The authors of an article in Climate, a peer-reviewed journal, suggest that urban warming may be much more important than estimates assume. From the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES): “A new study published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal, Climate, by 37 researchers from 18 countries suggests that current estimates of global warming…
Tag: Climate Change
Links: A Beer Shortage Due to Global Warming?
- Tornado damages are down, reports Roger Pielke Jr.
- Nature article predicts beer shortages due to global warming. (HT @curryja)
- The Biden administration’s five-year plan restricting oil and gas leasing: the Biden administration’s, of course.
- But the plan does include a small expansion of oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Straight Talk on Nuclear Power
Two prominent analysts raise doubts about nuclear power as the “answer” to climate change alarm. Ben Zyker warns conservatives about the costs. “Recent analysis from the Energy Information Administration reports estimates of prospective nuclear electricity production costs more than double those of natural gas-fired electricity. (If we include the cost of backup generation to avoid…
An Interview I’m Glad I Didn’t Miss
I don’t usually recommend videos about the environment, especially hour-long ones. But this was worth my time and perhaps yours: an interview with Steven Koonin, author of Unsettled. The location is Uncommon Knowledge, a Hoover Institution program on Youtube. Peter Robinson is the interviewer. Koonin’s book, published in 2021, has attracted great interest because he…
‘I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published’
This is an extraordinary and daring admission by a scientist who successfully published in the prominent journal Nature by narrowing his view of the truth. That is, he focused only on climate change when studying the causes of wildfires. And even then, he used techniques that showed the impact more dramatically than others would. Patrick…
Two British Lords Politely Debate Climate Change
A polite British debate took place recently by email between two members of the House of Lords who disagree about the dangers of climate change. Indeed, they disagree about the IPCC report which both claim to rely on! Roger Pielke, Jr. publishes the correspondence of The Rt. Hon. Lord (Peter) Lilley and the Rt. Hon….