Highlights from Marc Morano’s interview with Benji Backer

Marc Morano sat down with Benji Backer to discuss the climate issues of the day. Here are the highlights from that interview.

The Conversation: Reduce Agricultural Chemicals to Save Insects from Climate Change

If you have ever tried to grow a veggie garden, you will know first hand how much heartache a good drenching of bug spray can prevent. But deep greens appear…

Sorry, But Hard Science is Not Done This Way.

The short story: Can we detect a change of CO2 in the air after emission reductions following Covid-19 lockdowns?

“CBS Sunday Morning” Puts all its Eggs in Chicken Little’s ‘Reposition Global Warming as Theory (Not Fact)’ Basket

Attorney General Tong’s assertion of Exxon knowing in 1982 that “as the levels of carbon dioxide rise, the temperature of our atmosphere will rise” is contradicted by Exxon’s own 1982…

UK Energy Bosses Call for Government Assistance for Poor People

Green failure in the midst of plenty: Britain has vast frackable gas reserves which could provide affordable energy for decades to come. But a bipartisan commitment to failed green policies…

A Puppet Slip of the Tongue. Did She Really Just Say That? Hump Day Hilarity

(I generally don’t like to exploit minor slips of the tongue, but it’s Greta, you know …Greta.)

2021 State of The Climate Report: Empirical Observations Show No Sign of ‘Climate Crisis’ – ‘Snow Cover Stable, Sea Ice Levels Recovering, & No Change in Storm Activity’

And while the report finds gentle warming, there is no evidence of dramatic changes, with snow cover stable, sea ice levels recovering, and no change in storm activity.

Wrong, WDSU, Climate Change Is Not Causing an Increase in ‘Dixie Alley’ Tornadoes

Severe tornadoes are decreasing nationally, contrary to alarmist claims, a fact NOAA has recently tried to hide. Climate Realism has covered this several times, including here, here, and here, for example.

Upper Midwest Counties Attempt to Block CCS Pipeline

Guest “NIMBY’ism?” by David Middleton CCS: Carbon (technically CO2) Capture and Sequestration (or Storage) CCUS: CCS+ Utilization NIMBY: Not In My Back Yard NIMBY’ism: Actively opposing something because it’s too…

Follow the Science: But Which Results? Using Same Tree Ring Dataset, 15 Groups Come Up With 15 Different Reconstructions

 the ensemble members demonstrate the influence of subjectivity in the reconstruction process. We therefore recommend the routine use of ensemble reconstruction approaches to provide a more consensual picture of past…

United States Department of…Bloomberg?

Regardless, is Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which so breathlessly touts — as an expert outlet, a “strategic research provider” — the same agenda pushed by the Biden administration — a…

MIT Climate Change Virtue List Topped by EU Nations

Level of dependence on Russian Gas was not a report metric – but if it was a metric, the order of top places would probably have been much the same.

ROC Windfall Profits Hit £923 Million In UK, December 2021

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood I have updated the ROC windfall profit figures, using the most recent available data for December 2021: I have…

Changes In Vegetation Shaped Global Temperatures Over Last 10,000 Years

Warmer temperatures brought plants — and then came even warmer temperatures, according to new model simulations published April 15 in Science Advances.

Systems and the Second Law

These are two ubiquitous Achilles heels: 1) What limitations does the second law of thermodynamics place on it, and 2) what are the other constraints that would limit its usefulness…

Golden Eagles and Industrial Wind: Justice Served (cats, windows not applicable)

ESI further acknowledged that at least 150 bald and golden eagles have died in total since 2012, across 50 of its 154 wind energy facilities. 136 of those deaths have…

Charleston SC’s Junk Climate Change Lawsuit

Guest “I’m embarrassed to admit that Charleston is where my ancestors first settled in the US” by David Middleton Hat tip to Willie Soon… Suing over climate change: Taking fossil…

USA and Canada’s Plan to Silence Independent Media

Prime Minister Trudeau’s follow up to distressing media images of police horses trampling old ladies appears to be a Communist Chinese style social credit system for news reporters, presumably to…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #500

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” – Richard Feynman, conclusion to his report on the Challenger disaste

“Diplomats for Climate Action” Demand Australia Kowtow to the EU

According to a group of diplomats, the EU and USA will punish Australia with carbon sanctions if we don’t play their climate game. But the weak response to Russia suggests…