Monday, July 15, 2019

15 July - JoNova

Remember when polar amplification was the rage? So much for that theory Antarctica is twice the size of the US or Australia. Buried 2 km deep under domes of snow, it holds 58 meters of global sea level to ransom. The IPCC have been predicting its demise-by-climate-change for a decade or two. A new paper looks at 60 sites across Antarctica, considering everything from ice, lake and marine cores to
How many sentient mammals died to make that vegan hamburger? Tasmanian farmer Matthew Evans has added up the inconvenient numbers and written “One Eating Meat”. The death toll for vegetarian foods means vegans kill less cows, but more mice, lizards and ducks. Preachy vegans should be silenced by new book on true cost of plant-based diets Susie O’Brien, Herald Sun (paywalled) For every 75 hectare
So some people have a mental illness. Unbridled, baseless Climate-Panic makes that worse. Now those victims are advertising material: Climate Despair is making people give up on life Mike Pearl, Vice. There’s nothing like a bit of unprecedented misery made possible by unprecedented history denial: “This is painful,” [Renee] Lertzman said. “It’s super painful to be a human being right now at this
Do we need wind farms to save the world or not? Not, says Bob Brown. Robbins Island, North West Tasmania People can have sleep and health and their views destroyed, but that didn’t matter til a farmer on a remote island off Tasmania made a deal to build one of the largest wind “farms” in the world. Graham Lloyd, The Australian Former Greens leader and veteran activist Bob Brown is campaigning to s

Jul 13

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Jul 10

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Jul 09

Jennifer Marohasy is speaking on Sunday in Maroochydore. Details at her blog. Jen’s mother on Heron Island, mid 1950s. From Jennifer Marohasy: Corals usually grow-up to just below the lowest mean spring tide. Corals are particularly vulnerable to extremely low tides and in particular low tides in the middle of the day when there is also high solar radiation. The damage from such events may leave
Smashing plan — raising funds to call for a judicial review of BBC bias David Keighley has a great strategy — instead of debating “the facts” with an organisation that accepts whatever an unaudited foreign committee says — he’s going for the jugular — how do they measure and define impartiality? They aimed initially to reach £30,000 to cover our legal fees but have already achieved that in mere da

Jul 07

Snow again in Western Australia? South West WA got snow at Easter this year, a remarkable event, and then snow a week ago with predictions of more – which maybe fell on July 5. Concerned that two or three* bouts of snow didn’t fit the narrative, the ABC and BOM suddenly found an interest in our historic weather archives: Snow has been falling in Western Australia since records began Australian sno

Jul 06

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Jul 03

But who doesn’t love using junk data to create a fake scare? Another pound of panic with cherry picked data measured on junk equipment and adjusted by secret methods. June 2019 was the hottest ever recorded on Earth: European satellite agency New data released Tuesday found the average temperature in Europe for June 2019 was higher than any other June on record. According to the data, the average

Jul 01

If only coral researchers read skeptic blogs, they’d know that corals have been getting bleached and wrecked by cyclones for millions of years. They have adaptable genes, honed by 500 million years of natural selection, plus epigenetic tricks, and with safe zones to seed recovery. The Great Barrier Reef spans 2,000 kilometers and five degrees Celsius from 27 to 32°C and we’re still finding reefs
Progress? Australia has more fashionable energy but less ability to protect elders from the cold Deaths in elderly folk from hypothermia or cold related conditions are up 34% in last ten years. These are people who can’t afford heating. Power prices were up 117% in the same period, undoubtedly due to policies that put weather control 100-years-from-now, above the present day quality of life. Watch

Jun 30

… Rating: 9.2/10 (24 votes cast) Rating: 9.2/ 10 (24 votes cast)

Jun 29

News today is filled with “record heat” in France — whatever, it might be the hottest since thermometers started measuring, but it’s been hotter before. Even if it’s real, it’s only a technicality because we only started records recently. At most it can only be the hottest in 130 years or so, and we know it was just as hot in medieval times, hotter 7,000 years ago, hotter 130,000 years ago, and s

Jun 28

Unfortunately this survey closes Saturday Sunday at 5pm EST. One DAY to go now. [Correction: Day was wrong, go for it. h/t Eric Worrall]. Apologies to those who would have liked to send in a submission. Hopefully I covered much on your behalf. The National Environmental Science Programs wants feedback and to figure out priorities for environmental research in one specific program. This funding is

Jun 27

Let’s set national policy by “Embarrassment”? Great way to run the country (into the ground). Skeptics: send in your submissions before July 12. A coal generator has asked the Emissions Reductions Fund to pay for carbon credits if it upgrades its turbines and makes less CO2. “The Specialist Reporting Team’s” Penny Timms, of the ABC, quotes two activists, asks no skeptics, no engineers, no electric

Jun 26

Oregon’s Eleven Update: The eleven Republican Senators remain in hiding to block a vote on the HB2020 Cap N Trade bill. The ruling Democrats have now said the bill is dead — even suggesting that they don’t have the numbers in the Senate themselves. But Republicans are wondering if that’s just a ploy to trick them into returning. After all, if the Democrats didn’t have enough votes from their own
Once upon a time Australians were rich enough to afford electricity on demand Now obedient Australian’s are impressed with getting tiny refund for having voluntary mini-kinda-blackout. Presumably, people are either desperate or already so trained in paying unnecessarily exorbitant electricity bills that they are grateful just to get a tiny fraction of their electricity payments back as an incenti

Jun 25

… Rating: 9.9/10 (16 votes cast) Rating: 9.9/ 10 (16 votes cast)
Religious leaders dump coal, declare “no faith” There goes my world. Who knew they had faith in coal? So forget science, climate change is a moral problem. Is climate sensitivity 1 degree or 3? Ask a priest. A group called Australians Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) has badgered 150 soft targets in the religious world to sign a grandiose letter making coal into the new Lucifer. The Gu

Jun 24

State troopers have been called in to get Oregon’s Republican senators back to vote on a climate change bill, but all 11 senators are in secret locations apparently interstate. No vote can take place on anything without at least one of those senators being in the chamber to vote. … Oregon’s Republican state senators go into hiding over climate change vote amid militia threat ABC News USA. Eleven

Jun 23

The Climate Change River of Gravy is so wide and so fast it pulls other Big-Gov religions into the flow. Kind of like a Bernoulli Effect of Bureaucracy. The vacuum of common sense sucks. Or fast flowing nonsense attracts more nonsense. Here, two deep state clan members fly to a joint junket in Bonn. The climate sect does a feminist-indigenous handshake as a test of social rank. Will Australia pas

Jun 22

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The IPA team interview Peter Ridd. He explains that what’s happening on the Great Barrier Reef with coral bleaching is a normal cycle. He tells his story of being censured at James Cook university, but admits the state of free speech at universities in Australia is non-existent — even after his win. They discuss how we might reform science with audits (universities are almost a lost cause). We’ll

Jun 21

Humans are a gregarious species. Most people do the right thing, and it’s this altruism, or self-identification as a “good person” that the climate industry preys on. In a new study, researchers pretended to be tourists dropping 17,000 wallets they’d “found” into banks, offices, theatres and such, then tracking which ones got returned. To most people’s astonishment (lay person and expert) not onl

Jun 20

Expensive birds California Valley Solar Ranch Photo Credit: Sarah Swenty/USFWS Oops. On June 5th, an event described as “an avian incident” started a fire at the California Valley Solar Ranch plant in California. The 250MW plant was reduced to 40MW of generation. It’s expected to be back up and running on July 1. By then the incident will have cost the company $8m. ‘Avian Incident’ Knocks Out 84%

Jun 19

Remember when we were told coal was dying? Donald Trump is changing the rules which will keep older cheap coal plants running. Trump ditches sole climate rule that aimed to reduce coal plant pollution Emily Holden, The Guardian Donald Trump’s administration is finalizing plans to roll back the US government’s only direct efforts to curb coal-fired power plant pollution that is heating the planet.

Jun 18

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Congratulations to Malcolm! It’s great news. Six more years for the die-hard skeptic in the senate. I know Malcolm has some big plans. One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts will rejoin the Senate, almost two years after he fell victim to the dual citizenship saga and was kicked out of parliament. This time they can’t run the fake news line that “he only got 77 votes”. Meanwhile: Worst result in 70 years: m

Jun 16

New research shows that the impending climate disaster puts the world in danger of growing too much corn and soy. People won’t know what starving is! H/t to CO2Science Qiao et al discovered that when temperatures are raised by a “catastrophic” 2 degrees C, and CO2 is raised to 700 unthinkable ppm corn (aka maize) increases its yield by a remarkable 25%. When hit by both high temperatures and extra

Jun 15

… Rating: 9.3/10 (22 votes cast) Rating: 9.3/ 10 (22 votes cast) 

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