Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach I’ve never seen either the Arctic or the Antarctic ice pack. I have, however, commercially fished for roe herring in the Bering Sea, setting purse…
Month: November 2022
Thanks, Wall Street Journal, for Reporting on the Quiet Western Wildfire Season
One of the slowest wildfire seasons in years has come to an end in the West thanks to well-timed rain and cooler temperatures, bringing a reprieve to a region hit…
Artemis I – Flight Day 11: Orion Surpasses Apollo 13 Record Distance from Earth
On day 11 of the Artemis I mission, Orion continues its journey beyond the Moon after entering a distant retrograde orbit Friday, Nov. 25, at 3:52 p.m. CST.
Apollo 13 Views of the Moon in 4K
This video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their perilous…
An Inconvenient Tree: Is Climate Change Driving Worse Floods?
Does evidence of past extreme floods invalidate claims that climate change is making floods worse?
Claim: California’s Carbon Mitigation Efforts May be Thwarted by Climate Change Itself
“We need our forests and other plant-covered areas to provide a ‘natural climate solution’ of removing carbon dioxide from the air, but heat and drought caused by the very problem…
Indur Goklany: “No Empirical Evidence that Anything Bad is Happening B/C of Climate Change”
2007 book: The Improving State of the World: Why We’re Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet
“There’s No Emergency” – Dissident Climatologist Dr Judith Curry on Climate Change
“Earth has survived far bigger insults than what human beings are doing”. An eye-opening interview.
China To Double Coal-Fired Power Plant Capacity…Aims to Avoid European, US Blunders
By the end of 2023, China plans to build new coal-fired power plants with a capacity of at least 165 gigawatts – which is equivalent to more than double of…
Renewable Energy Revolution? Energy Australia Warns of Blackouts and Price Spikes
A string of early fossil fuel generator retirements is endangering the stability of the Aussie grid. But an even worse problem could be looming over the Aussie economy.
Barbados Proposes Rich Countries Provide $1Trillion to Fund Climate Action
Bad timing? As GOP leaders retake control of Congress, Barbados chose now to pitch for more money for climate action.
COP-27: A Window into How the UN Keeps the Poor Poor
The more wealth is transferred, the more need for UN staff and bureaucracy to administer the process. And God forbid that the poor countries should get rich and not need…
Office for Budget Responsibility Reveals the Crippling Cost of Net Zero
In other words, that figure of £573 bn above is probably only a third of the true cost to the public sector. Meanwhile, as already noted, the private sector will…
FREE MONEY: Aussie Governments Desperately Pump Priming their Green Energy Revolution?
What if all the private money they’ve modelled fails to show up?
GOP Vows to Block Climate Reparations
Rep Jim Banks (R-IN) : “… to pay for the weather, bad weather in other countries out of the pocketbooks of hardworking Americans may be the most insane thing I’ve…
UNESCO’s Delphic Oracles
the first diviner to occupy the Delphic Oracle was Gaia, the mother of the gods, a connection that would appeal to those devoted to conservation, or who imagine they are…
Equatorial Rainfall by Hour
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE: Dr. Roy has most graciously apologized over at his blog, and he has my profound thanks. See—told you he’s a good guy.] Sadly, I’m…
Column: Wealthy Californians “Just Stop Oil” campaign – popular in Europe; has anyone asked, say, Bangladesh?
What is the moral framework by which these activists decide “Developing countries cannot be permitted to source the fuel they need, and we are comfortable enforcing this because we say…
From Brexit to NetExit
…Estonia will be by no means the only nation that will not tolerate so gross a series of harms directed at its population.