4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (57+ words) In this week's deep dive into last summer's contrarian US Department of Energy climate report we look at Section 11. 2, Models of the Social Cost of Carbon or SCC. The report emphasizes that one does not "measure" the SCC the way…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (55+ words) In 2024 a commentary in one of the gazillion Nature subjournals (called npj Climate Action in this case) caught our attention because the author, Prof. Ulf B'ntgen of Cambridge University, pleaded for his fellow climate scientists to lay off all the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (690+ words) It is important to the story to grasp that Ehrlich was proved wrong almost immediately. The opening line of his 1968 best-seller was: "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (284+ words) The IPCC tally of radiative forcing includes the positive (warming) effect of CO2 and other greenhouse gases and the supposed cooling effect of aerosols (i. e. particulate pollution). It all adds up to about a 3 Watts per square meter increase since 1750. Which sounds…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (224+ words) Your source for the truth on climate news In The Dark: Senegal As A Case Study In Energy Poverty 3 comments on "In The Dark: Senegal As A Case Study In Energy Poverty" A good and very important topic, but way…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (393+ words) The key offending passage read: Before we even get to the climate science, we need to talk about the economics, the sort of thing a na've observer might imagine Scotiabank specialised in. As Roger Pielke Jr. and others have catalogued…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (168+ words) Not much. Along with all this income, crop production doubles and energy consumption per capita more than triples. So here's a thought experiment. Suppose we set aside our skepticism about modeling and take this projection at face value. And suppose…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (861+ words) Alarmists being creative and independent thinkers are now declaring CO2 aka plant food to be the latest big threat to plants. Including Sci Tech Daily with "Increasing Levels of CO2 Results in Less Nutritious Crops. Or Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health, for instance:…...