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The Week That Used to be: 2019-11-30 (November 30, 2019)
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Quote of the Week: “In studying The Historical past of Countries, we discover that, like people, they’ve their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of pleasure and recklessness, after they care no longer what they do. We discover that total communities unexpectedly repair their minds upon one object and move mad in its pursuit; that thousands and thousands of other folks develop into concurrently inspired with one fable, and run after it, until their consideration is stuck through some new folly extra fascinating than the primary.” –Charles Mackay (1841)
Selection of the Week: 63.6% of US electrical energy.
THIS WEEK:
By way of Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Coverage Challenge (SEPP)
Yellow Grew to become Inexperienced? Within the past due 1800s, specifically in New York Town, pageant for flow between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York Global and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Magazine resulted in an generation referred to as yellow journalism, the place the newspapers introduced very little respectable, well-researched information and relied upon attention-grabbing headlines, exaggerations of reports occasions, scandal-mongering, or outright sensationalism to extend gross sales. How the time period originated is in dispute, however the traits of the journalism aren’t. Those come with scare headlines in extensive print, continuously of teenage information, intensive use of dramatic photos, or imaginary drawings, deceptive headlines, pseudoscience, and false data from so-called specialists.
Keeping apart precise data from mere hypothesis can also be tricky. It’s very similar to distinguishing science from science fiction. Similar to science, science fiction can also be splendidly imaginative, and extremely advanced, and it may possibly use arithmetic, the language of science. What separates science from science fiction is bodily proof. When arithmetic is used to create advanced fashions, the fashions should be examined opposed to all related bodily proof. Failure to take action is to forget about the clinical means. And the style, when failing fundamental checking out, turns into science fiction.
Specifically in its summaries and particular stories the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Trade (IPCC) is advancing concepts assumed to be clinical, whilst ignoring the true science, the clinical means of checking out fashions assumptions, and ideas opposed to information, bodily proof from observations and experiments. The IPCC emphasizes the portions of its claims that adhere to the clinical means, whilst downplaying the alarming parts of its claims that fail fundamental checking out. The proof introduced through the IPCC is continuously contradicted through different proof, often extra compelling and dominant. To reach their purpose of forestalling use of fossil fuels, at the declare that it’s going to reason risky world warming, the IPCC and its fans have followed the traits of yellow journalism.
Environmental (inexperienced) organizations have aligned themselves with the IPCC and are closely supporting the aims of the IPCC. Briefly, the traits of yellow journalism are present in a lot inexperienced journalism, of which the IPCC particular stories and summaries are an element.
Thus, the battle on fossil fuels has taken on a double irony. The CO2 emitted all the way through combustion is greening the earth, and on the identical time, is inflicting vegetation to make use of water extra successfully. Environmentalists who’re adverse to coal, oil, and pure gasoline are thus adverse to bettering the fitness of our environment.
The worry of carbon dioxide, as promoted through the IPCC and the “vegetables”, is a terror of existence itself. The propaganda run up for the following Twenty-fifth annual Convention of Events (COP-25) of the United Countries Framework Conference on Local weather Trade (UNFCCC) beginning December 2 in Madrid can also be seen as an assault on existence itself. It’s in doubt that President George H.W. Bush identified what the settlement he signed would develop into. See hyperlinks below Protecting the Orthodoxy, Social Advantages of Carbon Dioxide, and Issues within the Orthodoxy.
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E-book Evaluate – “World Warming Skepticism for Busy Other people”: Roy Spencer is the previous Senior Scientist for Local weather Research at NASA’s Marshall Area Flight Middle, the place he and Dr. John Christy gained NASA’s Outstanding Clinical Fulfillment Medal for his or her world temperature tracking paintings with satellites. Spencer wrote a phenomenal e book at the problems between data and hypothesis as carried out to weather science. Neatly written and simple to grasp, the e book discusses fundamental parts of the most important problems. It provides proof from each side, emphasizing that the greenhouse impact is easily established, however the certain feedbacks aren’t. The worry of CO2 as promoted through the IPCC and others is attributed to the feedbacks. The e book in brief discusses the advantages and prices of accelerating CO2, with the prices missing bodily proof, equivalent to expanding sea degree upward push and ocean acidification.
Spencer cites the observations through Charles Mackay used within the Quote of the Week. It suits the present generation in weather science really well. He asks 5 large questions:
1) “Is warming and related weather exchange most commonly human brought on?
2) Is the human-caused portion of warming and related weather exchange sufficiently big to be destructive?
Three) Do the weather fashions we use [to] proposed calories insurance policies appropriately are expecting weather exchange?
four) Would the proposed coverage adjustments considerably cut back weather exchange and ensuing harm?
five) Would the coverage adjustments do extra just right than hurt to humanity?
“The solutions to all 5 questions want to be ‘sure’ to be able to make really extensive adjustments to our calories insurance policies past what loose marketplace forces dictate. But, it’s not evident to me that the solution to any of the 5 is ‘sure.’”
A number of the many problems he raises are the accuracy of pure calories flows, which aren’t widely recognized. With out compiling data from measurements, no longer calculations utilized in unvalidated fashions, we can’t identify that the warming from a doubling of CO2 will likely be other than a modest 1.2 º C, a long way not up to claimed through the IPCC.
TWTW Remark: This estimate is in keeping with estimates through William Happer, van Wijngaarden, and others. To reach a doubling of CO2 from the present degree of relatively over 400 portions in line with million (ppm) will require burning extra fossil fuels than are recognized to exist on the earth. Moreover, it’s in doubt that even this could be enough to stop an inevitable destiny ice age, a real killer weather.
Spencer aspects out that simply because a analysis paper assumes the reason for warming is CO2, it’s not essentially true, then states:
“Why don’t extra papers take on the thorny factor of figuring out how a lot warming is pure as opposed to anthropogenic? For a minimum of 3 causes:
1) We can’t separate human from pure reasons of warming (there are not any human fingerprints).
2) We’ve got just a deficient figuring out of pure reasons of weather exchange.
Three) We can’t compute how stable human-caused warming is from first bodily ideas (the weather sensitivity drawback, mentioned later).
Bankruptcy 13; Why is Warming no longer Progressing as Predicted? addresses the massive drawback of IPCC’s reliance on weather fashions in its insurance policies.
“Local weather fashions [in use today] most likely over-predict warming as a result of they[the models] produce an excessive amount of certain comments, which is vital for prime weather sensitivity. The small quantity of direct warming from a doubling of CO2 (a little bit over 1 deg C) is magnified through a couple of issue of 3 in weather fashions because of warming-induced adjustments in clouds and water vapor, whilst the [actual] observations recommend there’s little magnification in any respect.
“The certain comments processes contained in weather fashions are very unsure, but are chargeable for maximum (about 2/Three) of the warming the fashions produce.
Whilst the fashions are certainly most commonly made up of basic bodily ideas which can be beautiful properly established, it’s those few poorly recognized comments processes that decide how severe the worldwide warming drawback will likely be. Out of masses of hundreds of traces of pc code making up the fashions, it might be that just a few traces of code representing very unsure assumptions in regards to the weather formula are basically chargeable for generating an excessive amount of [predicted] warming.
“Because of this I name the weather analysis neighborhood’s protection of the present weather fashions as ‘bait and turn’. The well-understood fundamental bodily ideas the fashions are constructed on produce solely about 1 deg. C of warming based on 2Xco2, [a doubling of CO2] whilst the extra 2 deg. C of warming they produce from certain feedbacks may be very speculative. They promote you at the properly understood physics supporting the 1 deg. C of direct warming, however then transfer to the total Three levels of warming the fashions produce as in a similar fashion dependable.
“How clouds may exchange with warming (cloud comments) is especially unsure, a reality this is admitted through modelers. The weather fashions can’t come with the real physics of cloud formation and dissipation as a result of computer systems ae no longer almost speedy satisfactory to be run with the effective element contained in clouds. In reality, we don’t even perceive one of the vital microphysical main points of what occurs in clouds, combating us from modelling them even though computer systems have been speedy satisfactory.”
In step with Spencer the fashions have clouds forming at a humidity as little as 85% however actually, they require a relative humidity of 100%. That is however one of the problems with the efforts to style the weather. To rely on the result of such modeling in organising calories coverage is absurd.
There are a variety of fine books at the weaknesses of weather science proclaimed through the IPCC and its fans. This is among the greatest.
As an apart, the use of Spencer’s numbers and IPCC’s common sense one may say that the IPCC’s science is one-third science and two-thirds science fiction. See hyperlinks below Difficult the Orthodoxy.
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Lifestyles at Its Limits: Two papers, each revealed through the Nature team, carry up the extremes at which existence on earth can exist. Each papers handled extremely acid waters, a long way past any acidity brought on (if truth be told decreasing of alkalinity) through expanding carbon dioxide concentrations within the ambiance. One paper handled hydrothermal vents in ocean shallows and the way existence replaced after an earthquake and a storm replaced the nice and cozy sulfur-rich waters with probable restoration inside of two years. Only some specialised animal species equivalent to crabs, snails and micro organism reside within the speedy neighborhood of those vents.
The second one paper handled one among the most up to date, maximum acidic puts on earth, the polyextreme geothermal Dallol–Danakil house in Ethiopia, the place existence has tailored to residing with in reality acidic waters, with extremely certain Magnesium ion- and Calcium ion-dominated brines with a pH of roughly 0. It’s not transparent how the pH is measured, however extremely various ultra-small archaea [single-cell life forms] have been discovered. The patience of existence is astounding, opposite to claims that expanding CO2 endanger existence in the world. See hyperlinks below Acidic Waters.
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Loss of life of a Glacier: In a exposure stunt in August, inexperienced teams mourned the passing of a glacier in Iceland. Breitbart stories that David Gunnlaugsson, Iceland’s top minister from 2013 to 2016, idea otherwise in regards to the passing:
“’Our weather adjustments, however people adapt. As a substitute of scaremongering, we must method this case on a systematic and rational foundation,’ Gunnlaugsson writes in the most recent factor of the Spectator.”
“’When the glaciers have been increasing, laying waste to what had in the past been inexperienced meadows and farmlands, the individuals who misplaced their properties would hardly ever had been grief-stricken through the concept that sooner or later that style could be reversed,’ he proposes, noting that after Iceland changed into first found out it changed into utterly lined in forests.”
“’We Icelanders have witnessed serious adjustments to our pure surroundings,’ he says. ‘Iceland is a rustic of outstanding pure alteration, and we’ve needed to adapt to that reality. We realise that people want to appreciate pure forces, however historical past has additionally proven us the ability of human ingenuity and our skill to continue to exist.’”
It’s in doubt that Mr. Gunnlaugsson will sign up for the COP-25 birthday celebration to save lots of the planet.
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Tipping Issues: The Nature Crew revealed one other paper about Tipping Issues, it appears past which adjustments to the weather formula can’t be stopped. For the reason that earth’s weather has been warming and cooling for masses of thousands and thousands of years, with vast variations in temperatures, apparently the most recent is one other workout designed to frighten young people. See hyperlinks below Speaking Higher to the Public – Exaggerate or be Obscure? and Speaking Higher to the Public – Make issues up.
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Additions and Corrections: Final week’s TWTW, mentioned that the 2019 US crop yields have been under the trend-line for the primary time in six years. William Dwyer wrote advantage of this deficient harvest could also be the running down of one of the vital surplus of shares from contemporary years. There’s really extensive tonnage of corn and beans last in garage silos from contemporary beyond years.
In discussing “coverage insurance coverage” closing week, TWTW neglected a key clause organising the analogy. When gangsters be offering “coverage insurance coverage” they typically have genuine keep an eye on over the thugs that ruin companies. In its calls for of a $100 billion a 12 months into its “Inexperienced Local weather Fund”, the UN is implying it may possibly quit CO2 emissions thereby quit risky weather exchange. The UN has no keep an eye on over China’s CO2 emissions and CO2 is somewhat participant in weather exchange. Thus, the UN can’t keep an eye on both and no person must really feel pressured to pay for defense. See above dialogue on Roy Spencer’s e book and hyperlinks below After Paris!
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Selection of the Week: 63.6% of US electrical energy. In step with the USA Power Data Management, in 2018 fossil fuels have been used to generate 63.6% of US electrical energy, with pure gasoline producing 35.2%, coal 27.five%. Nuclear continual generated 19.four%. Renewables generated 16.Nine%, with hydropower at 7%, wind at 6.five%, photo voltaic at 1.five%. biomass at 1.four%, and miscellaneous.
In step with a chart utilized by CNN, the ability sector call for for coal is projected to drop in 2020 to the bottom degree since 1978. Within the past due 1970s, the USA authorities banned the usage of oil and gasoline for continual vegetation, selling coal because the alternative. It took ten years however sooner or later the USA authorities discovered the folly of banning oil, and particularly gasoline, for continual vegetation. Inexperienced teams selling renewables continuously fail to say their opposition to hydropower, which is integrated as a renewable.
See hyperlinks below Power Problems – US and https://www.eia.gov/equipment/faqs/faq.php?identity=427&t=Three
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NEWS YOU CAN USE:
Climategate Endured
Ten Years After Climategate, the Scientists Have Gained—However What Concerning the Remainder of the Global?
By way of Brian Kahn, GIZMODO, Nov 20, 2019
https://earther.gizmodo.com/ten-years-after-climategate-the-scientists-have-won-bu-1839947721
[SEPP Comment: Won what? The IPCC still uses science fiction to frighten people.]
Suppressing Clinical Inquiry
Scientists Slam Unfastened Science Speech Bullying… Dr. Benny Peiser: “We Are Residing A Very Tragic Time” In Germany!
By way of P Gosselin, No Methods Zone, Nov 26, 2019
“This beyond weekend in Munich, the Eu Institute for Local weather and Power (EIKE) held its 13th annual weather and effort convention. In step with EIKE, over 200 attended, making it probably the most a success to this point.”
Local weather Scientists Lowered to Hiding from Local weather Thuggery in Germany
By way of James Taylor, Townhall, Nov 22, 2019
Difficult the Orthodoxy — NIPCC
Local weather Trade Reconsidered II: Bodily Science
Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental World Panel on Local weather Trade (NIPCC), 2013
https://www.heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-II/CCR-II-Complete.pdf
Abstract: http://www.nipccreport.org/stories/ccr2a/pdf/Abstract-for-Policymakers.pdf
Local weather Trade Reconsidered II: Organic Affects
Idso, Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental World Panel on Local weather Trade (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 Trade Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels
By way of More than one Authors, Bezdek, Idso, Legates, and Singer eds., Nongovernmental World Panel on Local weather Trade, April 2019
http://retailer.heartland.org/store/ccr-ii-fossil-fuels/
Obtain and not using a fee:
Why Scientists Disagree About World Warming
The NIPCC Document at the Clinical Consensus
By way of Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer, Nongovernmental World Panel on Local weather Trade (NIPCC), Nov 23, 2015
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/
Obtain and not using a fee:
https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming
Nature, Now not Human Task, Laws the Local weather
S. Fred Singer, Editor, NIPCC, 2008
http://www.sepp.org/publications/nipcc_final.pdf
World Sea-Degree Upward push: An Analysis of the Knowledge
By way of Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Coverage Transient, Might 20, 2019
https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/paperwork/publications/SeaLevelRiseCCRII.pdf
Difficult the Orthodoxy
Clive James, Mythical Creator, Poet, Stand-up comedian & Local weather Sceptic Has Died
By way of Group of workers, GWPF, Nov 27, 2019
https://www.thegwpf.com/clive-james-legendary-author-poet-humorist-climate-sceptic-has-died/
World Warming Skepticism for Busy Other people
By way of Roy Spencer, Kindle Version, 2018
Is Emerging Atmospheric CO2 Inflicting Unhealthy World Warming?
The Absence of a Local weather Disaster
By way of Craig Idso, Middle for the Find out about of Carbon Dioxide and World Trade, Nov 25, 2019
Transcript: http://www.co2science.org/video/showed/co2temp.pdf
Video: http://www.co2science.org/video/showed/co2temp.php
Apocalypse Deferred
By way of Charles Rotter, WUWT, Nov 27, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/27/apocalypse-deferred/
“This dialogue with Mark Steyn is the one time Steve McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, and Anthony Watts have seemed in combination on level.”
There’s no weather emergency – the fact that drove a Lib Dem doolally
By way of Harry Wilkinson, The Conservative Lady, Nov 28, 2019 [H/t GWPF]
Former Top Minister of Iceland: ‘Melting Glaciers are Not anything to Panic About’
By way of Thomas Williams, Breitbart, Nov 22, 2019 [H/t Paul Homewood]
New Video: The Low CO2 Local weather Of 1921
By way of Tony Heller, Actual Local weather Science, Nov 29, 2019
https://realclimatescience.com/2019/11/new-video-the-low-co2-climate-of-1921/
[SEPP Comment: Meteorological Mumps?]
Protecting the Orthodoxy
‘All weapons blazing’ as Madrid races to host weather summit
By way of Diego Urdaneta, Madrid (AFP) Nov 22, 2019
http://www.terradaily.com/stories/All_guns_blazing_as_Madrid_races_to_host_climate_summit_999.html
COP25 Press Unencumber: The UN Push for an All-Tough World Carbon Marketplace
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 29, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/29/cop25-the-push-for-a-strong-global-carbon-market/
Hyperlink to press launch: COP25 to Be the Launchpad for Considerably extra Local weather Ambition
By way of Group of workers, UNFCC, replaced to United Countries Local weather Trade, Nov 29, 2019
Earth Gadget Alert
By way of Johan Rockström (PIK), Joyeeta Gupta and Dahe Qin, Challenge Syndicate, Nov 29, 2019
In spaces the place intergovernmental negotiating our bodies – such because the United Countries Conventions on Organic Range, Fighting Desertification, and the Regulation of the Sea – are already running to ascertain science-based goals, the coalition will improve this paintings.
[SEPP Comment: The UN fails to acknowledge that additional CO2 is greening the planet and making plants more efficient in using water.]
UN Panic Button: Mass Extinctions By way of 2100 Even with Paris Settlement Local weather Pledges
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 26, 2019
Hyperlink to document: Emissions Hole Document 2018
By way of Group of workers, UN Atmosphere Programme, 2019
https://www.unenvironment.org/sources/emissions-gap-report-2018
[SEPP Comment: The UN continues to assume that it has produced the physical evidence firmly establishing a link between CO2 and global temperatures while excluding natural variation. As stated above, it has not..]
The 5 corrupt pillars of weather exchange denial
By way of Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth Gadget Science, UCL, UK, By way of The Dialog, Nov 28, 2019
https://theconversation.com/the-five-corrupt-pillars-of-climate-change-denial-122893
“The elemental query is why are we permitting the folks with probably the most privilege and tool to persuade us to extend saving our planet from weather exchange?”
[SEPP Comment: According to the author’s numbers, the total annual climate lobbying spending of the five largest publicly-owned oil & gas companies is $201 million. No guess of the billions spent each year by government and green groups to falsely claim that CO2 is the primary cause of climate change.]
Wondering the Orthodoxy
Why Apocalyptic Claims About Local weather Trade Are Unsuitable
By way of Michael Shellenberger, Forbes, Nov 25, 2019
The very small disaster
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Nov 27, 2019
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2019/11/27/the-very-small-crisis/
“With radiative forcing we’re within the latter scenario. It might take 550 years on the present fee of human emissions for the rise in radiative forcing to be better than the variety of size error.
“So you’ll be able to see why now we have issue believing there’s an emergency.”
The Nice World Warming Swindle
If we’ve heard just one aspect of a debate, we will’t declare to be absolutely knowledgeable.
By way of Donna Laframboise, Large Image Information, Nov 27, 2019
https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2019/11/27/the-great-global-warming-swindle/
[SEPP Comment: Includes Tim Ball and Nir Shaviv.]
World Warming’s Apocalyptic Trail
It is available in waves, and it’s unattainable to are expecting what’s going to occur after the present wave of more and more unhinged weather exchange activism breaks.
By way of Rael Jean Isaac, The American Spectator, Nov 21, 2019
https://spectator.org/global-warmings-apocalyptic-path/
The Local weather Con
By way of Dave Ball, American Philosopher, Nov 27, 2019
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/the_climate_con.html
China says it’s already met 2020 weather aims
By way of Group of workers, New York Publish, Nov 27, 2019
https://nypost.com/2019/11/27/china-says-theyve-already-met-their-2020-climate-goals/
China Proves It: Obama In point of fact Used to be A Sap
Editorial, I & I, Nov 29, 2019
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/11/29/china-proves-it-obama-really-was-a-sap/
Europe Is Dropping The Local weather Wars As China Calls for $100 Billion
By way of Group of workers, Industry Instances, By way of GWPF, Nov 29, 2019
https://www.thegwpf.com/europe-is-losing-the-climate-wars-as-china-demands-100-billion/
Social Advantages of Carbon Dioxide
Our Greening Planet… German Science Mag: Satellite tv for pc Imagery Proves “Global’s Plants Increasing Since A long time”
An “bizarre greening of the planet,” stories German science journal Wissenschaft. “A paradox.”
By way of P Gosselin, No Methods Zone, Nov 28, 2019
[SEPP Comment: A commentator on the article states: “…the translator obviously didn’t read the article carefully. One of the conclusions is, that at some point the growing CO2 part in the air will kill the plants. It is absolutely consistent with the narrative of climate alarmism.” But at what point – 40,000 parts per million (ppm), 100 times today’s concentration or 400,000 ppm, a thousand times today’s concentration?]
Issues within the Orthodoxy
EU’s carbon border tax will harm world weather exchange efforts, China says
International locations ‘want to save you unilateralism and protectionism from hurting world expansion expectancies’, China’s vice-minister for the surroundings says
The brand new tax is geared toward protective Eu companies from unfair pageant through elevating the price of merchandise from nations that fail to do so on weather exchange
By way of Group of workers, Reuters, South China Morning Publish Nov 27, 2019
EU Consensus Damaged As 225 MEPs Vote In opposition to ‘Local weather Emergency’
Press Unencumber, Eu Local weather Realist Community, Nov 28, 2019
https://www.thegwpf.com/eu-consensus-broken-as-225-meps-vote-against-climate-emergency/
[SEPP Comment: Another failure of the 97% consensus?]
In search of a Commonplace Flooring
Local weather migration myths
By way of Ingrid Boas, Carol Farbotko, and Mike Hulm, Nature Local weather Trade, Nov 26, 2019
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0633-Three
“First, analysis and analysis investment should allow the belief that weather exchange reasons mass human migration to be interrogated, moderately than just reinforcing it. There’s already really extensive proof that migration isn’t only pushed through weather exchange.”
Evaluate of Fresh Clinical Articles through CO2 Science
A Easy Visible Show of CO2-Caused Wheat Biomass and Water Use Potency Will increase
Li, P., Hao, X., Aryal, M., Thompson, M. and Seneweera, S. 2019. Increased carbon dioxide and nitrogen delivery have an effect on photosynthesis and nitrogen partitioning of 2 wheat sorts. Magazine of Plant Vitamin 42: 1290-1300. Nov 25, 2019
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V22/nov/a11.php
Dimension Problems — Floor
Extra Actual Knowledge Completely Contradict Faux Media… Display Scandinavia, Eire NOT WARMING Over Previous A long time
By way of Kirye and Pierre Gosselin, No Methods Zone, Nov 27, 2019
Dimension Problems — Setting
Greenhouse gasoline concentrations in ambiance attain but one other excessive
UN WMO Press Unencumber, Nov 25, 2019
[SEPP Comment: Typical UN chart with the base at 340 ppm rather than zero!]
Converting Climate
Simply The Info On Hurricanes
By way of Roger Pielke, Forbes, Nov 24, 2019
https://www.forbes.com/websites/rogerpielke/2019/11/24/just-the-facts-on-hurricanes/#4b135839551f
Cherries within the rain
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Nov 27, 2019
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2019/11/27/cherries-in-the-rain/
Hyperlink to paper: Assessing adjustments in US regional precipitation on a couple of time scales
By way of Ross McKitrick and John Christy, Magazine of Hydrology, November 2019
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169419308091?by means ofpercent3Dihub
A Bomb Cyclone Will Hit the Southern Oregon Coast
By way of Cliff Mass, Climate and Local weather Weblog, Nov 25, 2019
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-bomb-cyclone-will-hit-southern-oregon.html
“An explosively creating bomb-cyclone will hit the southern Oregon coast day after today, with hurricane-force wind gusts, towering waves, and quite a lot of precipitation.
“The time period ‘meteorological bomb’ is given to a midlatitude cyclone whose central force declines through greater than 24 millibars (or 24 hPa) in 24 hours (there’s a latitude dependence of the criterion, however that is shut satisfactory). This typhoon goes to blow that criterion away.”
[SEPP Comment: At least Mass explains the “headline grabbing” vocabulary. Later posts show the severe storm occurred.]
Local weather Emergency Excursion: Typhoon Version
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Nov 27, 2019
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2019/11/27/climate-emergency-tour-hurricane-edition/
El Nino seeing excessive swings within the commercial age
By way of Group of workers Writers, Atlanta GA (SPX), Nov 25, 2019 [H/t Toshio Fujita]
http://www.spacedaily.com/stories/El_Nino_seeing_extreme_swings_in_the_industrial_age_999.html
Hyperlink to paper: Enhanced El Niño‐Southern Oscillation variability in contemporary a long time
By way of Pamela Grothe, et al. Geophysical Analysis Letters, Oct 25, 2019
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019GL083906
From the summary: “Right here, we reconstruct the power of ENSO permutations during the last 7,000 years with a brand new ensemble of fossil coral oxygen isotope information from the Line Islands, positioned within the central equatorial Pacific. The corals file an important lower in ENSO variance of ~20% from Three,000 to five,000 years in the past, coinciding with adjustments in spring/fall precessional insolation. We discover that ENSO variability during the last 5 a long time is ~25% more potent than all the way through the preindustrial.”
Complete of NSW coast shrouded in grime and smoke, 47C in Hunter Valley (75 years in the past)
By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Nov 25, 2019
Converting Seas
Venice and Unenlightened Local weather Fearmongering
By way of Jim Steele, Landscapes and Cycles, Nov 17, 2019
http://landscapesandcycles.internet/venice-and-unenlightened-climate-fearmongering.html
[SEPP Comment: A more complete analysis of Venice, with maps, than presented in TWTW last week, explaining why the government response to the 1966 floods did not work. Governments now blame their incompetence on climate change.]
New Paper Items Picture Proof Putting forward Equatorial Area Sea Ranges Have FALLEN Since The 1600s
By way of Kenneth Richard, No Methods Zone, Nov 29, 2019
Hyperlink to paper: Biology and Shore Morphology: Keys to right kind reconstruction of sea degree
Adjustments
By way of Nils-Axel Mörner, Magazine of Marine Biology and Aquascape, Mar 6, 2019
Converting Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice
New Find out about: 6500 Years In the past The Western Barents Sea Used to be Ice-Unfastened And 10°C Hotter Than 2015
By way of Kenneth Richard, No Methods Zone, Nov 25, 2019
Hyperlink to paper: Postglacial paleoceanography of the western Barents Sea: Implications for alkenone-based sea floor temperatures and number one productiveness
By way of Magdalena Łącka, et al. Quaternary Science Critiques, Nov 15, 2019
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737911930109X
Surprise Information–The Arctic Is Freezing In Iciness!!
By way of Paul Homewood, Now not a Lot of Other people Know That, Nov 27, 2019
“It’s unhappy that NASA’s popularity, hard-earned over time, is being trashed through a small minority who’re extra fascinated by propaganda.”
Have in mind ordinary data?
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Nov 27, 2019
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2019/11/27/remember-traditional-knowledge/
[SEPP Comment: The Inuit may know more about polar bears than the experts.]
Converting Earth
3 Instances Tectonics Modified the Local weather
Fifty years after the delivery of contemporary plate tectonics idea, a bunch of researchers highlights 3 key examples of ways our planet’s shape-shifting outer layer has altered our weather.
By way of Javier Barbuzano, EOS, Nov 22, 2019
https://eos.org/options/three-times-tectonics-changed-the-climate
Right through the Pliocene, about Three million years in the past, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) stages have been very similar to what we’re experiencing these days. Then, the temperature changed into 2°C hotter, and the ocean degree changed into 15 occasions upper.
[SEPP Comment: Sea level was 15 times higher!!! ]
Acidic Waters
Scientists discover a position on Earth the place there’s no existence
Press Unencumber, FECUT – Spanish Basis for Science and Era, EurekAlert, Nov 22, 2019 [H/t WUWT]
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/24/scientists-find-a-place-on-earth-where-there-is-no-life/
Hyperlink to paper: Hyperdiverse archaea close to existence limits on the polyextreme geothermal Dallol house
By way of Jodie Belilla, et al., Nature, Ecology & Evolution, Oct 28, 2019
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-1005-Zero
Lifestyles below excessive stipulations at sizzling springs within the ocean
By way of Group of workers Writers, Kiel, Germany (SPX), Nov 22, 2019
http://www.spacedaily.com/stories/Life_under_extreme_conditions_at_hot_springs_in_the_ocean_999.html
Hyperlink to paper: Earthquake and storm cause remarkable brief shifts in shallow hydrothermal vents biogeochemistry
By way of Mario Lebrato, et al. Nature, Science Reviews, Nov 15, 2019
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53314-y
The Overall Delusion of Ocean Acidification
By way of David Middleton, WUWT, June 6, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/05/the-total-myth-of-ocean-acidification/
Agriculture Problems & Worry of Famine
Indian Farmers Have fun as Very best Monsoon in 25 Years Vanquishes Local weather Fears
By way of Vijay Jayaraj, Cornwall Alliance, Nov 21, 2019
Un-Science or Non-Science?
Stalled climate patterns gets larger because of weather exchange
Find out about uncovers dating between jet flow, atmospheric blockading occasions
Mathematical system relates measurement of atmospheric blockading occasions to the jet flow.
By way of Group of workers, NSF, Nov 21, 2019
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299624&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
Hyperlink to paper: Measurement of the Atmospheric Blocking off Occasions: Scaling Regulation and Reaction to Local weather Trade
By way of Ebrahim Nabizadeh, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Da Yang & Elizabeth A. Barnes, Geophysical Analysis Letters, Nov Nine, 2019
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019GL084863
“The use of information from two units of complete weather style simulations, Rice scientists Ebrahim Nabizadeh and Pedram Hassanzadeh and co-workers discovered that the realm of blockading occasions within the Northern Hemisphere will building up through up to 17% because of human-caused weather exchange.”
[SEPP Comment: Climate models cannot simulate the current atmosphere, but it is claimed they can simulate much more? See links under Communicating Better to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Vague?]
Decreasing Requirements
NOAA Blocks Get right of entry to To Their Temperature Knowledge
By way of Tony Heller, Actual Local weather Science, Nov 27, 2019
https://realclimatescience.com/2019/11/noaa-blocks-access-to-their-temperature-data/
[SEPP Remark: Accessed Nov 29, the most recent replace mentioned:“Standing of the World Ancient Climatology Community-Day-to-day
“(More information on GHCNd is to be had within the readme.txt report.)
“November 20, 2019
“Interior problems have averted day by day updates to GHCNd since 17 November 2019. The problem is being addressed and an replace is anticipated early on 21 November 2019.
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/information/ghcn/day by day/
[ SEPP Remark: Given the historical past of NOAA’s changes to the USA database, there’s cast explanation why to be extremely skeptical.]
UN document: Remarkable measures had to keep away from worst results of weather exchange
By way of Miranda Inexperienced and John Bowden, The Hill, Nov 26, 2019
The hyperlink to the document ends up in an editorial within the Washington Publish and not using a hyperlink to the document
In bleak document, U.N. says drastic motion is solely solution to keep away from worst results of weather exchange
“We want to atone for the years during which we procrastinated,” a best reputable says.
By way of Brady Dennis, Washington Publish, Nov 26, 2019
No hyperlink to the document
Speaking Higher to the Public – Exaggerate or be Obscure?
A wrestle for the jet flow is raging above our heads
By way of Tim Woollings, The Dialog, Nov 14, 2019 [H/t WUWT]
https://theconversation.com/a-battle-for-the-jet-stream-is-raging-above-our-heads-125906
Hyperlink to e book: Jet Flow: A Adventure Via our Converting Local weather
By way of Tim Woolings, Oxford College Press, To be revealed
https://world.oup.com/educational/product/jet-stream-9780198828518?cc=us&lang=en&
“So, the jet would possibly not develop into extra erratic because the Arctic warms, however it’ll properly exchange profoundly. And something is apparent: the strain of larger temperatures and changed rainfall patterns from our destabilising weather will go away us much more liable to the elements patterns introduced through the whim of the wandering jet flow.” [Boldface Added]
[SEPP Comment: Exactly when has the climate been stable? During Ice Ages?]
Local weather Trade To Global: “Honey, I Gotten smaller The Jet Flow!”
By way of Jaime Jessop, Local weather Scepticism, Nov 25, 2019 [H/t Paul Homewood]
https://cliscep.com/2019/11/25/climate-change-to-world-honey-i-shrunk-the-jet-stream/
“In my opinion, I’m no longer satisfied through both. There indubitably is a wrestle for the jet flow however it’s no longer raging overhead, as prompt through Woolings on the Con, it’s raging in weather alarmist international to look who can ‘end up’ first that world warming is changing the jet flow ‘dangerously’ to present us extra widespread and serious excessive climate, in each wintry weather and summer season.”
[SEPP Comment: See link immediately above.]
Mum or dad Local weather emergency: international ‘can have crossed tipping aspects’
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 27, 2019
Hyperlink to paper: Local weather tipping aspects — too dangerous to guess opposed to
The rising risk of abrupt and irreversible weather adjustments should compel political and financial motion on emissions.
By way of Timothy M. Lenton, Johan Rockström, Owen Gaffney, Stefan Rahmstorf, Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen & Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Nature, Nov 27, 2019
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-Zero
Harrabin’s Tipping Level Junk Science
By way of Paul Homewood, Now not a Lot of Other people Know That, Nov 28, 2019
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/harrabins-tipping-point-junk-science/
“If those imaginary tipping aspects actually existed, the arena would have passed through runaway warming then.”
[SEPP Comment: Or runaway cooling. See links immediately above]]
World Warming Declare: Extra Blockbuster Snowstorms, Much less Snow
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 28, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/28/climate-claim-more-blockbuster-snowstorms-less-snow/
Speaking Higher to the Public – Make issues up.
9 weather tipping aspects now ‘lively,’ warn scientists
By way of Charles Rotter, WUWT, Nov 27, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/27/nine-climate-tipping-points-now-active-warn-scientists/
Alarmist Suggest Rebranding ‘Local weather Trade’ for Higher Surprise Worth
By way of Thomas Williams, Breitbart, Nov 29, 2019 [H/t WUWT]
‘Local weather exchange is a incapacity rights factor’
Press Unencumber, College of Konstanz, EurekAlert, Nov 26, 2019, [H/t WUWT]
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/uok-ci112619.php
Environmental exchange in Africa: Will it result in a drying Lake Victoria?
Researchers grow style to assignment stages in international’s greatest tropical lake
By way of Group of workers, NSF, Nov 21, 2019
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299626&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1
“Lake Victoria will get maximum of its water from rain — about 55 inches every 12 months. The sediment analyzed from places alongside the lake displays that rainfall stages 35,000 to 100,000 years in the past have been about 28 inches, or virtually part what they’re these days.”
[SEPP Comment: When the earth was in the midst of an ice age with fresh water locked up in thousands of feet of ice, rainfall was less. Will we get the same results from global warming as from global cooling? See link immediately below]
Victoria Falls Drying Up–Newest BBC Faux Information
By way of Paul Homewood, Now not a Lot of Other people Know That, Nov 27, 2019
See hyperlink instantly above
Dropping Nemo: clownfish ‘can’t adapt to weather exchange’
By way of Group of workers Writers, Paris (AFP), Nov 26, 2019
http://www.terradaily.com/stories/Losing_Nemo_clownfish_cannot_adapt_to_climate_change_999.html
“The Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Trade closing 12 months warned that below 1.5C of warming Earth would lose a minimum of 70 p.c of its coral reefs.
“Beneath 2C of warming coral, and the necessary ecosystems it helps, can be nearly burnt up.”
[SEPP Comment: As discussed in TWTW last week, Jennifer Marohasy has filmed live corals where they were supposedly wiped out.]
The 12 months in overview upfront
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Nov 27, 2019
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2019/11/27/the-year-in-review-in-advance/
“See, we’re anti-science. We’ve got the trial first and the decision later.”
Speaking Higher to the Public – Do a Ballot?
Dumb ballot, pretend headline: Now not weather exchange, 70% of Australians choose reasonably-priced dependable electrical energy, 61% best fear is “charge of residing”.
By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Nov 27, 2019
98% of air passengers don’t care satisfactory about weather exchange to shop for a carbon offset
By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Nov 27, 2019
“The researchers consider that weather exchange and the ensuing lack of ecosystem services and products will have an effect on the arena’s disabled populations disproportionately through exacerbating inequalities and extending marginalization.”
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Youngsters for Propaganda
Tipping level in civilization: Mavens say “pay attention to young people” (positive, the adults are improper)
By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Nov 29, 2019
Local weather Activists Aren’t Joking
Saving the planet: the all-purpose, unending justification for extra taxes, keep an eye on, and deprivation.
By way of Donna Laframboise, Large Image Information, Nov 25, 2019
https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2019/11/25/climate-activists-arent-joking/
“A headline within the India Instances pronounces Greta ‘The Position Fashion Everybody Wishes.’
“An worker of the David Suzuki Basis, writing in Canada’s greatest newspaper, says Greta is ‘an inspiration to thousands and thousands of other folks for a large number of causes.’
The founding father of Girls Who Sail says Greta ‘is the nice saint of our time.’
“In each nook of each native, provincial, nationwide, and global group, Greta’s worldview is being promoted. Local weather activists are running tirelessly, in the back of the scenes, to make it everybody’s truth.
“Those other folks don’t price human accomplishment or expertise. They don’t price your time. Nor do they price your freedom. They’re extremists who’re ready to sacrifice every part ‘for the great of the planet.’”
FT: Chinese language Nationalists Activate Local weather Messiah Greta Thunberg
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 25, 2019
Speaking Higher to the Public – Protest
Large Disruption As 10.000 Farmers & 5000 Tractors Close Down Berlin
By way of Group of workers, GWPF, Nov 26, 2019
https://www.thegwpf.com/huge-disruption-as-10-000-farmers-tractors-shut-down-berlin/
French Farmers Descend on Paris in Recent Riot In opposition to Globalist Rules
Tractors block roads in protest opposed to agricultural being blamed for weather exchange.
By way of Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com, Nov 27, 2019 [H/t Joe Tomlinson]
Farmers carry central Dublin to a halt with tractor protest
By way of Padraic Halpin, Reuters, Nov 27, 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ireland-farmers-idUSKBN1Y118L
Extinction Rise up Are ‘Damaging’ And ‘Unsupportive’, Royal Academy of Engineering Warns
By way of Group of workers, The Day-to-day Telegraph, By way of GWPF, Nov 27, 2019
Increasing the Orthodoxy
Local weather emergency: EU is ruled through trash
By way of Lubos Motl, The Reference Body, Nov 29, 2019
https://motls.blogspot.com/2019/11/climate-emergency-eu-is-governed-by.html
Hyperlink to Followed Textual content: Local weather and environmental emergency
Eu Parliament solution of 28 November 2019 at the weather and surroundings
emergency (2019/2930(RSP))
http://www.europarl.europa.ecu/doceo/file/TA-Nine-2019-0078_EN.pdf
Wondering Eu Inexperienced
Excessive Inexperienced Poverty: Germans Face €44 Billion Invoice For Electrical energy By myself In 2020
By way of Group of workers, GWPF & BDEW, Nov 29, 2019
https://www.thegwpf.com/green-poverty-germans-face-e44-billion-bill-for-electricity-alone-in-2020/
Executive must lead through instance and goal net-zero pre-2050, MPs urge
By way of Group of workers, Edie Newsroom, Nov five, 2019 [H/t Dennis Ambler]
Wondering Inexperienced In different places
No Plan B for Planet A
Changing fossil fuels with “renewable” calories would devastate the one planet we’ve were given
By way of Paul Driessen, WUWT, Nov 25, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/25/no-plan-b-for-planet-a/
Inexperienced Power Research: Consulting, or Promoting?
By way of Norman Rogers, American Philosopher, Nov 27, 2019
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/green_energy_studies_consulting_or_advertising.html
New York State’s Plan Makes use of 63% Unreliable Supply
By way of Donn Dears, Energy For USA, Nov 26, 2019
https://ddears.com/2019/11/26/new-york-states-plan-uses-63-unreliable-sources/
“New York State’s plan for getting rid of GHG will lead to an enormous building up in the price of electrical energy and can power citizens to rely on unreliable assets for his or her electrical energy.”
[SEPP Comment: Governor Cuomo’s energy plan may be from a song by Frank Sinatra: “Call me irresponsible, call me unreliable; Throw in undependable too.”]
Sacrificed on Victoria’s Inexperienced Altar
By way of Alan Moran, Quadrant, Nov 27, 2019
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2019/11/sacrificed-on-victorias-green-altar/
Inexperienced Jobs
Increasingly more Tough Headwinds Forward: Germany’s Wind Trade Faces Extinction …”A number of 10,000 Jobs Misplaced “
By way of P Gosselin, No Methods Zone, Nov 24, 2019
[SEPP Comment: Hard to establish the difference between special pleading by the wind industry and actual losses that may occur.]
Investment Problems
IPPR: UK must pay £20bn into UN weather fund
By way of Paul Homewood, Now not a Lot of Other people Know That, Nov 29, 2019
[SEPP Comment: A problem with the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) and many others promoting green goals is that not everyone thinks and believes as they do, thus they cannot understand it possible that others do not support their policies.]
US, EU ‘Owe Part The Value’ of Repairing Local weather Harm
By way of Group of workers Author, The Globe Publish, Nov 25, 2019 [H/t Toshio Fujita]
https://theglobepost.com/2019/11/25/us-eu-climate-change/
[SEPP Comment: Send invoices to the rest of the world for improvements to life from the use of fossil fuels and electricity.]
The Political Video games Proceed
No Quantity Of Disastrous Failure Can Kill The Delusion Of A Executive-Directed “Nice Society”
By way of Francis Menton, Big apple Contrarian, Nov 25, 2019
Litigation Problems
[Supreme Court Justice] Alito pens fiery dissent after courtroom declines to listen to dispute between weather professor, Nationwide Evaluate
By way of Tyler Olson, Fox Information, Nov 26, 2019 [H/t WUWT]
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alito-climate-science-professor-national-review
“Mann’s case opposed to the journal stems from his introduction of the notorious ‘hockey stick graph’ and a central position within the ‘Climategate’ scandal — during which his employer, Penn State College, sooner or later cleared him of wrongdoing.”
Subsidies and Mandates Endlessly
Science and economics trump authorities mandates with weather exchange
By way of Richard Rahn, Washington Instances, Nov 25, 2019
EPA and different Regulators at the March
DOE must revive the Place of job of Coverage Research
By way of David Wojick, CFACT, Nov 29, 2019
https://www.cfact.org/2019/11/29/doe-should-revive-the-office-of-policy-analysis/
Power Problems – Non-US
Montney Python’s Frac’ing Circus [Canada]
By way of David Middleton, WUWT, nov 26, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/26/montney-pythons-fracing-circus/
Fraaack, what?
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Nov 27, 2019
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2019/11/27/fraaack-what/
Power Problems – Australia
Elegance motion win: 2011 floods have been man-made — probably controlled as though “the dams would by no means fill”?
By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Nov 30, 2019
What’s Riding Wholesale Energy Worth Adjustments? Now not What You Assume
By way of Sonal Patel, Energy Magazine, Nov 27, 2019
https://www.powermag.com/whats-driving-wholesale-power-price-changes-not-what-you-think/
Hyperlink to document: Affect of Wind, Sun, and Different Components on Wholesale Energy Costs: An Ancient Research—2008 via 2017
By way of Andrews Turbines, et al. Berkley Lab, Nov 2019
https://emp.lbl.gov/publications/impact-wind-solar-and-other-factors
From the summary: “We reveal that wind and photo voltaic have contributed to discounts in total reasonable annual wholesale electrical energy costs since 2008, however that pure gasoline costs have had the most important impression. Extra notable is that growth of variable renewable calories has resulted in vital adjustments in locational, time of day, and seasonal pricing patterns in some areas. Those altered pricing patterns replicate a basic shift and dangle vital implications for the grid-system price of wind and photo voltaic, and for different electric-sector making plans and running choices.”
[SEPP Remark: Now not indexed a few of the payment drivers are subsidies and mandates. If electrical energy turbines pay to have any individual take their electrical energy, then their subsidies are a long way too excessive. This is happening in Texas.]
Carbon depth of continual sector down in 2019
By way of Charles Rotter, WUWT, Nov 28, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/28/carbon-intensity-of-power-sector-down-in-2019/
[Notice the hyperlink to EurekAlert! isn’t proper. It connected to an essay mentioning:” 9 weather tipping aspects now ‘lively,’ warn scientists.” https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/uoe-nct112519.php]
‘It’s going to be onerous for other folks’; Coal plant close to Lake Powell stops manufacturing after almost 50 years
By way of Felicia Fonseca, AP, By way of St George Information, Nov 19, 2019 [H/t Steve Scare]
Extra Than 50 Coal Firms Have Been Wiped Out Since Trump’s 2016 Victory
By way of Chris White, Day-to-day Caller, Nov 23, 2019
https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/23/trump-coal-election/
Sun, wind and hydro continual may quickly surpass coal
By way of Matt Egan, CNN Industry, Nov 26, 2019
Massachusetts The town Votes for Freezing within the Darkish
Brookline, in a State which already has the second one costliest residential electrical energy costs within the Decrease 48, needs to power its citizens to change from heating with pure gasoline to heating with electrical energy generated from Russian pure gasoline…
By way of David Middleton, WUWT, Nov 25, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/25/massachusetts-town-votes-for-freezing-in-the-dark/
[SEPP Comment: Doubt that those voting understood where Brookline gets its electricity.]
Go back of King Coal?
As soon as a clear calories chief, China is now reviving coal
The sector’s best carbon emitter is doubling down on coal, a brand new document reveals, and world funding in clear calories is faltering.
By way of Alex Fox, The Hill, Nov 25, 2019
Choice, Inexperienced (“Blank”) Sun and Wind
Power & Environmental Publication: November 25, 2019
By way of John Droz, Grasp Useful resource, Nov 25, 2019
https://www.masterresource.org/uncategorized/energy-environmental-newsletter-november-25-2019/
Carbon Schemes
Division of Power Proclaims $43 Million to Increase Carbon Seize and Garage Era
By way of Group of workers, DOE, Nov 14, 2019 [H/t WUWT]
Well being, Power, and Local weather
Mikko Paunio: The Lancet Countdown Document Is Unhealthy Nonsense
By way of Mikko Paunio, MD, MHS adjunct professor in epidemiology on the College of Helsinki, By way of GWPF, Nov 25, 2019
https://www.thegwpf.com/the-lancet-countdown-report-is-dangerous-nonsense/
Can You Accept as true with What Clinical Journals Submit?
By way of John Dale Dunn, American Philosopher, Nov 29, 2019
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/can_you_trust_what_medical_journals_publish.html
Local weather Trade Could also be a Well being Disaster
By way of Maria Neira, Challenge Syndication, Nov 29, 2019
https://www.project-syndicate.org/statement/climage-change-health-crisis-by-maria-neira-2019-11
[SEPP Comment: Electricity from fossil fuels creates a crisis for human health?]
Different Clinical Information
In probable weather leap forward, Israel scientists engineer micro organism to consume CO₂
Decade-long analysis at Weizmann Institute may pave means for low-emissions manufacturing of carbon to be used in biofuels, meals, and lend a hand take away extra world warming CO₂ from air
By way of Sue Surkes, The Instances of Israel, Nov 28, 2019 [H/t GWPF]
Scientists collection genome of satan bug, deepest-living animal
By way of Brooks Hays, Washington (UPI), Nov 22, 2019
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE:
Beavers introduced in to overcome flooding in Britain
By way of Group of workers Writers, London (AFP), Nov 20, 2019
http://www.terradaily.com/stories/Beavers_brought_in_to_beat_flooding_in_Britain_999.html
[SEPP Comment: Beavers building dams upstream will remove the need for dredging downstream? What about the trees the beavers will remove?]
An engineer has devised a solution to quit Arctic ice from melting through scattering thousands and thousands of tiny glass beads to replicate daylight away
By way of Aylin Woodward, Industry Insider, Oct 26, 2019 [H/t Joe Tomlison]
We’re all going to die: Alarmists in our midst
By way of Steven Boykey Sidley, Day-to-day Maverick, Nov 27, 2019 [H/t GWPF]
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-11-27-were-all-going-to-die-alarmists-in-our-midst/
ARTICLES
Why Our Electric Gadget Isn’t Able for a Decrease-Carbon Long run
By way of Jason Bordoff, WSJ, Nov 27, 2019
TWTW Abstract: After discussing the California blackouts, the previous senior director of the Nationwide Safety Council and effort adviser to President Obama writes:
“California isn’t by myself, as common continual outages have left thousands and thousands with out continual in recent times from India to Japan to Puerto Rico—the closing inflicting triggering [sic]a humanitarian disaster.
“As damaging as those continual cuts had been, their impression has been restricted through the truth that electrical energy isn’t used extra broadly. The lighting fixtures move out however our vehicles and vehicles can typically stay transferring. This may increasingly exchange if we transfer to affect extra of the economic system to be able to mitigate the affects of weather exchange with out correctly making an investment in our electrical grids.
“Local weather exchange is already a serious and escalating risk, and more potent motion to deal with it most likely comes to common (regardless that no longer 100%) electrification of the economic system, together with transportation and constructions, and a dramatic building up within the percentage of electrical energy that comes from zero-carbon assets. [TWTW questions the assumption that climate change is a severe and escalating threat.]
“Electrical energy provides, whilst extremely dependable within the U.S., are nonetheless vulnerable to outages, as California’s enjoy reminds us. To make sure, the placement in California is excessive. The need for continual cuts to cut back hearth chance follows years of underinvestment in apparatus and protection at PG&E. However problems with electrical energy reliability aren’t distinctive to California. Shoppers in Maine and Florida, as an example, averaged 40 hours of continual cuts in 2017. In step with the American Society of Civil Engineers, there will likely be a almost $95 billion funding hole in electrical energy grid modernization around the U.S. through 2020, expanding the danger of blackouts.
“After all, gasoline provides are prone, too. Pipelines can rupture, hurricanes can harm offshore platforms, and geopolitical instability can disrupt oil flows. In the community, when the ability is going out, gasoline pumps quit pumping. Certainly, when the gasoline delivery is disrupted, probably the most widespread reason is lack of electric continual, which is why New York lately required fuel stations to have backup turbines.
“Nonetheless, the shift to electrification can exacerbate a few of these fuel-supply vulnerabilities. It might be way more tricky to continual electrical automobiles with turbines in an emergency than gasoline stations, as an example, for the reason that they’re charged extra diffusely at properties than at centralized charging stations. Additionally, the typical automotive with a complete fuel tank can run for two times as lengthy with out refilling as a median absolutely charged EV.
“Oil shortages of the 1970s are a much more far off chance in these days’s extremely interconnected world oil marketplace. Moreover, in contrast to electrical energy, when fuel and diesel delivery in a undeniable location is disrupted, different provides could also be introduced in through different manner like truck or barge from neighboring spaces—assuming payment alerts give you the proper financial incentive. Battery expertise has progressed dramatically, however electrical energy is costlier and hard to move and retailer than liquid gasoline for lengthy sessions.
Let’s keep in mind as properly that weather exchange is an international drawback. A ton of greenhouse gasoline emissions contributes similarly to the issue irrespective of the place it comes from. Which means preserving temperature upward push in test would require common electrification of transportation no longer simply within the U.S., however all over the world. And the electrical energy formula in lots of rising markets is a long way much less dependable than it’s within the U.S. For those who suppose contemporary continual cuts may perhaps pose a barrier to electrical car uptake in California, consider being a driving force in Pakistan the place electrical energy outages reasonable greater than 13 hours in line with day.
To be transparent, electrical energy reliability issues aren’t a explanation why to extend the electrification of transportation, constructions and different portions of the clear calories economic system. Moderately, California’s electrical energy disaster is a reminder that policymakers and want to prioritize bettering electrical energy formula reliability and resilience.
Following the oil shortages of the 1970s, nations got here in combination and agreed to carry oil in strategic reserves to stop equivalent delivery crises sooner or later. Changing strategic crude and delicate product shares with electrical energy garage of equivalent capability is neither possible nor cost-effective.
Moderately, policymakers want to prioritize final the present grid funding shortfalls and boosting reliability and resilience through construction new transmission traces to alleviate formula bottlenecks and get rid of unmarried aspects of formula failure; increasing the usage of microgrids and effort garage; leveraging grid modernization applied sciences; developing incentives for demand-side control and allotted technology; bettering repairs and formula operation; and introducing new modeling and expertise equipment (equivalent to synthetic intelligence) to are expecting issues ahead of they happen. [Boldface added.]
Electrifying the transportation sector is not going to occur if motorists fear that they gained’t be capable of reliably gasoline up their vehicles. Alleviating the ones issues calls for regulators to prioritize investments to modernize our grids to beef up our calories safety. Northern California’s decade of deliberate blackouts must function a serious warning call to regulators in all places to redouble efforts to spice up the reliability and resilience of the electrical energy formula to be able to improve the low-carbon transition.
[TWTW Comment: We cannot predict the weather, why assume we can predict weather dependent electricity generation?]
