Claim: Green Steel “Decades Off”, Requires “Affordable Renewables”
BlueScope Steel has poured cold water on fantasies that “green steel”, steel produced by hydrogen reduction rather than a fossil fuel powered blast furnace, will be commercially viable anytime soon.…
Claim: Climate Change is Causing Catastrophic Power Line Fires
According to NPR’s Julia Simon, climate change is killing all the trees overhanging power lines which utility companies thought were safe to ignore.…
Are US Northwest Summers Getting Drier? The Truth May Surprise You.
But there is no abrupt, end of the world, “existential” drought threat in the offering. Sometimes atmospheric variability randomly gives us a very dry summer, like this year, but that is entirely natural and expected.…
Solar Update September, 2021
This figure also shows a flat trend through the 1970s cooling period followed by a 40 year long downtrend in activity. Whatever solar processes caused the Modern Warm Period and the mild warming we all enjoyed in the second half of the 20th century, they are declining and the Sun is returning to its normal, colder state.…
The Greenhouse Effect, A Summary of Wijngaarden and Happer
By Andy May The phrase “greenhouse effect,” often abbreviated as “GHE,” is very ambiguous. It applies to Earth’s surface temperature, and has never been observed or measured, only modeled. To……
Covid 1984 – KFC Smugglers and Brutal Police Repression
As some Republicans discuss possible sanctions against Australia over police brutality towards Covid lockdown protestors, New Zealand has just arrested occupants of a car with a trunk full of lockdown contraband KFC chicken meals.…