Rare earths first? Or last?

Biden’s Green New Deal won’t work without mining, especially for rare earth elementsDuggan Flanakin As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take the reins of government and launch their program to……

Canada is Warming at Only 1/2 the Rate of Climate Model Simulations

Canada has huge year-to-year variability in temperatures due to its strong continental climate. So, to examine how observed surface temperature trends compare to climate model simulations, you need many of those simulations, each of which exhibits its own large variability.…

A New Look at the Urban Heat Island Effect

By Andy May Nicola Scafetta has just published a new paper in Climate Dynamics examining evidence of the urban heat island (UHI) effect (Scafetta, 2021). The paper is not paywalled……

Measuring Old Corals & Coral Reefs (Part 2)

Once upon a time, the scientists drilled into the corals and extracted a core from which they created a slither. Then, under x-ray, they counted the annual bands with the varying lengths and thicknesses of each band being a measure of annual growth rates. Yes, these massive bolder corals have annual growth rings – like tree rings.…