The consensus building process acts to amplify personal biases, and marginalizes disagreement from either a majority opinion or the opinion of the loudest or most motivated person in the room.…
Year: 2021
Covid Madness: People Fleeing a Volcanic Eruption Can’t Board the Rescue Vessels Until Vaccinated
The volcano on the Caribbean Island of St Vincent has erupted. Cruise liners and Ferries are rushing to the scene to evacuate people caught by the eruption – but people…
A song of ice and fiber
This is the first time a distributed acoustic sensing interrogator system had been used to capture data on the seafloor of the Arctic or Antarctic oceans, and the team sees…
NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Sunday
The Mars Helicopter is a high-risk, high-reward technology demonstration. If Ingenuity were to encounter difficulties during its 30-sol (Martian day) mission, it would not impact the science gathering of NASA’s…
RIP Prince Philip, Royal Climate Skeptic
In the age of flamboyant woke British Royals demanding climate sacrifices from commoners while they swan about in private jets, it is easy to overlook that not every royal is…
Exploration of ocean currents beneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’
The ice sheet in West Antarctica accounts for about ten percent of the current rate of sea level rise; but also the ice in West Antarctica holds the most potential…
Clean energy? The world’s demand for copper could be catastrophic for communities and environments
Mining companies cannot pay their way out of biodiversity loss, extreme poverty, and corruption risk. If they don’t engage these big challenges before the copper boom gets underway these impacts…
A Greenhouse Gas Planetary Temperature Formula to Put Nikolov and Zeller’s Pressure Formula in Context
So, in terms of corresponding to underlying physics, I expect my formula is basically nonsense. But, it has at least as much correspondence to the underlying physics as is the…
The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, We Think
The plan is laid out in months of emails between James’s Office and other OAGs with former EPA career attorneys and officials, and even the current Biden EPA climate chief.…
Greta Thunberg Threatens to Boycott the Glasgow COP26 Climate Conference
Greta is incensed that rich countries are prioritising taking care of their own people, instead of sharing their Covid-19 vaccines with poor countries.
“It Takes Lots of Permits to Save the Planet”… WORD!
Guest “Mr. Loyola nailed it!” by David Middleton It Takes Lots of Permits to Save the PlanetEvery new energy project has to go through a convoluted and unpredictable federal approval…
Senator Scott Weiner (D) introduces a bill to financially nail Californians that can least afford the most expensive energy in the nation.
California’s legislature continues to perpetuate the state’s dysfunctional energy polices and continues to do everything possible to further INCREASE the costs for energy for its 40 million residents which does…
Adding It Up
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A comment on my previous post got me to thinking about cumulative sums of a series of numbers. In a “cumulative sum”, we start with…
Cities, Countries, and Economies were built with derivatives from oil, not by electricity
To keep economies, lifestyles, and prosperity continuing their growth among humanity, the world’s focus should be toward the development of clones or generics to the oil derivatives that have made…
NASA’s NICER Finds X-ray Boosts in the Crab Pulsar’s Radio Bursts
“Out of more than 2,800 pulsars cataloged, the Crab pulsar is one of only a few that emit giant radio pulses, which occur sporadically and can be hundreds to thousands…
Germany’s Windexit…Old Wind Turbines Dismantled Without Replacement…Looming “Massive Power Outage”?
For the proponents of green energies, Germany’s retreat is baffling in the least. Veronika Grimm, Energy Transition Commission of the Federal Government is convinced that, contrary to the opinion of…
Claim: Colorado River basin due for more frequent, intense hydroclimate events
In every scenario, the number and magnitude of each type of extreme event increased on average across the Colorado River Basin for the future period compared to the historical period.…
Claim: “Venerating Ancestors”, Public Ritual Nature Appreciation Helps Us Green Our Life Choices
According to sustainability PHD candidate Barbara Jane Davy, public nature veneration rituals and dedicating time to appreciating ancestors help people stick to the climate friendly life choices which deep down…
This was written by a meteorologist?
Guest “I’ve lost track of how many things this guy got wrong” by David Middelton WEATHER Humans are causing climate change: It’s just been proven directly for the first time…
Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet 1992–2016: reconciling results from GRACE gravimetry with ICESat, ERS1/2 and Envisat altimetry
During 1992–2016, the AIS changed from a positive mass balance of over 100 Gt a−1, which was reducing sea-level rise by 0.3 mm a−1, to a state of balance close…
A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics
For decades, physicists have relied on and have been bound by the Standard Model, which successfully explains the results of high-energy particle experiments in places like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.…
La Nina is Collapsing
These rapid changes out of La Nina conditions are good news for California, which has experienced two dry winters in a row, since neutral conditions should bring increased chances of…
Malcolm Turnbull Claims Climate Change Deniers Conspired to “Take Him Out”
On Tuesday WUWT suggested Ex PM Malcolm Turnbull was cynically axed from a climate board by his own side because he is a political liability. Turns out we were wrong…
The Imaginary Climate Crisis: How can we Change the Message? A talk by Richard Lindzen
Reposted from Clintel The Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) in cooperation with CLINTEL hosted a lecture by the world-renowned climate scientist Richard Lindzen. The online lecture was attended by around 200 people…
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