Open Thread
Month: September 2024
Is Australia Deferring 2035 Climate Targets Until After the US Election?
Does US taxpayer cash drive the global climate movement?
Debunking the Myth of a Weakening AMOC: How Geomagnetic Field Changes Skewed the Data
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has long been a focal point in climate change discussions, with many researchers and media outlets warning of its potential collapse as a major…
Climate change is already forcing millions of people to migrate – Bill Gates’ Telegraph Says
More Bill Gates funded propaganda:
The ACT College Admissions Test Making Science Section “Optional”
The science portion of the ACT is no longer required. When registering for the test, students will have the option to take the science section, like the writing section. The…
Mysteries Surrounding The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season. CO2 Definitely Not the Driving Factor
Maue suspects various reasons: The eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano or a lot of Saharan dust over the Atlantic. Maue notes that the absence of hurricanes does not completely…
Plastic Police: DC City Gov’t has plastic straw cops to enforce ban! – DC urges public to ‘submit a tip’ if business or org. is ‘in violation’ by using ‘plastic straws and/or stirrers’ or ‘foam’ cups, plates, bowls or plastic bags
DC has 3 full-time straw cops on the beat to enforce the straw ban. And of course a tip line.
Has the Electricity Reality Check Arrived?
Bottom line – we can set goals, but they must be tethered to operational reality to ensure success and reliability are both achieved.
What Junk Nutrition Science Looks Like
Thanks to the New York Times, in an article in the EAT section, we have the news that “those who consumed the most ultraprocessed foods were 11 percent more likely…
No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Destroying Bridges
Apparently, NYT reporter Coral Davenport couldn’t be troubled to seek out the facts. Or perhaps, she just doesn’t know how. This sort of slapdash reporting containing speculative claims rather than…
Live at 1pm Eastern: Debate Prep for Trump on Climate: The Climate Realism Show #126
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will have their first and probably only debate on Tuesday. Climate is likely to come up as a debate topic, after not being emphasized for…
AXIOS: Harris campaign dodges over EV mandate walkback – ‘Axios asked Harris campaign to clarify her position’ but the ‘Harris’ campaign ultimately declined to comment
Harris’ campaign has sent contradictory signals about her position on a mandate for automakers — a key issue in pivotal Midwestern states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, where many…
“The engines can’t take it, captain” – A global Captain Kirk-like plea for more power gets Scotty’s standard line
Some aspects of humanity are just what they are, and we need to run in the same direction to change the direction of the herd. Go ahead and stand in…
Wrong, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Oregonians Are Not Being “Hit Hard” By Climate Change
Hiding or obfuscating the real data, which shows the unalarming truth about modest climate change, is journalistic malfeasance. OPB should quit misleading its audience. The best evidence, in the form…
Degrowth: The Final Solution
Degrowth is about government authoritarianism overriding the natural human impulse to improve. Marcus Feldthus of the Copenhagen Business School needs to reeducate himself about ends and means to at least…
House Republicans Press NOAA Over Data Used to Push Climate Change Narrative
Roger Pielke Jr., a BDD critic and former environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, raised several of these issues in his own correction request submitted to NOAA in January. In…
Energy Modeling as Gambling Addiction
Say you’re at a slot machine … and you pull the lever. The wheels spin and then stop: you see two 7’s and a cherry. If you’re normal, you say,…
“Ed Miliband Is Speaking Nonsense!” | Julia Hartley-Brewer Slams UK’s New Offshore Wind
Britain is in line for nine new offshore wind farms after the Government’s latest renewables auction, but campaigners fear it may still fall short of clean power targets. The nine…
The Department of Interior (Project 2025)
Given the dire adverse national impact of Biden’s war on fossil fuels, no other initiative is as important for the DOI under a conservative President than the restoration of the…