The Week That Was: 2024-02-17 (February 17, 2024)
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Quote of the Week: “There’s one function I discover that’s usually lacking in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a form of scientific integrity, a precept of scientific thought that corresponds to a form of utter honesty — a form of leaning over backwards.”– Richard Feynman
Variety of the Week: 63 hours, 45 minutes
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Coverage Mission (SEPP)
Scope: This TWTW focuses on the above quote from Richard Feynman to differentiate between cargo cult [pseudoscience, not realistic to nature] and the integrity and utter honesty wanted for real looking bodily science. Howard Hayden discusses the failure of the IPCC to test its findings towards the Stefan-Boltzmann legislation. A gaggle of scientists, largely from China, current proof that, partly, the warming for the previous thirty-five years might have come from a altering of Earth’s albedo. Ole Humlum presents the state of the local weather till January 2024. The CO2 Coalition presents a local weather report for Wyoming, emphasizing the advantages of accelerating CO2. And Stephen McIntyre presents some evident deficiencies within the IPCC course of resulting in its Evaluation Reviews.
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Examine Your Work: Utilizing the Sixth Evaluation Report (AR6, 2021) of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC), AMO physicist Howard Hayden demonstrates that AR6 is inconsistent with itself and with the Stefan-Boltzmann legislation which specifies the quantity of radiation emitted per unit of time from a particular space of a blackbody. Simply as gentle getting into a cavity by way of a gap is completely absorbed, a blackbody is an idealized bodily physique that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation hitting it.
An ideal absorber can also be an ideal emitter. For instance, a gap in a extremely popular ceramic tube emits seen gentle in a full-color spectrum that’s decided completely by the temperature, not the traits of the chemical substances within the ceramic. The temperatures of stars are decided by their blackbody spectrum. Cooler our bodies, together with things like a block of dry ice, additionally emit a blackbody spectrum. In all circumstances, the quantity of radiant vitality emitted is proportional to the fourth energy of its temperature in Kelvin. The Stefan-Boltzmann legislation is embodied within the operation of thermal cameras and ear thermometers.
But, the authors of AR6 ignore the necessity to test its work towards this elementary legislation of physics and so do the authors of the US Fifth Nationwide Local weather Evaluation (2023). Within the February Power Advocate Hayden writes:
“Generally it’s a good suggestion to seek advice from a reality that everyone can perceive no matter their scientific background. There are infrared thermometers and thermal imaging cameras in the marketplace, they usually should depend on some recognized relationship between temperature and the quantity of IR that our bodies emit. That relationship is, after all, embodied in a mathematical formulation, and even for those who don’t know what the formulation is, you may simply acknowledge that such a formulation exists. It even has a reputation: the Stefan-Boltzmann legislation.
Now, suppose that you simply had been a local weather scientist whose job it’s to mannequin the local weather when the ambiance has extra CO2 due to humanity’s combustion of coal, oil, and pure fuel. Your laptop mannequin predicts some temperature rise for some given state of affairs.
You then publish your outcomes. What did you miss?
The Stefan-Boltzmann (S-B) legislation has a trivial end result for small will increase within the temperature of the earth. For every 1ºC temperature rise, the floor should emit about 5.5 W/m2 extra warmth.
In the event you didn’t apply that Stefan-Boltzmann legislation to your end result, you had been negligent. A science journal refereed or not, that printed the mannequin end result with out that calculation can also be negligent. Suffice it to say that the IPCC has by no means—repeat NEVER—utilized the S-B legislation to their predicted temperatures.
It’s a quite simple matter to append an IR emission scale to each temperature scale, as proven in Determine 1 [Not shown here, see reference in Challenging the Orthodoxy]. Nevertheless, you’ll search in useless for such a scale, because the IPCC—and all of its references—have failed to use the S-B legislation.
But, every thing we learn concerning the ‘local weather disaster’, ‘local weather agreements,’ ‘local weather laws,’ ‘local weather targets,’ ‘preserving the temperature rise under 1.5ºC,’ ‘local weather footprint,’ and so forth is predicated on local weather fashions, not a single one in all which may cross that freshman physics check.” [Boldface added]
The determine reveals IPCC’s modeled temperature improve (referenced to the 1850-1900 interval) from the current to 2100, primarily based on one in all 5 CO2 emission eventualities, this one predicting a complete radiative forcing from CO2, all different greenhouse gases, and adjustments in albedo to be 7.0 watts per sq. meter by circa 2080-2100. Hayden added a scale displaying the rise in IR alongside the temperature scale. IPCC’s predicted temperature rise by the tip of the century is about 3.6ºC. The Stefan-Boltzmann legislation says that the floor should then radiate 20 watts per sq. meter extra. How can a complete radiative forcing of seven watts per sq. meter maintain 20 watts per sq. meter from escaping to house?
Each upward and downward infrared radiation could be measured by pyrgeometers mounted 1.5 to 2 meters (4.5 to six toes) above the bottom. These measurements fluctuate seasonally and by yr. The instance proven by the Japan Meteorological Company at Tsukuba, Japan, the house of Tsukuba Science Metropolis and the headquarters of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company reveals this variation and a modest improve in downward infrared radiation however not an considerable improve in upward infrared radiation indicating a warming.
Hayden has proven a major deficiency within the work of the IPCC and subsequently the work of the 14 US authorities entities that authorised the Fifth Nationwide Local weather Evaluation, together with NOAA, NASA, and the Nationwide Science Basis. See hyperlink beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy and https://www.jma-net.go.jp/kousou/obs_third_div/rad/rad_ir-e.html#:~:textual content=Apercent20pyrgeometerpercent20ispercent20usedpercent20to,highpercent20accuracypercent20regardlesspercent20ofpercent20wavelengths.
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Altering Albedo? As proven by Howard Hayden in his essays on Primary Local weather Physics, calculations of Earth’s planetary warmth steadiness, and, as for all planets, rely upon its albedo, the extent to which cloud cowl and surfaces mirror the depth of daylight. The better the albedo the decrease the absorption of daylight, and the decrease the albedo the upper the absorption of daylight, the hotter the floor. Kenneth Richard brings consideration to a research printed by Distant Sensing of Atmosphere. The research has 23 authors with lead authors from The College of Hong Kong and the Chinese language Academy of Sciences in addition to some Western universities. The paper is titled: “Satellite tv for pc observations reveal a reducing albedo development of world cities over the previous 35 years.” The summary states:
“City floor albedo is a necessary biophysical variable within the floor vitality steadiness throughout all scales, from micro-scale (supplies) to the globe, altering with land covers and three-dimensional constructions over city areas. City albedos are dynamic over house and time however haven’t but been quantified over international scales as a result of lack of high-resolution albedo datasets. Right here, we mixed the direct estimation method and Landsat floor reflectance product to generate a 30-m-resolution annual floor albedo dataset for 3037 giant cities (space > 50 km 2) worldwide for the interval from 1986 to 2020, permitting spatial patterns and long-term temporal tendencies to be explored with attainable causal drivers, and quantification of the floor radiative forcing from these albedo adjustments. Analysis of this new albedo dataset utilizing international city flux tower-based measurements demonstrates its excessive accuracy with an total bias and root-mean-square-error (RMSE) of 0.005 and 0.025, respectively. Evaluation of the dataset reveals an total reducing development of albedo throughout the 35-year analysis 2 interval (1986-2020), which is powerful accounting for uncertainties from coaching pattern representativeness, Landsat information uncertainty, seasonal variation, and snow-cover contamination. Our outcomes reveal that city greening (measured by the optimistic Normalized Distinction Vegetation Index (NDVI) development) can effectively clarify the overall variances within the albedo development for the 35-year interval by way of two totally different pathways of tree planting and concrete warming-enhanced vegetation development. The lower in city albedo triggered a warming impact indicated by optimistic floor radiative forcing, with a worldwide city-level common floor radiative forcing of two.76 W⋅m − 2. These findings improve our understanding of urbanization’s impacts on albedo-related biophysical processes and may present info to quantify city floor radiation vitality and design efficient mitigation methods to cut back city warming.” [Boldface added]
The paper contradicts, no less than partly, the IPCC assumption that the warming over the thirty-five-year interval was attributable to carbon dioxide emissions. Though a lot of the essential scientific work of the IPCC is nice, that is one in all many issues with the ultimate work of the IPCC and its followers. See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy and https://www.sepp.org/science_papers.cfm?whichyear=2022
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State of the Local weather: Ole Humlum is a Danish professor emeritus of Bodily Geography on the College of Oslo now primarily based in archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. His month-to-month abstract of local weather is extra full than NOAA’s State of the Local weather Report, as a result of the NOAA’s politicized stories ignore atmospheric temperature tendencies, probably the most complete international temperature tendencies present. Humlum stories atmospheric tendencies from each the College of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and from Distant Sensing Techniques (RSS). In “Brief Abstract of Observations Till January 2024.” Humlum reported:
“1: Noticed common international air temperature change final 40 years is about +0.18°C per decade. [With January data in UAH increased its change rate to +0.15°C per decade.] If this modification fee stays steady, extra common international air temperature improve by yr 2100 will probably be about +1.3°C. Nevertheless, a part of the obvious temperature improve reported is because of administrative adjustments, and the true future improve might subsequently be smaller.
2: Tide gauges alongside coasts point out a typical international sea degree improve of about 1-2 mm/yr. Coastal sea degree change fee final 100 yr has primarily been steady, however with periodic variations. If change fee stays steady, international sea degree at coasts will sometimes improve 8-16 cm by yr 2100, though many areas in areas affected by glaciation 20,000 years in the past will expertise a relative sea degree drop.
3: Since 2004 the worldwide oceans above 1900 m depth on common have warmed about 0.07°C. The utmost warming (about 0.2°C, 0-100 m depth) primarily impacts oceans close to Equator, the place the incoming photo voltaic radiation is at most.
4: Sources and sinks for CO2 are many. Nevertheless, adjustments in atmospheric CO2 comply with adjustments in international air temperature, and adjustments in international air temperature comply with adjustments in ocean floor temperature.
5: There isn’t a perceptible impact on atmospheric CO2 as a result of COVID-related drop in GHG emissions 2020-2021, demonstrating that pure sinks and sources for atmospheric CO2 far outweigh human contributions. Due to this fact, any future reductions in the usage of fossil fuels are unlikely to have any important impact on the quantity of atmospheric CO2.” See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.
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Wyoming Local weather Report: The CO2 Coalition has ready three state and regional (US) stories on the impact of adjusting local weather: 1) Pennsylvania; 2) Virginia; and three) American Midwest. The CO2 Coalition has now issued one for Wyoming, by far the biggest coal producing state within the US with over 40% of US manufacturing in 2022 and probably the most severely harm by the Web Zero motion. Its governor has claimed there will probably be CO2-driven local weather disasters and has advocated carbon seize know-how to take away CO2 from the ambiance. Apparently, he’s blissfully unaware of the significance of photosynthesis for all advanced life on Earth.
The CO2 Coalition report supplies an in-depth evaluation of the problems and requested for the chance to debate the problems in a impartial location with a impartial moderator. As an alternative, the state Senate heard a presentation from a panel of the CO2 Coalition. Based on stories:
“‘A lot of the world already is aware of this. India, over a billion individuals, they aren’t actually making a single effort to chop again on CO2,’ [William] Happer stated. ‘They’re constructing coal crops as quick as they will. China is doing the identical factor, once more, with practically a billion individuals. [Both China and India have an estimate population of about 1.4 billion.]
‘What the state of Wyoming does received’t make the slightest distinction, and we shouldn’t fear about it anyway,’ Happer stated. ‘China isn’t frightened about it; they know completely effectively this isn’t going to break the planet.’”
The 40-page report concludes:
“The current proposal by Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon to make use of “carbon seize” to realize what he phrases “destructive web zero” (Gordon 2021) is predicated on a flawed concept that rising CO2 within the ambiance is resulting in dangerous results on Wyoming’s setting and its individuals. Inside this report, we’ve got documented that modest warming and rising carbon dioxide are clearly helpful for the Cowboy State’s ecosystems and citizenry.
The info inform us the next:
• Present ranges of carbon dioxide are at or close to traditionally low concentrations.
• Changes to historic temperature data have artificially amplified fashionable warming.
• Wyoming temperatures have elevated a modest 1.2°F (0.7°C) since 1895.
• Warmth waves peaked within the Thirties and have been in slight decline since that interval.
• Nighttime low temperatures have elevated, lengthening rising seasons.
• Precipitation information, whereas various drastically from year-to-year, present no rising or reducing development.
• Droughts aren’t rising in Wyoming.
• Extreme climate and pure disasters are declining.
• Agricultural manufacturing, globally and in Wyoming, is prospering on account of modest warming and extra CO2.
• Vegetation in Wyoming and all over the world is rising.
• Greenhouse-induced warming that will be averted (< 0.003°F) by eliminating Wyoming’s CO2 emissions can be too small to measure and achieved, if in any respect, at huge price.
• Fashions used to challenge future temperatures considerably overpredict the quantity of warming in
coming many years.”
The second appendix to the report is titled “Temperature Changes and Fabrication of Knowledge,” It begins with:
“The temperature information included on this report are from the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) U.S. Historic Climatology Community. There are three points intrinsic to the information which have served to artificially exaggerate warming for over 100-plus years.
• City warmth island impact that raises temperatures
• Changes to measured historic temperatures
• Fabricated information for stations that not exist or are not reporting.”
Then, every of those efforts to magnify warming is mentioned. See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy and Questioning the Orthodoxy.
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Choosing Cherries: With out query the choice in Mann v. Steyn was disappointing and within the view of TWTW, Steyn ought to have engaged a trial legal professional. Similar to England, which acknowledges the distinction between Barristers (trial attorneys) and Solicitors (common practitioners), within the US trial attorneys are a separate specialty with specialised data. Final week, TWTW reported on the professional testimony posted by Judith Curry, who was not referred to as upon to testify. However Stephen McIntyre, who was additionally ready, and who may have offered probably the most devastating professional testimony, was not referred to as upon.
As an professional reviewer of the IPCC report (AR3, 2001), McIntyre tried to get the “different 26.” Jocoby and d’Arrigo who had been a part of the “hockey group” reconstructed North American temperatures from 36 tree ring research however used solely 10 of them thought of most influential, which had been archived. McIntyre spent years looking for out what occurred to the “different 26” and what did they point out? As McIntyre wrote in December:
“We’ve lengthy mentioned the bias imparted by ex submit collection of information relying on whether or not it went up within the twentieth century. Likening such after-the-fact choice to a drug research carried out solely on survivors.
The Jacoby and d’Arrigo 1989 community was a basic instance: the unique article reported that they’d sampled 36 northern treeline websites, from which they chose 10 with the “greatest document…of temperature-influenced tree development”, to which they added a chronology of Gaspe cedars that was far south of the northern treeline at low altitudes.”
Lengthy quote omitted right here. [links in the original are not given here but can be found on the link]
“In 2004 and 2005, I made a decided effort to acquire the measurement information for the 26 websites that weren’t included within the closing calculation. Jacoby refused. I attempted again and again to get this information however was by no means profitable.
Gordon Jacoby died in October 2014. In June 2014, a couple of months previous to his dying, the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory unit of Columbia College (Jacoby’s employer) archived a big assortment of tree ring information collected by Jacoby and associates. By then, it was 25 years for the reason that publication of Jacoby and D’Arrigo 1989 and eight years since publication of D’Arrigo et al 2006.
By then, the paleoclimate neighborhood had “moved on” to the seeming novelties of PAGES2K. Just a few Jacoby and d’Arrigo collection re-appeared in PAGES2K. I wrote a few articles on these new Jacoby and d’Arrigo avatars: on their Central Northwest Territories (Canada) collection in January 2016; and on their Gulf of Alaska collection in February 2016. However the articles attracted little curiosity. Jacoby and D’Arrigo had efficiently stonewalled availability of knowledge till nobody was any extra. Not even me.
Nevertheless, whereas not too long ago refreshing myself on historic MBH98 points, I found one thing attention-grabbing: buried within the dozens of measurement information units within the belated 2014 archive was one of many datasets that Jacoby had withheld again in 2004. (To date, I’ve solely discovered one, however there could also be others.) It was a northwest Alaska dataset collected in 1979 –. What did the withheld information present? Regardless of the passage of time, I used to be .”
McIntyre then discusses Jacoby’s refusal to offer the information and Rosanne D’Arrigo’s basic declare to a NAS panel that “you needed to decide cherries if you wish to make cherry pie.” McIntyre than states:
“D’Arrigo et al (2006) was relied upon by each NAS Panel and IPCC AR4, however, as soon as once more, D’Arrigo refused to offer measurement information – even when politely requested by Gerry North, chair of the NAS Panel.” [Boldface added]
McIntyre presents the measurement information from Sukak Peak, Alaska, in a graph [not shown here] after which writes:
First, the chronology (darkish line) had elevated values within the AD 1100s; its twentieth century values had been unexceptional and declined by way of the twentieth century, with closing values indistinguishable from long-term common. It undoubtedly doesn’t inform the “climatic story” that Jacoby was making an attempt to inform.
“Second, and this can be a shock (or perhaps not), the core counts – proven in stable gentle gray within the above graphic – present that Sukak Peak had 10 cores by AD 1311 and was at 5 cores by AD 1104. In distinction, the whole Jacoby community included into MBH98 had just one core (from Gaspe) previous to AD 1428 and none previous to AD 1404, In different phrases, though this had been withheld by Jacoby, replication at this website was higher than at another Jacoby and D’Arrigo website utilized in MBH98. It was not “decrease high quality” in any goal sense.
Though Sukak Peak information was nonetheless unarchived and unpublished in 2006, it was used within the D’Arrigo et al 2006 NW Alaska Composite dataset, the chronology of which reported excessive late twentieth century values – the other to what’s displayed on this element. The NWNA Alaska Composite additionally included subsets of 4 Twelve, Arrigetch, Sheenjek (none of which present excessive late twentieth century values) and a later dataset from Dalton Freeway which I’m presently unfamiliar with. I’ll check out this dataset in a comply with up submit.
In closing, I had lengthy presumed that information for the “different 26” Jacoby and D’Arrigo northern treeline websites had disappeared eternally. But it surely seems that information for one of many websites was archived in 2014 – 35 years after assortment in 1979, 25 years after publication of Jacoby and D’Arrigo 1989 and a mere 16 years after publication of MBH98.
Plus, one other 9 years earlier than anybody observed that Jacoby’s death-bed archive contained one of many lengthy withheld “different 26” websites. A nice shock, nonetheless. However undoubtedly not a shock to find that the withheld information didn’t have a hockey stick form.” [Boldface added]
That’s the standing of hockey-stick science and IPCC science, Omit that which contradicts your claims. It’s what Feynman referred to as cargo cult science, a pseudoscience with out integrity or utter honesty. See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.
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Deceptive Phrases: Planning engineer Russ Schussler has two posts arguing that the time period “renewable vitality” shouldn’t be utilized in severe discussions or coverage choices. The one factor renewable about wind and photo voltaic is that they return after they fail. Repeated failure shouldn’t be a fascinating attribute for {an electrical} grid serving a contemporary civilization. Failure can’t be predicted effectively upfront. The follow of lumping hydroelectric energy with wind and photo voltaic solely compounds the issues. See hyperlinks beneath Looking for a Widespread Floor.
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Variety of the Week: 63 hours, 45 minutes: California is among the states within the working for bragging rights for probably the most “renewable” vitality. The California ISO (CAISO) manages the move of electrical energy for 80% of California and a small a part of Nevada (elements of northern California, Los Angeles, and the Imperial Valley are served by different authorities). As of January 17, 2023, CAISO had 18,500 MW of put in photo voltaic, 8,100 MW of wind, 1,200 MW of small hydro, 1,600 MW of geothermal, and 800 MW for a complete of 30,200 MW that it categorized as Put in renewable assets. As of Could 2023, the put in battery system can produce 5,000 MW for a bit of over three hours. [Battery “storage” involves two “capacities”: the charging/discharging “capacity” in MW and the “capacity” of energy storage in MWh. (Car batteries are characterized by the number of ampere-hours of a new, fully charged battery.) For example, a system might supply 5,000 MW for 12 minutes because it only stores 1,000 MWh, or 3 hours because it stores 15,000 MWh. Confusingly, CAISO calls the former “capacity” and the latter “duration.” In any case, the “duration” of CAISO’s 5,000 MW battery system is about 17,000 MWh.]
On February 5 and 6, “atmospheric rivers” hit Southern California. From 1600 hours on Feb 4 to 745 hours on Feb 7, 63 hours, 45 minutes. The output of all of the renewables in CAISO didn’t meet the output of pure fuel, aside from a quick 20-minute interval about midday on Feb 6. For a lot of the time, imports far exceed complete renewables. California has the costliest electrical energy prices of the 48 states. What are the prices of Web Zero? See http://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/pages/provide.aspx#section-current
Censorship
NDP ‘anti-fossil gas promoting’ draft laws – worthy of each the 1956 Soviet RSFSR Prison Code or the opposite finish of the political spectrum
By Terry Etam, BOE Report, Feb 13, 2024
In Canada, NDP is New Democratic Get together
Free speech is for losers
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 14, 2024
“Canadian New Democratic Get together MP Charlie Angus, not a person famous for holding his tongue, has launched C-372, the ‘Fossil Gas Promoting Act’, that will make it unlawful to make true statements about fossil fuels in the event that they had been optimistic.”
Difficult the Orthodoxy — NIPCC
Local weather Change Reconsidered II: Bodily Science
Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental Worldwide Panel on Local weather Change (NIPCC), 2013
Abstract: https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/paperwork/CCR/CCR-II/Abstract-for-Policymakers.pdf
Local weather Change Reconsidered II: Organic Impacts
Idso, Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental Worldwide Panel on Local weather Change (NIPCC), 2014
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/climate-change-reconsidered-ii-biological-impacts/
Abstract: https://www.heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-IIb/Abstract-for-Policymakers.pdf
Local weather Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels
By A number of Authors, Bezdek, Idso, Legates, and Singer eds., Nongovernmental Worldwide Panel on Local weather Change, April 2019
http://retailer.heartland.org/store/ccr-ii-fossil-fuels/
Obtain with no cost:
Why Scientists Disagree About World Warming
The NIPCC Report on the Scientific Consensus
By Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer, Nongovernmental Worldwide Panel on Local weather Change (NIPCC), Nov 23, 2015
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/
Obtain with no cost:
https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming
Nature, Not Human Exercise, Guidelines the Local weather
S. Fred Singer, Editor, NIPCC, 2008
http://www.sepp.org/publications/nipcc_final.pdf
World Sea-Stage Rise: An Analysis of the Knowledge
By Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Coverage Temporary, Could 20, 2019
Difficult the Orthodoxy – Radiation Switch
The Position of Greenhouse Gases in Power Switch within the Earth’s Environment
By W. A. van Wijngaarden and W. Happer, Preprint, Mar 3, 2023
Difficult the Orthodoxy
Screaming About Local weather Catastrophe
By Howard Hayden Power Advocate, February 2024
New Examine Finds World Cities Have Warmed Due To Rising Photo voltaic Floor Forcing Since 1986
By Kenneth Richard, No Methods Zone, Feb 12, 2024
Hyperlink to paper: Satellite tv for pc observations reveal a reducing albedo development of world cities over the previous 35 years
By Shengbiao Wu, The College of Hong Kong, et al., 23 authors, Distant Sensing of Atmosphere, February 2024
https://www.researchgate.web/publication/377957012_Satellite_observations_reveal_a_decreasing_albedo_trend_of_global_cities_over_the_past_35_years
Tree Ring Fact: Late Scientist’s Knowledge Discovered, Why Did He Hid It?
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 6, 2024
Video, Explaining Gordon Jacoby’s information which Stephen McIntyre couldn’t receive till a lot later.
Hyperlinks to posts by Stephen McIntyre, Local weather Audit
Discovery of Knowledge for One of many “Different 26” Jacoby Serie, Dec 2023
4 Twelve, Alaska: A Jacoby Collection
Sheenjek, Alaska: A Jacoby-MBH Collection
D’arrigo et al 2006: NWNA Alaska
Brief Abstract of Observations Till January 2024
By Ole Humlum, Climate4you, Feb 17, 2024
https://www.climate4you.com/
Full report: https://www.climate4you.com/Textual content/Climate4you_January_2024.pdf
The common ‘Atlantic Circulation Collapse’ story
By David Whitehouse, Web Zero Watch, Feb 14, 2024
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/the-regular-atlantic-circulation-collapse-story
“I believe that individuals are fascinated by the flawed factor right here. This isn’t concerning the North Atlantic Drift – the present that brings heat water to Northern Europe from the Gulf of Mexico. That may be a consequence of the Earth’s rotation and the distribution of the continents and it’s not going to vary so long as the Earth retains turning. This story is about one other.”
Wyoming and Local weather Change: CO2 Ought to Be Celebrated, Not Captured
By Employees, CO2 Coalition, Feb 8, 2024
Full Report: Wyoming and Local weather Change: CO2 Ought to Be Celebrated, Not Captured
By Frits Byron Soepyan, Gregory Wrightstone, William Happer, et al. CO2 Coalition, February 2024
Temperature Suggestions Follies
By Chris Corridor, WUWT, Feb 13, 2024
#ECS in the true world: Spencer and Christy 2023
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 14, 2024
Hyperlink to paper: Efficient local weather sensitivity distributions from a 1D mannequin of world ocean and land temperature tendencies, 1970–2021
By Roy Spencer and John Christy, Theoretical and Utilized Climatology, Sep 16, 2023
https://hyperlink.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-023-04634-7
Lecturers Blame Decrease Belief In Scientists On Every part However Dangerous Scientists
By William Briggs, Through WUWT, Feb 15, 2024
Defending the Orthodoxy
Local weather change is making it extra harmful for teenagers to play outdoors, report finds
By Saul Elbein, The Hill, Feb 12, 2024
Hyperlink to report: Atrocious Air
By Employees, 1 First Road, Feb 12, 2024
https://firststreet.org/research-library/atrocious-air
“Utilizing the newly created First Road – Air High quality Mannequin (FS-AQM), this report finds continued publicity in addition to climate-related will increase in poor air high quality as a result of rising incidence of wildfires, excessive warmth occasions, and their destructive interactions with different environmental and anthropogenic situation.”
[SEPP Comment; Warmth causes bad air quality?]
Defending the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science
Report warns migratory fish, mammals and birds vulnerable to extinction
By James Ashworth, Pure Historical past Museum. Phys.org, Feb 12, 2024
https://phys.org/information/2024-02-migratory-fish-mammals-birds-extinction.html
Hyperlink to report: State of the World’s Migratory Species
By Employees, Conference on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, 2024
Local weather change
The affect of local weather change is already being felt by many migratory species, and the function of local weather change as a direct menace to biodiversity is anticipated to extend significantly within the coming many years. Along with rising temperatures, local weather change will lead to adjustments in precipitation, excessive climate, sea degree rise and ocean acidification, all of which have the potential to dramatically change habitats and their species composition. Whereas some migratory species might be able to adapt to climatic adjustments, many will be unable to take action, significantly the place its cascading results may see the degradation and lack of key habitats and the collapse of meals webs3. Importantly, local weather change may act as an amplifier of different threats, akin to habitat loss, air pollution, and overexploitation.
Questioning the Orthodoxy
Sure, In style Mechanics, Scientists ‘Have Miscalculated Our World Warming Timeline’
By Anthony Watts, Local weather Realism, Feb 12, 2024
Hyperlink to article: Oops, Scientists Could Have Miscalculated Our World Warming Timeline
Clues have emerged that reveal a a lot hotter historical past than we thought.
By Darren Orf, In style Mechanics, Feb 9, 2024
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/setting/a46678623/climate-change-sea-sponges/
Hyperlink to paper: 300 years of sclerosponge thermometry reveals international warming has exceeded 1.5 °C
By Malcolm T. McCulloch, et al. Nature Local weather Change, Feb 5, 2024
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01919-7?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=CONR_PF018_ECOM_GL_PHSS_ALWYS_DEEPLINK&utm_content=textlink&utm_term=PID100052570&CJEVENT=c9279b68cc2011ee83834a840a82b838
[SEPP Comment: A bureaucratic invention, a warming of 1.5 °C means little during Icehouse Earth with severe glaciation periods of about 100,000 years interspaced with brief warm periods.]
300-year-old sponge suggests seas had been warming lengthy earlier than coal energy and automobiles had been even invented
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Feb 15, 2024
“Absurdly, evangelistic headlines decreed the world was ‘hotter than we thought’, had breached 1.5C sooner than we thought and three-hundred-year-old sea sponges had been telling us to rush up and set up photo voltaic panels.”
Cowen on ‘Fossil Future’: Skilled Failure?
By Robert Bradley Jr., Grasp Useful resource, Feb 15, 2024
“It was distributed on social media by the director of the U.S. Division of Power’s mortgage applications workplace, Jigar Shah, described as “the person answerable for how the US spends $400bn to shift away from fossil fuels.’”
Local weather Deniers In Wyoming
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Feb 15, 2024
https://realclimatescience.com/2024/02/climate-deniers-in-wyoming/#gsc.tab=0
Hyperlink to: State senators hear from local weather change deniers
By Carrie Haderlie, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Feb 13, 2024
https://www.wyomingnews.com/information/local_news/state-senators-hear-from-climate-change-deniers/article_03819f36-cadb-11ee-9996-0bd0947571a3.html
The top is nigh/right here/on the market
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 14, 2024
The temperature soar over the previous yr was not CO2
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 14, 2024
Hyperlink to paper: The soar in international temperatures in September 2023 is extraordinarily unlikely on account of inner local weather variability alone
By Mika Rantanen & Ari Laaksonen, Nature, Local weather and Atmospheric Science, Feb 1, 2024
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-024-00582-9
Summary: “September 2023 was the warmest September on document globally by a document margin of 0.5 °C. Right here we present that such a record-breaking margin is a particularly uncommon occasion within the newest era of local weather fashions, making it extremely unlikely (p ~ 1%) that inner local weather variability mixed with the regular improve in greenhouse fuel forcing may clarify it. Our outcomes name for additional evaluation of the affect of different exterior forcings on the worldwide local weather in 2023.”
Looking for a Widespread Floor
Why I’m Leaving Academia
The pull and the push
By Roger Pielke, Jr. The Trustworthy Dealer, Feb 14, 2024
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/why-i-am-leaving-academia?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=119454&post_id=141664770&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=f7h7&utm_medium=e mail
Time to Retire the Time period “Renewable Power” from Critical Discussions and Coverage Directive: Half II
By Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler), Local weather And so forth. Feb 16, 2024
Time to retire the time period ‘renewable vitality’ from severe dialogue and vitality coverage directives [Part I]
By Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler), Local weather And so forth. Feb 5, 2024
A bipartisan fiscal fee may assist lawmakers tackle our looming debt points
By Michael Murphy, The Hill, Feb 12, 2024
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4464040-a-bipartisan-fiscal-commission-could-help-lawmakers-address-our-looming-debt-issues/
Hyperlink to CBO report: The Funds and Financial Outlook: 2024 to 2034
By Employees, Congressional Funds Workplace, Feb 7, 2024
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59710?modtag=djemBestOfTheWeb
Altering Climate
Why does El Nino Affect West Coast Climate?
By Cliff Mass, Climate Weblog, Feb 11, 2024
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2024/02/why-does-el-nino-influence-west-coast.html
California Enjoys the Northwest’s Water
By Cliff Mass, Climate Weblog, Feb 16, 2024
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2024/02/california-enjoys-northwests-water.html
“The present prolonged prediction of collected precipitation by way of April 1 by the European Middle mannequin suggests this sample shouldn’t be going away, with very moist circumstances over California, however drier than regular within the Washington Cascades.”
Robust El Nino Situations Prevails At The Finish Of January 2024 – Nevertheless This El Nino Not Anticipated To Be As Robust As 1982-83 Or 1997-98 Or 2015-16 El Nino
By Ashok Patel, Gujaratweather.com, Feb 10, 2024
http://www.gujaratweather.com/wordpress/?p=30615
Climate Catastrophe Tendencies in Europe
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 13, 2024
EU Wildfire Tendencies 2023
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 15, 2023
“Shield Our Winters” (Snow a factor of the previous?)
By Robert Bradley Jr, Grasp Useful resource, Feb 14, 2024
“Why simply not say ‘we have no idea’ about macro and micro climate–and put local weather science as an alternative whereas doing so? False data is worse than no data in the case of international warming, international local weather change, or ‘international weirding.’”
Altering Seas
AMOC To Collapse Rip-off Is Again
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 10, 2024
Tipping Is Optionally available
By Willis Eschenbach, WUWT, Feb 11, 2024
Cyclone Kirrily Smashed my Favourite Coral Reef
By Jennifer Marohasy, Her Weblog, Feb 17, 2024
New Examine: Denmark Coast Has Been Increasing Seaward At A Fee Of +1.4 Meters Per Yr Since 1900
By Kenneth richard, No Methods Zone, Feb 15, 2024
Hyperlink to paper: Center and Late Holocene relative sea degree adjustments and coastal
growth at Rugard, Denmark
By Marie Holst Riis, et al., Boreas, January 2024
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12642
Opening sentence of summary: “Denmark has been topic to advanced interactions of isostatic uplift and eustatic sea degree adjustments for the reason that final deglaciation.”
Altering Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice
Arctic “Simply-So Tales”: Dangerous Science by Local weather Alarmists
By Jim Steele, WUWT, Feb 14, 2024
“The Arctic Ocean was nick-named the ‘the other way up Ocean’ by Fridtjof Nansen. Nansen was a well-known Norwegian zoologists, oceanographer, and Arctic explorer in addition to winner of the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize. Throughout his failed expedition to succeed in the North Pole, his boat, the Fram, received frozen in Arctic sea ice however finally was exported by Arctic currents, together with Arctic sea ice, into the Atlantic by way of what’s now named the Fram Strait.”
Arctic Sea Ice Continues its Stonking Restoration
By Chris Morrison, The Each day Sceptic, Feb 8, 2024
Altering Earth
Assessing volcanic-induced local weather forcing
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 14, 2024
From the CO2Science Archive:
Reducing Requirements
The 50 PPM Rule For Knowledge Tampering
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Feb 15, 2024
Video: https://realclimatescience.com/2024/02/the-50-ppm-rule-for-data-tampering-2/#gsc.tab=0
Textual content: https://realclimatescience.com/2024/02/the-50-ppm-rule-for-data-tampering/#gsc.tab=0
[SEPP Comment: CO2 forcing NOAA/NASA data tampering?]
Met Workplace Can not Present Proof For “Extra Intense Storms” Declare
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 12, 2024
Requires Met Workplace to retract false ‘extra intense storms’ declare
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 13, 2024
Corrupting Uruguay
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Feb 14, 2024
Video: https://realclimatescience.com/2024/02/corrupting-uruguay-2/#gsc.tab=0
Textual content: https://realclimatescience.com/2024/02/corrupting-uruguay/#gsc.tab=0
“The long-term temperature document from Uruguay reveals little warming however homogenizing in UHI contaminated information from Buenos Aires [Argentina], a robust warming development is created.” [NOAA’s Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) data.]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Yellow (Inexperienced) Journalism?
Secret Partnership Fueling Local weather Hawk Journalism
By Caleb Howe, Actual Clear Wire, Feb 12, 2024
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/02/12/secret_partnership_fueling_climate_hawk_journalism___150480.html
Chile Forest Fires–Local weather Change?
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 15, 2024
“As famous, eucalyptus accounts for a few third of plantations. [a non-native species]
Is it any surprise these fires unfold so quickly these days.”
[SEPP Comment: The bark and oils of eucalyptus trees make them highly flammable.]
Mistaken, The Hill, Local weather Change Isn’t Making It Unsafe for Children to Play Outdoors
By Linnea Lueken and H. Sterling Burnett, Local weather Realism, Feb 14, 2024
BBC Asks “Are the politics of local weather change going out of vogue?”
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Feb 11, 2024
AEP’s Inexperienced Juggernaut
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 14, 2024
Speaking Higher to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Imprecise?
No Local weather Disaster for Thriving Honeybees
By Vijay Jayaraj, CO2 Coalition, Feb 10, 2024
[SEPP Comment: Bears, tigers, and now bees, oh my!]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Propaganda
When polar bears die, they die of hunger: new Nature paper is propaganda, not information
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Feb 13, 2024
Hyperlink to paper: Polar bear energetic and behavioral methods on land with implications for surviving the ice-free interval
By Anthony M. Pagano, et al, Nature Communications, Feb 13, 2024
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44682-1
[SEPP Comment: The polar bear is a unique apex predator, no land competitors except stronger bears.]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Propaganda on Youngsters
British Worldwide “Good COP Dangerous COP” Youngsters’s Local weather Convention Sponsored by China
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Feb 13, 2024
“’ College students from 23 colleges all over the world took half within the third Mannequin United Nations Convention ‘Good COP Dangerous COP’, organized by British academic charity Have interaction with China, or EWC, on Feb 2.’”
Speaking Higher to the Public – Protest
WATCH: Local weather Protesters Dump Powder on Structure
By Charles Hilu, Washington Free Beacon, Feb 14, 2024
[SEPP Comment: Section 1666. Destruction Of Government Property — 18 U.S.C. § 1361: “The penalties for violations of this section are tied to the extent of the property damage. As amended on September 13, 1994, if the damage exceeds $100, the defendant is subject to a fine of up to $250,000, ten years imprisonment, or both…When property damage does not exceed $100, the offense is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $100,000, one year imprisonment, or both.]
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1666-destruction-government-property-18-usc-1361#:~:textual content=Thepercent20penaltiespercent20forpercent20violationspercent20of,tenpercent20yearspercent20imprisonmentpercent2Cpercent20orpercent20both.
EU Farmers Protest Inexperienced Insurance policies’ Menace to Greenest Lands
By Vijay Jayaraj, Townhall, Feb 10, 2024
https://townhall.com/columnists/vijayjayaraj/2024/02/10/eu-farmers-protest-green-policies-threat-to-greenest-lands-n2635063
“Inexperienced” Activists Menace Humanity
By Vijay Jayaraj, WUWT, Feb 10, 2024
The backlash lashes on
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 14, 2024
Increasing the Orthodoxy
Navy may make local weather change programs obligatory
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 15, 2024
[SEPP Comment: Back to the days of wooden ships and iron men?]
United Nations Basis funding ‘Inexperienced’ workers positions in Governor’s workplace, state businesses
By Katherine Zehinder, The Carolina Journal, Feb 23, 2024 [H/t GAO]
“North Carolina is amongst a number of states which have obtained grants from the United Nations Basis (UNF) for supporting local weather initiatives and workers positions on local weather coverage.”
Questioning European Inexperienced
The Deindustrialization Of Europe In 5 Charts
Industrial electrical energy use within the EU is collapsing. US policymakers “Don’t have any excuse for not taking a look at Europe and studying.” Plus: screenings in Dallas, Tulsa, Fairfax, & Austin.
By Robert Bryce, His Weblog, Feb 12, 2024
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-deindustrialization-of-europe?
Dale Vince Calls for Labour Borrow Billions For Wind Farms
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 12, 2024
How A lot Has Dale Vince Been Given In Subsidies?
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 12, 2024
“Labour Get together donor, Dale Vince, is the only real proprietor of Ecotricity. (The corporate is definitely owned by Inexperienced Britain Group Ltd, whose solely shareholder is Vince).
Ecotricity Group owns a variety of subsidiaries, largely wind and photo voltaic farms. In complete they generated 151 GWh in 2022/23:”
Funding Points
Main American Monetary Establishments Withdraw From World Local weather Funding Org In Blow To Inexperienced Agenda
By Nick Pope, Each day Caller, Feb 15, 2024
https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/15/jp-morgan-state-street-withdrawing-climate-investment-group/
Barclays reins in oil and fuel funding in victory for web zero activists
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 11, 2024
Litigation Points
Congress and Courts allow Power and Local weather Fantasy and Tyranny
Supreme Courtroom ought to finish “Chevron deference” to revive checks, balances and actuality
By Paul Driessen, WUWT, Feb 11, 2024
Oil {industry} group recordsdata authorized problem towards Biden administration’s Gulf leasing plan
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, Feb 12, 2024
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/4463814-oil-industry-group-files-legal-challenge-against-biden-administrations-gulf-leasing-plan/
Former FirstEnergy executives indicted in $60 million Ohio bribery scheme
By Taylor Giorno, The Hill, Feb 12, 2024
https://thehill.com/homenews/4463178-former-firstenergy-executives-indicted-in-60-million-ohio-bribery-scheme/
“Final spring, Householder and Borges had been each convicted for his or her function in a racketeering conspiracy involving tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in bribes to make sure the passage of a billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded bailout of two FirstEnergy nuclear crops in Ohio.”
Cap-and-Commerce and Carbon Taxes
Uncooked Deal: Germany’s Minister Of Agriculture Proposes Tax On Meat
By P Gosselin, No Methods Zone, Feb 13, 2024
Subsidies and Mandates Ceaselessly
Higher-than-expected funding in EVs, wind, photo voltaic swells price of Inflation Discount Act: CBO
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Feb 9, 2024
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/4459138-greater-than-expected-investment-electric-vehicles-wind-solar-swells-inflation-reduction-act-cost-cbo/
Hyperlink to: The Funds and Financial Outlook: 2024 to 2034
By Employees, Congressional Funds Workplace, Feb 7, 2024
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59710?modtag=djemBestOfTheWeb
Biden places $60M into three geothermal vitality tasks
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Feb 13, 2024
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/4465009-biden-geothermal-energy-projects-funding-60-million/
“The funds, from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation, will fund three tasks that goal to show that geothermal vitality that comes from man-made reservoirs is efficient and ready for use on a big scale.”
Power Points – Australia
Blackouts for 500,000: Time to speak concerning the transition to costly, fragile, ugly, collapsing transmission strains?
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Feb 14, 2024
“Yesterday six excessive voltage transmission strains collapsed in Victoria leaving half 1,000,000 individuals with out electrical energy for hours. However just a few weeks in the past 5 towers collapsed in Western Australia placing 30,000 at nighttime. And out in Kalgoorlie, when the fuel backup crops failed, 1000’s of individuals went for days with out energy in 40-degree warmth. Some individuals had been unable to name triple zero, freezers stuffed with meals had been spoilt and practically every thing left to purchase needed to be paid for in money.”
“The renewable cheer squad is asking for ‘a quicker transition’ to one way or the other resolve these blackouts however each photo voltaic and wind energy want 1000’s of miles of the exact same collapsible transmission strains, placing the grid at much more danger of sudden breaks.”
Victorian govt by chance admits wind and photo voltaic may use 70% of all agricultural land within the state
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Feb 16, 2024
“Victoria is simply not large enough to suit all of the photo voltaic and wind industrial crops”
[SEPP Comment: Can’t the farmers move offshore?]
Washington’s Management of Power
Joe Biden’s Warfare on LNG: What’s Actually at Stake
By Patrice Douglas, Actual Clear Power, Feb 13, 2024
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/02/13/joe_bidens_war_on_lng_whats_really_at_stake_1011635.html
Take 5 – Gauging The Affect Of The DOE’s Pause In LNG Export Licenses
By David Braziel RBN Power, Jan 31, 2024
https://rbnenergy.com/take-five-gauging-the-impact-of-the-does-pause-in-lng-export-licenses
How Do You Like Me Now? – Who Are The Winners And Losers With Biden’s LNG Allowing Pause?
By David Braziel, RBN Power, Feb 15, 2024
https://rbnenergy.com/how-do-you-like-me-now-who-are-the-winners-and-losers-with-bidens-lng-permitting-pause
“As we’ll talk about in right this moment’s RBN weblog, the choice is prone to put a variety of Gulf Coast LNG export tasks (one in all them an actual big) in limbo, set again a Mexican challenge that will rely upon Permian and Eagle Ford fuel, and enhance a few tasks up in Canada. Oh, and there’s this: The pause additionally might assist two avowed enemies of the U.S.: Russia and Iran.”
US ‘very involved’ about China’s maintain on mineral provide chain, Granholm says
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Feb 14, 2024
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/4467712-us-very-concerned-about-chinas-hold-on-mineral-supply-chain/
[SEPP Comment: But not concerned enough to stop permitting LNG exports.]
Oil and Pure Gasoline – the Future or the Previous?
Catch A Wave – Texas GulfLink, Bluewater Texas Hoping To Catch Subsequent Wave Of U.S. Crude Exports
By Sheela Tobben, RBN Power, Feb 12, 2024
https://rbnenergy.com/catch-a-wave-nice-texas-gulf-link-bluewater-texas-hoping-to-catch-next-wave-of-us-crude-exports
“VLCCs are a few of the largest ships serving the oil {industry}, every in a position to carry roughly 2 MMbbl, providing large cost-efficiencies on a per-barrel foundation. Proper now, just one home facility can totally load these big ships, and that’s the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP).”
[SEPP Comment: MMbbl means one million barrels each having a 42 US gallon capacity. (159 liters)]
Return of King Coal?
Soiled Secret
World coal demand is smashing data.
Doomberg, Feb 16, 2024
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/dirty-secret?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=343139&post_id=141703494&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=f7h7&utm_medium=e mail
Various, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Photo voltaic and Wind
Wind and Photo voltaic Slaughtering India’s Iconic Fowl
By Vijay Jayaraj, CO2 Coalition, Feb 12, 2024
Two windfarms share £80 million to change off
By Andrew Montford, Web Zero Watch, Feb 15, 2024
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/two-windfarms-share-80-million-of-payments-to-switch-off
The price to customers of so-called windfarm constraint funds is rising shortly.
[SEPP Comment: Why are not nuclear and coal-fired power plants paid to switch-off?]
Wind energy output in Texas is trending down at the same time as wind era capability will increase
By Ed Eire, Grasp Useful resource, Feb 16, 2024
“The inherent unreliability of wind energy is highlighted by the current expertise in Texas.”
BLM takes feedback on world’s largest photo voltaic boondoggle
By David Wojick, CFACT, Feb 9, 2024
https://www.cfact.org/2024/02/09/blm-takes-comments-on-worlds-biggest-solar-boondoggle/
Federal authorities finalizes floating offshore wind areas off the Oregon Coast
By Monica Samayoa, Oregon Public Broadcast, Feb 13, 2024
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/02/13/federal-government-finalizes-floating-offshore-wind-areas-off-the-oregon-coast/
“After the tip of the general public remark interval, the federal company will launch the environmental evaluation for additional public remark, in addition to a proposed sale discover indicating to corporations the potential lease of the realm.”
[SEPP Comment: The concept has been tested in Norway, Italy Portugal, Japan, among others. But the capital costs and operating costs are not clear; and appear very high, even when compared with the high fixed cost of onshore wind.]
Various, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Power — Different
Can the federal government create a inexperienced hydrogen gas {industry}?
By Steve Goreham, Washington Examiner, Feb 13, 2024
“Additionally they have a draft Programmatic Environmental Affect Assertion (PEIS) for the Plan, which they’re taking feedback on by way of April 28, 2024.”
When You Crunch The Numbers, Inexperienced Hydrogen Is A Non-Starter
By Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, Feb 14, 2024
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2024-2-14-when-you-crunch-the-numbers-green-hydrogen-is-a-non-starter
“We received’t actually understand how a lot this inexperienced hydrogen stuff truly prices till there are some actual amenities up and working. However whether or not it’s ten occasions as costly because the stuff produced from pure fuel, or solely 5 occasions as costly, doesn’t actually matter. It’s uneconomic, and nothing goes to vary that. No one will ever purchase it or use it with out authorities mandates or subsidies or each.”
The Hydrogen Tax Credit score Will Stimulate Innovation, Not Stymie Implementation
By Jonah Erlebacher, Actual Clear Power, Feb 12, 2024
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/02/12/the_hydrogen_tax_credit_will_stimulate_innovation_not_stymie_implementation_1011332.htm
[SEPP Comment: If the product is so good, why is stimulation needed?]
The Blue Hydrogen Bubble Should Burst
By Robin Gaster, Actual Clear Power, Feb 12, 2024
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/02/12/the_blue_hydrogen_bubble_must_burst_1011295.h
“There’s an excessive amount of hype trumpeting the potential for hydrogen created from inexperienced electrical energy to function the Swiss Military knife of unpolluted vitality, however it’s so-called “blue hydrogen” made with fossil fuels that’s striding onto middle stage. That’s comprehensible, as inexperienced hydrogen shouldn’t be remotely value aggressive, and producing it requires a number of inexperienced electrical energy, which is presently not out there at that scale.”
[SEPP Comment: Is climate sensitive to colors?]
Various, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Power — Storage
Professor Dargaville: We Want Extra Grid Scale Batteries to Fight Provide Outages
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Feb 14, 2024
[SEPP Comment: How many minutes/hours will the batteries last during a blackout?]
Various, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Autos
How a crashing second-hand market slammed the brakes on EVs
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 16, 2024
“There’s one additional thought. Secondhand consumers are typically much less effectively off; as such they usually received’t have off-street parking. So what use is an EV to them, nonetheless low the worth?”
EV come EV go
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 14, 2024
Mr. Bean Was Proper – and So Was Toyota
By Duggan Flanakin, Actual Clear Power, Feb 13, 2024
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/02/13/mr_bean_was_right__and_so_was_toyota_1011632.html
Carbon Schemes
World carbon market is a $909 billion greenback recreation that rewards bureaucrats and bankers
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Feb 13, 2024
“The carbon market shouldn’t be actually a carbon market in any respect — the biggest producers of CO2 aren’t even within the recreation. The Pacific Ocean can’t pay, the phytoplankton can’t be taxed and the northern boreal forests will get plain away with it except a buddy of a buddy occurs to personal a pleasant plot that may be rebadged as a carbon farm. So politicians are sitting on a gold mine of alternative. Most carbon on the earth doesn’t rely, they usually get to be kingmakers to determine what does. What’s an act of God? — ask the Minister.”
Scientists Attempt Dangerous Air and Water Experiments Hoping to Cease Local weather Change
By Mike Shedlock, Mish Discuss, Feb 14, 2024 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
Hyperlink to WSJ article: Scientists Resort to As soon as-Unthinkable Options to Cool the Planet
Three geoengineering tasks search to change the chemistry of the ambiance and the ocean. Critics warn of unintended penalties.
By Eric Niiler, WSJ, Feb 14, 2024
https://www.wsj.com/science/setting/geoengineering-projects-cool-planet-weather-f0619bf7?mod=hp_lead_pos9
Scientists Look To Combat Local weather Change By Dumping 6,000 Gallons Of Chemical substances Into Ocean Close to Martha’s Winery
By Nick Pope, Each day Caller, Feb 14, 2024
https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/14/scientists-dump-chemicals-ocean-research-taxpayer/
“A group of scientists is trying to dump chemical substances into waters off the coast of Massachusetts this summer time to analysis whether or not doing so may very well be an efficient counter to ocean acidification and local weather change, based on The Wall Road Journal.”
[SEPP Comment: Ocean acidification is a phony issue. Except in areas with geothermal activity emitting CO2, ocean remained alkaline even in time periods with high CO2.]
St Ives Bay carbon seize trial ‘very low danger’ – report
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Feb 13, 2024
“Plans so as to add magnesium hydroxide to the ocean at St Ives Bay in a bid to fight local weather change are “very low danger”, based on an unbiased evaluation.”
“The quantity of carbon dioxide that may very well be captured on this approach would absolutely be infinitesimally small, even when employed in bulk globally
Magnesium Hydroxide can be used within the type of a mineral referred to as brucite. a comparatively uncommon mineral present in rocks. This after all would require some form of mining operation, together with crushing, each of which might contain fossil gas emissions. I believe these emissions would drastically outweigh any financial savings!”
California Dreaming
California regulator OKs $1.9B plan to increase zero-emission automobile infrastructure
By Sharon Udasin, The Hill, Feb 14, 2024
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/4469029-california-regulator-oks-1-9b-plan-to-expand-zero-emission-vehicle-infrastructure/
[SEPP Comment: Keep running up the deficit!]
The California Power Rip-off: Newsom’s actions of ‘leaking’ emissions to poorer creating nations
By Ronald Stein, America Out Loud, Feb 12, 2024
Oh Mann!
Mark Steyn ordered to pay $1 million to discourage local weather deniers from criticizing sacred scientists
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Feb 10, 2024
Oh Mann
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 14, 2024
[SEPP Comment: Lengthy post on the sordid affair.]
Celebrating Corruption
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Feb 14, 2024
https://realclimatescience.com/2024/02/celebrating-corruption/#gsc.tab=0
Hyperlink to: Ardour shouldn’t be misconduct
By H. Holden Thorp, AAAS Science, Feb 13, 2024
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado6275
From AAAS Science: “The hockey stick graph stands as printed as a result of the information had been peer-reviewed and addressed questions from specialists.”
Environmental Business
MORE Privately-funded ‘Employees’, FOIA’d DOCS REVEAL: Bloomberg Strikes Past Attorneys Basic — Louisiana PSC Case Examine
Billionaire local weather activist, who pledged a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to finish fossil fuels, is financing “workers” activists positioned in State public utility regulatory commissions as he funds marketing campaign behind LNG export terminal ‘pause’
By Employees, GAO, (Authorities Accountability & Oversight, Feb 13, 2024
Different Information that Could Be of Curiosity
Trendy Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars — Half 3
By Kip Hansen, WUWT, Feb 10, 2024
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE
Declare: Local weather Change is Inflicting Home Violence
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Feb 16, 2024
Saving The Local weather With Hair
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Feb 12, 2024
https://realclimatescience.com/2024/02/saving-the-climate-with-hair/#gsc.tab=0
“Entrepreneurs are searching for methods to recycle human hair…”
[SEPP Comment: In the past, hairshirts were worn by penitents and ascetics (practicing severe self-discipline).]
Tidbits
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feb 14, 2024
“The College of Toronto figures the fitting option to take care of the collapse of college credibility and funds is to slash carbon emissions on its storied St. George campus in Toronto by 2027 ‘by way of a large, $138-million infrastructure challenge that can minimize emissions in half inside three years.’”
ARTICLES
1. Huge Local weather Tries to Censor Opponents
Progressives transfer to dam TV adverts opposing the Biden EV mandate.
By The Editorial Board, WSJ, Feb. 16, 2024
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-electric-vehicle-mandate-american-fuel-and-petrochemical-manufacturers-ads-fcc-climate-power-578876e5?mod=opinion_lead_pos3
TWTW Abstract: The editorial begins with:
“If President Biden’s electric-vehicle mandate is as common as progressives declare, why are they making an attempt to censor critics who need to inform the general public concerning the mandate’s prices?
That’s the story this week, after the American Gas & Petrochemical Producers (AFPM) launched adverts in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Ohio and Montana to teach Individuals concerning the Administration’s back-door EV mandate. Mr. Biden is ‘dashing to ban new gas-powered automobiles’ and desires ‘to drive you into an electrical automobile,’ one advert says.
The Biden group doth protest. ‘There isn’t a EV mandate,’ a Biden marketing campaign official declared. No? The Environmental Safety Company has proposed greenhouse fuel emissions requirements that will successfully require that EVs make up two-thirds of auto maker gross sales by 2032. The requirements will ‘speed up the transition to electrical automobiles,’ EPA stated.
EPA’s proposed emissions guidelines are so stringent that auto makers will be capable of comply solely by producing an rising variety of ‘zero-emission automobiles’ or by shopping for regulatory credit from EV producers like Tesla. Individuals purchasing for a brand new automobile may have no alternative however to purchase an EV or pay a fortune for the few gas-powered automobiles nonetheless out there.
But Mr. Biden and his allies don’t need voters to know that banning gas-powered automobiles is their finish recreation. That’s why the progressive umbrella group Local weather Energy on Tuesday shot off a missive to broadcasters demanding that they pull the AFPM adverts—or else. These ‘ads embrace apparent lies geared toward deceiving the general public and have to be pulled from the air instantly,’ Local weather Energy chief working officer Jill Shesol wrote. However who’s truly making an attempt to deceive the general public?”
The editorial goes into some particulars of the letter, then concludes with:
“Opponents of ‘cleaner alternate options,’ the letter provides, ‘wouldn’t have the fitting to mislead voters and unfold disinformation on public airwaves.’ However they do have a First Modification proper to critique public insurance policies that injury their livelihoods.
AFPM is doing a public service. Mr. Biden and the local weather foyer are deceptive the general public. There’s no cause for native broadcasters to bow to the local weather foyer’s deceptions.”
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2. Web Zero Turns into All Dissonance and No Cognition
Politicians have trapped themselves into waging a campaign voters say they need however received’t pay for.
By Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, Feb 8, 2024
https://www.wsj.com/articles/net-zero-all-dissonance-no-cognition-voters-want-green-policy-but-not-to-pay-for-it-14d2baa2?mod=opinion_recentauth_pos3
TWTW Abstract: The journalist begins with:
“The fault, pricey Olaf, lies not in ourselves however in our voters.
That, with apologies to Shakespeare, is beginning to appear to be an evidence for the net-zero agonies now engulfing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and lots of different Western politicians. It’s each enjoyable and correct to lambaste our political class for its many local weather hypocrisies and idiocies. However as local weather coverage turns into costlier and fewer coherent by the week, voters deserve increasingly more of the blame.
A clue lies in a report launched this week by the Ifo Institute, a assume tank in Germany. Some 55% of respondents stated they consider their nation ought to play a number one function within the international effort to fight local weather change, in a ballot of Germans carried out final September. Significantly fewer had been keen to pay something for it. Requested their most popular measures for attaining web zero, solely 16% supported mandates akin to a ban on natural-gas-fired residence heating that will impose direct prices on households. Eight % supported an express carbon tax, probably the most economically environment friendly option to cut back emissions.
The punch line is that Germans’ hottest choice for addressing local weather change was ‘focused subsidies for climate-friendly measures,’ which 28% of respondents supported. Notice the timing. This ballot was carried out earlier than a constitutional court docket ruling in November disallowed Berlin’s most popular methodology for utilizing off-balance-sheet authorities borrowing to fund climate-related subsidies. Germans supported local weather subsidies when it regarded like free cash.
Not anymore. The admission that subsidies have to be funded by tax will increase or offsetting spending cuts has solid Mr. Scholz’s administration right into a disaster from which it may not recuperate. Working example: A mass protest—by farmers, because it occurs—erupted when Berlin tried to inch towards a coverage vaguely resembling a carbon tax. The administration needed to backtrack. No matter else voters say they need on local weather, individuals actually, actually don’t need to redistribute the prices of mitigation towards those that emit extra carbon—no less than not if Johann Q. Publik thinks he could be the emitter in query.
I don’t imply to choose on the Germans, as wealthy a vein as that’s. Everybody else is confused, too. A December ballot in Britain discovered that 85% of respondents described local weather change as ‘an essential downside’ dealing with the U.Okay. (with 46% of respondents describing it as an important or some of the essential issues). Forty-one % stated they’d be extra prone to vote for a celebration that promised robust motion on local weather change vs. 33% who stated they’d be extra prone to vote for a celebration promising to decelerate on local weather coverage.”
After additional dialogue concerning different polls, the journalist concludes with:
“This explains the reluctance of even reasonably wise politicians to confess what they’re so clearly doing: abandoning the local weather challenge. Rollbacks of the costliest, least common local weather measures, akin to electric-vehicle mandates or agricultural-vehicle taxes, invariably are accompanied by pledges to maintain doing one thing else for the local weather at another person’s expense.
It’s a word of warning for these of us respiration a sigh of aid at current net-zero reversals. Voters are rising clearer headed about what they aren’t ready to pay to avert local weather change. But true sanity received’t arrive till they’ve determined in addition they don’t care.”
