Is it possible that the Earth’s system is strongly buffered with strong positive ice and dust feedbacks prevailing at colder temperatures, and strong negative convection/evaporation feedbacks prevailing in warmer times?
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Comments On Federal Scientific Integrity
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is quite another to do so when the environmental…
The New Pause lengthens again
You can be quite sure that the unspeakable BBC and the now-unreliable Economist will somehow fail to report the surely not uninteresting fact that there has been no warming in…
UAH Global Temperature Update for July, 2021: +0.20 deg. C
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2021 was +0.20 deg. C, up from the June, 2021 value of -0.01 deg. C.
GHGs, California, and the EPA: a golden braid of off-the-rails
The unavoidable conclusions are that the SAFE Vehicle Rule serves no ameliorative purpose because the EPA CO2 endangerment finding has no scientific merit.
Sow the Wind Turbine, Reap the Wind Turbine Noise
As wind farms proliferate they are bound to invade residential areas and noise sensitive facilities with increasing frequency, making arguments over nuisance and health concerns increasingly acute and acrimonious. Yet,…
“Off Target”: Bad Economics of the Climate Crusade (mitigation not supported by mainstream analysis)
Why is such a temperature change bad? I can walk across the street and not notice the temperature change of the accumulated warming of the last century or more–and that has…
Polar bear habitat update for end July 2021 compared to previous years
I don’t see a looming sea ice catastrophe for 2021, do you see a looming sea ice catastrophe?
A Little Arithmetic: The Costs Of A Solar-Powered Grid Without Fossil Fuel Back-up
At current prices of around $200/KWH the 560 GWH of storage will run around $112 billion, or around half of the annual budget of the state government of California.
Forest Degradation A Major Climatic Warming Driver, Study Finds. CO2-Induced Tree Growth Cools?
“The conclusion is that forest managers therefore have some control in climate change over how much the forests entrusted to them heat up and are potentially damaged as a result.…
The Triumphant March Toward 100% “Renewable” Electricity: Germany and California
So far, they have almost nothing in the way of grid scale energy storage. In the evening, they ramp up the natural gas plants, and import power from Arizona and…
Europe’s Expensive Climate Club And Its Detractors
It is no surprise then that a senior economist at Deutsche Bank, one of Europe’s largest banks, warned that for the EU’s Green Deal to succeed, “a certain degree of eco-dictatorship will…
Net Zero by 2050 is dead in the water. So what’s plan B?
But when the public really finds out what Net Zero means, will they tolerate it? The gilets jaunes protests in France were the most significant public revolt since 1968. They…
New Study Finds East And West Antarctica Have Profoundly Cooled By -2.8°C And -1.68°C Since 1979
From 1979-2018 East Antarctica cooled -0.70°C/decade (-2.8°C), West Antarctica cooled -0.42°C/decade (-1.68°C), but the Antarctic Peninsula warmed 0.18°C/decade (0.72°C). Thus, as a whole, the Antarctic continent has cooled by about…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #464
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words…Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime…
Western Hudson Bay polar bears: still some out on the sea ice, some causing trouble
As of Monday (19 July), more polar bears had come ashore near Churchill and on the shores of Wakusp National Park but some are still out on the bay. The…
Veteran Swiss Meteorologist Calls Germany’s Natural Disaster Protection “A Failed State”
It’s not the first time the seasoned meteorologist has railed against Germany’s ineptitude when it comes to issuing storm warnings. In 2018, he criticized German public television for what he said was…
What is the National Food Strategy and how could it change the way England eats?
Reforming England’s food system could save the country £126 billion, according to a recent government-commissioned report. The National Food Strategy, led by British businessman Henry Dimbleby, proposes a raft of…
G20 fails to agree on climate goals in communique
Clearly China, Russia and India were never going to commit to give a date for phasing out coal power, as they know their economies depend on it. And while ever…
Pielke Jr. On Recent Climate Attribution Claims
I can think of no other area of research where the relaxing of rigor and standards has been encouraged by researchers in order to generate claims more friendly to headlines,…
Evidence of RWP In Florida
The work of experts such as Sylvia Hallam has been ignored in favour of computer models and global warming theory. It is good to see another study that prefers real…
Miscommunication in Recent Climate Attribution Studies
Many of the climate attribution studies are resulting in headlines that are deceptive and result in people coming to incorrect conclusions about the relative roles of global warming and natural…
