A little while back, I did a podcast on the greenhouse effect. It seems that the most controversial thing I have ever said is “Carbon Dioxide contributes very little to the Greenhouse Effect.” That singular statement usually gets me labelled as either a scientific illiterate or a stooge of climate alarmists. And those are the […]
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An article by Nadir Jeevanjee, a Research Physical Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), recently published in The Conversationand reprinted by Space.Com, suggests that climate models are being given a bad rap. It cites a recent Department of Energy report as using the complexity of climate models as the primary reason why these models cannot be trusted. The
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A recent article in The New York Times described a major report issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report detailed that carbon dioxide, methane, and other planet-warming greenhouse gases are threatening human health. Its tone implies that this is the strongest evidence to date. But is it? Back in 2009, the Environmental
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Humans are destroying the planet by emitting greenhouse gases. We’ve heard that time and time again. But if you stand there and do nothing but breathe … you still are emitting greenhouse gases! But maybe not only in the way you think. Go outside and stand there for several minutes. No external heating, no cooling,
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If only it were that simple! Hydrogen. The first element in the Periodic Table and the most abundant element in the Universe. It is also the simplest element—the most common isotope has only one proton and one electron. It has been called the “Future of Energy”; after all, the Sun relies on hydrogen to keep
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Bloom Energy’s founder, K.R. Sridhar, recently appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s show on Fox Business. He touted Bloom Energy as a viable solution to President Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency. But as we approach the thirteenth anniversary of Delaware’s investment in Bloom Energy, it is time for the Meyer Administration to pull the plug
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Consumer Reports. You probably have heard of it, as it has been around since 1936. Since then, it has offered valuable information to assess the safety and performance of many products and services, and has come to be widely trusted. So, you can understand why we were intrigued when it issued a blurb in one
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Recently, Delaware’s new five-year energy plan has been made available for a second round of feedback. A new energy plan is due this year; after all, it has been five years since the last one was implemented. Five-year plans will sound familiar to those of you who remember the old Soviet “five-year plans for the
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The question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, is an age-old question. It is a metaphor to describe situations where it isn’t clear which is the cause and which is the effect when two interrelated events are considered. Aristotle first pondered the question in the fourth century B.C. and concluded it was
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Consumer Reports. You probably have heard of it, as it has been around since 1936. Since then, it has offered valuable information to assess the safety and performance of many products and services, and has come to be widely trusted. So, you can understand why we were intrigued when it issued a blurb in one
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