There are no easy answers to PJM’s capacity crisis. The auction results are so jarring that a good Marxist would celebrate the result as “heightening the contradictions” so that a…
Month: August 2024
“We should have better answers by now”: Broken Climate Models Can’t even Explain the Recent Warm Bump
If climate models can’t even get heat spikes right, what use are they?
Zero Emissions Grid Demonstration Project Follies: No Fraudulent Demonstration Projects Allowed!
… we should accept no claim of achievement of zero emissions electricity from anyone who maintains a continuing connection to a grid with hydrocarbon generation on it. Otherwise, there is…
Western Hudson Bay sea ice breakup for polar bears like the 1980s for 3 of the last 5 yrs
…40% of all tagged bears being offshore is what I would call more than “some.”
Feds must rethink authorizing harassment of whales by offshore wind
The big question is whether unavoidable yet deadly offshore wind harassment is even legal under the MMPA and the Endangered Species Act.
Globe-Trotting Climate Activist Fined 100,000 Euros After Blocking Frankfurt Airport
If NGOs or collection campaigns don’t help out, the climate-blocking criminal could end up in prison as a substitute. How many years would that amount to?
Junk Temperature Measuring Network Means the Met Office Cannot Prove There’s Been a “Dramatic Increase” in Temperature
…it is difficult to see how the Met Office can publish such a statement and keep a straight face.
Phoma destructiva’s 2nd Comment on Pubpeer
By Andy May and Marcel Crok Phoma Destructiva’s full comment is shown indented, as a block quote. To see the original go here. To see the abstract of our paper,…
NSW is Keeping Eraring Coal Plant Open to Prevent Electricity Price Shocks
But the financial model which demonstrates coal is cheaper is a state secret.
This week marks the 55th anniversary of Hurricane Camille…a category 5 storm at landfall and one of the most devastating in US history
Hurricane Camille will always be remembered as one of the most devastating storms in US history and one of only four category 5 hurricanes to strike the US
Go-ahead for £4.3 billion subsea connection project
Another 4 billion down the drain. Still it’s only money, eh!
NY Times Claims Vanilla Is ‘Disappearing’ Due to Climate Change – As Production Doubles
In reality, objective data show vanilla production has doubled since the year 2000 and the current market is saturated with oversupply.
“Green” Hydrogen Subsidies Are 1,900x Larger Than What’s Given To Nuclear
…the hydrogen economy requires scads of electricity (a high quality form of energy) to make a tiny molecule that’s hard to handle, difficult to store, and expensive to use.
Roger Pielke Jr. details ‘The Top Five Climate Science Scandals’: Study claiming no ‘climate crisis’ retracted ‘for not for being wrong…but instead for expressing views that are politically unhelpful’
What matters is what happens when mistakes are made.
Another New Study Finds Rising CO2 Enhances Planetary Greening and Reduces Drought Risk
“…elevated CO2 concentrations not only boosted vegetation growth through the fertilizer effect but also indirectly enhanced water availability [reducing drought risk] by improving water use efficiency.” – Song et al.,…
Energy should play key role in 2024 Pennsylvania (and US) elections
The threat of recurrent blackouts is rising, and we are getting closer than ever to having electricity when it happens to be available, instead of when we need it.
The True Cost of Biden’s Bet on BEVs
Since that initial “investment,” billions and billions more have been poured into what is increasingly a failing effort to convince or cajole auto buyers to switch.
Anthropogenic Global Warming is Political, Not Physical, Science
Meanwhile, greenhouse gas emissions, principally CO2 and methane, have been inexorably increasing, even as thousands of megawatts of renewable energy have been brought on line. And global temperature has been…