Climate Change? What Climate Change?

How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Vehicle at Home? by Amanda Cline on March 24, 2021 When considering purchasing an electric vehicle , you also have to consider how to charge your vehicle. There are public charging stations strategically placed, but your best bet is to charge in your own home. Find out how much it can cost to charge your electric car at home below. What does kWh mean for electric cars? A homeowner plugs into a charging unit at home A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is a measure of energy. You are charged per kilowatt-hour to charge your electric vehicle. John Voelcker, an automotive journalist and industry analyst, commented on this to Kelly Blue Book . Voelcker notes that most EVs get between three and four miles out of each kWh. If you divide the total miles driven each month by three, you can get the amount of kWh you would use monthly. Multiply this by the cost per ...

Economically destructive cap and trade for HFCs is here By David Wojick | March 27th, 2021 | Economy , Environment | 10 Comments This is a bit complicated so bear with me. To begin with, Biden’s avalanche of climate scare executive orders included one telling the State Department to prepare the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer for submission to the Senate, for ratification. The Kigali Amendment has nothing to do with ozone depletion (a fanciful tale in itself), quite the contrary in fact. The 1987 Montreal Protocol mandated the phase out of CFCs, the primary refrigerant and aerosol propellant at the time. CFC were globally replaced with HFCs, at great expense and bother. The 2015 Kigali Amendment now mandates the phase out of HFCs. I am not making this up. HFCs do not threaten the ozone layer, so they have nothing to do with the Montreal Protocol. But the...

The real lessons of Fukushima By Kelvin Kemm | March 27th, 2021 | Energy | 1 Comment A decade has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the name Fukushima is etched into history. But few people know the truth of what happened. The phrase, “the lessons learned from Fukushima,” is well-known. But how do people implement them, if they don’t know what happened, or what lessons they should actually learn? It was after lunch on 11 March 2011 that a giant earthquake occurred 72 kilometers (45 miles) off the Oshika Peninsula in Japan. It registered 9.0 on the Richter Scale, making it the largest ’quake ever recorded in Japan. The undersea ground movement, over 30 km (18 miles) beneath the ocean’s surface, lifted up a huge volume of water, like an immense moving hill. Meanwhile, the ground shockwave travelled...

  First-ever study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggest the forest is worsening climate change The first broad look at all of the gases that affect how the Amazon works—not just CO2—reveals a system on the brink. By Craig Welch Published March 11, 2021 The Amazon rainforest is most likely now a net contributor to warming of the planet, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis from more than 30 scientists. For years, researchers have expressed concern that rising temperatures, drought, and deforestation are reducing the capacity of the world’s largest rainforest to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and help offset emissions from fossil-fuel burning. Recent studies have even suggested that some portions of the tropical landscape already may release more carbon than they store . But the inhaling and exhaling of CO2 is just one way this damp jungle, the most species-rich on Earth, influences the global climate. Activities in the Amazon, both natural and human-cau...

  What is heat? By CFACT Ed , Dr. Jay Lehr , Terigi Ciccone | December 29th, 2020 | Climate | Comments Off on What is heat? Brace yourself. This is a bit difficult to grasp. Heat is the random motion of atoms, molecules, and other subatomic particles in a system. A system maybe a glass of water or a cloud or the planet Earth and everything else in the universe. Temperature is how we measure the energy of this motion. We measure it in degrees Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, or electrically with millivolts or spectral wavelengths and even in more exotic ways. So, if we put more energy into a system, say, like heating a pot of water, the motion and speed of the atoms in the water increases, as does the energy of the molecules colliding at higher speeds. Faster speeds mean more collisions and more powerful collisions. Similarly, the same thing is happening with the water contai...

  How accurate are our weather and climate measurements? By CFACT Ed , Dr. Jay Lehr , Terigi Ciccone | January 5th, 2021 | Climate , Science | Comments Off on How accurate are our weather and climate measurements? The accuracy and integrity of weather and climate measurements have always been a concern. However, errors and omissions were not as consequential in the past as they are now. A hundred or even fifty years ago, our major weather concerns were more limited to local weather. When we have a flight from NYC to LAX, we need to know more detailed and reliable weather information, like is it snowing in St. Louis where we have a layover? Or the farmer in Nebraska who needs to see the spring wheat production forecast in Ukraine. He needs the best possible information to better estimate the number of acres of winter wheat he should plant for today’s global markets. We espe...

  Climate change is real — Stop beating up straw men. By Dr. Jay Lehr , Terigi Ciccone | January 13th, 2021 | Climate | 152 Comments We don’t know anyone who thinks the climate doesn’t change.  To think otherwise is a joke.   At its worst, it ‘ s a setup for a confrontation.  For example, we might respond by asking, “ by climate change, do you mean a change that could impact our children or grandchildren years from now, or are you asking if it may be a rainy April this year?” Most people know that there were ice ages and wooly mammoths in the past, and if they saw the movie “ The Grapes of Wrath,” they also know how hot it was in the 1930s.   Now, having reframed the question, let ‘ s address it first in historical terms and then draw some inference for what ‘ s ahead for us. Figure 1[i] shows both weather and climate are always changing. There are many complex cau...

  Where is global warming’s missing heat coming from? Part 2 By Terigi Ciccone , Dr. Jay Lehr | March 3rd, 2021 | Climate | 10 Comments In Part-1 of this three-part series, we presented the latest findings and data that show how the Earth’s internal nuclear furnace may play a very significant role in the Earth’s climate change. In This Part-2, we will closely examine a recently published article, “ Nature’s Response To 500 Years of Cooling ,” download the complete report from https://www.academia.edu/s/d21a7b4a34?source=work to get an appreciation of the power and heat generated by one such underwater volcano. In Part 3, we put all the climate change pieces together and provide our climate change projection for the next 50 years. The Axial Seamount Global Warming? Under Sea Volcanos, The Axial Seamount. Thousands More Like It—a special report By Jim LeMaistre, copyright 2020. Figure-1 s...