The Week That Was: 2022-06-25 (June 25, 2022)
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Quote of the Week: “Collective worry stimulates herd intuition, and tends to supply ferocity towards those that should not thought to be members of the herd.”― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
Variety of the Week: 70% capability for 40% of the day
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Coverage Challenge (SEPP)
Scope: Final week, TWTW gave a short abstract of the significance of the scientific technique. It was developed over centuries to settle conflicting scientific speculations akin to an earth-centered universe, or a planetary system orbiting the solar. Bodily proof from experiment and observations divides scientific data from hypothesis, or fiction. It makes no distinction what scientists say; bodily proof decides if varied scientific theories are sound.
The submission to the Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) by eminent physicists William Happer and Richard Lindzen is mentioned. They element how the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC) abandons the scientific technique to reach at politically negotiated studies, significantly the Abstract for Policymakers. The divergence between science and IPCC is illustrated by the massive and rising divergence between atmospheric temperature tendencies and IPCC fashions.
In arriving at its proposal accepting the false declare of harmful international warming from greenhouse gases, the Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) didn’t carry out obligatory due diligence. It’s as if SEC is placing out slick promotional brochures fairly than factual revenue and loss statements exhibiting little change. The significance of due diligence is mentioned, and that funding advisors are topic to legal prosecution in the event that they fail to take sufficient steps.
The state of California has declared the bumblebee to be a fish to increase regulatory management over attainable hurt. In comparable vogue, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) prolonged the Endangered Species Act to incorporate potential habitats of endangered species. Utilizing comparable logic, the FWS may declare Manhattan is a possible habitat of polar bears.
The UK Nationwide Audit Workplace (NAO) delivered a blow to the inexperienced goals of prime minister Boris Johnson, The NAO warned the federal government it should guarantee the general public will not be shortchanged by environmental insurance policies.
As President Biden continues to limit US unbiased oil and fuel producers, he’s planning a visit to Saudi Arabia to encourage it to supply extra oil and fuel. US unbiased oil and fuel producers survived an effort by OPEC plus to bankrupt them. One can speculate what the Saudis consider the trustworthiness of Mr. Biden.
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IPCC Stories Are Not Science: After giving their {qualifications}, Happer and Lindzen start their feedback: Except famous in any other case all boldface is within the authentic.
“Remark and Declaration
Thanks for the chance to touch upon the proposed SEC requiring disclosures of local weather associated danger attributable to fossil fuels and CO2.
We’re profession physicists who’ve specialised in radiation physics and dynamic warmth switch for many years.
In our opinion, science demonstrates that there isn’t any local weather associated danger attributable to fossil fuels and CO2 and no local weather emergency.
Additional, nowhere within the greater than 500 pages of the proposed rule is there any dependable scientific proof that there exists a local weather associated danger. None. It refers back to the Worldwide Panel on Local weather Change (“IPCC”), the Job Power on Local weather-Associated Monetary Disclosures (“TCFD”) and different exterior teams, however by no means offers any dependable scientific proof that helps the rule. The science is simply assumed. Subsequently, there isn’t any dependable scientific foundation for the proposed SEC rule.
Additional, opposite to what’s generally reported, CO2 is crucial to life on earth. With out CO2, there can be no photosynthesis, and thus no plant meals and never sufficient oxygen to breathe.
Furthermore, with out fossil fuels there shall be no low-cost vitality worldwide and fewer CO2 for photosynthesis making meals. Eliminating fossil fuels and lowering CO2 emissions shall be disastrous for the poor, folks worldwide, future generations and the nation. Lastly, the price of the proposed rule is gigantic and would don’t have any public profit. It could improve the reporting burden to firms to $6.4 billion, which is 64% greater than the $3.9 billion all SEC reporting necessities have value firms from its starting in 1934. Id., 87 Fed. Reg., p. 21461.
Thus, the rule should not be adopted or, if adopted, dominated invalid by the courts. Right here’s the science why.
I. RELIABLE SCIENTIFIC THEORIES COME FROM VALIDATING THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS WITH OBSERVATIONS, NOT CONSENSUS, PEER REVIEW, GOVERNMENT OPINION OR MANIPULATED DATA”
After substantiating this assertion, they assert
“II. SCIENCE DEMONSTRATES THERE IS NO CLIMATE-RELATED RISK CAUSED BY FOSSIL FUELS AND CO2, AND THEREFORE NO RELIABLE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE PROPOSED RULE”
They go on to elucidate that in geological time, even 20 million years is nothing, rendering EPA assertions in its Endangerment Discovering about greenhouse gases being unprecedented meaningless. After discussing issues akin to how trivial the IPCC dates are, they clarify how the IPCC politicizes good science. [Footnotes omitted]
“F. The IPCC is Authorities Managed and Solely Points Authorities Dictated Findings, and Thus Can Present No Dependable Scientific Proof for the Proposed Rule
“Unknown to most, two IPCC guidelines require that IPCC governments management what it studies as “scientific” findings on CO2, fossil fuels and artifical international warming, not scientists. IPCC governments meet behind closed doorways and management what’s printed in its Summaries for Policymakers (“SPMs”), which controls what’s printed in full studies.
“The image under tells all. [Picture omitted here]
This isn’t how scientific data is decided. In science, because the Lysenko expertise chillingly underscores, and as Richard Feynman emphasised:
“No authorities has the fitting to determine on the reality of scientific rules.”
The 2 IPCC guidelines are:
IPCC SPM Rule No.1: All Summaries for Policymakers (SPMs) Are Permitted Line by Line by Member Governments”
After supporting this by quoting an IPCC truth sheet. Happer and Lindzen state:
“Since governments management the SPMs, the SPMs are merely authorities opinions. Subsequently, they don’t have any worth as dependable scientific proof.
What in regards to the hundreds of pages within the IPCC studies? A second IPCC rule requires that every thing in an IPCC printed report should be in line with what the governments conform to within the SPMs about CO2 and fossil fuels. Any drafts the unbiased scientists write are rewritten as essential to be in line with the SPM.
IPCC Stories Rule No. 2: Authorities SPMs Override Any Inconsistent Conclusions Scientists Write for IPCC Stories
IPCC Truth Sheet: “’Acceptance’ is the method used for the complete underlying report in a Working Group Evaluation Report or a Particular Report after its SPM has been authorized…. Adjustments …are restricted to these obligatory to make sure consistency with the Abstract for Policymakers.” IPCC Truth Sheet, supra. (Emphasis added).
IPCC governments’ management of full studies utilizing Rule No. 2 is poignantly demonstrated by the IPCC’s rewrite of the scientific conclusions reached by unbiased scientists of their draft of Chapter 8 of the IPCC report Local weather Change 1995, The Science of Local weather Change (“1995 Science Report”). The draft by the unbiased scientists concluded:
“No research so far has positively attributed all or half (of the local weather warming noticed) to (artifical) causes.” Frederick Seitz, “A Main Deception on Local weather Warming,” Wall Road Journal (June 12, 1996).
Nevertheless, the federal government written SPM proclaimed the precise reverse:
“The steadiness of proof suggests a discernible human affect on international local weather.” 1995 Science Report SPM, p. 4.
What occurred to the unbiased scientists’ draft? IPCC Rule No. 2 was utilized, and their draft was rewritten to be in line with the SPM in quite a few methods:
• Their draft language was deleted.
• The SPM’s reverse language was inserted within the printed model of Chapter 8 within the 1995 Science Report, on web page 439: “The physique of statistical proof in chapter 8 …now factors in the direction of a discernible human affect on international local weather.”
• The IPCC additionally modified “greater than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report … after the scientists charged with inspecting this query had accepted the supposedly closing textual content.” Seitz, supra.
As to the complete IPCC studies, tons of of world-class scientists draft some superb science. What to do? Use a presumption that something in IPCC studies needs to be presumed to be authorities opinion with no worth as dependable scientific proof, until independently verified by scientific technique.
Cease for a second. Simply think about what would have occurred if the IPCC precisely reported the science. The scientists concluded there was no science that attributed all or many of the local weather warming noticed to artifical causes.
There can be no Massachusetts v. EPA, Inexperienced New Deal,” Web Zero” regulation, efforts to remove fossil fuels, enormous subsidies of renewable vitality and electrical vehicles. For no matter cause, the IPCC as a government-controlled group didn’t and has by no means adopted the science if the science contradicts the speculation of catastrophic international warming attributable to fossil fuels and different human emissions.
In conclusion, not one of the IPCC SPMs, fashions, eventualities and different findings asserting that harmful local weather warming is attributable to human CO2 and GHG emissions and fossil fuels are dependable scientific proof, they’re merely the opinions of IPCC governments.
Thus, the IPCC SPMs, fashions, eventualities and different findings present no dependable scientific proof there’s any local weather associated danger attributable to fossil fuels, nor do they supply any dependable scientific proof to assist the proposed rule.”
Happer and Lindzen go on to say:
“The Endangerment Findings and Nationwide Local weather Assessments Depend on IPCC Findings and Thus Present No Dependable Scientific Proof to Assist the Proposed Rule”
They provide particulars for this assertion with examples of false science. Additional, they clarify how nature and humanity are benefiting from growing atmospheric CO2. They conclude with:
“Thus, in our opinion, science demonstrates that there isn’t any local weather emergency and no local weather associated danger attributable to fossil fuels and CO2. Subsequently, there isn’t any dependable scientific proof that helps the SEC proposed rule.
Additional, opposite to what’s generally reported, CO2 is crucial to life on earth. With out CO2, there can be no photosynthesis, and thus no plant meals and never sufficient oxygen to breathe.
Furthermore, with out fossil fuels there shall be no dependable, low-cost vitality worldwide and fewer CO2 for photosynthesis making meals. Eliminating fossil fuels and lowering CO2 emissions shall be disastrous for america and the remainder of the world, particularly for lower-income folks.”
This outstanding doc is a formidable criticism of what’s fallacious with local weather science from the IPCC and all authorities entities that settle for IPCC studies as scientific. With correct use of the scientific technique, one can use bodily proof to separate data from fiction. Happer and Lindzen have the proof, the IPCC and its followers have the fiction. See hyperlinks beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.
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Due Diligence: Investopedia has a transparent description of Due Diligence:
“Due diligence is an investigation, audit, or evaluation carried out to verify information or particulars of a matter into consideration. Within the monetary world, due diligence requires an examination of economic data earlier than getting into right into a proposed transaction with one other get together.
Due diligence grew to become frequent apply (and a typical time period) in america with the passage of the Securities Act of 1933. With that regulation, securities sellers and brokers grew to become liable for totally disclosing materials details about the devices they have been promoting. Failing to reveal this info to potential traders made sellers and brokers accountable for legal prosecution.
The writers of the act acknowledged that requiring full disclosure left sellers and brokers susceptible to unfair prosecution for failing to reveal a cloth truth they didn’t possess or couldn’t have identified on the time of sale. Thus, the act included a authorized protection: so long as the sellers and brokers exercised “due diligence” when investigating the businesses whose equities they have been promoting, and totally disclosed the outcomes, they might not be held accountable for info that was not found in the course of the investigation.
It’s clear that leaders of the SEC didn’t examine the science of the IPCC with due diligence. In the event that they did, they need to have realized there was an enormous disparity between local weather fashions and atmospheric temperature tendencies, calling into query any declare of a local weather disaster. See Article # 1 and hyperlinks beneath Different Information that Could Be of Curiosity.
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Not What Is, However What May Be: Final month a California court docket dominated bumblebees are fish and could be protected as fish beneath the California Endangered Species Act. To not be outdone, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) expanded the definition of species habitat for endangered species from the place they at the moment dwell to the place sometime they might dwell.
Over the past main glaciation, Manhattan was coated with hundreds of ft of ice. Caving icebergs carved enormous gouges within the sand off the seashores of South Carolina. Through the subsequent glaciation, one thing local weather modelers ignore, polar bear habitat may embody Manhattan and stretch to South Carolina. Nothing is simply too absurd for this FWS. See Article # 3 and hyperlink beneath Speaking Higher to the Public – Make issues up.
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How A lot Will It Value? Final November in the course of the UN twenty sixth UN Local weather Change Convention of the Events (COP26) in Glasgow, western leaders have been bragging in regards to the extent they might destroy their fossil gas industries to realize zero carbon dioxide emissions, Web Zero. Above, Happer and Lindzen reveal that the science used to justify Web Zero is fake and including carbon dioxide to the ambiance has large advantages for nature and humanity. But, the politicians cling to their useless boasts.
In accordance with studies from the UK, the Auditor Basic of the Nationwide Audit Workplace (NAO) has began to ask how a lot will Web Zero value and what are the advantages? Two years in the past, the NAO appeared detached as to value. However, as prices escalate, there’s cause for concern. A June 22 report addresses the issues with Ofgem, the vitality regulator for Nice Britain. Partially, the report states:
“However the sheer variety of provider failures means a major further value on each invoice at a time when wider value will increase are already inflicting main monetary challenges for a lot of households. Ofgem has rightly recognised that it should rapidly enhance its capability to supervise the monetary resilience of particular person suppliers and the sector as a complete.
Ofgem, together with the Division [for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy], should additionally make sure the provider market recovers from its present state, the place excessive wholesale costs mixed with the worth cap has stifled some facets of competitors, and the place ongoing volatility means many suppliers nonetheless face monetary dangers. However this restoration must facilitate an extended‑time period transition of the provider market to at least one that actually works for shoppers and helps the achievement of internet zero. This can be a important and troublesome activity, requiring Ofgem and the Division [for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy] to keep up the capability to contemplate the longer‑time period targets whereas managing the short-term challenges of stabilising the market. This may require a nuanced method to regulation that finds a steadiness between its goals of competitors, innovation, resilience and affordability for shoppers.”
Who is aware of what is going to occur? However, as Paul Homewood writes:
“Hopefully, they could now begin to do what they have been set as much as do, and that’s to carry authorities to account and supply worth for cash for taxpayers; one thing they completely didn’t do in 2020.”
See hyperlinks beneath Questioning European Inexperienced and https://www.nao.org.uk/report/the-energy-supplier-market/
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Why Bail Him Out? After the bragging about Web Zero at COP26 and the supposed destruction of the oil and fuel industries, President Biden is getting ready to go to Saudi Arabia and ask it to switch the oil and fuel from Russia that Europe wants. It’s questionable if Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates can produce adequate oil and fuel rapidly. To make the huge investments obligatory these nations want long run commitments. There is no such thing as a cause petrostates ought to belief western politicians who promise to ban import of their assets.
Definitely, Saudi Arabia can have a look at what Biden is doing to the US oil and fuel industries to get an thought about how reliable he’s. See hyperlinks beneath Change in US Administrations
SEPP’S APRIL FOOLS AWARD – THE JACKSON
SEPP is conducting 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 suppose is most deserving. The complete Biden Administration received in 2021, so people in it are nonetheless eligible.
The voting will shut on July 30. Please ship your nominee and a short cause the individual is certified for the dignity to Ken@SEPP.org. The awardee shall be introduced on the annual assembly of the Medical doctors for Catastrophe Preparedness on August 14 to 16 on the South Level Lodge and On line casino in Las Vegas. Registration: https://aaps.wufoo.com/varieties/qb79fo31o62uh1/; Lodge: https://be.synxis.com/?grownup=1&arrive=2022-08-14&chain=6903&baby=0&foreign money=USD&depart=2022-08-15&group=DOC0811&resort=11548&stage=resort&locale=en-US&rooms=1
Variety of the Week: 70% capability for 40% of the day. June 21 was the longest day of the 12 months. There gave the impression to be no main storms (or atmospheric rivers) hitting sunny California that day. In accordance with the California ISO web site on the availability development on June 21 at 7:55 (8 am), Photo voltaic technology hit 10,000 megawatts, which is about 70% of the nameplate capability. Tough calculations present that for sunniest day of the 12 months, California solar energy generated at the least 70% of capability for 40% of the day. There was zero solar energy from 8 pm to six am. And California guarantees to be internet zero by 2045?
The California Power Effectivity Strategic Plan states:
“All new residential building shall be zero internet vitality (ZNE) by 2020.
“All new industrial building shall be ZNE by 2030
“50% of business buildings shall be retrofit to ZNE by 2030
“50% of recent main renovations of state buildings shall be ZNE by 2025.
What number of suns will that take? See https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/electrical-energy/demand-side-management/energy-efficiency/zero-net-energy and
http://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/pages/provide.aspx
Difficult the Orthodoxy — NIPCC
Local weather Change Reconsidered II: Bodily Science
Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental Worldwide Panel on Local weather Change (NIPCC), 2013
Abstract: https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/paperwork/CCR/CCR-II/Abstract-for-Policymakers.pdf
Local weather Change Reconsidered II: Organic Impacts
Idso, Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental Worldwide Panel on Local weather Change (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 Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels
By A number of Authors, Bezdek, Idso, Legates, and Singer eds., Nongovernmental Worldwide Panel on Local weather Change, April 2019
http://retailer.heartland.org/store/ccr-ii-fossil-fuels/
Obtain with no cost:
Why Scientists Disagree About World Warming
The NIPCC Report on the Scientific Consensus
By Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer, Nongovernmental Worldwide Panel on Local weather Change (NIPCC), Nov 23, 2015
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/
Obtain with no cost:
https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming
Nature, Not Human Exercise, Guidelines the Local weather
S. Fred Singer, Editor, NIPCC, 2008
http://www.sepp.org/publications/nipcc_final.pdf
World Sea-Stage Rise: An Analysis of the Information
By Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Coverage Transient, Could 20, 2019
Remark and Declaration on the SEC’s Proposed Rule “The Enhancement and Standardization of Local weather-Associated Disclosures for Buyers,” File No. S7-10-22, 87 Fed. Reg. 21334 (April 11,2022)
By William Happer and Richard Lindzen, CO2 Coalition, June 17, 2022
CO2 Coalition Tells Courtroom Carbon Regulation “Scientifically Invalid”
By Gregory Wrightstone, CO2 Coalition, June 22, 2022
Amicus curie transient (buddy of the court docket) at U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,
The SEC Ought to Not Be Setting Company Local weather Coverage
By Paul J. Ray, The Heritage Basis, June 21, 2022
https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/commentary/the-sec-should-not-be-setting-corporate-climate-policy
Epstein’s ‘Fossil Future’
By Allen Brooks, Grasp Useful resource, June 22, 2022
Defending the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science
Examine Reveals how Local weather Change Can Considerably Affect One of many World’s Most Essential Carbon-rich Ecosystems
Researchers from the College of Portsmouth say a ‘one dimension matches all’ method to preserving mangrove forests is not going to work as new analysis reveals a fragile blue carbon system
Press Launch, College of Portsmouth, June 23, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/information/study-reveals-how-climate-change-can-significantly-impact-carbon-rich-ecosystem
Hyperlink to paper: Biodegraders of Massive Woody Particles Throughout a Tidal Gradient in an Indonesian Mangrove Ecosystem
By Ian W. Hendy, et al. Frontiers in Forests and World Change, Could 25, 2022
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2022.852217/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Electronic mail&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&area=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Forests_and_Global_Change&id=852217
Examine finds local weather change reporting can momentarily change minds
“It’s not the case that the American public doesn’t reply to scientifically knowledgeable reporting when they’re uncovered to it,” one researcher mentioned.
By Adam Barnes, The Hill, June 22, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/3532571-study-finds-climate-change-reporting-can-change-minds-for-a-moment/
Hyperlink to paper: Time and skeptical opinion content material erode the results of science protection on local weather beliefs and attitudes
By Brendan Nyhan, et al, PNAS June 21, 2022
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2122069119
Questioning the Orthodoxy
German Physicist: Human CO2 Emissions Accountable For 0.05°C Of The World Warming Since 1750
By Kenneth Richard, No Methods Zone, June 20, 2022
Power disaster making aggressive inexperienced agenda appear to be peacetime luxurious
By Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, June 22, 2022
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/coverage/energy-environment/energy-crisis-shaping-green-agenda-into-luxury
The Many-Analysts Strategy
By Kip Hansen, WUWT, June 22, 2022
Australian Intelligence Chief to evaluate local weather risk however ignore danger of operating nation on windmills and batteries
By Joe Nova, Her Weblog, June 23, 2022
“Crafty Plan: New Australian PM to arrange an Workplace of Local weather Change Threats, however not an Workplace to check the Threats of Local weather Motion.”
As Local weather Screamers Unfold Alarm, Germany’s Lengthy-Time period Forest Fireplace Development Has Declined
Assist! There’s hearth!
By Peter Sommer (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin), Through No Methods Zone, June 22, 2022
This time shall be totally different
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, June 22, 2022
“Economist Rudi Dornbusch as soon as warned that ‘In economics, issues take longer to occur than you suppose they may, after which they occur sooner than you thought they might’.”
Power and Environmental Evaluate: June 20, 2022
By John Droz, Jr., Grasp Useful resource, June 20, 2022
Change in US Administrations
Biden Acquired the Power Market He Wished
Since day one, he’s tried to restrict fossil-fuel provides, and we’re all paying for
By Karl Rove, WSJ, June 22, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-energy-market-gas-oil-green-energy-fossil-fuels-production-high-prices-11655924583?mc_cid=48c3be8a3a&mc_eid=4961da7cb1
Through Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 23, 2022
“Workforce Biden received what it needed: Every day U.S. oil manufacturing dropped from 12.29 million barrels in 2019 to an estimated 11.85 million in 2022, properly after demand had rebounded from the pandemic.”
“Mr. Biden blames Vladimir Putin, however costs rose fairly a bit earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine. In January 2021, the common worth of standard gasoline was $2.33 a gallon. By February 2022, it was as much as $3.52. As of Could, the common worth was $4.44; so 56% of that worth rise predated the invasion.”
Biden Forward of Schedule in Destroying US Offshore Oil Manufacturing
By David Middleton, WUWT, June 21, 2022
Why Biden Retains Mendacity About Power
The president lastly admits we’d like extra oil refineries however lies about provide
By Michael Shellenberger, His Weblog, June 21, 2022
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-biden-keeps-lying-about-energy
“The truth is, as I’ve been reporting, Biden killed a serious oil refinery enlargement on Could 14, simply 5 weeks in the past, and killed a one-million-acre oil and fuel lease proposed for Alaska on Could 12. Some may dismiss Biden’s refusal to open up a million acres in Alaska, however Biden has but to carry a single onshore lease sale and delayed a number of oil and fuel lease gross sales a second time final week.
“It could be nice information if Biden has really modified his thoughts and is now planning on licensing the refinery that he killed. However he didn’t promise to do this. And, both means, he ought to cease gas-lighting the general public about what he did.”
President Biden Asks the Saudis to Bail Him Out
By Benjamin Zycher, Actual Clear Power, June 20, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/06/20/president_biden_asks_the_saudis_to_bail_him_out_837932.html
Shellenberger: Why Biden’s Assaults On Power Are “Completely Insane”
By Michael Shellenberger, Zero Hedge, June 19, 2022 [By Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shellenberger-why-bidens-attacks-energy-are-absolutely-insane
“Even Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates collectively couldn’t produce sufficient oil to offset declining provide from Russia.”
Large Oil to Little Joe: Atlas Does Not Must Shrug
By Robert Bradley Jr., Grasp Useful resource, June 23, 2022
Biden’s vitality hypocrisy
Need extra provide? Cease threatening oil firms
By Amber Athey, Spectator, June 19, 2022
https://spectatorworld.com/subject/joe-biden-energy-incoherence/
Chevron CEO Fires Again at Biden, Slams ‘Political Rhetoric’ in New Letter
By Jack Phillips, The Epoch Occasions, June 21, 2022
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chevron-ceo-fires-back-at-biden-slams-political-rhetoric-in-new-letter_4548308.html?utm_source=epochHG&utm_campaign=rcp
SEC’s New ESG Rule Hurts America’s Small Farms and Ranches
By Gabriella Hoffman, Actual Clear Power, June 22, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/06/22/secs_new_esg_rule_hurts_americas_small_farms_and_ranches_838700.html
WaPo: Investor response to Biden’s anti-oil insurance policies
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 22, 2022
Issues within the Orthodoxy
It’s that determined: Even bitter German Greens say we should “burn extra coal”
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, June 21, 2022
China Constructing Coal Vegetation To Turn into Carbon Impartial
By Tony Heller. His Weblog, June 24, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/06/china-building-coal-plants-to-become-carbon-neutral/
Hyperlink to article: Why China simply can’t appear to stop coal
China is a renewable vitality powerhouse. So why are they constructing coal vegetation?
By Thor Benson, Widespread Science, June 20, 2022
[SEPP Comment: Could it be that the leaders of China do not believe the science by the UN?]
Searching for a Widespread Floor
Webinar: The Power Disaster, Causes and Options
By Employees, Web Zero Watch, June 23, 2022
Science, Coverage, and Proof
IEA: Europe Ought to Put together For Full Russian Gasoline Shutdown
By Irina Slav, Oil Value.com, June 22, 2022
https://oilprice.com/Power/Pure-Gasoline/IEA-Europe-Ought to-Put together-For-Full-Russian-Gasoline-Shutdown.html
Nanny State guidelines: French occasions banned “for the warmth” — Local weather lockdowns start
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, June 19, 2022
Fashions v. Observations
Local weather change fueling fires sooner than predicted
By Saul Elbein, The Hill, June 24, 2022
“’Fires are outpacing our fashions’” Forest Service Chief Randy Moore mentioned in an announcement this week.”
[SEPP Comment: Are the models deficient?]
Mannequin Points
Declare: Australia’s Supercomputer Gadi will Remedy the Local weather Disaster
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, June 24, 2022
[SEPP Comment: By itself, a computer cannot solve anything.]
Measurement Points — Floor
Obvious Inconsistency In Estimating CO2 vs. Photo voltaic Forcing Suggests CO2 Impacts Are Wildly Exaggerated
By Kenneth Richard, No Methods Zone, June 23, 2022
Hyperlink to newest research: Early Holocene Temperature Oscillations Exceed Amplitude of Noticed and Projected Warming in Svalbard Lakes
By Willem G. M. van der Bilt, et al. Geophysical Analysis Letters, Dec 3, 2019
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL084384
CO2 Pattern Spacing in Ice Cores
By Renee Hannon, WUWT, June 23, 2022
The delusive [misleading] accuracy of worldwide irrigation water withdrawal estimates
By Arnald Puy, et al. Nature Communications, June 8, 2022 [H/t Climate Etc.]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30731-8
“Miscalculating the volumes of water withdrawn for irrigation, the most important client of freshwater on the planet, jeopardizes sustainable water administration. Hydrological fashions quantify water withdrawals, however their estimates are unduly exact. Mannequin imperfections should be appreciated to keep away from coverage misjudgments.”
Scorching city, summer season within the metropolis
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, June 22, 2022
Santon Downham–Data Constructed On Sand
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 22, 2022
“I’ve camped out within the Sahara, and it was a giant shock to seek out how rapidly the sand turned from burning sizzling to freezing chilly!
“In different phrases, Santon Downham isn’t any extra consultant English temperatures than Heathrow and the opposite city websites that constantly seem on the prime of the lists each time we’ve got a spell of sizzling climate.”
Altering Climate
Understanding Australia’s rainfall
By Employees, Local weather Extremes, June 8, 2022
[SEPP Comment: Discusses influence of Rossby wavers, El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and Southern Annular Mode (SAM).]
Professional scientists instantly predict local weather change causes triple La Ninas… proper after they occur
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, June 24, 2022
Hyperlink to at least one report: El Niño occurring extra as local weather warms
Evaluate says the fashions of a rise in excessive climate occasions are agreeing.
Ellen Phiddian, Cosmos, Aug 17, 2021
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/local weather/el-nino-more-climate-change/
Hyperlink to second report: Extra Frequent El Niño Occasions Predicted by 2040
Reducing-edge fashions predict that El Niño frequency will improve inside 2 many years due to local weather change, no matter emissions mitigation efforts.
By Rachel Fritts, EOS, 20 April 2022
Wettest Megadrought In Historical past
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, June 24, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/06/wettest-megadrought-in-history/
Precipitation in Northeast Mexico Primarily Managed by the Relative Warming of Atlantic SSTs
By Kevin T. Wright, et al. Geophysical Analysis Letters, June 6, 2022 [H/t Climate Etc.]
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL098186
[SEPP Comment: Uses speleothems (stalactites or stalagmites) not tree rings.]
Is Lake Mead Shrinking Due to Local weather?
By Steve Milloy, WUWT, June 24, 2022
[SEPP Comment: A look at the history of the lake level.]
Adjustments in Atlantic main hurricane frequency for the reason that late-Nineteenth century
By Gabriel A. Vecchi, et al. Nature Communications, 2021
From the summary: “To guage previous adjustments in frequency, we’ve got right here developed a homogenization technique for Atlantic hurricane and main hurricane frequency over 1851–2019. We discover that recorded century-scale will increase in Atlantic hurricane and main hurricane frequency, and related lower in USA hurricanes strike fraction, are in line with adjustments in observing practices and not going a real local weather development. After homogenization, will increase in basin-wide hurricane and main hurricane exercise for the reason that Nineteen Seventies should not a part of a century-scale improve, however a restoration from a deep minimal within the Nineteen Sixties–Nineteen Eighties.”
[SEPP Comment: With the decline in hurricane activity, the influence of CO2 must be hiding behind aerosols?]
Altering Local weather
Two thousand years of Chinese language local weather historical past: what it tells us
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, June 22, 2022
“The 5 Chinese language scientists decided that there have been 4 important heat durations and 4 important chilly durations over the previous two millennia. And of most curiosity to us right this moment, they report that ‘the depth of regional warmth waves, within the context of latest international warming, might not actually exceed pure local weather variability seen over the past 2000 years.’”
[SEPP Comment: From a Nov 8, 2016, CO2 Science post.]
Altering Seas
CDN by the Sea: Adak, Alaska
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, June 22, 2022
Altering Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice
New polar bear subpopulation replace: extra background information and particulars from the paper
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, June 19, 2022
“reject the proof of your eyes and ears”
By Tony Heller, June 23, 2022
Video https://realclimatescience.com/2022/06/reject-the-evidence-of-your-eyes-and-ears-3/
Textual content https://realclimatescience.com/2022/06/reject-the-evidence-of-your-eyes-and-ears-2/
“Final winter was the coldest on document in Antarctica.”
Southern Beaufort Sea polar bear habitat on the summer season solstice is above common
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, June 23, 2022
“Sea ice is properly above latest ranges for this time of 12 months within the Southern Beaufort and solely time will inform if that’s unhealthy information for polar bears. Seals want the open water that early summer season polynyas present in an effort to feed, and a few polar bears make use of the searching alternatives…”
Agriculture Points & Concern of Famine
The good local weather meals surplus scarcity
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, June 22, 2022
Sri Lanka Meals Shortages Due To Fertiliser Ban, (Not Putin)
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 24, 2022
“Discover how costs abruptly shot up final September, lengthy earlier than the struggle in Ukraine.”
Reducing Requirements
BBC/Met Workplace Heatwave Predictions Backfire
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 22, 2022
“There was inevitably a lot hype from the BBC/Met Workplace a few little bit of nice climate final week, and the inevitable blaming on local weather change:”
BBC & The Inexperienced Foyer
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 18, 2022
It’s for the larger good
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, June 22, 2022
[SEPP Comment: All for only $100,000 per person to the National Geographic.]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Yellow (Inexperienced) Journalism?
China Breezes to the Lead of Offshore Wind Energy Race
Nation accounted for 80% of all new capability in 2021
By Mamoru Tsuge, Nikkei Asia, June 15, 2022
https://asia.nikkei.com/Enterprise/Power/China-breezes-to-the-lead-of-offshore-wind-power-race
“Final 12 months, 21.1 gigawatts of offshore wind technology have been commissioned final 12 months, in response to the World Wind Power Council, roughly equal to 21 nuclear reactors.”
[SEPP Comment: And China leads the world in the new nuclear and coal-fired power plant race!]
Did local weather change kill 2,000 Kansas cows? Farmers can’t afford to disregard science
Editorial, Kansas Metropolis Star, June 17, 2022
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article262626587.html
No Sky, Floods Are Not Getting Worse In Bangladesh
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 19, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Imprecise?
Local weather change may result in a dramatic temperature-linked lower in important omega-3 fatty acids
Press Launch, Woods Gap Oceanographic Institute, June 23, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
[SEPP Comment: How did nature survive previously warm periods? Assumes human caused warming.]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Make issues up.
Biden administration reverses Trump endangered species habitat definition
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, June 23, 2022
No Andy, EPA Are Not Cherry Choosing
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 22, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Go Private.
Prime Swedish Meteorologist Attacked By Rahmstorf & Co. …For Optimism Over Future Local weather
Lennart Bengtsson – public enemy no. 1?
By Klaus Henkel (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin), Through No Methods Zone, June 21, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Propaganda
Examine finds local weather change reporting can momentarily change minds
“It’s not the case that the American public doesn’t reply to scientifically knowledgeable reporting when they’re uncovered to it,” one researcher mentioned.
By Adam Barnes, The Hill, June 22, 2022
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/3532571-study-finds-climate-change-reporting-can-change-minds-for-a-moment/
Hyperlink to paper: Time and skeptical opinion content material erode the results of science protection on local weather beliefs and attitudes
By Brendan Nyhan, et al, PNAS June 21, 2022
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2122069119
[SEPP Comment: Propaganda must be maintained.]
Increasing the Orthodoxy
Extra local weather analysis, educating to make larger impression
Vice Provost for Local weather and Sustainability James Inventory seems to be forward
Press Launch, Harvard Gazette, Oct 18, 2021
New institute to unite, advance Harvard efforts to stem tide of local weather disaster
Salata Institute for Local weather and Sustainability made attainable by $200M reward from Melanie and Jean Salata
Press Launch, Harvard Gazette, June 21, 2022
The not so nice inexperienced fleet
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, June 22, 2022
Hyperlink: FACT SHEET: President Biden Takes Daring Govt Motion to Spur Home Clear Power Manufacturing
Press Launch: The White Home, June 6, 2022
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/06/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-bold-executive-action-to-spur-domestic-clean-energy-manufacturing/
Hyperlink to Local weather Motion 2030
By Employees, Division of the Navy, 2022
“The US Secretary of the Navy has declared that ‘I selected local weather as a focus for my tenure as Secretary’ as an alternative of some foolish aspect situation like having the ability to defeat America’s enemies in a naval struggle. And Joe Biden really boasts of utilizing the Protection Manufacturing Act… to make photo voltaic panels.”
[SEPP Comment: Solar power essential for national defense? Needed for nighttime operations?
Navy Holding Climate Change Wargame
By: Mallory Shelbourne, USNI News, June 21, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
“The half-day train will characteristic people from Capitol Hill, the Protection Division, the protection business, suppose tanks and academia, Navy assistant secretary for vitality, installations and setting Meredith Berger informed reporters throughout a Protection Writers Group breakfast.”
“’The aim of the June 29 train is “to return collectively and actually take into consideration and expertise what it means to function in a climate-impacted setting,’ Berger mentioned.”
[SEPP Comment; What’s the difference between a weather-impacted environment and a climate-impacted environment?]
Questioning European Inexperienced
Requires Boris Johnson to pause Web Zero insurance policies after Auditor Basic warns prices danger spiralling uncontrolled
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 20, 2022
Germany restarts coal energy stations
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 20, 2022
“I ponder why they don’t simply construct a lot of windmills as an alternative?”
Questioning Inexperienced Elsewhere
The Democrats’ Power Catastrophe
By David Harsanyi, New York Solar, Through Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 18, 2022
“If the US refuses to commit carbon hari-kari, it’s unlikely the remainder of the world will. It solely stays to be seen how for much longer the UK and EU will keep the course.”
Funding Points
Disclosing the Actual “Local weather Danger”: Case Examine: UK “ESG” Billionaire Behind U.S. Local weather Regulatory, Litigation Campaigns.
By Employees, Authorities Accounting & Oversight, Accessed June 25, 2022
Hyperlink to paper: ”: Case Examine: UK “ESG” Billionaire Behind U.S. Local weather Regulatory, Litigation Campaigns.
By Employees, Authorities Accounting & Oversight, Accessed June 25, 2022
Home subcommittee approves almost $7B bump to EPA, Inside funding
By Aris Folley, The Hill, June 21, 2022
“The fiscal 2023 spending invoice provides almost $45 billion in funding for the Division of the Inside, the Environmental Safety Company (EPA), Wildland Fireplace Administration, the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts and the Smithsonian Establishment, amongst different companies and objects. The funding invoice marked an 18 p.c, or $6.8 billion, improve from the earlier fiscal 12 months’s spending ranges.”
The Political Video games Proceed
Second Trump time period would push warming previous harmful restrict, warns UN local weather chief
Outgoing Govt Secretary Patricia Espinosa displays on surviving most cancers, Trump and the state of local weather talks in an exit interview with POLITICO.
By Karl Mathiesen, Politico, June 13, 2022
https://www.politico.eu/article/un-climate-chief-warn-of-consequences-of-second-trump-term/
Cap-and-Commerce and Carbon Taxes
Biden formally backs fuel tax vacation
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, June 22, 2022
A fuel tax vacation sounds unbelievable. However there’s a cause Obama bashed it as a ‘gimmick’
By Matt Egan, CNN Enterprise, June 22, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/enterprise/gas-tax-holiday-biden/index.html
Subsidies and Mandates Perpetually
Offshore Wind Farms Nonetheless Being Subsidised Beneath CfD, Regardless of Increased Market Costs
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 23, 2022
“From 1st April to thirteenth June, the overall value of subsidies beneath Contracts for Distinction have value shoppers £57 million. True, that is significantly lower than traditionally, however shoppers are additionally, after all, as an alternative paying far more due to excessive market costs – it’s a case of being burnt or scalded! Both means, the patron pays by means of the nostril.
“In any occasion, these quantities are dwarfed by the primary subsidy scheme for renewables, Renewable Obligations, which is able to value us all £6.6 billion this 12 months.”
EPA and different Regulators on the March
14 attorneys normal say proposed EPA tips are an overreach
By Steve Bittenbender, The Heart Sq., June 22, 2022
https://www.thecentersquare.com/alabama/14-attorneys-general-say-proposed-epa-guidelines-are-an-overreach/article_18c4e066-f264-11ec-b9cf-2bff933acdac.html
Forest Service finds mining would pose danger to Minnesota watershed
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, June 23, 2022
“Whereas the evaluation is a draft, it proposes a 20-year ban on copper mining on federal lands within the watershed.”
Power Points – Non-US
Offshore Wind Outlook 2019
World Power Outlook particular report
By Employees, EIA, November 2019
https://www.iea.org/studies/offshore-wind-outlook-2019
Common annual capability elements by know-how, 2018
Gasoline 65%, Photo voltaic PV 21%, Onshore Wind 45%, Offshore wind 52%
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/average-annual-capacity-factors-by-technology-2018
[SEPP Comment: Strongly doubt the capacity factors for wind. 35% is more likely for onshore.]
Iran’s Risk to Kurdistan Is a Larger Problem to the Oil Market Than OPEC Quotas
By Matthew M. Zais, Actual Clear Power, June 21, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/06/21/irans_threat_to_kurdistan_is_a_greater_challenge_to_oil_market_than_opec_quotas_838248.html
The Ports Receiving Most Russian Oil And Gasoline
By Zero Hedge, Oil Value.com, Jun 16, 2022
https://oilprice.com/Power/Power-Basic/The-Ports-Receiving-Most-Russian-Oil-And-Gasoline.html
U.S. LNG Exports Ship Power Safety, Financial Stability in Europe
By Norman R. Seip & Jessica Olcott Yllemo, Actual Clear Power, June 17, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/06/17/us_lng_exports_deliver_energy_security_economic_stability_in_europe_837924.html
Power Points – Australia
In excellent hell for grid managers, World Warming causes coldest begin to winter in South-East Australia since WWII
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, June 18, 2022
In an emergency, we’d like coal
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, June 18, 2022
“So it’s a brand new document. Within the 20 years for the reason that Nationwide Power Market shaped it has by no means operated on such a vapor skinny margin. Only some days in the past Paul McArdle at WattClarity thought a mere 15% instantaneous reserve plant margin was a headline occasion, however tonight the grid survived (to date) on a tiny 3% Instantaneous Reserve Plant Margin NEM-wide. Issues have been so tight the NSW Minister for Power sought emergency powers to pressure coal firms to offer gas to coal turbines for the subsequent 30 days on his say so. Presumably subsequent on his listing can be emergency powers from God to make the wind blow.”
Power Points — US
Concentrate on Gasoline Costs – simply a part of the story
By Joseph D’Aleo, ICECAP, June 23, 2022
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/focus_on_gas_prices_just_part_of_the_story2/
“Will Biden say we simply should powerful it out so we will attain their inexperienced dream that in nations in Europe became a nightmare?”
[SEPP Comment: Despite “global warming” winter will come, and northern US will suffer.]
Ten Insurance policies to Unleash American Power and Gas Restoration
By Mike Sommers, Actual Clear Power, June 23, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/06/23/ten_policies_to_unleash_american_energy_and_fuel_recovery_838701.html
Mike Sommers is the President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute.
Professional reveals how environmental laws have shut down refineries
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 18, 2022
Video of Mike Summers of the American Petroleum Institute: US refineries operating 94% capability. Eleven oil refineries shut down. Governments provide particular tax credit to alter refineries.
Regulation Is to Blame for Our Grid Reliability Woes
By Devin Hartman, Actual Clear Power, June 17, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/06/17/regulation_is_to_blame_for_our_grid_reliability_woes_837922.html
Washington’s Management of Power
No Extra Drilling For Oil–Biden 2020
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 20, 2022
Video on Biden’s guarantees from Sky Information
An Encore on the Left’s Power Theater
By Oliver McPherson-Smith & Samuel Buchan, Actual Clear Power, June 20, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/06/20/an_encore_at_the_lefts_energy_theater_837931.html
“Workforce Biden’s vow to make the American vitality business the savior of Europeans additionally sits at odds with its personal struggle on home manufacturing. As a free indication of the business’s well being, there are at the moment 727 oil and pure fuel rigs working in america. That may be a mere fraction of the 1,083 that have been in operation in 2018.”
“It needs to be no marvel that American crude manufacturing nonetheless sits greater than 1,000,000 barrels a day in need of its pre-pandemic ranges, and pure fuel is round thrice dearer right this moment than when President Biden took workplace.”
Oil and Pure Gasoline – the Future or the Previous?
Go, Joe, Go: Go to the Residence Trade earlier than Saudi Arabia
By Robert Bradley Jr., Grasp Useful resource, June 24, 2022
Return of King Coal?
Europe desires coal: Austria, Netherlands, change on previous coal vegetation, Poland pays for coal to houses
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, June 22, 2022
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Photo voltaic and Wind
$Trillions For Nothing…Damning Report: Inexperienced Energies Develop Solely “Paltry Two P.c In Complete Decade”!
World transition to inexperienced energies stagnates
By Kalte Sonne (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin), Through No Methods Zone, June 18, 2022
Biden groups with East Coast governors to spice up offshore wind
By Matthew Daly, AP Information, June 23, 2022 [H/t David Wojick]
https://apnews.com/article/climate-biden-and-environment-government-politics-13e5d01c3f43c899e39f337d478c1179
Hurricane danger is actual for offshore wind
By David Wojick, CFACT, June 24, 2022
https://www.cfact.org/2022/06/24/hurricane-risk-is-real-for-offshore-wind/
Hyperlink to newest paper; Hurricane eyewall winds and structural response of wind generators
By Amber Kapoor, et al. Wind Power Science, Jan 14, 2020
https://wes.copernicus.org/articles/5/89/2020/
[SEPP Comment: See link immediately above. With wind shear and salt spray corrosion, what can go wrong with the green dream?]
Invenergy Sues An Iowa County, Makes use of ‘Nefarious Ways’ To Push Extra Wind Generators
By Robert Bryce, Forbes, June 17, 2022
https://www.forbes.com/websites/robertbryce/2022/06/17/invenergy-sues-an-iowa-county-uses-nefarious-tactics-to-push-more-wind-turbines/?sh=2cc83af06b6f
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Power — Different
Researchers: Wooden Burning Unsustainable, Big Footprint…” Will Speed up Warming For A long time”
By P Gosselin, No Methods Zone, June 17, 2022
[SEPP Comment: England discovered that by the 1760s and shifted to coal, the US shifted to coal by the 1870s.]
UK to save lots of world by burning 120 million timber a 12 months and stuffing some beneath the North Sea
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, June 20, 2022
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Power — Storage
Battery Scarcity Hampers Biden’s Transition to Wind and Photo voltaic Energy
By Employees, IER, June 21, 2022
[SEPP Comment: Delaying the demonstration that storage will be woefully underestimated.]
Extra unhealthy luck! Snowy Hydro can’t run a lot as a result of it has *an excessive amount of water*
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, June 21, 2022
What the Oil and Gasoline Trade Has to Supply the Power Transition
By Kelsey Grant, Actual Clear Power, June 22, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/06/22/what_the_oil_and_gas_industry_has_to_offer_the_energy_transition_838697.html
“For instance, the two.6 million miles of pipelines in america, historically used for transporting pure fuel and oil, may very well be used as a key hyperlink in a carbon seize and sequestration (CCS) system. These pipelines have the potential to move CO2 from emission sources, akin to industrial vegetation, to underground reservoirs the place it’s saved and saved out of our ambiance.”
[SEPP Comment: Green dreams!]
Well being, Power, and Local weather
Current Developments in Warmth-Associated Mortality in america: An Replace by means of 2018
By Scott C. Sherida, et al. Climate, Local weather, and Society, Dec 14, 2020 [H/t Climate Etc.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wcas/13/1/wcas-d-20-0083.1.xml
From the abstract: “For the period 1975–2018, we examined the mortality associated with extreme-heat-event days across the 107 largest metropolitan areas.”
“The decrease in heat vulnerability continues among those 65 and older across most of the country, which may be associated with improved messaging and increased awareness.”
[SEPP Comment: A nearly universal adoption of air conditioning in new building in the southern US probably contributed significantly.]
Oh Mann!
What Is Michael Mann’s Actual Agenda?
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 20, 2022
Video
Environmental Trade
Justice or overreach? As essential check looms, Large Greens are beneath hearth
The environmental motion embraces a broad array of progressive causes whereas its personal agenda hangs within the steadiness.
By Zack Colman, Politico, June 19, 2022
https://www.politico.com/information/2022/06/19/big-green-justice-environment-00040148
“However the Sierra Membership and its Large Inexperienced brethren – Audubon, Greenpeace and others – are struggling to sew collectively the mandatory votes. They’re now broadly believed to be a software of the Democrats alone, leaving little hope for Republican assist within the Senate or leverage between the 2 events. A looming Supreme Courtroom determination that might intestine govt department actions to rein in local weather change raises the stakes for congressional motion earlier than the midterms even greater.”
[SEPP Comment: “..gut executive branch actions to rein in climate change…” that has been occurring for hundreds of millions of years. Biden must be omnipotent – all powerful.]
Different Information that Could Be of Curiosity
Due Diligence
By James Chen, Investopedia, Nov 11, 2021
https://www.investopedia.com/phrases/d/duediligence.asp
Funding Adviser Due Diligence Processes for Choosing Different Investments and Their Respective Managers
By Employees, Workplace of Compliance Inspections and Examinations1, SEC, Nationwide Examination Program Danger Alert Jan 28, 2014
SEC Steering for Funding Adviser Due Diligence When Utilizing Companies Suppliers
By Employees, RIA Compliance Consultants, July 10, 2012
https://www.ria-compliance-consultants.com/2012/07/sec-guidance-for-investment-adviser-due-diligence-when-using-services-providers/#:~:textual content=Duepercent20diligencepercent20canpercent20bepercent20defined,intopercent20anpercent20agreementpercent20orpercent20transaction.
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE
The draw back of doomism
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, June 22, 2022
Local weather change liable for the Owo bloodbath in Nigeria says Irish president
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, June 19, 2022
“Palm Bushes In Philadelphia”
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, June 24, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/06/palm-trees-in-philadelphia/
The darkish aspect of solar energy: A Center Tennessee couple’s warning for others
By Lindsay Bramson, WSJV4, Printed: Jun. 16, 2022
https://www.wsmv.com/2022/06/16/dark-side-solar-power-middle-tennessee-couples-warning-others/
[SEPP Comment: Link the rooftop solar hot water heaters so fashionable in the 1970s during a real energy crisis, not a made up one.]
This simply in, summer season hotter than spring
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, June 22, 2022
USDA Meals Waste Local weather Initiative Tells Individuals How one can Compost
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, June 22, 2022
[SEPP Comment; And what do you do with the compost in the asphalt jungle?]
Ukraine struggle threatens local weather targets
Huge international navy emissions usually go unreported. That would change because the G7 meets and addresses the impacts of a Ukrainian battle fueled by Russian oil and fuel.
By Stuart Braun, DW, June 23, 2022
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-threatens-climate-targets/a-62185483
ARTICLES
1. By no means Sufficient Authorities, Says the SEC
America’s prime stock-exchange regulator offers mission creep a nasty identify.
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr, WSJ, June 24, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/securities-and-exchange-commission-esc-gary-gensle-stock-exchange-climate-change-risk-disclosure-order-flow-administrative-state-11656102971?cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_4&cx_artPos=1&mod=WTRN#cxrecs_s
“People get a lot authorities; they discover it almost unattainable to get the federal government they want or need. It’s an American paradox. Taxpayers spent billions over many years to construct up the Meals and Drug Administration and Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, and but Washington’s solely actually helpful contribution to the nationwide pandemic—maybe accounting for 99% of the medical worth of all authorities interventions—was the Trump vaccine program, run out of the White Home hip pocket.
Oodles upon oodles of extreme, ineffective authorities are foisted on us by enterprising appointees constructing résumés for an afterlife as an affect peddler ‘of counsel’ at a D.C. regulation agency. Examples are legion, however contemplate the latest initiatives of Joe Biden’s Securities and Alternate Fee chief, Gary Gensler.
Mr. Gensler would ordain that publicly traded firms, as a part of their disclosure obligations, report their monetary vulnerability to local weather change and local weather regulation. A fatuous New York Occasions headline declares that traders ‘deserve’ such info. No, traders need such info, and diligently search it out, if it bears on the anticipated worth of their investments. Why not require disclosures in regards to the monetary impression of each conceivable tax-law change, man-made catastrophe or asteroid strike? As a result of markets already worth securities in view of all of the attainable calamities that might trigger them to go to zero. Collectively, traders are in a greater place to guage such nonproprietary issues than is administration, which has a each day enterprise to run.”
OK, that is par for the overgrown administrative state. The press politely pretends in any other case, however Mr. Gensler is merely hitching his company’s unrelated mission to a White Home-desired speaking level about local weather change.
Greater ambition is to be present in his sweeping initiative, introduced this month, to reorganize the nation’s inventory markets based mostly on a satan concept that no one, least of all of the SEC, believes.
The columnist “cost order circulate” by the short-term Richard Cordray of the Client Monetary Safety Bureau, then concludes:
“However cynicism can carry a bureaucrat solely to date. Mr. Cordray’s technique was so dishonest, a bipartisan Home majority shut him down. If not incomes the ethical stain he deserved, he at the least earned a repute as a loser. His profession has been downhill ever since. He flopped as a gubernatorial candidate in his native Ohio and now serves as an obscure student-aid official within the Biden Training Division. It’s a precedent others can be smart to remember.
As soon as upon a time bureaucrats got here to Washington to do pressing work value doing. You possibly can see this in histories and memoirs of the early Forties. Conflict threatened. Time was quick. Essential duties awaited. How totally different from latest many years, when the very best in authorities arrive understanding at the least half their job is to guard America from the runaway bureaucracies beneath their command.”
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2. The Wealthy World’s Local weather Hypocrisy
They beg for extra oil and coal for themselves whereas telling creating lands to depend on photo voltaic and wind.
By Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, June 20, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rich-worlds-climate-hypocrisy-energy-fossil-fuel-wind-solar-panel-india-poverty-power-battery-storage-11655654331?mod=hp_opin_pos_6#cxrecs_s
The president of the Copenhagen Consensus begins by evaluating how rich nations attempt to suppress poor nations of their use of fossil fuels however don’t achieve this themselves. He continues:
“The developed world grew to become rich by means of the pervasive use of fossil fuels, which nonetheless overwhelmingly energy most of its economies. Photo voltaic and wind energy aren’t dependable, just because there are nights, clouds and nonetheless days. Enhancing battery storage received’t assist a lot: There are sufficient batteries on the planet right this moment solely to energy international common electrical energy consumption for 75 seconds. Although the availability is being scaled up quickly, by 2030 the world’s batteries would nonetheless cowl lower than 11 minutes. Each German winter, when photo voltaic output is at its minimal, there’s near-zero wind vitality out there for at the least 5 days—or greater than 7,000 minutes.
That is why photo voltaic panels and wind generators can’t ship many of the vitality for industrializing poor nations. Factories can’t cease and begin with the wind; metal and fertilizer manufacturing are depending on coal and fuel; and most photo voltaic and wind energy merely can’t ship the facility essential to run the water pumps, tractors, and machines that raise folks out of poverty.
That’s why fossil fuels nonetheless present greater than three-fourths of rich nations’ vitality, whereas photo voltaic and wind ship lower than 3%. A median individual within the developed world makes use of extra fossil-fuel-generated vitality day by day than all of the vitality utilized by 23 poor Africans.
But the world’s wealthy are attempting to choke off funding for brand new fossil fuels in creating nations. An estimated 3.5 billion of the world’s poorest folks don’t have any dependable entry to electrical energy. Moderately than give them entry to the instruments which have helped wealthy nations develop, rich nations blithely instruct creating nations to skip coal, fuel and oil, and go straight to a inexperienced nirvana of photo voltaic panels and wind generators.
This promised paradise is a sham constructed on wishful pondering and inexperienced advertising. Contemplate the expertise of Dharnai, an Indian village that Greenpeace in 2014 tried to show into the nation’s first solar-powered group.
Greenpeace acquired glowing international media consideration when it declared that Dharnai would refuse ‘to offer into the entice of the fossil gas business.’ However the day the village’s photo voltaic electrical energy was turned on, the batteries have been drained inside hours. One boy remembers being unable to do his homework early within the morning as a result of there wasn’t sufficient energy for his household’s one lamp.
Villagers have been informed to not use fridges or televisions as a result of they’d exhaust the system. They couldn’t use cookstoves and needed to proceed burning wooden and dung, which creates air air pollution as harmful for an individual’s well being as smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, in response to the World Well being Group. Throughout the creating world, tens of millions die prematurely yearly due to this indoor air pollution.
In August 2014, Greenpeace invited one of many Indian’s state’s prime politicians, who quickly after turn out to be its chief minister, to admire the group’s handiwork. He was met by a crowd waving indicators and chanting that they needed ‘actual electrical energy’ to switch this ‘pretend electrical energy.’
When Dharnai was lastly linked to the primary energy grid, which is overwhelmingly coal-powered, villagers rapidly dropped their photo voltaic connections. A tutorial research discovered a giant cause was that the grid’s electrical energy value one-third of what the photo voltaic vitality did. What’s extra, it was plentiful sufficient to truly energy such home equipment as TV units and stoves. At present, Dharnai’s disused solar-energy system is roofed in thick mud, and the venture website is a cattle shelter.
To make sure, photo voltaic vitality has some makes use of, akin to charging a cellphone or powering a light-weight, however it’s usually costly and has distinct limits. A brand new research in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, discovered that even hefty subsidies couldn’t make photo voltaic lamps value their value to most individuals. Even in rich nations akin to Germany and Spain, most new wind and solar energy wouldn’t have been put in if not for subsidies.
That is why, for all of the wealthy world’s discuss of local weather activism, developed nations are nonetheless on observe to proceed to rely totally on fossil fuels for many years. The Worldwide Power Company estimates that even when all present local weather insurance policies are delivered in full, renewables will solely ship one-third of U.S. and EU vitality in 2050. The creating world isn’t blind to this hypocrisy. Nigeria’s vice chairman, Yemi Osinbajo, articulated the state of affairs elegantly: ‘No nation on the planet has been capable of industrialize utilizing renewable vitality,’ but Africa is predicted to take action ‘when all people else on the planet is aware of that we’d like gas-powered industries for enterprise.’
Moderately than selfishly block different nations’ path to growth, rich nations ought to do the wise factor and make investments meaningfully within the innovation wanted to make inexperienced vitality extra environment friendly and cheaper than fossil fuels. That’s how one can really get everybody to modify to renewable alternate options. Insisting that the world’s poor dwell with out plentiful, dependable and inexpensive vitality prioritizes advantage signaling over folks’s lives.”
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3. Bees Are Fish and Different Faux Narratives
Today we settle for outrageous falsehoods with a shoulder shrug.
By Andy Kessler, WSJ, June 19, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bees-are-fish-and-other-fake-narratives-progressive-partisanship-woke-1619-project-words-11655650274?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s
After discussing {that a} vegan buddy known as honey “bee barf,” the columnist states:
“I point out this as a result of final month a California court docket dominated that bumblebees are literally fish and could be protected by the California Endangered Species Act. That is as foolish because the Environmental Safety Company making an attempt to outline puddles and drainage ditches as “navigable waters.” Sure, they have been saying {that a} puddle needs to be regulated like a lake or river. Even earlier than this, the Military Corps of Engineers had a “glancing geese” check, which means if a migratory hen ever checked out a moist spot, that spot was beneath federal jurisdiction.
In the meantime, we’ve got oat milk and almond milk, though they clearly aren’t milk. Equally, oxymoronic “plant-based meat,” which isn’t meat, is basically pretend meat. Even worse, it’s nasty, chock filled with salt, and never even good for you. Be warned, we’re being skilled that something could be something. The reality has taken a again seat. I don’t prefer it one bit.”
Mr Kessler discusses officers tolerating not carrying masks throughout protests however forcing non-protesters to put on masks then continues:
“That is the world we dwell in right this moment. Who really believes these things? George Orwell mentioned it finest in his 1945 ‘Notes on Nationalism’: ‘One has to belong to the intelligentsia to consider issues like that: no bizarre man may very well be such a idiot.’ Bertrand Russell had a equally nice line: ‘That is a type of views that are so absurd that solely very discovered males may presumably undertake them.’ [Boldface added]
It wasn’t solely protests. I spent the week after Memorial Day 2020 flipping between CNN and Fox Information. I watched Chicago Lake Liquors in Minneapolis repeatedly looted—even the protected was dragged out. I watched rioters throw rocks at police defending the White Home behind flimsy fences. I watched vehicles on hearth in Manhattan and luxurious shops with smashed home windows and a line of looters stealing items. In August 2020, CNN famously known as protests in Kenosha, Wis., ‘largely peaceable’ as flames from riots raged behind the reporter. Even my very own lyin’ eyes may see it. I have to not be a part of the discovered intelligentsia, who consider that if a puddle is a river, then riots are peaceable.
There’s a cause for all this, in response to Nikole Hannah-Jones, the main voice behind the New York Occasions ‘ factually challenged’ 1619 Challenge. Awarded the Freedom of Speech Award by the Roosevelt Institute, her acceptance speech famous that ‘the narrative permits for coverage.’ As a presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg was much more blunt. Gracing the Could 13, 2019, cowl of Time along with his husband, Mr. Buttigieg admitted that ‘the narrative is coverage,’ and ‘narrative is the way you get folks to embrace the insurance policies you’re placing ahead.’
Keep in mind the ‘infrastructure invoice’ filled with social packages? Seventeen Nobel Prize-winning economists—their names are right here—wrote a letter in September 2021 insisting that authorities spending ‘will ease longer-term inflationary pressures.’ I remembered that as I stuffed my automobile with $6.99-a-gallon fuel final week.
Perhaps the intent is to alter the topic. Final week President Biden informed Californians, ‘I’m doing every thing in my energy to blunt Putin’s worth hike and convey down the price of fuel and meals.’ By no means thoughts that costs have been already rising earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine. Mr. Biden additionally informed the United Nations COP26 local weather convention in November that local weather change is ‘an existential risk to human existence as we all know it.’ Actually? By no means belief these pushing narratives that battle with the reality.
One other instance: A New York Occasions columnist final week, talking of the Jan. 6 Committee, wrote, ‘Most political theater is tedious and partisan. Low cost meat for a hungry base. However there are occasions when these theatrics can serve an actual goal for the general public at massive.’ To paraphrase his ideas: Spectacles are helpful, whether or not they’re true or not. Anybody arguing his level shall be flagged on social media for misinformation.
We’re so used to this nonsense that it rolls off our backs. Cuba, Libya, China and Venezuela all sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council. That is thought-about regular. We sigh, shrug our shoulders, and transfer on.
Within the tradition wars, I’m OK with anybody figuring out as something, as long as they don’t make the most of the system—Elizabeth Warren, are you listening? However in March a nominee for Supreme Courtroom Justice refused to reply the query, ‘Are you able to present a definition for the phrase ‘girl’?’ insisting ‘I’m not a biologist.’
A lady named Kellie-Jay Eager, within the stands for a College of Pennsylvania ladies’s swimming meet, acknowledged that 6-foot-4 Lia Thomas wasn’t a girl, and was profiting from the system. One other spectator pushed again and requested, ‘Are you a biologist?’ which now appears to be the established speaking level. I’ll spare you the remainder of the alternate, nevertheless it ended with this zinger from Ms. Eager, ‘Do you depend on silly arguments since you don’t have an argument?’
Narratives have an effect on our lives, and so they aren’t innocent. Take a look at the trouble to advertise and subsequent backfiring of the alphabet soup of ESG, CRT, MMT, BTC and on and on. Advocates use silly arguments—’carbon spewing,’ ‘everybody’s racist,’ ‘free cash,’ ‘fiat hedge’—as a result of they don’t have actual arguments.
Perhaps sanity is returning. Final week the Nonhuman Rights Challenge, which has been making an attempt to ascertain ‘authorized personhood’ for ‘nice apes, elephants, dolphins and whales,’ together with Glad the elephant on the Bronx Zoo, was rebuffed in a 5-2 determination by the New York State Courtroom of Appeals. For now, an elephant is an elephant, not an individual, although elephants are clearly smarter than two dissenting New York state judges and the people on the Nonhuman Rights Challenge.
A bee is a fish, a puddle is a river, protests treatment pandemics, struggle is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is power. Watch out for manipulative narratives.”
