The Week That Was: 2022-01-22 (January 22, 2022)
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Quote of the Week: “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”― Jonathan Swift
Number of the Week: 4,996,000 b/d
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW will proceed reviewing important efforts during the last yr or so. Steve McIntyre uncovered the shoddy nature of the proxy knowledge used to assert that temperatures for the final two thousand years have been roughly steady, with the current improve uncommon. In a put up on McIntyre’s web site, Donald Rapp goes into the particular deficiencies of the proxy knowledge, which was featured within the UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6, 2021). The lack of rigor within the SPM illustrates the politicized nature of the IPCC’s science.
Also reviewed would be the presentation by Tom Sheahen describing the importance of the work by William van Wijngaarden and William Happer on the extent to which the 5 main greenhouse gases affect temperatures in as we speak’s environment. Howard Hayden extends the work of van Wijngaarden and Happer to indicate that the procedures utilized by the IPCC (the methodology) are unlikely to disclose the affect of accelerating greenhouse gases on the globe’s temperatures.
After making daring guarantees that the UK will considerably scale back using fossil fuels, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being known as upon to indicate how such a discount won't have a serious destructive affect on the economic system and the way wind energy may be reasonably priced and dependable. US President Biden can also be receiving such calls as his administration tries to make use of administrative measures to make using fossil fuels extraordinarily costly, to the detriment of the US public.
Despite the administration’s efforts to cripple the oil and pure gasoline industries, Texas seems to be main the best way out of the federal government coverage (COVID) induced recession via the event of oil and pure gasoline.
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Manufacturing Evidence to Order: For a number of years Steve McIntyre has warned readers of Climate Audit that an effort has been underway to supply spotty marine knowledge over the previous two thousand years and declare it compelling. As said within the September 11 TWTW:
McIntyre traced that the assertions that temperatures have been steady as much as the commercial revolution come from a set of research by a world paleoclimatology group based mostly in Bern, Switzerland, generally known as PAGES 2k (PAst Global ChangES with 2k referring to the previous two thousand years). The knowledge itself are maintained by NOAA in Boulder. The most devastating criticism is the deliberate omission of high-resolution, well-established proxy research of alkenone deposits (produced by marine algae). These deposits embody these in limestone beds and date again hundreds of thousands of years. McIntyre writes:
“But most of all, given that the 60-30S latband [latitude band] is almost entirely (~96%) ocean, it seems bizarre that PAGES 2019 did not use any ocean core proxies, especially since there are physical formulas for estimating SST [Sea Surface Temperatures] from alkenone or Mg/Ca measurements. Any conversion of tree ring widths to temperature in deg C is the result of ad hoc statistical fitting, not a universal formula. Alkenone values have been measured all over the modern ocean and nicely fit known ocean temperatures. In addition, alkenone values for ocean cores going back to deeper time (even to the Miocene) give a consistent and reproducible narrative. So, there’s a lot to like about them as a candidate for a “good” proxy.
“While there are quite a few high-resolution (10-year decision) alkenone and Mg/Ca measurements within the North Atlantic with values via the final millennium and as much as the current, to my information, there weren't any such sequence as of PAGES 2013 or PAGES 2017. (In my opinion, IPCC AR5 [2013] should have famous this and prompt that this deficiency be remedied.)
“PAGES 2017 included three ocean core proxy sequence within the 30-60S, all from offshore Chile. Their resolutions ranged from 24 to 83 years. There are some to date undiscussed puzzles within the PAGES 2017 model of those sequence – as, in every case, trendy values obtainable within the underlying archive sequence have been deleted. In every case, unsurprisingly, the impact of the deletion was to cover a decline. I'll focus on this sequence beneath.
In the sequence of posts on his web site, McIntyre extends the protection of the deficiencies within the PAGES2k knowledge to cowl marine knowledge from 60° South Latitude to 30° North Latitude. This is about 68% earth’s floor (not separating oceans from land). McIntyre finds no 2000-year interval with roughly steady temperatures from the start of the Christian period to the start of the commercial period. The deficiencies in these knowledge prompted Donald Rapp, writer of Assessing Climate Change: Temperatures, Solar Radiation and Heat Balance (in its third version) to put up a touch upon McIntyre’s web site on November 1 discussing a concept of the Climategate hack and the issues with proxy knowledge utilized by the IPCC:
I believe the arguments offered are credible – there was a easy hack probably based mostly on a easy entry. But from my perspective, I don’t care if the world’s worst villains have been chargeable for the hack, nor am I involved with the diploma of sophistication used to get into these secret information. What does matter is that as of 2009, it's clear that the local weather science tribe was strongly biased in favor of alarmism and constructed their arguments round doubtful knowledge and worse manipulation of the information, full with cherry selecting some and hiding others, whereas on the identical time utilizing their affect to squelch various views and punish these not within the tribe. It grew to become clear that the entire science of proxies for previous local weather was rife with pretend information. Any proxy requires a standardization interval when the mannequin may be in comparison with knowledge. Then, extrapolation to earlier eras requires justification by exhibiting that different variables have been comparable in the course of the extrapolated interval to these in the course of the standardization interval. I've learn dozens of revealed papers that make the most of proxies. Very few if any present the comparability in the course of the standardization interval and/or the premise for justifying extrapolation. I got here to the reluctant conclusion that the majority the proxy knowledge is very suspect. SM [Steve McIntyre] penetrated way more deeply than I did into the proxies utilized by MBH [Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, & Malcolm Hughes] and demonstrated the fallacies in each the proxies themselves in addition to the strategies of processing knowledge. It appears unimaginable that after all of the demonstrations by SM over a decade and extra, they're nonetheless placing forth their un-science and Mann nonetheless is a extremely revered chief within the local weather subject. The local weather gate releases demonstrated not a lot the small print (they have been revealed by SM) as a lot because the mindset of those rascals. Altogether, the occasions of 2009 forged a really lengthy shadow on the periodic UN reviews that got here out subsequently. Can you imagine something that the local weather institution publicizes? [Boldface added]
Without query, everybody have to be cautious of utilizing proxy knowledge promoted by the IPCC. It is as prone to be strong science as manufactured wooden (wooden particles glued collectively and coated with a veneer) is strong wooden. See the September TWTWs and hyperlink below Challenging the Orthodoxy.
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Greenhouse Gas Warming: As mentioned in earlier TWTWs, In 2020 W. A. van Wijngaarden and W. Happer submitted a paper on the “Dependence of Earth’s Thermal Radiation on Five Most Abundant Greenhouse Gases” to the journal Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics. The paper has been ignored.
Those physicists are consultants on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics (AMO) and spectroscopy, the research of the interplay of electromagnetic radiation and matter (together with atoms and molecules). Spectroscopy is relevant to many fields of physics, chemistry, and biology. Chemist John Tyndall began utilizing it in 1859 to review radiative warmth switch from the Earth to seek out why the Earth was heat sufficient to assist life. Tyndall coined the time period “greenhouse gases”, the dominant one being water vapor. Tyndall realized that the greenhouse impact is essential for human existence, with out it the land plenty could be far too chilly each evening for flowers to develop. (Also, with out carbon dioxide no flowers would exist.)
The van Wijngaarden and Happer paper depends on a complete set of observations and calculations generally known as HITRAN, an acronym for high-resolution transmission molecular absorption, compiled below Air Force contract by the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. It is a compilation of spectroscopic parameters (defining traits) that can be utilized to foretell and simulate the transmission and emission of sunshine (electromagnetic power) within the environment.
Using these knowledge, which apply to cloudless skies, van Wijngaarden and Happer calculate the affect that growing water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, nitrous oxide, and methane have on temperatures. The observations and calculations affirm main conclusions by Tyndall and a long time of laboratory experiments. Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gasoline, however it isn't growing considerably with a warming planet. Further, the affect of extra carbon dioxide diminishes significantly with concentrations above 100 components per million in quantity (ppm), which is way lower than that which naturally happens. Overall, carbon dioxide offers roughly twenty to 25 p.c of the whole greenhouse impact however doubling the focus would solely improve the whole greenhouse impact by a little bit over 2 p.c. And given the prevailing affect of water vapor, the influences of the opposite gases on world temperatures are insignificant.
The November 13 TWTW mentioned that on the Heartland Conference, physicist Tom Sheahen reported why the paper was an excellent instance of utilizing the scientific methodology to get the physics proper. The authors calculated the cumulative radiation leaving the earth, calculated what's delayed within the environment, the greenhouse impact, and located that that the rest matched satellite tv for pc measurements of radiation leaving the environment (going into area). Further, nobody has performed such thorough calculations earlier than and confirmed they matched observations.
Sheahen emphasised that the settlement of calculations with observations is the important thing issue which certifies that their computational mannequin is appropriate. That’s the right use of the scientific methodology. Van Wijngaarden & Happer calculated the depth of electromagnetic radiation (infrared radiation) leaving the environment above the Sahara desert (low humidity); the Mediterranean (regular humidity) consultant of the temperate areas of the earth; and wintertime Antarctica. Antarctica is outstanding for the reason that comparatively heat greenhouse gases within the troposphere, [mostly CO2, O3 and H2O] radiate extra to area than the thermal radiation from the chilly ice floor would via a clear environment. One can add that that is an instance of the significance of convection transporting warmth from the tropics to the polar areas the place it's misplaced to area. [The surface temperature used in the calculations is 190 K (minus 83 C, minus 118 F)].
Sheahen underlined that settlement between concept and experiment (and observations) is THE HALLMARK of excellent science. The methodology utilized by van Wijngaarden and Happer meets that criterion. Therefore, it may be trusted to make predictions about hypothetical states the place the concentrations of the assorted gases are modified.
The mannequin of van Wijngaarden and Happer, validated by bodily proof, was used to forecast the consequences of accelerating greenhouse gases on escaping radiation, which in flip impacts temperatures. At present concentrations, growing water vapor and carbon dioxide have a tiny impact on temperatures; the time period is “saturated.” The results of accelerating the opposite greenhouse gases are just about imperceptible.
Consequently, their methodology is way superior to that used within the world local weather fashions featured in IPCC reviews and its followers. Those fashions start with totally different (and extremely questionable) preliminary assumptions, and significantly exaggerate atmospheric temperature will increase in contrast with precise observations.
In their paper, “Methane and Climate” mentioned within the November 6 TWTW, van Wijngaarden and Happer conclude: The internet forcing improve from CH4, and CO2 is about 0.05 watts per meter squared per yr.
“Other things being equal, this will cause a temperature increase of about 0.012 C [per] year. Proposals to place harsh restrictions on methane emissions because of warming fears are not justified by facts.”
It is vital to keep in mind that these calculations are based mostly on “clear skies,” no clouds. If and when a strong concept on cloud formations is developed, then the calculated affect of greenhouse gases on temperatures needs to be decrease. Clouds replicate important daylight, stopping it from reaching the floor, cooling the floor. See hyperlink below Challenging the Orthodoxy.
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The Whole Globe, Atmosphere Included: In his presentation on the Heartland Conference, and in a subsequent paper on the SEPP web site, physicist Howard Hayden reveals that for 30 years the IPCC and its followers ignored the long-established Stefan-Boltzmann Law which is essential for understanding the radiation emitted from the floor of the earth.
Discussed within the November 13 TWTW, Hayden reveals that the IPCC claims the common temperature improve from a doubling of CO2 will likely be 3 ºC. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann regulation, which the IPCC now acknowledges however apparently doesn't perceive, this is able to require a rise floor radiation of 16.5 W/m2. Yet the IPCC continues to debate “radiative forcing” as if will probably be important. Using the mannequin and calculations superior by van Wijngaarden and Happer, which have been examined and validated by bodily proof, Hayden reveals IPCC’s “’radiative forcing’ due to CO2 doubling of 3.7 W/m2 – is a mere 2.3% nudge with a dramatic name.” That is, the “radiative forcing” of CO2 is negligible in comparison with the whole greenhouse impact of over 150 W/m2.
Hayden additionally explains why the procedures (methodology) utilized by the IPCC and its followers are unlikely to end in an correct understanding of the greenhouse impact. What is vital to find out a warming or cooling of the globe is the power launched to area, which may be measured from the highest of the environment, not on the floor. The infrared power may be measured utilizing devices on satellites below NASA’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) program, which have been working since 1999 and present no dramatic change in infrared radiation going to area,
Without a rise in absorbed daylight (therefore, outgoing IR), the elevated IR from the floor have to be matched precisely by a rise in “radiative forcing.” With a supposed 3ºC rise in floor temperature, there have to be a rise of 16.5 W/m2 from the floor supposedly brought on by 3.7 W/m2 as a consequence of CO2 doubling. IPCC has by no means thought of this contradiction, not to mention offered an evidence. Hayden constructs derives a easy components from elementary physics which needs to be a constraint on any and all local weather mannequin projections. of elevated warming from a doubling of CO2. The direct improve within the greenhouse impact is 2.3%, a temperature improve far lower than glacial to interglacial warming. For instance, the glacial-to-interglacial warming of 10ºC brought on the floor to radiate greater than 50 W/m2, but the “radiative forcing” as a result of improve in CO2 focus was definitely lower than 3.7 W/m2. See hyperlinks below Challenging the Orthodoxy and Hayden’s paper at http://www.sepp.org/science_papers/Climate%20Comments.pdf
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Another Assessment Report: Boris Johnson’s authorities launched the Third Climate Change Risk Assessment required below the UK’s Climate Change Act of 2008 and ready by the Climate Change Committee (CCC). Paul Homewood sums up its worth: “I think the CCC have been watching too many disaster movies!” and “The whole report is just another attempt to scare the children and persuade people to accept the high costs of Net Zero.”
Further, the online balancing prices [cost of balancing the electricity load for erratic wind and solar power] within the UK proceed to skyrocket. These will proceed to extend as extra intermittent technology is introduced in. Homewood states, “Net balancing costs were £506m in 2015. The system pressures mentioned above have pushed the net cost in 2020 to £1.3Bn, 67% higher than 2019 (£794m).”
Further, in response to the BBC the Johnson authorities “is developing a £15bn plus ‘Cost Deferral Mechanism’ to smooth the expected rise of energy bills over a period of years, with ‘some supporters of the PM arguing he will use this Cost Deferral Scheme, to relaunch his premiership.’”
Net Zero Watch states: ‘Mr Johnson’s political gamble is dangerous information for everybody. Rather than tackle the basic drawback with UK power provide, which has been distorted and broken by huge subsidies to intermittent inexperienced mills (£10 billion a yr at current), the federal government appears ready to bail out power corporations and power banks to lend them billions.”
We have right here one other subsidy pit. Green subsidies require ever extra inexperienced subsidies to bail out those that took the preliminary inexperienced subsidies. “The Tony Blair (former PM) Institute for Global Change” claims that top power (electrical energy) costs may have been averted by constructing extra wind generators earlier.
Now with Net Zero Watch, Professor Gordon Hughes, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, who has lengthy studied wind energy economics and differentiated between rhetoric and actuality responded:
“The ‘Tony Blair Institute’ and ‘Carbon Brief’ authors appear to live in an alternative universe of speculative numbers. We have plenty of actual evidence about the cost of onshore wind in exactly the period under discussion. It was (and still is) extremely expensive. To have built more of it would have made the current situation even more painful for consumers.”
See hyperlinks below Defending the Orthodoxy and Energy Issues – Non-US
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The Alternative Universe: The complete Biden Administration seems to be in an alternate universe of speculative numbers. It continues to clamp down on oil and pure gasoline manufacturing within the US and promote wind and photo voltaic which aren't reasonably priced and dependable. The value of offering obligatory back-up is extreme and significantly underestimated. “The BPA (Bonneville Power Authority) Balancing Authority Total Wind and Solar (Generation and Basepoint), Near-Real-Time” for this week illustrates this drawback.
After days of bouncing at zero, on Jan 17 wind energy started to extend to about 50% of capability (about 2900 MW below the BPA) in late morning on the 18th, then fell again to zero by the top of the day the place it stayed till Jan 20 when it elevated to nearly 90% of capability about midday the place it stayed for just a few hours earlier than falling down to close zero on Jan 22. It has stayed there since. This erratic energy is balanced (backed-up) by the nation’s largest hydroelectric system. The system can't deal with any extra erratic wind. Yet, the Biden Administration is bragging about constructing extra wind and photo voltaic, and issued an govt order requiring the federal government, together with the Department of Defense to go Net Zero. This order can significantly injury the US navy and the US grid.
See hyperlinks below Change in US Administrations, Energy Issues – US, Washington’s Control of Energy, and https://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/twndbspt.aspx
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Texas Responds? Despite the administration’s opposition to the oil and pure gasoline trade, a bunch known as Texans for Natural Gas issued a report on the plentiful portions of pure gasoline in Texas:
“An abundance of pure gasoline – made attainable by the Shale Revolution that started in Texas’ Barnett Shale almost 20 years in the past – has enabled the United States to turn into one of many world’s largest exporters of the useful resource in only some quick years. Global demand for pure gasoline continues to develop because the world seeks to extend power entry and scale back emissions, and the underside line is that Texas is poised to assist meet the world’s power wants.
“The United States is currently the third largest exporter of liquefied natural gas and is forecast to surpass Qatar and Australia to become the top exporter by 2023. The growth of LNG has occurred as the international market for natural gas has grown, giving rise to the use of natural gas in its liquefied form for efficient transportation.”
For extra on this outstanding shift within the pure gasoline trade see hyperlinks below Oil and Natural Gas – the Future or the Past?
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Number of the Week: 4,996,000 b/d. The US Energy Information Administration reported that in January 2022, it anticipated that the Permian Basin alone (West Texas and Eastern New Mexico) will produce 4,966,000 barrels of crude oil a day. According to World Population Review, in 2021 US oil manufacturing was 12,108,000 b/d; Russia was 10,835,000 b/d; Saudi Arabia (member of OPEC) was 9,580,000 b/d; Iraq (member of OPEC) was 4,620,000 b/d, Canada was 4,129,000 b/d, China was 3,823,000 b/d, UAE (member of OPEC) was 3,068,000 b/d, Kuwait (member of OPEC) was 2,652,000 b/d. Except for Saudi Arabia, the Permian Basin is producing extra oil than particular person nations which are member of OPEC.
This offers a foundation for understanding the large measurement of the oil and gasoline trade within the US, which the Biden Administration is attempting to cripple whereas selling unreliable and costly wind and photo voltaic which can't survive with out subsidies. No surprise the Russian Deputy PM Alexander Novak and prime OPEC+ negotiator couldn't imagine the Biden Administration when it approached “hat in hand” requesting OPEC+ improve oil manufacturing!
See hyperlinks below Oil and Natural Gas – the Future or the Past? and https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/oil-production-by-country
Challenging the Orthodoxy — NIPCC
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science
Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), 2013
Summary: https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/CCR/CCR-II/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts
Idso, Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), 2014
Summary: https://www.heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-IIb/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels
By Multiple Authors, Bezdek, Idso, Legates, and Singer eds., Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, April 2019
Download with no cost:
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Climate-Change-Reconsidered-II-Fossil-Fuels-FULL-Volume-with-covers.pdf
Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming
The NIPCC Report on the Scientific Consensus
By Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), Nov 23, 2015
Download with no cost:
https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming
Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
S. Fred Singer, Editor, NIPCC, 2008
http://www.sepp.org/publications/nipcc_final.pdf
Global Sea-Level Rise: An Evaluation of the Data
By Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Policy Brief, May 20, 2019
Getting It Right
Scientifically, “success” means “agreement with measurement.” Because van Wijngaarten & Happer did so, their methodology of calculation can be utilized to make predictions about alternate GHG situations.
By Tom Sheahen, 14th International Conference on Climate Change, Oct 16, 2021
Follow the Science: The IPCC’s Backdoor Science Agenda
By Howard Hayden, 14th International Conference on Climate Change, Oct 16, 2021
A Constraint Equation for Climate
By Howard Hayden, SEPP Website, 2021
http://www.sepp.org/science_papers/Climate%20Constraint%20Equation.pdf
A Theory of the Hack [Climategate 2009]
By Stephen McIntyre, Climate Audit, Nov 1, 2021
Global warming has saved 500,000 lives in England and Wales within the final 20 years
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 17, 2022
[SEPP Comment: From “Climate-related mortality and hospital admissions, England and Wales; 2001 to 2020,” Office for National Statistics.]
When The Administrative State Slips Its Constitutional Bonds
By Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, Jan 20, 2022
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-1-20-when-the-administrative-state-slips-its-bonds
“Today there are hundreds of thousands of these ‘experts’ in the bureaucracy. To a person, they appear to believe that the most pressing issue of our era is saving the world from U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide. How do they know that? Obviously, they know it because they are the ‘experts.’”
[SEPP Comment: Exposing the “Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases” for what it is – a group of Washington “experts” out to ban carbon dioxide who do not understand the greenhouse effect and the importance of carbon dioxide for existence of life on this planet.]
So about that steady local weather
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Jan 19, 2022
Link to article: What’s the most well liked Earth’s ever been?
By Michon Scott and Rebecca Lindsey, Climate.gov., Sep 7, 2021
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been?fbclid=IwAR2cDXUf6jyEOnk4lAwo48rXIr5TXCyA6ZT-KTdoxiQzjFgePoT3VcTps4s
The ESG [Environmental Social And Governance] Movement Is Anti-Energy, Anti-Development, Anti-America
ESG poses as an ethical and financially savvy motion. In actuality it's an immoral and financially ruinous motion that's destroying the free world’s potential to supply low-cost, dependable power.
By Alex Epstein, His Blog, Jan 6, 2022
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/the-esg-movement-is-anti-energy-anti
UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 18, 2022
Link to report: UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022
Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 56 of the Climate Change Act 2008
By Staff, HMG, Jan 17, 2022
What’s the most well liked Earth has been “lately”?
By Michon Scott, Climate.gov., Sep 7, 2021
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/what%E2%80%99s-hottest-earth-has-been-%E2%80%9Clately%E2%80%9D
[SEPP Comment: Features a hockey-stick with no standardization period demonstrating that two different measurement techniques are both measuring temperature changes simultaneously with equal sensitivity. No range of uncertainty of surface-air thermometer measurements is given.]
Defending the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science
Dimming Sun’s rays needs to be off-limits, say consultants
By Staff, Phys.org, Jan 17, 2022
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-dimming-sun-rays-off-limits-experts.html
How the Refrigerator Became an Agent of Climate Catastrophe
The evolution of cooling know-how helps to elucidate why supposed options to world warming have solely made the scenario worse.
By David Owen, The New Yorker, Jan 15, 2022
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-the-refrigerator-became-an-agent-of-climate-catastrophe
[SEPP Comment: Would the author prefer meat preserved the old fashion way – smoked and salted – and winters without fresh fruits and vegetables? What about the need to refrigerate child’s medicines in tropical countries?]
Questioning the Orthodoxy
Maori Science Beats Woke Myths
By Jennifer Marohasy, Her Blog, Jan 21, 2022
The Curse of Scientism’s Dominant Paradigm
By Christopher Carr, Quadrant, Jan 22, 2022
Fallen Icon, Book Review
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 20, 2022
Book Review: FALLEN ICON by Susan J. Crockford
Book Review by Kip Hansen, WUWT, Jan 18, 2022
This yr in local weather catastrophe
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Jan 19, 2022
Thriving Tigers
Video, CO2 Coalition, Jan 19, 2022
After Paris!
Yes it’s actual
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Jan 19, 2022
“In the Financial Post, Henry Geraedts writes that ‘what actually happened’ at the UN’s COP26 Glasgow Climate Change confab last November was extremely significant. ‘Net Zero’s magical thinking met unyielding global energy realities and it lost, leaving the Paris Accord’s climate ambitions withering on the vine.’”
The harmful Executive Order nobody is speaking about
Last month, President Biden issued a “net zero” Executive Order that threatens the very existence of our nation. And but he has acquired little or no pushback.
By Alex Epstein, His Blog, Jan 21, 2022
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-executive-order-no
[SEPP Comment: No doubt it will be interesting to see how well M1A2 Abrams tanks run on wind and solar power.]
Biden administration unveils plan for addressing wildfires
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Jan 18, 2022
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/590233-biden-administration-unveils-plan-for-addressing-wildfires
“Through the initiative, the administration said it will use intentional ‘prescribed’ fires to help maintain forest health and invest in helping communities adapt to fires. It will also include investments in addressing post-fire risks, recovery and reforestation.”
[SEPP Comment: Will the “greens” support this method abandoned about 30 years ago?]
How Biden torched the Trump restoration
By Liz Peek, The Hill, Jan 20, 2022
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/590451-how-biden-torched-the-trump-recovery
Problems within the Orthodoxy
European governments scramble to handle gasoline value spikes amid power crunch
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 17, 2022
China Coal Output Hits New Record
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 20, 2022
Seeking a Common Ground
Linking Extreme Cold and Snow to Global Warming: An Extreme Climate Conundrum?
By Madhav Khadekar, Frontier Center, Jan 19, 2022 [H/t Eduard Harinck]
“Overall, it is not clear that the world’s temperature is, in fact, warming or cooling. So far, scientists are speculating on whether or not the global temperature will change in a consistent way over the next decade or two. No one really knows.”
Science, Policy, and Evidence
What The Climate Scare And Pandemic Fearmongering Have In Common
By I & I Editorial Board, Jan 7, 2022
“ESG” = Extreme Shortages Guaranteed!
By Ronald Stein, CFACT, Jan 17, 2022
https://www.cfact.org/2022/01/17/esg-extreme-shortages-guaranteed/
Environmental rules can generally do extra hurt than good
By Rainer Zitelmann, Cornwall Alliance, Jan 14, 2022
Measurement Issues — Surface
Day/Night temperature unfold fails to substantiate IPCC prediction
By David Mason-Jones, WUWT, Jan 22, 2022
The Bureau of Meteorology finds Australia continues to be getting colder a century later
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Jan 22, 2022
Japan’s Own Data Show No Warming For Tokyo…But NASA Tampers, Changes Trend To Warming!
By P Gosselin, Charts by Kirye, Text by Pierre, No Tricks Zone, Jan 19, 2022
Creating Records By Hiding The Past
By Tony Heller, His Blog, Jan 20, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/01/creating-records-by-hiding-the-past/
Video on Australia temperatures.
Text https://realclimatescience.com/2022/01/creating-records-by-erasing-the-past/
1920 or 2020? Adelaide Australia Edition
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Jan 19, 2022
Measurement Issues — Atmosphere
Global Temperature Report
By Staff, Earth System Science Center, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, December 2021
https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/
Map: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2021/december2021/202112_Map.png
Map: Jan 1979 to Dec 2021 Trend: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2021/december2021/2021_Trend_Map.png
Graph: Base Period 1991-2020: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/2021/december2021/202112_Bar.png
[SEPP Comment: No general warming trend over Antarctica in 43 years.]
NOAA National Centers for Environmental info, Climate at a Glance: Statewide Time Series, revealed January 2022,
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/
“Satellite data have been adjusted by the Global Hydrology and Climate Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). An independent analysis is also performed by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and a third analysis has been performed by Dr. Qiang Fu of the University of Washington (UW) (Fu et al. 2004) to remove the influence of the stratosphere on the mid-troposphere value. Global averages from radiosonde data are available from 1958 to present, while satellite measurements began in 1979.”
[SEPP Comment: Yet NOAA and NCAR modelers ignore these data. The NCEI ignores the lower troposphere, where the greenhouse effect is concentrated.]
The over-under on clouds and local weather sensitivity
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Jan 19, 2022
Compensation Between Cloud Feedback and Aerosol-Cloud Interaction in CMIP6 Models
By Chenggong Wang, et al, Geophysical Research Letters, Jan 15, 2021
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL091024
Flying with the clouds
By Staff Writers, Beijing, China (SPX), Jan 19, 2022
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Flying_with_the_clouds_999.html
Link to paper; Microphysical traits of precipitating cumulus cloud based mostly on airborne Ka-band cloud radar and droplet measurements
By Lei Wei, et al. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, Nov 21, 2021
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674283421001136?via%3Dihub
Al Gore: Emissions reductions hinge on AI measurements from area
By Sharon Udasin, The Hill, Jan 20, 2022
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/590663-al-gore-emissions-reductions-hinge-on-ai-measurements-from
“’What’s so unique about the space resource is we can see and measure and identify things from space that are extremely difficult to measure at ground level,’ Gore said on Tuesday.”
[SEPP Comment: Yet, Gore ignores temperature measurements from space.]
Changing Weather
2021 had the fewest world hurricanes within the satellite tv for pc period
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 17, 2022
Winter Will not Loosen Its grip Anytime Soon within the Eastern US
By Paul Dorian, Via WUWT, Jan 17, 2022
This Week In 1929 – Deadly Tornadoes In The US And Canada
By Tony Heller, His Blog, Jan 21, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/01/this-week-in-1929-deadly-tornadoes-in-the-us-and-canada/
[SEPP Comment: So much for winter tornadoes being caused by greenhouse gas warming.]
Changing Seas
Not King Canute
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Jan 19, 2022
Climate disaster drives Mediterranean coral populations to break down
By Staff Writers, Barcelona, Spain (SPX), Jan 20, 2022
https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Climate_crisis_drives_Mediterranean_coral_populations_to_collapse_999.html
Population collapse of habitat-forming species within the Mediterranean: a long-term research of gorgonian populations affected by recurrent marine heatwaves
By D. Gómez-Gras, et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Dec 22, 2021
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.2384
From the summary: “Therefore, our results underpin the great risk that recurrent MHWs [marine heatwaves] pose for the long-term integrity and functioning of these emblematic temperate reefs.”
Increase in marine warmth waves threatens coastal habitats
By Staff Writers, Gloucester Point VA (SPX), Jan 19, 2022
https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Increase_in_marine_heat_waves_threatens_coastal_habitats_999.html
Link to paper: Marine Heatwaves within the Chesapeake Bay
By Piero L. F. Mazzini and Cassia Pianca, Frontiers in Marine Science, Jan 7, 2022
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.750265/full
Changing Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice
Changes within the Greenland Ice Sheet quantity lag local weather modifications, such that as we speak’s local weather may nonetheless be affecting its measurement in hundreds of years’ time
Press Release, PLOS One, Jan 19, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/939912
Link to paper: Impact of paleoclimate on current and future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Hu Yang, et al. PLOS One, Jan 20, 2022
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0259816
From Abstract: “We propose that the GrIS [Greenland Ice Sheet] was not in equilibrium throughout the entire Holocene and that the slow response to Holocene climate needs to be represented in ice sheet simulations in order to predict ice mass loss, and therefore sea level rise, accurately.”
To Shrink or to not Shrink, That is the Question
By Roger Roots, WUWT, Jan 20, 2022
Changing Earth
The Tongan eruption despatched shockwaves all over the world
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Jan 18, 2022
“It’s interesting watching air pressure waves travel across Japan and the USA. Ken Stewart found the compression- decompression wave hit the east coast of Australia at about 5:16 Qld time and took 3 hours and 24 minutes roughly to get to Shark Bay, an average speed of about 1,160 kph. The decompression was about half an hour after the first peak and can be seen (still) in weather station pressure data.”
The Tonga Volcano Affects the Weather and Water of the Pacific Northwest
By Cliff Mass, Weather Blog, Jan 15, 2022
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-tonga-volcano-affects-weather-and.html
Researchers say Earth’s core could also be cooling ‘more rapidly than expected’
By Mychael Schnell, The Hill, Jan 19, 2022
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/590454-researchers-say-earths-core-may-be-cooling-more-rapidly-than
Link to paper: Radiative thermal conductivity of single-crystal bridgmanite on the core-mantle boundary with implications for thermal evolution of the Earth
By Motohiko Murakami, et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Jan 15, 2022
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X21005859
Agriculture Issues & Fear of Famine
What’s Wrong With USDA’s ‘Bioengineered’ Label? NBC Botches The Story
By Cameron English, ACSH, Jan14, 2022
https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/01/14/whats-wrong-usdas-bioengineered-label-nbc-botches-story-16062
Lowering Standards
Global company sows worry with misinformation
By Gregory Wrightstone and Kip Hansen, CO2 Coalition, Jan 17, 2022
Link to report: WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970–2019) (WMO-No. 1267)
By Staff, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2021
https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=21930#.YexV5P7MJyG
UK MET Climate Forecast: Armed Criminals Roaming Feudal Britain
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Jan 17, 2022
Link to article: The Met Office warns of armed militias roaming a UK ravaged by local weather change in doomsday report (however possibly they need to get this week’s climate proper first!)
By Glenn Owen, Daily Mail, UK, Jan 15, 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10406521/Met-Office-predicts-collapse-society-following-climate-disaster.html
The Government-funded UK Climate Resilience Progamme issued the report
Researchers thought of what would occur within the occasion of local weather change
The report predicts the collapse of regulation and order within the occasion of disaster
Communicating Better to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Vague?
Study: Global Warming End of Snow Threatens Winter Olympics
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Jan 18, 2022
Communicating Better to the Public – Make issues up.
Nearly half of GDP in cities vulnerable to disruption from nature loss
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, Jan 17, 2022
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/590023-nearly-half-of-gdp-in-cities-at-risk-of-disruption-from-nature-loss
Link to report: BiodiverCities by 2030: Transforming cities’ relationship with nature
By Staff, World Economic Forum, Jan 17, 2022
https://www.weforum.org/reports/biodivercities-by-2030-transforming-cities-relationship-with-nature
SSE [Renewables] Chief Talks With Forked-Tongue!
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 20, 2022
“Meanwhile Greater Gabbard [Offshore Wind] is subsidised through ROCs to the tune of £100/MWh, which they obtain on prime of the revenue from gross sales of electrical energy. With a wholesale value of £200.MWh, SSE are getting an obscene £300/MWh for each unit of electrical energy they promote.
“Funny how Mr Phillips-Davies forgot to mention these inconvenient facts!”
SCMP: China to go 70% Renewable in Three Years
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Jam 17, 2022
“Climate change: Renewable energy to meet over 70 per cent of China’s additional power needs in next three years, says IEA”
[SEPP Comment: The IEA has lost it!]
World dangers extra years of excessive power costs, emissions: IEA
By AFP Staff Writers, Paris (AFP), Jan 14, 2022
https://www.energy-daily.com/reports/World_risks_more_years_of_high_energy_prices_emissions_IEA_999.html
“‘In the absence of faster structural change in the sector, rising demand over the next three years could result in additional market volatility and continued high emissions,’ the IEA stated.
“IEA govt director Fatih Birol stated emissions from electrical energy should fall by 55 p.c by 2030 if the world is to satisfy a goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
“‘But in the absence of major policy action from governments, those emissions are set to remain around the same level for the next three years,’ Birol stated in a press release.
“‘Not only does this highlight how far off track we currently are from a pathway to net zero emissions by 2050, but it also underscores the massive changes needed for the electricity sector to fulfil its critical role in decarbonising the broader energy system.’
“Birol also warned that high electricity prices ‘have been causing hardship for many households and businesses around the world and risk becoming a driver of social and political tensions.’”
Attenborough fibbed about lots of of useless walrus as a result of he needed what the WEF needs
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Jan 20, 2022
False ravenous polar bear meme from 2019 making social media rounds with Greenland added
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Jan 17, 2022
Wrong Again, Atlantic, High Lumber Prices Are Not Being Caused by ‘Climate Change’
By Linnea Lueken, Climate Realism, Jan 19, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
Communicating Better to the Public – Go Personal.
Cooking The Weather
By Tony Heller, His Blog, Jan 20, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/01/cooking-the-weather-2/
[SEPP Comment; Video on ex EPA bureaucrats attacking those who question them fantasies.]
Communicating Better to the Public – Use Propaganda on Children
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America’
Failing to persuade adults of a local weather disaster, the sky-is-falling story is focusing on college youngsters
By Anthony Sadar, The Washington Times, Jan 20, 2022
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jan/20/book-review-miseducation-how-climate-change-is-tau/
Communicating Better to the Public – Protest
Resist: Join the WorldLarge Freedom Rally Protests this Saturday/ Sunday
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Jan 21, 2022
“Major protests towards necessary vaccination are being deliberate in 40 nations and no less than 150 cities all over the world this weekend.’
Expanding the Orthodoxy
Just what we'd like
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Jan 19, 2022
Innovation Uptake: The Final Frontier for Energy Policy
By David M. Hart, Real Clear Energy, Jan 20, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/01/20/innovation_uptake_the_final_frontier_for_energy_policy_812892.html
“The full weight of the national laboratory complex created for the Manhattan Project is being put behind such efforts, amplified by collaborators in academia and industry.”
[SEPP Comment: The Manhattan Project was based on understanding the physics involved demonstrated by experiment, the “climate crisis” is based on ignoring the physics involved.]
Biden launches inexperienced buildings partnership with states, cities
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Jan 21, 2022
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/590805-biden-launches-green-building-partnership-with-states-cities
Questioning European Green
Boris Johnson’s plan to bail out power corporations dangers recent banking disaster
By Staff, Net Zero Watch, Jan 17, 2022
“The only winners of Boris Johnson’s precarious gamble are the energy suppliers and their shareholders, who are protected from bankruptcy, and Mr Johnson himself who hopes to save his premiership by pushing the energy crisis onto the banking sector.”
Guardian: BoJo’s Political Weakness Endangers Climate Action
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Jan 18, 2022
Grid Balancing Costs Rocket
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 20, 2022
Questioning Green Elsewhere
Two More Contributions On The Impossibility Of Electrifying Everything Using Only Wind, Solar And Batteries
By Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, Jan 17, 2022
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-1-17-two-more-contributions-on-the-impossibility-of-electrifying-everything-using-only-wind-solar-and-batteries
[SEPP Comment: The ultimate “green solution” to a problem: if you cannot address it, ignore it.]
Litigation Issues
Complaints Filed with Congressional Watchdogs Over Use of Donor-Provided Consultants as Congressional Investigative Staff
By Staff, Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C., Jan 17, 2022
House Inspector General Suggests Complainants Make Complaint Someone Else’s Problem
By Staff, Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C., Jan 18, 2022
See hyperlink instantly above.
Virginia exits multi-state coalition backing EPA in local weather lawsuit
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, Jan 20, 2022
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/590606-virginia-exits-multi-state-coalition-backing-epa-in-climate-lawsuit
President Joe Biden Resumes Oil and Gas Leasing in Response to Court Ruling
By Kenneth Artz, Environment & Climate News, Dec 30, 2022
Subsidies and Mandates Forever
Norway: Record Oil & Gas Export Revenue in 2021! How Else Could They Have Funded Massive EV Subsidies?
By David Middleton, WUWT, Jan 18, 2022
EPA and different Regulators on the March
A Year of Accomplishments at EPA
Press Release, EPA, Jan 20, 2022
https://www.epa.gov/perspectives/year-accomplishments-epa
“One year ago today, President Biden took office and launched the most ambitious environmental agenda in our nation’s history. From restoring scientific integrity, to confronting climate change, to advancing environmental justice, the EPA team has been hard at work implementing the President’s vision of a healthier, more equitable America.” [Boldface in original]
Chris Skidmore Defends The Indefensible
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 18, 2022
[SEPP Comment: Discusses an article “Don’t listen to the net zero naysayers – green levies work” by the energy minister who signed the law.]
Net Zero Watch pours scorn on Tony Blair Institute claims about ‘cheap’ onshore wind
By Staff, Net Zero Watch, Jan 21, 2022
Sunnica Solar Farm
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 16, 2022
“There is something drastically wrong with our planning system, if industrial developments like Sunnica can take place in the middle of pristine countryside without locals having any say in the matter.”
Dreaming of a brand new conservatory? Climate change constructing guidelines may shatter that middle-class aspiration
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 19, 2022
Green Campaigner Exempts Herself From Her Own Climate Demand
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Jan 21, 2022
“A green campaigner has called for conservatories to be banned – while sitting in her own one.”
Energy Issues — US
Net-Zero Carbon and the Electric Grid
By Donn Dears, Power For USA, Jan 18, 2022
Prolonged ‘Drilling Dispute’ Is Really About Fairness, Justice, and Accountable Government
By Kaitlyn Schiraldi, Real Clear Energy, Jan 18, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/01/18/prolonged_drilling_dispute_is_really_about_fairness_justice_and_accountable_government_812600.html
“This ‘sacred land’ is also surrounded by modern disturbances. The proposed drill site is a short distance from existing pipelines, and just a few miles from a highway and a century-old railroad. When the Bureau of Land Management initially approved the drilling permit, it noted compliance with the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, since no religious sites were found where the drilling was to take place.”
[SEPP Comment: Is there any land in the West that is not “sacred” to some aboriginal group?]
Climate change may result in blackouts, greater energy prices on U.S. West Coast
Studies supply preview of what electrical energy shoppers on the West Coast may expertise
Press Release, NSF, Jan 18, 2022
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_1&cntn_id=304242&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Link to 1 NSF funded research: The Effects of Climate Change on Interregional Electricity Market Dynamics on the U.S. West Coast
By Joy Hill, et al., Earth’s Future, Dec 7, 2022
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021EF002400
[SEPP Comment: No discussion on failing government policies.]
Washington’s Control of Energy
Electricity: Mandatory Participation in RTOs/ISOs Is a Bad Idea
By Michael McKenna, Real Clear Energy, Jan 18, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/01/17/electricity_mandatory_participation_in_rtosisos_is_a_bad_idea_812104.html
Link to: 2021 Long Term Reliability Assessment, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), December 2021
“First, we’ve been attempting to administratively design electrical energy markets for 30 years, and regardless of federal laws requiring one, there has not but been a complete, impartial research of the financial worth of regional transmission organizations. We don't have any potential to say decisively and with out reservation that the present administrative constructs present larger client advantages than attainable alternate options.
“That looks like vital knowledge to have earlier than deciding on whether or not to make one thing necessary.
“Second, there are some questions about whether regional transmission organizations and independent system operators are as focused on reliability as they should be.”
Revisiting the Keystone XL Pipeline and Joe Biden’s False Promise of ‘Green Jobs’
By Kevin Mooney. Real Clear Energy, Jan 19, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/01/19/revisiting_the_keystone_xl_pipeline_and_joe_bidens_false_promise_of_green_jobs_812798.html
Oil and Natural Gas – the Future or the Past?
Permian Oil Output Hits Record
By Irina Slav, Oil Price.com, Jan 19, 2022
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Permian-Oil-Output-Hits-Record.html
Link to report: Drilling Productivity Report
By Staff, EIA, Jan 18, 2022
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/
“Bloomberg noted in a report on the news that this makes the Permian alone a bigger producer than any OPEC members except Saudi Arabia.”
EIA: US Fossil Fuels Production to Reach Record Highs in 2023… The Permian is already there!
By David Middleton, WUWT, Jan 22, 2022
Texas LNG: Poised to Meet the World’s Energy & Climate Needs
By Staff, Texans for Natural Gas, Accessed Jan 21, 2022
Summary: https://www.realclearpublicaffairs.com/public_affairs/2022/01/14/texas_lng_poised_to_meet_the_worlds_energy_and_climate_needs_812047.html
Full Report: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/northtexansfornaturalgas/pages/3550/attachments/original/1640092920/Texas_LNG_Poised_To_Meet_World_Needs_Dec_2021.pdf?1640092920
Offshore U.S. Oil and Gas Is Critical to Lowering Energy Prices
By David Holt, Real Clear Energy, Jan 20, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/01/18/offshore_us_oil_and_gas_is_critical_to_lowering_energy_prices_812602.html
Return of King Coal?
As coal use surges, America finds it’s arduous to unplug from carbon
By Robert Bryce, The Hill, Jan 16, 2022
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/589538-as-coal-use-surges-america-finds-its-hard-to-unplug-from-carbon
Preliminary US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates for 2021
By Alfredo Rivera, Kate Larsen, Hannah Pitt, and Shweta Movalia, Rhodium Group, Jan 10, 2022
Bryce: “In short, it’s easy for politicians and climate activists to vilify hydrocarbons, hype renewables, and talk about quitting coal. But as the Rhodium Group’s report makes clear, economics matter. The U.S. and other countries aren’t going to suddenly quit using coal (or natural gas) to produce electricity because doing so would be too expensive.”
Alternative, Green (“Clean”) Solar and Wind
Biden 30,000 MW Offshore Wind Systems by 2030: An Expensive Fantasy
Posted by Willem Post, Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power – Maine, Jan 17, 2022 [H/t Eduard Harinck]
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/biden-30-000-mw-of-offshore-wind-systems-by-2030-a-total-fantasy
New Study: Adding Wind Farms Leads To 1°C Per Decade Nighttime Land Surface Temperature Warming
By Kenneth Richard, No Tricks Zone, Jan 20, 2022
Link to newest Accepted Manuscript, Impacts of 319 wind farms on floor temperature and vegetation within the United States
By Yingzuo Qin et al 2022 Environ. Res Lett. 2022
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac49ba/pdf
[SEPP Comment: One can argue that it is only local, but the same can be argued about surface-air temperature trends.]
The worth of wind power
By Mary Ann Showalter, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Jan 21, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-energy.html
“Future distributed wind valuation work could expand on other aspects, such as resilience; environmental justice impacts of distributed wind systems; and economics of potential hybrid systems using wind, solar, and energy storage.” [Boldface added]
[SEPP Comment: Environmental justice impacts – everyone has no electricity when wind fails?]
When Did They Know? Industrial Wind on the Health Firing Line
By Robert Bradley Jr., Master Resource, Jan 20, 2022
Alternative, Green (“Clean”) Energy — Other
In Praise of Corn Ethanol
By Staff, Doomberg, Jan 17, 2022
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-corn-ethanol
[SEPP Comment: Does not address damage to two cycle engines.]
U.S. EPA Proposes Revised Ethanol Rules
By Kevin Stone, Environment and Climate News, Jan 14, 2022
US Politicians Pin Green Hopes on a Geothermal Energy Breakthrough
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Jan 19, 2022
Alternative, Green (“Clean”) Energy — Storage
Pumped hydro offers the overwhelming majority of long-term power storage
By Andrew Blakers, Bin Lu and Matthew Stocks, The Conversation, TechXplore, Jan 19, 2022
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-hydro-vast-majority-long-term-energy.html
[SEPP Comment: The largest such facility is Bath County Pumped Storage (Virginia) which reports a 79% round-trip efficiency, a 21% energy loss.]
Alternative, Green (“Clean”) Vehicles
Sadiq [Mayor of London] Wants To Charge London Petrol Drivers By The Mile
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 20, 2022
650 km Wintertime Trip With VW E-Car Took 13 Hours, 3 Recharges And Lots Of Warm Clothes
By P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Jan 18, 2022
“According to the kreiszeitung.de, she made the crucial mistake of charging up too seldom and wasted much time charging the batteries to 100% instead of 80% (the last 20% take the longest). ‘Charge faster, accept a little less range and charge again earlier – but again faster.’”
Carbon Schemes
Decarbonisation tech immediately converts CO2 to strong carbon
New tech provides pathway for immediately changing carbon dioxide as it's produced and locking it completely in a strong state, conserving CO2 out of the environment
Press Release, RMIT University, Jan 18, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/940555
Link to paper: Direct conversion of CO2 to strong carbon by Ga-[Gallium] based mostly liquid metals
By Karma Zuraiqi, et al. Energy & Environmental Science, Jan17, 2022
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/EE/D1EE03283F
California Dreaming
Biden administration approves third main California photo voltaic venture
By Sharon Udasin, The Hill, Jan 14, 2022
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/589764-biden-administration-approves-third-major-california-solar
“Together with two other recently approved projects — Arica and Victory Pass — Oberon’s construction will bring solar power generation on Californian public lands up to 1,000 megawatts.”
“Oberon will generate up to 500 megawatts of renewable energy — enough to power 142,000 homes — and have capacity for 200 megawatts of battery storage, according to the Interior Department.”
[SEPP Comment: No mention of costs or reliability. Question if the reporter knows the difference between 200 megawatts (power) and 200 megawatt hours (energy). Batteries store energy not power.]
Health, Energy, and Climate
Industrial Wind Turbines: Negative Health Effects (extra proof)
By Robert Bradley Jr., Master Resource, Jan 19, 2022
Link to paper: “Wind turbines and adverse health effects: Applying Bradford Hill’s criteria for causation”
By Anne Dumbrille, Robert Y McMurtry, Carmen Marie Krogh, Environmental Disease, Oct 22, 2021
https://www.environmentmed.org/article.asp?issn=2468-5690;year=2021;volume=6;issue=3;spage=65;epage=87;aulast=Dumbrille#:~:text=The%20nine%20criteria%20described%20by,experimental%20evidence%2C%20and%20analogous%20evidence.
Other Scientific News
Being in area destroys extra purple blood cells
By Staff Writers, Ottawa, Canada (SPX), Jan 14, 2022
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Being_in_space_destroys_more_red_blood_cells_999.html
Link to paper: Hemolysis contributes to anemia throughout long-duration area flight
By Guy Trudel, et al, Nature, Medicine, Jan 14, 2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01637-7
Other News that May Be of Interest
I used to be duped by the Covid lab leak deniers
By Matt Ridley, Rational Optimist, Jan 12, 2022
https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/duped-by-the-lab-leak-deniers/
Why did scientists suppress the lab-leak concept?
In personal, they stated it was believable. In public, they known as it a conspiracy concept.
By Matt Ridley, Rational Optimist, Jan 12, 2022
https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/suppressing-the-lab-leak-theory/
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE
Your proposal is appropriate
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Jan 19, 2022
Link to paper: The tragedy of local weather change science
By Bruce C. Glavovic School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand; Timothy F. Smith Sustainability Research Centre, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia; and Iain White, School of Social Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand; Climate and Development, Accepted Nov 16, 2021
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/17565529.2021.2008855?needAccess=true
From the assertion: “The science-society contract is broken. The climate is changing. Science demonstrates why this is occurring, that it is getting worse, the implications for human well-being and social-ecological systems, and substantiates action. Governments agree that the science is settled.”
Climate change inflicting not solely extra landslides, however greater and deadlier ones
“We’re seeing an increase in the number of landslides and the sizes and the people killed,” stated Portland State geology professor Scott Burns.
By Keely Chalmers, KGW, Jan 13, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.kgw.com/article/tech/science/climate-change/climate-change-landslides-increase/283-c77bca1a-5102-414d-9ba8-3dee5ee3838a
[SEPP Comment: Based on atmospheric rivers which have been hitting the West Coast long before “dangerous CO2-caused” climate change.]
The Met Office Warns Of Armed Militias Roaming The UK In Climate Doomsday Report (But Don’t Worry–The Corrupt EU Will Save Us!)
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Jan 18, 2022
“It is now apparent that the Met Office has been taken over by a handful of climate extremists. “No serious public organisation, particularly one that is supposed to be scientific, would dream of putting its name to ultra garbage like this.”
What is world warming?
Facts about world warming: Causes and results
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science, Jan 20, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.livescience.com/37003-global-warming.html
[SEPP Comment: Her references explain her views: K. Hayhoe. Professor Political Science, Texas Tech; M. Mann; and EPA.]
ARTICLES
A Regulatory Burden for Every Room of Your House
The Biden administration strikes to make home equipment dearer and fewer efficient.
By Ben Lieberman, WSJ, Jan. 20, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-regulatory-burden-for-every-room-of-your-house-energy-efficiency-standards-household-dishwasher-furnace-natural-gas-11642719043?mod=opinion_lead_pos10
TWTW Summary: After starting with a listing of financial and social ills, the senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute who was a workers member on House Energy and Commerce Committee, the place he labored on house equipment rules writes:
“…The president’s bureaucrats are engaged on sufficient annoying rules to have an effect on each room in your home:
“• The kitchen. The Trump administration took steps to repair the Energy Department’s effectivity requirements for dishwashers that had the unintended consequence of accelerating the time to wash a load of dishes from an hour or much less in older fashions to properly over two in new ones. But now the Biden DOE is within the technique of reinstating these time-wasting and unpopular guidelines.
“• The rest room. In one in every of a number of company measures that restrict freedom of selection, the DOE has tightened water-use limits for sure sorts of showers. In addition, for individuals who favor incandescent gentle bulbs surrounding their rest room mirror (or wherever else), the DOE is focusing on these bulbs with energy-efficiency requirements prone to increase their value to $7 every, leaving LEDs as the one viable possibility.
“• The laundry room. Washing machines have been hit with a number of rounds of power and water-efficiency rules which have compromised efficiency and even compelled some homeowners to purchase and use particular merchandise to eradicate the stink that accumulates within the new fashions. Compliant dryers, like the brand new dishwashers, take longer to do the job. But fairly than think about consumer-friendly enhancements to current requirements, the Biden DOE is working to make them extra stringent.
“• The basement. Your subsequent new furnace could also be considerably dearer, because of regulatory modifications percolating via the Biden DOE paperwork. Furnaces are at the moment obtainable in natural-gas or electrical variations, however the DOE is all-in on the battle towards gasoline, which environmentalists hate as a result of it’s a fossil gasoline and thus a contributor to local weather change. The company has initiated steps towards new effectivity rules that will skew the market towards electrical variations, a costlier possibility.
“Note additionally that the battle on pure gasoline may additionally have an effect on selection in different home equipment that are available each gasoline and electrical variations, reminiscent of water heaters, garments dryers and even stoves. Many cooks swear by the prevalence of gasoline over electrical cooking, however the Biden administration needs to affect all the things. By one estimate, a compelled swap away from pure gasoline would value the common family $750 to $910 yearly in greater power payments.
“• Any air-conditioned room. The regulators might all work in properly air-conditioned federal buildings, however that hasn’t stopped them from focusing on everybody else’s air conditioner. The Environmental Protection Agency, below authority granted by Congress in 2020, simply rolled out robust new quotas on a number of refrigerants blamed as contributors to local weather change. The value for the one utilized in most house air conditioners has already quadrupled, so don’t be stunned in case your subsequent restore invoice is lots of of {dollars} greater than you anticipated.
“• The storage. Your automotive’s there. Need I say extra?
“Anyone pondering that the feds wish to regulate all the things however the kitchen sink could be improper. They are additionally reviewing kitchen sinks. Specifically, the DOE is reconsidering the strategy for testing compliance with water-use limits for taps, and a change may end in tighter restrictions, with some at the moment obtainable fashions declared unlawful.
“With or without government meddling, any homeowner who wants environmentally friendly appliances is always free to choose them. So why force the politically correct option on everyone? Part of it is the self-interest of the Washington swamp: Plenty of bureaucrats inside the government as well as activists and lobbyists outside it make a nice living from an endless regulatory process. And while appliance manufacturers occasionally oppose new regulations, they often welcome them as potential money makers. Add to that the Biden administration’s obsession with cracking down on anything that uses energy, in the name of fighting climate change, and you have an all-out assault on Americans where they live.”
