Abandoning Fossil Fuels Without a Replacement Helps China

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Wind turbines and solar panels that can generate electricity intermittently are themselves totally dependent on fossil fuels for all their components. Renewables offer NO energy independence, as America has never imported electricity from foreign countries. Wind and solar just generate intermittent electricity.  Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Further, the raw materials that are essential for […]

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The Untold Story of Climate’s Holocene Gift to Humanity

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News reports of summer heatwaves often perversely misrepresent a modern climate favorable to human flourishing in order to fearmonger the false narrative of catastrophic global warming. The geological epoch of the Holocene, which roughly corresponds to the last 11,700 years, is a time of warmth that has been vital in fostering the diversity and adaptability

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Countering the World’s Rigged Conversation about Energy and Climate

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Today’s conversation about energy and climate is “rigged” with bad thinking methods, misleading terms, false assumptions, and anti-human values—all of which serve to promote deadly policies. Our rigged conversation about energy and climate Just as legal systems can be rigged, so can cultural conversations We are all familiar with the idea of a legal system that

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U.S. Nuclear Energy Policy: Stuck on Stupid!

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The gullibility of the human species is a sight to behold. Take these examples, from a list of superstitions. According to Joshua Partlow, Washington Post Mexico bureau chief, putting two mirrors in front of each other opens a threshold for the devil. In Lithuania, it is forbidden to whistle indoors, because the noise is believed to summon demons.

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UAH Global Temperature Update for July, 2023: +0.64 deg. C

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New Record High Temperatures and a Weird Month July 2023 was an unusual month, with sudden warmth and a few record or near-record high temperatures. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Since the satellite record began in 1979, July 2023 was: These results suggest something peculiar is going on. It’s too early for the developing El

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Three Cheers for Refrigeration—and Four, Once Everyone Has It

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The following is a guest article by Ben Lieberman. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash It is difficult to overstate the benefits of refrigeration. Even more than its technological sibling air conditioning, refrigeration has dramatically improved public health and the quality of life wherever it has become widespread. And unlike air conditioning, the utility of which is questioned

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Let Them Eat Solar Panels

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Recently, during a speech at a high-dollar fundraiser for the League of Conservation Voters in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden exulted about a solar project in Angola. According to a transcript of his speech that can be found on the White House’s website, Biden said: “We have plans to build a

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UAH Global Temperature Update for June, 2023: +0.38 deg. C

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The Version 6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for June 2023 was +0.38 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean. This is statistically unchanged from the May 2023 anomaly of +0.37 deg. C. The linear warming trend since January, 1979 remains at +0.13 C/decade (+0.12 C/decade over the global-averaged oceans, and +0.18 C/decade

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New Claims of Record-Setting Temperatures Are Nothing but Hot Air

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Recently headlines in mainstream media such as the BBC, CNN, Forbes, and The Washington Post blared the consistent message that July 4, 2023 was the hottest day in history, or at least in the past 125,000 years. The headlines and stories show just how gullible the media is, or alternatively, that they are so wedded

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