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Trump takes away EPA “right” to control every puddle in USA: WOTUS executive order
Smile. One more noxious, power-grabbing bit of legislation: fixed.
Farmers and land-owners lost control of the puddles and ditches on their
land under the guise of environmental protection. Remarks by President
Trump at Signing of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Executive Order
The EPA’s so-called “Waters of the United States” rule is one of the
worst examples of federal regulation, and it ha
Windy Clean Green Pollution
Looks like the halo is fading. Today-Tonight is a current affairs show
in Australia. Today a few more Australians discovered that free energy
is not just expensive but creates its own kind of pollution. This hardly
a surprise for anyone who can spell cost-benefit, but it’s healthy to
see the prime-time media in Australia doing something other than singing
the Clean-Green advertising jingle. h/t S
VW eco-scam, official corruption, is killing diesel
News is out that diesel cars which don’t comply with pollution
standards will be banned from some roads in Germany on “high pollution”
days. Depending on how often those bad news for diesel industry and
owners. How useless is a car that you can’t drive when you need it?
Stuttgart is being called the “Beijing” of Germany for air pollution.
This may apply to as many as 90% of diesels on German road
Yesterday
Weekend Unthreaded
Sorry I am a bit distracted with other things this week. Light
postings. Rating: 8.5/10 (22 votes cast) Rating: 8.5/ 10 (22 votes cast)
Mar 03
DiCaprio, Bono, and Al Gore: flying eyebrow artists for the planet
Advertising
your virtues sometimes conflicts with advertising your social status.
Paul Joseph Watson never minces his words. … The surprising thing is
that these guys get away with it. Not laughed out of town for their
grandstanding piety at awards nights. h/t Scott of the Pacific Rating:
9.4/10 (82 votes cast) Rating: 9.4/ 10 (82 votes cast)
Mar 02
Climate Change will suck the flavour from your daily bread
Climate Change threatens to make bread less tasty Over at The
Conversation the panic is rising. Life is not going to be the same. Get
ready for the bland future — if we stop all plant breeding tomorrow, and
don’t change our fertilizers at all, it possible, by 2050, in dry
years, wheat may have a 6% decrease in protein. It’s that serious.
Everyone likes the high protein kind of wheat, and it’s wor
Feb 27
Does Solar PV in half of Europe make more energy than it consumes?
You might think we’d know whether a solar PV system produced energy
before we installed 1,000 Megawatts of it. But it’s hard to even know
after the fact. Dr John Constable points us at an interesting new paper
that discusses the odd creature called EROEI. This stands for energy
return on energy invested. If you get back less than “one”, it sucks.
That sounds like a fine idea except everyone seems
Feb 25
Weekend Unthreaded
… Rating: 8.2/10 (28 votes cast) Rating: 8.2/ 10 (28 votes cast)
Feb 24
How progressive: ship dead trees 5,000km and burn them (use £450m for kindling)
It would make any hunter gatherer proud. [The Times] Britain is wasting
hundreds of millions of pounds subsidizing power stations to burn
American wood pellets that do more harm to the climate than the coal
they replaced, a study has found. Chopping down trees and transporting
wood across the Atlantic Ocean to feed power stations produces more
greenhouse gases than much cheaper coal, according to
Feb 23
Solar Homes use more grid electricity than non-solar homes
There are probably more solar panels in QLD than anywhere else in the
world. Back in February last year, the boss of the Queensland state
power company announced the awkward result that households with solar
panels were using more electricity than those without. Apparently people
without solar were turning off the air conditioner because electricity
cost too much, but the solar users didn’t have
Feb 22
Y’think Donald Trump will bring in a carbon tax? (And pigs will knit socks.)
Bob Inglis is a former Republican congressman who lost out to a Tea
Partier (you’ll see why). He’s visiting Australia to talk us into doing
climate manipulation. I can’t see his reasoning catching on: Former
Republican congressman Bob Inglis says he knows it sounds improbable to
say the US president would impose a carbon price, but he thinks reality
will force Mr Trump’s hand. “Donald Trump said
Feb 21
Baby corals learn from mummy corals warming lessons
Corals survived through four hundred million years of climate change.
Despite that, corals still surprise survivors of four years of academia
with their ability to keep dealing with climate change. It’s been known
for years that after corals bleach in warmer water, they acclimatize.
Here one shiny young researcher shows her carbonnointed worldview. She
asks a really interesting question: In one s
Feb 20
If Greens cared about CO2 they would dump renewable targets
Those who say they want a “free market” in carbon still don’t
understand what a free market is. RET’s or Renewable Energy Targets are
screwed (in the head): If Tony Abbotts Direct Action plan was useless,
RETS are five times more useless. In Australia the Renewable Energy
Target (RET) in theory, helps wind and solar, so we lower CO2 emissions
and cool the world, slow storms, things like that. But
Feb 19
Weekend Unthreaded
… Rating: 7.9/10 (27 votes cast) Rating: 7.9/ 10 (27 votes cast)
Feb 18
Big-gov-brain wants “half a trillion” to add ice to the Arctic
Sometimes an idea comes along that adds another chapter to the Book of
Stupid. You might think windmills on land are an indulgent, pointless
fantasy, but take that idea and make it worse: (CNN) A team of
scientists has a surprisingly simple solution to saving the Arctic: We
need to make more ice. A team at Arizona State University has proposed
building 10 million wind-powered pumps to draw up wat
Feb 17
WA State Election Tidbit: Bill Crabtree. Wheatbelt. Launch in Northam Sunday
Click to read. I’m happy to help a few dedicated skeptics and sane
candidates with the gumption to try to improve the system from within.
So this is a quick note for residents of the Central Wheatbelt WA. Check
out Bill Crabtree, the no-till farming expert running for the Liberal
Party at the State election in three weeks, he’s as honest and
hardworking as they get. I know Bill personally, and he
Australia “invented airconditioning” but can’t keep them running
James Harrison (click to enlarge) Peter Hartcher points out that the
country that invented refrigeration and thus airconditioning can no
longer guarantee to keep them working. In 1854 [James Harrison of
Geelong] invented a commercial ice-making machine. He expanded it into a
vapour compression refrigeration system, the basis for modern
refrigeration. “That’s right – an Aussie invented the fridge
Feb 16
SA Blackout: a grid crippled by complexity
South Australia suffered it’s fifth blackout in five months last week.
The AEMO report on that incident came out today. There are lots of
faults, errors and small problems, and one overriding theme — it’s too
complex: AEMO (Grid market managers) thought they’d have more wind
power. It fell to only 2% of “total output.” There was a computer glitch
which “load shed” more people than necessary. Oops
Feb 15
Kelloggs sells Social Justice Cereal, calls half the population names and posts $53m loss
The new marketing move by Kelloggs to insult half its customers doesn’t
seem to be working out too well. Last year Kelloggs jumped into
politics by loudly cancelling advertising on Breitbart saying the new
media outlet didn’t fit their values. It was an attempt to punish the
big winner in the new media for reporting politically incorrect news.
Breitbart responded with the DumpKelloggs petition, a
Help failing sad climate scientists deal with their dark moods
What happens when your world view is wrong and you can’t deal with
reality? Climate change: Scientists sad, frustrated as extreme weather
becomes the new norm “There is definitely what you would call ‘climate
fatigue’ on the part of scientists,” said Dr Andrew Glikson, from the
Australian National University’s School of Archaeology and Anthropology.
“There were hundreds of scientists there, and m
Feb 14
Prediction in 1941 — the gradual end of democracy in Europe
Thierry
Baudet, leader of the Dutch political party “Forum for Democracy”
writes about the inexorable attrition of democracy, as predicted 75
years ago. James Burnham, 1941 foresaw so much in “The Managerial
Revolution. It’s a book that George Orwell used for inspiration.
According to Burnham, the civil democracies of the second half of the
20th century would – more or less gradually – be overgrow
Feb 13
Pause-deniers finally get busted by mainstream media
It’s
been a rotten week for Pause denial David Rose and the Daily Mail let
rip, telling the world that retired NOAA insider, John Bates, was
blowing the whistle on how global warming was being exaggerated by
scientists to score political points. The hallowed pause-buster paper
(Karl et al) broke practically every rule: it was based on misleading
“unverified” data processed with a highly experiment
Feb 12
California: Oroville Dam emergency, evacuations underway
UPDATE #2: While the imminent threat is lower, the evacuations are
still underway and now include 188,000 people. See what alarmed dam
management: (Shots from the 7SanDiego News footage.) Oroville Dam
erosion on the emergency spillway. The road washed away. Oroville Dam
Spillway erosion (the arrow points at the people inspecting one part of
the erosion which was headed for the spillway wall. A cl
Asian sea levels changed rapidly 6,000 years ago — natural sea level rise “unprecedented”
If
you thought seas were constant 6,000 years ago… Microatolls are
apparently very accurate proxy for sea levels, giving a higher
resolution estimate of sea levels. But the extra data suggests more
natural oscillations in seas than the experts used to think. Six
thousand years ago, near Indonesia, seas apparently rose and fell twice
by as much as 60 centimeters in a 250 year period. A similar patt
Feb 11
Weekend Unthreaded
…. Rating: 8.4/10 (24 votes cast) Rating: 8.4/ 10 (24 votes cast)
Feb 10
It’s that bad — talk of “declaring emergencies” and nationalizing South Australian electricity
Smell
the desperation Here in Oz, political lives are in turmoil. Suddenly
“load shedding” is the topic de jour, and there are hit lists of suburbs
in the firing line. It’s a long list. Welcome to your green future. The
language is ramping up. The SA state government is talking of a
“dramatic intervention in the electricity market”. The plans are
“advanced” but they apparently don’t know what that
Feb 09
Climate Change means Perth smashes the coldest ever record for February
Plan
for Ghost Town has been delayed Yesterday Perth had it’s coldest ever
February day (since 1910) with temperatures only making it up to 17.4C.
This is not just 0.1 or 0.2C below the previous coldest record in
February, but a whole 1.7C colder. Perth also got its second wettest
February Day (of any season) with a 106mm of rain. This is peak summer.
So much for Tim Flannery’s Ghost Town prophesy
South Australian electricity is coming your way
Yesterday 90,000 customers lost power in SA (making it Blackout Round 5
since the big one last September). This time it was due to load
shedding. SA power woes to spread nation-wide, starting with Victoria,
Australian Energy Council warns The Federal Government needs to take
urgent action to improve its energy policies before the rest of
Australia falls victim to the type of large-scale blackouts
Feb 08
Rolling blackouts ordered in SA in 40C heat
South Australia, with 40% renewables, is lucky this has been a mild
summer.* Welcome to your load-shedding future: Rolling blackouts ordered
in Adelaide as city swelters Widespread power blackouts were imposed
across Adelaide and parts of South Australia with heatwave conditions
forcing authorities to impose load shedding. About 40,000 properties
were without electricity supplies for about 30 min
Dear Climate Alarmists, we will never forget…
Got ten years of frustration after being mocked, scorned, and treated
like dirt for talking about data? Adam Pigott unleashes some mockery
back at the parody blog XYZ: Dear Climate Alarmists, We will never
forget nor forgive. “…here’s the thing. Once this all unravels, and it
will unravel very quickly as soon as the money stops flowing, those of
us on the side that is ludicrously described as bei
Feb 06
Australian chief scientist says Trump is like Stalin, totally missing left’s war on science
Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, is blind to the rampant
censorship that’s been going on for 30 years: Australia’s chief
scientist has slammed Donald Trump’s attempt to censor environmental
data, saying the US president’s behaviour was comparable to the
manipulation of science by the Soviet Union. Speaking at a scientific
roundtable in Canberra on Monday, Alan Finkel warned science was “
Cory Bernardi to quit Liberal Party — What do the Libs stand for?
With no mainstream alternative party standing up for freedom, free
speech, small government, and free markets, Cory is about to make a
speech to let Parliament know why he is quitting the Liberal Party and
will now be an independent senator. He is one of the many
anti-establishment representatives out there. Australia has no Trump,
but the vacuum left by the Liberal Party’s slide to the far left
Feb 05
NOAA whistleblower tells how they used bad data to rub out “pause” for Paris
The abominable Karl et al paper came out in the nick of time to pretend
that the “pause” didn’t happen. We knew the paper was junk thanks to
hard sleuthing, especially from Ross McKitrick, now Dr John Bates, a pal
of Judith Curry is speaking up from the inside to confirm that the
paper used bad and unapproved datasets which were so flawed they have
already been revised. The data wasn’t archived e
Feb 04
Weekend Unthreaded
… Rating: 8.2/10 (27 votes cast) Rating: 8.2/ 10 (27 votes cast)
Feb 03
Japan building 45 HELE coal plants, Australia 1 (maybe)
Japan will use Australian coal to build 45 modern coal fired plants:
Japan is the largest overseas market for Australian coal producers,
taking more than a third of all exports. Why coal? It’s cheaper than
gas: Tom O’Sullivan, a Tokyo based energy consultant with Mathyos Global
Advisory, said in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011,
Japan started importing more liquefied natural gas
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