Amid a mild warming over the past century, record lobster hauls have been recorded in the last 10 years even as the number of licensed lobstermen has fallen significantly.
Month: August 2024
UN Urges Western Nations to phase Out Fossil Fuel
UN Secretary General António Gutteres is doubling down on his shrill climate demands, as he approaches the final stretch of his zero achievement term of office.
Why Is Cheap Wind Power So Expensive?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@weschenbach on eX-Twitter) Back on March 29, 2021, the Biden White House took on the following goals: Hmmm, sez I, seems a mite ambitious. Current…
Record Setting Crops Are Good News, Bloomberg, Thanks for Reporting It
Compared with a decade ago, the world will harvest in 2024-25 about 10% more wheat, about 15% more corn, nearly 30% more soybeans, and about 10% more rice. Except for…
Party Over for Alarmists as Sea Temperatures Plunge Around the World
Surface ocean temperatures are plunging rapidly around the world with scientists reported to be puzzled at the speed of the recent decline. Less puzzlement was to be found when the…
Yet More Reasons Why Green Hydrogen Is Going Nowhere
The gist of the paper is that the existing natural gas infrastructure of storage facilities, pipelines and power plants absolutely cannot be repurposed for use by hydrogen; and indeed, there…
Jane Goodall on the Futile Climate Crusade
But taken together, the problems of wind, solar, and batteries are substantial and call for a mid-course correction from look-the-other-way, mention-and-run, wish-and-hope Big Green. Jane Goodall, just as James Hansen,…
Maine’s mysterious floating wind research
It has some mysterious features that are worth pondering. There may even be a many billion-dollar trick here. We consider that at the end, after briefly explaining the mysteries.
German State Broadcaster Funds Fantasy Murder of “Climate Deniers”
The German State promoting the dehumanisation and fantasy murder of a group of people. What could possibly go wrong?
AI-Model Collapse
AI LLMs can and do return not only incorrect, non-factual information, but entirely “made up” information, images, and even citations to non-existent journal articles, should shatter any illusion you might…
Climate Emergency? But The Council Workers Need Paying!
Money set aside for restoring nature is to be diverted into funding wage settlements in Scotland’s local authorities.
The modern rate of sea level rise is not even close veering outside the range of natural variability.
A new study reminds us that, 8200 years ago, near-global sea levels rose 6.5 meters in a span of just 140 years. This is 470 centimeters per century, 4.7 centimeters…
Newsom Blames Oil Companies for Gas Prices, His Own Energy Czar Disagrees
“How many times have we found gouging and collusion? Anybody?”
Extension of the linear carbon sink model – temperature matters
The relation between CO2 Emission and resulting concentration of the last 65 years can be best understood with a simple top-down model, where the net sink effect, which is the difference…
China Poised To Cut Off US Military From Key Mineral As America’s Own Reserves Lay Buried Under Red Tape
The uncertainty from permitting and litigation compounds the challenge of reaching production in what’s often a volatile and uncertain market environment for these commodities,
Saving Lives from Extreme Heat Requires Reducing Urban Heat Island Effects Not CO2!
Urban Heat Islands are centers for the most heat related deaths. The battle to save lives from unnatural extreme heat requires reducing urban heat island effects. Reducing CO2 is irrelevant!
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #609
“Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire
Looming ‘clean’ energy disasters off our coasts
One broken wind turbine blade shut down Massachusetts beaches. What would hurricanes do?
BONNER COHEN: Inflation Reduction Act Is Taking America Down The Road To Ruin
Contrary to its label, the law had nothing to do with reducing inflation. In fact, it would soon drive-up prices for such essentials as food, electricity and transportation.
Power Demand Is Soaring. We Need Every Tool Available to Meet It.
U.S. electricity demand is going to double by 2050 and meeting that soaring demand is going to require the equivalent of building 300 Hoover Dams.
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