...process called cosmic ray-driven electron reactions (hence it’s called the CRE model) that in turn are influenced by h-GHGs. So heavily influenced, he claims, that once its effects and theirs...
Concluding our series on Professor Qing-Bin Lu’s CRE Model of climate change we discuss the sixth data point that Lu says shows his model does better than the IPCC’s CO2...
...satellites. The orange line going down the middle is the prediction from the CRE model. There are occasional spikes and dips due to volcanoes. But essentially the CRE model nails...
...the standard CO2 model while the green line is the projected warming from the CRE model based only on halo-GHGs and cosmic rays. The CRE model predicts there will be...
...halo-GHGs convinced him that the reverse was true, that the interactions of cosmic rays and electrons with halo-GHG's cause relatively large climatic effects, which he calls the CRE model. By...
Here we continue our examination of Prof. Qing-Bin Lu’s CRE model of climate change and particularly his six key observations that show halo-GHGs, rather than CO2, dominate climate change. Last...
Continuing our examination of Prof. Qing-Bin Lu’s CRE model of climate change we come to the third in his list of key pieces of evidence: the post-1970 correlation between halo-GHGs...
...problem, of course, is the dreaded “carbon credits”. Seriously. Someone wanted to create a global economy based on selling the right to emit something you can’t see or measure in...
...and EV supply chains. Along with the investment tax credits, I’m proud to have launched the $15 billion Canada Growth Fund, which is helping to decarbonize our economy and create...
As we observed recently, the whole “carbon credit” market has always been an extremely dubious enterprise. Far from being a response to real demand or indeed supply, it was a...
...to their great credit, wrote a letter to the editor of the journal that published their paper and said “When we add these new years to the previous results, the...
...many tens of millions of years during which “calcifying” creatures have been combining dissolved CO2 with calcium to create calcium carbonate (CaCO3, so they snag another oxygen atom from somewhere...
...credulity can stand. And then they can be sued into oblivion. Bloomberg Green pounced with “Scientists Link Major Carbon Emitters to Worsening Heat Waves”. NPR went with “A new study...
In the disorganized flight seven ways from Net Zero toward actual prosperity and security, even Quebec politicians, long sneering about the lack of “social licence” for energy projects that might...
...energy policy that produces energy. Healey has of course impeccable progressive credentials, from identity politics to abortion to gun control. Her “Maura Healey for Massachusetts” site still declares, two years...
...create a convincing simplification of it. The only way to create a computer that really could model the Earth in all its non-linear complexity would be to make another full-size...
The year 2025 has seen a very quiet hurricane season thus far, which has led climate alarmists to say told you so, look at all the hurricanes. Like Euronews.green, with...
One of our complaints about global warming alarmism here at CDN is that unlike normal science, climate science rarely puts forward testable predictions ahead of time against which we can...
Back in May the CBC informed us the climate experts were predicting B.C. was in for an abnormally hot and dry summer of constant wildfires. Instead, as the CBC reported...
...who put out relatively short scientific summaries that credibly represented the best available knowledge. But now, 30+ years later, as all government entities tend to, it has ballooned into a...
...qualify for a 10% credit; the second two, which stipulate that at least some financial benefits go to low-income residents, qualify for 20%. In both cases, the credit can be...
...not a vote winner. And the very liberal Toronto Star flatly called it “‘A massive blow to his integrity and credibility’: Conservatives blindsided by Erin O’Toole’s carbon pricing plan”. And...
...production tax credits. Those credits could direct hundreds of billions of dollars toward electrolyzers powered by carbon-free electricity – and, potentially, fossil-gas-fed hydrogen facilities combined with carbon capture – over...
...in this stuff, hasn’t read any of his own memos. Which doesn’t stop him now moving to a job as head of a lucrative consultancy called the Carbon Trust, created...
...The service is provided by Stripe.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information. 1 year HTTP Cookie __stripe_sid climatediscussionnexus.com This cookie is necessary for making credit card...
...carbon credits where people in Western countries pay real money to people somewhere else that they can’t see supposedly not doing something they can’t check. Fools with money, step right...
...in the carbon offset market, which was set up to fight climate change. Bad carbon credits are driving out good carbon credits. And that’s a big problem for the effort...
...it. Climate action is good for the ?, for jobs & the right thing to do as human beings.” As Henry Hazlitt observed of the desire to create jobs, long...
...without federal tax credits.” Incredible. But why shouldn’t journalists be addled on such matters when a surprising number of business executives are too. Many Ford executives are still determined to...
...of academic studies and media investigations have concluded that many credits do not represent genuine emissions savings. One investigation concluded that over 90 percent of carbon credits issued for rainforest...
...and cut emissions might throw carbon credit projects around the world into doubt” the only thing that surprises us is that it surprised anybody. Dangle booty before bandits and they...
...two largest economies in the world work to try to resolve it.” John Robson: One wonders whether Kerry knows much about diplomacy either at this point, credentials or no credentials....
...try, while those who break the law on behalf of climate action face few or no consequences. It is the brutal hierarchy of audibility and credibility, abetted by aggressively credulous...
Continuing to draw on the work of “Ottawa Weather Records” without any implication that its creator agrees with our interpretation, we also hear that May 31 was “Ottawa's 31st consecutive...
...speaking of actually classic ads) starts by saying “The trends? Nothing controversial, as you would expect, but also – and perhaps for associated reasons – very little creativity.” Then it...
...July that “Alberta can be a low-carbon leader if the province strengthens its carbon credit market.” But they promptly conceded that: “Alberta must fix carbon credit market to ensure low-carbon...
...own mind. But what if the offsets are not just patrician but bogus? After all, when there’s a lot of money and political credibility on the table, you have to...
...a careful survey of one side of the issue, predictably concluding that the real problem was that it would make it harder for agency staff to get creative with future...
...“1975-1979 Greenpeace crews went into the Pacific and got in front of the harpoons that were killing 30,000 whales/year. I was on all 5 voyages. We stopped whale hunt. Now...
...energy. Indeed, wealth-creating energy use continued to rise even as SO2 emissions plunged. (And the Haber-Bosch process, which creates ammonia gas generally then converted into solid fertilizers, is widely credited...
...they did it and “to create a blueprint that a future administration could use to build back capacity and implement similarly ambitious policy.” Not that it worked or anything. But...
...creating them; the story continues “‘Read the legislation,’ Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan told reporters. ‘What we’re talking about here is making sure workers aren’t left behind.’” By substituting fake economic...
...to determine whether Milankovitch Cycles were happening during, say, the Cretaceous? What proxies would you even go looking for? Here it’s important to note that, despite NASA’s dogmatic assertion, we...
...Weather Attribution was not created with litigation in mind”. And how does he know that that claim was false? Because he did actual research, including finding a quotation from WWA’s...
...providing no mushroom comes along. By selling carbon credits to international firms, they could put a massive dent in global warming without, and here’s the marvellous part, anyone having to...
...on a company that sidestepped the elimination of the consumer tax credit for installing solar panels by leasing them instead, and: “the investment tax credit for solar leases that Sunrun...
...Which comes from CREA Mont Blanc, aka the Research Center for Alpine Ecosystems. We actually wrote the first half of this paragraph before Googling “warming in the Alps” confident we’d...
...decline of CO2 from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary while temperature held steady for tens of millions of years in the glory days of the dinosaurs. But it’s also not true of...
...Like the New York Times “Climate Fwd” saying “John Kerry’s most urgent task as international envoy for climate change, experts have said, will be restoring America’s credibility as a reliable...
...a slaughter to advance the alarmist agenda with a statement, as brainless as it was heartless, that blamed an Islamist massacre of Christians at prayer in Nigeria on climate change:...
...solar and more than quadruple offshore wind power, ‘re-industrialising’ the country to create a zero carbon, self-sufficient electricity system, by the end of this decade.” Keir Starmer, for those who...
...What could ever separate out the jobs created by the subsidy from jobs that would be created otherwise, and identify the jobs not created because of the combined tax/debt burden...
...and gas sector through the transition, he said he also has to think about how to create new industries that can compete as the energy transition accelerates.” Read that one...
...about this story is that it cites a PhD student from Oregon State University “and lead author of the study” to the effect that “These ‘charismatic creatures’ have been wasting...
...to help combat climate change?” and adds “Proposal from the Centre for Climate Repair in the UK envisages having hundreds of ships in the Arctic to create mist that strengthens...
...out 55% of marine genera, and the Cretaceous-Paleogene thought to have killed some 75% of species worldwide. But not coral. Oh, and it also somehow didn’t just survive but flourished...
...needed private sector investment, however. Just as opaque are their potential community and climate impacts.” Canary Media deserves credit for being fairly clear-eyed about the debacle and its implications: “The...
...credits throttled” or “With little explanation, Trump throws the wind industry into chaos”. What it all comes down to is that without subsidies alternative energy costs too much so people...
...economy. Whereas in 2021 the energy crisis was created on purpose by a government that knows socialism doesn’t work but apparently believes that a coat of green paint fixes everything....
...writes, “In the parable, a boy smashes the window in a town shop, creating an expense and loss for the shopkeeper. But a bystander observes that there is an economic...
...do anything except waste money on internal matters. For instance the Canada Infrastructure Bank itself, which was created amid much hoopla in 2017 and since has, well, done nothing except...
...sure. Provincial premiers just reach for their own credit card and… hey, wait a minute. That’s on the public as well. And we’re not sure how “youth” are paying, perhaps...
...dollars of tax credits now flowing to energy projects and solar, battery, and EV factories across the country. The provision at issue prohibits tax credits for any project associated with...
...created over millions of years as metal particles drifted down and clumped together on the sea floor. They can be vacuumed up using bus-sized robots, then pumped to a ship...
...layer is where the big air movements take place that create our weather patterns. This includes convection, wind patterns, cloud formation, storms and turbulence of all kinds. Jet aircraft aim...
...was fuel buildup due to aggressive fire suppression and restrictions on forest clearing, which would create a risk of unprecedented severity of fires. The whole quotation reads “Fire exclusion efforts,...
...speed-dialing their psychiatrist instead of rocking back and forth muttering “We need to rein in spending, we need to find efficiencies … that create the room for these big investments”....
...seen plenty of other excellent, intelligent books from people whose credentials would be hard to dismiss, and were anyway. But Koonin is a little bit special because he was a...
...“the competitive situation created by the publications of the NIPCC reports ... is beneficial for climate science in general; it fosters knowledge creation, i.e. the reviewing process, mobilizing a growing...
...change is happening. But for some, skepticism has crept in, and science doesn't hold the same authority as it once did. Emma Frances Bloomfield, an assistant professor of communication studies...
...stunt. But you can still give on their website using a credit card, while JSO also receives lavish backing in broad daylight from a “Climate Emergency Fund” which, in turn,...
...often seem to feel that everyone can work in government bureaucracies, a lot of them in the DEI department, because they actually think governments create wealth rather than, ideally, creating...
...creatures from skunks to monarch butterflies that being inedible deters predators. (No really; monarchs taste so bad it makes birds hurl, as does the viceroy long mistakenly thought to have...
...in the Paris Agreement.” The NZAB being, naturally, a creature of the Canadian government created and well-paid by the Canadian government to tell the Canadian government what it wants to...
...is actually caused by humans – psychological distress. This psychological distress is directly caused by you: the mistaken, irrational, politically motivated people that have created effective propaganda that is creating...
...floor, triggering a natural process that sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.” Yeah. That’ll show that stupid nature that sequestering carbon slowly via calciferous sea creatures and creating a...
...is credited with helping to produce enough food for a world population that has ballooned from about 1.6 billion in 1900, when the process was created, to about 8 billion...
...exclamation mark, we further quoted RPJ that: “Otto and others have been very forthright that the main function of such studies is to create a defensible scientific basis in support...
...investments, and create new opportunities for Canadians.” And our apologies because someone reposted that announcement under the superb heading “Fly hard” and we can’t now find and credit them. Which...
...like “First Nations are sovereign peoples whose inherent rights predate the formation of Canada. Treaties are foundational to the creation of Canada and cannot be treated as secondary to federal...
...in International Studies, MA in Journalism; it’s not just climate reporters who sometimes have odd credentials to get huffy about expertise), reports that “The federal Liberals are poised to commit...
...because it was incompatible with known estimates of global coal reserves. Yet when that scenario finally became laugh-out-loud non-credible, SSP5-8.5 carried on the wheeze. Pielke Jr. shows the situation in...
...plants in 2023 alone. They are so totally decreasing emissions. Sure thing, buddy. It’s actually worth quoting the opening of his column leading up to that credibility-stretcher in full: “Amid...
...won’t link to since all the banks are equally woke on this topic) which require only that we use their credit card instead of whatever one we currently have, because...
...35 years in the late 20th century right, when atmospheric CO2 and temperature rise together, because their creators were dogmatically certain the former drove the latter. Give them any other...
...You can’t fool me, doc. That thing’s clearly a carbon sink not a marine mammal. Likewise some Canadian political nitwit proposes creating “National Cities and Municipalities Day” to give us...
...million gallons of water per second around Antarctica, creating a barrier that separates the Southern Ocean from the rest of the world’s oceans. This current plays a critical role in...
...the most likely outcome, it was credible.” Which immediately made us suspect that tired old comic-book-Dracula climate scare story the RCP8.5 scenario. We wrote that phrase before tracking down the...
...we doubt that political pressure was a big deal. We think it was far more important that the IEA, whose brand is very heavily built around boring, stolid, technocratic credibility,...
So far Canada has largely avoided the energy crisis now wracking Europe. Which isn’t very much to our credit; as a massive producer of fossil fuels and hydroelectric power, with...
...after the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous 65 million years ago. But whether relief or regret predominates depends less on whether you are a small mammal trying...
...and a “blue team” of climate scientists would then rebut these claims. At the time, mainstream climate scientists said the proposal would make a mockery of scientific research and create...
...any time of year…Floods can damage buildings, cause power outages, disrupt transportation, create landslides and be a hazard for people.” You mean such things have happened before? In a word,...
...socialism. And very possibly even if we do. And we all saw it coming. It really is a problem that any intelligent observer of the debate, skeptical or credulous, could...
...were chosen and combined with “modern satellite data to create 3D reconstructions of the glaciers” and 165 photos from Australian surveyors from 1950 to 1970. (The prime mover of the...
...the cost of living, the foundering health care system, keeping taxes down and “growing the economy and creating good jobs” not pricing gasoline out of sight and changing the weather....
...her credit the interviewer then called this response “a really long-winded way of not answering minister the original question that I posed” and pressed him for whether the feds gave...
...and reasonable steps but to get rid of the energy on which our prosperity and security depend. Which would create an actual crisis though not even it would “destroy” the...
...for “peer review” is not by any means the dirtiest trick in the alarmists’ bag. But it is an example of a mix of credulity on their part and cynical...
...like me don’t talk about it enough, and because of the general nimbus of doom that tends to descend on conversations about climate change.” We give him credit for pointing...
...in the year, in June, and created offshore “Diablo” winds that blew the fog away so the sun could heat the city. When the Diablos come in the fall, as...
...is in their “Climate in crisis” section which suggests a prior ideological commitment. And the author holds a “Bachelor of Journalism, Magazine Journalism” with “Minors in Film and Creative Writing”...
...Committee and really harness the nimble efficiency of… um… uh… That the US government might create lower energy costs is unlikely even if it were not committed to creating higher...
...and the kind and quantity of shells, pollen and other remains of living creatures found in sediments at the bottom of the ocean. If a proxy record goes back thousands...
...improving peoples’ access to research, communicating accurately about its findings and uncertainties, and assessing the credibility of the government’s messengers tends to weaken peoples’ trust in governments because it inevitably...
...therefore what is allowed to be said and seen on the internet, will be government approved ‘fact checkers’. These laws will create an Orwellian ministry of truth, controlling what can...
...done and they just weren’t? Because he knew it was absurd and wished he and his ilk had not deliberately created precisely the opposite impression for decades including until the...
...fossil fuel production, cut climate subsidies that were part of the Inflation Reduction Act, and chosen as his Secretary of Energy an oilman who helped create the fracking revolution. Given...
...this situation. How were the projections that far off? This has created a challenge like we have never seen before.’” Good heavens. Were the experts who say, and the journalists...
...“natural wetland creation”. Which is good, right? Certainly not. Read on down to p. D6 where it explains that “Hotter summers and a prolonged growing season may create conditions that...
...claim an indirect one because of the crucial extent to which they have enabled the creation of so much wealth and so many inventions. But for this week’s chart cause...
...Cretaceous? The Oligocene? The Eemian? Heck no. These guys and gals don’t do long data series. Actually they don’t do data series at all. They do computer models of imaginary...
...cloud – to drive tens of billions in further investments, while creating the conditions for a better-connected, more productive, and ambitious country. Today, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the second...
...No. Indeed “This fossil-free assemblage can provide all the energy that’s needed for weeks on end, although that requires constantly balancing supply and demand. When asked what the crew gives...
...of the Earth has been about 57 degrees Fahrenheit, which keeps life going.” So no Pleistocene, no PETM, no Cretaceous, no snowball Earth including right before the dinosaurs burst loose?...
...like humans encroaching on “wildlife and wild spaces” in Africa is creating a “huge challenge for conservationists, as it does the world over” as the Prince did to the “Tusk...
...climate neutral continent by 2050. To get there, they pledged to reduce emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. This will create new opportunities for innovation...
...pull them out. The same thing is true of bad science. A crush-their-tiny-heads approach might yield short-term tactical advantage, but at the cost of a long-term loss of credibility. It’s...
...nothing significant? Instead of bringing down the hammer on either point, CHN slips comfortably back into the warm bath of rhetoric, saying “Joe Biden’s presidency of the US creates a...
...is no. Because the public expect scientists to be calm, rational and to stick to facts – as soon as we ‘become human’ we lose credibility.” Er, becoming human isn’t...
...of various claims to reduce emissions, like those the previous Liberal administration in Ontario planned to make by buying credits in California rather than by actually, you know, giving off...
...Georgia — but do not have the 60 seats needed to pass a framework climate law. A Biden administration will have to get creative to submit a credible 2030 climate...
...and emergency crews were rushed in from surrounding counties, the California National Guard was called out, and over a hundred firefighting crews were dispatched from other states and across Canada...
...whose Progressive Conservative party has held power since 2018 partly on its promise to fix the creaky, opaque and horribly indebted power system, now says the power system is creaky,...
...instead, create a system of incentives to reward Canadians for making greener choices, such as purchasing an energy efficient appliance, electric vehicle, or improved home insulation.” Which actually manages to...
...Remember planned obsolescence? That conspiracy theory wasn’t really built to last, but back in the 1960s and 1970s a lot of people thought corporations engaging in “cutthroat competition” deliberately created...
...the global rise of 0.74C. Warming waters are contributing to extreme weather at sea, creating the conditions for tropical storms, like typhoons, to become more intense. They are also causing...
...International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies to say “The humanitarian needs are huge and much more beyond the abilities of the Libyan Red Crescent and even beyond...
...major government projects.” Observers say. By the way The Economist gets some credit here for a piece deploring the “blame game” partly because, they note, “the winding strip of land...
...who created this situation would have something to say that didn’t involve how clever they were. Instead, humility evidently being as passé as snow or issues having two sides, the...
...wants us to care for creation. After all, He created it. And the creatures, including us. But he also gave us brains, so that we could seek truth and adhere...
...C created a public appetite for the C agenda, and the B group are only now realizing they have lost control. Which is, to coin a phrase, a climate emergency....
...contrived solutions. And then suddenly, a small or even large scientific field is swept by a whole new “paradigm” that overturns fundamental assumptions and creates a whole new research agenda....
...too. But we will give credit on one point. He is correct that if the apocalyptic vision is correct, catastrophic actions must be taken and taken now. It’s important that...
...saving energy: Jimmy Carter will be remembered as America’s first green president”. Which might annoy Richard Nixon, who created the EPA. Since Carter left the White House 44 years ago...
...scientist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. But it turns out the crucial trend he’s talking about isn’t a trend in temperatures. It’s a trend in model predictions. To his credit,...
...But none of these actual results of their actions have dented their confidence that, if they just go at it harder, they’ll create price stability, strengthen the dollar, attract investment,...
...media coverage and politicians’ soundbites.” On the subject of credentials that review also observes, persuasively we think, that “Steve Koonin is more than eminently qualified in climate science. He has...
...“for their own good”. John Robson: But as we’re going to show you in this video, it’s not, and it’s creating big problems for all of us over the coming...
...national scale; co-houses scientists, journalists, and technologists; and conducts and catalyzes original, peer-reviewed scientific research to fill critical communication gaps.” So they don’t create content, they create messaging around one...
...non-scientists, often themselves lack formal credentials. For instance the NBC “science reporter” with the undergrad degree in… wait for it… journalism. In the case of the Nature piece it is...
...have a governing party that talks a good game about climate, but still behaves as if the only industry that can create good jobs is the oil and gas industry,...
...And it would be hard to argue that neither the firm nor the guy, Peter Ford, were sincere. Fashion isn’t exactly a bastion of reaction. And: “to its credit, H&M...
...the greatest long-term threat that we face as a global community, but it is also our greatest economic opportunity. By taking bold climate action, we will create new jobs for...
...CDN we vigorously support the intervention of informed lay people in any manner of discussion or debate in which they lack elaborate formal credentials. And while we thought Gates was...
...“We’ll continue to urge the government to end all fossil fuel subsidies now and redirect those funds to low carbon initiatives that will create good jobs for Canadian workers.” They...
...risk creating a fiscal and economic as well as political disaster by dumping vast sums of borrowed money into renewables that don’t deliver while emissions just keep rising. Which brings...
...we can use less plastic without getting less quality of life it would be nice. But not the way the Canadian government is going about it, trying to create a...
...global deliveries after lowering prices and tapping into EV tax credits” over text like: “Tesla reported record quarterly global auto sales after it cut prices on its autos and customers...
...major climate oscillations contribute little to variations in the ice sheet mass balance. The modern creed on climate change, against which we proudly declare our heretical stance, says that says...
...cracks about being force-fed doom by: “a versatile author and digital content creator with a focus on travel, climate awareness, and contemporary home design. With a background in media and...
...upwards, and weather disasters worldwide likewise refused to trend up, even heatwaves. It’s time for the climate movement to declare a credibility emergency. For the temperature data we turn to...
...the only influence the UN Secretary-General has comes from diplomacy, namely being a credible, well-informed trustworthy leader. Narrator: The current officeholder, António Guterres, was born in Portugal in 1949. He...
...species this deep-sea robot just discovered/ Alien-looking lobsters, sponges, urchins, sea stars and sea lilies are among the creatures deep-sea explorers found off the coast of Chile”. Of course everything...
...light green and dark green shaded bars) temperatures. This graphic was created using data from Tables 1 and 2 of Rangaswamy et al. (2021). Figure 2. Percent change in various...
...such claims, instead transcribing political talking points. Thus NBC parrots that “‘The executive order will reduce emissions across federal operations, invest in American clean energy industries and manufacturing, and create...
...companies or individuals to buy credits tied to emissions reductions created by projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere, many of which are in the developing world. But… carbon offsets...
...called a “winter storm” until those got dull, and, to its credit the Weather Network didn’t blame climate despite in other ways getting fairly excited. But let it get hot...
...quasi-infallibility. Want to engage in some grubby vote-buying handouts or take a junket, say flying to the Caribbean on a private jet? Just be sure to say you’re “creating good...
...person protestor, now “an educator… and a graduate student in Indigenous language and pedagogy”, Montgomery Brown, who: “sees a grave danger in the Greenpeace case: the risk of creating a...
...bulk of Lu’s paper is dedicated to describing the new cosmic-ray-driven electron-induced reaction mechanism – or CRE model – of ozone depletion, which he contrasts with the conventional photochemical model...
...they never survey the reef crest. That sea floor is the source of much colourful propaganda: “This coral reef, John Brewer Reef, has been described as one of the worst...
...‘offset’ their carbon footprints by purchasing ‘credits’ from Elon [Musk] in lieu of making EVs themselves” but that market is collapsing because various government EV mandates “served to prod the...
...the matter. If you could create some kind of mentally comprehensible yet not oversimplified summary of the Earth’s climate from 1994 to 2024, then presumably you could also create one...
...to credit The Economist for one thing that only they seem to have thought worth mentioning, and even then only in a footnote. Their chart titled “Boiling point” (which we...
...is such a thing as “creative destruction” there is no reason to believe in “destructive creation”. If governments decide to get rid of the kind of energy that currently provides...
...We certainly hadn’t heard rumours that the Siachen glacier, Lolofond glacier, Teram Shehr glacier or all three held some kind of record for people tumbling into crevasses and not getting...
...like — while holding mega-summits…” For some reason he concedes that “All that’s fair enough, and it does work to raise awareness and create pressure, but it’s a rich coincidence...
...a trained… lawyer. No, not economist, let alone scientist. When someone with advanced scientific training raises questions about climate orthodoxy they get the smackdown over their credentials in a hurry....
...would likely have occurred by natural market processes without any of the government subsidies and credits for wind and solar power.” As a result, it’s not just that they didn’t...
...who think democracy is for losers nearly ruined it, creating a 49-minute delay by staging a disruptive intrusion in which one glued his bare feet to the ground. Do they...
...(and some people reposted without crediting him – please if you borrow acknowledge), namely a New York Times item from March 2024 headlined “Weirdly Warm Winter Has Climate Fingerprints All...
...and communities, advance reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, and ensure good projects can go forward, creating good jobs and economic opportunities for middle-class Canadians.” Yay. Good projects. Just nothing that emits...
...credible in any way shape or form, never mind more important than the boring stuff in his inbox about striking down interprovincial trade barriers or getting pipelines built. According to...
...claim wind and solar will save us and some like the former Liberal administration in Ontario have tried, creating costly disaster. But essentially in Quebec, a province of SUV-drivers, fantasy...
...crept in to begin with so as to need correcting? And as a bonus if you can think of anything that isn’t laugh-out-loud implausible, what way do they have of...
...resulted in a parade of “faster than expected” results that threatens to undermine the credibility of climate science, some researchers fear.’” Wow. And the quote from Voosen’s piece continues “Scientists...
...mystery man. John Robson: But not to us. In our work here at the Climate Discussion Nexus we’ve watched him for years. And we know that despite his banking credentials,...
...Bridge to basically whatever you admire near you, and guessed that the “scenarios” involved “relied on RCP8.5 or something”. Well, thanks to the folks who created it, who may regret...
...an early classic Subaru ad (“Does it have a motor?” “What’s it made of, crepe paper?”) or ask if it comes in a cardboard box and can even go 30...
...time it’s not climate change doing the killing, unless greenhouse gases can shoot a man and stuff his body in a barrel. To its credit Newsweek, while furnishing a number...
...doubt, whether the latter’s Club-of-Rome worldview was right that humans are, essentially, mouths that consume, or Simon’s perky one that we are, essentially, hands that create. Specifically, Simon said Ehrlich...
...of land use that might create false signals. And now it has commendably looked at the data from USCRN and the result is striking: No warming since 2005 and indeed...
...and what was going to happen. The essence of the finding is that if the ocean gets really hot creatures will move around more to find a water temperature they...
...and communities of color to the highest levels of toxic pollution. As the current COVID-19 crisis demonstrates, the interconnection between environmental and health risks has created crisis conditions for communities...
...good jobs, help existing industries transition and create new ones, ensure warmer homes, cleaner air, and a lasting shift in wealth and power across our country.” You’d think just saving...
...on the Swiss government, but it does create a precedent others can use to seek penalties in national courts.” Of the EHCR going tut tut and them going oh yeah?...
...multiple transatlantic flights needed by the boat crew to make the trip possible. Which the New York Times conspicuously failed to mention in a hagiographic account (the sharp investigative journalists...
...for renewables, such as crucial tax credit extensions for solar and wind.” And it gets worse. “This week has seen a chilling shift in conservative rhetoric around the virus that...
...with billions of dollars in tax credits from 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act potentially up for grabs.” It would be better if they were racing to find ways to capture carbon...
...Federal Reserve duck out of the “Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)” over its mission creep and wackiness. So we ask again: does Carney...
...their plausibility. Including the extent to which this supposed transition creates a scary geopolitical dependence on communist China. On the first point Harry Stevens in the New York Times “Climate...
...that kind of storage because of the tendency of wind and solar to create more power than is needed at some points and less at others, often critical ones as...
...the Tass news agency said. The storms were part of a weather system that created blizzard-like conditions in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria and Serbia on Sunday, dumping snow and causing power...
Canadians have apparently resigned themselves to the fact that the people who run our country could create a sand shortage in Saudi Arabia or an ice shortage in Greenland. No...
...the World? Yes – but only if we understand it. From fighting climate change to improving healthcare and boosting creativity – AI holds the power to transform the world. But...
...indeed getting more intense, but instead of blaming governments for creating problems that were entirely foreseeable, the usual suspects now shift the blame to you-know-where. NBC sent out an email...
From CO2Science: Monitoring temperature and creating regional and global temperature data sets is a tricky business. There are many factors that can induce spurious trends in the data; and there...
...grow.” And in the latter “It says it plans to plant 60 million seedlings next year, rising to 320 million trees a year in 2027, 2028 and 2029, creating thousands...
...temperature jump in terms of global averages and records.” Mind you we do want to give them credit for “in human record-keeping”. Then take it back with a stiff reprimand...
...like much alarmist agitprop it backfires since the family’s indifference to the fire (and the cheesy special effects) creates the sense that it’s somehow not harmful, or even real, and...
...the slight increase in today’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will be fatal to living creatures in the oceans, how did they survive for hundreds of millions of years when atmospheric...
...be deceived. We are not Puritans. If you enjoy a tipple at day’s end, if you even feel that under some circumstances relaxing can enhance your creativity, we will not...
...in Canada and create good jobs here in Canada”. In large part? Where did that one come from? Who ever called her up and said wow, your energy is artificially...
...rolling out electric ambulances, adopting ‘climate-friendly pain relief’ that does not contain greenhouse gases, and putting environmental credentials at the heart of decisions around medicines and supplies. But despite these...
...modest, two-year backslide into a dangerous trend.” As we’ve suggested to the press before, to enhance credibility try reporting things that did happen, not things that might be going to....
...CREAF and the University of Nanjin, says that plants can’t keep growing indefinitely on CO2 alone. As one of the lead researchers put it, “plants need CO2, water and nutrients...
...Probably their own delegate can’t even remember. Still, Euronews.green crowed that: “Crediting ‘fighters and trailblazers’, the UN climate summit is giving the floor to the world’s most ambitious governments. A...
...that he understood the math better than most of the people working on the problem, so they had to listen. To his credit, Lewis has patiently kept at it, and...
...thought." So why does the lead scientist mention something being more stable than previously thought? The story in question results from a creative experiment involving “newly digitized vintage film” dating...
...surely incompatible with the simple linear model where any significant warming above the historically chilly 1970s must launch a host of reinforcing processes creating a “greenhouse effect” where the planet...
...population. Because we now have early warning systems, satellite monitoring, better infrastructure and, we would like to add, fossil fuel-powered vehicles to evacuate areas and send in emergency response crews,...
...Even the UN says that’s the way to do it. Which in this case doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wrong, however frequently the UN manages to be non-credible. Instead here it...
...vary as the amount of CO2 released by humans increases, and of how nature tells ours from theirs and thus can harmoniously and effortlessly absorb all the sweet creamy natural...
...website via credit card; Paypal – for donations submitted on our website via PayPal; Information stored by these third-parties are protected by and subject to their privacy policy. You...
...you citizens driving cars and burning heating oil, heck no, the bad people letting you do it) you read that “Our climate actions will create good-paying jobs for New Yorkers....
...classic politically driven lose-lose billed as the opposite. To give credit where we can, Booker’s program to “Accelerate the end of fossil fuels” includes “immediately eliminating all fossil fuel subsidies”....
...to create a reflex for them to demand that politicians come and save them from climate change by raising our taxes or rearranging the economy. So let’s try to deprogram...
...when the surface was liquid rock, while even after billions of years of subsequent cooling pretty much the entire Jurassic and Cretaceous were a lot hotter than anything since the...
...anything that seems cool does not qualify as strategic, prudent, competitive or anything else good. Expending boundless energy to do so, creating the expectation that you are a piñata that...
...was getting lower and lower at the most recent end, and as the denominator series went to zero, the ratio would go higher and higher, creating a phony blade. McIntyre...
...said the goal of a climate emergency declaration is to create a sense of urgency about making cities carbon-neutral. There are different ways they can get there, in part by...
...sinful stuff and the filthy lucre it brings? (The oil and gas not the booze.) Uh was that me? Likewise, Canada’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, formerly Minister...
...in nearby islands led to an influx of population after the mid-1970s many new houses were built on the floodplain, creating the problem of flood risk being experienced today. The...
...“It’s so hot that Canada’s sea creatures are cooking to death in their shells”. But if all that one does is recall the punchline from an old B.C. cartoon, “Steamed...
...like the oil and gas sector. No wonder there’s a crisis… of credibility. The Scientific American email teaser said “The role of plastics in climate change is easy to overlook”....
...trusted records of climate-related economic loss in the country. The power of the database lies in its credibility.” Which it does not have. The piece thinks otherwise: “So-called billion-dollar disasters...
...in 2,000 years.” So again the news of the future, with a dash of creative writing. Exactly which cities got “scorched” is hard to determine. But it’s also curious that...
Humans have created a long list of myths about the sun. Ancient civilizations from the Aztecs to the Zulus have had names for the solar deity, but all these cults...
...or aren’t they? It’s kind of important to the story. Or so you ‘d think. Didn’t you check? Referring to the aforementioned Memorandum McParland says: “Carney’s climate credentials aren’t seriously...
...because it’s the only way to create models at all given the magnitude of the scientific problem. But they should be honest with us about what they’re doing, why, and...
...Amazon has been in a wet rainforest phase. The trees themselves ensured their continued existence: Water evaporating from leaves created an endless loop of rainfall, while the dense canopy prevented...
The University of Toronto figures the right way to deal with the collapse of university credibility and finances is to slash carbon emissions on its storied St. George campus in...
...very near future the observed warming rate will likely soon fall outside the significance levels of the ensemble model mean, removing any remaining credibility left in the model projections of...
...anomalies and summer drought as proxies for winter glacial accumulation and summer ablation, respectively, to create a 300-year history of regional glacial Mass Balance Potential (MBP), which they compared with...
...a big improvement on the alcohol-filled ones that had been created by the mid-17th century. Over the next hundred years, temperatures began being widely recorded for the purpose of keeping...
...create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods do”. No. But since there aren’t nuclear fusion reactors you might as well be...
...them anymore. Most people do not go about thinking to themselves “I wonder if the temperatures on the government website are invented.” Not because they are all credulous about the...
...my computer in a small office in New York. In climate models, one can remove the effects of randomness by re-starting time over and over again, creating a universe of...
...where the warming happens. When ocean warming happens in the western tropical Pacific, the overall effect tends to increase radiation out from the upper atmosphere, creating a “negative climate feedback”...
...we have known it.” And they were just, how shall we put it, warming up. In language that would have embarrassed H.P. Lovecraft, writer Shawn Hubler (whose credentials as a...
...creatures.” Like, say, how many there were 30 years ago, or 100. And of course how many there will be in 30 years. We just made that bit up. As...
...didn’t do it and should get credit. The Globe story went on to belabour the obvious, regrettably necessary in such cases, quoting “Nic Rivers, Canada Research Chair in Climate and...
...to repeat): the Huronian around 2.4-2.1 billion years ago just as life was getting started, the Cryogenian 720-630 mya (million years ago) that may or may not have created a...
...about an artificial economy created by regulations that force consumers to pay more for less-reliable forms of energy, when what really matters is that ordinary people get affordable reliable fuel...
...over central Asia and Africa (--). Substantial recent efforts have been made to generate new global streamflow datasets, consolidating observations from many stream gauges to create streamflow indices (---) and...
...but nasty. However, as our goal is to promote intelligent and civil discourse, we are determined to give credit where due. Last year we said that she was right that...
...that the creator can prove that they have no links to an entity that ‘has as one of its purposes to promote fossil fuels.’” One wonders whether politicians are also...
...Monday was the hottest day “humans have measured”. And to its credit CBS even managed to limit its headline to “Monday was hottest day ever measured by humans, beating Sunday,...
...and over 90% of its exports. And we don’t mean windmills. Now the optimist would say great, if a country with that kind of background and profile can commit credibly...
...supply. Our meat, fruit and veggies, also our candy and ice cream, milk and wine, are built almost entirely from carbon dioxide and water. Everything we eat and drink. There...
...from which the climate reconstructions were created came from a wide variety of sources, including “lacustrine, fluvial, and marine sediments; pollen, dendrochronology, and speleothem data; ice cores and historical facts,...
...like “If you need more evidence that climate is all about communism”. But that assessment may be giving it too much credit, since the communists at least tried to be...
...Nordic countries.” Yes, even in advanced economies a combination of bad weather and bad policy can create potentially lethal circumstances, in this case with the weather dipping as low as...
...truth. Unfortunately the numbers are often messy, and that's where personal biases can creep in. The developers of the UAH data set, John Christy and Roy Spencer, were initially lauded...
...credulous journalists, and that these groups joined forces to condemn western society, demand more government intervention and central planning, and dismiss any suggestion that humans going about their private business...
...fill critical communication gaps.” Cohousing scientists and journalists sounds like a recipe for a conflict of interest not a box of strawberry creams to us. As for “policy-neutral”, this hydra...
...among those who helped create this Climate-Risk Industrial Complex was one Mark J. Carney, then governor of the Bank of England, who gave a 2015 speech accompanied by a Bank...
...the warnings to federal authorities that poor forest management in the face of a Mountain Pine Beetle infestation was creating ideal conditions for exactly such a disastrous blaze, which now...
...through Asheville and west into the Tennessee river, crested an estimated 17 feet above flood stage,’ reported the [National Weather Service]. ‘Even higher readings, up to 23 feet above previous...
...raise Canadians’ standard of living and create high quality jobs but provide the financial capability for the country to be a more active and relevant international player.” The world needs...
...comes to alternative energy, and is only a surprise because so many proponents of green schemes believe their policies only ever create winners and never losers. As leftist economist Kenneth...
...creating it, which is not just why but how the “invisible hand” shuts them down to the general benefit. Surely this point was cleared up decades ago, if not centuries....
...gas emissions from 1990 levels, from the current 40%.” It will be most interesting to see what ordinary Europeans desperate for a revival of wealth-creating activity have to say, and...
...deniers.” To his credit Koonin didn’t back away, instead he dug in for a fight. Koonin draws a distinction between scientists wanting to inform versus those wanting to persuade. He...
...when it’s 37 C out, but that’s exactly what the Germans are being forced to do as Russia continues to cut gas supplies to Europe, creating the prospect of severe...
...who think they no longer do so? We refer to the BBC, which seems entirely credulous about the UN and unwilling to believe biology. It said last fall, an alert...
...way: We use fossil fuels to make ourselves more comfortable – and in some cases, keep us alive – during extreme weather events. Our dependence on oil and gas creates...
...as well as its vital role in creating clean drinking water.) In some sense it is easy to laugh at the undressed, unfocused rantings of Extinction Rebellion. But when the...
...Sun. Commenting on it, Vijay Jayaraj of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation says “Our understanding of the earth’s climate system is still in its infancy.” There are...
...would.) And schtum on the India Times just reporting that “The rebound in monsoon rainfall has created ideal conditions for agriculture for the rest of the year with accelerated planting...
...creek. Rather, it is a tidal wave of debris from a handful of Asian countries (the World Economic Forum says 90% of the plastic in the oceans comes from 10...
...from Larix gmelinii in the Greater Khingan Mountains, China since AD 1765. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.6733. Jiang et al.’s contribution to this topic was the creation of a...
...solved, right guys? A negative feedback mechanism keeps things in balance. Phew. But no. We’re talking “nuclear winter” here, and nuclear is bad. Also “Fire thunderstorms… not only create their...
...Seriously? We’ll just stand there like a UN Secretary-General while the waves engulf us? And to give such credit as we can, the story immediately demolishes itself on this point,...
...District School Board is making strides in creating healthier environments for students and staff while cutting carbon emissions.” Meanwhile our power system is a mess and our bills are outrageous....
...mean climate model simulations in ref. 25 for 2001 to 2019 to examine hemispheric trends in cloud radiative effect (CRE; defined as the difference between clear and all-sky downward [Top...
...whether the past history of our planet suggests that an increase or decrease in temperature is more likely to create conditions hostile to the flourishing of plants and animals.) But...
...power to the clichéple as you can stand, possibly more: “In both countries [Malawi and Uganda], I was struck by how aggressively people were adapting. They were creative, they were...
...company that provides information to clients about weather and climate-related risk.” Oh really? And who created these expectations? It might seem like “whataboutism”, the new magic word to make awkward...
...made noises to the UN about cutting emissions. That kind of talk always wins them praise from credulous western environmentalists. But the reality is, net zero is a western preoccupation...
...have ascribed rainbows with positive meaning. For ancient Greeks, Romans, Norsemen, and Polynesians, rainbows were a path between Earth and Heaven created by Gods (Lee and Fraser, 2001, Businger, 2021)....
...somehow misread thermometers in a way that created the impression of stable temperature over most of the past century when actually it was cooling over a long interval. And the...
...tropical activity, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center doesn’t anticipate storm development for at least a week.” Bummer. And to its credit the story does concede that: “Considering all of...
...panic (they don’t call it that) is pushing industry back toward poisonous alternatives like ammonia. From the government, and here to help you… use a substance that: “wants your crevices...
...has mandated that all American government vehicles shall be “carbon pollution-free electricity and clean, zero-emission vehicles to create good-paying, union jobs and stimulate clean energy industries.” And Worrall scoffs “Libertarians...
...serving complete with edible gold, to go with its world-record $295 burger and (we are not making this up) $1,000 ice cream sundae. So if we may ask, who do...
...Francois Hollande had pledged to bring it down to 50% because… because… It’s really hard to imagine. However current President Emmanuel Macron, and again we’re not fans but credit where...
...would not be surprised to find out that recycling e-waste in response to government directives creates new and more deadly hazards than any potential ones associated simply with landfilling it....
...never even in the book appearing in the last chapter to get blamed for stuff that had already happened. Of course the story also says the creek is rising (in...
...temperatures jumped up for some reason unrelated to long-term trends, and might jump back down. If the credulous Times reporters ever even thought of that angle, it didn’t survive into...
...the last half-century, with rising concerns about climate that presumably create an urgent need for ample reliable data, it has… fallen sharply: If the authorities were going about saying the...
...are worth more than they cost to make because they generate a profit. (If they don’t generate a profit they stop being made because the company discontinues them or creditors...
...all get eaten. And another thing. Since climate change is creating saplings, saplings are bad. Conca writes that “Losing larger trees is a bad thing for us and lots of...
...Stony Creek and Palenville, New York, as well as in Marlboro, Vermont, and Colrain, Massachusetts.” And the stuff in California is even “’snow’ much fun”. Unless it’s bad. Then we...
...you, a “thousand-year event” without thousands of years of reliable records is essentially a guess. You create a probability curve, construct a very flat very high end and go well,...
...to explain. Dabrusin was chosen to be Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change despite her lack of obvious credentials in the field, having focused on Middle Eastern studies, law...
...thin with a public repeatedly told the end is nigh only to have nothing much happen. But at the same time, a credulous media gives scary stories a big head...
...often disgusting ones and we rightly seek to exterminate many of them if they invade our homes and bodies, because without them a great many other creatures would perish directly...
...Imagine the blow to the credibility of official science if it turned out to be true. Especially if they tried to cover it up. Thus it would be very interesting...
...further back you go the longer “brief” becomes. We do not know whether the Cretaceous saw fluctuations as severe as the Younger Dryas, when temperatures apparently changed by as much...
...nature of hurricane reporting, Koonin goes on to look at US tornado activity. Tornadoes are mysterious creatures, and while it is known that they are spawned by thunderstorms, it is...
...have better things to do than engage with narrow-minded cretins like Ellenbogen: “I am always very happy to engage with anyone who comes to a discussion with an open mind,...
...– but Disneyfied climate predictions are just dangerous” because editors not authors create headlines. But it’s a pretty good summary of a piece that denounces “economist Oded Galor’s much-praised new...
...just need to make it work at scale.” Oh. Just that. We created a prototype at enormous cost that won’t make a measurable dent in the problem and all we...
...push to triple renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade. Developing nations, meanwhile, will try to get their wealthy counterparts to finalize a loss and damage fund created...
...passing cephalopod: “A new analysis published Thursday in Science finds that geographically-isolated populations of the eight-limbed sea creatures mated freely around 125,000 years ago, signaling an ice-free corridor during a...
...credible as Chinese Communist ones. And when both Russia and Germany have been strong it wasn’t always a good thing for the rest of the continent. But having Germany be...
...becoming more unreliable, food is spoiling, and a collapsing medical system now risks creating a major health crisis. Some hospitalized Cubans have reportedly already died as a result of the...
...Triassic-Jurassic? Meh. The Cretaceous-Paleogene? Well, that one is still about the asteroid though National Geographic assures us “it’s the exception. The single biggest driver of mass extinctions appears to be...
...conversation that creates an engaged public.” More urgent climate stories, intruding on every imaginable news story, to get the public on board with the campaign to shut down our energy...
...them to terraform other planets. I often hear friends bemoan humans’ proclivity for destruction; in this case, we would be the first species to create entirely new worlds for life...
...there, so he shouldn’t leave therapy yet. But he’s making progress, and an honesty test for those engaged in policy debate is to give credit where due. When science met...
...they can, says Carney, ‘combine to create a third path’. What would that look like? The obvious shape is a new constellation of the European Union plus the UK plus...
...stop clearing its forests for agriculture and city-building. Which, to its credit, it has done rather successfully. Climate alarmism requires ever-greater doses of adrenaline and abstract panic; hence Macron’s claim...
...century ago to two decimal places is credible. Among other things, thermometers around the world tend to be located where people live, and cities have grown a lot over the...
...it’s evidently working, if the aim is to sell papers at the expense of what’s left of your credibility. Thus the New York Times shouts: “Earth is likely to cross...
...Cretaceous, well, it’s very long indeed and there are lots of eras, never mind periods, epochs or mere ages. So here’s the chart, courtesy of Professor Humlum: Notice that the...
...even less than “experts say”. But it is credible that someone on the inside, either right inside Microsoft or inside one of its prospective suppliers of unicorn power, has blabbed,...
...Chan once said, making bedfellow of serpent no protection against snakebite. Seems taking filthy lucre “from an industry with ‘a proven record of actively obscuring the scientific consensus on climate...
...The science being settled, more research is clearly needed. Including into the “Whoa Nelly problem” that climate models are created to say CO2 causes warming so they say it no...
...company in Boulder which no longer exists. Pielke Jr. had actually been involved in creating the ICAT database along with one of his former students, and initially the data construction...
...of others who thought they had spent years mobilizing people on the climate issue. But perhaps if Saint Greta is capable of such miracles she can also be credited with...
...by surprise” by arriving at least a fortnight early. And in fact spring did come early in the UK in 1957. It just didn’t scare people in those less credulous...
...trusted, even to grovel with an individual touch, who are we to disagree? The problem, of course, is that the Canadian government is not advancing major projects. It did create...
...be easy to stop using them. We obviously do not think it is true that they are creating a problem. But we certainly think it would be very hard to...
...combined, create one. Ditto Australian wildfires, British Columbia floods, a drought in your particular neck of the woods or whatever just happened there. It’s a question of pattern recognition, and...
...demand that politicians act. And people like Greta Thunberg seem to believe that you don’t need any credentials to be an expert on climate. So can we not treat this...
...the same direction. There was a systemic bias in the direction of creating the impression of a climate crisis that the data just didn’t show. Narrator: The fact that the...
...they actually don’t commit. To its credit, the actual announcement said “Global warming is a reality we all must navigate” rather than the weasely “climate change” which because it could...
...It was all too hard." Then the Premier declared vast areas of New South Wales to be national parks, but didn't put fire management systems in place, creating conditions for...
...what the UAH team considered a spurious cooling in the early years, yielding an artificially high warming trend after it ended. Until, to their very great credit, the STAR team...
...‘can create hope where once there was only despair.’ Too optimistic in 2026? Almost certainly. The pitches we play on, rivers we swim, seas we surf, mountains we climb, parks...
...from tree species Cedrela odorata, Cedrela nebulosi and Juglans neotropica, which were well-correlated with short-term instrumental precipitation data (1979-2010), Humanes-Fuente et al. were able to create “the first annually resolved...
...to get published in prestigious journals, and left academia for a think tank (the Breakthrough Institute) which to its credit has given him the freedom to do his research and...
The “this pandemic is a foretaste of climate change” argument is everywhere. In a creative twist, Aaron Bernstein of the Harvard School of Public Health, in the Guardian’s paraphrase, claims...
...transforming our energy systems is also a huge opportunity for our economies, with the potential to create millions of new jobs and boost economic growth.” Under the circumstances you’d expect...
...Cornwall reports on a study by Zeke Hausfather and others looking at 17 forecasts by 14 models, some so creaky they used punch cards and their results had to be...
...the forced disclosure of information its owners cannot in principle possess, on the basis of which to create even more rules and regulations that stifle ingenuity and even common sense....
...the plan, admitting that “geoengineering is far from a sure bet. To its critics, the technology runs the risk of re-creating some of the worst mass extinctions in the planet’s...
...– including growing the economy, creating good jobs for the middle class, improving health care, continuing to position Alberta as a leader in clean energy, and making life more affordable.”...
...which we might instead call “repetitive cliché-ridden language possibly generated by a bot”. But he’s quite right that the Governor has no credible plan to get this thing built, nor...
...is something that a growing minority of young people either ignore or actively oppose, into their 20s and beyond. That, in turn, is starting to create more support for anti-car...
...generators? Oh, that’s awkward. Under normal circumstances a firm postponing or even cancelling an investment would just be chalked up to the creative chaos of markets. But with the powers...
...“wetware”, the programmers. But the data tell a different story. And to his credit, Thompson listens and doesn’t just sneer at Uber drivers. As with too many scientific papers, the...
...quantity of waste a reasonably modern reactor creates, try figuring out what to do with all those blades and panels when you discover that they’re clapped out after 20 years....
...it reduces the credibility of this sort of thing? Then there’s this tired prediction: “Warming oceans and melting ice caps could cause sea levels to rise by more than a...
...people get used to telecommuting and thus use less oil in the future.” But then he slays the poor creature: “any climate benefits from the COVID-19 crisis are likely to...
...application of effective technique improves something until it is ruined. Specifically, monoculture and successful breeding, which really do improve yield and sometimes other prized qualities as well, but create enormous...
...minister chirps “Our economic plan is turning Canada into a critical minerals superpower. From EV battery plants to net-zero mining, we are responsibly unlocking Canada’s natural resources to create more...
...results is an essential part of the scientific method, such failures undermine the credibility of theories building on them and potentially call into question substantial parts of scientific knowledge. The...
...credence to Brown’s accusation that it was precisely in line with the standards they set. But the cat is out of the bag. (And not only because of another story...
...to reveal the censorious and politicized response of many in the media and climate science community to the very idea that other accomplished and credentialed experts might have views that...
...Cretaceous and the Holocene Climatic Optimum, not to mention the chilly Pleistocene, but are now going to vanish beneath the waves rather than swim somewhere nicer where other members of...
...last until Wednesday, gradually affecting eastern and southern regions, including the island of Crete.” However you should not see a pattern here. Admittedly: “Heavy snow is rare in the Greek...
...worldwide, don’t you think we’d have seen at least one example of widespread success by now?” It’s a fair question. If they’d promised less, maybe they’d have retained more credibility....
...even when they don’t line up with the alarmist dogma. Otherwise you may find your credibility vanishing faster than a hapless visitor who got too close to a polar bear....
...marine creatures and then the limestone that forms from them. And it’s a cautionary tale, if he’s right, about having large-scale biological processes that consume atmospheric CO2 and drive the...
...that they wear is created from petroleum.” If it’s the former, The North Face are fools who need to get smarter. If the latter, they’re rogues who need to mend...
...Credit here goes to Frances Carruthers of the Love Exploring website for assembling a list of extreme weather disasters from 1900 to 2024 that begins with the Galveston Storm in...
...important out loud in front of people in a crowded room with reporters present: “I have not seen a credible plan for net zero without nuclear as part of the...
...of summer sea ice.” Which he says, crediting Susan Crockford, is doubly wrong, since polar bears depend on spring not summer ice which no one has yet said is vanishing....
...black seed grass, which makes more sense because it produces black seeds. But whether or not those black seeds remind you of a chatty white-crested bird, you will have more...
...decades past. It is what they are saying and doing about climate change now, a story that includes money-losing biofuels and a greenwashing/tax-credit play with carbon capture and storage. ExxonMobil...
...the Caribbean for the modest purpose of “advancing democracy, human rights, economic growth that benefits everyone, and developing clean energy” and to “increase trade and investment… to create jobs and...
...the climate system has changed noticeably”. No, wait. We don’t see. The formidable Dr. Miner (she has a black belt among other credentials) doesn’t say when exactly she got her...
...and Hertz are slowing their transitions to EV, and even Elon Musk sounds daunted by what’s coming.” Oh, and credit to Akio Toyoda, the chairman and former CEO of Toyota,...
...following Ockham’s razor, and trying to avoid a Frankenstein’s monster model that lurches about with frightening power doing things you can’t understand, there is something to be said for creating...
There’s a saying that economists deserve credit for predicting eight of the last three recessions. And it’s true that if you keep predicting cyclical phenomena you will be right sometimes...
...report recommendation urged government to create financial incentives to encourage Canadians to invest in climate conscious financial products through registered savings plans and defined contribution pension plans.” If that doesn’t...
Canary Media asks “Can corn ethanol really help decarbonize US air travel?” To which we reply “No, of course not.” To their credit, they do admit there’s doubt: “there’s far...
...Forbes that starts “On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s...
...say abandoning the energy foundations of our civilization would actually make us richer, and being unmasked as a knave or a dunce is a damaging blow to your credibility. Speaking...
...climate on Earth, from the Arctic to the tropics, from the wilderness to cities. We’re very adaptable creatures. What’s more, given the choice, we prefer warmth to cold. Think where...
...crisis of human rights, of justice and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fuelled it. We need to dismantle them all.” Again, what...
...Or we try to give someone credit in the spirit of positive discussion only to be cruelly let down. And this week it’s a two-fer, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin...
...What really might put the kibosh on sales, profits and their inescapable prerequisite the creation of goods and services that make happy customers, is crazy green policies that destroy wealth...
...model outputs to 20th-century data while still creating ear-splitting predictions of warming for the 21st). But in India at least, the warming that followed did not undo all that cooling,...
...end of the century, new research has revealed.” Thought by whom? There seems to be a lot more credulous hearsay than old-fashioned hard-boiled “if your mother says she loves you,...
...scenario peddled to the public for years as ‘business as usual.’” Included in the list is Steven Koonin, whose credentials include a PhD in theoretical physics from MIT (does that...
...on “social supports”, “environmental protection” and “creeping secularism”. But then it reported that “Highest inflation rates in forty years have Canadians tightening belts, bracing for more financial turbulence” and furnished...
...it was in Central Asia in June 1936. Literally none. And having a very strong idea what it must have been is not a substitute. To its credit, Heatmap got...
...out go old, lumbering companies that failed to move with the times; in come their disruptive rivals in a blaze of creative destruction…. The economy that emerges should be more...
Perhaps that’s the nerd’s credo. But we have nowhere to hide. We’re excited at a NOAA website that lists all sorts of extreme weather records in the United States, NOAA...
...is not generally high. But our policy of credit where due leads us to note here that he has been warning against the hubris and possible unintended consequences of geoengineering...
...is to be found. As a professor of education at Örebro University says, “We tried to create green revolutionaries, make them think in a specific way”. Which is surely the...
...fossil fuels also starve it of food as well as munitions. No worries, though. According to Steffen, who holds a PhD in Chemistry but pontificates on economics as though credentials...
...installs. Not creates. Just evaluates. Whee. Cackle. Cash for all our buddies. Including, why not, “nearly $350 million to support decarbonization of the aerospace industry”? Since clearly you can get...
...(or better yet, when you create these elements together). But now, thanks to rising global temperatures, the Black Rock Desert could be shifting from almost uninhabitable to totally incompatible with...
...which the newsletter points features a discussion with the three authors of Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense, “Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, philosopher John Campbell...
...of red tape is the ticket back to intellectual and political credibility. Do they really think the average American voter will be thrilled that: “New documents reveal the extent of...
...protectionism, right? Right. But logical because the Jones Act only requires that ships carrying cargo from one American port to another use ships made in the USA and crewed by...