, not only does the calculated irradiance seem in error by about 20% over erroneous use of the Stefan-Boltzmann law, but the known bias of the sensor combined with the…

Al Jazeera Video Exposes the 30 Year Climate Denier Conspiracy

The delicious irony of a non-US big oil connected media organisation presenting US and European oil companies as the bad guys in the climate debate.

Atmospheric Energy Recycling

Yet, a simple model like what I’ve shared here can help illustrate general mechanisms, and clarify some otherwise mystifying phenomenon. These simple models explain things like how back-radiation fluxes can…

The Dawn Of The E-Vehicle Battery Environmental Disaster …Discarded Even Sooner Than Expected

“We would never have imagined the quantities that would accumulate after such a short time,” says Schmidt. His company alone and competitor Duesenfeld, both of which specialize in recycling car…

Rolling Stone: “Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis”

Rolling Stone thinks making the world more habitable for humans will kill us off.

‘Obscene’ windfarm subsidies revealed

We are in the middle of an economic crisis and consumers are hit with astronomical costs for unreliable wind energy. These multi-billion subsidies are not only a massive transfer of…

NASA’s New Horizons Reaches a Rare Space Milestone

New Horizons is just the fifth spacecraft to reach this great distance, following the legendary Voyagers 1 and 2 and their predecessors, Pioneers 10 and 11. It’s almost 5 billion…

Scientific Survey Shows Voters Across the Political Spectrum Are Ideologically Deluded

The survey, commissioned by Just Facts, reveals that the vast bulk of voters have embraced false and harmful dogmas that accord with their political views. This is a typical consequence…

Are our oil and gas pipelines safe during an earthquake?

“It is very admirable indeed that science moves forwards, and we get better theories and find our errors. Yet the ominous concern is that all our current pipelines are at…

David Attenborough Covid Porn Documentary: “We are Intruders”

David Attenborough’s latest docu-series appears to celebrate how Covid has destroyed African safari tourism, and allowing wild animals to infest abandoned human structures, and how the clear air now lets…

US Green Impossibilities

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A couple months ago I wrote a post called “Bright Green Impossibilities“. In it, I showed the impossibility of converting all global energy to zero-CO2-emission…

EIA: U.S. CO2 Emissions Declined 11% in 2020 – No Change in Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Climate change action proponents regularly tell us we have to reduce our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to prevent “climate change”, even to the point of curtailing industry, travel, and food…

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Leaves its Mark on Asteroid Bennu

Where thrusters fired against the surface, substantial mass movement is apparent. Multiple sub-meter boulders were mobilized by the plumes into a campfire ring–like shape — similar to rings of boulders…

Claim: Global Warming is Causing Strawberries to Shrink

According to the Aussie ABC, a 3C rise in nighttime temperatures in Nambour is raising costs for farmers by shrinking the size of strawberries.

Guardian Climate Expose: Big Oil Companies Pay Bonuses to CEOs who Increase Profits

According to The Guardian, oil executives are so focussed on profit they are ignoring the opportunity to make even more money by investing in renewables.

Less than usual ice conditions off Labrador have meant very few polar bear sightings

The ice came early to Labrador in 2019 and continued to be be relatively heavy throughout the spring. There was lighter ice in 2020 but not as late and light…

Media finally notices that the RCP 8.5 climate model is over-hyped science fiction

First, a science fiction preview of DOOM courtesy of the RCP8.5 model: Some sensibility from the WSJ: Climate Media vs. Climate Science The good news is that scientists themselves have…

Finale’ – Peter Ridd vs. James Cook University

Dr. Peter Ridd writes on Facebook: We just got notification that the High Court appeal hearing will be by the Full Court at 10:00am on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 in…