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Experimental History Adam Mastroianni | Dec 13, 2022 Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that’s a great thing For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run, and it included every scientist on Earth. Most of those folks didn’t even realize they were in an experiment. Many of them, including me, weren’t born when the …

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley | Dec. 22, 2022 Dr Roy Spencer, in his formidable recent paper, has made perhaps the most comprehensive effort ever to evaluate all the available meteorological data and to derive therefrom an upper-bound estimate of <2.1 K equilibrium doubled-CO2 sensitivity (ECS). His method, like all the best methods, is based more on observational than on numerical techniques. He concludes that 2.1 K is an upper bound because climatology has not taken sufficient account of subsurface warming from below (Professor Viterito has long suspected subocean volcanism as a significant contributor to recent warming), and has also …

David Archibald | Dec. 21, 2022 We all know that Santa’s workshop is somewhere in the Arctic, producing toys for the world’s children. Also north of the Arctic Circle is Professor Humlum’s office at the Unversity of Svalbaard wherein he toils each month to update a report on climate. The first chart in that report is the UAH temperature for the lower troposphere, copied following and annotated with lines showing the evident trends: Figure 1: UAH global temperature anomaly In the period from 1978 to 2015, the lower bound of the record is shown by the orange line. Then there …

CO2 Coalition by Dr. Indur Goklany | Dec. 9, 2022 The Net Zero energy policy pursued by the current administration would essentially, sooner or later, phase out fossil fuels. That would roll back much of the progress America and the world has witnessed since the 19th century in economic and human well-being while increasing pressures on the rest of nature. An alternative, embraced by many conservatives, is the “all-the-above” (ATA) policy. This approach preserves the option of using fossil fuels but with strict limitations that, however, are not founded on empirical science. Moreover, ATA would hamstring economic growth, increase the …

A cartoon from the WEF just for you good girls and boys JoNova Dec. 4, 2022 The 15 Minute City is a UN and WEF plan, because they care about you want you drive less. In the WEF’s own words — this rearrangement of cities is absolutely about climate change: As climate change and global conflict cause shocks and stresses at faster intervals and increasing severity, the 15-minute city will become even more critical. And the solution was the pandemic (they really say that): The obvious, yet incomplete, answer is the pandemic…. with COVID-19 and its variants keeping everyone home …

Eugyppius Dec 1, 2022 It turns out that you can have battery-powered cars, or you can have renewable energy, but you can’t have both. The Swiss Confederation usually imports electricity from France and Germany to keep the lights on over the winter, but this year neither country has any power to spare. Many French nuclear power plants are down after years of postponed maintenance, while in Germany we suffer from a superfluity of idle wind turbines and a (self-imposed) shortage of natural gas. The Federal Council of Switzerland has therefore published draft legislation, which outlines four tiers of escalating measures …