Bill Nye never was a science guy He's really ga-ga now Bill Nye on MSNBC claims we can prevent Hurricanes like Milton if we vote the right way – ‘The main thing is vote’ Bill Nye on MSNBC: "The other side, as we often call it, has no plans to address climate change. No plans for long-term dealing with these sorts of problems. If you have young voters out there, encourage them to vote. People say, 'What can I do about climate change?' If we were talking about it, associating it with big storms like this, that would be really good. But the main thing is vote." A few points about @BillNye th ..read more

Solar farms ‘good’ for desert environments? Solar farms are good for desert environments… That is what we are being asked to believe in a new study coming out of China. For context, China has a stranglehold on the world’s renewable energy construction and is responsible for mining and distributing at least 90+ per cent of the rare earths and other raw materials required in the industry. Many of these are sourced from Chinese territories, but increasingly, China has set up mines in third world nations or inside contested areas of water in the South China Sea. Renewable energy is becoming a g ..read more

Indonesia Biomass Drive Threatens Key Forests Indonesia's push to add wood-burning to its energy mix and exports is driving deforestation, including in key habitats for endangered species such as orangutans, a report said Thursday. Bioenergy, which uses organic material like trees to produce power, is considered renewable by the International Energy Agency as carbon released by burning biomass can theoretically be absorbed by planting more trees. But critics say biomass power plants emit more carbon dioxide per unit of energy produced than modern coal plants, and warn that using biomass t ..read more

Hurricane Milton Historic, Not Unprecedented It is wrong to blame human activity and ‘climate change’ for strength of hurricane ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (October 8, 2024) – Hurricane Milton is on track Wednesday to be one of the biggest storms to ever hit the Tampa Bay, Florida area, and is one of the few Category 5 hurricanes on record in the satellite era (1966-onwards). It may join Hurricane Michael in 2018 as the only Category 5 hurricanes to form in the Gulf of Mexico in October and make landfall at that strength. While the history of Gulf hurricanes growing this strong and making a dire ..read more

Great Hurricane of 1780 Remains the Worst Climate Change dramatists have incentivized the media to blare the talking point that human-induced climate change has made Atlantic tropical storms more powerful than they were in the past. Sediment studies indicate that major hurricanes have been blasting through the Atlantic for centuries, and were especially strong during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), also known as the Medieval Climate Optimum or the Medieval Climatic Anomaly—a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region that lasted from c. 950 to c. 1250. Christopher Columbus recorded ..read more

Wrong, Media and Climate Plaintiffs, Exxon Can’t Have Known What Is Still Being Studied and Debated “The contrived sense of accomplishment in history matching is spurious correlation for an infinitesimally small period of time. Using Exxon’s internal analysis of CO2 climate forcing is little more than a propaganda tool.” “Exxon Knew” is a political-lawyer campaign focusing on certain internal company documents to make a case that the oil major knew that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were a future threat to human betterment. Smoking gun? Hardly. A half century later, the IPCC is still try ..read more

Climate Negotiations on Hold, Pending U.S. Elections No matter how big China’s economy has become and how outsized Russia’s influence on geopolitics has grown, the United States is still the straw that stirs the drink on climate policy, an article published in the Japan Times shows. The article, “Trump stalks global climate talks as COP29 draws near,” describes the planning and negotiations, or more accurately the lack thereof, going on in the lead-up to the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 29) to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 11 ..read more

AI could be giving natural gas a second lease on life The inexorable rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is forcing a reassessment of the clean energy transition. Training and running AI models are both energy-intensive processes, adding significantly to the electricity needs of data centers. Despite the widespread use of renewable energy and progress to make processes more energy efficient, demand is expected to grow. AI’s appetite for energy is colossal. Goldman Sachs estimates that around 47 GW of additional power generation capacity will be needed in the U.S. alone by 2030 to meet the ..read more

The chattering climate class and their war on coal Electricity is slippery stuff, in that it can be difficult to properly grasp what it is or how to quantify it. We can blame the school system. Teachers who were taught social politics at University must somehow teach mathematics and physics. There is a reason for everything in the world and that reason usually comes down to physics until politics gets mixed in. This is a problem. In politics, the same big lie can be repeated many times, as loudly as possible, until people accept it as truth or give up trying to argue the toss. Readers wil ..read more

The Political Contamination of Climate Science Few scientific efforts have been so dramatically ruined by politics as climate science. For over 30 years, thousands of climate scientists have pushed the message that the world is in serious jeopardy because of human-caused climate change. They have signed manifestos saying we are in a “climate emergency” that will lead to “untold suffering,” that humanity is at “code red,” and that life as we know it is “under siege.” Climate science should have provided us with facts on which we can debate policies. It is curious, given all these scientists ..read more