I traveled to Oregon last week at the invitation of a CO2 Coalition supporter. Besides being completely off the grid at a lodge on the scenic Rogue River, I gave a presentation to about 50 people from southern Oregon after returning from the wilderness. As you can imagine, the climate zealots are in full-on crisis mode in the Beaver State. For my talk, I examined Oregon-specific temperature data. The top image shows the annual mean temperature that reveals about a 1-degree Fahrenheit (F) … [Read more...]
Cooling the Rhetoric on Climate Change
Cal Thomas is Cal Thomas is probably the most senior of all Christian opinion columnists, with his syndicated column reaching millions through hundreds of newspapers. Here he takes on climate catastrophists, showing his usual wisdom and clarity.—ECB Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is September 7th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown. PAUL BUTLER, HOST: And I’m Paul Butler. … [Read more...]
Alarmists Turn Up Heat with Climate, Weather ‘Records’
Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, "the hottest month [July] just ended. We witnessed scorching heat, extreme weather events, wildfires, and severe health consequences." He added, "It’s a stark reminder of the urgent need for collective action to address climate change. Let’s use this alarming milestone to fuel our determination for bold climate action. "Together, we … [Read more...]
Supernatural Warnings Come to California
On the same day that Hurricane (Tropical Storm) Hilary brought record rainfall to the Los Angeles area (nearly 6 inches to Lake Palmdale and 4.26 inches on the UCLA campus), a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred in nearby Ojai. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash To the truly enlightened, these rare disasters should serve as a warning from on high that the Golden State is headed for a massive downfall – punishment for trying to force smog-fighting electric vehicles … [Read more...]
Support for Offshore Wind Sinks as Costs Soar
Things are looking bad for offshore wind in America (which makes me happy). On one hand, opposition is growing. On the other, the cost crisis is driving prices way up. Whether the offshore US boom will bust remains to be seen, but it is certainly possible. Here’s hoping. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Bad news for the industry is coming in daily, so there is too much to report. Here are just a few samples to give the flavor of the debacle in progress. In New Jersey, we get … [Read more...]
China is Dominating the EV Market and EV Policy
According to Lauren Fix, the Car Coach®, China is well on its way to becoming a world leader in climate policy and is quickly taking over the electric car industry – and thus (barring mandate reversals) the entire auto industry. Talk about snake oil sales! But is Xi Jinping that smart, or are European and American politicians, business magnates, and globalist plutocrats just that dumb? Fix says the Chinese decided in 2001 that they could not compete on the international market … [Read more...]
The Great Wind and Solar Land Grab
Which is more environmentally friendly, an energy source that uses one unit of land to produce one unit of electricity or a source that uses 100 units of land to produce one unit of electricity? The answer should be obvious. Nevertheless, green energy advocates call for a huge expansion of wind, solar, and other renewables that use vast amounts of land to replace traditional power plants that use comparatively small amounts of land. Vaclav Smil, professor emeritus of the University of … [Read more...]
US Turns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Therefore Child Labor, For EV Ambitions
Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash The following is a guest article by Nick Pope. In order to facilitate electric vehicle (EV) production, the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country which is known for high prevalence of unsafe child labor in its mines, many of which are controlled by Chinese interests, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The United States Agency for International … [Read more...]
SITYS: Climate Models Do Not Conserve Mass or Energy
One of the most fundamental requirements of any physics-based model of climate change is that it must conserve mass and energy. This is partly why I (along with Danny Braswell and John Christy) have been using simple 1-dimensional climate models that have simplified calculations and where conservation is not a problem. Changes in the global energy budget associated with increasing atmospheric CO2 are small, roughly 1% of the average radiative energy fluxes in and out of the climate system. … [Read more...]
Do Forever Chemicals Really Last Forever?
The following is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted on WORLD radio, where the hosts discuss the complicated reality of "forever chemicals." It is an important conversation about what they are, the potential risks they carry, and the costs of regulating them because there is no such thing as a world without tradeoffs. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: drinking water. What do non-stick pans, firefighting … [Read more...]
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