Climate Change? What Climate Change?

  FP: China’s Belt and Road is a “Silk Road with Green Energy” 16 hours ago Eric Worrall 40 Comments Guest essay by Eric Worrall Foreign Policy Magazine fantasising about China rolling out a green energy revolution via its Belt and Road initiative, like it is already happening. Welcome to the Era of Competitive Climate Statecraft In trade, finance, development, and security, governments are racing to get closer to net-zero. BY  CAROLYN KISSANE  | FEBRUARY 8, 2021, 2:49 PM 2020 wasn’t only the year a pandemic hit the world; it was also the second hottest in history. Regions around the world faced wildfires, droughts, severe weather, and much more. The magnitude of the COVID-19 challenge should have brought nations together to cooperate and coordinate action. However, in many cases, the varying and shambolic responses illustrate the global system’s dysfunction when seeking to respond to a worldwide crisis...

Wind Turbine Blades Don’t Have To End Up In Landfills    US Department of Energy Wind Turbine Blades Don’t Have To End Up In Landfills James Gignac , lead Midwest energy analyst | October 30, 2020, 12:40 pm EST This post is a part of a series on Recycling Clean Energy Technologies This is one of four blogs in a series examining current c...

TIME Claims a Secret Cabal Manipulated the 2020 Election to Stop Trump, and People Have Questions   TIME Claims a Secret Cabal Manipulated the 2020 Election to Stop Trump, and People Have Questions By Bonchie | Feb 05, 2021 9:45 AM ET AP Photo/Gerald Herbert This seems like the sort of thing you don’t say out loud but, like a serial killer, many in politics are just too absorbed in their own egos to not try to take credit for their deeds. TIME wrote a very interesting piece making some very alarming claims. Namely, that a secret cabal banded together across the country to stop Donald Trump from winning re-election. This included everything from manipulating media coverage to getting election laws changed, at least according to TIME’s account. Yeah, this seems like a pretty big deal to me, and nakedly undemocratic, at least if you care about that sort of thing. Politics is inherently manipulative on some level, I suppose, but working to change el...

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Study reveals EV secret: They are driven less than gas cars --  Monday, February 8, 2021 -- www.eenews.net:  Study reveals EV secret: They are driven less than gas cars David Ferris,  E&E News reporter Published: Monday, February 8, 2021  Parking lot full of electric vehicles. Photo credit: Stephen Lam/Reuters/File Photo/Newscom   A new study finds that electric vehicles in California drive fewer miles than their gas-powered counterparts. A parking lot of predominantly Tesla Model 3 electric vehicles is pictured in Richmond, Calif., in June 2018. Stephen Lam/Reuters/File Photo/Newscom Electric vehicles in California logged half the miles on the roads of gas-powered cars and didn't draw the big quantity of energy that grid planners expected, according to a new study. The results of the study, published today by the National Bureau of Economic Research, feed into a topic of intensifying interest to the new Biden administration and in ...

  CU Professor says much of climate research ‘untethered from the real world’; cites misuse of scenarios January 29, 2021 By Scott Weiser DENVER–President Biden recently signed a sweeping executive order (EO) aimed at what the White House calls a “profound climate crisis.” As Biden’s unilateral exercise of authority notes , “There is little time left to avoid setting the world on a dangerous, potentially catastrophic, climate trajectory.” U.S. Senator Michael Bennet agrees, chiming in that “Climate change is a major threat to our national security, our economy, our health, and our way of life,” while Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter notes that , “ If we are going to build a better future and combat the cl imate crisis , we must listen to the experts.” These actions and rhetoric are predicated on the perception that climate change is an imminent threat to humanity, a perce...

What Does Offshore Wind Power Really Cost? 20 hours ago Charles Rotter 77 Comments Reposted from Not A Lot Of People Know That FEBRUARY 7, 2021 By Paul Homewood See the source image Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, we keep being assured that offshore wind costs have tumbled to under £50/MWh. The US Energy Information Administration however don’t agree. They regularly assess the levelised costs of all power sources, and only a year ago calculated that the cost of offshore wind was $115.04/MWh, roughly £84/MWh, at current prices. Their figure does include transmission costs of $3.15, so excluding this we are looking at £82/MWh. image image image electricity_generation You cannot of course simply compare generation costs, which the EIA have done, as there are associated system costs involved, as BEIS explain: image image image https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-electricity-generation-costs-2020 As Table 7.1 shows, these hidden costs could range between ...

Claim: Global Warming May have Started in 1825 16 hours ago Eric Worrall 43 Comments Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Tallbloke; According to researchers working in the Paracel Islands, the modern warming period began in 1825, before anthropogenic CO2 could possibly have had any effect on the global climate. Climate change: global warming may have started before industrial revolution, Chinese study says Investigation of coral reefs in the Paracel Islands suggest the South China Sea began warming up in 1825, researchers sayUranium dating shows samples have a continuous climate record going back to 1520 Stephen Chen in Beijing Published: 9:30pm, 7 Feb, 2021 Why you can trust SCMP Studies of coral reefs in the Paracel Islands suggest that the South China Sea started warming up in 1825, at the start of the industrial revolution, according to a study by Chinese scientists. That was the year the world’s first railway began operating in England and most oc...