Exploration of ocean currents beneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’
The ice sheet in West Antarctica accounts for about ten percent of the current rate of sea level rise; but also the ice in West Antarctica holds the most potential for increasing that rate because the fastest changes worldwide are taking place in the Thwaites Glacier. Due to its location and shape, Thwaites is particularly sensitive to warm and salty ocean currents that are finding their way underneath it.…
Clean energy? The world’s demand for copper could be catastrophic for communities and environments
Mining companies cannot pay their way out of biodiversity loss, extreme poverty, and corruption risk. If they don’t engage these big challenges before the copper boom gets underway these impacts will be baked in mining’s future legacy, without clarity about who takes responsibility in the long term.…
A Greenhouse Gas Planetary Temperature Formula to Put Nikolov and Zeller’s Pressure Formula in Context
So, in terms of corresponding to underlying physics, I expect my formula is basically nonsense. But, it has at least as much correspondence to the underlying physics as is the case for N&Z’s formula based on atmospheric pressure. (I’ve omitted some relevant physics. N&Z omit relevant physics and, in addition, had to hypothesize new physics to justify their model. That hypothetical “new physics” is easily falsified.)…
The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, We Think
The plan is laid out in months of emails between James’s Office and other OAGs with former EPA career attorneys and officials, and even the current Biden EPA climate chief. It is what a James-led lawsuit filed by those same AGs the day before the inauguration set in motion, as detailed in an amicus brief here.
It’s what they are doing. Understandably, AG James doesn’t like having that pointed out, according to her letter to the WSJ editors that ran last Friday.…
Greta Thunberg Threatens to Boycott the Glasgow COP26 Climate Conference
Greta is incensed that rich countries are prioritising taking care of their own people, instead of sharing their Covid-19 vaccines with poor countries.…
“It Takes Lots of Permits to Save the Planet”… WORD!
Guest “Mr. Loyola nailed it!” by David Middleton It Takes Lots of Permits to Save the PlanetEvery new energy project has to go through a convoluted and unpredictable federal approval……