The Week That Was: 2023-12-16 (December 16, 2023)
Dropped at You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)
The Science and Environmental Coverage Undertaking
Quote of the Week: “I apologize for writing such a protracted letter, however I didn’t have time to jot down a brief one.” – Mark Twain
Variety of the Week: 59 levels F
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Coverage Undertaking (SEPP)
Scope: The main situation mentioned this week is COP 28, and feedback made about it. AMO physicist Howard Hayden brings up how the IPCC defines human-caused local weather change. Stephen McIntyre relates his expertise as an knowledgeable reviewer of a previous IPCC evaluation report. Additional, the position of Washington’s delegation is offered. Vitality analysist Roger Caiazza discusses the significance of dependable, inexpensive electrical energy to high-tech industries.
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COP 28: The twenty eighth annual Convention of Events for the UN Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) is over. That is additionally known as “Convention of the Events” serving because the assembly of the Events to the Paris Settlement. TWTW reviewed quite a lot of feedback on it with out citing the ultimate settlement. UK commentator David Turver cited a portion of the ultimate settlement, prompting TWTW to look additional. Article II of the ultimate settlement begins: [Boldface added throughout]
“Collective progress in direction of reaching the aim and long-term objectives of the Paris Settlement, together with underneath Article 2, paragraph 1(a–c), within the gentle of fairness and the greatest obtainable science, and informing Events in updating and enhancing, in a nationally decided method, motion and help.”
As former participant Richard Lindzen and others have acknowledged, the IPCC course of rapidly departs from one of the best obtainable science and its Summaries for Policymakers and Synthesis Stories are politically contrived experiences, which can be contradicted by one of the best obtainable bodily proof and greatest obtainable science. Within the Remaining Report, the paragraphs are numbered, which TWTW follows.
Part A, titled Mitigation begins:
18. Acknowledges that important collective progress in direction of the Paris Settlement
temperature objective has been made, from an anticipated world temperature improve of 4 °C in response to some projections previous to the adoption of the Settlement to a rise within the
vary of two.1–2.8 °C with the total implementation of the newest nationally decided contributions;
The rise of 4 °C shouldn’t be based mostly on bodily proof however is a quantity contrived by world local weather modelers based mostly on an ensemble of fashions, none of which stand as much as fundamental testing utilizing atmospheric bodily proof. Paragraph 26 states:
26. Acknowledges the discovering within the Synthesis Report of the Sixth Evaluation Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change, based mostly on world modelled pathways and assumptions, that world greenhouse fuel emissions are projected to peak between 2020 and on the newest earlier than 2025 in world modelled pathways that restrict warming to 1.5 °C with no or restricted overshoot and in those who restrict warming to 2 °C and assume rapid motion, and notes that this doesn’t indicate peaking in all nations inside this time-frame, and that point frames for peaking could also be formed by sustainable growth, poverty eradication wants and fairness and be in step with completely different nationwide circumstances, and acknowledges that know-how growth and switch on voluntary and mutually agreed phrases, in addition to capacity-building and financing, can help nations on this regard;
As mentioned in earlier TWTWs, the Synthesis Report of the Sixth Evaluation Report is a travesty and it departs considerably from the Bodily Science report, together with including a very unrealistic assumption of future carbon dioxide emissions. Paragraphs 27, 28, and the primary part of 29 state:
“27. Additionally acknowledges that limiting world warming to 1.5 °C with no or restricted overshoot requires deep, speedy and sustained reductions in world greenhouse fuel emissions of 43 per cent by 2030 and 60 per cent by 2035 relative to the 2019 degree and reaching web zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
28. Additional acknowledges the necessity for deep, speedy and sustained reductions in greenhouse fuel emissions in step with 1.5 °C pathways and calls on Events to contribute to the next world efforts, in a nationally decided method, taking into consideration the Paris Settlement and their completely different nationwide circumstances, pathways and approaches:
(a) Tripling renewable power capability globally and doubling the worldwide common
annual price of power effectivity enhancements by 2030;
(b) Accelerating efforts in direction of the phase-down of unabated coal energy;
(c) Accelerating efforts globally in direction of web zero emission power programs, using zero- and low-carbon fuels nicely earlier than or by round mid-century.
(d) Transitioning away from fossil fuels in power programs, in a simply, orderly and equitable method, accelerating motion on this crucial decade, in order to attain web zero by 2050 in step with the science;
(e) Accelerating zero- and low-emission applied sciences, together with, inter alia, renewables, nuclear, abatement and removing applied sciences equivalent to carbon seize and utilization and storage, significantly in hard-to-abate sectors, and low-carbon hydrogen manufacturing;
(g) Accelerating the discount of emissions from street transport on a variety of pathways, together with by way of growth of infrastructure and speedy deployment of zero and low-emission automobiles;
(h) Phasing out inefficient fossil gasoline subsidies that don’t deal with power poverty or simply transitions, as quickly as attainable;
29. Acknowledges that transitional fuels can play a job in facilitating the power transition whereas guaranteeing power safety;”
Notably attention-grabbing are the objectives of doubling the worldwide common annual price of power effectivity enhancements by 2030 and accelerating and considerably decreasing non-carbon-dioxide emissions globally, particularly methane emissions. Vitality effectivity has been vital, significantly for the reason that Arab oil embargo. The UN doesn’t state how nations will accomplish this. When effectivity could be very low, it’s straightforward to seek out enhancements to enhance effectivity, however when effectivity is already excessive, it is extremely exhausting to enhance it even incrementally. Dwelling heating was vastly improved with the Franklin range, however how do you double the speed of power effectivity enhancements of furnaces which might be already 90% environment friendly?
Methane comes from the oil and fuel industries and from livestock. So, the UN intends to destroy these industries. On paper, nitrous oxide from synthetic fertilizer is as important a greenhouse fuel as methane, although in the actual environment each are insignificant. So, it seems that the UN needs to abolish fashionable agriculture. Additional, shoppers are objecting to zero- and low-emission automobiles as the prices rise. The UN opposes the pliability that non-public automobiles give residents? [In the US, we use only about 3.5 times as much energy per capita as our colonial forebears because of literally thousands of efficiency improvements, mostly occasioned by the need to reduce costs, and not due to government regulations.]
As well as, how does the UN count on the world to supply the power required for contemporary civilization? Most developed nations haven’t any house for extra hydropower, and the US is tearing dams down. In Canada, with intensive hydropower, potential new websites are intensely opposed by the identical inexperienced organizations that advocate these UN agreements to restrict fossil fuels. The identical applies to increasing nuclear energy. As David Turver writes:
“Utilizing the substitution methodology described above, [renewables including nuclear substituting coal, oil and gas] whole power consumption in 2022 was 178,899TWh, with the overwhelming majority (77%) coming from fossil fuels. Wind and photo voltaic delivered about 5% of whole power. Regardless of a dip throughout 2020, consumption of fossil fuels has risen steadily since 2010. If we prolong this whole power consumption out to 2050 utilizing a linear development, we would count on whole power consumption to rise to round 251,401TWh.
To grasp how this may be delivered, we are able to use the pledge to triple nuclear energy by 2050, rising from 6,702TWh in 2022 to twenty,107TWh in 2050. If we take the renewables class as a complete and prolong it out to 2050 utilizing an exponential development line, whole renewables era goes up from 34,960TWh in 2022 to 80,807TWh in 2050. In doing so, the additional renewable era of 1,525TWh delivered in 2022 in comparison with 2021 goes as much as 2,443TWh in 2050 in comparison with 2049. In different phrases, the annual price of improve goes up by 60%. On condition that conventional biomass consumption is regular, and hydro could be very sluggish rising, this requires large will increase in photo voltaic and wind capability, maybe a five- or six-fold improve on 2022 ranges. Even when the websites and minerals will be discovered to position and make these machines, such a rise is a really tall order to attain. Even then, such a plan will solely obtain the additional enrichment of crony capitalists hooked on subsidies.
Nonetheless, even with this bold assumption, we solely get to 100,914TWh from nuclear and renewables by 2050. This leaves a spot of 150,487TWh to be crammed, or 60% of the anticipated demand. This hole is greater than final yr’s fossil gasoline consumption of 137,237TWh. If we’ve “transitioned away” from fossil fuels, the place will this power come from? Even when the dedication to tripling nuclear power is doubled to a six-fold improve, it will barely make a dent within the power hole. Let’s name this the COP28 Vitality Credibility Hole.” [Boldface added]
Your entire UNFCCC and IPCC course of will be described as a group of illusions ensuing within the lack of credibility. Turver concludes:
“Alarmists make numerous obscure claims in regards to the disaster that faces us if world temperatures improve greater than 1.5°C over pre-industrial ranges. Only a few of them ever acknowledge the advantages humanity has reaped from fossil fuels. Even fewer even take into account the implications for us if we transfer to an power scarce world. It’s hardly value considering a world the place we’re wanting greater than half the power we’d like. An power scarce world would have a large destructive affect on humanity. Al Jaber was proper, phasing out fossil fuels would take us again to residing in caves and lead to hunger and loss of life on a biblical scale. There should come a degree the place we notice that the supposed treatment is worse than the alleged illness.
Clearly the declarations from COP28 are nothing greater than elaborate efficiency artwork. It’s time to finish this charade of COP conferences earlier than they do much more harm. Maybe we should always ask the delegates to make their method residence on a pedalo [human-powered watercraft using pedals], so that they be taught first-hand what they take note of for us.” See hyperlinks underneath After Paris!
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UN Science: AMO physicist Howard Hayden exposes what the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change considers because the science of local weather change. Beneath the heading of “Local weather Change” the glossary of the Sixth Evaluation Report, The Bodily Science Foundation states: [Boldface added]
“A change within the state of the local weather that may be recognized (e.g., by utilizing statistical exams) by modifications within the imply and/ or the variability of its properties and that persists for an prolonged interval, sometimes a long time or longer. Local weather change could also be as a consequence of pure inner processes or exterior forcings equivalent to modulations of the photo voltaic cycles, volcanic eruptions and persistent anthropogenic modifications within the composition of the environment or in land use. Word that the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines local weather change as: ‘a change of local weather which is attributed straight or not directly to human exercise that alters the composition of the worldwide environment and which is along with pure local weather variability noticed over comparable time intervals’. The UNFCCC thus makes a distinction between local weather change attributable to human actions altering the atmospheric composition and local weather variability attributable to pure causes. See additionally Local weather variability, Detection and attribution, World warming and Ocean acidification (OA).”
By this definition, just about all climate and local weather modifications will be “attributed straight or not directly to human exercise” and known as local weather change. Rigorously utilizing all bodily proof to determine causation and get rid of attainable errors is now not vital or desired. Unscrupulous people can use imaginative statistics to not directly attribute an occasion to human exercise that altered the composition of the environment or modified land use. To cease the volcanoes in Hawaii, will we quickly see younger girls thrown in? See web page 2222 of https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_AnnexVII.pdf
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Tripling What? Aim (a) of paragraph 27 of Remaining Report of COP 28 states: “Tripling renewable power capability globally” whereas decreasing the usage of fossil fuels. In his publish: “Attempt Utilizing Wind To Make Generators” Paul Homewood writes:
“A 1.8megawatt onshore wind turbine weighs about 164 tons. The supplies comprise concrete (foundations), metal (tower and nacelle), specialty metals (magnets), copper (mills) and composites (blades).
The uncooked supplies should be mined utilizing gigantic metal diggers and dumper vehicles, the mined supplies should be floor utilizing gigantic metal grinding machines earlier than being refined in a furnace. Within the case of metal (vehicles, machines and tower) the iron ore is combined with coal in a blast furnace as a way to cut back the ore to metallic.”
Apparently, the UNFCCC considers the power necessities of the earth shifting concerned within the extraction and the processing of supplies to be insignificant – an issue to be resolved later. See hyperlink underneath Questioning the Orthodoxy
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Hypocrisy: Along with his ordinary aptitude for language, Matt Ridley had an article within the Each day Mail headlined “Hypocrisy is just too feeble a phrase for the gulf between what world leaders preach at Cop28 and the way a lot they nonetheless depend on fossil fuels.” He writes:
“Breakthrough! Deep into their umpteenth sleepless evening of exhausting bargaining, the delegates on the Cop28 assembly in Dubai managed to improve a verb of their ultimate deal.
As an alternative of claiming nations ‘might’ take motion, the settlement ‘calls on’ them to take motion. Unbelievable! Cue rapturous applause and a standing ovation as representatives from 197 nations permitted the historic ‘UAE Consensus’ on local weather change.” See hyperlink underneath After Paris!
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Climategate: Statistician Stephen McIntyre was requested to be an “knowledgeable reviewer” on the Fourth IPCC Evaluation Report (AR4, 2007), The Bodily Science Foundation. This one featured sharply rising world common floor temperature, sharply rising world sea degree, and declining Northern Hemisphere snow cowl. Utilizing graphs of greenhouse gases from ice cores coupled with fashionable information (with no management, or standardization intervals) it featured sharp rise in radiative forcing from methane and nitrous oxide. The report fails to contemplate that water vapor overlaps many of the frequencies during which methane and nitrous oxide are efficient greenhouse gases, successfully eliminating their effectiveness on temperatures.
In a latest publish in Local weather Audit, McIntyre recounts his expertise in making an attempt to get vital information supporting one of many research utilized by the IPCC in AR4. He supplies hyperlinks to up to date entries on his experiences. He now writes:
“D’Arrigo et al 2006, then underneath submission, had been cited in drafts of the IPCC Fourth Evaluation Report. I had been accepted as an IPCC reviewer and, as an IPCC reviewer, I requested IPCC to make the info obtainable to me or to ask the lead creator to make the info obtainable. That prompted a vehement refusal that I documented in March 2007 (hyperlink). Readers unfamiliar with the severity of information obfuscation by local weather science neighborhood ought to learn that change. (Some additional gentle on the marketing campaign emerged later within the Climategate emails.)” [Boldface added]
The McIntyre hyperlink exposes the dearth of scientific integrity within the IPCC course of and people holding senior positions. As we see with Synthesis Report of IPCC AR6, 2023 and COP28 issues have in all probability grow to be worse, not higher. See hyperlink underneath Climategate Continued and https://www.ipcc.ch/web site/belongings/uploads/2018/06/ar4_syr.pdf
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Place of USA: Maybe an editorial within the Wall Road Journal greatest summarized the place of the present Federal authorities. “John Kerry and CO2 Emissions Actuality, He assaults Chevron whereas China retains constructing coal crops” begins:
“Give John Kerry credit score for persistence if not realism. President Biden’s local weather envoy retains demanding the tip of fossil fuels whereas the world continues to blow by way of his apocalyptic warnings.
A brand new report in time for the COP28 local weather convention in Dubai says that world CO2 emissions will hit a brand new peak this yr. However Mr. Kerry retains berating American fossil fuels producers although U.S. emissions are on monitor to fall 4% in 2023. The massive drawback: China’s emissions are set to rise by twice as a lot because the U.S. decline.
The World Carbon Undertaking estimates that worldwide CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels will improve 1.1% this yr. That represents a slowdown from the final twenty years. But emissions must drop by 9% yearly to attain the Paris local weather settlement’s objective of limiting world warming to 1.5 levels Celsius above pre-industrial ranges. [Note that the WSJ is blithely assuming that IPCC’s musings about CO2-caused warming are correct.]
Mr. Kerry rapped U.S. oil and fuel producers at this week’s United Nations local weather confab for not doing sufficient. “Now we have no actual proof that [Chevron] and a number of others are doing what each firm must do,” he mentioned. Properly, truly, there may be proof that oil and fuel producers are serving to cut back emissions.
U.S. and European emissions this yr are projected to fall by a mixed 0.4 gigatons of CO2…”
The editorial credit a lot of this discount to changing coal-fired energy crops with pure gas-fired energy crops, not wind, photo voltaic, or hydropower. Will increase in US exports of pure fuel to Europe are serving to these nations. The editorial then continues:
“…Not that the West’s emissions reductions will matter a lot so long as China and India proceed to construct extra coal crops.
China’s emissions this yr are set to climb by 0.5 gigatons whereas India’s will improve by 0.3 gigatons. Final yr China permitted 106 gigawatts of recent coal energy, 4 instances as a lot as in 2021 and about as a lot as the height electrical energy demand in France and Britain mixed. Western leaders can hold tilting at windmills whereas China burns extra coal.
Irony alert: China’s Nationwide Growth and Reform Fee says that no less than 200 gigawatts of coal capability shall be wanted to help its photo voltaic and wind power build-out. Beijing has found out what President Biden and the local weather left haven’t: Photo voltaic and wind power can present low-cost energy on the margin however have to be backed up by fossil fuels or nuclear energy. Batteries are getting higher, however they’re nonetheless costly and might’t scale.
In different phrases, within the title of decreasing CO2 emissions, China is growing CO2 emissions. That roughly sums up the failure of the local weather foyer.”
It additionally sums up the failure of crucial considering in US and EU leaders earlier than making commitments they can not hope to fill as they did at COP 26 in Glasgow in 2021. See Article 1.
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Realist Evaluation? There was an incredible deal written in regards to the successes and failures of COP 28. Maybe probably the most sensible evaluation comes from a private remark by Richard Courtney following an article regretting the failure of COP 28 to “save the world” as if humanity can save Earth. Courtney attended COP 7 (2000, the Hague) to take part in a “fringe assembly” organized by Fred Singer with Gerd Rainer Weber. The assembly room was packed however silent after the displays,. Maybe these attending have been shocked by the “blasphemy.” After a bit, a superb dialogue ensued which continued into the hall after the assembly room needed to be vacated.
In commenting on the article “COP28 Headed for ‘Full Failure’ as Fossil Gas Debate Rages” Courtney wrote:
“I fail to grasp why CoP28 is being mentioned to be a ‘failure’ when it appears to have been a whole success.
All through CoP28 1000’s of individuals obtained stays in luxurious accommodations largely at others’ expense, and they’ll have the opportunity of an analogous jaunt subsequent yr as a result of the ‘CoP course of’ was not completed for the twenty eighth time.
What a part of CoP28 (a) was ‘failure’ or (b) was not full success?”
With apologies to Shakespeare, maybe one might say:
The hurley-burley is completed,
The battle was neither misplaced nor received,
It was a lot enjoyable,
Subsequent yr we can have a re-run.
See hyperlink underneath After Paris!
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Energy Hungry: Vitality analysist Roger Caiazza has identified that New York state officers don’t know of the significance of dependable energy for top tech industries together with semiconductor (laptop chip) fabrication amenities and information facilities. In WUWT, he writes the next concerning a proposed new chip fabrication facility in Clay, New York, by Micron Expertise:
“I’m following developments at Micron as a result of the ability goes to be constructed inside 5 miles of my residence. I additionally comply with the Local weather Management & Neighborhood Safety Act (Local weather Act) due to its impacts on New York.”
“’To place the Micron facility’s utilization into perspective, in its final full yr of operation the two Gigawatt Indian Level nuclear plant generated 16.3 Tera-watt hours so the Micron facility will should be supported by a 2 Gigawatt fossil gasoline or nuclear plant on web site or 2.1 Gigawatts of era off web site, 5% extra.’”
“Vitality density is the explanation that on-site wind and photo voltaic era would solely be advantage signaling. The realm merely can not generate sufficient electrical energy to be significant. I’ve little question that environmental activists shall be upset that I like to recommend power dense pure fuel or nuclear cogeneration that may very well be put in on the footprint. Nonetheless, if Micron goes to be part of our neighborhood, it’s time for everybody to be ahead considering and pragmatic about how greatest to make them aggressive.”
Many politicians don’t know of the significance of dependable, inexpensive electrical energy to fashionable civilization which wind and photo voltaic can not ship. See hyperlink underneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.
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NO TWTW NEXT WEEK: It is going to resume on the final day of 2023 with probably the most important local weather science coated in 2023. The science, papers or movies, that will have been offered elsewhere earlier than 2023, but it surely was not coated in TWTW till 2023 are included. Strategies from readers are welcome.
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Variety of the Week: 59 levels F. Homo sapiens developed within the tropics of Africa with out fur, garments, or animal skins to maintain them heat. In reviewing Winter Video games by Daniel Church Neal Asher writes:
“At 59 levels Fahrenheit ambient temperature, with out heat clothes or motion, your physique temperature will drop, hold dropping and also you’ll die in lower than a day. 59 levels Fahrenheit can be what local weather scientists declare to be the common temperature of our planet which, additionally they declare, is burning up.”
Homo sapiens survives from the polar areas to the tropics, it would survive a warming from greenhouse gases. See hyperlink underneath Questioning European Inexperienced.
D’arrigo et al 2006: NWNA Alaska
By Stephen McIntyre, Local weather Audit, Dec 14, 2023
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-Degree Rise: An Analysis of the Information
By Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Coverage Transient, Might 20, 2019
Difficult the Orthodoxy – Radiation Switch
The Function of Greenhouse Gases in Vitality Switch within the Earth’s Ambiance
By W. A. van Wijngaarden and W. Happer, Preprint, Mar 3, 2023
Vitality Density and Micron
By Roger Caiazza, WUWT, Dec 10, 2023
Extra proof for the worldwide extent of the Little Ice Age
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Dec 13, 2023
From the CO2Science Archive:
“What it means: The outcomes of this research clearly point out that the well-developed Little Ice Age of the Northern Hemisphere was robust sufficient to affect even the normally-warm Southern Hemispheric tropics.”
Difficult the Orthodoxy – RIP
Alan Longhurst 1925-2023: oceanographer and local weather skeptic
By Javier Vinós, Local weather And so on., Dec 14, 2023
“’Why, as an example, in southwest France for about two years now has the decrease environment immediately grow to be smog-particle free and the higher environment devoid of water vapour? Why for greater than a yr now have the Solar and Moon risen and set in milk white brilliance each cloudless day or evening? Why, in the identical interval, have I noticed no towering cumulus clouds? And though air site visitors overhead is close to regular, the place are the routine N-S and E-W contrail grids of yesteryear?’”
Defending the Orthodoxy
Tidbits
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Dec 13, 2023
“As Robinson Meyer writes in Heatmap Each day, ‘If you happen to rely delegates, workers, different attendees, and day guests, greater than 100,000 folks will go to the local weather convention this yr, the UN local weather director Simon Stiell introduced yesterday.’ CDN regrets the error, the waste, the entire thing.
In case your response to the earlier merchandise was “Simon Who?” we’d such as you to know that “United Nations Secretary-Normal António Guterres appointed Mr. Simon Stiell of Grenada as Govt Secretary of the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) on 15 August 2022.”
“As if to show that an beginner economist is sort of as harmful as an beginner physician, although how an beginner received this job is difficult to grasp, we offer you Kristalina Georgieva, who ‘holds a PhD in Economics and an MA in Political Financial system and Sociology from the Karl Marx Greater Institute of Economics’ who’s now, by some sinister flip of occasions, the top of the Worldwide Financial Fund.
[SEPP Comment: The Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics, Sofia Bulgaria, is now known as the University of National and World Economy. Does she still believe in the superiority of the Soviet economy.?]
COP28: 5 large takeaways on a historic local weather settlement
By Saulo Elbein and Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Dec 13, 2023
Defending the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science
1 / 4 of freshwater fish vulnerable to extinction, evaluation reveals
By Lauren Sforza, The Hill, Dec 12, 2023
Hyperlink to press launch: Freshwater fish spotlight escalating local weather impacts on species – IUCN Pink Checklist
By Workers, Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Dec 11, 2023
https://www.iucn.org/press-release/202312/freshwater-fish-highlight-escalating-climate-impacts-species-iucn-red-list
“Now, the menace degree of the Atlantic salmon has been moved from ‘Least Concern’ to ‘Close to Threatened.’ It pointed to local weather change, dams and invasive species as the explanations for the declining inhabitants.
From Now To 2100 Emission Discount Coverage Prices Enormously Exceed Any Web Profit From Averted Warming
By Kenneth Richard, No Tips Zone, Dec 14, 2023
Hyperlink to paper: Prices and Advantages of the Paris Targets
By Richard Tol, Local weather Change Economics, June 30, 2023
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/S2010007823400031
[SEPP Comment: Tol estimates that the costs of CO2 reduction and removal of CO2 from the atmosphere may be 4 to 6% of total gross domestic product.]
How Far Will The Local weather Cult Go?
By I & I Editorial Board, Dec 15, 2023
With buddies like these…
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Dec 13, 2023
“’No sooner had Al Jaber’s remarks grow to be public than the scientific neighborhood descended on him, with high specialists citing the overwhelming mass of exhausting proof establishing the very important must give up coal, fuel and oil.’
Not simply specialists. Prime specialists. As in that scene on the finish of Raiders of the Misplaced Ark, they don’t get recognized. However high males.”
[SEPP Comment: Forklift drivers in a dead storage warehouse?]
Hold Your Head, Others are Shedding Theirs Over Local weather
By Ron Clutz, Science Matter, Dec 15, 2023
Feedback on Video of Bjorn Lomborg interview by John Stossel
Local weather and COVID – Making It Up As They Go Alongside
By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., American Thinker, Dec 11, 2023
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/climate_and_covid__making_it_up_as_they_go_along.html
Attempt Utilizing Wind To Make Generators
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 15, 2023
Former Federal German Minister Beneath Merkel Warns: Germany Heading To A Local weather Tyranny
By P Gosselin, No Tips Zone, Dec 12, 2023
Former German Minister warns authorities is utilizing CO2 “just like the virus” to create a tyranny
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Dec 13, 2023
“The Pandemic awoke lots of people”
COP28 Want-Wash: What’s a Local weather Alarmist to Do? (Half I)
By Robert Bradley Jr., Grasp Useful resource, Dec 15, 2023
Final result of the primary world stocktake
Convention of the Events serving because the assembly of the Events to the Paris Settlement
Revised Advance Model, First world stocktake
By Workers, UNFCCC, Dec 13, 2023
COP28: Not A lot Cop
COP28 is one more triumph of ignorance and hubris over expertise.
By David Turver, Eigen Values, Dec 17, 2023 [H/t Paul DeWitt]
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/cop28-not-much-cop?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1285567&post_id=139780293&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=pe8v9&utm_medium=electronic mail
African Vitality Chamber to COP28: We Need Fossil Fuels!
By Robert Bradley Jr., WUWT, Dec 13, 2023
Hyperlink to: We is not going to Promote-Out by Phasing Out: African Negotiations Urged to Struggle for Africa
Press Launch, African Vitality Chamber, Dec 12, 2023
“Oil and fuel will play an instrumental position in Africa’s financial system for many years to return, and as such, African producers is not going to conform to any phase-out of those assets.”
By Matt Ridley, Each day Mail, Dec 13, 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12861363/MATT-RIDLEY-Hypocrisy-feeble-word-gulf-world-leaders-preach-Cop28-rely-fossil-fuels.html?mc_cid=c40fb180f8&mc_eid=4961da7cb1
FLOP28 & the annual COP pantomime
Press Launch, Web Zero Watch, Dec 15, 2023
COP28 Headed for ‘Full Failure’ as Fossil Gas Debate Rages
By Tsvetana Paraskova, Oil Worth.com, Dec 12, 2023
https://oilprice.com/Newest-Vitality-Information/World-Information/COP28-Headed-for-Full-Failure-as-Fossil-Gas-Debate-Rages.html
COP28 Optics: Deal to “Transition Away” not “Section Out” Fossil Fuels
By Ron Clutz, Science Issues, Dec 13, 2023
[SEPP Comment: Includes chart of how successful past COPs have been in reducing use of fossil fuels.]
COP28 — one large world Psy-op to screw extra money out of some patsies
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Dec 14, 2023
“The UNFCCC hopes everybody will flip up with higher plans subsequent yr:”
“COP28’s Fossil Gas Phaseout: A Comedy of Errors”
By Charles Rotter, WUWT, Dec 12, 2023
“Local weather Summit’s U-Flip – From Heroic Vows to Muffled Whispers”
Nations strike unprecedented settlement to transition away from fossil fuels at COP28
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Dec 13, 2023
Nations strike unprecedented agreement to transition away from fossil fuels at COP28
“The language within the COP28 local weather summit settlement seems to be stronger than previous years’ calls to ‘part down’ or cut back the usage of coal.”
COP28 deal is fossil gasoline ‘part out’ in all however title, MEPs insist
Greater than 100 nations lobbied to have the phrases “phase-out” explicitly included throughout the settlement made on December 13 however the suggestion was shot down by a coalition of OPEC nations led by Saudi Arabia
By Peter Caddle, Brussels Sign, Dec 14, 2023
https://brusselssignal.eu/2023/12/cop28-deal-is-fossil-fuel-phase-out-in-all-but-name-meps-insist/
“’The adopted textual content doesn’t point out the phrase ‘phase-out’ however it’s a ‘phase-out’ of fossil fuels,’ the chairman of the European Parliament delegation at COP28 mentioned.”
[SEPP Comment: Congratulating oneself is not self-flattery? How many will deliver on the promise to triple nuclear capacity by 2050?]
Saudi Oil Minister Praises UN Local weather Settlement, Says It Gained’t Gradual Their Oil Gross sales
By Nick Pope, Each day Caller, Dec 13, 2023
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/13/saudi-oil-minister-praises-climate-agreement-united-nations/
COP28 Achieves Nothing
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 13, 2023
Reflections on COP28 – Vitality Realism eclipses Local weather Alarmism – Dr Benny Peiser
By Benny Peiser, GWPF, Through C=ICSF & CLINTEL, Dec 13, 2023
Video
“Verge of full failure” however in any other case a bonanza Olympic vogue parade for billionaires
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Dec 12, 2023
COP 28: The radicals lose once more
By David Wojick, CFACT, Dec 14, 2023
https://www.cfact.org/2023/12/14/cop-28-the-radicals-lose-again/
“As I identified a number of years in the past, the local weather alarmists have a civil battle occurring, between radicals and moderates. Radical chief Greta Thunberg’s well-known ‘How dare you’ was addressed to reasonable COP negotiators, to not skeptics.”
“Word {that a} transition is importantly completely different from a part out. A transition implies that the wanted power continues to be there, simply from a distinct supply. Section out says nothing about assembly power wants.”
[SEPP Comment: When the UN uses a child as a spokesperson for a complex issue, it loses any rational authority and relies on emotional appeal.]
What the World Can Study From COP28 for COP29
By Sascha Sheehan, Actual Clear Vitality, Dec 14, 2023
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/12/14/what_the_world_can_learn_from_cop28_for_cop29_999056.html
“Regardless of one of the best intentions of COP28 member states and local weather champions, the summit was regrettably tainted by the phrases and deeds of an authoritarian host, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and a convention president, Dr. Sultan al Jaber, most notable for serving as Minister of Business and Expertise and heading the Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm (ADNOC), which supplies about 3 p.c of the world’s oil.”
Issues within the Orthodoxy
100-Yr-Previous Union-Backed Regulation Amongst Snags Derailing Biden’s Inexperienced Vitality Agenda
By Robert Schmad, The Each day Caller, Dec 14, 2023
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/14/union-backed-law-snags-derailing-biden-green-energy-agenda/
Web Zero’s soiled secret: Britain’s inexperienced transition is powered by Chinese language coal
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 9, 2023
Looking for a Widespread Floor
Surge in variety of ‘extraordinarily productive’ authors issues scientists
Some researchers publish a brand new paper each 5 days, on common. Information trackers suspect not all their manuscripts have been produced by way of sincere labour.
By Gemma Conroy, Nature, Dec 11, 2023 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03865-y#:~:textual content=Somepercent20researcherspercent20publishpercent20apercent20new,werepercent20producedpercent20throughpercent20honestpercent20labour.&textual content=Uppercent20topercent20fourpercent20timespercent20more,thanpercent20apercent20decadepercent20ago1.
Remark by Richard Courtney: “Whenever you pay folks to shovel manure then some folks will shovel it.”
Altering Climate
Russia Reels From -60°C Chilly Blast… And Munich Breaks December Snow Document
By P Gosselin, From EIKE, Not Tips Zone, Dec 10, 2023
[SEPP Comment: Why didn’t traditional news services discuss this weather (climate change) during the COP 28?]
El Nino Climate Forward
By Cliff Mass, Climate Weblog, Dec 14, 2023
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2023/12/el-nino-weather-ahead.html
Is Northwest Precipitation Getting Heavier or Lighter?
By Cliff Mass, Climate Weblog, Dec 12, 2023
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2023/12/is-northwest-precipitation-getting.html
“In any case, as a substitute of speculating about precipitation developments, let’s take a look at what the actual world is telling us.”
Let it snow!
By Kip Hansen, WUWT, Dec 12, 2023
Altering Local weather
Lake Chala, and what was underneath it
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Dec 13, 2023
“The purple line exhibits roughly the identical sample besides there wasn’t a lot of a Youthful Dryas occasion at Lake Chala (the leftmost grey shaded band). However you possibly can clearly see the run up in temperatures to about 5,000 years in the past adopted by a drop, then a partial restoration as much as the current.”
Altering Seas
November 2023 Ocean Heat Persists As a consequence of Tropics
By Ron Clutz, Science Issues, Dec 14, 2023
[SEPP Comment: Speculates that ocean warming may be from increased solar activity reducing cloudiness.]
SE Asian Sea Ranges Had been 3-4 Meters Greater Than At present 7-4 Thousand Years In the past
By Kenneth Richard, No Tips Zone, Dec 12, 2023
Hyperlink to paper: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment modelling of the mid-Holocene sea-level highstand of Singapore and Southeast Asia
By Tanghua Li, et al., Quaternary Science Evaluations, Nov 1, 2023
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379123003803
Skeptics go to the poster-child of severely bleached reefs, and it’s simply fantastic 18 months later…
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Dec 9, 2023
[SEPP Comment: A different take on Jennifer Marohasy’s post last week. The greenhouse for coral is amusing.]
Drowned New York Seashores
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Dec 14, 2023
https://realclimatescience.com/2023/12/drowned-new-york-beaches/#gsc.tab=0
“In 1995, the New York Occasions predicted most East Coast seashores can be passed by 2020.”
Altering Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice
Churchill end-of-season drawback polar bear experiences lastly revealed
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Dec 12, 2023
Regardless of hand-wringing about Churchill polar bears this yr, 2023 wasn’t their worst summer season
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Dec 9, 2023
Unprecedented mass acquire over the Antarctic ice sheet between 2021 and 2022 attributable to massive precipitation anomalies
By Wei Wang, et al., Environmental Analysis Letters, Nov 9, 2023
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad0863
Authors from Tongji College, Shanghai, Folks’s Republic of China
Agriculture Points & Worry of Famine
We’re all going to have died
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Dec 13, 2023
“That ‘WHO Europe’ consists of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan suggests that somebody flunked geography as nicely.”
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Yellow (Inexperienced) Journalism?
Sky’s Dengue Fever Lies
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 11, 2023
Mistaken, CNN, Local weather Change Isn’t the Explanation for Rising Bear Assaults in Japan
Linnea Lueken
By Linnea Lueken, Local weather Realism, Dec 12, 2023
Who To Consider? AEP Or Your Mendacity Eyes!
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 13, 2023
Speaking Higher to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Imprecise?
Lazard’s LCOE
By Andy Might, WUWT, Dec 11, 2023
“Lazard’s levelized value of power (LCOE) is cited on the web on a regular basis because the supply for ‘photo voltaic and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels.’ They don’t actually imply ‘power,’ they imply ‘electrical energy.’ The world consumed solely 18% of its power in 2021 as electrical energy, so LCOE is simply the price of 18% of our whole consumption, a truth typically misplaced in these discussions.”
No, Media, ‘Catastrophic Local weather Tipping Factors’ are Nothing to Fear About
By Anthony Watts, Local weather Realism, Dec 8, 2023
[SEPP Comment: A thorough analysis of the ridiculous claim.]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Make issues up.
Local weather change mitigation: tackling the business determinants of planetary well being inequity
By Sharon Friel, The Lancet, Nov 14, 2023
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02512-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email
“The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on well being and local weather change confirms local weather change as the largest world well being menace of the twenty first century. Though the findings of the 2023 report aren’t stunning, they’re extremely worrying for the survival of humanity. We’re presently experiencing a imply heating of 1·14°C above pre-industrial ranges, and insurance policies so far put the world on monitor to nearly 3°C of heating. Each well being dimension tracked by the Lancet Countdown is worsening because the local weather modifications. Intensive social and well being inequities will happen consequently.”
[SEPP Comment: Did not bother with the full report. What about a future glaciation?]
Renewables’ rising value benefit over fossil fuels paves method for {industry} dominance
By Saul Elbein, The Hill, Dec 10, 2023
Renewables’ growing price advantage over fossil fuels paves way for industry dominance
Hyperlink to: Renewable Vitality Market Replace – June 2023
By Workers, IEA, June 2023
https://www.iea.org/experiences/renewable-energy-market-update-june-2023
Hyperlink to Soar Futures Examine
By Workers, Photo voltaic Vitality Applied sciences Workplace, Workplace of Vitality Effectivity & Renewable Vitality (EERE) and Nationwide Renewable Vitality Laboratory (NREL), Sep 8, 2021
https://www.power.gov/eere/photo voltaic/solar-futures-study
From the EERE & NREL research: “With continued technological advances, electrical energy costs don’t improve by way of 2035. Ninety-five p.c decarbonization of the electrical grid is achieved in 2035 with out growing electrical energy costs as a result of decarbonization and electrification prices are absolutely offset by financial savings from technological enhancements and enhanced demand flexibility.”
[SEPP Comment; If they are so cost-effective, why do they need subsidies?]
Earth on verge of 5 catastrophic local weather tipping factors, scientists warn
Humanity faces ‘devastating domino results’ together with mass displacement and monetary smash as planet warms
By Ajit Niranjan, The Guardian Dec 5, 2023 [H/t William Readdy]
https://www.theguardian.com/atmosphere/2023/dec/06/earth-on-verge-of-five-catastrophic-tipping-points-scientists-warn
Local weather Advocacy: Incompetence Or Intentional Fraud?
By Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, Dec 14, 2023
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2023-12-14-climate-advocacy-incompetence-or-intentional-fraud
Hyperlink to article: Powered by wind and water: The Canary Island proving it’s attainable to run on renewables
By Lauren Crosby Medlicott, Euronews.inexperienced, Dec 8, 2023
https://www.euronews.com/inexperienced/2023/12/08/powered-by-wind-and-water-the-canary-island-proving-it-is-possible-to-run-on-renewables
[SEPP Comment: The 28 days of wind power and storage in the Canary Islands is based on 2018 data, which used diesel 40% of the time. Then the numbers declined, and the utility no longer reports them.]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Propaganda
“We’re quickly crashing”: World Warming Extinction Declare
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Dec 12, 2023
Hyperlink to Press Launch: Local weather change: if warming approaches 2°C, a trickle of extinctions will grow to be a flood
By Alex Pigot, The Conservation, Dec 11, 2023
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-if-warming-approaches-2-c-a-trickle-of-extinctions-will-become-a-flood-219182
Hyperlink to paper: Abrupt enlargement of local weather change dangers for species globally
By Alex Pigot, et al., Nature, Ecology & Evolution, Might 18, 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02070-4.epdf?sharing_token=Ly5TqeUl11JLr0SxIDlBYtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OE3UlWULfR6mXg87K-KU157aKsRYws20zSa8_oaW8AKn5oK1DtSJcNtDrsIA2XJv5QABt8k_EHBpaf91oCrM9uoxbeRJIDvdgq6opi5X9xiOL7XEAskvaR_lfe9ZuoK2Qpercent3D
[SEPP Comment: Worrall exposes the paper for what it is: academic false alarms.]
Isle of Wight Blame Rain On Local weather Change
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 12, 2023
Speaking Higher to the Public – Protest
Local weather activists wrestle to be heard at this yr’s U.N. local weather talks
By Aya Batrawy & Rebecca Hersher, NPR, Dec 12, 2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218675784/climate-activists-struggle-to-be-heard-at-this-years-u-n-climate-talks
“Activists say restrictions and dimension of venue are ‘killing the motion’”
Damaging Ignorant College students Undermine the College of Washington
By Cliff Mass, Climate Weblog, Dec 11, 2023
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2023-12-12T09:33:00-08:00&max-results=2
“A number of days earlier than this, the identical college students defaced many areas round campus with antisemitic and anti-Israel messages, together with Nazi swastikas (see under).
Unusually, many of the native main media didn’t cowl any of it.”
Increasing the Orthodoxy
CNN: ‘It’s time to restrict how typically we are able to journey overseas – ‘Carbon Passports’ often is the reply’ – ‘Drastic modifications to our journey habits are inevitable’ – Suggests restrictions shall be ‘compelled’ upon public
By Marc Marno, Local weather Depot, Dec 9, 2023
[SEPP Comment: Better yet, stop all international feel-good conferences such as COP, WEF, etc.]
Seizing Personal Land Is Subsequent Step in Struggle In opposition to Local weather Change
Eminent area is turning into the weapon of selection in opposition to opposition to massive wind and photo voltaic tasks being deliberate and constructed round america.
By Kevin Stocklin, The Epoch Occasions, Dec 2, 2023 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/seizing-private-land-is-next-step-in-fight-against-climate-change-5544056?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2023-12-15&src_cmp=mb-2023-12-15&utm_medium=electronic mail&est=fSMAat0NLbRpercent2BGprBKPKwzlwyj1R5JU771hL78FPijnqe7BO5s2jSOJ6UTgpercent3Dpercent3D
Questioning European Inexperienced
Guide evaluate: Winter Video games
By Neal Asher, Web Zero Watch, Dec 9, 2023
Litigation Points
Younger Californians allege intentional discrimination in greenhouse fuel emissions in lawsuit
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, Dec 12, 2023
Young Californians allege intentional discrimination in greenhouse gas emissions in lawsuit
“The plaintiffs allege that the EPA has recognized about greenhouse fuel emissions’ impacts on kids for years.”
[SEPP Comment: Doubt EPA will mount a rigorous defense. Seems to be another “sue and settle” favoring expanding governmental powers.]
Cap-and-Commerce and Carbon Taxes
Householders hit with ‘boiler tax’ to pay for warmth pump drive
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 15, 2023
Vitality Points — US
X-Raying the Actuality and Origin of a Hole Phrase: ‘Vitality Transition’
By Mark Mills, Actual Clear Markets, Dec 4, 2023
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2023/12/04/x-raying_the_reality_and_origin_of_a_hollow_phrase_energy_transition_996480.html
“The U.S. Inflation Discount Act will spend some $2 trillion to try to cut back CO2 emissions by about 1 gigaton a yr (assuming absolutely deployed, and numerous elastic assumptions are true). Lots of that spending will find yourself straight and not directly buying China’s merchandise. In the meantime, simply the extra coal crops being inbuilt China will result in a further 2 gigatons of CO2 emitted per yr. Looks like a foul commerce.”
[SEPP Comment: From President Carter’s “moral equivalent of war” (MEOW) speech on the need to transition to coal because the world was running out of oil and gas to a MEOW belief that the world has too much oil and gas.]
Rising U.S. Oil Exports Put Lasting Strain on Costs
By Irina Slav, Oil Worth.com, Dec 7, 2023
https://oilprice.com/Vitality/Crude-Oil/Rising-US-Oil-Exports-Put-Lasting-Strain-on-Costs.html
Cargo-tracking information from Kpler and Vortexa has recommended U.S. crude oil exports hit a file of almost 6 million barrels each day final week.
Regardless of the substantial discrepancy between export estimates, the actual fact stays that the U.S. is now a significant exporter.
Bloomberg: Producers wish to eliminate as many barrels as they will as the tip of the yr and tax season approaches.
Washington’s Management of Vitality
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve solely has a 20-day provide for the nation
By Ronald Stein, CFACT, Dec 13, 2023
https://www.cfact.org/2023/12/13/the-u-s-strategic-petroleum-reserve-only-has-a-20-day-supply-for-the-country/
“Within the meantime, underneath the watch of the Division of Vitality that was established in 1977 to reduce our dependence on overseas oil, with a $48 billion greenback funds in 2023, 14,000 federal workers and over 95,000 administration and working contractors, they’ve ‘allowed’ California, the 4th largest financial system on the earth, to extend its dependency on overseas crude oil from 5 to nearly 60 p.c!”
Biden administration points ultimate five-year offshore drilling plan
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, Dec 15, 2023
Biden administration issues final five-year offshore drilling plan
“The Inside Division introduced its ultimate drilling plan for offshore oil and fuel leasing over the subsequent 5 years on Friday, setting three additional lease gross sales between 2024 and 2029.
The federal authorities is required to lease no less than 60 million acres for oil and fuel exploration as a situation of issuing offshore wind energy leases underneath the provisions of the Inflation Discount Act.”
White Home orders research of Snake River dam removing to revive salmon populations
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, Dec 14, 2023
White House orders studies of Snake River dam removal to restore salmon populations
[SEPP Comment: The most reliable source of “renewable” electricity generation.]
Oil and Pure Fuel – the Future or the Previous?
Bitumen past combustion: how one can triple oil sands worth, cut back emissions, and create a complicated materials {industry} for two% of a battery plant’s subsidies
By Terry Etam, BOE Report, Dec 13, 2023
Hyperlink to paper: Bitumen past combustion: How Oil Sands can Assist the World attain Web-Zero Emissions and Create Financial Alternatives for Alberta and Canada
By John Zhou, et al., Alberta Innovates, November 2023
[SEPP Comment: Interesting idea on the use of bitumen (oil sands) for carbon fiber to make lighter weight vehicles and other products.]
Return of King Coal?
What Do China and India Know About Coal That Biden and Democrats Don’t?
By Frank Lasee, Actual Clear Vitality, Dec 11, 2023
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/12/11/what_does_china_and_india_know_about_coal_that_biden_and_democrats_dont_998225.html
“They [Washington] care extra about local weather ideology than folks.”
Nuclear Vitality and Fears
Extra SMR Woes: Oklo/Air-Pressure Cancellation
By Kennedy Maize, Grasp Useful resource, Dec 12, 2023
‘Big Milestone’: Biden Admin Inexperienced Lights Nuke Reactor Utilizing Tech Not Utilized In Many years
By Nick Pope, Each day Caller, Dec 12, 2023 [H/t WUWT]
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/12/biden-administration-nuclear-power-approval/
“The reactor, often called Hermes, is notable as a result of it makes use of molten salts as a coolant for nuclear power manufacturing reasonably than water, which historically serves that operate, in response to the World Nuclear Affiliation. The Hermes facility will function an illustration reactor, which means that the corporate will use it to show that it may well generate secure and inexpensive power sooner or later with the know-how it makes use of, in response to Kairos [Power].”
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Photo voltaic and Wind
Deluded Over Wind and Photo voltaic Safety–Euan Mearns
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 12, 2023
“On Saturday 2 December I made a few spot checks on UK electrical energy provide and demand at 13:30 and 16:50. At 13:30 demand was 40 GW. The UK has 29 GW of put in wind capability and 15 GW of put in photo voltaic PV giving a complete for variable renewable power of 44 GW, sufficient to cowl all demand when it’s windy and sunny. At 13:30 on Saturday, mixed wind and photo voltaic have been offering solely 9.4% of demand and by 16:50 that had dropped to three.8% of demand.”
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Vitality — Different
Billions To Be Wasted On Inefficient Hydrogen Factories
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 15, 2023
“So we’re going to spend billions constructing these hydrogen factories, and within the course of will want twice as a lot fuel as we might have wanted if we burnt the stuff within the first place!”
Contained in the Hydrogen Gas Undertaking Bubbles
By Ron Clutz, Science Issues, Dec 10, 2023
America Wants Biofuels to Assist the World Vitality Transition
By Lindsay Fitzgerald, Actual Clear Vitality, Dec 11, 2023
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/12/11/america_needs_biofuels_to_help_the_global_energy_transition_998124.html
[SEPP Comment: Biofuels without the use of fossil fuels for farming, artificial fertilizer (with nitrous oxide emissions) or livestock fertilizer (from methane producing cattle)?]
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Vitality — Storage
Sky Thinks Battery Storage Can Change CCGTs
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 9, 2023
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Automobiles
EVs Have Misplaced Spark with Public
By Larry Bell, Newsmax, Dec 15, 2023
https://www.newsmax.com/larrybell/electric-vehicles-evs/2023/12/15/id/1146061/
Oslo’s E-Bus Fleet May Use Some Warming…Metropolis Paralyzed as Buses “Break Down” Due To Chilly
By P Gosselin, No Tips Zone, Dec 13, 2023
[SEPP Comment: Did the city politicians believe global warming would give Oslo tropical winters?]
Congress Spent $7.5 Billion on E.V. Chargers. After 2 Years, None Are Constructed.
Greater than $2 billion has been distributed, however solely two states have even damaged floor and most states haven’t even submitted proposals.
By Joe Lancaster, Cause, Dec 8, 2023
Carbon Schemes
The outdated bury fuel in grime trick
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Dec 13, 2023
“’Carbon-dioxide removing shouldn’t be probably the most urgent drawback dealing with the world. However it’s the basis on which the steady local weather of the long run shall be based mostly. And if the world waits till it’s pressing as nicely, it would have waited too lengthy.’” – The Economist
[SEPP Comment: Extinction of complex life on Earth will stabilize its climate?]
California Dreaming
“The erratic actuality of local weather change”
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Dec 15, 2023
https://realclimatescience.com/2023/12/the-erratic-reality-of-climate-change/#gsc.tab=0
“The identical climate California has at all times had is now ‘The erratic actuality of local weather change’”
The California Solar is Setting on Exorbitant Rooftop Photo voltaic Subsidies
By Charles Rotter, WUWT, Dec 13, 2023
[SEPP Comment: Politicized bankruptcy of critical thinking leads to financial bankruptcy?]
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE
Local weather Darwin award
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Dec 13, 2023
“The CBC, Canada’s state broadcaster ran a glowing self-profile by a man who ‘received a vasectomy as a consequence of local weather grief’. A failing media firm with a collapsing viewers share going by way of Christmas layoffs of lots of of workers, regardless of its $1.4 billion subsidy, in all probability shouldn’t be celebrating the additional shrinkage of its remaining woke viewers.”
It’s a good cop
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Dec 13, 2023
“’To this point, the United Nations Girls launched its ‘Feminist Local weather Justice: A Framework for Motion’ report, which confirmed how local weather change will push as much as 158 million extra girls and women into poverty and can plunge 236 million extra girls into starvation by 2050.’
Word the spurious precision. Not roughly 150 million, or a sixth of a billion, or some made-up quantity. No certainly; 158 million into poverty and 236 million into starvation. Although the way you’d get 76 million pushed into starvation however not poverty is a bit exhausting to fathom since nearly the very first thing you do with cash when you have any is purchase meals.’
Misogyny, authoritarianism, and local weather change
By Nitasha Kaul, Tom Buchanan, Analyses of Social Points and Public Coverage, Might 18, 2023 [H/t WUWT]
https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/asap.12347
“And so, it’s 100% clear that there’s this poisonous package deal or bundle of right-wing ideology, nationalism, exceptionalism, racism, sexism, anti-immigrantism, and anti-climate-change that goes with it. That’s what drives lots of them.”
[Katharine Hayhoe, interviewed by Bjork-James & Barla, 2021, p. 389]
[SEPP Comment: No wonder Hayhoe has tenure in the Department of Political Science.]
Fifteen Years Of Toasted Earth
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Dec 15, 2023
https://realclimatescience.com/2023/12/fifteen-years-of-toasted-earth/#gsc.tab=0
“’ “We’re toast if we don’t get on a really completely different path,’ Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Area Sciences.
“Hansen, echoing work by different scientists, mentioned that in 5 to 10 years, the Arctic shall be freed from sea ice in the summertime.
“Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., committee chairman, mentioned, ‘Dr. Hansen was proper. Twenty years later, we acknowledge him as a local weather prophet.’”
Al Gore’s Tiresome Campaign: So Lengthy, So Mistaken
By Robert Bradley Jr., Grasp Useful resource, Dec 11, 2023
Sand Dune Erodes? –Blame It On Local weather Change!
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Dec 14, 2023
“Anticipate extra sob tales like this one in coming weeks, because the local weather institution makes an attempt to make us all really feel responsible about utilizing fossil fuels.”
“unprecedented melting of the arctic ice fields.”
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Dec 14, 2023
https://realclimatescience.com/2023/12/unprecedented-melting-of-the-arctic-ice-fields/#gsc.tab=0
UK’s Orbex secures funding for carbon-neutral spaceport growth
By Workers Writers, Forres, UK (SPX), Dec 13, 2023
https://www.spacedaily.com/experiences/UKs_Orbex_secures_funding_for_carbon_neutral_spaceport_development_999.html
“A key innovation of Orbex Prime is its propulsion utilizing bio-propane, a renewable gasoline supply that drastically reduces the carbon footprint by as much as 96% in comparison with conventional satellite tv for pc launch automobiles reliant on fossil fuels. Furthermore, it’s engineered to depart no particles in orbit, addressing the crucial situation of house air pollution.”
ARTICLES
1. John Kerry and CO2 Emissions Actuality
He assaults Chevron whereas China retains constructing coal crops.
By The Editorial Board, WSJ, Dec. 7, 2023
https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-kerry-climate-policy-cop28-carbon-emissions-0f114b86?mod=Searchresults_pos1&web page=1
TWTW Abstract: Key elements mentioned within the “This Week” part above.
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