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51+ min ago (67+ words) A place for discussion Polar bears don’t need the sea ice, it’s the seals that need the ice. Methane is not 82.5 times more powerful at trapping heat than CO2. If/when the Himalayan glaciers melt away, the rivers will still flow....
Too Hot For Oak Trees!
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (126+ words) h/t Ian Magness/Brian Catt More, truly juvenile reporting in the Telegraph: English oak trees are being replaced by foreign variants because they can no longer cope with the British heat, experts have warned. Searing temperatures across the UK…...
Record Low Lake Mead:???Millennium Drought??? or Inevitable Result of Demand Exceeding Supply?
8+ hour, 51+ min ago (310+ words) From Dr. Roy Spencer’s Global Warming Blog 2026 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. NOTE: I’ve made a couple of updates/clarifications below based upon comments on this post. Here are a couple of noteworthy quotes from that paper (bold added):…...
California???s???Sustainability??? Bureaucracy Takes a Big Sip from Napa Valley???s Iconic Vineyards
12+ hour, 51+ min ago (698+ words) “Sustainability” once had a real meaning: using resources responsibly, reducing unnecessary waste, and protecting the environment in balance with the needs of mankind. That is not what it always means now. Increasingly, sustainability is used as a feel-good justification for…...
Where Do Candidates Stand on Energy? There Is No Issue More Important to Us All.
16+ hour, 51+ min ago (301+ words) Whether through paid advertising or free media coverage, political parties and candidates will do their best to create the narrative they hope will motivate voters in the coming midterm elections. The top issues usually include some mix of monetary issues…...
D.C. Circuit Endangerment Finding Litigation: The Stall Is On
20+ hour, 51+ min ago (283+ words) From THE MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN If you are interested in this subject, here is the key issue to watch: Do the progressive NGOs and their blue state co-petitioners, and for that matter the D.C. Circuit itself, want this case to proceed to…...
EU Net Zero Regulations Are Killing Off British Agriculture??? And we Slavishly Enforce Them, Even Though We???ve Left the EU
1+ day, 51+ min ago (677+ words) An unrealised benefit of the 2016 Brexit vote should be a new British emissions standard for non-road mobile machinery that sees a return to something closer to the Stage IIIb (2013) regulations, which are primarily sensible, practical and affordable. The post EU…...
Call It What It Is: Texas Didn't Order an Audit. It Ordered a Pause.
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (128+ words) Texas isn’t an outlier. It’s an early signal of where AI infrastructure policy is heading. But reasonable goals still have costs, and that’s the part of the conversation many states are skipping. But could is doing a lot of work…...
The Green Climate Fund Ran Short of Other People???s Money
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (312+ words) The UN’s climate funds spent a July dialogue asking for more money. The best thing America did was stop sending it. On July 14, the UN’s Adaptation Committee put fund managers, negotiators, and development bankers on a video call to work…...
CO2 is Winning (Mitigation fail)
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (191+ words) By Robert Bradley Jr. “The future of rational climate policy is adaptation, not mitigation that works against adaptation. Social justice demands that climate policy not increase energy prices and restrict consumer sovereignty.” Want to prosper in the energy/climate arena?...