The Week That Was: 2022-10-15 (October 15, 2022)
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The Science and Environmental Coverage Undertaking
Quote of the Week: The essential factor is to by no means cease questioning.” ‒ Albert Einstein
Variety of the Week: 16 out of 274 (5.8%)
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Coverage Undertaking (SEPP)
Scope: Final week TWTW mentioned the significance of spectroscopy in understanding the greenhouse impact. Reader Geoff Sherrington accurately “nit-pricked” the dialogue to level out that always Spectrometry is confused with Spectroscopy. This TWTW will try to make clear the distinction.
The work of Professors William van Wijngaarden and William Happer (W & H) has not been printed in a serious western peer reviewed journal. This creates obstacles for its normal acceptance. W & H are too busy creating a suitable speculation on the formation and dissipation of clouds that they don’t have time to struggle with journal editors. TWTW will focus on a number of penalties.
In a video, Astrophysicist Willie Quickly is interviewed by Tom Nelson.
{The electrical} programs planning engineer mentioned final week has one other essay on the significance of stability within the electrical grid. This stability is being undermined by the calls for to be used of photo voltaic and wind energy by politicians and particular curiosity teams on the false notion that human carbon dioxide emissions are inflicting important local weather change.
In getting ready for the upcoming 27th annual Convention of Events (COP 27) of the UN Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC), UN officers are making extra excessive claims of the results to humanity if nationwide governments don’t adhere to their calls for. Since UN the summaries of local weather experiences are contradicted by bodily proof, it seems that UN bureaucrats consider that their phrases are bodily proof.
The Biden administration has introduced a US Nationwide Safety Technique. Little can be mentioned of it.
Summertime rains have lengthy been a difficulty within the US Midwest and into Canada. Utilizing rainfall information from 1948 to 2019, a bunch out of Penn State has introduced a way for predicting heavy summer season rains one season forward. Given the 60-year examine interval, this can be of nice worth for farmers and people depending on their merchandise.
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Spectroscopy and Spectrometry: Geoff Sherrington gave a hyperlink to an essay printed by ATA Scientific Devices that articulates the distinction between Spectroscopy and Spectrometry. It begins:
“Spectroscopy is the science of learning the interplay between matter and radiated vitality. It’s the examine of absorption traits of matter, or absorption behaviour of matter, when subjected to electromagnetic radiation. Spectroscopy doesn’t generate any outcomes, it’s merely the theoretical strategy to science.
“However, spectrometry is the strategy used to accumulate a quantitative measurement of the spectrum. It’s the sensible software the place outcomes are generated, serving to within the quantification of, for instance, absorbance, optical density, or transmittance.
“In brief, spectroscopy is the theoretical science, and spectrometry is the sensible measurement within the balancing of matter in atomic and molecular ranges.”
TWTW will endeavor to rigorously distinguish between the theoretical science and the sensible measurements. [It is important to note that those working in the field often use the terms without making such careful distinctions. Both approaches involve a quantitative approach. To them the distinction may be careful but meaningless.] See hyperlink beneath Different Scientific Information.
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Peer Evaluate: Professors William van Wijngaarden and William Happer (W & H) used spectrometry to estimate the greenhouse impact of the efficiency of greenhouse gases, and the thermal radiation results of those gases. This work has not been printed by any US scientific journals. That is a part of an effort to censor legitimate disagreements with US authorities fundings and UN local weather experiences. It started within the mid-Nineteen Nineties with the now unwell named Science journal printed by the American Affiliation for the Development of Science (AAAS). Headquartered in Washington, DC, the group is now closely politicized.
Because of this politicization, American science is struggling as in comparison with Russian and Chinese language science. For a number of hundred years it has turn into apparent that politicized science falls behind. The clearest instance was the agricultural disasters within the Soviet Union beneath biologist Trofim Lysenko whose bogus analysis led to the hunger of tens of millions.
Nonetheless, those that search peer reviewed journals with articles on the outcomes of spectrometry utilized by W & H can discover such articles elsewhere. The historical past of the HITRAN molecular spectroscopic database for transmission and radiance calculations, and a few of its purposes was printed by Nature Critiques Physics.
As said in final week’s TWTW, the Russian Academy of Sciences has printed a paper utilizing HITRAN which contradicts a few of the findings of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC). The paper cites different works utilizing infrared atmospheric spectroscopy. Partially, the summary states:
“The inconsistency of climatological fashions of modifications within the world temperature due to a rise within the focus of carbon dioxide, that are the idea of the Paris Agreements on Local weather, has been demonstrated. The usage of these fashions relies on the idea that the spectra of carbon dioxide and water molecules don’t overlap, which contradicts each the info ensuing from measurements with NASA applications and calculations primarily based on the spectroscopic parameters of molecules from the HITRAN information financial institution.” [Boldface added]
In as we speak’s world of recent communications, it’s tougher for teams to censor the hunt for understanding by curious minds. In the long term, those that censor restrict themselves. See hyperlinks beneath Different Scientific Information.
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Value of Disagreement: In a wide-ranging discuss protecting the broad matters he has addressed in his work, Willie Quickly explains the issue of publishing papers that query the IPCC claims. He started with the analysis that the solar can fluctuate by three to 4 instances that claimed by the IPCC. It was tough to get such research printed as early because the Nineteen Nineties. After the IPCC printed the Mr. Mann hockey-stick, nobody might get a paper printed that questioned the IPCC line. There’s a nice deal we don’t perceive, so controversy is fascinating to judge the bodily proof behind totally different factors of view. Quickly states there’s nothing distinctive about 20th century warming.
Now political assaults dominate the local weather subject. Quickly emphasizes the significance of correcting errors. The query is, why are advocates of harmful warming afraid of debating the proof? Amongst different points, Quickly brings up the accuracy of the calculations of the earth’s orbit which have been carried out within the Nineteen Seventies and the lack of understanding about clouds. Small variations could make an enormous distinction. Each points make the understanding expressed in IPCC experiences silly and the willful destruction of the fossil gas trade absurd. See hyperlink beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.
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The Working Machine: In his second essay on the issue on including photo voltaic and wind onto the US electrical grid, the planning engineer writes:
“The ‘inexperienced’ provisions of the poorly named Inflation Discount Act are sweeping, and it seems they might do extra hurt than good. The philosophy behind the inflation Discount Act appears to replicate the idea that if you will get the ball rolling, including further wind and photo voltaic will get simpler. Nonetheless, as Half 1 mentioned, the compounding issues related to growing the penetration degree of wind and photo voltaic technology are excessive.
Changing standard synchronous producing assets, which have been the inspiration of the ability system, with asynchronous intermittent assets will degrade the reliability of the grid and contribute to blackout threat. The ability system is the biggest, most complex fantastic machine ever made. At any given time, it should take care of a number of issues and stay secure. No assets are excellent; in a big system you’ll recurrently discover quite a few issues occurring throughout the system. Usually, an influence system can deal with a number of issues and proceed to offer dependable service. Nonetheless, when a system lacks supportive technology sources, it turns into more likely it will be unable operate reliably when issues happen.
A synchronous generator produces electrical energy with the frequency, voltage, and section precisely matching that of different mills on the grid. Asynchronous mills, reminiscent of wind generators, don’t. Asynchronous mills could also be nice in a stand-alone system, however trigger issues in a system with synchronous mills. The issue intensifies with the ill-named Inflation Discount Act and its subsides to wind energy. The planning engineer writes:
“The Inflation Discount Act seeks to decarbonize the grid. In trying on the grid, you shouldn’t make one objective a precedence however ought to as a substitute search to steadiness competing aims.”
The planning engineer goes by way of points arising from utilizing extra wind and photo voltaic generated electrical energy to interchange pure gasoline generated vitality and offers EIA’s US electrical energy technology by main vitality supply and writes:
“If wind and photo voltaic step as much as change fossil fuels this depart us susceptible to vitality shortages throughout winter peaks simply earlier than dawn. Battery functionality would should be big, expansive, and doubtless wouldn’t be procured upfront of demonstrated wants.
“It’s horrifying to think about how you can serve an unlimited winter system demand simply earlier than dawn within the inexperienced future. However yet one more function of the Clear Air Act helps elevate issues to a fair increased degree. The Inflation Discount Act subsidizes warmth pumps!
“Warmth pumps are engaging to the Inflation Reeducation Act for just one purpose. They assist scale back the demand for gasoline furnaces. Subsidies can be obtainable in areas the place as we speak warmth pumps should not thought of sensible. Immediately it doesn’t make sense to drive resistance heating with electrical energy generated from fossil fuels. It’s inefficient and environmentally unsound. Nonetheless, you may theorize that if all electrical energy is inexperienced, inefficient electrical warmth is inexperienced too. Changing pure gasoline warmth with warmth pumps shouldn’t be a good suggestion when one considers their impression on the ability system throughout winter peak circumstances.
“Beneath the Act’s subsidy provisions individuals who dwell in areas the place warmth pumps don’t make sense could resolve to get them anyway with the subsidy. For instance, when you dwell in a cooler space and also you’ve gotten by with out air con, now your items may be sponsored and the resistance warmth can be there for you within the winter too. Inexperienced advocates discuss of shaping the load to higher use assets, however that evidently may be shortly forgotten when different inexperienced aims emerge. Placing in a bunch of warmth pumps and constructing super infrastructure to assist their short-term calls for is way from environmentally accountable.”
TWTW has typically referred to the heavy load in California in the summertime when the solar goes down. However in different components of the nation the sharp peak could happen at daybreak on a chilly winter morning. The planning engineer concludes:
“How can we encourage sensible methods to offer emergency capability? Present vitality insurance policies are searching for to direct as a lot cash towards ‘inexperienced’ assets and prices away from them. As mentioned earlier, in Texas they’re shifting away from recognizing capability worth per a development in direction of vitality solely markets. I’m a giant fan of markets, however they don’t do a superb job of defending in opposition to excessive circumstances particularly when nobody has final duty (besides governmental entities) for making certain load is served. Some measures would should be employed to compensate for offering and making certain combustion generators can be found for emergency circumstances. However nobody appears to be speaking about such measures. The Inflation Discount Act seems to be a single focus strategy to a nuanced drawback. Minimize CO2 emissions and hope for nice improvements. Reliability threats apparently should not on their radar, nor are they an articulated or contemplated issues. It’s a disgrace as a result of decreased reliability can wreak havoc on the financial system and the surroundings.”
There’s a goal for some regulated markets, however it’s often misplaced to politics. See hyperlink beneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.
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Extra Absurdity: Final week TWTW linked to articles discussing the absurd claims by Melissa Fleming, Beneath-Secretary for International Communications of the United Nations, on the World Financial Discussion board who, primarily based on a partnership with Google, asserted:
“We personal the science, and we expect that the world ought to understand it, and the platforms themselves additionally do.”
A lot for Google and the UN in its understanding of science. Contributing to the questionable considering of the UN, the pinnacle of the UN World Meteorological Group (WMO) chirped in:
“From local weather perspective, the struggle in Ukraine could also be seen as a blessing”
Would he say that if, as soon as once more, Russian tanks rolled into his native nation of Finland? Additional a brand new report by the WMO asserted that:
“By 2050, world electrical energy needs- which can be growing through the years being electrification [which is] a strategic lever to sort out Web Zero objectives – will primarily be met with renewable vitality, with photo voltaic the only largest provide supply. African international locations have a possibility to grab untapped potential and be main gamers available in the market. Africa is residence to 60% of the very best photo voltaic assets globally, but with just one% of put in photovoltaic capability.”
“Extra can and should be carried out. In accordance with UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres, daring local weather motion might ship US$26 trillion in financial advantages by 2030. And but, funding in renewable vitality is far too low, particularly in creating international locations and too little consideration is paid to the significance of local weather companies for vitality to assist each local weather adaptation and choices on how you can scale back greenhouse gases.”
To UN bureaucrats, reliability of electrical energy shouldn’t be essential. Regardless of their claims they don’t appear to be in a mad rush to function their services and airplanes on wind and photo voltaic. Don’t they want to get their share of $27 trillion in advantages? See hyperlinks beneath Defending the Orthodoxy.
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US Technique? To not be outdone by the UN the White Home has launched the “Biden-Harris Administration’s Nationwide Safety Technique.” To keep away from taking part in politics TWTW thought of one key sentence within the conclusions:
“This can be a 360-degree technique grounded on the earth as it’s as we speak, laying out the long run we search, and offering a roadmap for a way we are going to obtain it.”
We now have a 360-degree roadmap? See hyperlinks beneath Change in US Administrations.
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Midwest Summer season Rain: A staff from Penn State in contrast Midwest heavy rainfall information from 1948 to 2019 with ocean floor temperature and salinity measurements from the identical time span. The summary states:
“Summertime heavy rainfall and its resultant floods are among the many most dangerous pure hazards within the US Midwest, one of many world’s major crop manufacturing areas. Nonetheless, seasonal forecasts of heavy rain, at present primarily based on preseason sea floor temperature anomalies (SSTAs), stay unsatisfactory. Right here, we current proof that sea floor salinity anomalies (SSSAs) over the tropical western Pacific and subtropical North Atlantic are skillful predictors of summertime heavy rainfall one season forward. A one customary deviation change in tropical western Pacific SSSA is related to a 1.8 mm day−1 enhance in native precipitation, which excites a teleconnection sample to extratropical North Pacific. Through extratropical air-sea interplay and lengthy reminiscence of midlatitude SSTA, a wave prepare favorable for US Midwest heavy rain is induced. Mixed with soil moisture feedbacks bridging the springtime North Atlantic salinity, the SSSA-based statistical prediction mannequin improves Midwest heavy rainfall forecasts by 92%, complementing present SSTA-based frameworks.”
See hyperlinks beneath Fashions v. Observations.
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Variety of the Week: 16 out of 274 (5.8%): On Might 13, 2019, 4 adults and 6 of their kids of the indigenous minority group of the Torres Strait Islands filed a grievance with the UN Human Rights Committee in opposition to Australia for the federal government’s:
“Failure to take mitigation and adaptation measures to fight the consequences of local weather change” – primarily sea degree rise and salt-water intrusion.
The Committee discovered in opposition to Australia. The globe has been warming for about 18,000 years. Throughout that point sea ranges have risen by about 400 ft, 120 meters. The speed of rise was fast with the melting of the nice ice sheets about 15,000 to eight,000 years in the past. Since then, the rise has been average. John Robson writes:
“As for Australia stopping world warming, nicely, if it had thrown its total financial system into the Torres Strait, it could have decreased world GHG emissions by about one % whereas China, which already emits greater than 20 instances as a lot, appears with its fast growth of coal energy to be including an Australia a 12 months. Actually, as so typically, the alarmist claims show the other of what they appear to. In accordance with Wikipedia, “The Torres Strait Islands are threatened by rising sea ranges, particularly these islands which don’t rise a couple of metre (3.3 ft) above sea degree. Storm surges and excessive tides pose the best hazard.” To which we reply sardonically that in the event that they’re that low, and haven’t but been washed away, somebody is peddling fables.
“To be exact, the best elevation anyplace is 50 metres, however the common is one. So, if these low-lying, sandy, mushy islands haven’t been washed away, then this complete factor about “total nations might be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea ranges if the worldwide warming development shouldn’t be reversed by the 12 months 2000” was bunkum. From the identical UN that now desires Australia to pay for these low-lying islands being destroyed whereas remaining in place.”
“Though some folks may argue that as there are ‘a minimum of 274’ of those islands, however it’s exhausting to inform as a result of they’re such small sandy low-lying specks that solely 16 of them even have folks on them, they’ve most likely all the time been uncovered to surge tides and waves.”
If 16 islands out of 274 are inhabited, that makes 5.8%. It seems that the UN Committee on Human Rights asserts that when you don’t settle for UN experiences you haven’t any rights. See hyperlink beneath Speaking Higher to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Obscure?, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Obtain.aspx?symbolno=CCPRpercent2fCpercent2f135percent2fDpercent2f3624percent2f2019&Lang=en and https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1506
Censorship
Lawsuit particulars sprawling Biden administration program to censor on-line speech
By Jeff Mordock – The Washington Occasions, Oct 10, 2022
https://www.washingtontimes.com/information/2022/oct/10/lawsuit-details-sprawling-biden-administration-pro/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=handbook&utm_term=e-newsletter&utm_content=morning&bt_ee=g5tjQ8oGxDJNdAXs4vHFKCCXpercent2BsHeyl0rLpxAVy6ekMgpercent3D&bt_ts=1665482146710
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-Stage Rise: An Analysis of the Knowledge
By Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Coverage Transient, Might 20, 2019
Astrophysicist Willie Quickly Interviewed by Tom Nelson (Video)
Willie Quickly: “This CO2 stuff is…pure delusion. You can not discover any signature of that.”
The Penetration Downside. Half II: Will the Inflation Discount Act Trigger a Blackout?
By Planning Engineer, Local weather And so on. Oct 11, 2022
Local weather Alarmist Declare Truth Checks
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP, Oct 13, 2022
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate/alarmist_claim_rebuttals_updated/
Debunking the Local weather Myths of Hurricane Ian
Truth: local weather change didn’t increase Ian’s energy
By Madhav L. Khandekar & Tom Harris, Actual Clear Power, Oct 10, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/10/debunking_the_climate_myths_of_hurricane_ian_858216.html
How a faux local weather emergency created an actual vitality emergency
The false concept that fossil fuels’ local weather impacts are an “emergency” that requires us to quickly get rid of fossil fuels has triggered an vitality emergency.
By Alex Epstein, His Weblog, Oct 12, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/how-a-fake-climate-emergency-created?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=513601&post_id=77982483&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=e mail
Inserting The Blame For Europe’s Power And Financial Disaster
By Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, Oct 8, 2022
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2022-10-8-placing-the-blame-for-europes-energy-and-economic-crisis
International demand for Gigawatts is insatiable: To make one smartphone takes virtually as a lot vitality as a fridge
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Oct 12, 2022
Hyperlink to: The Power Transition Delusion
By Mark Mills, The Manhattan Institute, August 2022
Defending the Orthodoxy
Hoping it should eat you final
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 12, 2022
“If one thing is scarce and its worth rises, and you’ve got blocked entrepreneurs from including extra provide, the very best plan of action is… assault the present suppliers. A minimum of based on the UN Secretary Normal for Local weather Hysteria who declared that ‘The fossil gas trade is feasting on a whole lot of billions of {dollars} in subsidies and windfall income whereas family budgets shrink and our planet burns. Immediately, I’m calling on all developed economies to tax the windfall income of fossil gas corporations.’”
UN WMO Head: “From local weather perspective, the struggle in Ukraine could also be seen as a blessing”
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 12, 2022
WMO: Embrace Renewables to Stabilise the Energy Grid
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 11, 2022
Hyperlink to report: Local weather change places vitality safety in danger
International locations should triple funding in renewable vitality
By Workers, WMO, Oct 11, 2022
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/climate-change-puts-energy-security-risk
Defending the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science
Local weather change ‘kills on grand scale’: knowledgeable
By AFP Workers Writers, London (AFP), Oct 6, 2022
https://www.terradaily.com/experiences/Climate_change_kills_on_grand_scale_expert_999.html
“Professor Nicholas Stern, a Briton who authored a landmark 2006 report on the financial impression of worldwide warming, made the statement on the Power Intelligence Discussion board trade gathering.”
[SEPP Comment: After his deceitful use of discount rates, why believe him?]
The Local weather Financial system Is About to Explode
A brand new report means that the Inflation Discount Act might be even greater than Congress thinks.
By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, Oct 5, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/inflation-reduction-act-climate-economy/671659/
“Actually, so many individuals and companies will use these tax credit that the IRA’s complete spending is prone to be greater than $800 billion, double what the CBO initiatives. And since federal spending tends to catalyze non-public funding, that might ship complete local weather spending throughout the financial system to roughly $1.7 trillion over the following 10 years.”
“By 2029, U.S. photo voltaic and wind might be the most affordable on the earth at lower than $5 per megawatt-hour, the financial institution [Credit Suisse] initiatives; it should additionally turn into aggressive in hydrogen, carbon seize and storage, and wind generators.”
Questioning the Orthodoxy
Uncertainty Of Measurement of Routine Temperatures–Half Three
By Thomas Berger and Geoffrey Sherrington. WUWT, Oct 14, 2022
‘Deep Optimism Manifesto’ (David Siegel’s remedy for ‘local weather nervousness’)
By Robert Bradley Jr. Grasp Useful resource, Oct 12, 2022
[SEPP Comment: A replacement for skepticism of dangerous global warming?]
Setting it straight on hurricanes
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 12, 2022
“Amidst the wreckage of those pure disasters the alarmists would have us consider that it’s our personal fault, particularly the folks in a purple state like Florida for not being on board with the entire Inexperienced New Deal. Into this maelstrom we deliver you the newly up to date info web page on International Warming and Hurricanes from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory on the American authorities’s typically local weather alarmist Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).”
What Triggered the Power Disaster We’re in Now? When Did It Begin for Actual?
By Frank Lasee, WUWT, Oct 11, 2022
International Scatterplots
By Willis Eschenbach, WUWT, Oct 14, 2022
Power and Environmental Evaluate: October 10, 2022
By John Droz, Jr., Grasp Useful resource, Oct 10, 2022
After Paris!
Science cop-out anticipated for COP27
By David Whitehouse, Web Zero Watch, Oct 10, 2022
“Between 1979 and 2020 the Pacific Ocean off South America has cooled as have areas farther south. The western Pacific Ocean and jap Indian Ocean alternatively has warmed in distinction. The Pacific and its environs account for half of the Earth’s floor and its warming-cooling merely can’t be defined by local weather fashions.”
COP27 Greta Goes for Nuclear whereas Guterres’ Statements on NetZero Greenwashing are Unrealistic says Pals of Science
Press Launch, Pals of Science, Canada, Oct 13, 2022
White Home releases Biden’s nationwide safety technique
By Brett Samuels, The Hill, Oct 12, 2022
Hyperlink to: FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Administration’s Nationwide Safety Technique
Press Launch, The White Home, Oct 12, 2022
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/12/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administrations-national-security-strategy/
Hyperlink to full plan: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Biden-Harris-Administrations-Nationwide-Safety-Technique-10.2022.pdf
From conclusion of full plan: “With the important thing components outlined on this technique, we are going to sort out the dual challenges of our time: out-competing our rivals to form the worldwide order whereas tackling shared challenges, together with local weather change, pandemic preparedness, and meals safety, that can outline the following stage of human historical past.”
White Home cops to pushing Saudi Arabia to postpone oil cuts till after midterms
By Caitlin Doornbos, New York Publish, Oct 13, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/saudis-say-biden-asked-to-hold-oil-production-cut-until-after-midterms/
“’I’m not going to get into what I’d contemplate and what I take into consideration,’ the president added. ‘However there can be — there can be penalties.’” [as soon as I can think of some?]
Shellenberger: Biden Is Failing The World
Through Zero Hedge, Oct 10, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/shellenberger-biden-failing-world
IER Transparency Undertaking Reveals FERC Coordination with White Home
By Workers, Institute for Power Analysis, Oct 11, 2022
Fuel Furnaces: Huge Brother Says No
By Robert Bradley Jr., Grasp Useful resource, Oct 11, 2022
[SEPP Comment: To be replaced by electric resistance heating from an over-burdened grid?]
Biden Ought to Ask a Mirror Whom To Blame for His Power Coverage Failure
By James Jay Carafano and Katie Tubb, The Heritage Basis, Oct 14, 2022
https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/commentary/biden-should-ask-mirror-whom-blame-his-energy-policy-failure
Biden’s proposed gig employee rule might deal a serious blow to small companies
New gig employee rule might trigger firm’s operational prices to skyrocket
By Megan Henney, FOXBusiness, Oct 12, 2022
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/bidens-proposed-gig-worker-rule-could-deal-major-blow-small-businesses
Biden Power Insurance policies Value $100 BILLION a 12 months, Studies Simply the Information
By Linnea Lueken, Local weather Realism, Oct 11, 2022, [H/t WUWT]
Social Advantages of Carbon Dioxide
‘Distinctive’ 12 months for Champagne regardless of document warmth: producers
By AFP Workers Writers, Paris, Oct 7, 2022
https://www.seeddaily.com/experiences/Exceptional_year_for_Champagne_despite_record_heat_producers_999.html
Issues within the Orthodoxy
China wants $17 trillion to satisfy local weather objectives: World Financial institution
Local weather change poses a big menace to China, particularly to its teeming, economically crucial coastal cities.
By Workers, Al Jazeera and Reuters, Oct 12, 2022
https://www.aljazeera.com/financial system/2022/10/12/china-needs-17-trillion-to-meet-climate-goals-world-bank
[SEPP Comment: In untraceable small bills!]
Science, Coverage, and Proof
The Reply is Easy
By Donn Dears, Energy For USA, Oct 12, 2022
[SEPP Comment: Solving a problem that confused reporters of the Wall Street Journal.]
Fashions v. Observations
Saltier sea water could predict heavy summer season rains within the U.S. corn belt
By Matthew Carroll, Pen State College, Oct 10, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.psu.edu/information/analysis/story/saltier-sea-water-may-predict-heavy-summer-rains-us-corn-belt/
Hyperlink to paper: Skillful Lengthy-Lead Prediction of Summertime Heavy Rainfall within the US Midwest From Sea Floor Salinity
By Laifang L, et al. Geophysical Analysis Letters, July 7, 2022
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022GL098554
Local weather fashions precisely simulate Pacific Northwest climate patterns, examine finds
Press Launch by Portland State College, Oct 12, 2022 [H/t Bernie Keshire]
https://phys.org/information/2022-10-climate-accurately-simulate-pacific-northwest.html
Hyperlink to paper: CMIP6 mannequin constancy at simulating large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns and related temperature and precipitation over the Pacific Northwest
By Graham P. Taylor, et al. Local weather Dynamics, Aug 11, 2022
https://hyperlink.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-022-06410-1
From the summary: “The fashions exhibit a spread of ability at simulating sample prevalence frequency and sample persistence, with extra settlement in winter than summer season. Outcomes point out that the CMIP6 fashions are applicable for assessing future projections of key atmospheric circulation patterns and their impacts on temperature and precipitation over the area.”
[SEPP Comment: A range of skill? The issue is projecting future change, particularly change in temperatures.]
Mannequin Points
New device helps researchers examine clouds, rain and local weather change
By Robert Jackson and John Spizzirri, Argonne Nationwide Laboratory, Oct 12, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://phys.org/information/2022-10-tool-clouds-climate.html
Hyperlink to paper: The Earth Mannequin Column Collaboratory (EMC2) v1.1: an open-source ground-based lidar and radar instrument simulator and subcolumn generator for large-scale fashions
By Israel Silber, et al. Geoscientific Mannequin Improvement, Feb 1, 2022
https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/15/901/2022/
From the summary “Local weather fashions are important for our complete understanding of Earth’s ambiance and may present crucial insights on future modifications a long time forward.”
[SEPP Comment: Since the models do not describe current atmospheric temperature trends, there is no reason to assume they can give insights of the future.]
Measurement Points — Floor
The Most Dependable UK And Eire Instrumental Data Point out No Discernable Publish-1800s Rainfall Developments
By Kenneth Richard, NO Tips Zone, Oct 10, 2022
Hyperlink to paper: Tens of millions of historic month-to-month rainfall observations taken within the UK and Eire rescued by citizen scientists
By Ed Hawkins, et al., Geoscience Knowledge Journal, Mar 24, 2022
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gdj3.157
Altering Climate
Ought to Local weather Change Take the Blame for Hurricane Ian’s Carving a New Inlet in Florida?
By William Ballgord, Townhall, Oct 13, 2022
https://townhall.com/columnists/williamdbalgord/2022/10/12/should-climate-change-take-the-blame-for-hurricane-ians-carving-a-new-inlet-in-florida-n2614420
[SEPP Comment: After the 1933 hurricane wiped out three blocks of homes and businesses and carved an inlet in south Ocean City, Md., the city turned from just a summer tourist town to major sports fishing hub. For years before, local politicians were requesting state and federal governments to build an inlet.]
Coastal storms of the North Atlantic Basin
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 12, 2022
“From the CO2Science Archive.”
The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Northwest’s Greatest Storm of the Final Century: The Columbus Day Storm
By Cliff Mass, Climate Weblog, Oct 9, 2022
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-Sixtieth-anniversary-of-northwests.html
“This intense storm was poorly predicted the day earlier than.”
[SEPP Comment: Numerical weather modeling is improving, but that does not justify the use of such techniques for climate modeling when atmospheric temperature trends are ignored.]
The Southwest Monsoon — Extra Erratic?
By Kip Hansen, WUWT, Oct 10, 2022
Altering Seas
Researchers go ‘exterior the field’ to delineate main ocean currents
Scientists quantified the vitality of ocean currents bigger than 1,000 kilometers
Information Launch, NSF, Oct 11, 2022
https://beta.nsf.gov/information/researchers-go-outside-box-delineate-major-ocean?utm_medium=e mail&utm_source=govdelivery
International vitality spectrum of the final oceanic circulation
By Benjamin A. Storer, et al. Nature Communications, Sep 9, 2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33031-3
Everyone is aware of: the coral reefs are dying off
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 12, 2022
New Research Recommend Sea Ranges Have been 2-5 Meters Larger Than Immediately ~6000 Years In the past
By Kenneth Richard, No Tips Zone, Oct 13, 2022
Hyperlink to 1 examine: Sea degree rise and local weather change appearing as interactive stressors
on growth and dynamics of tropical peatlands in coastal
Sumatra and South Borneo for the reason that Final Glacial Most
By Ok. Anggi Hapsari, et al. International Change Biology, 2022
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/gcb.16131
Hyperlink to a different examine: Late-Holocene sea ranges from vermetids and barnacles at Ponta do Papagaio, 27° 50′S latitude and a comparability with different sectors of southern Brazil
By Rodolfo JoséAngulo, et al, Quaternary Science Critiques, June 15, 2022
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379122001676
Hyperlink to fifth examine: Paleo-sea ranges, Late-Holocene evolution, and a brand new interpretation of the boulders on the Rocas Atoll, southwestern Equatorial Atlantic
By Rodolfo JoséAnguloa, et al. Marine Geology, Might 2022
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025322722000512
[SEPP Comment: No question that changes in weather patterns such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) change sea levels as measured at a specific location. However, question the generalization that this sea level rise applies everywhere.]
Altering Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice
September Arctic Sea Ice Developments
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Oct 8, 2022
Seasonal change in Antarctic ice sheet motion noticed for first time
Information Launch, College of Cambridge, Oct 6, 2022
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/966817
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability within the Antarctic Peninsula
By Karla Boxall, The Cryosphere, Oct 6, 2022
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/3907/2022/
“Right here, we use high-spatial- and high-temporal-resolution Copernicus Sentinel-1A/B artificial aperture radar observations acquired between 2014 and 2020 to offer the primary proof for seasonal move variability of the land ice feeding George VI Ice Shelf (GVIIS), Antarctic Peninsula.”
[SEPP Comment: The Antarctic Peninsula is subject to changing ocean currents.]
Altering Earth
Researchers discover ‘important charges’ of sinking floor in Houston suburbs
By Rebeca Hawley, College of Houston, Phys.org, Oct 11, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kekpshire]
https://phys.org/information/2022-10-significant-ground-houston-suburbs.html
Hyperlink to paper: Floor Deformation Evaluation of the Houston Space Utilizing Time Sequence Interferometry and Rising Scorching Spot Evaluation
By Shuhab D. Khan, et al. Distant Sensing, Aug 8, 2022
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/15/3831
[SEPP Comment: Who would have thought that building on marshy land and extracting water from it would cause it to sink?]
Agriculture Points & Concern of Famine
3 myths debunked: Animal agriculture’s actual impression on the surroundings
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Oct 10, 2022
Forcing farmers to hitch the frenzy for Web Zero will see tens of millions go hungry
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Oct 9, 2022
Decreasing Requirements
The Very Mannequin of a Fashionable Climateer
By Tony Thomas, Quadrant, Oct 10, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Yellow (Inexperienced) Journalism?
“Extremely Uncommon” Swordfish Sightings – Telegraph Pretend Information
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Oct 9, 2022
BBC Bear Propaganda Melts Beneath Evaluation
By Vijay Jayaraj, Bizpac Evaluate, Oct 13, 2022
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/10/13/bbc-polar-bear-propaganda-melts-under-analysis-1296040/
Science At The New York Occasions
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Oct 7, 2022
Video: https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/science-at-the-new-york-times-2/
Textual content: https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/science-at-the-new-york-times/
Speaking Higher to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Obscure?
Our Nation Is Extra Safe With Clear Power
By Andrea Marr, Actual Clear Power, Oct 13, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/13/our_nation_is_more_secure_with_clean_energy_858683.html
[SEPP Comment: False premise, fails to show why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrates that fossil fuels produced in the US are unreliable. Assumes unreliable wind and solar power are as valuable reliable nuclear power.]
Sorry about your islands
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 12, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Make issues up.
Local weather Disaster: False Information Roundup
By Kip Hansen, WUWT, Oct 12, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Propaganda
Hurricane Hype, Lies, Censorship – and Actuality
By Paul Driessen, WUWT, Oct 20, 2022
AEP, Carbon Transient & The European Local weather Basis
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Oct 8, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Kids for Propaganda
Greta Thunberg: “We May Nonetheless have Time to Flip Issues Round”
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 9, 2022
Speaking Higher to the Public – Protest
JustStopOil is a Malignant Tumor
By Ron Clutz, Science Issues, Oct 14, 2022
Increasing the Orthodoxy
Heatwaves will make areas uninhabitable inside a long time: UN, Pink Cross
By Robin Millard, Geneva (AFP), Oct 10, 2022
https://www.terradaily.com/experiences/Heatwaves_will_make_regions_uninhabitable_within_decades_UN_Red_Cross_999.html
[SEPP Comment: Clueless about the greenhouse effect.]
Time runs backward, no glacier at 2050
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 12, 2022
“As you may count on, since that Yale Faculty of the Surroundings place has a ‘Imaginative and prescient and Mission’ redolent of activism slightly than boring tutorial analysis: ‘We’re main the world towards a sustainable future with cutting-edge analysis, educating, and public engagement on society’s evolving and pressing environmental challenges.’ Though with an annual finances of almost $60 million and tuition of $47,600 it might be mistaken for an Institution outfit by these unaware that deniers have all the cash and local weather campaigners are the rebels.”
Questioning European Inexperienced
Value-Plus Income invoice: window-dressing that solely defers the day of reckoning
By John Constable, Web Zero Watch, Oct 12, 2022
“Lastly, and most disappointingly, there’s nothing on this invoice to recommend that the Prime Minister and her colleagues are literally ready to sort out the huge value of the inexperienced levies, as has been rumoured on a number of events. The ultimate paragraph of as we speak’s assertion tells us that:
“Mills would additionally proceed to obtain their present income assist or subsidy funds, for instance Renewable Obligation Certificates, which is able to assist protect market stability.”
Germany’s Inexperienced Get together In Die Straits, Isolates It’s hapless Chief In Run Up To Decrease Saxony Elections
By P Gosselin, No Tips Zone, Oct 8, 2022
Irony: Greens Now Praying For A “Hotter” Winter To Assist Germany Survive Power Disaster
By P Gosselin, No Tips Zone, Oct 12, 2022
German Authorities Fears Tens of millions Of Furnaces Going Off…Kids Now Being Handed Blankets At Faculty
By P Gosselin, No Tips Zone, Oct 11, 2022
Questioning Inexperienced Elsewhere
Connecting “Power Inflation” with “Local weather Extremism”
By Kevin Mooney, Actual Clear Power,Oct11, 2022 https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/11/connecting_energy_inflation_with_climate_extremism_858262.html
When Haiti met gasoline scarcity
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 12, 2022
“As with the OEB [Ontario Energy Board], there are a lot of components of [Minister of Foreign Affairs] Mélanie Joly Thought that make the phrase ‘considering’ extra a time period of courtesy than of artwork.
Funding Points
“Not truthful”: $25 Billion Promised, $55 million Pledged for Local weather Adaption
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 12, 2022
Some Banks And Power Firms Lastly Beginning To Get Some Spine
By Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, Oct 14, 2022
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2022-10-14-some-banks-and-energy-companies-finally-starting-to-get-some-backbone
“GFANZ brings collectively impartial, sector-specific alliances to sort out net-zero transition challenges and connects the monetary group to the Race to Zero marketing campaign, local weather scientists and consultants, and civil society.”
[SEPP Comment: What could go wrong?]
The Political Video games Proceed
The dodgy numbers behind Labour’s vitality coverage
By Andrew Montford, Web Zero Watch, Oct 12, 2022
“At its current social gathering convention, Labour introduced its plans for a renewed drive for renewable vitality, stating in justification that wind energy is now “9 instances cheaper” than gas-fired. This declare has been repeated by quite a lot of its MPs in current days, in addition to by the Unite union’s Howard Beckett.
“Sadly, it’s not even remotely true. Let me clarify.”
Litigation Points
Becoming a member of Battle Over The “Science” Of International Warming
By Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian, Oct 11, 2022
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2022-10-11-joining-battle-over-the-science-of-global-warming
Court docket problem in Kenya over GM crops
By AFP Workers Writers, Nairobi (AFP), Oct 14, 2022
https://www.seeddaily.com/experiences/Court_challenge_in_Kenya_over_GM_crops_999.html
Subsidies and Mandates Without end
How windfarms cost you twice for a similar electrical energy
By Andrew Montford, GWPF, Oct 10, 2022
EPA and different Regulators on the March
US Govt Corruption-fest: One third of prime EPA officers additionally invested in corporations they oversee
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Oct 13, 2022
Power Points – Non-US
UK Seems to be To Cap Renewable Power Costs
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Oct 13, 2022
Power Points – Australia
Aussie ABC Admits the Renewable Transition is Driving Up Family Electrical energy Payments
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 14, 2022
“Greater than 80% of worldwide GDP is roofed by nationwide net-zero targets. Strip away the hype, and internet zero emerges as a mission that the West is foisting on the remainder of the world. Local weather commitments of the fastest-growing emitters are price little greater than the paper they’re written on.”
Renewable Power Obsessed Aussie Authorities Urges Fuel Firms Cost “Acceptable Costs”
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 14, 2022
Power Points — US
The U.S. Is Making ready Its Response To The “Brief-Sighted” Technique Of OPEC+
By Tsvetana Paraskova, Oil Value. Com, Oct 07, 2022,
https://oilprice.com/Power/Power-Normal/The-US-Is-Making ready-Its-Response-To-The-Brief-Sighted-Technique-Of-OPEC.html
President Biden has directed one other 10-million-barrel launch from the SPR in November and can proceed to direct releases as applicable.
[SEPP Comment: Getting even by depleting the reserves? Seems like WW I French and British strategy.]
A Powerful Winter Forward for Heating Payments, In accordance with the U.S. Power Data Administration
By Ben Lieberman, CEI, Oct 13, 2022
https://cei.org/weblog/a-tough-winter-ahead-for-heating-bills-according-to-the-u-s-energy-information-administration/
Hyperlink to: Winter Fuels Outlook
By Workers, U.S. Power Data Administration (EIA), October 2022
[SEPP Comment: Even if this winter is 10% warmer than last winter, Americans can expect a sharp increase in winter fuel costs, except for propane.]
And So It Goes – ERCOT, Texas Regulators, Permian Fuel Provide, LNG And The Power Transition
By Rick Smead, RBN Power, Oct 12, 2022
https://rbnenergy.com/and-so-it-goes-ercot-texas-regulators-permian-gas-supply-lng-and-the-energy-transition
“After the catastrophic expertise of Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas was restructured, with new statutory necessities and an entire new forged of characters. The Texas Railroad Fee (TRRC) put in place quite a lot of fixes, together with extra stringent reliability guidelines for pure gasoline suppliers, from producers to transmission pipelines.”
[SEPP Comment: Reliability rules are needed, what about such rules for wind power?]
Inexperienced Madness: Governor Gretchen Whitmer Shutting Down House Propane Provides?
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 14, 2022
[SEPP Comment: The only source of energy the EIA anticipates will go down in costs.]
Nuclear Power and Fears
A Case for Nuclear Because the Most Environment friendly Type of Clear Power
By Amir Adnani, Actual Clear Markets, Oct 7, 2022
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/10/07/a_case_for_nuclear_as_the_most_efficient_form_of_clean_energy_857781.html
Finland hopes new nuclear reactor eases vitality crunch
By Elias Huuhtanen, Eurajoki, Finland (AFP) Oct 13, 2022
https://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/experiences/Finland_hopes_new_nuclear_reactor_eases_energy_crunch_999.html
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Photo voltaic and Wind
Uncontrolled photo voltaic farm growth is a menace to British meals safety
Press Launch, Web Zero Watch, Oct 11, 2022
“The lack of agricultural land is on a extremely important scale with 30,000 acres or extra at present going through proposals for photo voltaic photovoltaic, and way more within the early levels of growth, placing additional strain on land use.”
[SEPP Comment: Will the government discover that sunshine is not intense in Britain?]
Rural Backlash In opposition to Renewables Surges, With 67 Rejections of Photo voltaic in U.S. Over Previous 11 Months
By Robert Bryce, Actual Clear Power, Oct 14, 2022
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/14/rural_backlash_against_renewables_surges_with_67_rejections_of_solar_in_us_over_past_11_months_858959.html
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Power — Different
U.S. steps away from flagship lithium mission with Buffett’s Berkshire
By Ernest Scheyder, Reuters, Oct 5, 2022
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-steps-away-flagship-lithium-project-with-berkshire-2022-10-05/
Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Autos
LITHIUM mining for electrical automobiles is extremely harmful to the surroundings and about as removed from “inexperienced” as you may think about
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Oct 13, 2022
“In accordance with the Institute of Power Analysis, Chile’s Salar de Atacama is without doubt one of the driest locations on Earth, but the mining corporations are allowed to make use of up 65% of the area’s water. After the brine is faraway from the salt flats, the water desk robotically falls, disrupting the pure move of water that’s wanted for wells and agriculture. These large-scale disruptions can all the time be blamed on “local weather change” because the lithium mining trade plunges forward, with no regard for the environmental injury wrought in its wake.”
New Hurricane Ian Problem: Spontaneously Combusting Electrical Autos
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 9, 2022
California Dreaming
Newsom To The Rescue
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Oct 9, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/newsom-to-the-resue/
Well being, Power, and Local weather
Science Lastly Successful The Day In Glyphosate Circumstances
By Susan Goldhaber, ACSH, Oct 11, 2022
https://www.acsh.org/information/2022/10/11/science-finally-winning-day-glyphosate-cases-16602
Local weather Change Causes Coronary heart Assaults? A Second Look At The Knowledge
How good is the proof implicating local weather change as a explanation for coronary heart assaults? Not very. Let’s take a crucial take a look at a few of this analysis.
By Cameron English, ACSH, Sep 28, 2022
https://www.acsh.org/information/2022/09/28/climate-change-causes-heart-attacks-second-look-data-16567
Different Scientific Information
Spectrometry and Spectroscopy: What’s the Distinction
ATA Scientific Devices, Jan 17, 2020
https://www.atascientific.com.au/spectrometry/
Historical past of the HITRAN Database
By Laurence S. Rothman, Nature Critiques Physics, April 7, 2021
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-021-00309-2
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
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE
Proof constructive of… nothing
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 12, 2022
NetZero destroys NetZero: Europe can’t make photo voltaic panels as a result of inexperienced electrical energy prices an excessive amount of
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Oct 9, 2022
Academia Thrives On Baseless Hypothesis
By Tony Heller, His Weblog, Oct 14, 2022
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/10/academia-thrives-on-baseless-speculation/
“Life could have thrived on early Mars, till it drove local weather change that triggered its demise.”
[SEPP Comment: Great comment that Mars warming may have wiped out life. Mars is far too cold for life as we know it.]
Local weather Change Threat to Castles? No, Simply Extra BBC Pretend Information!
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Folks Know That, Oct 11, 2022
Local weather, son of Mordred
By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Oct 12, 2022
Expensive Neighbour, Please “Roster Ration” Your Electrical energy Use so our EVs can Cost
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 13, 2022
D.C. sues chemical firm for allegedly contaminating native rivers with pesticide
By Zack Budryk, The Hill, Oct 13, 2022
“Analysis within the late Nineteen Eighties indicated the Potomac and Anacostia rivers contained triple the quantity of chlordane really helpful for human consumption, and in 1989 these ranges prompted town to warn in opposition to consuming carp, catfish or eel caught within the river.”
[SEPP Comment: Does the DC government know that DC drinking water does not come from the tidal Potomac and Anacostia rivers and that as late as the 1970s they had open sewer discharge by the local governments including DC?]
The French “Residents Local weather Meeting” the place 150 folks fake to be a democracy, whereas 65 million get sidelined
By Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Oct 14, 2022
ARTICLES
1. Transparency for Thee, however Not for the SEC
Authorities officers routinely have interaction in the identical kind of record-keeping shenanigans for which Wall Road teams have been lately fined.
By Chris Horner, WSJ, Oct. 10, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/transparency-securities-exchange-commission-sec-ferc-foia-fra-records-keeping-transparency-biden-white-house-11665440298?mod=opinion_lead_pos7
TWTW Abstract: The legal professional writes:
“Authorities hypocrisy was on full show lately when the Securities and Trade Fee fined 16 Wall Road companies greater than $1.1 billion for violating federal record-keeping necessities. The companies’ ‘staff routinely communicated about enterprise issues utilizing textual content messaging purposes on their private units,’ however their employers did not preserve an official document of a ‘substantial majority of those off-channel communications.’
“The SEC says this ‘probably disadvantaged’ the company of these messages in ‘varied’ investigations. SEC enforcement director Gurbir Grewal declared that these current fines ‘underscore the significance of recordkeeping necessities: they’re sacrosanct.’
“However primarily based on my expertise in a half-dozen at present energetic lawsuits involving data requests to federal companies, together with the SEC, political appointees and different federal regulators recurrently have interaction in the identical kind of practices. Regulators are sure by necessities much like these protecting banks and merchants, due to legal guidelines such because the Freedom of Data Act and the Federal Data Act. My FOIA purchasers search specific ‘non-email digital communications,’ which is what the SEC calls messages on non-email platforms, together with texts, encrypted messages on Sign or WhatsApp, and even logs of typed chats in Groups or Zoom.
“Primarily based on my FOIA circumstances, it seems that officers within the Biden White Home, SEC and Federal Power Regulatory Fee use chats extensively, arguably as an alternative choice to ‘.gov’ e mail accounts. Proof strongly suggests these are going unsearched in response to many requests for correspondence—except the requester is aware of to hunt them particularly. The identical is true for using non-public telephones and encrypted apps. Until they’re particularly listed in a request, plainly they typically received’t be included.
“If it’s as dangerous because it seems, this may be a critical subject. Because the Supreme Court docket has typically famous, FOIA provides U.S. residents a proper ‘to know ‘what their Authorities is as much as.’ ‘ Businesses’ inadequate record-keeping frustrates the power of FOIA requesters, Congress, and even regulated events to defend themselves when focused by the federal government.
“Beneath President Biden, officers at FERC appear to make use of texts from private telephones to conduct work, based on telephone payments, texts pried from the FERC from officers’ private and work telephones, and different data. Some appear to make use of solely their private telephones to conduct enterprise over textual content. This seems to incorporate Chairman Richard Glick, based on texts he turned over to the FERC in response to my consumer’s requests. FERC appointees and even White Home officers textual content Mr. Glick on his private machine, primarily based on the identical texts.
“This says quite a bit about present officers’ insouciant strategy to custodianship of official correspondence. Utilizing a private e mail, messaging app, or telephone to textual content normally means the content material is saved out of the fingers of an official’s company except, opposite to my expertise with FOIA, the official forwards all such messages to his company for record-keeping. This probably shields these communications from being launched to FOIA requesters and even Congress except it turns into public that an official is utilizing a private machine or account for work correspondence. Then a requester would know to ask particularly for that content material. My purchasers found using Sign, WhatsApp and personal-phone texting amongst authorities officers solely by way of persistent digging utilizing FOIA and knowledge within the public area.”
Mr. Horner goes into some element then concludes:
“It was a seminal revelation once I uncovered in 2012 that Obama Environmental Safety Company Administrator Lisa Jackson used an e mail beneath the false identification ‘Richard Windsor’ for EPA-related correspondence. Litigation additionally revealed that she used a separate non-official account for work. However since then, not sufficient has been carried out to carry authorities officers accountable. Biden officers appear to make large use of what the SEC calls ‘non-email digital communications’ for work with out maintaining an official document. But federal staff seem a lot much less probably than Wall Road companies to undergo critical penalties for these mediums’ misuse.
“From what I’ve seen, a reckoning is so as. Congress has an essential oversight function to play as do the courts. It’s previous time for us to protect our guardians. Traders have rights, however taxpayers do, too.”
2. Six Takeaways From WSJ’s Investigation Into the Inventory Trades of Authorities Officers
By Michael Siconolfi, WSJ, Oct. 11, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-takeaways-from-wsjs-investigation-into-the-stock-trades-of-government-officials-11665491360?mod=djemalertNEWS
“The federal authorities doesn’t preserve a complete public database of the necessary monetary disclosures of all senior executive-branch officers. The Journal constructed its personal.”
[SEPP Comment: See Jo Nova’s essay under EPA and other Regulators on the March.]
