The new Pause lengthens: now 7 years 6 months

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley | April 3, 2022 The new Pause has lengthened by another month. On the UAH satellite monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature dataset, seven and a half years have passed since there was any trend in global warming at all. As always, if anyone has seen this surely not uninteresting fact mentioned in the Marxstream news media, let us know in comments. One of the best-kept secrets in what passes for “journalism” these days is that global temperature has not been rising steadily (or, since October 2014, at all). It has been rising in occasional spurts …

Fossil Fuels v Renewable Energy

Fossil Fuels v Renewable Energy

Not a Lot of People Know That   By Paul Homewood | March 31, 2022 Can renewable energy ever replace fossil fuels? Fossil Fuels v Renewable Energy? Let me start by stating that I am not pro or anti anything. In a free market, the best technologies, solutions and products automatically come to the fore, without the need for subsidies, regulations and mandates. If renewable energy is all that is promised, it will do the same. There is of course no doubt that the cheap, abundant and reliable energy provided by fossil fuels has transformed society and made all of …

U.S. Treasury’s “Climate Hub” (on the road to serfdom)

masterresource.com by Robert Bradley Jr. | April 1, 2022 “Consistent with President Biden’s whole-of-government approach to climate change, Treasury will work with other stakeholders, including the National Climate Task Force and other agencies and regulators.” “Treasury will focus on the broad range of its climate-related policy work connected to 1) climate transition finance, 2) climate-related economic and tax policy, and 3) climate-related financial risks…. Treasury is also creating a new Climate Hub and appointing a Climate Counselor to coordinate and lead many of its efforts to address climate change.” This 788-word press release below speaks for itself. An intellectual/political elite …

Scientists And Media Outlets Increasingly ‘Scolded’ And ‘Pressured’ To Blame Extreme Weather On Humans

Scientists And Media Outlets Increasingly ‘Scolded’ And ‘Pressured’ To Blame Extreme Weather On Humans

No Tricks Zone By Kenneth Richard on 27. January 2022 Media outlets are pressured by “green groups” to opportunistically claim every extreme weather event – including the ensuing damage – is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions. In recent decades there has been a deintensification of extreme weather (precipitation) events. Image Source: Koutsoyiannis, 2020 Deaths and property losses from extreme weather events have also been on the decline in recent decades (Broccard, 2021). Image Source: Broccard, 2021 Models cannot simulate extreme events and mechanistically attribute them to human activity (Bellprat and Doblas-Reyes, 2016). Image Source: Bellprat and Doblas-Reyes, 2016 While …

Global Carbon Budget 2021

Abstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and methodology to quantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and their uncertainties. Fossil CO2 emissions (EFOS) are based on energy statistics and cement production data, while emissions from land-use change (ELUC), mainly deforestation, are based on land-use and land-use change data and bookkeeping models. Atmospheric CO2 …

TORNADO

Climate Etc by Judith Curry | Dec. 16, 2021 Politics versus the data versus communicating science. On December 10 and 11, a catastrophic tornado outbreak slammed the Mississippi Valley, with catastrophic impacts particularly in Kentucky. One tornadic storm traveled more than 200 miles, and more than 100 people may have died. An excellent overview of the storm was written by Bob Henson [link]. Preliminary analysis indicates that the maximum tornado strength was EF4, with winds estimated as high as 190 mph. Tornadoes and global warming The links between tornadoes and climate change are more nuanced than for phenomena such as …

No Wind Friday

No Wind Friday

Not a Lot of People Know That By Paul Homewood | Dec. 17, 2021 High pressure is settling in now for at least the next week, not only in the UK but also over much of NW Europe. Hardly surprising then that wind power has disappeared to virtually nothing here, just 0.62 GW: https://grid.iamkate.com/ We are now dangerously reliant on interconnectors, not least because wind power is also falling in countries like Germany and Denmark: In Germany, demand is currently running at 70 GW, leaving a shortfall of 10 GW with generation at 60 GW. Poland, France and Spain have …

On Tornados and Extreme Weather, Biden Is Wrong (Again)

On Tornados and Extreme Weather, Biden Is Wrong (Again)

Heartland By H. Sterling Burnett | Dec. 16, 2021 Climate Change Weekly #420 In the aftermath of the terrible and deadly multiple tornado strikes across several states on December 10, President Joe Biden and the woke parrots on his climate team wasted no time in linking the recent tornado disaster to climate change. In his Saturday morning media briefing discussing the tragedy, here’s how Biden responded to a question about whether the timing and severity of the tornadoes were due to climate change: Well, all that I know is that the intensity of the weather across the board has some …

CO2 Party: Having Fun with Probabilities

CO2 Party: Having Fun with Probabilities

By Clyde Spencer | Dec. 16, 2021 PARTY TIME Imagine that someone decides to throw a theme party and the theme they choose is ‘blue.’  They invite 10 of their friends and ask each of them to bring a plastic baggie filled with blue M&Ms™ candies.  When the guests arrive, they empty their baggies into an empty punchbowl.  The host(ess) places the filled bowl on the hors d’oeuvres table.  Assuming that each of the guests brings on average about 100 pieces, there will be about 1,000 pieces total.  Throughout the evening, the guests partake sparingly of the contents of the …