Surge in Survival Courses for Manhattan Climate Change Worriers
Urban high-rise dwellers are increasingly flocking to survival skill camps, to learn how to trap game and light fires by rubbing two sticks together.…
The Diplomat: “Authoritarianism Can’t Beat Climate Change”
Alexander Butler, a Leeds University student, has published a rare and courageous climate activist defence of Democracy, by explaining in simple terms why authoritarians like Communist China likely have no motivation to pursue genuine climate action.…
Sow the Wind Turbine, Reap the Wind Turbine Noise
As wind farms proliferate they are bound to invade residential areas and noise sensitive facilities with increasing frequency, making arguments over nuisance and health concerns increasingly acute and acrimonious. Yet, the methods used to estimate noise levels are surprisingly primitive and don’t appear at times to follow good engineering practice.…
ECOSTRESS Data Incorporated Into New Wildfire Response Tool
ECOSTRESS measures surface temperature from the vantage point of the International Space Station, and its ability to observe fires of the Northwest US often twice per day at a high spatial resolution (around 70 meters) makes it ideal for tracking fires. Researchers on the RADR-Fire team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been experimenting with ECOSTRESS data as part of a new tool now being implemented for first responders like the U.S. Forest Service.…
“Off Target”: Bad Economics of the Climate Crusade (mitigation not supported by mainstream analysis)
Why is such a temperature change bad? I can walk across the street and not notice the temperature change of the accumulated warming of the last century or more–and that has put us in a crisis?…
Extreme Weather In 1971
I defy anybody to claim that this year’s weather has been any worse:…