Newsom’s Energy Regulations Have Oil Tankers Emitting More Than Twice What All of California’s Vehicle Fleet Do
As a result of continuously decreasing in-state oil production, California has increased imported crude oil from foreign countries from 5 percent in 1992 to 58 percent today of total consumption.…
WP: Ukraine War Helps with “Communicating the Need for [Climate] Sacrifice”
According to the Washington Post, people who have accepted austerity to defeat Russian aggression are more likely to also accept “sleeping colder in the winters to flying less and paying more when you do” to combat climate change.…
Comprehensive European Study Finds Warmer Climate Periods Do Not Lead to More Conflict, War
Our results indicated that none of the temperature reconstructions could be used to explain variation in conflict levels. It seems that shifts to extreme climate conditions may have been largely irrelevant to the conflict generating process in Europe during the second millennium CE.”…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #497
“If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”— Richard P. Feynman.…
Covid Pandemic and Climate Change Facts: Fact Checking the Fact Checkers
But are they the guardians of truth and accountability as they claim or are they the enforcers of the reigning political narrative? Are they the arbiters of “consensus science” (an oxymoron) that allegedly encompasses truths about climate change or the covid pandemic?…
Saving America from Planet-Threatening Fossil Fuels
Presidential candidate Joe Biden repeatedly promised to end fossil fuels in America. There’ll be “no more drilling, including offshore,” he said. “No ability for the oil industry to drill. No more pipelines.” …