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Author: Charles Rotter
A Tenth of a Degree of Separation. AP Turns 0.1°C in 2100 into the Amazon, Greenland and $1.2 Trillion
The tenth in this story will never face a thermometer anyway. It is the gap between two model projections of 2100, one with an American promise and one without. Only…
It’s Still the Economy Stupid. Pew Finds Climate Policy Splits Voters by 51 Points as Energy Price Worries Hit 74%
How much more on the monthly electric bill would these voters accept for faster emissions cuts?
Neso Officials Said the Grid is Safe. Neso Engineers…Not So Much
Control room staff said Neso should not have claimed the system was “not at risk” on June 23, given that “the system was consistently in breach of operational limits for…
Fire Down Below. Latest State of Wildfires Report Finds Global Burned Area 18% Below Average
If the fire models could not reproduce the decline in 2017, how much weight do their end-of-century projections carry now?
Seoul Power. A $200 Billion Korea Deal Puts Eight Reactors on the U.S. Table
The authors call the relationship between the American and Korean builders “previously convoluted and obscure” and say it remains uncertain. The rest of the package is not settled either. Seoul…
Is Climate Science Politicized? An Exchange
My points were never directly answered by the self-anointed authority. If I had made the same case in a journal article, providing a link, what would Cooper have said? My…
What We’ve Got Here Is Failure to Air Condition. Futurism Blames Climate Change for Hot Prisons
Afternoons that haven’t warmed and nights that have is the pattern you get from development around the thermometers, more than from anything happening to the sun or the sky.
Believe It or Not. NASA Study Finds the Arctic Melt Season Stopped Lengthening in 2010
If less cloud under a positive Arctic Dipole drove the 2000s lengthening, where does anthropogenic forcing enter the calculation? Why is the 2010–2023 stall internal variability while the 2000–2009 jump…
Feds defy Supreme Court ban on labeling every puddle a ‘protected wetland’
“The Clean Water Act gives the Army Corps of Engineers limited authority to regulate navigable waters — not total control over every drainage ditch and damp parcel of land in…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #710
“[W]e compare the result of [a theory’s] computation to nature, … compare it directly with observations, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong. In…
Seattle Times Story on Skagit Flooding and Global Warming is Clearly Wrong
The Seattle Times Climate Lab runs a story claiming global warming will create a dangerous situation. A story that is factually incorrect or grossly exaggerated. And it happened again yesterday…
WE DID IT!–For the first time since 1914 there have been no North Atlantic hurricane formations by September 21st!
For the first time since 1914, there have been no North Atlantic hurricane formations by September 21st.
Why ‘Feel Good’ Climate Activism?
Biggers asked the question, “How did I get here?” The clues to answering her question lie in her own description of the emotional machinations of her time in the climate…