Michael Mann on COVID: ‘I see a perfect storm of climate opportunity’ – Also exposed ‘deadliness of anti-science’ views
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/27/climatologist-michael-e-mann-doomism-climate-crisis-interview By Jonathan Watts The book provides a long list of other reasons to be hopeful – rapid take-up of renewable energy, technology advances, financial sector action and more. Even so, the US, like other countries, is still far short of the second world war-level of mobilisation that you and others say is necessary to keep […]
Why is Bill Gates now the US’ biggest farmland owner? Theories abound
https://nypost.com/2021/02/27/why-bill-gates-is-now-the-us-biggest-farmland-owner/ By James B. Meigs Late last year, Eric O’Keefe was researching a mysterious recent purchase of 14,500 acres of prime Washington state farmland. His magazine, The Land Report, tracks major land transactions and produces an annual list of the 100 biggest US landowners. Sales of more than a thousand acres are “blue-moon events,” O’Keefe noted, […]
More Green Blackouts Ahead As Biden’s Regulators Ignore Grid’s Vulnerability
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/4rUNGyamP_f1F–Qj9hHwENza46nq-TVllfRPYejqGQa531hkeL-Y75Cv2Kokyw28bO9fmRAfUef0I-k2NWzgPweyY13VvXEUuuhgOE1qzVzZs6dw75Ua_3tLDzZH51fPkIwiM7tuOzXYFIURRFQ1zJ22H-luzuV7MymktaULFMPggKHg6Q_gw More Green Blackouts Ahead As Biden’s Regulators Ignore Grid’s VulnerabilityClimate Change Dispatch / 8h You’d think the Texas blackouts would trigger some soul-searching about the vulnerability of America’s electrical grid. Not in today’s hothouse of climate politics. The Biden Administration is already moving to stop an examination of grid vulnerability to promote unreliable renewable energy sources. Regulators have […]
WATCH: Bjorn Lomborg Slaps Down Climate Alarmism – UN Paris pact will cost one to two trillion dollars a year’ & ‘have virtually no impact, even in 80 years time’
U.N. Climate Panel tells us that in the 2070s — so, more than 50 years from now — the net impact of global warming will be equivalent to each one of us losing [only] somewhere between 0.2 and two percent of our income.”: … “By then, [the 2070s,] we’ll be 364 percent as rich as we […]
Polar Bears ‘fat & healthy’: It’s not a myth: 2020 was another good year for polar bears – ‘Global population size is now almost 30,000 – up from about 26,000 in 2015’
https://www.thegwpf.org/its-not-a-myth-2020-was-another-good-year-for-polar-bears/ It’s not a myth: 2020 was another good year for polar bearshttp://www.thegwpf.org/feed / by bennypeiser / 8h In the State of the Polar Bear Report 2020, published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) to coincide with International Polar Bear Day (27 February), zoologist Dr. Susan Crockford explains that while the climate narrative insists that polar bear populations are declining due […]
Atlantic’s ‘conveyor belt’ shows no sign of declining, new study shows
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/atlantics-conveyor-belt-shows-no-sign-of-declining-new-study-shows/ Atlantic’s ‘conveyor belt’ shows no sign of declining, new study showsTallbloke’s Talkshop / by oldbrew / 9h A portion of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation [image credit: R. Curry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @ Wikipedia]This follows on quite well from our postyesterday about the Beaufort Gyre. Another attempted climate alarm fades away.– – –A 30-year reconstruction of the Atlantic […]
Net Zero flop: Why Boris is scrapping the Green Homes Grant – ‘Flashy public relations masking poorly thought out policies’
https://www.thegwpf.com/net-zero-flop-why-boris-is-scrapping-the-green-homes-grant/ Net Zero flop: Why Boris is scrapping the Green Homes GrantThe Global Warming Policy Forum / by bennypeiser / How much more of the government’s net zero 2050 strategy is just flashy public relations masking poorly thought out policies, making the goals simply impossible to achieve? Homes account for just under 30% of energy use and around […]
The farcical climate ‘fact-checkers’ who don’t check facts – ‘Misrepresentation & deception have become the tool-in-trade’
https://www.thegwpf.com/the-farcical-climate-fact-checkers-who-dont-check-facts/ The farcical climate ‘fact-checkers’ who don’t check factsThe Global Warming Policy Forum / by bennypeiser / 11h This car crash of a ‘fact-check’ allows us to see that misrepresentation and deception have become the tool-in-trade of the internet fact-checker. LAST week, an organisation called Climate Feedback attempted what it claimed was a factcheck of an article James Delingpole had written about a report we […]
Rare Earth Elements Aren’t That Rare, but They’re Vital to National Security – ‘85% of global rare earth oxide supply is produced in China’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/02/25/rare-earth-elements-arent-that-rare-but-theyre-vital-to-national-security/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rare-earth-elements-arent-that-rare-but-theyre-vital-to-national-security Rare Earth Elements Aren’t That Rare, but They’re Vital to National SecurityThe Daily Signal / by Maiya Clark / 18h For one-third of the price of one F-35 Lightning II, the Pentagon made a key investment to ensure its supply of rare earth elements. The Department of Defense earlier this month announced that Lynas USA LLC was awarded a $30.4 […]
US Climate Czar turns the thumb-screws on Australia coal
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/02/us-climate-czar-turns-the-thumb-screws-on-australia-coal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-climate-czar-turns-the-thumb-screws-on-australia-coal US Climate Czar turns the thumb-screws on Australia coalJoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / by Jo Nova / 21h And some people wondered why I paid any attention to the US election. Apart from being the biggest political story in my life, there is that effect that US leaders have even on the other side of the […]