CLIMATE CHANGE NO WORRY IN US

Nicholas Goldberg    Los Angeles Times  Sept. 22, 2022 Why is the greatest threat to the planet of so little concern to most Americans? It’s shocking, frankly, that global warming ranks 24th on a list of 29 issues that voters say they’ll think about when deciding whom to vote for in November, according to the Yale […]

DROUGHTS AND FLOODING RAINS

Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When, sick at heart, around us, We see the cattle die, But then the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again, The drumming of an army, The steady soaking rain. Excerpt from the poem My Country written by Dorothy Mackellar in 1904 when only […]

FOSSIL FUELS NOT THE MAIN CAUSE

United Press International, Aug. 17, 2000 — James Hansen chief scientist at NASA, considered to have been instrumental in sparking serious debate over global warming, suggested this week that emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels are not the main culprit in global warming, and that the world should now instead focus on […]

SOLAR AND WIND JUST BIT PLAYERS

Wind and Solar provide less than two per cent of the total energy demand, not just for electricity, but for the globe. The key takeaway: “Renewable” is not necessarily synonymous with “carbon-neutral.” Carrie Annand, executive director of trade body Biomass Power Association, asserts that biomass (wood) is both — so long as forests are consistently […]

1988-1995 HIGHER TEMPS IGNORED

All the IPCC will say today is that we must keep the average global temperature below 1.5 degrees which is confusing. Their previous warning was a little more specific when it said that we must limit the average global temperature to no more than 1.5 C above the pre-industrial average temperature but they have never […]

COAL PLANT CO2 RESIDUALS TO 1%

A literature review undertaken as part of this study exposes the 90% capture rate cap as an artificial limit. It is an historical benchmark based on the economics of capture. To-date, capture technology developers have largely focused on designing plant for CO2 capture rates of 85% to 90%, leaving 10-15% of the emissions uncaptured, which […]

KARL SAVED CLIMATE CONFERENCES

In the video below, on the tenth of July 1997, prior to the Kyoto Climate conference, John Holdren confirmed a one degree Fahrenheit rise in world temperature over the previous hundred years, the same amount of warming previously announced in a Whitehouse statement some two years earlier. Tom Karl of NOAA spoke about about rainfall […]

CONVERTING PLASTICS BACK TO OIL

There is more concern about global warming/climate change than the plastics that are currently overwhelming our ocean environment. Children are being encouraged, by the UN and their primary school teachers, to protest about the governments lack of action in combating climate change by gluing themselves to roadways like the young lady who padlocked herself to […]

PLASTIC EV’S NOT PLANET FRIENDLY

While electric cars can be up to 50% plastic and only contribute to about 10% of an electric car’s total weight, the claim that they are more energy efficient and environmentally friendly, needs further scrutiny. The greater use of plastics will improve the weight to power ratio over its metal counterparts but the comparison should […]

A NOAA REVIEW HELPED SAVE PARIS

Using the data that was available at the time (to 2014), a final climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that there had been no significant increase in global surface temperature. With most temperature monitoring authorities in agreement it appeared likely that the Paris conference, scheduled for December 2015, might be postponed. […]