The Futility of “Renewable” Energy in Two Easy Charts
Guest “energy transition… pft!” by David Middleton The United States Energy Information Administration is a national treasure! This morning, I was poking around in the latest Monthly Energy Review and I downloaded Table 1.1 Primary energy overview. It tabulates monthly and annual US primary energy production and consumption since 1949. I plotted up the primary……
Where’s the sea ice? 3 reasons the Arctic freeze is unseasonably late and why it matters
I’ve watched the region’s transformations since the 1980s as an Arctic climate scientist and, since 2008, as director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. I can tell you, this is not normal. There’s so much more heat in the ocean now than there used to be that the pattern of autumn ice growth has been completely disrupted.…
The Election Day Weather Forecast: Who Will it Favor?
Reposted from Cliff Mass’s Weather Blog Tuesday, October 27, 2020 I got a call today from a political science professor from California: he wanted to know how to get reliable weather forecast information for next week because weather can favor one party over another. I helped him, but this got me thinking about the weather……
ANZ Bank Demands Carbon Divestment as a Condition of Business Loans
If you want to borrow money from ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group), you better present your carbon offset plan along with your financial records, otherwise regardless of the health of your financials, your application for a loan might be rejected.…
Mean and Unclean: Electric Cars Powered by Child Labor in Africa
The makers of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles and other supposedly environment-friendly technologies — as well as the green activists, politicians and bureaucrats who promote and support them with our tax dollars — continually claim that these technologies are ‘green,’ ‘clean’ and ’just.’ Is that true? In this premier edition of our new series “Mean and Unclean,” JunkScience.com explores the African child labor cruelly exploited to make electric cars go.…
Dead Birds Falling from Cold Events
Good scientists must examine all likely factors. So, I investigated the stories behind most documented bird die-offs. For the case of a single dead bird found in someone’s yard, that bird may have died from disease, flown into a window, or simply died of old age. Most of our sparrows, warblers and hummingbirds don’t live longer than 13 years. Twenty-five to fifty percent of young birds die in their first year.…