Climate Change? What Climate Change?

  Supreme Court Can and Should Resolve ‘Waters of the United States’ Issue Daren Bakst / @darenbakst / January 03, 2022 If the Supreme Court agrees to accept Sackett v. EPA, it will have a chance to bring clarity to the definition of "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act. Pictured: A seasonal creek runs through a meadow in Pinnacles National Park, California. (Photo: Sundry Photography/Getty Images) Daren Bakst @darenbakst For decades, there has been major confusion regarding what waters are regulated under the Clean Water Act. ...

  Week in review – science edition by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week. Urbanization effects on changes in the observed air temperatures during 1977–2014 in China [ link ] The war over supercooled water [ link ] Lovejoy: Spectra, intermittency, and extremes of weather, macro weather and climate.  [ link ] “The record number of tropical cyclones in the 2005 Atlantic season is close to the maximum possible number for the present climate,”[ link ] Ocean circulation reduces the Hadley cell response to increased greenhouse gases [ link ] The Antarctic Ice Sheet response to glacial millennial scale variability [ link ] Surprisingly large impacts from a new equation of state for seawater [ link ]   … ‘The Paradox of Irrigation Efficiency’ [ link ] Estimating changes in temperature distributions in a large ensemble of climate simulations using quantile regression https:// buff.ly/2LpgL3o Assessment of aerosol–cloud...

  Makes you wonder who does the research for these epic failures in judgment god help us when we realize the consequences of implementing the green new deal . Right now the average wind farm is about 150 turbines. Each wind turbine needs 80 gallons of oil as lubricant and we're not talking about vegetable oil, this is a PAO synthetic oil based on crude... 12,000 gallons of it. That oil needs to be replaced once a year It is estimated that a little over 3,800 turbines would be needed to power a city the size of New York... That's 304,000 gallons of refined oil for just one city.  Now you have to calculate every city across the nation, large and small, to find the grand total of yearly oil consumption from "clean" energy.  Where do you think all that oil is going to come from, the fricken oil fairies? Not to mention the fact that the large equipment needed to build these wind farms run on petroleum. As well as the equipment required for install...

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  ‘A Mad Scramble’: One Rare Mineral May Spell Doom For Electric Vehicle Market Spencer Platt/Getty Images Thomas Catenacci Energy & Environment Reporter December 20, 2021 4:55 PM ET Lithium — a mineral that is key for electric car batteries — continues to rise in price, jeopardizing the ongoing transition to renewable energy outlined by Western governments. The cost of lithium has skyrocketed more than 250% over the last 12 months, hitting its highest level ever, according to an industry index from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. While the cost of manufacturing a lithium-ion battery for an electric vehicle (EV) has fallen sharply over the last decade, the decline has slowed in recent months due to rising lithium costs. The average cost of an EV battery pack fell to $157 per kilowatt hour, a measure of energy capacity, in 2021, the Department o...

Climate Change Will Increase the Number and Severity of Tornadoes Black tornado funnel and lightning on road from 123rf.com Pro: Tornadoes are Getting More Dangerous While there have been no long-term trends in the frequency of tornadoes, there have been changes in tornado patterns in recent years. Research has shown that there are fewer days with at least one tornado but more days with over thirty, even as the total number of tornadoes per year has remained relatively stable. In other words, tornado events are becoming more clustered. There is also evidence to suggest that tornado patterns have shifted geographically. The number of tornadoes in the states that make up Tornado Alley are falling, while tornado events have been on the rise in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky.  There is speculation that some of these changes are linked to climate change and its effect on the jet strea...

A Colossal 1.3-GW Offshore Wind Farm Just Went Live. It's the Largest in the World And it will be fully operational in 2022. By  Chris Young Dec 22, 2021 (Updated: Dec 22, 2021 09:31 EST)     Danish energy firm Orsted announced that the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland has produced its first energy, a press statement reveals. The important milestone means that Hornsea 2 will be the "world’s largest operating offshore wind farm" once it is fully operational in 2022, according to Orsted. The wind farm is located approximately 55 miles (90 km) off the coast of Scotland and covers an area of roughly 178 sq mi (462 km²). According to Orsted, the wind farm will use 165 turbines once fully operational, giving it a capacity of over 1.3 gigawatts. This means that Hornsea 2 and 1 together will be able to power more than 1.3 million homes. Hornsea 1, described by Orsted as Hornsea 2's "sibling ...