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By Eric Worrall | August 6, 2022 Fund a green project, prop up an oil company – two University of Texas academics have figured out that in Texas at least, oil companies frequently collect the cash at the end of the green rainbow. Who benefits from renewable energy subsidies? In Texas, it’s often fossil fuel companies that are fighting clean energy elsewhere Published: August 4, 2022 10.20pm AEST Nathan Jensen Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts Isabella Steinhauer Master of Public Affairs Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin College …

By Eric Worrall | August 5, 2022 h/t M; Epoch Times Sticking it where it hurts, to all the politicians who have given lip service over the years to the climate crisis lie. The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe           Patricia Adams Lawrence Solomon Almost every member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, pays homage to the Big Green Lie. So do all the past and remaining Conservative candidates vying to be prime minister of the UK and every candidate currently vying for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. So does virtually all of the mainstream press. …

New study, published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Climate Depot July 29, 2022 Scientific American: “In the U.S., people eat more protein than they need to. And though it might not be bad for human health, this excess does pose a problem for the country’s waterways. The nation’s wastewater is laden with the leftovers from protein digestion: nitrogen compounds that can feed toxic algal blooms and pollute the air and drinking water. … Once it enters the environment, the nitrogen in urea can trigger a spectrum of ecological impacts known as the “nitrogen cascade.” Under certain …

Watts Up With That | July 27, 2022 MEDIA ADVISORY: 96% OF U.S. CLIMATE DATA IS CORRUPTED Official NOAA temperature stations produce corrupted data due to purposeful placement in man-made hot spots Nationwide study follows up widespread corruption and heat biases found at NOAA stations in 2009, and the heat-bias distortion problem is even worse now ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (July 27, 2022) – A new study, Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed, finds approximately 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …

Bud Bromley | July 24, 2022 “The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein The IPCC in its third report (2001) conceded: In climate research and modelling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible. UN IPCC (Chapter 14, Section 14.2.2.2. )] Climate modeler Dr. Mototaka Nakamura: …so I know the workings of these models very well … For better or worse I have more or less lost interest in the climate science and am not thrilled to spend so much …

By Charles Rotter | July 22, 2022 Most people are more worried about high gas and food prices, which green policies make worse. Bjorn Lomborg writes in the Wall Street Journal, The chattering classes who jet to conferences at Davos or Aspen have for years been telling the rest of us that our biggest immediate threats are climate change, environmental disasters and biodiversity loss. They point to the current heat waves killing thousands across Europe as the latest reason to change our societies and economies radically by switching to renewables. Such arguments are misleading. It’s true that as temperatures rise …

By Bud Bromley | July 15, 2022 Erroneous assumptions based on the 1958-1964 works of Bert Bolin are deep in the orthodoxy of human-CO2-caused global warming /climate change.  Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin (1925 – 2007) was a Swedish meteorologist who served as the first chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from 1988 to 1997.  “Bolin is credited with bringing together a diverse range of views among the panel’s 3,500 scientists into something resembling a consensus.” (Sundt, Nick. 1995.) He was professor of meteorology at Stockholm University from 1961 until his retirement in 1990.  Bolin’s papers were based on differential equations, calculus and assumed …

No Tricks Zone By Kenneth Richard on 7. July 2022 A new study (Gupta et al., 2022) indicates that from 2000-2019 73% of the 15 sites considered have been cooling and 67% have experienced a lengthening of sea ice duration. Canada’s Hudson Bay extends into the Arctic Ocean and its coasts are teeming with polar bears. Scientists report 11 of 15 Hudson Bay sites have been cooling since 2000. The average cooling for these 11 sites is -0.34°C per decade. Image Source: Gupta et al., 2022 Cooling °C per decade, 2000-2019 Chesterfield Inlet: -0.25°C Cape Tatnum: -0.3°C Fort Severn: -0.5°C …

By Bud Bromley | July 2, 2022 The error in Friedlingstein et al is much larger than expected. Friedlingstein et al Page 4. “when the cement carbonation sink is included), ELUC was 0.9 ± 0.7 GtC yr-1 , for a total anthropogenic CO2 emission of 10.2 ± 0.8 GtC yr-1 15 (37.4 ± 2.9 GtCO2).” The amounts above are their calculation, not mine. Friedlingstein et al reported their estimate for 1 year’s (2020) increase for human fossil fuel emissions, land use and cement = 37.4 +- 2.9 Gt CO2. This is their estimate of emissions not net emissions. Net CO2 …