The Week That Was: 2022-10-08 (October 8, 2022)
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The Science and Environmental Coverage Mission
Quote of the Week: “Wherever the actual energy in a Authorities lies, there may be the hazard of oppression.” —James Madison (1788)
Variety of the Week: 1 kt equals 1.15 mph
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Coverage Mission (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW will start with a dialogue of spectroscopy and its broad acceptance in lots of fields of physics in addition to different technical fields of science and its functions. Usually attributed to Newton, over 150 years in the past John Tyndall used spectroscopy to establish why what he known as greenhouse gases stored the Earth heat sufficient to advertise life. Ignored by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC) and the local weather institution, spectroscopy can be utilized to know the greenhouse impact.
SEPP Chairman Thomas Sheahen discusses why the work in atmospheric spectroscopy is stable science, far superior to the work of the IPCC. Sheahen particularly discusses the efforts of Professors William van Wijngaarden and William Happer of their pioneering work in calculating the real-world International Warming Potentials (GWPs) of the 5 commonest Inexperienced-Home Gases (GHGs) and explains why the strategy utilized by IPCC is defective however nonetheless is utilized by its followers such because the US Nationwide Heart for Atmospheric Analysis (NCAR) and the EPA. These defective strategies result in nice exaggeration of the greenhouse impact of carbon dioxide, methane, and different minor greenhouse gases.
Following the defective strategy utilized by the IPCC, western Europe has adopted power insurance policies that President Putin of Russia exploited in his assault of Ukraine. Western Europe largely deserted coal and exploration for oil and fuel in favor of importing pure fuel from Russia. John Constable particulars why western Europe, significantly the UK, should change its eager about fossil fuels, or endure vital financial and human hurt.
Highlighting the phantasm that unreliable wind and solar energy can exchange dependable thermal energy, Francis Menton discusses that the Biden Administration is following the identical path to financial and human hurt adopted by the UK and Germany. Menton brings up an in depth report by Joseph Toomey on the ideologically pushed Biden administration.
Over fifty-five years in the past, President Johnson dedicated floor troops into Vietnam and elevated the army draft. Of their local weather motion plans the Air Power and the Military reveal comparable vanity and ignorance of the enemy they demonstrated fifty-five years in the past.
Recognized as a “planning engineer” on Judith Curry’s weblog, a person discusses sensible explanation why photo voltaic and wind energy should not an answer to local weather change. They turn out to be an growing drawback in making an attempt to dependable and reasonably priced electrical energy as extra photo voltaic and wind are added to the system.
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Spectroscopy: The outline of spectroscopy in Britannica begins with the:
“…research of the absorption and emission of sunshine and different radiation by matter, as associated to the dependence of those processes on the wavelength of the radiation. Extra not too long ago, the definition has been expanded to incorporate the research of the interactions between particles comparable to electrons, protons, and ions, in addition to their interplay with different particles as a perform of their collision power. Spectroscopic evaluation has been essential within the improvement of probably the most elementary theories in physics, together with quantum mechanics, the particular and basic theories of relativity, and quantum electrodynamics. Spectroscopy, as utilized to high-energy collisions, has been a key software in creating scientific understanding not solely of the electromagnetic power but in addition of the robust and weak nuclear forces.
“Spectroscopic methods have been utilized in nearly all technical fields of science and know-how. Radio-frequency spectroscopy of nuclei in a magnetic discipline has been employed in a medical approach known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to visualise the inner mushy tissue of the physique with unprecedented decision. Microwave spectroscopy was used to find the so-called three-degree blackbody radiation, the remnant of the massive bang…”
This broadly used and exact methodology to understanding vital components of the bodily world is ignored by the local weather institution as a result of it produces testable outcomes that local weather bureaucracies don’t want to see – that after water vapor is taken into account, greenhouse gases have a minor impression on local weather and are overwhelmed by pure adjustments. The larger the higher is the underlying aim of bureaucracies. If the work of William van Wijngaarden and William Happer utilizing the high-resolution transmission molecular absorption database (HITRAN) turns into well-known, funding of the good local weather bureaucracies will turn out to be troublesome to acquire. So, these bureaucracies sacrifice buying data of the bodily world in favor of funding.
[Note: the 1979 Charney report attempted to intensify the known weak influence of carbon dioxide by claiming, without evidence, its influence would be amplified by water vapor. This claim appears in general circulation models (global climate models); however, the physical evidence to validate the claim is still missing. See links under Challenging the Bureaucracy and https://www.britannica.com/science/spectroscopy
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The Real Atmosphere: In “Methane: The Irrelevant Greenhouse Gas” SEPP Chairman Thomas Sheahen explains the procedural flaws used by the IPCC and its followers in overemphasizing the importance of carbon dioxide and methane in influencing global temperatures and climate. He reviews the work of van Wijngaarden and Happer and explains why they got it right – adhered to the scientific method rather than producing what is politically popular.
Sheahen explains that the real atmosphere contains water vapor. If we are to understand how human additions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases affect the atmosphere we must understand the actual atmosphere. However, the “US Standard Atmosphere” is without water vapor and therefore is unrealistic. It is an artificial construct of little value in understanding what will happen with human additions of greenhouse gases. Furthermore, Sheahen notes that the calculations of van Wijngaarden and Happer are for a simple gaseous atmosphere, one in which clouds and aerosols (atmospheric particles) do not inhibit electromagnetic energy passing through it. Thus, it is also an idealized concept; however, overall clouds and aerosols have a cooling effect. Consequently, the calculations by van Wijngaarden and Happer reveal the maximum possible influence of increasing greenhouse gases – an upper bound or limit. Larger estimates are an exaggeration without support of physical evidence.
As he did in his presentation at the last Heartland conference, Sheahen shows the stunning agreement between the calculations of van Wijngaarden and Happer (W & H) with satellite observations of outgoing infrared radiation emitted by the earth going to space. Three very different regions of the globe appear: Deserts (Sahara); Temperate regions (Mediterranean); and Polar regions (Antarctica)
Sheahen’s major point is that, because of the exceptionally good agreement between observational data and the calculations of W & H, we conclude that their model has now been validated. That embodies the scientific method. In that case, it is reasonable to use it to study other hypothetical cases. It is not possible to do so with IPCC models, which have never achieved agreement with observation.
Thanks to this agreement, one can compute the maximum of what will happen with an increase in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Showing the difference between the idealized Planck curve for blackbody radiation (no internal heat source such as what occurs in stars) and the Schwarzschild curve for actual (observed) radiation, Sheahen shows that a doubling of carbon dioxide in the actual atmosphere has a minor effect on temperatures. A doubling of methane has an even smaller effect on temperatures.
Sheahen explains that the influence of carbon dioxide (CO2) is very small because at its current level it is extremely saturated. As carbon dioxide increases it effectiveness in warming declines. This decline begins immediately. Sheahen shows the calculations in twenty parts per million (ppm) increments, the current concentration is over 410 ppm. In today’s atmosphere the influence of CO2 is small.
In explaining what this means Sheahen states:
“• If CO2 were zero, it would make a big difference (about 25%), and the earth would be cooler
• If CO2 were doubled, it would make a very small difference
• CH4 and N2O are extremely hard to find on any graph. Clearly, their contribution to the greenhouse effect is trivial
• Molecules of tiny concentration have even less effect – example of HFCs, with extremely high GWP [Global Warming Potential] numbers”
To Sheahen, the scientific implications are:
• Settlement between idea and experiment is the hallmark of fine science
• The tactic of van Wijngaarden & Happer meets that criterion
• It’s far superior to the GCM outcomes featured in IPCC studies, which all the time predict too excessive temperatures.
• Extra CO2 makes solely a tiny distinction
• Extra N2O [Nitrous oxide] or CH4 [Methane] is tinier nonetheless, far lower than CO2’s impact
He provides the coverage implications:
- Acknowledge that van Wijngaarden and Happer “Received it Proper”
- Reject the phrases of the IPCC and its Abstract for Policymakers.
- There may be NO local weather emergency!
- Lowering greenhouse gases can’t cease the ever-changing local weather, due to this fact costly mitigation actions are a waste of assets.
TWTW provides that slides exhibiting the Planck and Schwarzschild curves present giant ranges in wavelengths (frequencies) the place greenhouse gases have little or no impression on outgoing infrared radiation. About one-sixth of the infrared power to house passes via the environment unimpeded and including CO2 and different greenhouse gases doesn’t change these ranges. It’s in these wavelengths (frequencies) that optical rangefinders, night-vision googles, and infrared (heat-seeking) guided missiles function, and so they clearly work. But, they’re ignored by those that claims greenhouse gases entice warmth. See Difficult the Orthodoxy.
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Scientific Freedom of Inquiry: Individually, Kenneth Richard presents a research revealed by the Joint Institute for Excessive Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences utilizing the HITRAN database. The Russian Academy of Sciences is publishing papers that the US Academy of Sciences and its followers refuse to the touch for political causes. Is scientific freedom of inquiry better in Russia than within the US? See Fashions v. Observations.
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Street to Destruction? Europe, significantly the UK and Germany, are additional in direction of the imaginary aim of Internet Zero carbon dioxide emissions than the US. John Constable has studied the issue for UK’s Internet Zero Watch. Within the abstract of “European Fossil Fuels: Sources and Confirmed Reserves” he writes:
“Europe is within the midst of the worst power disaster for a technology or extra, a disaster that has been within the making for a few years and was starting to turn out to be acute even earlier than the Russian invasion of Ukraine accelerated the method. Mr Putin had a transparent intention to capitalize on the weak spot in European power provide, one thing that has now been made manifest within the intimidatory sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
“There may be little or no that the European states can do within the quick run, however it’s of vital significance that the causes of the present disaster are appropriately recognized, in any other case counterproductive remedial measures will outcome. The naïve, certainly dangerously ignorant and unrealistic conclusion, is that dependence on pure fuel justifies nonetheless better emphasis on renewable power. In reality, it’s the renewables insurance policies have that resulted on this fuel dependency. The power and financial system should have a thermodynamically competent gas someplace within the scheme, and this inevitably has been pure fuel for many European states, since each photo voltaic and wind are of such low entropic high quality that they contribute little or lower than nothing to safety of provide. But, in a weird paradox, European policymakers, notably these of Germany and the European Union, have systematically deprecated fossil fuels since Nineteen Nineties in an effort to grab worldwide management on local weather change, whereas on the similar making the remaining fossil gas of pure fuel the only real thread by which financial and societal stability fingers. Forceful promotion of renewable power via devices coercing customers to purchase its output at above market costs has not solely value European customers an extra €770 billion in subsidies to inexperienced power since 2008, however has discouraged exploration for fossil fuels and the event of accessible assets of coal, oil and pure fuel, and made the European markets more and more depending on imports, imports that have to be purchased on the short-term markets as a result of the output from the wind and photo voltaic fleet varies over all timescales from seconds to a long time. The EU’s coverage couldn’t have been extra damaging to the pursuits of the European states if it has been drafted within the Kremlin itself.” [Boldface added]
Utilizing the BP Statistical Evaluation, Constable estimates the confirmed fossil gas reserves in Europe (not together with Russia) in Reserve/manufacturing ratios are Coal, 299 years; Oil, 10.4 years; and Pure fuel, 14.5 years. He then provides additional particulars earlier than concluding:
“In reviewing the potential of shale fuel to contribute to power safety, in 2014 the European Fee concluded that ‘the volumes produced won’t make Europe self-sufficient in fuel however may assist to scale back costs. That conclusion is clearly appropriate, and applies with equal power to coal, oil, and standard pure fuel assets. No-one would argue from the information reviewed on this research that the European area can turn out to be self-sufficient in fossil power, however it’s equally clear that additional exploration of the very substantial assets of those fuels may enlarge confirmed reserves, improve manufacturing and have a big impact on regional costs and general safety.” See hyperlinks below Vitality Points – Non-US
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Into the Valley: Not like Europe, the US and Canada have ample assets of coal, oil, and pure fuel. However the governments of those nations appeared decided to punish their publics by denying use of those assets on the false claims that carbon dioxide emissions are inflicting a local weather disaster. As mentioned above, W & H and Tom Sheahen reveal the feeble extent of the bodily proof used to assert a local weather disaster.
In discussing the “power insanity” of the Biden administration, Francis Menton mentions a latest research by Joseph Toomey who critiqued the power insurance policies of the Obama administration. President Obama famously bragged that below his insurance policies power costs will skyrocket. They’d have, had he not been stopped by a defeat of the Democrats within the 2010 mid-term election. The Biden administration seems to be decided to implement Obama’s insurance policies. Relating to the piece by Toomy, Menton writes:
“At 35 pages in size, Toomey’s piece is a seemingly countless litany of 1 deliberately harmful coverage after one other. Even for those who comply with this concern often, as I do, you possibly can’t assist however be astounded while you see the complete extent of the destruction organized into one piece. An power infrastructure constructed up over a century and extra that really offers dependable and reasonably priced power to hundreds of thousands of individuals — a real miracle of human ingenuity! — is being systematically and deliberately attacked and wrecked by ignorant fools who do not know how troublesome the prevailing system was to create, and equally do not know how one can make one thing to interchange it that may truly work.” [Boldface added]
Toomey concludes his piece with:
“Assured of the righteousness of that trigger, the Biden group has begun paring again the provision of CO2-emitting fossil gas output right this moment, a long time earlier than the multi-exa- joule-producing low-carbon infrastructure is in place, which is able to presumably act in its place. They’ve pushed us into ‘the power transition’s looming valley of loss of life’ with out a compass, a map, or any concept of how one can escape.”
As his administration was busy with destroying America’s dependable power system, President Biden requested the Saudis to not minimize oil manufacturing as proposed by OPEC+. OPEC+ doubled the minimize. Biden then requested Venezuela, which has already destroyed its oil trade, to broaden its manufacturing. Paradoxically, Venezuela’s oil manufacturing comes from tar sands, which the Greens despise. Menton writes on the dearth of feasibility research demonstrating that wind and solar energy can present dependable and reasonably priced electrical energy:
“Basically the complete developed a part of the world is presently launched into a crash program to get rid of fossil fuels from the power system of the financial system. This system has two major components: first the suppression of the manufacturing and distribution of fossil fuels; and second the development of huge numbers of wind and photo voltaic technology services to interchange them. Each components of this system are presently underway concurrently in all superior nations, as a matter of what we’re informed is the best ethical urgency.” See hyperlinks below Difficult the Orthodoxy and Change in US Administrations.
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Know Your Enemy: In March 1965, President Johnson dedicated 82,000 floor troops into Vietnam. By July, he licensed one other 100,000, then in 1966 one other 100,000. By April 1969, 543,000 American troops had been stationed in Vietnam for a “restricted struggle.” In 1965, Johnson doubled the month-to-month army draft calls to 35,000. The entire drafted in 1965 was 130,991; a 12 months later, the quantity was 382,010. “Know your enemy” is a key precept in army technique. The Division of Protection had no clue.
The Departments of the Military and the Air Power have revealed their strategic plans for “combating” local weather change. Below “Scenario” the Military plan states:
“It has lengthy been acknowledged that the results of local weather change pose a nationwide safety risk. Certainly, local weather change has been described as a “risk multiplier.’ For instance, greater common temperatures and shrinking polar sea ice will open a number of strategic avenues of strategy.”
These Departments haven’t any clue. See hyperlinks below Increasing the Orthodoxy, ‘https://www.historical past.com/matters/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history#:~:textual content=Inpercent20Marchpercent201965percent2Cpercent20Johnsonpercent20made,thepercent20strugglingpercent20Southpercent20Vietnamesepercent20army.
and
https://www.historical past.com/information/vietnam-war-draft-voting-age-26-amendment#:~:textual content=Inpercent201965percent2Cpercent20130percent2C991percent20youngpercent20men,thuspercent20legallypercent20prohibitedpercent20frompercent20voting.
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The Penetration Drawback: The person who’s recognized in Judith Curry’s weblog as “Planning Engineer” provides eight explanation why wind and photo voltaic have a significant drawback that may be summed because the extra you’ve the more serious it will get. The evaluation begins:
“Growing penetration ranges of wind and photo voltaic is sort of a Sisyphean process, besides that it’s worse. The problem could also be higher understood as akin to pushing an enormous rock which is getting heavier and heavier, up a hill of a steeper and steeper slope whereas the bottom beneath will get slicker and extra unstable. The issues related to elevated penetration swamp any potential advantages that could be achieved via economies of scale.
“The majority energy system has historically been robust and really sturdy. There are usually not vital issues related to including small system components (small quantities of wind and photo voltaic) which lean on the system, relatively than assist it. The system has a restricted skill to soak up wind and solar energy and may use it to displace technology which depends on pricey fuels. However at greater penetration ranges this skill is drastically decreased, and the economics can degrade and even reverse. Listed beneath are some explanation why growing the penetration ranges of renewables will result in quickly growing prices in addition to quickly lowering reliability.”
After going via the eight factors and stating they can’t be solved with economies of scale from growing wind and photo voltaic, the evaluation concludes:
“Might nuclear power be a chunk of a decrease carbon emission future? Most actually. Not one of the above considerations apply to nuclear energy. We may see cheaper prices from standardized nuclear services and affordable rules. Hydro too works effectively with the facility system. Sadly, there are negligible to no potential areas to broaden hydro technology. (Be aware-pumped storage is an choice for storing power, however not producing further web power).
“It’s approach too quickly to be envisioning a 100% renewable future with vital contributions from present wind and photo voltaic capabilities. It’s not a great technique to assist present “inexperienced” applied sciences and retire and prohibit typical technology hoping {that a} miracle will happen after we want it. Maybe with the in depth deployment of nuclear energy, carbon seize and different applied sciences we’d have the ability to strategy a zero-carbon grid. At greatest, present wind and photo voltaic applied sciences will play at most a small half in such a plan.”
There might be an extra publish on this concern. See hyperlink below Questioning the Orthodoxy.
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Variety of the Week: 1 kt equals 1.15 mph. One of many issues journalists might have in reporting hurricanes is that always wind pace is reported in knots (kt) whereas most individuals within the US suppose in miles per hour (mph). One knot equals 1.15058 miles per hour. For instance, the Saffir-Simson Hurricane Wind Scale lists a class 4 (main) hurricanes as sustained wind speeds of 130-156 mph; 113-136 kt; 209-251 km/h. [Boldface added]
In a personal communication addressing the wind pace of hurricane Ian, Meteorologist Chuck Wiese wrote that the climate maps confirmed:
“…the strain gradient close to the eyewall supported wind gusts to 148 mph. The central strain was 952 millibars or 28.11 inches of mercury simply earlier than landfall measured by an plane reconnaissance dropsonde. That’s concerning the excessive finish of common for hurricanes of this power, however gusts of wind at 148 mph produce catastrophic injury as that wind hitting a sq. foot of floor space going through the wind would have a power performing on it of 103 kilos.” [Boldface added]
“As unhealthy as all that is, Hurricane Ian is not any extra lethal than many different hurricanes from the Atlantic and Caribbean have been within the information.”
The distinction between sustained wind speeds and gusts can be an issue amongst journalists. See https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php
Commentary: Is the Solar Rising?
Floor Temperature Response to Photo voltaic EMR at High of the Environment
By Richard Willoughby, WUWT, Oct 4, 2022
Censorship
“We personal the Science” brags UN chief who works with Google to suppress local weather skeptics
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Oct 3, 2022
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 International 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
International Sea-Degree Rise: An Analysis of the Knowledge
By Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Coverage Temporary, Could 20, 2019
Dependence of Earth’s Thermal Radiation on 5 Most Ample Greenhouse Gases
By W. A. van Wijngaarden & W. Happer Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, 2020
https://wvanwijngaarden.information.yorku.ca/information/2020/12/WThermal-Radiationf.pdf?x45936
Relative Efficiency of Greenhouse Molecules
By W. A. van Wijngaarden & W. Happer Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, 2021
https://wvanwijngaarden.information.yorku.ca/information/2021/03/WPotency.pdf?x45936
Methane: The Irrelevant Greenhouse Fuel
By Thomas P. Sheahen, ICSF & CLINTEL, Sep 21, 2022
Slides and Video
Dr. Willie Quickly Interviewed by Professor Franco Battaglia: October 7, 2022 La Verita Newspaper
By Charles Rotter, WUWT, Oct 7, 2022
Textual content with hyperlinks to video clips
A Complete Roundup Of Official Vitality Insanity
By Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, Oct 6, 2022
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2022-10-5-a-comprehensive-roundup-of-official-energy-madness
Present and Rising Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Pose No Risk to Human Well being
By Craig D. Idso, Grasp Useful resource, Oct 3, 2022
With out Any Demonstration Mission Or Feasibility Research
By Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, Oct 2, 2022
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2022-10-2-without-a-demonstration-project-or-feasibility-study
Day Two CPAC Australia: Zuby, Alan Jones, and Local weather Hysteria
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 2, 2022
“There’s no emergency” – dissident climatologist Dr Judith Curry on the ‘manufactured scientific consensus’ on local weather change
By Nadya Swart, BizNews, Oct 5, 2022
However… however… peer overview!!!
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 5, 2022
“In a society during which belief in established establishments is quickly declining, it’s commendable that these concerned are taking vigorous steps. And as we famous, Hindawi is just not some sloppy outlier. Wiley has contacted different publishers and organizations, presumably not simply to warn them of the issues they’ve present in their very own work however to warning them to take a detailed have a look at their very own.”
Defending the Orthodoxy
UN Declares: ‘We personal the science’ & ‘the world ought to understand it’ so ‘we partnered with Google’ to make sure solely UN local weather outcomes seem
By Marc Morano, Local weather Depot, Oct 2, 2022
https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/10/02/un-official-we-own-the-science-the-world-should-know-it-so-we-partnered-with-google-to-ensure-only-un-climate-results-appear/?mc_cid=747c92fd0a&mc_eid=ffd82d3222
Who owns Science?
By John Hinderaker, Energy Line, Oct 3, 2022
“Science is a technique that may, in precept, be practiced by anybody. So nobody can ‘personal’ it. However don’t inform that to the United Nations and the World Financial Discussion board.
US wind, photo voltaic tripled over the previous decade: evaluation
By Sharon Udasin, The Hill, Oct 6, 2022
Hyperlink to: Renewables On The Rise Dashboard
America now will get greater than 3 times as a lot energy from the wind, the solar and the earth as we did in 2012, with all 50 states now seeing clear power progress.
By Johanna Neumann, et al. Surroundings America, Accessed Oct 8, 2022
[SEPP Comment: Why do they need subsidies?]
Defending the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science
A Likelihood to Revive and Decarbonize American Manufacturing
By Dennis Blair & Joe Quinn, Actual Clear Vitality, Oct 04, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/04/a_chance_to_revive_and_decarbonize_american_manufacturing_857227.html
[SEPP Comment: Massive subsidies won’t make aluminum smelters run 24/7 on wind and solar power.]
Local weather change made 2022’s northern-hemisphere droughts ‘a minimum of 20 instances’ extra doubtless
By Ayeshan Tandon, Carbon Temporary, Oct 5, 2022
Hyperlink to full research: Excessive temperatures exacerbated by local weather change made 2022 Northern Hemisphere droughts extra doubtless
By Dominik Schumacher, et al, World Climate Attribution, Oct 5, 2022
From the article: “(The findings are but to be revealed in a peer-reviewed journal. Nonetheless, the strategies used within the evaluation have been revealed in earlier attribution research.)”
[SEPP Comment: As Ross McKitrick has shown, these attribution studies are a statistical joke!]
Irrelevant to world decarbonisation? No, Australia’s essential to it
By Peter Hartcher, The Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 4, 2022, [H/t WUWT]
https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/irrelevant-to-global-decarbonisation-no-australia-s-crucial-to-it-20221003-p5bmnv.html
Hyperlink to ebook: The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia’s Zero-Carbon Future
Edited by Ross Garnaut, Clean Inc Books, 20222
https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/superpower-transformation
25 myths about excessive climate, refuted
With Hurricane Ian, the media have as soon as once more put ahead the narrative that fossil fuels make excessive climate hazard worse—and that fossil gas supporters like Governor Ron Desantis are in charge.
By Alex Epstein, His Weblog, Oct 5, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/25-myths-about-extreme-weather-refuted?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=513601&post_id=76614692&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=e mail
American Vitality for Grownups
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Sep 29, 2022
Video
The Penetration Drawback. Half I: Wind and Photo voltaic – The Extra You Do, The Tougher It Will get
By Planning Engineer, Local weather And many others. Oct 3, 2022
Now’s no time for quitting
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 5, 2022
“The actual level is that it’s only by giving in to a temptation that we might uncover what disappointment and even catastrophe lurks behind its alluring façade.”
After Paris!
Twenty seventh Faux Local weather Convention
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Oct 4, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/Twenty seventh-pretend-climate-conference/
[SEPP Comment: Is Putin attending?]
Webinar: Will ‘loss and injury’ be the defining concern at COP27?
By A number of Authors, Carbon Temporary, Sep 30, 2022
27 Years Of UN “Local weather Negotiations”
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Oct 4, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/27-years-of-un-climate-negotiations/
AEP Desires Charles To Marketing campaign At COP27
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, Oct 7, 2022
“AEP, who chickened out of my problem of a debate, loses the plot once more!”
“’ King Charles ought to attend the COP27 local weather summit in Egypt subsequent month as sovereign of Tuvalu, a cluster of Pacific atolls sinking underwater.
“’He ought to go as King of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, and in spirit as King of Scotland, all nations with enthusiastic net-zero leaders. He ought to attend too as titular head of these Commonwealth states that pleaded most vehemently for CO2 and methane cuts finally 12 months’s local weather summit in Glasgow.’”
Was that it?
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 5, 2022
“They insist that ‘We have to put folks on the coronary heart of our local weather transition. Insurance policies should promote prosperity for all folks, and enterprise methods should assist all of society. The rewards of investing in folks, fairness and justice are clear.’ Simply that?”
[SEPP Comment: NYC climate week was Sep 10-25. NYC and the UN huffed and puffed, and the world yawned, except for yellow media.]
Change in US Administrations
Biden ‘disenchanted’ by OPEC+ resolution to chop oil manufacturing
By Brett Samuels, The Hill, Oct 5, 2022
[SEPP Comment: As the Biden administration controls on oil and gas production that pushes up prices, why shouldn’t OPEC+ join in?]
OPEC+ broadcasts 2 million-barrel manufacturing minimize
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, Oct 5, 2022
“Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan and Nationwide Financial Council Director Brian Deese mentioned in a press release.
“’In gentle of right this moment’s motion, the Biden Administration may even seek the advice of with Congress on further instruments and authorities to scale back OPEC’s management over power costs.’”
[SEPP Comment: Look into a mirror!]
The Saudis Snub Biden Once more
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, Oct 6, 2022
From the Wall Avenue Journal
Searching for a Widespread Floor
Advanced spatio-temporal construction of the Holocene Thermal Most
By Olivier Cartapanis, et al., Nature Communications, Oct 3, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33362-1
From the summary: “Local weather reconstructions counsel an early-middle Holocene Thermal Most (HTM) adopted by gradual cooling, whereas local weather fashions point out steady warming.”
“Continental proxy information at mid and excessive latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere painting a “traditional” HTM (8–4 ka). In distinction, marine proxy information from the identical latitudes reveal an earlier HTM (11–7ka), whereas a transparent temperature anomaly is lacking within the tropics.”
[SEPP Comment: Boldface added. Just as Richard Lindzen has stated: the tropics are stable and it is the warming and cooling outside the tropics that is important.]
Unique: Hindawi and Wiley to retract over 500 papers linked to look overview rings
By Employees, Retraction Watch, Sep 28, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
https://retractionwatch.com/2022/09/28/exclusive-hindawi-and-wiley-to-retract-over-500-papers-linked-to-peer-review-rings/
Unique: PLOS ONE to retract greater than 100 papers for manipulated peer overview
By Employees, Retraction Watch, Aug 3, 2022 [H/t Jim Buel]
https://retractionwatch.com/2022/08/03/exclusive-plos-one-to-retract-more-than-100-papers-for-manipulated-peer-review/
New Local weather Software
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Oct 4, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/new-climate-tool-2/
No, Climatologists Did Not “Neglect the Solar Was Shining”
By Roy Spencer, His Weblog, Oct 4, 2022
Lord Monckton Responds to Spencer’s Critique
By Lord Monckton, Through Roy Spencer’s Weblog, Oct 5, 2022
Science, Coverage, and Proof
Internet Zero Watch welcomes ‘essential intervention’ by Steve Baker
Press Launch, Internet Zero Watch, Oct 3, 2022
Fashions v. Observations
The Assumption CO2 Drives Local weather Change Is Contradicted By Observations
By Kenneth Richard, No Methods Zone, Oct 6, 2022
Hyperlink to paper: Issues in International Atmospheric Energetics of the Environment
By B. M. Smirnov, Joint Institute for Excessive Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Excessive Temperature, 2021
https://hyperlink.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0018151X21030123
From the Summary: The inconsistency of climatological fashions of adjustments within the world temperature on account of a rise within the focus of carbon dioxide, that are the idea of the Paris Agreements on Local weather, has been demonstrated. Using these fashions is predicated on the idea that the spectra of carbon dioxide and water molecules don’t overlap, which contradicts each the information ensuing from measurements with NASA packages and calculations primarily based on the spectroscopic parameters of molecules from the HITRAN knowledge financial institution.
New Research Affirms Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Play No Function In Larsen Ice Shelf Soften
By Kenneth Richard, No Methods Zone, Oct 3, 2022
A 20-12 months Research of Soften Processes Over Larsen C Ice Shelf Utilizing a Excessive-Decision Regional Atmospheric Mannequin: 2. Drivers of Floor Melting
By E. Gilbert, et al. Journal of Geophysical Analysis: Atmospheres, Apr 14, 2022
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JD036012
Measurement Points — Floor
Tokyo Imply September Temperatures Have Seen No Warming In 34 Years, JMA Knowledge Present
By P Gosselin, No Methods Zone, Oct 7, 2022
Charts produced by Kirye
[SEPP Comment: Wonder how they compare with NOAA and NASA temperatures?]
Measurement Points — Environment
UAH International Temperature Replace for September 2022: +0.24 deg. C
By Roy Spencer, His Weblog, Oct 3, 2022
Hyperlink to International Temperature Report
By Employees, Earth System Science Heart, The College of Alabama in Huntsville, September 2022
Map: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/local weather/2022/September2022/202209_Map.png
Graph: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/local weather/2022/AUGUST2022/202208_Bar.png
Textual content: Incorrectly recognized as August: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/local weather/2022/September2022/GTR_202209Sep_1.pdf
Altering Climate
Did International Warming Make Hurricane Ian Intensify Quicker than Regular?
By Neil L. Frank [former head of the US National Hurricane Center], WUWT, Oct 6, 2022
“Buried within the midst of all these claims is a logical fallacy — the fallacy of speculation opposite to truth. We merely have no idea if Hurricane Ian would have been weaker, or would have intensified extra slowly, within the absence of world warming. Why not? As a result of it didn’t happen within the absence of world warming.
“What we do know is that hurricanes had been a minimum of as frequent and highly effective earlier than the present interval of world warming as they’ve been throughout it — certainly, we all know they had been truly extra frequent and extra highly effective.”
Climate Disasters Wrongly Linked To International Warming By Two Worldwide Businesses
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, Oct 4, 2022
Everyone is aware of: Hurricane Ian exhibits local weather change is making the climate worse
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 5, 2022
“Many hurricanes shaped however fizzled out earlier than they made landfall. Pointing to 1 storm in a single place that matches the narrative and ignoring all of the others and all of the areas that don’t isn’t science, it’s ambulance-chasing. ‘Everyone is aware of; it doesn’t rely while you solely predict one thing after it already occurred.”
Shellenberger: Media Is Mendacity About Local weather & Hurricanes
By Michael Shellenberger, Through Zero Hedge, Oct 4, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.zerohedge.com/climate/shellenberger-media-lying-about-climate-hurricanes
97% Of Scientists Agree
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Oct 7, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/97-of-scientists-agree/
Altering Seas
Corals move mutations acquired throughout their lifetime to offspring
Researchers doc for the primary time that corals can move mutations acquired throughout their lifetime to their offspring
Press Launch, By Employees, NSF, Oct 4, 2022
https://beta.nsf.gov/information/corals-pass-mutations-acquired-during-their-lifetime-offspring?utm_medium=e mail&utm_source=govdelivery
Hyperlink to paper: Inheritance of somatic mutations by animal offspring
By Kate Vasquez-Kuntz, et al, Science Advances, Aug 31, 2022
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn0707
[SEPP Comment: Global warming will not kill off all the coral after all? It hasn’t in millions of years. Somatic mutation is passing on changes in DNA after fertilization. It can occur with cell division.]
Transgenerational acclimation to warming of a reef fish
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 5, 2022
From the CO2Science Archive
ZERO Change within the Charge of Sea Degree Rise — for All of Recorded Historical past
By Jeff Id, The Air Vent, Oct 2, 2022 [H/t Stu Cvrk]
[SEPP Comment: From tidal gages from about 1850.]
Altering Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice
New polar bear looking habitat forming already alongside the coast of the Laptev Sea: A brand new pattern?
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Oct 6, 2022
Excellent news replace out of W Hudson Bay: fats polar bears are behaving themselves
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Oct 4, 2022
Acidic Waters
Declare: Scientists discover hyperlink between fast-melting Arctic ice and ocean acidification
By Charles Rotter, WUWT, Oct 2, 2022
Hyperlink to paper: Local weather change drives fast decadal acidification within the Arctic Ocean from 1994 to 2020
By Di Qi, et al. AAAS Science, Sep 29, 2022
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0383
[SEPP Comment: Melting ice drives acidification?]
Reducing Requirements
Local weather change and the risk to civilization
By Daniel Metal, et al., PNAS, Oct 6, 2022
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2210525119
“There may be, in sum, no stable foundation at current for dismissing the damaged world and world collapse as too unlikely to benefit severe consideration. Given the ethical and sensible significance of those eventualities, we consider that science ought to endeavor to study extra about mechanisms that may result in them.”
[SEPP Comment: There is no solid basis for claiming a broken world and global collapse unless it is led by governments that believe this non-science.]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Yellow (Inexperienced) Journalism?
Lengthy reside the King, supplied…
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 5, 2022
“The accession of Charles III to the throne of Nice Britain, Canada and 13 different locations introduced the same old ill-tempered sniping concerning the constitutional monarchy that has been the origin of the one functioning techniques of self-government humanity has ever seen. As an illustration ‘The Industrial Revolution was born in England within the 18th century and so, in a way, was local weather change…’”
[SEPP Comment: If journalists such as those for the NYT think subsistence living is divine, they should try it for a few years.]
Washington Put up Vs. Science
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Oct 5, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/washington-post-vs-science/
Speaking Higher to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Imprecise?
The Atlantic: The Inflation Discount Act has Unleashed “Uncapped” Spending on Local weather Change
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 6, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Make issues up.
EWG And Carey Gillam Preserve Mendacity About Glyphosate
By Cameron English, ACSH, Sep 26, 2022
https://www.acsh.org/information/2022/09/26/ewg-and-carey-gillam-keep-lying-about-glyphosate-16575
How Local weather Change Is Quickly Fueling Tremendous Hurricanes
By Employees, Society of Environmental Journalists, Sep 30, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-climate-change-rapidly-fueling-super-hurricanes
Speaking Higher to the Public – Do a Ballot?
Extra On How Peer Evaluation Generates And Maintains Consensuses
By Matt Briggs, His Weblog, Oct 5, 2022 [H/t John Dunn]
“Paper’s title is ‘Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused world warming’, in Environmental Analysis Letters, by Consultants John Cook dinner, Naomi Oreskes and lots of others.
“The opening sentence proves my rivalry that peer overview enforces conformity:
“’The consensus that people are inflicting latest world warming is shared by 90%–100% of publishing local weather scientists in line with six unbiased research by co-authors of this paper.’”
[SEPP Comment: And the physical evidence says?]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Propaganda
UK Left Behind, As China and India Cost Forward, Says The Delusional AEP
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, Oct 7, 2022
[SEPP Comment: Comparing actual generation by source to claimed generation]
‘Greenwashing’ Company Income amid Political, Media Strain (it’s what you get …)
By Robert Bradley Jr., Grasp Useful resource, Oct 6, 2022
Carbon Offsets: Need to Get Sued? (greenwashing as illegality)
By Robert Bradley Jr, Grasp Useful resource, Oct 5, 2022
Carbon Offsets: Difficult Math
By Robert Bradley Jr., Grasp Useful resource, Oct 4, 2022
Truth Checking BBC’s Hurricane “Actuality” Test
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, Oct 2, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Protest
Berlin Antifa Group “Goes On Hunt” For Excessive Vitality Customers… Heated Swimming pools “Instantly Collectivized”
By P Gosselin, No Methods Zone, Oct 2, 2022
Increasing the Orthodoxy
Air Power, Military launch local weather motion plans
By Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, Oct 5, 2022
Hyperlink to: Division of the Air Power Local weather Motion Plan
By Employees, Division of the Air Power, Oct 2022
https://www.safie.hq.af.mil/Portals/78/paperwork/Local weather/DAFpercent20Climatepercent20Actionpercent20Planpercent20-%20FINALpercent20Octpercent202022.pdf?ver=DlO9-iuR2jejlLhQ_5YKxwpercent3dpercent3d
Military Releases New Plan to ‘Mitigate’ Local weather Change – Protection Sec Austin: The U.S. Military must ‘instantly take acceptable coverage actions to prioritize local weather change’
From Local weather Depot, Through WUWT, Oct 7, 2022
Hyperlink to: Military Local weather Technique, Implementation Plan, FY 2023-2027
[SEPP Comment: Military leaders in Russia and China must love this!]
ESG and Company Totalitarianism
By David Hoyt, American Thinker, Sep 4, 2022
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/esg_and_corporate_totalitarianism_.html
DOE takes step to advance Protection Manufacturing Act use for clear power
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Oct 3, 2022
“The Protection Manufacturing Act provides the president the authority to mobilize a sure trade in an effort to advance nationwide safety.”
[SEPP Comment: We need jet fighters using wind turbines for power?]
PRESS RELEASE: Monetary Stability Oversight Council Establishes New Local weather-related Monetary Threat Advisory Committee
U.S. Division of the Treasury, Oct 3, 2022
https://dwelling.treasury.gov/information/press-releases/jy0987
Questioning European Inexperienced
The buffoon delivering a everlasting power disaster
By Andrew Montford, The Conservative Girl [UK] Oct 4, 2022
“In different phrases, Sir John’s concepts will ship a everlasting power disaster and an important despair. It’s not more than you’ll anticipate from such an epitome of the British institution: urbane, erudite, a consummate networker. And completely incompetent.”
Questioning Inexperienced Elsewhere
The Coming Inexperienced Electrical energy Nightmare
A whole lot of billions in new subsidies will deliver costly, unreliable, eco-destructive energy
By Paul Driessen, WUWT, Oct 2, 2022
Inexperienced Jobs
Unique: GE lays off staff at onshore wind unit as a part of turnaround technique
By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Liz Hampton, Reuters, Oct 5, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
[SEPP Comment: If it wasn’t for the subsidies, no one would be “investing” in wind power.]
Funding Points
Thurrock Council set to borrow practically £850m to repay photo voltaic farm money owed
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, Oct 6, 2022
“I discover it very unusual!
“The renewable foyer has been telling us for years that wind and solar energy are the most affordable type of technology. Certainly these photo voltaic power investments ought to have been turning an enormous revenue?”
[SEPP Comment: Don’t believe the greens?]
The Political Video games Proceed
And so it begins
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 5, 2022
Litigation Points
Supreme Courtroom weighs redefining clear water rules
By Rachel Frazin and John Kruzel, The Hill, Oct 3, 2022
[SEPP Comment: The issue is more the expansion of powers by government agencies than clean waters. Does a pile of wet leaves constitute navigable water of the US?]
EPA and different Regulators on the March
EPA proposes deeming lead in aviation gas a hazard to public well being
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Oct 7, 2022
“Lead is utilized in gas for piston-engine plane, that are often small planes that carry between two and 10 folks.”
Vitality Points – Non-US
Europe should exploit its fossil gas assets or face financial relegation to second world standing
Press Launch, Internet Zero Watch, Oct 7, 2022
Hyperlink to paper: European Fossil Fuels: Sources and Confirmed Reserves
By John Constable, Internet Zero Watch, 2022
What blackouts may do to German electronics
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 5, 2022
[SEPP Comment: Forget modern manufacturing.]
Nord Stream Blasts Level to Coal and Oil as European Resolution
By Vijay Jayaraj, Actual Clear Vitality, Oct 5, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/05/nord_stream_blasts_point_to_coal_and_oil_as_european_solution_857399.html
Nord Stream blasts equal to a number of hundred kilos of TNT: report
By AFP Employees Writers, Copenhagen, Sept 30, 2022
https://www.oilgasdaily.com/studies/Nord_Stream_blasts_equal_to_several_hundred_kilos_of_TNT_report_999.html
In a nasty state of affairs there are not any good strikes: What the UK ought to (however won’t) do to handle the power disaster
Editorial, Internet Zero Watch, Oct 4, 2022
“This disaster could be very unlikely to be resolved quickly, for the reason that causes are basically political, but Europe’s politicians, and the UK is not any exception, can’t deliver themselves to confess that the renewable power obsession of local weather insurance policies within the final thirty years are in charge for the present over-exposure to pure fuel.”
Germany Is Operating Out Of Electrical energy
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, Oct 5, 2022
“In the meantime Germany’s power future more and more resembles enjoying Russian Roulette with a completely loaded gun!”
Stark contrasts: UK faces rolling three hour blackouts, whereas Norway has low-cost electrical energy and “too many income”
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Oct 7, 2022
“The Norwegian Greens name their very own authorities “Battle Profiteers” for taking care of their senior residents. They are saying they need peace, however don’t notice that power insecurity is a weapon of struggle.”
[SEPP Comment: Are Norwegian Greens climate “war profiteers?”]
Vitality Points – Australia
Australia’s assets income to hit report amid Ukraine battle
By Sonali Paul, Reuters, Oct 3, 2022 [H/t Dennis Ambler]
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/australias-resources-revenue-hit-record-amid-ukraine-conflict-2022-10-03/
Vitality Points — US
Individuals are staring down elevated heating prices as winter approaches
By Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Oct 5, 2022
“Costs additionally might not essentially be the identical throughout the U.S. Each [commentators] Fell and Kim agreed that the Northeast could also be hit hardest because it doesn’t have as a lot infrastructure comparable to pipelines.”
Run, Don’t Stroll, to Inform Authorities We Want Inexpensive Vitality
By David Holt, Actual Clear Vitality, Oct 4, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/04/run_dont_walk_to_tell_government_we_need_affordable_energy_856953.html
Joe Biden’s Advert Hoc Use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Maybe surprisingly, there’s a severe effectivity argument in favor of it.
By Benjamin Zycher, Actual Clear Vitality, Oct 06, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/06/joe_bidens_ad_hoc_use_of_the_strategic_petroleum_reserve_857624.html
Street To Nowhere, Half 2 – Oil Costs Have Moved Decrease With SPR Releases, However Manufacturing Nonetheless Lags
By Jason Lindquist, RBN Vitality, Oct 4, 2022
https://rbnenergy.com/road-to-nowhere-part-2-oil-prices-have-moved-lower-with-spr-releases-but-production-still-lags
“Given all of the complicating components, one may argue that the technique of utilizing the SPR to take care of this 12 months’s market turmoil has been a certified success, a minimum of in terms of costs, though it’s unimaginable to say how large an element the releases performed. However the potential of a worldwide provide hole nonetheless exists as a result of manufacturing progress has been stalled for a lot of this 12 months and the SPR’s decrease volumes imply it’s not more likely to be ready to assist a lot with a future worth spike as soon as the present releases finish.”
Renewables Subsidies and the Institutionalization of Irresponsibility
By Benjamin Zycher, Actual Clear Vitality, Oct 5, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/05/renewables_subsidies_and_the_institutionalization_of_irresponsibility_857240.html
“Enter the perverse incentives attendant upon federal subsidies. Within the wake of Hurricane Maria and the Covid downturn, USVI/WAPA has obtained since 2017 over $8 billion from the federal authorities, together with huge quantities for a transition to a 100% solar energy system.”
[SEPP Comment: Does the governor of the Virgin Islands really believe that people do not use electricity at night?]
Oil and Pure Fuel – the Future or the Previous?
The Permian Basin: The present that retains on giving!
By David Middleton, WUWT, Oct 4, 2022
“In contrast with different U.S. basins, the Permian Basin advantages from decrease operational prices, higher entry to oilfield companies, and its proximity to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries and export services.”
Nuclear Vitality and Fears
Jesse Ausubel, One Of America’s High Thinkers On Science and Vitality, Wins Nierenberg Prize
By Robert Bryce, Actual Clear Vitality, Oct 06, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/06/jesse_ausubel_one_of_americas_top_thinkers_on_science_and_energy_wins_nierenberg_prize_857626.html
Various, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Photo voltaic and Wind
A Few Graphs Say It All for Climate-Dependent “Renewables”
By Ed Hoskins, Edmhodotme, Through WUWT, Oct 5, 2022
Various, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Vitality — Different
Temporary on Waste to Liquid Gas Idea
By Kevin Loughrey, Ballina Australia, Accessed Oct 8, 2022
https://kevinloughrey.com.au/Waste2Energy/Idea.html
Drax Is Burning Virgin Forest
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, Oct 3, 2022
“Drax runs Britain’s greatest energy station, which burns hundreds of thousands of tonnes of imported wooden pellets – which is classed as renewable power.
“The BBC has found a few of the wooden comes from major forests in Canada.
“The corporate says it solely makes use of sawdust and waste wooden.”
“Bioenergy accounts for 13% of the UK’s electrical energy technology, which is greater than onshore wind.”
Various, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Automobiles
Can Battery-Powered Automobiles Compete?
By Donn Dears, Energy For USA, Oct 5, 2022
Additional remark by Dears on the price of changing the facility practice:
“One other approach to take a look at the difficulty, is to match the facility practice with the battery pack that’s changing it.
The facility practice [of an ICE] lasts for 12 years, or 150,000 miles and prices round $7,000, whereas the preliminary battery pack lasts for 8 years, or 100,000 miles, and prices round $9,000. The worth for a alternative battery pack, together with the markup (and utilizing the worth charged for a alternative battery pack for a Bolt) is round $16,000.
The difficulty is how one can account for the fee variations when a BEV is offered?
Even when the excessive value of a alternative battery pack is ignored, it’s clear that there’s a value differential between an influence practice and a battery pack over their lives.
This value differential needs to be accounted for when a used BEV is offered.
The article approached the difficulty in a method, whereas there are different methods of doing so.”
Accelerating the Way forward for Trucking and Electrical Transportation
By Dan Bowermaster & Watson Collins, Actual Clear Vitality, Oct 04, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/04/accelerating_the_future_of_trucking_and_electric_transportation_857171.html
“In June 2021, the North American Council for Freight Effectivity’s Run on Much less – Electrical (RoL-E) demonstration featured 13 vehicles driving precise routes and carrying actual freight. The demonstration confirmed that some electrical Heavy-Responsibility autos aren’t simply on the horizon – they’re already right here; the truth is, roughly 50 p.c of Heavy-Responsibility Class 8 Vans and all Medium-Responsibility field vehicles will be electrified with battery know-how that exists right this moment.”
[SEPP Comment: At what cost?]
Individuals’ assist for Biden’s electrical automobile push is sort of zero
President’s agenda ‘absurd and utterly indifferent from sensible actuality’
By Bob Unruh, WND, Oct 4, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
New York Zero Emission Automobile Mandate
By Roger Caiazza, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York, Sep 30, 2022 [H/t WUWT]
California Dreaming
“Eat your coronary heart out Fox Information,” says Newsom, signing local weather settlement with West Coast governors
California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia comply with extra electrical autos, renewable power, forest remedies
By Paul Rogers, The Mercury Information, Oct 6, 2022 [H/t Bob Zybach]
Hyperlink to the: Pacific Coast Collaborative
By Employees, 2022
https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/10.6.22-PCC-Assertion-of-Cooperation.pdf?emrc=7eeeae
“Limitations:
“This doc shall haven’t any authorized impact, impose no legally binding obligation enforceable in any court docket of legislation or different tribunal of any type, nor create any funding expectation; nor shall Pacific Coast jurisdictions and cities be liable for the actions of third events or associates. This doc doesn’t change, affect, or create new authorized relationships amongst Pacific Coast jurisdictions and cities.”
[SEPP Comment: All show and no go!]
California Governor Newsom is simply getting began with extra inexperienced power skyrocketing costs
By Stephen Frank, California Political Evaluation, Oct 2, 2022 [H/t Ronald Stein]
That Sinking Feeling
By Willis Eschenbach, WUWT, Oct 3, 2022
Different Information that Could Be of Curiosity
A Lump of Oil
By Doomberg, His Weblog, Oct 5,2022
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/a-lump-of-oil?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=e mail
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE
Britain Celebrates Local weather Help and Gender Research for Mexican Espresso Growers
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 3, 2022
Widespread Desires: Rooftop Photo voltaic Would have Prevented Hurricane Ian Energy Outages
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 7, 2022
Declare: Bitcoin Worse For the Local weather than Beef
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 3, 2022
Commentary Free Science
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Oct 5, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/observation-free-science/
“’The Occasion informed you to reject the proof of your eyes and ears. It was their ultimate, most important command.’ ― George Orwell, 1984”
ARTICLES
1. Putin’s Finest Weapon: Bidenomics
A recession would work to his benefit. In a time of financial and safety peril, the U.S. has forsaken pro-growth insurance policies.
By Daniel Henninger, WSJ, Oct. 5, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/putins-best-weapon-bidenomics-russia-ukraine-war-invasion-nato-sanctions-army-military-aid-economy-west-11664996493?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s
Hyperlink to: FACT SHEET: The Inflation Discount Act Helps Employees and Households
Press Launch by White Home, Aug 19, 2022
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/19/fact-sheet-the-inflation-reduction-act-supports-workers-and-families/
TWTW Abstract: The columnist begins:
“Shortly after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February with the intention of bringing it below Russian management, it was clear he had began what could be the largest struggle on European soil since World Battle II.
This large struggle didn’t turn out to be a traditional mass mobilization throughout many nations. As a substitute, a lot of the free world, certainly led by the Biden administration, dedicated vital arms and cash to again Ukraine’s army forces, which rapidly resisted the Russian military’s preliminary strike on the capital metropolis of Kyiv. Sanctions towards Russia adopted, some at appreciable value to Europe’s financial well being.
The West acknowledged that the Russian invasion wasn’t a replay of earlier Putin territorial aggressions however was as an alternative the primary motion of an imperial ambition that subsequent would threaten the japanese flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Group and—instantly apparent to them—Finland and Sweden.
This military-economic modus vivendi has held for nearly a 12 months, with Ukraine’s folks proving their willingness to be the tip of the world’s spear towards Mr. Putin, who in flip has relied on assist from a declared anti-Western alliance that features China, Iran and North Korea.
The struggle has reached a tipping level, with Mr. Putin enjoying tactical-nuclear brinkmanship after Ukraine’s astonishing army this week routed the Russians across the cities of Kherson and Lyman.
However Mr. Putin’s latest defeats and setbacks, it’s doable he may nonetheless win with out utilizing a tactical nuclear weapon. Deploying a nuke would assure an escalation in vary and high quality of NATO’s army assist for Ukraine. However there may be one other weapon that might put on down the West’s will to proceed this mandatory battle: a world in recession led by a United States that has forsaken pro-growth economics.”
The columnist discusses US financial insurance policies earlier than he continues with:
“If Europe’s anti-Putin resolve breaks down this winter, it is going to be as a result of its willingness to oppose the Russian has contributed to destructively excessive natural-gas costs. Mr. Biden spent the summer season blaming excessive gasoline costs on both Mr. Putin or profiteering U.S. refiners. California Gov. Gavin Newsom desires a windfall income tax on oil corporations. The Biden Democrats’ specific dedication to suppress long-term capital investments in fossil-fuel manufacturing ensures a near-term power and safety dilemma for the Europeans.
The invasion of Ukraine compelled the Europeans to confess their protection spending lastly wanted to rise. However with power costs spiking amid an financial slowdown, the possibilities of follow-through on this long-sought U.S. aim diminish. The irony is that the European Union has backed away partially from the renewables obsession, not too long ago voting that funding in nuclear energy and pure fuel is “inexperienced.” Which it’s.
American monetary assist for Ukraine has been comparatively sturdy to date, but when the U.S. goes right into a protracted downturn, pressures will construct on each the political left and proper for spending “restricted assets” on home wants. Mr. Putin’s nuclear aggression already has Elon Musk tweeting concern concerning the “nice hurt” Ukraine’s latest victories might do.
Competing priorities are inevitable, however we proved with the pro-growth insurance policies of the Nineteen Eighties that they’re manageable if the world’s strongest financial system leads by maxing out its potential.
Mr. Putin’s advisers can see the proof that America’s liberals have turn out to be wholly transfixed by spending on local weather, with little prospect of any vital U.S. pro-growth insurance policies for 2 extra years. They see that Mr. Biden has outsourced duty for the financial system’s well being to the Federal Reserve, whose solely viable coverage lever now’s excessive rates of interest.
In case you’re Vladimir Putin, join the dots: Your most potent weapon isn’t a battlefield nuke. It’s 7Bidenomics.”77
