It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So.” – Attributed to Mark Twain
Month: July 2021
G20 Endorses Global Carbon Pricing
G20 Guest Bankers also spoke of the need to “unlock” pension funds, so they can invest ordinary people’s savings into combatting the climate crisis.
Fish hooked on meth – the consequences of freshwater pollution
We must get to grips with the amount of pharmaceuticals in our waterways. The world is some way from fixing the problems of addiction and illicit drug use. But, at…
Gizmodo goes fuller retard… on the geologic time scale
Guest “You never always go full retard” by David Middleton 7 Epic Epochs of Earth, Ranked […] 1. Pleistocene, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago The very best time on Earth.…
Guardian: Mass Immigration is Easing the Transition to a Climate Friendly Low Birthrate Future
The Guardian thinks immigrants will be happy to take care of the old folk in rich countries who chose not to have kids. Or maybe robots will sort it all…
2020 Global Energy Data Shows Fossil Fuels Completely Dominate World Energy Use
The world’s developing nations completely dominate global energy use and emissions and are unwaveringly committed to future economically driven increased use of fossil fuels for energy growth with resulting future…
Goldilocks planets ‘with a tilt’ may develop more complex life
GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE Research News Planets which are tilted on their axis, like Earth, are more capable of evolving complex life. This finding will help scientists refine the search for more…
Claim: Global evidence links rise in extreme precipitation to human-driven climate change
Understanding how humans influence extreme precipitation is important for interpreting climate events today and for preparing cities and protective infrastructure for the changing world ahead.
Logistics and Costs for Australia to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Dioxide Emissions by 2050
Massive industrial and economic disruption. Unreliable energy. Higher energy prices reducing Australia’s international competitiveness.
New Study Defies Alarmists, Finds “No Notable Changes” Between Present And Future Cyclone Energy
Good news: a warmer, likely tamer climate, is in the future recent science shows. A new study projects no future increase in tropical storm energy.
Sky News Think Bangladesh Never Used To Flood
As any competent journalist should have known, severe flooding in Bangladesh is a common event, something which has always occurred in the majority of years. British Pathe , for instance,…
Claim: Bill Gates Just Gave a Climate Lecture to Billionaires who Arrived by Private Jet
So many private jets, the FAA reportedly had to delay some aircraft to avoid overcrowding the local airspace.
Greta Thunberg: “150 Weeks have Passed” but Leaders are Only Pretending to Act
Greta made woke climate leaders squirm at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Austrian World Summit 2021 – they had to sit there and take it, and applaud and thank her afterwards.
What is good for the climate geese is NOT good for the ganders.
How dare we, in the healthier and wealthier countries, turn our backs on the 11 million kids dying every year in developing countries, and insist that we should limit poor…
Polar bears have begun to come ashore on Western Hudson Bay
So far, the first evidence I’ve seen of a bear ashore in Western Hudson Bay was one photographed near Churchill Manitoba on 28 June (below).
Friday Funny – D-Words Describe Defective Mann
Our resident cartoonist Josh writes: Apparently Michael Mann has a new book out where he describes a whole new slew of climate change ‘D words’, but which sound, as ever,…
FT Suggests a $1543 / Ton Carbon Tax, but the Biden Admin is “Dragging its Feet”
Even funnier, they also suggest the G20 demand that China match this level of carbon austerity.
Consensus Science: Anthropocene Edition
Guest “This would actually be science by voting” by David Middleton In my most recent post addressing the Anthropocene, one commentator became obsessed with the fact that in order for…
The Climate News Cabal Just Can’t Quit
In a video obtained this week by CNN, US Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, said the following in June during a luncheon with GOP women: “I don’t know about…