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Weekly Local weather and Power Information Roundup #542


The Week That Was: 2023-03-04 (March 4, 2023)
Dropped at You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)
The Science and Environmental Coverage Venture

Quote of the Week: The primary precept is that you could not idiot your self and you’re the best particular person to idiot. — Richard P. Feynman

Variety of the Week: Six instances and 4 instances

THIS WEEK:

By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Coverage Venture (SEPP)

Scope: One focus this week will likely be on a brand new paper by professors emeriti William Happer at Princeton College and Richard Lindzen on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, respectively, and Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist of greater than 40 years’ expertise, who now heads the CO2 Coalition. The paper explains that Governments across the globe are taking actions to implement fossil fuel-free or “Web Zero” power techniques and not using a thorough examination of the scientific foundation for doing so. The one exception is governments in Asia.

On the 15th Worldwide Local weather Change Convention (ICCC) in Orlando, Judith Curry gave a stable abstract of what she calls the Depraved science downside – mixing science with politics. The result’s politics with a false scientific certainty. A number of key factors will likely be mentioned.

Additionally, on the 15th ICCC, Willie Quickly addressed the query is international warming predominantly human induced or pure. A number of key factors will likely be mentioned. Another displays will likely be mentioned in future TWTWs.

The October 23, 2021, TWTW, addressed an vital paper by a Professor of Economics on the College of Guelph, Canada, Ross McKitrick printed within the journal Local weather Dynamics. The paper addressed errors in understanding the situations for making use of the Gauss-Markov theorem in assessing the chances of uncommon climate occasions in a paper printed in Local weather Dynamics by Myles Allen and Simon Tett twenty years earlier. A whole self-discipline arose from this error, which was included in each Evaluation Report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC) since 2001. Throughout the 15th ICCC, Ken Haapala requested McKitrick did he know of any papers refuting his evaluation. The reply was no. The abstract of the difficulty by Richard Tol of the College of Sussex and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is reproduced under.

In getting ready for a listening to held by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Marlo Lewis of CEI requested TWTW concerning the present research on sea degree rise. A abstract is introduced under.

The EU and the US proceed on their mad pursuit of unreliable electrical energy from wind and photo voltaic partially pushed by the parable that electrical energy from wind and photo voltaic will likely be inexpensive. Now, wind energy promoters are exposing the parable by demanding will increase in subsidies and assured charges, no matter their bids to supply low-cost electrical energy. Web Zero Watch and Andrew Montford expose extortion makes an attempt within the UK. In the meantime China, India, and Pakistan proceed to thumb their nostril on the Western fable that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are inflicting harmful international warming.

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Web Zero Problem: The Govt Abstract of “Difficult ‘Web Zero’ with Science” sums up properly the thrust of the 40 plus web page report:

“Governments across the globe are taking actions to implement fossil fuel-free or “Web Zero” power techniques and not using a thorough examination of the scientific foundation for doing so. This paper undertakes that examination by reviewing the scientific assist (or lack thereof) that has been used to justify this transition to Web Zero. No try is made to handle the numerous financial, societal, or environmental penalties of a near-total reliance on renewable power and the required battery-backup that’s essential to transition to a fossil gasoline free future.

Two of the paper’s authors – Drs. William Happer and Richard Lindzen, professors emeriti at Princeton College and Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, respectively  – have spent many years learning and writing concerning the physics of Earth’s environment. The third, Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist of greater than 40 years, has spent a lot of the final decade writing and talking concerning the interaction of geology, historical past, and local weather.

The authors discover that Web Zero – the worldwide motion to remove fossil fuels and its emissions of CO2 and different greenhouse gases – to be scientifically invalid and a risk to the lives of billions of individuals. Among the many paper’s findings are:

• Web Zero proponents frequently report that excessive climate is extra extreme and frequent due to local weather change whereas the proof exhibits no improve – and, in some instances, a lower – in such occasions.

• Pc fashions supporting each authorities Web Zero regulation and the trillions of {dollars} subsidizing renewables and electrical automobiles, vehicles, house heating, home equipment and plenty of different merchandise don’t work.

• Scientific analysis and research that don’t assist the ‘consensus’ narrative of dangerous man-made international warming are routinely censored and excluded from authorities reviews such because the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change and the Nationwide Local weather Evaluation.

• Conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change that contradict the narrative of catastrophic international warming from fossil fuels are rewritten by authorities bureaucrats for public reviews to assist the false narrative of Web Zero.

• The numerous advantages of modest warming and growing carbon dioxide are routinely both eradicated or minimized in governmental reviews.

• Eliminating fossil fuels and implementing Web Zero insurance policies and actions imply the elimination of fossil fuel-derived nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides that may end in about half the world’s inhabitants not having sufficient meals to eat. Many would starve. [See recent events in Sri Lanka]

• The adoption of Web Zero is the rejection of overwhelming scientific proof that there isn’t a danger of catastrophic international warming brought on by fossil fuels and CO2.

Web Zero, then, violates the tenets of the scientific technique that for greater than 300 years has underpinned the development of western civilization.”

After supporting all of the assertions together with utilizing the curves exhibiting the greenhouse impact of assorted gases produced by Happer & Wijngaarden in “Dependence of Earth’s Thermal Radiation on 5 Most Considerable Greenhouse Gases,’ the authors state:

“In abstract:

• 394 W/m2 can be radiated to area with out the greenhouse impact.

• Solely 277 W/m2 is radiated to area due to the greenhouse impact.

• 117 W/m2 distinction is radiated to the Earth, and it retains us from freezing to dying.

• 3 W/m2 extra warming if CO2 is doubled from 400 ppm 800 ppm.

120 ppm, 120 W/m2 reasonably than 117 W/m2, goes again to Earth and leads to a trivial temperature improve of 1°C (2 ° F).” [Correction approved by Happer]

It goes on to state that a number of the CMIP fashions could acknowledge CO2 is “saturated” and:

“Accordingly, since CO2 at at this time’s degree is “saturated,” because of this alone there isn’t a danger fossil fuels and even doubling CO2 will trigger catastrophic international warming.”

The Conclusion of the report states:

“Thus, in our scientific opinion, any authorities or different evaluation advocating “Web Zero” regulation, coverage or different motion is scientifically invalid and fatally flawed science if it:

  1. Omits unfavorable information that contradicts conclusions, for instance, on excessive climate occasions resembling warmth waves, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, and droughts.
  • Depends on fashions that don’t work and thus would by no means be utilized in science.

C. Depends on IPCC findings, that are authorities opinions, not science.

D. Omits the extraordinary social advantages of CO2 and fossil fuels.

E. Omits the disastrous penalties of decreasing fossil fuels and CO2 to ‘Web Zero.’

F. Rejects the science that demonstrates there isn’t a danger of catastrophic international warming brought on by fossil fuels and CO2.

We urge all authorities companies concerned in ‘Web Zero’ regulation, coverage, or different motion, together with USGCRP [US Global Change Research Program] in its ultimate model of the fifth Nationwide Local weather Evaluation, to use the scientific technique and

1. Delete any reliance on and quotation to IPCC government-controlled findings.

2. Delete any reliance on and quotation to CMIP fashions and every other fashions until they’ve been confirmed to work.

3. Delete any reliance on strategies aside from the scientific technique, resembling peer overview and consensus.

4. Embrace and analyze the large social advantages of CO2.

5. Embrace and analyze the large social advantages of fossil fuels.

6. Instantly cease all efforts to remove fossil fuels to keep away from large human hunger sooner or later.”

See hyperlink underneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.

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“Good Information” Helps Political Coverage: In her 15th ICCC video presentation, Judith Curry had some wonderful slides of be aware. One in all them introduced the issue of blending politics with science. In that slide Curry asserts.

“Coverage makers misuse science by:

  • Utilizing science as a car to keep away from ‘sizzling potato’ coverage points,
  • Anticipating black-and-white solutions to advanced issues
  • Demanding Scientific arguments for desired insurance policies
  • Funding a slender vary of tasks that helps most well-liked insurance policies.

Scientists misuse policy-relevant science by:

  • Taking part in energy politics with their experience
  • Conflating [mixing] proof with knowledgeable judgement [which may be questionable]
  • Ignoring information and analysis paths that undermine their political choice.
  • Entangling disputed info with values
  • Intimidating scientist whose analysis interferes with their political agenda.”

In discussing what she calls Depraved science, the over lapping of science and politics, Curry introduced various preceptive slides. As mentioned within the January 21 TWTW, in his 1995 e book, The Imaginative and prescient of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Foundation for Social Coverage, Thomas Sowell noticed the issue in social sciences. It has now unfold to bodily sciences with devastating penalties in power coverage. See hyperlinks underneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.

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Man-made or Human-caused? In his presentation on the 15th ICCC, Willie Quickly summarizes key discovering of two papers not too long ago produced by the Heart for Environmental Analysis and Earth Sciences (CERES). Begun in 2018, CERES is a staff led by Quickly, Ronan Connolly and Michael Connolly which works with many researchers  on multi-disciplinary environmental and Earth science tasks.

Within the transient 20 minutes given to him, Quickly addressed the next:

  • “Historical past and the evolution of the worldwide land temperature information
  • The city warmth island downside and different non-climatic biases
  • What occurs if we simply use rural stations?
  • ‘Statistical homogenization of the temperature information’ as a attainable resolution?
  • Issues with present ‘homogenization” makes an attempt
  • Are the IPCC’s “photo voltaic forcing’ estimates right?
  • Can the Solar clarify the worldwide warming of rural stations?”

Quickly goes by way of the phases of local weather change: fixed temperature (1870s to Nineteen Twenties); international warming (Nineteen Thirties to Nineteen Forties); international cooling (Nineteen Forties to Seventies); and international warming once more (Nineteen Eighties to current). Quickly discusses the issues of floor devices, notably the City Warmth Island impact, which he presents in some element.

The issue with strictly rural temperatures is the dearth of knowledge. The staff developed a rural Northern Hemisphere instances collection for 4 areas: US; Arctic; Eire; and China. There merely just isn’t sufficient information for the Southern Hemisphere and solely about 10 to fifteen p.c of the full information for the Northern Hemisphere is used.

These information present a cyclical warming – warming, cooling, warming, cooling, and so on. Apparently, sea floor temperature estimates don’t agree with the IPCC’s conclusions of a harmful international warming. Quickly goes into the homogenization changes on floor information and finds a number of issues: 1) there isn’t a consistency to the changes; 2) there’s a “city mixing” downside (as cities turn into extra city). With out consistency in changes and constant urbanization, the ensuing changes are extremely questionable.

Quickly goes into photo voltaic variability which will higher clarify the warming and cooling cycles than carbon dioxide (CO2). However the IPCC ignores local weather variability, together with utilizing the ridiculous 2,000-year hockey-stick in its newest Abstract for Policymakers (AR-6, 2021). Quickly concludes with future instructions for CERES analysis. See hyperlink underneath Difficult the Orthodoxy.

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Deafening Silence: Nobody has come ahead to problem Ross McKitrick’s work describing the misguided understanding of the Gauss-Markov Theorem by Myles Allen and Simon Tett that gave rise to a big physique of labor attributing excessive climate occasions to CO2. Thus, it’s helpful to repeat the feedback by local weather modeler Richard Tol after reviewing the work by McKitrick. Tol wrote:

“The talk between Ross McKitrick on the one hand and Myles Allen and Simon Tett on the opposite is a tough one. It’s a couple of element in statistical idea. Most individuals attempt to keep away from statistics, not to mention the internal workings of estimators which can be strong to heteroskedasticity.

Allen and Tett labored on a way developed earlier by Klaus Hasselmann, now a Nobel laureate. Regression evaluation consists of a mannequin and an error time period. It maximized the similarity between mannequin and information, minimizing the error. Atypical least squares, the usual regression technique, assumes that every one errors are the identical. If this assumption is violated, the usual errors of the estimated parameters are biased even when there are infinitely many observations. The take a look at whether or not there’s a local weather sign within the information depends on these normal errors. That take a look at is due to this fact improper.

Allen and Tett had been conscious of this downside and proposed an answer of their 1999 paper. Sadly, their record of references exhibits that they didn’t seek the advice of a lot statistical literature. They didn’t go to Oxford’s wonderful departments of statistics or econometrics both – the place they might have realized that Halbert White had printed an answer in 1980, an answer that was in each textbook by 1990

The answer proposed by Allen and Tett doesn’t resolve the issue. Quite the opposite. Atypical least squares would have carried out higher. The estimated normal error remains to be inconsistent. Worse, McKitrick exhibits that the estimated parameter is now biased. Allen and Tett additionally proposed a take a look at of their technique. McKitrick exhibits this take a look at is improper as properly: It finds too many false positives. That’s, Allen and Tett printed a non-solution that made issues worse plus a option to cowl all of it up. 

In his reply, right here and elsewhere, Myles Allen makes gentle of his mistake. It was so way back. He additionally reveals that he doesn’t perceive the difficulty. Allen argues that there at the moment are far more information. This may overcome all statistical issues. Nothing might be farther from the reality. The Allen and Tett estimator is biased. Extra information simply means that you’ve larger confidence within the improper end result.”

Apparently, in his e book, The Primacy of Doubt, extensively revered local weather modeler Tim Palmer refers back to the false attribution research as proof the worldwide local weather fashions are right.

World Climate Attribution nonetheless publishes research claiming that excessive climate occasions resembling storms, floods, heatwaves and droughts are related to greenhouse gasoline emissions. They use international local weather fashions resembling CMIP6 utilized by the IPCC. (Notice the round argument: fashions are justified attributable to attribution research and these attribution research use these fashions.)

All that is “peer reviewed” which means that “peer overview” is little greater than conformity to the imaginative and prescient of the anointed. The Imperial School London, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), and Purple Cross Purple Crescent Local weather Centre are companions with World Climate Attribution. See hyperlinks underneath Difficult the Orthodoxy and https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/evaluation/heatwave/

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Altering Seas: TWTW responded to the request by Marlow Lewis on the newest in sea degree change as follows: (hyperlinks are within the textual content)

As we mentioned, I’ve reviewed TWTW for articles on sea degree rise that you could hyperlink to in your Wednesday listening to. The under can be utilized to complement Kip Hansen’s posts resembling https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/02/14/sea-level-rise-and-fall-part-4a-getting-even-more-of-a-rise-out-of-nothing/.

NASA meteorologist, the late Tom Wysmuller, wrote some wonderful stuff, however I used to be unable to search out it on the present web site maintained in his honor. The most effective I discovered are: 1) The Inconvenient CO2/Sea Stage Non-Linkage; and a couple of) the responses to query # 2 on the FAQ Web page. The graph used firstly of the primary put up is what I usually reference, which appeared within the 2008 NIPCC report. http://colderside.com/Colderside/Sea_Level_percent26_CO2.html and http://colderside.com/Colderside/F.A.Q..html

There are three main difficulties with the declare that sea degree rises are accelerating.

1. Geological stability: In line with tidal gauges within the Gulf of Bothnia, sea ranges are falling drastically. Alongside the coast of Finland, the variation in sea degree tendencies is over 2 meters, over 6 toes. (Decide a sea degree development – rise or fall?) https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/sea-level-variations The Gulf of Alaska and Hudson Bay are different places with falling sea ranges. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/ Conversely, the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Gulf of Mexico are experiencing important sea degree rise from groundwater extraction which is inflicting the land to sink. Coastal Virginia (Norfolk-Newport Information) is a superb instance. https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1392/pdf/circ1392.pdf (Roger Bezdek did a wonderful paper on this downside exhibiting creating funnels of subsiding land round main wells at West Level and Franklin, Virginia, from the USGS report cited, pp 13 & 16.) For my part, the issue for coastal areas is solvable by desalination strategies developed by the Israelis, utilized in different Mid-Japanese nations and in Carlsbad, California. https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/desalination and https://www.carlsbaddesal.com/ .

2. Altering patterns of prevailing winds. Over 100 years in the past the British Nationwide Oceanography Heart https://ntslf.org/tgi/newlyn-tidal-observatory established tidal gauges at geodetic steady places at Newlyn, Cornwall, England, https://psmsl.org/information/acquiring/stations/202.php and North Shields, Northumberland, England. As Paul Homewood demonstrates, examination of all the information exhibits intervals of accelerating sea degree rise and falling sea ranges. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/uk-sea-level-rise-not-unprecedented-nor-accelerating/ Altering prevailing winds are the probably trigger in altering sea degree tendencies in these places.

3. As Kip Hansen exhibits, instrument modifications are the probably reason behind the latest fad of accelerating sea degree tendencies. Authorities scientific organizations ought to notice that following instrument modifications intervals of stabilization, or calibration, are wanted to guarantee that various kinds of devices are measuring the identical factor the identical means. The notorious hockey-stick episode demonstrated that proxy information resembling tree rings could not measure temperature alone or the identical means as thermometers. Many authorities organizations ignore these previous failures and fail to correctly standardize measurements.

In line with Brown College in Windfall, Windfall, Rhode Island, has been topic to floods from hurricanes (gales) since 1764. https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/programs/architectureandmemory/8084.html. Different main hurricane floods embrace 1815, 1869, 1938, Carol in 1954, and Connie and Diane in 1955. The 2010 flood was from rain. https://www.climate.gov/security/flood-states-ri An issue is its geological location on the small finish of a funnel. The development of the Fox Level Hurricane Barrier, accomplished in 1966, will assist towards hurricanes and northeasters, however that doesn’t shield towards river flooding from the Windfall River attributable to rainfall. Normally, sea degree rise is actual, however not accelerating, and less than 8 inches per century.

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Grasping Inexperienced: Andrew Montfort of Web Zero Watch discusses that the subsidies acquired by inexperienced wind energy are usually not falling as promised earlier. Additional, the wind trade within the UK is ignoring its bids to ship inexpensive electrical energy and demanding larger subsidies. The US can anticipate comparable measures as favorable rules are utilized by wind and photo voltaic to cost out dependable turbines of electrical energy. See Subsidies and Mandates Endlessly and Different, Inexperienced (“Clear”) Photo voltaic and Wind.

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Variety of the Week: Six instances and 4 instances: In line with NPR, China is constructing six instances extra coal-fired energy crops than every other nation; Reuters states that Pakistan plans to quadruple home coal-fired energy; and an article in Oil Worth.com states that India has dedicated its coal-fired energy crops for max technology for the summer time. Clearly, the leaders of those nations shouldn’t have “The Imaginative and prescient” that leaders of Western nations have. See hyperlinks underneath Issues within the Orthodoxy.

Censorship

Opinion: Policing misinformation from the misinformation police

State-sponsored ‘consultants’ on ‘misinformation’ are sometimes the worst offenders

By Ross McKitrick, Particular to Monetary Publish, Feb 23, 2023 [H/t Ron Clutz]

https://financialpost.com/opinion/policing-misinformation-misinformation-police

How a reality verify works

By John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Mar 1, 2023

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:

http://climatechangereconsidered.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Local weather-Change-Reconsidered-II-Fossil-Fuels-FULL-Quantity-with-covers.pdf

Why Scientists Disagree About World 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

World Sea-Stage Rise: An Analysis of the Information

By Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Coverage Temporary, Might 20, 2019

Difficult the Orthodoxy

Difficult “Web Zero” with Science

By Richard Lindzen and William Happer, CO2 Coalition, 2023

The True disaster: Local weather Change or Local weather Coverage

15th Worldwide Convention on Local weather Change, Feb 24 & 25, 2023

Video: https://climateconference.heartland.org/

Local weather Uncertainty & Danger: the presentation

By Judith Curry, Local weather And so on. Feb 24, 2023

World warming: Largely human-caused or principally pure?

Dr. Willie Quickly’s February 2023 presentation at ICCC15, Florida (USA)

By Employees, CERES Staff, March 1, 2023

https://www.ceres-science.com/put up/iccc15?utm_campaign=ac9e7761-fb5c-48bc-bf95-f14bfe941c79&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=a6aceb6f-639d-4f5c-9bce-75f70ae61d57

Suboptimal Fingerprinting? A debate about local weather statistics

By Employees, GWPF, Oct 18, 2021

Hyperlink to simplified paper: Suboptimal Fingerprinting?

By Ross McKitrick, GWPF, 2021

https://www.thegwpf.org/content material/uploads/2021/10/McKitrick-Optimum-Fingerprinting.p

Research finds sinking tundra floor unlikely to set off runaway permafrost thaw

Press Launch: DOE/OAK Ridge Nationwide Laboratory, Through WUWT, Feb 22, 2023

Hyperlink to paper: Drying of tundra landscapes will restrict subsidence-induced acceleration of permafrost thaw

By Scott L. Painter, et al. PNAS, Feb 13, 2023

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2212171120

Defending the Orthodoxy

The UN Owns The Science

By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of Individuals Know That, Feb 24, 2023

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