Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #571

It is found that even ·an increase by a factor of 8 in the amount of CO2 , which is highly unlikely in the next several thousand years, will produce…

Dismantling the Royal Society Large-Scale Electricity Storage Report

their vision of 2050 does not quite violate the first law of thermodynamics, but it goes on to break all the basic tenets of sound engineering.

Feeding time for Russian polar bears as shorefast ice returns to Laptev Sea, ice-generator of the Arctic

 Sea ice formation along shorelines attracts fish and seals and that means polar bears which spent the summer onshore will soon eat again after their summer fast.

The Solution to Extreme Weather Issues is not to Reduce GHG Emissions

Ryan Maue checked out the Central Park precipitation data and found that on September 23, 1882 the site measured the highest daily value of 8.28” and that this recent event…

Enraged Portuguese Motorists Clear Climate Roadblock

Portuguese motorists losing patience with climate protestors.

Geoengineering: A Futile Attempt to Fix a Non-Issue and Dangerous as Well

Rather than starve millions through ill-conceived policies, some serious introspection may be needed.

Four NY offshore projects ask for almost 50% price rise

Do we need any further proof that offshore wind is not as cheap as made out?

Marcel Crok Speaks in the Danish Parliament

By Andy May Clintel’s Marcel Crok gave the Keynote Lecture at the Climate Realism conference: The Climate Emergency is Canceled. The conference was in Copenhagen, Denmark in their beautiful Parliament…

ERCOT Readies ‘Retired’ Gas Generation for the 2023/24 Winter Peak

From MasterResource By Ed Ireland “Much of the generation named by ERCOT as qualified under their latest RFP is generation units that were recently retired, many because they could not…

ABC Rejects Police Request for Climate Protest Crime Scene Video

“… if the [Aussie] ABC provided footage to the police it would breach Four Corners journalists’ commitment to keep some activists’ identities anonymous. …”

Can Google Bard AI Lie?

By Jonathan Cohler, Andy May, and Willie Soon Here we ask the question, can AI lie? It seems so. AI (artificial intelligence), is based on neural networks. The theory of…

Watch: Morano on Rebel TV on How the World Economic Forum influences public policy around the world with no oversight

There’s no lobbying rules and regulations, there’s no oversight, there’s no committees, there’s no regulations attributed because these are just private parties at meetings of the World Economic Forum,

Open Thread

International Energy Agency Oil Demand Claims: Their Headlines May Please The Masters, But The Data Usually Says Something Else

…but the fine print about relying on non-existent and/or non-implementable solutions for half the progress is what should be forming the headline.

Update On Offshore Wind Projects Off The Mid-Atlantic and New England

Will any of these wildly uneconomic offshore wind projects actually ever get built? Let’s hope not.

Nothing To Sea Here Folks

In this “Fact Check” video from the Climate Discussion Nexus, Dr. John Robson expands on our Sea Level Check series to rebut claims of dangerous, accelerating, man-made sea level rise…

DATA: THE SUN’S MAGNETIC POLES ARE VANISHING

Measurements by spacecraft and ground-based observatories agree that the sun’s north and south magnetic poles are rapidly weakening. This could lead to a complete reversal of the sun’s global magnetic…

Rock Weathering as a CO₂ Sink Or?: A New Perspective

“A new study led by the University of Oxford has overturned the view that natural rock weathering acts as a CO₂ sink, indicating instead that this can also act as…

ClimateTV LIVE at 1PM ET Global Food Production vs. “Climate Catastrophe”

This week we look at agriculture, which seems to be constantly under attack as either being a contributor to climate change, or will suffer from predicted climate change catastrophic effects.…

The Jupiter Effect: The Hubris of Green Central Planners

Leaders who believe they can command the forces of nature and the global economy with edicts and decrees are bound to face the harsh realities of the world