Climate Change? What Climate Change?

  Judith Curry sea-level study disputes climate-disaster predictions Waves break on the remains of a structure as a house that toppled over the eroding Pacific Ocean shoreline of North Cove, Wash., is shown in the background. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) more > ...

  Europe’s ambitious net-zero pledges hit home—with eye-watering energy bills By  Sophie Mellor September 10, 2021 9:55 AM MDT Running out of gas as the cost of energy hits record highs, Europe is facing a "power crunch"—one that has been years in the making. As the global demand for gas soars, Europe’s uptake of intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, combined with its aggressive shutdown of coal and heavy EU carbon taxation, has caused its electricity supply to tighten. The continent's gas crunch is causing extreme volatility, with the U.K. on Thursday seeing its electricity price jump 10-fold during one seven-hour period, to a record high of £2,300 ($3,180) per megawatt-hour (MWh), as Ireland, which regularly exports wind energy to the U.K., itself faced supply shortages. They're not alone. This volatility has brought higher prices, hitting record highs across Spain, Germany, and France. Residential users, meanwhile, bear the...

Henry’s Law controls CO2 concentration, not humans –     Henry’s Law controls CO2 concentration, not humans By Bud Bromley | August 18, 2021 In physical chemistry, Henry’s Law is one of the gas laws. It defines the solubility of a gas within a liquid which is in contact with the gas. It was formulated in the early 19th century by the English chemist William Henry who described the results of his experiments. In the 21st century, Henry’s Law is the foundation science for multi-billion per year industries, for example the multi-billion dollar per year scientific instruments business of gas chromatography. Henry’s Law also explains why the theory of human-caused global warming /climate change is not even plausible science and should be shunned by knowledgeable people. Henry’s Law is specifically limited to a phase state equilibrium reaction of a gas and that same gas which is in contact with a liquid solvent, for example CO 2 gas in the atmosphere wh...

Hurricane Ida Isn’t the Whole Story on Climate   Hurricane Ida Isn’t the Whole Story on Climate The number of landfall hurricanes isn’t rising and the world is getting better at mitigating their destruction. By Bjorn Lomborg Sept. 3, 2021 6:49 pm ET ...

  Opinion: The risks of climate change are great - so are the rewards of solving it Andrew Dessler, James Doss-Gollin and Katharine Hayhoe Sep. 1, 2021   Employees of The Italian Pie in downtown New Orleans, La., look at a co-worker's car that took a direct hit of bricks from a nearby building, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. The men were cleaning up two days after Hurricane Ida. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) Chris Granger, MBO / Associated Press As we watched Hurricane Ida batter the Louisiana coast, we could see the fingerprints of climate change in the extremely warm ocean temperatures that fueled its rapid intensification from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane. The question is not whether climate change made it worse, but rather how much. Science is crystal clear: the Earth is warming, humans are responsible and the impacts are becoming more ...

Climate Skeptic Takes on the Latest Climate Hysteria    Climate Skeptic Bjorn Lomborg Excoriates Scientific Community's Hysteria By Rick Moran Aug 10, 2021 12:39 PM ET Photo via Ben Wolf The UN issued a report on Monday that was music to the ears of climate hysterics. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the report a “code red for humanity,” and the other usual suspects weighed in with varying degrees of terror, outrage, and frenzied excitement. Let’s face it: The end of the world is exciting. The idea of being alive when the world is in the process of dying is exhilarating. So you...

National Public Radio’s Misinformation on Wildfires and Climate: Part 1 By Jim Steele Each day I attempt to synthesize curiously divergent views in the news. In the morning I listen to National Public Radio (NPR) and in the evening I watch Fox News. However, I’m increasingly disturbed by NPR’s unbalanced reporting on wildfires . With every wildfire report, NPR now adds climate crisis comment but ignores wildfire science. I learned more about heat transfer and wildfires as a boy scout. I also expanded my wildfire science as an ecologist researching California’s Sierra Nevada ecosystems for 30 years and I must say an honest NPR would focus on the 3 major issues needed to minimize wildfire devastation. Minimize human ignitions. Improve ground fuel management. Remove introduced annual grasses. Politicians and media journalists that claim reducing CO 2 will save us from bigger wildfires are only exacerbating public fears and promoting ineffective polic...