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- The Great Antarctic Sea Ice Flipflop – Watts Up With That?
- Wrong, Earth.com, Cocoa Production Is Not ‘Under Extreme Climate Pressure’ It’s Improving – Watts Up With That?
- CFACT Comments on the California Offshore Wind Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) – Watts Up With That?
- Market Failure Not – Watts Up With That?
- Sorry, CNN, No “Cow Fart” Vaccine Is Necessary or Will Stop Climate Change – Watts Up With That?
- Was 1.5C a Climate Propaganda Whoopsie? – Watts Up With That?
- The Sierra Club’s LNG Bravo Sierra – Watts Up With That?
- World Becomes Brighter as Trump Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban – Watts Up With That?
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Essay by Eric Worrall In 2014 NOAA blamed record high sea ice on global warming. Now NSIDC blames record low sea ice on global warming. World’s sea-ice falls to record low Mark Poynting and Erwan Rivault BBC Climate & Verify data journalism teams The world’s frozen oceans, which help to keep the planet cool, currently have less ice than ever previously recorded, satellite data shows. Sea-ice around the north and south poles acts like a giant mirror by reflecting much of the Sun’s energy back into space. But as rising temperatures cause this bright layer to shrink, the dark ocean…
From ClimateREALISM By H. Sterling Burnett Earth.com published a story claiming climate change is causing cocoa production to fall in West and Central Africa. This is false. Data show that cocoa production has increased during the last few decades of modest warming, rather than falling. Part of the reason for this is improved growing conditions in those regions and carbon dioxide fertilization. In the Earth.com story, “Cocoa production in Africa is under extreme climate pressure,” writer Andrei Ionescu, references a study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, which claims that climate change may result in a 50 percent drop in production across West…
From CFACT CFACT Comments on the California Offshore Wind Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) By Craig Rucker, President CFACT https://www.cfact.org Submitted to https://www.regulations.gov/document/BOEM-2023-0061-0189 February 12, 2025 Overview of our concerns BOEM is taking comments on a draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for its five floating wind offshore leases off the California coast. This is BOEM’s second offshore wind PEIS. The first was for a set of leases off New York which featured fixed bottom turbines. This is the first PEIS for floating wind turbines which are very different from the fixed turbines being built along the Atlantic coast. Floating…
From MasterResource By Robert Bradley Jr. — February 14, 2025 Ed. Note: Four years ago, Storm Uri caused Texas’s centrally planned wholesale electricity market (ERCOT) to buckle, vindicating warnings about the state’s wind/solar reliance. The mainstream media implicated natural gas instead, failing to explore the why behind the why. Rather than deregulation, Texas has chosen to add wind, solar, and batteries, while subsidizing natural gas plants to counter intermittency. This duplicated grid is now driving rates up in a state that could have relied on surplus natural gas instead. It was not so much the story of freak weather triggering a market failure writ large.…
From ClimateREALISM By Linnea Lueken A recent CNN article, “How a ‘cow fart’ vaccine could help tackle climate change,” discusses a vaccine under development to be given to cows to reduce the amount of methane their digestive processes produce. The hope is that the vaccine will significantly reduce livestock emissions, thereby slowing down climate change. It won’t. Methane from livestock contributes little, if anything, to global warming. As a result, attempting to change these animals’ biological processes seems to carry risks far exceeding any possible benefits. CNN explains that methane is produced as grass ferments in the rumen, and claims…
Essay by Eric Worrall Professor Mike Hulme: “… There’s going to be a lot of work done to reconstruct a narrative …” Was the world’s most influential climate target doomed from the start? As the world passes 1.5 degrees C of warming, a Cambridge scholar argues that putting a deadline on climate action was the wrong way to frame it. … A pair of new studies in the journal Nature Climate Change looked at historical data and came to the conclusion that the record heat last year — the first year to surpass 1.5 degrees C — wasn’t a temporary fluke, but a sign that the…
Guest “Bravo Sierra!” by David Middleton During President Trump’s inauguration speech, he promised to unlock the “liquid gold” beneath Americans’ feet and ramp up fossil fuel production. Doing so, he suggested, would lower gas prices and lead to cascading American wealth. In his executive order declaring a “national energy emergency,” he directed the Department of Energy to resume processing LNG export authorizations and prioritizing the development of LNG in Alaska. There is no actual “energy emergency”—at least not in the sense Trump means. Under former president Joe Biden, the United States was already pumping out record amounts of oil and…
And user-friendly toilets, dishwashers, and showers are coming back soon, too! From Legal Insurrection Posted by Leslie Eastman President Donald Trump has spent another day reversing Biden’s efforts to limit consumer choices over products that limit their options and hinder their quality of life. In the name of efficiency, Biden’s bureaucrats banned incandescent light bulbs, normal-flowing toilets, and effective shower heads. Trump has just instructed his Environmental Protection Agency administrator to bring them all back. Here is the USAID subsidiary Politico’s hot take on the subject. “I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which…
By H. Sterling Burnett SUBSCRIBE to Climate Change Weekly IN THIS ISSUE: Carbon Capture and Storage Is a Bad Climate Policy Brazil Is Not Meeting Paris Emission Commitments Climate Policies: Dramatically Higher Electricity Costs and Reduced Reliability in New England Carbon Capture and Storage Is a Bad Climate Policy The climate “hoax,” as President Donald Trump calls it, and the “green new scam,” also in Trump’s words, have spawned a plethora of bad ideas and policies. In the transglobal elites’ attempts to direct the world’s economy by controlling average people, they have pushed the idiotic and dangerous vision of the…
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 15 February 2025 — 1400 words Prologue: This will be the last entry to a series of five parts which have discussed the ongoing scientific controversy surround the issue of Ultra-Processed Foods – UPFs. The previous essays were: What Junk Nutrition Science Looks Like Modern Scientific Controversies: The War on Food: Part 1 Modern Scientific Controversies: The War on Food: Part 2, What are UPFs? Modern Scientific Controversies: The War on Food: Part 3 — UPFs: What Are They Measuring? The typical news media article on Ultra-Processed Foods usually starts with something like this,…