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…
Year: 2021
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…
Sleepwalking to Green Austerity
Basically, if you wish for net zero then you need to be very, very careful what you wish for. We may all end up sleepwalking to Green Austerity.
Learning About The AMO
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I must admit to being greatly bemused by Michael Mann’s new (and sadly, paywalled) opus magnum about the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), sometimes called Atlantic…
Brazil Demands US “Investment” to Support the Biden Climate Agenda
The bidding war begins; Brazil, whose government once described climate action as a “Marxist Conspiracy”, is happy to stop chopping down the Amazon if they get a share of Biden’s…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #445
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” Historian Daniel Boorstin
Mind over Math: Throwing Out the Numbers
See what one might gain by looking at a data set from a new perspective which allows us to throw out the numbers and by doing so, arrive at a…
SEC Climate Task Force Tip #1: Delta Airlines’ false and misleading claim about carbon offsets
Is it truthful to claim that carbon offsets are “a viable, proven and immediate way to make an impact today”?
Who Ate the Green Plate?
I’m so proud of the 360 underwater photographs taken along 36 transects that were laid in four different habitat types: at the reef front, in the back lagoon, at the…
Canceling the AMO
Wow. In one fell swoop, the pesky problems of the ‘grand hiatus’ in the mid 20th century, debates over the attribution of 20th century warming and the role of multidecadal…
How many km2 of solar panels in Spain and how much battery backup would it take to power Germany
Unless the safety, space, environmental, raw material, and energy considerations can be overcome, PV-Spain is a poor choice for solving Germany’s, Europe’s, or the global power dilemma. Alone the material…
Bottling the world’s coldest plasma
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion power RICE UNIVERSITY Research News HOUSTON – (March 1, 2021) – Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the…
Biden’s actions are encouraging supply chain dependencies from foreign sources
President Biden is finally beginning to recognize national security concerns to the American economy by depending on foreign supplies for oil and for the greening of America By Ronald Stein Ambassador…
No Mention Of CO2: New Study Shows African Climate Variability Strongly Linked To Natural Cycles
A new study analyzes patterns of natural rainfall variability and can provide crucial assistance to African countries in seasonal rainfall forecasting for agriculture and protection against droughts & heavy rains.
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