By Andy May The financial risk is too great. Updated post (2/21/2017) In any discussion of the future of energy, nuclear power generation is brought up. Once a nuclear power…
Author: Andy May
Oil – Will we run out?
By Andy May “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” (old Danish proverb, sometimes attributed to Niels Bohr or Yogi Berra) In November, 2016 the USGS (United States Geological…
Energy and Society from now until 2040
By Andy May ExxonMobil released its 2017 Outlook for Energy, A View to 2040 in mid-December. David Middleton has written that the report reveals wind and solar will supply a…
At the length truth will out
By Andy May Some will recognize the title as part of a line by Launcelot Gobbo in Act II, scene 2 of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. In plainer and…
Global Cooling and Wikipedia Fake News
By Andy May There is an excellent new post up at notrickszone.com on the global cooling scare of the 1970’s and the efforts to erase it from the record by…
Detection and Attribution of Man-made Climate Change
By Andy May Chapter 10 of the 2013 IPCC Working Group 1 Assessment Report (WG1 AR5) report on climate change deals with how man-made climate change is detected and how…
A Summary of Meehl, et al., 2016 and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
By Andy May In a comment to my earlier post on ocean cycles, Nick Stokes challenged my interpretation of a quote from the new Nature Climate Change paper by Meehl,…
Ocean cycles, The Pause and Global Warming
By Andy May h/t Joachim Seifert There is a new post by Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, translated by Pierre Gosselin, on the effect of ocean cycles on…
CO2, Good or Bad?
Guest essay by Andy May This version corrects an error in the average concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere. The Earth’s dry atmosphere is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and…
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