Wind Energy in Scotland

Guest post by David Redfern, aka HotScot I was invited by Charles the Moderator to write an essay with the emphasis on Scottish wind derived electricity. I’m not a scientist,…

COVID-19: Understanding the Numbers #coronavirus

Guest post by Neil Lock As those acquainted with me will know, long ago I was trained as a mathematician. I’ve forgotten most of the specifics I learned. But I’ve…

Some Random Quantum Thoughts

Guest post by Rud Istvan This guest post was inspired by a long delayed lunch (by Covid-19, with our first two traditional restaurants found still closed for lunch by Wuhan…

Could entomophagy end U.S. and African protein shortages?

Would we even want it to do so? A modest proposal, inspired by Jonathon Swift.  Paul Driessen         Nearly two centuries ago, amid a fungal infestation that destroyed Irish potato…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #413

Quote of the Week: “I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that…

California Continues to Inflict More Costs onto the Energy Used by Residents

Rather than reducing demand, the state imposes more costs on the supply By Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided on May…

The Green New Deal dress rehearsal

The Covid-19 lockdown as a blueprint for a permanent economic shutdown to ‘save the Earth’ Paul Driessen More than 1.4 million cases of Wuhan Coronavirus and 106,000 deaths in the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #411

Quote of the Week: “’It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of the…

Judge finds fact-faking Facebook “fact-check” false

By Christopher Monckton Die Welt reports that The Regional Court of Appeal in Karlsruhe has ruled against a fact-faking “fact-check” on Facebook. Last September Tichys Einblick (Tichy’s Insight), a centre-Right…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #410

Quote of the Week: “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” – Voltaire Number of the Week: 25 to 100 times greater THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala,…

Prioritizing climate over pandemics

We need a full accounting of what was spent preparing for the ‘climate crisis’ versus COVID Paul Driessen As of May 20, the United States had more than 1.5 million…

The Looming Failure of Wind Energy

Guest post by Mike O’Ceirin Summary  This is not about “Climate Change.” It addresses the issue of whether wind as implemented is an effective replacement for fossil driven power stations.…

The Global CO2 lockdown problem

Guest post by Geoff Sherrington The global problem. In response to the threat of a global viral epidemic, countries announced lockdowns at various times near 25th March 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_lockdowns This…

The real climate science deniers

Manmade climate crisis promoters reject inconvenient evidence of natural climate change Paul Driessen Fifty years ago, I helped organize Earth Day #1 programs on my college campus, calling attention to…

On The New Gemini Solar Power Plant Near Las Vegas

Arvid Pasto, Sparks, NV May 2020 In the May 12th edition of the Reno Gazette-Journal (RGJ), there appeared a description of a newly-approved (by the U.S. Government) solar power facility,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #409

Quote of the Week: “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers,…

Death and disease from climate-sensitive diseases and events are small relative to those from all causes, and getting smaller

Indur M. Goklany Between 1990 and 2017, the cumulative age-standardized death rate (ASDRs) from climate-sensitive diseases and events (CSDEs) dropped from 8.1% of the all-cause ASDR to 5.5%, while the…

Downward Virus Flux in Earth’s Atmosphere Is Over Three Billion Viruses Per Square Meter Per Day

By Robert Kernodle Figure 1. NASA satellite image showing the two most frequent meteorological scenarios where huge quantities of viruses and bacteria are deposited in the high mountains of Sierra…

Novel #Coronavirus and Climate Change: A Tale of Two Hysterias

Reposted from Forbes [Note: I received an email from the author that he had sent an earlier version and I’m replacing it with the proper version. 5/14/20 8:15 PM Pacific…

Wuhan Virus Vaccines

By Rud Istvan Since respected ‘experts’ like Dr. Fauci are saying there is no return to normal until an effective vaccine is widely available, I thought I would use my…

An influenza test for whether lockdowns work

By Chris Gillham As one of the audit team for Jo Nova’s blog, I have been looking at the question of whether lockdowns work and their potential suppression of communicable…

A miraculous turn of events

Michael Moore and Driessen agree! Wind, solar and biofuel energy are devastating Planet Earth Guest post by Paul Driessen Never in my wildest dreams did I envision a day when…

Frigid Friday (and Sat.) On The Way

Guest post by Paul Dorian, ***A remarkable cold air outbreak on the way for Friday night and Saturday…powerful winds to 50 mph or so will accompany the cold blast…rain-changing-to-snow scenario…

Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns

By Andrew Glen, Ph.D. and James D. Agresti Medical studies show that excessive stress and anxiety are among the most debilitating and deadly of all health hazards in the world.…