An Unmanned Saildrone Takes Weather Observations in the Center of a Hurricane
On Thursday, September 30, an autonomous (unmanned) sailboat, called a Saildrone, made it into the center of Hurricane Sam, a category four tropical cyclone, measuring extraordinary winds and seas. …
Energy and Environmental Review: October 4, 2021
This fortnightly Master Resource post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, published every other week by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.…
UK Energy Secretary Appeals for Faith Leaders to Save COP26
COP26 President Alok Sharma has thanked 40 faith leaders for presenting a commitment to promote a voluntary permanent climate lockdown, in the form of “Encouraging our communities to embrace simple and sustainable lifestyles at home, so as to reduce our collective carbon footprint”. But more needs to be done to help spread the message.…
Putin Trolls Germany
While Europe is cursing him now, they only have themselves to blame for continuing to demonize his gas and oil :…
UAH Global Temperature Update for September, 2021:
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2021 was +0.25 deg. C, up from the August, 2021 value of +0.17 deg. C.…
Treasury Secretary on European Wind Drought: “Energy Storage … Can Be Deployed”
If Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has calculated how much must be spent on energy storage to stabilise a renewable grid, she does not seem keen to share.…