Saturday, December 16, 2023

Read: Climate Bookshelf 2023

By Dr. Judith Curry

2023 was a banner year for the publication of interesting climate-related books. Some excellent books for Xmas stockings, providing scientific insights, policy sanity and optimism for the 21st century.

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Monday, November 27, 2023

Read: Will Reducing Parking Save the Planet?

By Randal O'Toole

Will Reducing Parking Save the Planet?
"As stated previously, I can’t take climate change seriously as long as people keep putting forward their wacko ideas that they had long before climate was an issue as “the solution.” The latest example is a claim that ending minimum parking requirements is “one solution to fight climate change.” I think the proponents of this idea are just totally confused."

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 11-16-2023

Monday, November 6, 2023

Read: Hansen’s latest overheated global warming claims are based on bad science

By Nicholas Lewis

Hansen’s latest overheated global warming claims are based on bad science
I do not consider that Hansen’s climate sensitivity estimation properly assesses and fairly reflects all the available relevant evidence. Unfortunately, unlike Sherwood et al.(2020), IPCC AR6 and Lewis (2023), Hansen et. al. (2023) estimates ECS using only paleoclimate proxy-derived evidence, which generally varies considerably according to the proxies involved and to the methods used to interpret them. This opens the door for biased (cherry picked) assessments. For instance, Hansen et. al. do not even mention any studies (e.g. Annan and Hargreaves (2013) and (2022)) that find a much lower LGM – preindustrial warming than their chosen value.

Although I respect Hansen’s ability and considerable scientific contributions, in my view papers he leads are increasingly strongly biased towards overheated projections and dire conclusions.[19] The “political recommendations” with great impact on the society in Hansen et al. (2023) cannot be justified because their foundation is very shaky, as shown here for climate sensitivity and, in relation to warming-in-the-pipeline and ocean heating, in Michael Mann’s critique.

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 10-25-2023

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 10-14-2023

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Read: Are EVs a fire danger?

Dr. Michael Wielicki

Are EVs a fire danger?
Recent fire in UK airport parking lot highlights thermal runaway fire potential of EVs.

On October 11, 2023, around 9:00 PM local time, Luton Airport's new parking garage experienced a fire. The blaze rapidly moved through the facility, leading to a partial structural collapse. Consequently, the airport halted all flight operations until at least 3:00 PM the following day, with firefighters actively combating the fire.

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 10-10-2023

Monday, October 9, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 10-9-2023

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 10-5-2023

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Read: Wind Blows by Robert Bryce

By Robert Bryce

Wind Blows
Excellent news for ratepayers, birds, bats, landscapes, and whales as offshore and onshore wind projects get scuttled

The only thing dumber than onshore wind energy is offshore wind energy. The good news for ratepayers, taxpayers, birds, bats, landscapes, viewsheds, and the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, is that both sectors are getting hammered by market forces that make their projects uneconomic.

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A final note: Ford Motor Company has big problems in its EV business. This week, the company canceled stock orders for its Lightning EV pickup due to the need to perform “additional quality checks.” The company had planned to make the EV trucks at an annualized run rate of 150,000 units. That won’t happen. The company will report its third-quarter EV sales in the next few days. Expect more huge losses.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 10-3-2023

Monday, October 2, 2023

Read: The dangerous delusion of a global transition to “just electricity”

By Ronald Stein

The dangerous delusion of a global transition to “just electricity”

Occasional electricity from renewables cannot run modern civilizations’ households, businesses, hospitals, militaries, space programs, jets, and cruise ships, and no products and fuels are now based on crude oil!

The silence is deafening from billionaires like Bill Gates, John Kerry,Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, President Biden, and the media that continues to refrain from asking a John Stossel-styled “give-me-a-break” question: Can you imagine our world without jets, airports, merchant ships, cruise liners, militaries, hospitals, social media communications, space programs, and toilets?

Michael Mann Scam Update 10-2-2023

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 10-1-2023

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Read: Catastrophizing every weather event is the new normal of climate alarmists

By Dr. Matthew Wielicki

Catastrophizing every weather event is the new normal of climate alarmists.
The 7 inches of rain that fell in NYC is not evidence of climate change... nor was the 8 inches that fell in 1882 at ~290ppm of atmospheric CO2.

"In summary, the constant catastrophizing of completely natural weather events is a tool used by climate alarmists to instill irrational fear in the public. The fact is that the 7 inches of rain that fell in NYC in September of 2023 is not evidence of climate change… nor was the 8 inches that fell in 1882."

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Friday, September 15, 2023

Read: West Texas city becomes dumping ground for discarded wind turbine blades

West Texas city becomes dumping ground for discarded wind turbine blades
West Texas city becomes dumping ground for used wind turbine blades

Sana Ameer, Staff writer, San Antonio Express-News
Sep. 15, 2023

A West Texas town has become a dumping spot for thousands of old wind turbine blades.

It started in 2017 when a stack of blades was placed in the town of Sweetwater, about 45 minutes from Abilene. Each blade is 150 to 200 feet long — longer than the wing of a Southwest Airlines jetliner — cut into thirds and stacked haphazardly on top of and next to its counterparts.


Six years later, the still-growing stacks of blades cover more than 30 acres on the west side of town. Another wind turbine graveyard south of town takes up about 10 more acres.

Washington state-based Global Fiberglass Solutions is behind the situation. It’s been buying old turbine blades from energy companies and depositing 80% of them in Sweetwater. The industrial waste recycling company was founded in 2009 to address what it said was a lack of sustainable alternatives for nondegradable fiberglass.

“Together with Composite Material & Engineering Center at Washington State University, we developed patented process for recycling fiberglass composites,” the company says on its website.

It has said it hopes to shred the blades and use the materials in other industries from railroads to flooring. But it has reportedly struggled to secure funding to buy the equipment needed to do that, resulting in the piles of blades lying idle in West Texas.

Residents of Sweetwater, a city of nearly 11,000 people in Nolan County, say the stacks of blades pose a threat to children playing nearby and those bold enough to explore the makeshift maze. Stagnant pools of water inside the blades provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes, they say, and rattlesnakes find comfort under the shadows the tall piles cast.

Outsiders could argue the wind turbine blade is one of the unofficial symbols of Sweetwater, because the surrounding county produces more wind energy than almost anywhere else on the planet. Since the late 1990s, the town’s wind energy industry has fueled the local economy with turbine-related jobs and a boom for landowners whose properties host them. Even the welcome sign greeting drivers into the town is printed on a wind turbine blade.

As environmentally friendly wind energy is, decommissioned wind turbine blades are not. Burning a wind turbine blade emits pollutants. A diamond-encrusted industrial saw is allegedly needed to cut through the fiberglass that makes up a wind turbine blade. If left alone, the blade’s fiber-enforced plastic will never break down.

Originally published here:
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/sweetwater-west-texas-used-wind-turbine-blades-18368919.php

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Read: Meteorologists, Scientists Explain Why There Is ‘No Climate Emergency’

By Katie Spence

Meteorologists, Scientists Explain Why There Is ‘No Climate Emergency’
Flawed modeling and overblown rhetoric drowning out scientific reality for the sake of money and power, climate experts say
There's no climate emergency. And the alarmist messaging pushed by global elites is purely political. That's what 1,609 scientists and informed professionals stated when they signed the Global Climate Intelligence Group's "World Climate Declaration."

"Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific," the declaration begins. "Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures."

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Ronald Reagan: “We want to protect and conserve the land"


“We want to protect and conserve the land on which we live…This is what we leave to our children. And our great moral responsibility is to leave it to them either as we found it or better than we found it.” - President Ronald Reagan

Read: Mandating EVs while discouraging mining is a recipe for disaster

By Joel Kotkin

The current policy is devastating our economy, enriching our enemies and making middle-class life less affordable

Friday, September 8, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 9-8-2023

Saturday, September 2, 2023

Conversation with a Green Leftist

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Download Free Report by Willie Soon, William Briggs, Patrick Moore et al.

Please download this free report compiled by many credible scientists to rebuke the climate alarmists, including:

Willie Soon, Ronan Connolly, Michael Connolly, Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Sallie Baliunas, Johan Berglund, Antonio Bianchini, William M. Briggs, C. J. Butler, Rodolfo Gustavo Cionco, Marcel Crok, Ana G. Elias, Valery M. Fedorov, François Gervais, Hermann Harde, Gregory W. Henry, Douglas V. Hoyt, Ole Humlum, David R. Legates, Anthony R. Lupo, Shigenori Maruyama, Patrick Moore, Maxim Ogurtsov, Coilín ÓhAiseadha, Marcos J. Oliveira, Seok-Soon Park, Shican Qiu, Gerré Quinn, Nicola Scafetta, Jan-Erik Solheim, Jim Steele, László Szarka, Hiroshi L. Tanaka, Mitchell K. Taylor, Fritz Vahrenholt,Víctor M. Velasco Herrera, and Weijia Zhang.

The report is free to download and does not require a sign-in, every download helps, so please download it today. The Climate Left is really unhappy about this report.

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 8-29-2023

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Michael Mann Disgrace Update 8-26-2023

Friday, August 25, 2023

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Michael Mann Disgrace Update 8-24-2023

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Michael Mann Disgrace Update 8-19-2023

 



 

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Good Read: The Power Of Power Density

By Robert Bruce

The Power Of Power Density
Paul Krugman hypes renewables in the New York Times, but the Iron Law of Power Density won’t be repealed

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Good Read: Unsold Electric Cars May Be Signaling a Death Spiral for the Auto Industry

By Ronald Stein, P.E.

Unsold Electric Cars May Be Signaling a Death Spiral for the Auto Industry
Endless government subsidies to encourage EV sales seems unable to sway the logical thinking and the numerous concerns of the average citizens to buy into EV’s

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 7-25-2023

Friday, July 21, 2023

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Good Read: Carbon Myopia by Robert Bryce

Carbon Myopia
On a planet where more than 3 billion people are living in energy poverty, America’s CO2 emissions are fading in importance
By Robert Bryce

Saturday, June 24, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 6-24-2023

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 6-22-2023

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Friday, June 16, 2023

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Michael Mann Disgrace Update 6-15-2023

Friday, June 9, 2023

Michael Mann Disgrace Update 6-9-2023

Monday, June 5, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 6-5-2023

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 5-27-2023

Friday, April 21, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 4-21-2023

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 4-18-2023

Monday, April 17, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 4-17-2023


 

Saturday, April 8, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 4-8-2023

Friday, April 7, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 4-7-2023

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 4-6-2023

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 2-22-2023

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 2-14-2023

Monday, February 13, 2023

Brian Gitt: What the EV Super Bowl Ads Hid from Viewers

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 2-8-2023

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 2-7-2023

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Michael Mann Disgrace Update 1-31-2023

Monday, January 16, 2023

Steve Milloy Gets Censored on Global Cooling Facts, Elon Musk Comments

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Michael Mann Scam Update 1-11-2023

Monday, January 9, 2023

Earth’s Ozone Layer Recovers as Airborne Chemicals Decline

Image from Wall Street Journal Instagram Account - Jan, 9, 2023



By Eric Niller

Earth’s Ozone Layer Recovers as Airborne Chemicals Decline
U.N. finds thickening in atmospheric region, helping protect humans and slowing climate change

From the Wall Street Journal Instagram post description:
Airborne chemicals that destroy ozone are now declining for the first time, helping to repair the atmospheric layer that protects humans from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays, according to a new report by a U.N.-backed panel of scientists.⁠

In a report released Monday by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization, researchers found a significant thickening of the ozone layer, a region of the atmosphere from 9 to 18 miles high that absorbs ultraviolet rays (UV) and prevents them from reaching the Earth’s surface.⁠

This layer has been fragile for decades as the result of chemicals used as refrigerants and propellants that destroy ozone, a compound made of three oxygen molecules. When these long-lasting chemicals mix with cold temperatures and meteorological conditions above Antarctica, the reaction creates an ozone hole over the region each spring that varies in size and depth each year.⁠

The thickening of the ozone layer means more protection for humans and other life.⁠

Excess UV rays can lead to skin cancer, cataracts and impaired immune-system function, according to health studies, while damaging the growth of crops and ocean phytoplankton.⁠

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Michael Mann Disgrace Update 1-5-2023