whether the amounts of desert particulates will increase, decrease or remain relatively flat is unknown.
Month: January 2023
The Climate Feedback Debate
Unless somebody has a better explanation, it seems likely that the IPCC needed to keep the 3.0°C ECS for political reasons and simply altered the various feedback parameters to suit.
Hookers and Private Jets – Meet the Green Davos Climate Saviours
Apparently some of the hookers are dressing down, so they can accompany executives and politicians without attracting too much attention.
They Touched Greta! Climate Activists Vow Huge Street Protests
In the wake of Greta being forcibly removed from a coal mine expansion protest in Germany, young activists have vowed to protest in the streets “in huge numbers”.
Parliamentary Inquiry – UK Green Jobs Narrative Unravelling
Politicians have moved to shore up public faith in their green investment / jobs narrative, by launching a parliamentary inquiry into why British electric vehicle manufacturing companies are faltering.
Unsettled: Climate and Science | Dr. Steven Koonin
how policymakers take summaries of summaries from these to justify their green agenda, despite what the reports actually suggest
Wrong, Media and COP-27, Africa Is Not De-Carbonizing, Oil Exploration Is Expanding
African countries appear to be going forward with new oil and gas projects, including pipeline infrastructure, to take advantage of the bounty of natural resources the continent is blessed with.
Urbanization Effects on GHCN Temperature Trends, Part I: The Urbanization Characteristics of the GHCN Stations
I’m convinced that there is spurious warming remaining in the GHCN-based temperature data. The only question is, how much?
British Volt Collapses into Administration
This whole saga is a reminder that you don’t create jobs through government diktat. Promises of hundreds of thousands of green jobs are simply a mirage.
Climate Czar John Kerry: ‘We planet saviors had extraterrestrial influence.’
Form the “holier than thou and ET just had a facepalm” department comes this unmitigated display of the egotistic, pompous, off-the rails climate belief system of John Kerry at the…
Daisy-Chained Uncertainties
What are daisy-chained probabilities? This type of scenario can be stated: “If this, and then this, and then if this then that.” The events have to take place in a…
Climate conundrum: Study finds ants aren’t altering behavior in rising temperatures
“It’s interesting that the worker ants we observed were willing to put themselves in uncomfortable situations while foraging,”
Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie
The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class.
Surprise! Australia’s Green Transition Energy Price Caps are Causing Supply Side Chaos
“… The gas industry is still behaving like a bunch of bullies and effectively looking like they’re withholding supply, …”
Academics and the Grid Part 3: Visionaries and Problem Solvers
How might one seek to turn the economic and reliable grid into a costly, complicated system prone to blackouts? Discarding dependable generators and replacing with asynchronous intermittent technology would be…
“ESG Check in”: More details on the Securities & Exchange Commission’s Activist Role in the “Whole of Government” Push on ESG, “Climate Risk Disclosure”
The sheer volume of senior staff time dedicated to this issue, including canoodling with activists, is troubling.
Why Climate Skepticism Has Not Yet Succeeded
An interesting instance of all four failings was a 2400-word rebuttal directed at me that was published here recently.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #536
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein
The Queen Conch: Endangered Species?
In the Bahamas, citizens can virtually harvest as many mature conch as they wish. And, in actual practice, since juvenile conch have nearly as much meat as fully mature breeding-age…
Do Gas Cook Stoves Cause Asthma?
Gas cooking stoves are blamed for children’s respiratory illnesses, like asthma, widely in the literature. Almost none of the studies actually measure the exposure of the child to the putative…