Climate Change? What Climate Change?

The U.N. Says America Is Already Cutting So Much Carbon It Doesn’t Need The Paris Climate Accord The U.N. Says America Is Already Cutting So Much Carbon It Doesn’t Need The Paris Climate Accord Ellen R. Wald Former Contributor UN HQ. China News Service via Getty Images Yesterday, The United Nations released its  Emissions Gap Report 2020 , an annual assessment of contributions to greenhouse gas and carbon emissions. The report has some notable information amid an array of complicated projections that may or may not come true. It claims, for instance, that “despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise.”  But for the United States, the real value in this report is as an advisory that it need not join the Paris Climate Accord. This report is evidence that, instead, the U.S. should just keep doing what it is doing to cut its own emissions. The U.S. ...

  New bill could kill Wyoming's solar energy sector, critics say Camille Erickson Jan 19, 2021 Updated 13 hrs ago In a photo from 2014, homeowner Doug McLaughlin shows the control panel for the solar power system installed in the house he shares with his wife Bev Mathisen in Casper. ...

 Soychak: Fossil fuels still making our lives better January 15, 2021 By Steve Soychak I want to thank the men and women who have been responsible for developing the COVID vaccine in record time, that will ultimately save millions of lives in this new year. This would not have been possible without fossil fuels. Let us thank the countless energy workers who provide the fossil fuels to transport and keep these vaccines as cold as negative-90 degrees F. Seventy percent of the electricity in our state that will keep the vaccines at these low temperatures are generated by coal and natural gas. The plastic syringes that will be used to administer the vaccine are also brought to you by fossil fuels. Not to mention the masks, hand sanitizers and ventilators that are keeping people safe. Prior to the COVID outbreak in February, Colorado Mesa University’s Landman Energy Management...

The historic 1928/1929 winter pattern aims to return, as we head into 2nd half of January 2021, with now blocked Arctic regions after the Polar Vortex collapse   The historic 1928/1929 winter pattern aims to return, as we head into 2nd half of January 2021, with now blocked Arctic regions after the Polar Vortex collapse By Andrej Flis  |  Global weather  |  15 January 2021 The Winter weather pattern forecasts for the second half of January 2021, now show a startling similarity to January 1929. That was one of the coldest winters in the past century. Almost an identical temperature distribution is setting up across the United States and also Eurasia. A key role in this winter weather pattern change belongs to the Polar Vortex, or rather to its collapse. A strong exchange of energy has disrupted the stratospheric polar vortex, with the disrupted flow now starting to influence our weather. First, we will quickly learn what exactly is the Polar Vort...