We were promised a “green” utopia free of fossil fuels, powered by sunshine and breezes. However, the net zero hobbits living in this imaginary shire were blissfully ignorant of hard realities dictated by physics, engineering and economics. Once trumpeted by corporate giants and governments alike, the vision of a world without greenhouse gas emissions is […]
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Changes that occur in the atmosphere occur in three dimensions. That should come as no surprise, even with the wrap-up last week of Climate Week NYC. Yet so much thinking on climate change happens on a two-dimensional level. Certainly, academic and government studies delve into the dimensional complexity of the airy environment, but the study
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A coordinated offensive unfolded with precision September 2 against five scientists questioning the popular media’s most sacred bogeyman – the hypothesis that human-induced emissions of carbon dioxide threaten to overheat the planet. The scientists attacked had written a report published in July by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), “A Critical Review of Impacts of
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The total warming of the hottest 3 days in each summer month averaged across 400 mostly-airport weather stations is only 1.2 deg. F over 40 years. I recently posted about the weather observations from Reagan National Airport that showed the warmest days of summer have experienced no statistically significant warming in the last 40 years, despite this
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Many are the parents who have had to help a small child overcome fears of monsters under his bed. A wise parent will comfort the child, assure him he’s protected, teach him about God’s protection. But that wise parent won’t stop there. He’ll show the child there’s no monster under the bed. That’s not how
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It’s all too predictable: A jet-setting celebrity or politician wades ceremoniously into hip-deep surf for a carefully choreographed photo op, while proclaiming that human-driven sea-level rise will soon swallow an island nation. Of course, the water is deeper than the video’s pseudoscience, which is as shallow as the theatrics. The scientific truth is simple: Sea levels
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As America wakes up from the dystopian dream that everything we need will always be readily available at affordable prices, even official Washington has recognized that we have a problem. And it’s not China. According to S&P Global, the U.S. has a sizable resource base, including ample reserves of copper, lithium, and several other critical
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This year, European nations announced plans to pursue artificial intelligence. National leaders announced AI spending goals totaling hundreds of billions of euros in efforts to catch up to the United States. But AI requires huge amounts of electrical power, conflicting with Europe’s commitment to achieve a Net Zero power grid. Since ChatGPT released their AI
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The following is a guest article by Daren Bakst. In the coming weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers are expected to release a proposed rule defining what is meant by “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The proposed rule is currently at
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Don’t place your bets on a green energy cartel fighting climate change with subsidies for anemic and intermittent windmills and sunbeams winning out over AI data center pragmatists willing to commit enormous expenditures essential for colossal expansion of weather-independent 24/7 power in competition with China dominance. Electrical power demands to support proposed new data centers
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