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Weekly Local weather and Power Information Roundup #367

The Week That Was once: 2019-07-13 (July 13, 2019)
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Quote of the Week: “The fascinating factor in regards to the Inexperienced New Deal,” he mentioned, “is it wasn’t at the beginning a weather factor in any respect. … Do you guys recall to mind it as a weather factor? … As a result of we in reality recall to mind it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy factor.”Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leader of team Saikat Chakrabarti to Governor Jay Inslee’s weather director Sam Ricketts, as reported via David Sir Bernard Law of the Washington Submit.

Choice of the Week: Between 11 and 48,00Zero deaths

THIS WEEK:

By way of Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Coverage Challenge (SEPP)

Groupthink or Bureaucratic Science: The demise of remarkable journalist Christopher Booker is an unlucky loss for individuals who dare assume on their very own. As his pal Andy Shaw relates, Booker changed into operating on a e book on Groupthink, which changed into in accordance with paintings via psychologist Irving Janis. Booker changed into very much increasing his paper on groupthink and weather exchange, which changed into revealed via the International Warming Coverage Basis (GWPF). Thankfully, we have now that paper, the manager abstract of which states:

“The aim of this paper is to make use of the medical insights of a professor of psychology at Yale again within the 1970s to turn all the tale of the alarm over world warming in a exceptional new gentle. The overdue Professor Irving Janis analysed what occurs when humans get stuck up in what he termed ‘groupthink’, a trend of collective mental behaviour with 3 unique options, that we will be able to characterise as regulations.

“• A gaggle of humans come to percentage a selected view or trust and not using a correct appraisal of the proof.

“• This leads them to insist that their trust is shared via a ‘consensus’ of all rightminded opinion.

“• As a result of their trust is in the long run solely subjective, resting on shaky foundations, they then shield it solely via exhibiting an irrational, dismissive hostility against any individual bold to query it.

“This paper starts via appearing how strongly some of these 3 signs had been in proof, proper from the beginning, when, within the overdue 1980s, the realization upward thrust in carbon dioxide ranges changed into inflicting the earth dangerously to heat changed into first dropped at the sector’s consideration.

“It displays how the foundations of groupthink persisted to be in proof when, all the way through the duration across the first file of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Alternate (IPCC) in 1990 and the Rio ‘Earth Summit’ of 1992, world warming changed into followed as a world medical and political ‘consensus’.

“The presence of groupthink changed into proven at Kyoto in 1997, when sensible steps had been first agreed to decelerate the upward push in international temperatures, via implies that will require the richer, advanced countries of the West to cut back their carbon dioxide emissions, whilst permitting the nonetheless ‘growing’ countries, comparable to China and India, to proceed expanding them till their economies had stuck up with the West. Ultimately, because the paper will display, this department between the West and the remainder of the sector would grow to be the crux of the entire tale,”

After dialogue of the 1998 El Niño Booker continues:

“However then got here the ‘hockey stick’ controversy, which first drew fees that, to make their case appear extra believable, supporters of the ‘consensus’ – strongly recommended via the IPCC – had been having to govern the most important medical proof. Their reaction to those allegations changed into additional proof of Janis’s 3rd rule, that any try to mission the ‘consensus’ should be disregarded, rejected and suppressed.” [Boldface added]

Booker has many beneficial observations in his 100-page paper.

TWTW has termed groupthink, followed via authorities entities supposedly generating function science, as Bureaucratic Science. The results of Groupthink will also be malevolent, evidenced via the adoption of the United Kingdom’s Local weather Alternate Act 2008, precipitated via distorted science and statistics; the UN’s declaration of the eminent extinction of 1,000,000 species, prompting youngsters to claim the Extinction Insurrection; or the new announcement via Prince Charles that “We’ve 18 months to avoid wasting international.”

As will also be noticed within the above Quote of the Week, groupthink provides a possibility for individuals who need to exchange the sector with out requiring critical considered the results. Scholars of the American Revolution understand the verdict to claim independence changed into thoughtfully debated and evaluated via delegates of the 13 colonies as to its penalties at the second one Continental Congress and earlier than. (New York officially joined in mid-July.) See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy, Protecting the Orthodoxy, and Underneath the Backside Line.

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Groupthink Prolonged: Writing for the Wall Boulevard Magazine, columnist Holman Jenkins discusses how the media focal point on worst-case eventualities and the way those transform the middle of dialogue on weather coverage, irrespective of how not likely the extraordinary, the worst-case state of affairs is also. Mr. Jenkins starts:

It’s onerous to credit score individuals who say they care about weather exchange once they don’t trouble to understand anything else in regards to the topic. Or once they applaud proposals that might be extremely dear but don’t have any impact at the alleged downside and will solely educate the general public to transform cynical about those that come bearing climate-related proposals.

However that’s the sector we are living in. No doubt, politicians don’t volunteer to ship extra reality than we’re prepared to listen to.

The place fraudulence is the norm, Joe Biden’s weather plan must be said for its fairly much less fraudulent mien. It doesn’t forget about the remainder of the sector, because the Inexperienced New Deal does.

His conclusion wishes emphasizing:

“I imply each and every phrase of the next: Forget about climate-science reporting in primary U.S. information organs. The click has given up wrestling with the boundaries of data or correctly relaying the caveats tied to extremely summary pc fashions. If a worst-case state of affairs materializes, humanity can have recourse to reasonably reasonably-priced geoengineering answers to try to mitigate warming. Within the period in-between, there’s no explanation why to imagine the sector will forcibly wean itself off fossil fuels. On the identical time, the relentless hunt for potency and development of era will proceed to cut back the carbon depth of our commercial civilization. It’s even conceivable to think about cost-effective, pro-growth insurance policies that might boost up this development. Sadly, those lack the faux-heroic scale and value tags that excite the virtuous left this present day.

“The media, for no matter explanation why, has selected a job for itself as a cheerleader for weather boondoggles. And the extra specialised the media—the website online Within Local weather Information is your instance right here—the extra utterly it’ll commit itself to deceptive the general public about the actual nature of the weather mission in our democracy.”

The one factor that wishes additional emphasis is that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Alternate (IPCC) and the USA International Alternate Analysis Program (USGCRP) are political organizations, no longer medical ones. They devise worst-case eventualities even if their unvalidated fashions are contradicted via observations. They’ve misplaced medical integrity and medical credibility. They’re leaders in groupthink, as described via Christopher Booker, above. See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.

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The Greenhouse Impact – The Libraries: Proxy measurements or proxy variables stand in when one thing can’t be at once measured. A proxy size could in fact measure one thing as opposed to what it’s presupposed to measure. As an example, Bristlecone Pine tree ring width measurements taken within the arid White Mountains of California and Nevada had been first of all used to measure carbon dioxide fertilization, then had been claimed via the IPCC (SPM, AR3, 2001 p.three) to measure expanding temperatures, with out evaluating them to exact thermometer measurements. Tree rings too can measure moisture or rainfall. The issue of figuring out precisely what a proxy measures leads researchers to make use of direct measurements anywhere conceivable – except for for the weather status quo such because the IPCC and the USGCRP.

Led via John Christy, the Earth Gadget Science Heart, The College of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has 40 years of direct size of atmospheric temperature developments, but the IPCC and others hold to floor measurements with very deficient world protection, with knowledge infected via the city heat-island impact. The IPCC ignores atmospheric knowledge, the place the greenhouse impact happens. In line with their 40-years’ price of globally knowledge, the UAH team has estimated, in a printed paper, doubling of carbon dioxide (CO2) will lead to an building up in temperatures of about 1.1ºC or 2ºF.

As mentioned within the earlier two TWTWs, physicist William van Wijngaarden and his colleagues, the usage of measurements of the results of greenhouse gases with out the results of clouds, have discovered doubling of CO2 (from 400 portions consistent with million to 800 portions consistent with million), Methane (CH4), Nitrous Oxide (N2O) with a 6% building up within the dominant greenhouse fuel, water vapor, will lead to an building up in temperatures of about 1 to at least one.5ºC or 2 to 3ºF. The bottom worth the IPCC tasks is 1.5ºC, which is the best possible worth of what van Wijngaarden tasks. The best possible worth of the IPCC is Four.5ºC, a long way increased than van Wijngaarden.

The paintings of van Wijngaarden is in accordance with libraries compiled via Harvard-Smithsonian Heart for Astrophysics Atomic and Molecular Physics, the updating of which is mentioned in a contemporary paper revealed within the Magazine of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Switch. In contrast to knowledge from some teams, the information don’t seem to be a secret and will also be explored the usage of the web and a notebook computer. Those that need to accomplish that want to understand sure phrases is also complicated. As an example, species and Isotopologues check with other isotopes of an atom, leading to variants of the similar molecule. As an example, Except for for excessive instances in laboratories, hydrogen has three isotopes relying at the collection of neutrons. The commonest type of hydrogen has no neutrons.

Reviewing the tutorials to be had on the website online, and the calculations taken with growing the information is also harking back to the problems in growing artillery vary tables or growing the trajectories of rockets and satellites in the USA area program. For the latter, many human calculators had been hired, most commonly girls. See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy and In the hunt for a Not unusual Flooring.

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Microbes and Methane: Microbes shape the most important a part of existence on earth. About three.Five billion years in the past, straight forward, one-cell, cyanobacteria started the usage of the calories of the solar to damage down the molecules of CO2 and water to provide meals, the easy sugar, glucose, forming the bases of different carbohydrates, with oxygen as a byproduct. This means of photosynthesis could have ended in multicellular existence and animal existence. But the UN groupthink about world warming now claims that expanding photosynthesis will purpose species extinction, particularly when world warming is helped alongside via methane.

As mentioned within the October 20, 2018, TWTW, Jock Allison and Thomas Sheahen introduced calculations via van Wijngaarden and Will Happer of the six pure greenhouse gases, in accordance with the information from HITRAN, that on a per-molecule foundation, the aptitude of methane to take in photons (radiative calories, warmth) is lower than one fourth that of CO2 either on the most sensible of the ambience and within the troposphere. As they state:

Desk 2 displays that the aptitude of the person molecules to take in warmth (radiative forcing) is of the similar order of magnitude. This turns out affordable for the reason that molecular construction of the 4 molecules isn’t significantly other.”

This research contradicts many silly statements comparable to: “Take the greenhouse fuel methane, whose molecules warmth the planet via 86 instances up to carbon dioxide over a 20-year duration.” The supply of 86 instances over 20 years is unknown and meaningless. The thing referenced a paper in “Nature” pointing out:

“Human actions and their results at the weather and surroundings purpose exceptional animal and plant extinctions, purpose loss in biodiversity and endanger animal and plant existence on Earth. Losses of species, communities and habitats are relatively effectively researched, documented and publicized.”

Publicized, sure; yet no longer effectively researched and documented with proof. See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy and Un-Science or Non-Science?

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Medieval Heat Length and Little Ice Age: The German website online, Die Kalte Sonne, studies a paper on The Medieval Local weather Anomaly in Antarctica revealed in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. That is offering additional proof that the nice and cozy duration, adopted via the Little Ice Age took place within the Southern Hemisphere in addition to the Northern Hemisphere, contradicting the hockey-stick revealed via the IPCC in is 3rd Evaluate Document (AR3, 2001, mentioned above). See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.

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ICCC-13: The 13th Global Convention on Local weather Alternate, arranged via The Heartland Institute, will happen on July 25 on the Trump Global Lodge, at 1100 Pennsylvania Street, NW, Washington, DC. The whole day agenda options many audio system who reject groupthink and assume for themselves.

SEPP will probably be venerated to provide its 2019 Fredrick Seitz Memorial Award for Remarkable Braveness within the Quest for Wisdom to Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P Sloan Professor, Emeritus, Division of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT. See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy – Convention.

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Clouds Once more: The various roles of clouds create many difficulties within the figuring out weather and weather exchange. Some purpose warming, others cooling. The mechanisms for his or her formation are poorly understood. Two physicists from the College of Turku, Finland, simply revealed a paper suggesting that the position of human emissions of CO2 on weather could be very small. The professor, Jyrki Ok. Kauppinen, had revealed a paper on Prime Answer Fuel Segment IR Spectroscopy Instrumentation. Lubos Motl of The Reference Body reported: “

“I used to be very much skeptical about any significant content material within the article…However lots of my doubts disappeared when I learn the textual content. In the event you have a look at the Figures three,Four, you’ll see somewhat some spectacular correlation. Between what? Between the low cloud quilt and the worldwide imply temperature.”

After a temporary digression he states:

“The affect of clouds at the precipitation price in addition to temperature is plain. Those two Finns selected the low cloud quilt, attempted to optimally give an explanation for the worldwide imply temperature since 1970s or so, and decided that

· the CO2 weather sensitivity is solely Zero.24 °C consistent with doubling of the fuel that we name existence, an order of magnitude beneath the IPCC estimates (which nonetheless have an enormous error margin, on the other hand)

· the diminished low cloud quilt provides some 1.1 °C on every occasion 10% of the clouds are got rid of (nearly equivalently, they translate it to at least one.Five °C consistent with 10% lower of humidity measured someplace)

“So, the warming for the reason that starting of the economic revolution is also defined just by the 10% or fairly smaller lower of the low cloud quilt. The contribution of the people is beneath 10% of the noticed temperature exchange, which is 0 throughout the error margins, and is also left out.”

After all, the paper is being strongly attacked, yet it’ll be fascinating to peer if it has lasting worth. See hyperlinks beneath Science: Is the Solar Emerging?

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Groupthink in Agriculture: A transparent instance of silly considering is a file from a “Senior scientist, College of Minnesota” discussing an:

“empirical type connecting crop yield to climate permutations at each and every location, lets use it to evaluate how a lot yields had modified from what we’d have anticipated to peer if moderate climate patterns had no longer modified.”

What’s extra, we discovered that decreases in consumable meals energy are already happening in more or less part of the sector’s meals insecure international locations, that have excessive charges of undernourishment, kid stunting and losing, and mortality amongst youngsters beneath age Five because of loss of enough meals. As an example, in India annual meals energy have declined via Zero.Eight% every year and in Nepal they’ve fallen via 2.2% every year.

Discounts also are happening in southern African international locations, together with Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

If they’d afflicted having a look at onerous knowledge as an alternative in their type, they are going to have came upon one thing peculiar. An atlas displays that Zimbabwe has about the similar latitude and elevation as central Brazil. The capital of Zimbabwe, Harare 17°49′45″S, has an elevation of one,490 m (Four,890 toes). The capital Brazil, Brasilia 15°47′38″S, is in central Brazil and has an elevation 1,172 m (three,845 toes). No longer solely is Brasilia nearer to the equator, the place it’s in most cases hotter; yet it’s also decrease in elevation, the place it’s hotter.

As mentioned in ultimate week’s TWTW, agriculture is booming in central Brazil. Is it because of world warming / weather exchange? See hyperlinks beneath Agriculture Problems & Worry of Famine.

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SEPP’S APRIL FOOLS AWARD

THE JACKSON

SEPP is carrying out its annual vote for the recipient of the coveted trophy, The Jackson, a lump of coal. Readers are requested to appoint and vote for who they believe is maximum deserving.

Best vote getters come with, yet don’t seem to be restricted to: U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio Cortez [Always-On-Camera]; Invoice Nye, the Science Man; John Schellnhuber, [Director of Potsdam Center for Climate Impacts, advisor to Pope Francis and Angela Merkel]; Pope Francis; Theresa Would possibly [retiring as UK PM, leaving huge presents]; Paul Krugman [NYT columnist and public “intellectual”]; and Greta Thunberg [“the young thing”]. Vote casting will shut on July 15, prolonged from June 30, with the winner introduced in a while thereafter.

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Choice of the Week: Between 11 and 48,00Zero deaths. Paul Homewood reminds us of one of the crucial ridiculous efforts to determine a statistical hyperlink between tiny debris with a radius of two.Five micrometers or much less and “untimely” deaths from lung issues. Written via a corresponding member of French Academy of Agriculture, the thing changed into revealed in Ecu Scientist and exposes groupthink in motion.

“The French Public Well being file, which revealed the determine of 48,00Zero sufferers of air pollutants in France consistent with annum, changed into revealed one month after a piece of writing within the prestigious magazine Nature, which tried the similar evaluation on a world scale. The militant environmental press in large part parroted either those two publications, with out ever noting their glaring contradictions:

· At the one hand, an estimate of 38,00Zero sufferers each and every yr from PM 2.Five positive particulate subject and nitrogen oxides, on an international scale, thus together with the masses of hundreds of thousands of population of the metropolises of rising international locations

· Alternatively, an estimate of 48 00Zero sufferers for MP 2.Five by myself, at the scale of the 66 million French inhabitants, with significantly decrease ranges of air pollutants.

One don’t need to say extra. See hyperlinks beneath Well being, Power, and Local weather.

NEWS YOU CAN USE:

Science: Is the Solar Emerging?

Finns: clouds management temperature, CO2 sensitivity Zero.24 °C

By way of Lubos Motl, The Reference Body, July 12, 2019

https://motls.blogspot.com/2019/07/finns-clouds-control-temperature-co2.html

Hyperlink to paper: No experimental proof for the numerous anthropogenic weather exchange

By way of Jyrki Kauppinen, Pekka Malmi, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph), Submitted June 29, 2019

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00165?context=physics.ao-ph

Physicists: Clouds ‘Almost Regulate’ Local weather, While Human Warming Quantities To Zero.01°C According to 100 Years

By way of Kenneth Richard, No Tips Zone, July 11, 2019

https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/11/physicists-clouds-practically-control-climate-whereas-human-warming-amounts-to-Zero-01c-per-100-years/

Harmonic Research of International Temperature Proxies for 2000 years

By way of Horst-Joachim Lüdecke and Carl-Otto Weiss, the Open Atmospheric Science Magazine, 2019

https://benthamopen.com/FULLTEXT/TOASCJ-11-44

Planetary Low Tide Would possibly Drive Common Sunspot Sync Ups

A standard alignment of the planets—no, it’s no longer pseudoscience—makes a robust sufficient tug to control the Solar’s 11- and 22-year cycles.

By way of Kimberly M. S. Cartier, EOS, June 21, 2019 [H/t Climate Etc.]

https://eos.org/articles/planetary-low-tide-may-force-regular-sunspot-sync-ups

The affect of the de Vries (∼ 200-year) photo voltaic cycle on weather permutations: Effects from the Central Asian Mountains and their world hyperlink

By way of O.M.Raspopov, et al., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, March 17, 2008

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018207005214

Difficult the Orthodoxy — NIPCC

Local weather Alternate Reconsidered II: Bodily Science

Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental Global Panel on Local weather Alternate (NIPCC), 2013

https://www.heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-II/CCR-II-Complete.pdf

Abstract: http://www.nipccreport.org/studies/ccr2a/pdf/Abstract-for-Policymakers.pdf

Local weather Alternate Reconsidered II: Organic Affects

Idso, Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental Global Panel on Local weather Alternate (NIPCC), 2014

http://climatechangereconsidered.org/climate-change-reconsidered-ii-biological-impacts/

Abstract: https://www.heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-IIb/Abstract-for-Policymakers.pdf

Local weather Alternate Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels

By way of A couple of Authors, Bezdek, Idso, Legates, and Singer eds., Nongovernmental Global Panel on Local weather Alternate, April 2019

http://retailer.heartland.org/store/ccr-ii-fossil-fuels/

Obtain without a fee:

http://climatechangereconsidered.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Local weather-Alternate-Reconsidered-II-Fossil-Fuels-FULL-Quantity-with-covers.pdf

Why Scientists Disagree About International Warming

The NIPCC Document at the Clinical Consensus

By way of Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer, Nongovernmental Global Panel on Local weather Alternate (NIPCC), Nov 23, 2015

http://climatechangereconsidered.org/

Obtain without a fee:

https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming

Nature, No longer Human Task, Regulations the Local weather

S. Fred Singer, Editor, NIPCC, 2008

http://www.sepp.org/publications/nipcc_final.pdf

International Sea-Stage Upward thrust: An Analysis of the Information

By way of Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Coverage Transient, Would possibly 20, 2019

https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/paperwork/publications/SeaLevelRiseCCRII.pdf

Difficult the Orthodoxy

The “Easy Physics” Slogan

By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Feedback via William van Wijngaarden, Division of Physics and Astronomy, York College, Canada, April 16, 2019

https://climatediscussionnexus.com/video/ — Video

https://climatediscussionnexus.com/movies/the-simple-physics-slogan/ — Textual content

Medieval Local weather Anomaly Now Showed In Southern Hemisphere On All 4 Continents

In Medieval instances, the penguins had it great and heat

By way of Die kalte Sonne (German textual content translated within the English via P Gosselin), No Tips Zone, July 6, 2019

https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/06/medieval-climate-anomaly-now-confirmed-in-southern-hemisphere-on-all-four-continents/

Hyperlink to paper: The Medieval Local weather Anomaly in Antarctica

By way of Sebastian Lüning, Mariusz Gałka, and Fritz Vahrenholt, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Oct 15, 201

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018219303190

Christopher Booker: slayer of sacred cows

The Personal Eye co-founder changed into amongst our fiercest critics of groupthink. RIP.

By way of Andy Shaw, Spiked, July Five, 2019 [H/T GWPF]

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/05/christopher-booker-slayer-of-sacred-cows/

How the Media Corrupted Local weather Coverage

The management is true: Worst-case eventualities shouldn’t dominate the talk

By way of Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, By means of GWPF, July 7, 2019

https://www.thegwpf.com/how-the-media-corrupted-climate-policy/

Greenhouse Gases – A Extra Life like View

By way of Jock Allison and Thomas Sheahen, The Magazine, The Reputable Newsletter of The New Zealand Institute of Number one Business Control Integrated, September 2018, pp three – 10.

https://www.nzipim.co.nz/Folder?Motion=View%20Document&Folder_id=120&Document=The%20Magazine%20September%202018.pdf

Local weather Alarmism Is Now a Actual Financial Danger to the USA

By way of Alan Carlin, Carlin Economics and Science, July 7, 2019

http://www.carlineconomics.com/archives/5068

Difficult the Orthodoxy – Convention

Heartland Local weather Convention: “Highest Science, Profitable Power Insurance policies” (July 25, 2019)

By way of Robert Bradley Jr. Grasp Useful resource, July Nine, 2019

https://www.masterresource.org/nongovernmental-international-panel-on-climate-change-nipcc/heartland-climate-conference-best-science-energy-reality-july-25-2019/

Opinion: Is Guy-Made Local weather Alternate a Settled Science?

By way of Mei Chen, The Epoch Occasions, July 11, 2019

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion-is-man-made-climate-change-a-settled-science_2998954.html

Hyperlink to website online: 13th Global Convention on Local weather Alternate (ICCC-13)

By way of The Heartland Institute, Trump Global Lodge, WDC, July 25, 2019

https://www.heartland.org/occasions/occasions/13th-international-conference-on-climate-change

Protecting the Orthodoxy

Local weather exchange made France’s checklist warmth Five instances much more likely

By way of John Nielsen-Gammon, The Hill, July 6, 2019

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/451784-climate-change-made-frances-record-heat-Five-times-more-likely

“Fashions will also be unreliable as a result of they’re, effectively, no longer actual, and observations will also be unreliable as it’s onerous to tease out pure variability and native influences. However the aggregate — plus the fundamental proven fact that for the reason that Earth is warming, warmth waves must transform extra intense on moderate anyway — makes a darned sturdy case for world warming.”

‘Local weather Melancholy’ Is Making Other folks Give Up on Existence

“It’s tremendous painful to be a human being presently at this level in historical past.”

By way of Mike Pearl, VICE, July 11, 2019

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5w374/climate-despair-is-making-people-give-up-on-life?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Local weather exchange isn’t our solely existential danger

By way of Ira Helfand, CNN, July 6, 2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/evaluations/nuclear-war-climate-change-2020-opinion-helfand/index.html

Wondering the Orthodoxy

Journalism’s Contribution to the Upward thrust of Local weather Alarm

By way of H. Sterling Burnett, Heartland Institute, July 12, 2019

https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/information/journalisms-contribution-to-the-rise-of-climate-alarm

CEI Information Formal Grievance Referring to NASA’s Declare of 97% Local weather Scientist Settlement on International Warming

Press Unlock, CEI, July 10, 2019

https://cei.org/content material/cei-files-formal-complaint-regarding-nasas-claim-97-climate-scientist-agreement-global

Instructing Children to Debate Alarming Local weather Claims

By way of Paul Driessen, Townhall, July 6, 2019

https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2019/07/06/educating-kids-to-debate-alarming-climate-claims-n2549587

ScienceMag: practical reforestation could consume all of our CO2 emissions

By way of Lubos Motl, The Reference Body, July 6, 2019

https://motls.blogspot.com/2019/07/sciencemag-realistic-reforestation-may.html

Hyperlink to article: Including 1 billion hectares of wooded area may assist verify world warming

By way of Alex Fox, Science Magazine. July Four, 2019

https://www.sciencemag.org/information/2019/07/adding-1-billion-hectares-forest-could-help-check-global-warming

Hyperlink to paper: The worldwide tree recovery possible

By way of Jean-Francois Bastin, et al., Science, July Five, 2019

https://science.sciencemag.org/content material/365/6448/76

After Paris!

China And India Will Watch The West Ruin Itself – OpEd

By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other folks Know That, July 10, 2019

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/china-and-india-will-watch-the-west-destroy-itself-oped/

Kyoto, Paris and a complete failure to chop CO2

By way of Ruth Lea, The Conservative Lady, July Five, 2019

https://www.conservativewoman.co.united kingdom/kyoto-paris-and-a-total-failure-to-cut-co2/

Following President Trump’s resolution to withdraw from the Paris Settlement in 2017, we’re left with the EU (now lower than 10 consistent with cent of whole world emissions), and Canada and Australia (lower than three consistent with cent in combination).

Present pledges to section out coal continual are seriously inadequate to gradual weather exchange

Press Unlock, By way of Chalmers College of Era, Phys.org, July 1, 2019

https://phys.org/information/2019-07-current-pledges-phase-coal-power.html

Hyperlink to paper: Potentialities for powering previous coal

By way of Jessica Jewell, Vadim Vinichenko, Lola Nacke & Aleh Cherp , Nature Local weather Alternate, July 1, 2019

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-Zero19-0509-6

Futile Paris Accord

By way of Donn Dears, Energy For USA, July Nine, 2019

https://ddears.com/2019/07/09/futile-paris-accord/

Alternate in US Administrations

Obama’s “Blank Energy Plan” is changed via the Reasonably priced Blank Power (ACE) rule

By way of Anthony Watts, WUWT, July 12, 2019

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/12/obamas-clean-power-plan-is-replaced-by-the-affordable-clean-energy-ace-rule/

Reasonably priced Blank Power Rule Is an Growth, However Nonetheless Fallacious

By way of Marlo Lewis, Open Marketplace, July Nine, 2019

https://cei.org/weblog/affordable-clean-energy-rule-improves-obama-era-policy-still-contains-fatal-flaw

Intelligence aide, blocked from filing written testimony on weather exchange, resigns from State Dept.

By way of Juliet Eilperin, Washington Submit, By means of WUWT, July 11, 2019

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/11/intelligence-aide-blocked-from-submitting-written-testimony-on-climate-change-resigns-from-state-dept/

“One of the most statements White Area officers objected to changed into this statement: ‘Absent intensive mitigating components or occasions, we see few believable destiny eventualities the place vital — perhaps catastrophic — hurt does no longer rise up from the compounded results of weather exchange.’”

[SEPP Comment: Where is hard evidence of catastrophic climate change from CO2 increasing?]

Issues within the Orthodoxy

Standing Document On New York’s Quest For “Local weather Management”

By way of Francis Menton, Ny Contrarian, July 6, 2019

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2019-7-6-7669n2g879mcy2hwtzxadnscm8rlcg

CCC: UK has simply 18 months to keep away from ’embarrassment’ over weather inactivity

By way of Simon Evans, Carbon Transient, July 10, 2019

https://www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-uk-has-just-18-months-to-avoid-embarrassment-over-climate-inaction?utm_campaign=RevueCBWeeklyBriefing&utm_medium=e mail&utm_source=Revue%20e-newsletter

Hyperlink to studies: By way of Committee on Local weather Alternate: Unbiased recommendation to authorities on construction a low-carbon economic system and getting ready for weather exchange, July 10, 2019

https://www.theccc.org.united kingdom/publications/

Decreasing UK emissions – 2019 Growth Report back to Parliament

https://www.theccc.org.united kingdom/newsletter/reducing-uk-emissions-2019-progress-report-to-parliament/

Growth in getting ready for weather exchange – 2019 Growth Report back to Parliament

https://www.theccc.org.united kingdom/newsletter/progress-in-preparing-for-climate-change-2019-progress-report-to-parliament/

Rising Mismatch Between Local weather Activism and International Power Fact

By way of Personnel, Monetary Occasions, By means of GWPF, July Eight, 2019

https://www.thegwpf.com/growing-mismatch-between-climate-activism-and-global-energy-reality/

Govt lacking its aims on weather exchange, advisers warn

By way of August Graham, Town A.M. July 10, 2019 [H/t GWPF]

https://www.cityam.com/government-missing-its-targets-on-climate-change-advisers-warn/

Quebec joins Saskatchewan in carbon tax mission

By way of Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, The Submit Millennial, Can, July Eight, 2019

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/quebec-joins-saskatchewan-in-carbon-tax-challenge/

In the hunt for a Not unusual Flooring

Infrared absorption cross-sections in HITRAN2016 and past: Enlargement for weather, surroundings, and atmospheric packages

By way of R.V. Kochanov, et al., Magazine of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Switch, June 2019

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022407318307957

HITRAN 2016 version

By way of Iouli E. Gordon, Harvard-Smithsonian Heart for Astrophysics Atomic and Molecular Physics Department, Accessed July 12, 2019

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hitran/

Distinguished Veteran Meteorologist Pleads For Moderation In The Local weather Debate, Slams Each Hardcore Alarmists, “Deniers”

By way of P Gosselin, No Tips Zone, July 12, 2019

https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/12/prominent-veteran-meteorologist-pleads-for-moderation-in-the-climate-debate-slams-both-hardcore-alarmists-deniers/

Local weather catastrophising dangers shutting down essential debate

By way of Chris Bullivant, Town A.M., July Nine, 2019 [H/t GWPF]

https://www.cityam.com/climate-catastrophising-risks-shutting-down-vital-debate/

“So when youngsters this spring took to the streets alarmed that the sector changed into about to finish, I heard an echo of these claims from the 1980s. I questioned in the event that they had been being misled via exaggerations, particularly when an Extinction Insurrection spokesperson mentioned that we’d be consuming each and every different inside of 5 years’ time because of meals shortages.”

Local weather scientists’ pre-traumatic strain syndrome

By way of Judith Curry, Local weather And many others. July Eight, 2019

https://judithcurry.com/2019/07/08/climate-scientists-pre-traumatic-stress-syndrome/

Overview of Contemporary Clinical Articles via CO2 Science

Long term Pea Expansion in Reaction to Emerging Atmospheric CO2 and Temperature

Kumari, M., Verma, S.C. and Bhardwaj, S.Ok. 2019. Impact of increased CO2 and temperature on progress and yield contributing parameters of pea (Pisum sativum L.) crop. Magazine of Agrometeorology 21: 7-11. July 12, 2019

http://www.co2science.org/articles/V22/jul/a4.php

The Noticed Tolerance of a Decorator Crab to Ocean Acidification

Rankin, A., Web optimization, Ok., Graeve, O.A. and Taylor, J.R.A. 2019. No compromise between metabolism and behaviour of decorator crabs in diminished pH stipulations. Clinical Studies Nine: 6262, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-Zero19-42696-Eight. July 11, 2019

http://www.co2science.org/articles/V22/jul/a3.php

Hourly Rainfall Tendencies in Uttar Pradesh, India, Since 1969

Kant, S. 2018. Development and variability of hourly depth of rainfall over jap and northerly a part of Uttar Pradesh all the way through 1969-2014. Mausam 69: 577-588. July 10, 2019

http://www.co2science.org/articles/V22/jul/a2.php

The Expanding Resilience of Corals to Thermal Rigidity

Sully, S., Burkepile, D.E., Donovan, M.Ok., Hodgson, G. and van Woesik, R. 2019. An international research of coral bleaching over the last 20 years. Nature Communications 10: 1264, doi: 10.1038/s41467-Zero19-09238-2. July Eight, 2019

http://www.co2science.org/articles/V22/jul/a1.php

“Regardless of the mechanism, it’s transparent that type projections of destiny coral reef death are doubtless approach off the mark, having been invalidated via observational knowledge appearing that provide coral populations recently have a better thermal threshold for bleaching giving them an higher probability of persisting effectively into the longer term.”

Fashion Problems

International and Regional Building up of Precipitation Extremes Underneath International Warming

By way of Simon Michael Papalexiou and Alberto Montanari, Water Assets Analysis, Would possibly Nine, 2019

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018WR024067

[SEPP Comment: When has the weather been constant?]

Size Problems — Setting

International Temperature Document: June 2019: Maps and Graphs

By way of Personnel, Earth Gadget Science Heart, The College of Alabama in Huntsville, Accessed July 12, 2019

https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/weather/2019/june2019/201906_map.png

https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/weather/2019/june2019/tlt_201906_bar.png

Converting Climate

The Combat of New Orleans: Local weather-Alternate Version

By way of Joe Bastardi, Patriot Submit, July 11, 2019 [H/t WUWT]

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64226-the-battle-of-new-orleans-climate-change-edition

Alaska’s Heatwave Just about As Scorching As 1915-So It Should Be International Warming Say BBC

By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other folks Know That, July 6, 2019

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/07/06/alaskas-heatwave-nearly-as-hot-as-1915-so-it-must-be-global-warming-say-bbc/

July 12, 1936 – 113 Levels In Wisconsin

By way of Tony Heller, The Deplorable Local weather Science Weblog, July 12, 2019

https://realclimatescience.com/2019/07/july-12-1936-113-degrees-in-wisconsin/

Federal scientists expect 2019 will set flooding checklist

By way of Chris Generators Rodrigo, The Hill, July 10, 2019

https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/452421-federal-scientists-predict-2019-will-set-flooding-record

Hyperlink to file: 2018 State of U.S. Prime Tide Flooding with a 2019 Outlook

By way of Personnel, NOAA, Nationwide Ocean Carrier, June 2019

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/Techrpt_090_2018_State_of_US_HighTideFlooding_with_a_2019_Outlook_Final.pdf

[SEPP Comment: Relates, vaguely, sea level rise with CO2 emissions, yet does not provide evidence establishing the relationship.]

Converting Seas

Results of Variability in Atlantic Ocean Circulate

There may be sturdy proof that the Atlantic meridional overturning stream performs an very important position in Atlantic multidecadal variability and related weather affects.

By way of Rong Zhang, et al., EOS, July Nine, 2019 [H/t Climate Etc.]

https://eos.org/editors-vox/effects-of-variability-in-atlantic-ocean-circulation?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=effects-of-variability-in-atlantic-ocean-circulation&utm_campaign=ealert&utm_source=Eos+Number one+Checklist&utm_campaign=21f9c3f6b5-Weekly_All_Content_Digest&utm_medium=e mail&utm_term=0_f923f18da4-21f9c3f6b5-559653821

Crimson Sea Temperature Document Presentations It Follows The AMO, No longer CO2 … “Herbal Local weather Oscillations”

AMO cycle at the downward aspect: Crimson Sea to chill within the coming a long time

By way of Die kalte Sonne, (German textual content translated via P Gosselin), No Tips Zone, July 7, 2019

https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/07/red-sea-temperature-record-shows-it-follows-the-amo-not-co2-natural-climate-oscillations/

Coral reefs moving clear of equator

New analysis finds a dramatic rebalancing of younger corals from tropical to subtropical waters all the way through the ultimate 40 years

By way of Personnel, Science Day-to-day, July Nine, 2019 [H/t GWPF]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190709160136.htm

Hyperlink to paper: International biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical building up

By way of N. N. Price1, et al., MEPS, Marine Ecology Growth Sequence, July Four, 2019

https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v621/p1-17/

[SEPP Comment: How much is due to temperature change and how much is due to CO2 enrichment?]

Methane emissions: don’t blame cows and camels, blame the oceans

By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, July Eight, 2019

http://joannenova.com.au/2019/07/methane-emissions-dont-blame-cows-and-camels-blame-the-oceans/

Converting Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice

10 fallacies about Arctic sea ice & polar undergo survival: lecturers & mother and father consider

By way of Susan Crockford, Polar Undergo Science, July 12, 2019

https://polarbearscience.com/2019/07/12/10-fallacies-about-arctic-sea-ice-polar-bear-survival-teachers-parents-take-note/#more-120171

Polar bears are thriving regardless of world warming: this quick essay explains why

By way of Susan Crockford, Polar Undergo Science, July 11, 2019

https://polarbearscience.com/2019/07/11/polar-bears-are-thriving-despite-global-warming-this-short-essay-explains-why/#more-120196

“In conclusion, the polar undergo is prospering with nearly 50% much less sea ice than existed in 1979 with little proof that disaster for the species awaits. To the contrary, many Arctic citizens whinge there at the moment are too many bears for human protection.”

Antarctica changed into hotter a thousand years in the past — and existence changed into OK

By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, July 11, 2019

http://joannenova.com.au/2019/07/antarctica-was-warmer-one-thousand-years-ago-and-life-was-ok/

Antarctic Ice Wonder

By way of David Whitehouse, GWPF, July 10, 2019

https://www.thegwpf.com/antarctic-ice-surprise/

“Nature is sophisticated and incessantly contradictory. Even with such an all-encompassing principle like Anthropogenic International Warming (AGW) no longer each and every consequence and statement issues in the similar route.”

Agriculture Problems & Worry of Famine

Grounded: Oversupply of espresso beans sends world fees tumbling

By way of Sebastian McCarthy, Town A.M. July Nine, 2019

https://www.cityam.com/grounded-oversupply-of-coffee-beans-sends-global-prices-crashing/

UPDATE 1-Brazil ships checklist quantity of inexperienced espresso with 2018-19 crop

By way of Marcelo Teixeira, Reuters, July Eight, 2019

https://united kingdom.reuters.com/article/brazil-coffee-exports/update-1-brazil-ships-record-amount-of-green-coffee-with-2018-19-crop-idUKL2N2490YG

College of Minnesota: Zimbabwe Meals Manufacturing Declining As a result of Local weather Alternate

Visitor essay via Eric Worrall, WUWT, July 10, 2019

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/10/university-of-minnesota-zimbabwe-food-production-declining-because-climate-change/

Un-Science or Non-Science?

Tiny Creatures Play a Giant Position in Local weather Alternate

By way of Andrew Urevig, ENSIA, July Nine, 2019 [H/t Climate Etc.]

https://ensia.com/notable/tiny-creatures-play-a-big-role-in-climate-change/

Hyperlink to paper: Scientists’ caution to humanity: microorganisms and weather exchange

By way of Cavicchioli, Ripple and Webster, Nature Opinions Microbiology, June 19, 2019

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-Zero19-0222-Five

Decreasing Requirements

ABC BOM all of a sudden find out historical climate information (yet just for snow)

By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, July 7, 2019

http://joannenova.com.au/2019/07/abc-bom-suddenly-discover-historic-weather-records-but-only-for-snow/

BBC backlash: Beeb dealing with felony mission as audience elevate hundreds to take on ‘bias’

THE BBC is dealing with a felony mission over how it displays its impartiality amid accusations of biased protection.

By way of David Williamson, Specific, UK, July 7, 2019 [H/t GWPF]

https://www.categorical.co.united kingdom/information/united kingdom/1150214/BBC-bias-bbc-tv-licence-fee-pensioners

Speaking Higher to the Public – Make issues up.

Edinburgh Will Be As Scorching As Paris In 2050

By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other folks Know That, July 11, 2019

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/07/11/i/

Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Propaganda on Youngsters

Local weather scare mechanical device — glad to make use of humans with a intellectual malady as a promotional device:

By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, July 12, 2019

http://joannenova.com.au/2019/07/the-climate-scare-machine-is-happy-to-use-people-with-a-mental-illness-as-a-promotional-tool/

Increasing the Orthodoxy

The arena wishes an international schedule for sand

By way of Personnel Writers, Boulder CO (SPX), Jul 08, 2019

http://www.spacedaily.com/studies/The_world_needs_a_global_agenda_for_sand_999.html

Hyperlink to article: Time is operating out for sand

Sand and gravel are being extracted sooner than they may be able to get replaced. Track and set up this useful resource globally, urge Mette Bendixen and co-workers.

By way of Mette Bendixen, Jim Highest, Chris Hackney & Lars Lønsmann Iversen, Nature, July 2, 2019

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-Zero19-02042-Four

“We now name on UNEP and the Global Business Group (WTO) to arrange and oversee an international tracking programme for sand sources.”

That Previous Fuel Range Is No longer Your Pal

Berkeley to imagine some other environmental first with proposed ordinance banning new pure fuel hookups.

By way of Jean Tepperman, East Bay Specific, (Oakland, Berkeley), July three, 2019 [H/t WUWT]

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/that-old-gas-stove-is-not-your-friend/Content material?oid=26787463

“As soon as once more, the Town of Berkeley is thinking about a groundbreaking environmental coverage: This time it’s a ban on pure fuel hookups in all new structures, beginning January 1, 2020.”

[SEPP Comment: And when the wind doesn’t blow, canned food and smoke signals?]

Wondering Ecu Inexperienced

Internet 0 and the Commercial Ruination of the Geographical region

Press Unlock, GWPF, July 11, 2019

https://www.thegwpf.com/net-zero-and-the-industrial-ruination-of-the-countryside/

Hyperlink to file: Inexperienced Killing Machines: The affect of Renewable Power on Natural world and Nature (PDF)

By way of Andrew Montford, GWPF, 2019

https://www.thegwpf.org/content material/uploads/2019/07/GreenKillingMachines.pdf

Germans Rebelling Towards Wind Farms

By way of Donn Dears, Energy For USA, July 12, 2019

https://ddears.com/2019/07/12/germans-rebelling-against-wind-farms/

Power Destroy? German Knowledgeable: Fridays-For-Long term Calls for Would Price Families $1150 – A Month!

By way of P Gosselin, No Tips Zone, July 10, 2019

https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/10/energy-ruin-german-expert-fridays-for-future-demands-would-cost-households-1100-a-month/

Wondering Inexperienced Somewhere else

Celebrating The usa’s Environmental Stewardship

By way of Jim Steele, Landscapes and Cycles, July 10, 2019

http://landscapesandcycles.web/celebrate-america-s-environmental-stewardship.html

“Because of extra environment friendly farming strategies, the level of land lined via plants lowered 18% between 1938 and 1992, permitting maximum of that land to go back to extra pure habitat.”

[SEPP Comment: Contributing to the “loss of farmland” was replacing horses and other draft animals with internal combustion engines, lessening the need for animal feed.]

Costing the Inexperienced New Deal and “Deep Decarbonization”: Some Clarifications

By way of Mark Krebs, Grasp Useful resource, July 11, 2019

https://www.masterresource.org/krebs-mark/costing-the-green-new-deal-and-deep-decarbonization-some-clarifications/

International Funding in Inexperienced Power Drops Sharply

By way of Personnel, Monetary Occasions, By means of GWPF, July 12, 2019

https://www.thegwpf.com/global-investment-in-green-energy-drops-sharply/

The Political Video games Proceed

AOC’s Leader of Personnel Admits the Inexperienced New Deal Is No longer about Local weather Alternate

By way of Jack Crowe, Nationwide Overview, July 12, 2019

https://www.nationalreview.com/information/aocs-chief-of-staff-admits-the-green-new-deal-is-not-about-climate-change/

New York Town’s Rikers Sun Plan Makes No Sense

By way of Daniel Turner, Actual Transparent Power, July 11, 2019

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2019/07/11/new_york_citys_rikers_solar_plan_makes_no_sense.html

“As Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as soon as mentioned “’t’s higher to be morally proper than factually proper’.”

The Hidden Local weather Time table

By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other folks Know That, July 6, 2019

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/07/06/the-hidden-climate-agenda/

One thing’s Rotten in D.C., and It Isn’t The ones Rain Totals

By way of Chris Martz, WUWT, July Nine, 2019

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/11/somethings-rotten-in-d-c-and-it-isnt-those-rain-totals/

Cap-and-Business and Carbon Taxes

The Confusions of the ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax

By way of Benjamin Zycher, Nationwide Overview, July Eight, 2019 [H/t Cooler Heads]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/conservative-carbon-tax-confusions/

Subsidies and Mandates Eternally

China has slashed clear calories investment via 39%, main an international decline

By way of James Temple, MIT Era Overview, July 10, 2019

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613938/clean-energy-investments-are-plummeting-bloomberg-bnef/

[SEPP Comment: According to its website, MIT Technology Review is a media company, “Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, … our coverage is independent of any influence, including our ownership by MIT.”]

EPA and different Regulators at the March

Why toxicologists resisted and radiation geneticists supported EPA’S

adoption of LNT for most cancers chance evaluation

By way of Edward J. Calabrese and Robert J. Golden, Chemico-Organic Interactions, July three, 2019 [H/t WUWT]

https://junkscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CBI-Calabrese-Golden-LNT.pdf

[SEPP Comment: Another hollow victory for bureaucratic science (groupthink).]

Power Problems – Non-US

Who Runs OPEC?

Has the search for increased oil fees compelled Saudi Arabia to relinquish management of the cartel to Putin’s Russia?

By way of Personnel, Al Jazeera July Nine, 2019

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/countingthecost/2019/07/runs-opec-russia-saudi-hunt-higher-oil-prices-190705121456059.html

Power Problems — US

Keystone XL Pipeline Advantages are Connected to the USMCA [U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement]

By way of Steven Globerman, Actual Transparent Power, July 05, 2019

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2019/07/05/keystone_xl_pipeline_benefits_are_linked_to_the_usmca_110455.html

Xcel says it’ll doubtless want extra continual capability via 2030s

As application shifts from coal to renewables, fuel flowers, different era could fill hole.

By way of Mike Hughlett Famous person Tribune, Minnesota, July 2, 2019 [H/t Toshio Fujita]

http://www.startribune.com/xcel-says-it-will-likely-need-more-power-plants-by-2030s/512073292/

“With its objective of at the same time as winding down coal continual and boosting renewable calories, Xcel Power is finding that via the 2030s, it’ll want extra ‘dispatchable’ continual than most likely up to now anticipated.

“Whilst Xcel tries to satisfy its competitive targets for carbon-free continual, the application mentioned in a regulatory submitting Monday that within the early 2030s it’ll want to upload the an identical capability of 3 sizable continual flowers. The rationale: to higher care for surges in continual call for as variable calories resources — wind and photo voltaic — develop.

“Dispatchable continual is electrical energy that may be consistent and grew to become on briefly. Xcel’s destiny dispatchable wishes may well be met via huge electricity-storing batteries or different new applied sciences. However they might additionally require the development of extra small fuel flowers.”

Oil and Herbal Fuel – the Long term or the Previous?

Document: Pennsylvania had checklist yr for pure fuel manufacturing

By way of Stephen Huba, Trib.Reside, Pittsburg, July 10, 2019

https://triblive.com/information/pennsylvania/report-pennsylvania-had-record-year-for-natural-gas-production/

Hyperlink to file: 2018 Oil and Fuel Annual Document

By way of Personnel, Pennsylvania Division of Environmental Coverage

https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/2018OilGasAnnualReport/index.html

Vaca Muerta ultimately produces oil, a century after its discovery

Hindrances have lengthy averted the exploitation of Vaca Muerta, Argentina’s famed shale formation in Neuquén. However now, the lifeless cow is coming to existence.

By way of Jonathan Gilbert, Bloomberg, July 7, 2019 [H/t GWPF]

https://www.batimes.com.ar/information/economic system/vaca-muerta-finally-produces-oil-a-century-after-its-discovery.phtml

Nuclear Power and Fears

Carbon-Loose Energy: Sun as opposed to Nuclear

By way of Wallace Manheimer, American Philosopher, July 12, 2019

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/carbonfree_power_solar_versus_nuclear.html

‘International Catastrophes’: Nuclear Energy is Extra Legal responsibility Than Asset in Local weather Alternate Combat

Editorial, Sputnik Information, July Nine, 2019 [Boldface Added]

https://sputniknews.com/research/201907091076188796-radioactive-material-to-leak-from-melting-glaciers-as-global-temperatures-rise/

Ukraine inaugurates big dome over destroyed Chernobyl reactor

By way of Personnel Writers, Chernobyl, Ukraine (AFP) July 10, 2019

http://www.terradaily.com/studies/Ukraine_inaugurates_giant_dome_over_destroyed_Chernobyl_reactor_999.html

Selection, Inexperienced (“Blank”) Sun and Wind

What It Will Take for the Wind and Sun Industries to Cave in

By way of Norman Rogers, American Philosopher, July Nine, 2019

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/what_it_will_take_for_the_wind_and_solar_industries_to_collapse.html

A Wonderful Couple They Are (Wind and Sun Energy)

By way of Jim Romeo, Energy Magazine, July 1, 2019

https://www.powermag.com/a-fine-couple-they-are-wind-and-solar-power/

“The pairing of wind and photo voltaic is rising as a sensible approach to put in force renewable calories resources with higher financial feasibility.”

[SEPP Comment: Until they both fail at the same time.]

Power & Environmental Publication: July Eight, 2019

By way of John Droz, Jr., Grasp Useful resource,

https://www.masterresource.org/alliance-for-wise-energy-decisions/energy-environmental-newsletter-july-Eight-2019/

Selection, Inexperienced (“Blank”) Power — Garage

Massive batteries and inexpensive solar energy are shoving fossil fuels off the grid

By way of Robert F. Carrier, Science Magazine., July 11, 2019 [H/t Toshio Fujita]

https://www.sciencemag.org/information/2019/07/giant-batteries-and-cheap-solar-power-are-shoving-fossil-fuels-grid

“Despite the fact that the Los Angeles challenge could appear reasonably-priced, the prices of a completely renewable–powered grid would upload up. Remaining month, the calories analysis company Wooden Mackenzie estimated the fee to decarbonize the U.S. grid by myself can be $Four.Five trillion, about part of which might move to putting in 900 billion watts, or 900 gigawatts (GW), of batteries and different calories garage applied sciences. (These days, the sector’s battery garage capability is solely Five.Five GW.) However as different towns apply the instance of Los Angeles, that determine is certain to fall.”

[SEPP Comment: Highly question dramatic decreases in costs. Lithium mining doesn’t seem to be subject to dramatic economies of scale. The headline in the article would be better put as: Promise of giant batteries and cheap solar power is shoving government policies into fantasyland.]

Selection, Inexperienced (“Blank”) Cars

From princes to undertakers, Norway’s motorists move electrical

By way of Personnel, AFP, July Nine, 2019 [H/t Toshio Fujita]

https://www.afp.com/en/information/826/princes-undertakers-norways-motorists-go-electric-doc-1gz9lw1

“However do Norwegians, who owe their immense wealth to North Sea oil, in reality have a better environmental moral sense than others?

“Most probably no longer — the fast electrification of the rustic’s car fleet is attributed basically to beneficiant state subsidies.

“In line with Norway’s greatest insurer Gjensidige, new electrical automobiles are taken with 20 % extra injuries involving non-public accidents than diesel fashions, partly on account of their sooner acceleration.”

California Dreaming

California lawmakers approve laws for $21 billion wildfire fund

By way of Zack Budryk, The Hill, July 11, 2019

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/452695-california-lawmakers-approve-legislation-for-21-billion-wildfire-fund

Well being, Power, and Local weather

Air pollutants: 38,00Zero deaths consistent with yr international, together with 48,00Zero in France…

By way of Philippe Slump, Ecu Scientist, August 29, 2018 [H/t Paul Homewood]

https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/options/air-pollution-38000-deaths-per-year/#_edn1

Fireworks and Air High quality

By way of Cliff Mass, Climate and Local weather Weblog, July 6, 2019

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/seek?updated-max=2019-07-08T12:37:00-07:00&max-results=1&birth=2&by-date=false

Environmental Business

Let’s get up to David Attenborough and the neo-Malthusians who need to management our lives

By way of Matt Kilcoyne, Telegraph, UK, By means of GWPF, July 11, 2019

https://www.thegwpf.com/lets-stand-up-to-david-attenborough-and-the-neo-malthusians-who-want-to-control-our-lives/

Different Clinical Information

Lunar Residing: Nine Bizarre Sides of Residing at the Moon

By way of Roy Spencer, His Weblog, July 12, 2019

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2019/07/lunar-living-Nine-weird-aspects-of-living-on-the-moon/

Different Information that Would possibly Be of Pastime

Scientists: People Carry out As Neatly Or Higher When Uncovered To Prime (5000-15000 ppm) vs. Low CO2 Concentrations

By way of Kenneth Richard, No Tips Zone, July Eight, 2019

https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/08/scientists-humans-perform-as-well-or-better-when-exposed-to-high-5000-15000-ppm-vs-low-co2-concentrations/

One of the most feedback on the finish of the thing:

“I spent months on a submarine with CO2 so excessive (and oxygen so low) that cigarettes wouldn’t keep lit (this changed into again within the not-so-long-ago dangerous previous days when smoking changed into nonetheless allowed on submarines). On the finish of it, simply earlier than we got here off station, cigarette lighters wouldn’t even gentle.

“Our oxygen generator had damaged, our oxygen candles had been all used up, we had been on station (off Kamchatka the place the army base changed into, the place we weren’t intended to be) and couldn’t ventilate, and our CO2 scrubber changed into at the fritz.

“No issues in any respect cognitively, even though once we did ultimately get out of there and got here to periscope intensity to ventilate, that air smelled so candy it nearly made me cry.”

What’s In A Identify? The Hidden Complexities Of Classifying Most cancers

By way of Christopher Gerry, ACSH, July Eight, 2019

https://www.acsh.org/information/2019/07/08/whatp.cE2%80%99s-name-hidden-complexities-classifying-cancer-14141

BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE:

We’ve 18 months to avoid wasting international, Prince Charles warns Commonwealth leaders

By way of Hannah Furness, Royal Correspondent, Telegraph, UK, July 11, 2019 [H/t WUWT]

https://www.telegraph.co.united kingdom/royal-family/2019/07/11/18-months-save-world-prince-charles-urges-commonwealth-leaders/

ARTICLES

1. It’s No longer Too Past due for New York to Get started Fracking

Cuomo deprives his state of its financial advantages on account of imaginary environmental dangers

Editorial, WSJ, July 12, 2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-not-too-late-for-new-york-to-start-fracking-11562970236

SUMMARY: After describing his familiarity with upstate New York, the funding control worker and adjunct professor of finance writes:

“Like Rip Van Winkle, the economic system of upstate New York has long past to sleep for the previous few a long time. Upstate continues to submit slower financial progress and better unemployment when compared with the downstate and capital areas. Upstate consistent with capita source of revenue is set 25% to 50% of the downstate moderate, and the space is widening. New York’s rural spaces additionally undergo increased charges of opioid overdose deaths and hospitalizations.

“Such torpor is surprising for the reason that more or less two-thirds of New York’s 62 counties—together with all the western portion of the state—recently sit down atop the overlapping Marcellus and Utica shale formations, essentially the most financial and prolific natural-gas play within the nation. Those gas-rich formations underlie 4 states—New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. New York by myself has selected to forget about this financial reward.

“It’s been 5 years since Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned fracking—the method during which pure fuel is extracted from shale—beneath the duvet of water-related environmental considerations, successfully shutting down natural-gas building within the state. Upstate citizens can get a glimpse of what they’re lacking economically via having a look over the border to Pennsylvania, which since 2014 has transform a middle of The usa’s natural-gas business. It ranks solely at the back of Texas in output. From a status birth slightly a decade in the past, the Keystone State in 2018 provided as a lot pure fuel to the North American and international markets as Qatar did.

“For Pennsylvania citizens, the industrial advantages of fracking for shale fuel have integrated decrease fees for heating and tool and expanded employment alternatives. Industries comparable to petrochemicals have sprouted up, whilst building has boomed because of the linked calories infrastructure that should be constructed to procedure and shipping the state’s dry and rainy fuel volumes.

“It isn’t too overdue for New York to get in at the shale increase. Herbal-gas building wouldn’t remedy the entire upstate area’s financial issues, however the shale business can be quite sturdy as a result of tapping the Marcellus and Utica formations calls for steady drilling. This could assist New York rebuild its commercial base.

“New York may be told from Pennsylvania’s revel in of introducing oil and fuel actions right into a populated, topographically numerous a part of the rustic. If it began shale extraction as of late, the Empire State would have the ability to make the most of fresh business developments in multi-well pad drilling, crowning glory tactics and water control. Within the part decade since Mr. Cuomo banned fracking, Pennsylvania has advanced perfect practices concerning assets rights, neighborhood members of the family and protective the surroundings—together with the state’s myriad lakes, rivers and streams.

“For Mr. Cuomo, the ban changed into by no means about water, regardless of the “medical uncertainties” surrounding hydraulic fracturing and water sources cited on the time via state environmental regulators. The New York portion of the gas-producing Marcellus and Utica shale formations sits hundreds of ft beneath the outside; aquifers normally lie no various hundred ft beneath the outside. Its core is positioned at the previous Path 17 hall operating alongside the Southern Tier of the state, effectively to the west of the Catskill and Delaware watersheds that offer consuming water for New York Town and its suburbs.

“The drilling moratorium changed into extra about preserving the upstate area as a pastoral retreat for city-dwellers. It’s no shock that the state’s most-vocal antifracking “riverkeepers” generally tend to hail from the Higher West Aspect of Ny and Park Slope, Brooklyn.

“The ban changed into additionally about preserving some other carbon-emitting fossil gas within the flooring as a part of the Cuomo management’s weather schedule. Lately Gov. Cuomo has blocked new interstate natural-gas pipelines from traversing New York, whilst pushing gas-fired continual out of the state’s electricity-generation combine in desire of renewables comparable to wind and photo voltaic. The outcome has been emerging electrical energy prices for New York customers, giving new that means to the state motto Excelsior—Latin for “Ever Upward.”

“It’s telling to distinction the lack of New York’s state authorities to clutch the “medical uncertainties” related to fracking—regardless of years of empirical knowledge—with the metaphysical certitude Albany attaches to world warming, most commonly in accordance with projections of weather fashions. As with maximum ideologically pushed regulatory experiments, there was little focal point at the alternative charge to New York of its forgone oil and fuel building.

“Don’t dangle your breath looking ahead to Mr. Cuomo to revisit his economically disastrous and environmentally ignorant fracking ban quickly—particularly with Democrats in complete management of the Legislature. With a watch all the time skilled to his political destiny, Mr. Cuomo has advanced his personal state-level Inexperienced New Deal, not too long ago signing the Local weather Management and Neighborhood Coverage Act, which calls for that New York’s electrical energy grid be 100% carbon impartial via 2040. The following shot at an financial reprieve for upstate citizens gained’t come till 2022, when management of Albany is up for grabs in statewide elections.

“Whilst dangerous for long-suffering New Yorkers, that timing will paintings positive via me. It’ll lower down at the Thruway visitors till my son graduates from faculty.”

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2. The U.S. Is Overflowing With Herbal Fuel. No longer Everybody Can Get It.

U.S. fuel manufacturing is at a checklist excessive, however the infrastructure had to transfer the gas across the nation hasn’t saved up

By way of Stephanie Yang and Ryan Dezember, WSJ, July Eight, 2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u.s.is-overflowing-with-natural-gas-not-everyone-can-get-it-11562518355?mod=hp_lead_pos7

The journalists write:

“The usa is awash in pure fuel. In portions of the rustic there’s hardly ever a drop to burn.

Previous this yr, two utilities that carrier the New York Town house stopped accepting new natural-gas shoppers in two boroughs and several other suburbs. Bringing up jammed provide traces operating into town at the coldest iciness days, they mentioned they couldn’t ensure they’d have the ability to ship fuel to further furnaces. By no means thoughts that the rustic’s maximum prolific fuel box, the Marcellus Shale, is just a three-hour power away.

“In the meantime, in West Texas, drillers have such a lot extra pure fuel they’re merely burning it off, more or less sufficient on a daily basis to gas each and every house within the state.

“U.S. fuel manufacturing rose to a checklist of greater than 37 trillion cubic ft ultimate yr, up 44% from a decade previous. But the infrastructure had to transfer fuel across the nation hasn’t saved up. Pipelines aren’t in the suitable puts, and when they’re, they’re generally a long time previous and incessantly too small.

“The outcome, regardless of natural-gas fees that glance low on commodities exchanges, is calories dinner party and famine.

“This spring, the cost of pure fuel at a buying and selling hub close to Midland, Texas, dropped as little as damaging $Nine consistent with million British thermal devices—that means that manufacturers had been paying humans to take it off their arms. (One million British thermal devices is sufficient to dry about 50 quite a lot of laundry.)

“Somewhere else, fees soared because of bouts of chilly climate coupled with provide disruptions, together with an explosion alongside a British Columbian pipeline and a leaky underground garage facility close to Los Angeles. At a buying and selling hub in Sumas, Wash., pure fuel rose to $200 consistent with million British thermal devices in March, the best possible ever recorded within the U.S. In Southern California, fees went as excessive as $23; the common over the iciness changed into a checklist $7.23.

“The nationwide pure fuel worth set at Henry Hub in Louisiana has been saved low via ample provides, but restricted pipeline capability has despatched fees hovering, and in a single case plunging, at regional buying and selling hubs.

The nationwide benchmark, which is ready at a knot of pipelines in Louisiana, not too long ago hit a three-year low of $2.19 and has hovered beneath $three for a lot of the yr.

“I don’t recall a state of affairs once we’ve had the highs and lows occur in such extremes and in such reasonably shut proximity,’ says Rusty Braziel, a former fuel dealer who now advises calories manufacturers, commercial fuel patrons and pipeline traders.

“With U.S. houses, continual flowers and factories the usage of extra pure fuel than ever, the asymmetric distribution of the shale increase’s bounty implies that customers can finally end up paying extra and even transform starved for gas, whilst corporations that may’t get it to marketplace lose out on earnings. Round New York Town, the shortage of fuel has solid uncertainty over new traits and raised fears of stifling financial progress.

“One explanation why for the issue is that pipelines have transform political. Proponents of decreasing the usage of fossil fuels have had little good fortune restricting drilling in energy-rich areas. As a substitute, they’ve grew to become to combating pipeline tasks on environmental grounds in areas like New York and the Pacific Northwest, the place they’ve a extra sympathetic ear.

“Even in Texas, the center of the oil-and-gas business, new pipelines have began to satisfy extra native resistance. In April, landowners, Hays County and Kyle, a booming metropolis at the outskirts of Austin, sued to dam building of a 430-mile pipeline that might transfer fuel from the West Texas drilling fields, the place it’s being burned up, to patrons close to Houston. The case changed into brushed aside via a Texas pass judgement on in June.

“Herbal fuel, which is incessantly discovered along oil and coal, changed into as soon as a nuisance to drillers and miners alike. It will ship crude taking pictures up out of wells like flammable geysers and changed into vulnerable to exploding in mineshafts. Sooner than the appearance of arc-welded pipelines that may be laid over lengthy distances, fuel had little worth until it came about to be very with regards to early commercial towns, like Pittsburgh or Cleveland.”

The file then is going into the historical past of the way pure fuel changed into a gas of selection after WW II.

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