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Weekly Climate and Energy New Roundup #505 – Watts Up With That?


The Week That Was: 2022-05-21 (May 21, 2022)
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Quote of the Week: “I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them. – Erwin Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989, 1998),

Number of the Week: One per 10,000

THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

Scope: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not upset the scheduled barrage of UN reports claiming fossil fuels are dangerous to humanity. In time for the World Economic Forum, where the wealthy fly into Davos, Switzerland, in their private jets to lament how the use of fossil fuels by the poor and middle class is a threat to humanity, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released a report claiming that four threats from fossil fuels have reached record levels. TWTW will address each of these four threats with physical evidence.

Last month the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) gave a ‘Champion of the Earth’ award to David Attenborough for his for broadcasts on the natural world. Attenborough falsely claimed climate change was causing the deaths of walruses and other Arctic animals. These climate fears are raw propaganda.

Craig Idso has an essay on how increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) improves water use efficiency. The essay is supported by hundreds of studies of the physical world, both in laboratories and by observations. In proclaiming threats from CO2, the UN ignores the benefits.

Before he started his series of videos “The Big 5 Natural Causes of Climate Change,” ecologist Jim Steele had another series titled “How Pressure Systems Control the Climate.” Several episodes will be discussed including “The Decline in Extreme Weather” which contradicts many of the claimed threats from carbon dioxide.

As Richard Feynman wrote: “If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.” Unfortunately, in many organizations, ridiculous conclusions from using mathematics are accepted as science. TWTW will discuss a few new ones.

Scholar and writer Vaclav Smil wrote: “Four materials rank highest on the scale of necessity, forming what I have called the four pillars of modern civilization: cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia are needed in larger quantities than are other essential inputs.” To this list, TWTW adds reliable energy. All are under attack by the UN and its followers. Discussed below are Smil’s estimates of what is needed in the near future, not the far away land of climate modelers.

Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a contest on essays questioning government positions on climate change. A runner-up cites a NASA a 2009 post on the Earth’s Energy Budget which shows that increasing CO2 will not lead to dangerous warming. Since then, the highly politicized NASA has ignored this understanding of the physical world.

In the pursuit of green dreams, some American politicians and their supporters are showing the judgement of drunken sailors. Francis Menton has an essay exposing the judgement of a California think tank asserting California can go to 85% carbon free energy by 2030. In addition, Kip Hansen asks the costs of such green dreams and energy professional Donn Dears demonstrates their impracticality.

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Four Fears: On January 6, 1941, in his annual message to Congress (State of the Union Address) Franklin Roosevelt made the case for American involvement in helping Britain in World War II. According to the FDR library the address articulate “four freedoms: the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear.”

“The ideas enunciated in the Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms were the foundational principles that evolved into the Atlantic Charter declared by Winston Churchill and FDR in August 1941; the United Nations Declaration of January 1, 1942 [the UN did not exist until 1945]; President Roosevelt’s vision for an international organization that became the United Nations after his death; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 through the work of Eleanor Roosevelt.”

Now the UN and its World Meteorological Organization (WMO) are articulating four fears from human emissions of CO2.

“Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea-level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification — all of which have been established to be significantly impacted by human activity — set new records in 2021, according to the State of the Global Climate 2021 report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week.”

Four Fears – 1: CO2 and Temperature: Humanity is to fear greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, for no clear reason. The WMO report shows increasing surface temperatures from six sources since 1850. Largely these are land based, highly scattered records from the US and Europe. The record begins in a time of cold weather marked by great famines from changing weather and drought. For example, during the Taiping Rebellion, drought, and famine from 1850 to 1873 an estimated 60,000,000 people died in China. The Finnish famine from 1866 to 1868 took about 15% of the population. (Church records are good there.) From 1876 to 1879 a famine took 15,000,000 to 19,000,000 in Northern China, India, and Brazil.  

Supported by an extensive database of experiments and observations Craig Idso writes:

“And as CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use continue to increase in the years and decades ahead, the observed positive enhancements to plant water use efficiency will increase even more, as the authors of this Nature Communications study further report a 10% increase in atmospheric CO2 induces a 14% increase in global water use efficiency.

“So it is that nature truly benefits from rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Far from being a pollutant, atmospheric CO2 is necessary for enhancing life.”

In a previous essay Idso wrote:

“Over the past five decades literally thousands of laboratory and field-based studies have been conducted to examine growth-related responses of plants at higher levels of atmospheric CO2. These CO2-enrichment studies, as they are called, are near unanimous in what they have found—increased levels of CO2 significantly enhance plant photosynthesis and stimulate growth.”

“Based on the numerous experiments listed there, I can tell you that, typically, a 300-ppm increase in the air’s CO2 content (note that the planet has already experienced approximately half of such increase since the Industrial Revolution began and will complete this full 300 ppm increase before the end of this century) will raise the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third, which stimulation is generally manifested by an increase in the number of branches and tillers, more and thicker leaves, more extensive root systems, and more flowers and fruit.” [Boldface italics in original]

According to the WMO we are to fear that which gives freedom from want? See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy, Defending the Orthodoxy, https://www.fdrlibrary.org/four-freedoms, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines.

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Four Fears – 2: Ocean Heat: The second fear discussed in the WMO document is increasing ocean heat content. As discussed by Jim Steele in his essays on “How Pressure Systems Control Climate- Part 3. How the Sun and Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Controlled Climate and Civilization Collapse” the infrared energy bouncing around in the atmosphere from the greenhouse effect does not penetrate ocean depths. It penetrates about 0.000001 meter (one micron). [It is indisputable, that it’s all absorbed within a millimeter.] The greenhouse effect does not significantly add to ocean heat content. Sunlight does. The WMO has its physics wrong.

Further, as Steele discusses the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is not properly understood. El Niños are the exception. The normal periods are nothing or El Niñas. El Niños release stored heat from the oceans and make the earth’s surface and atmosphere warmer. This can be seen in the atmospheric temperature records, where temperatures spiked during El Niños. By contrast, although WMO claims that La Niñas are unusual cooling events, they are normal events during which sunlight warms the eastern Pacific, off South America, and prevailing winds blow the warm water across the Pacific to what Steele calls the “Maritime Continent” (the islands of Indonesia and the western Pacific.) This is where water builds up by as much as a meter or more (3 feet). It is here in the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans that heat energy is normally released. What the WMO attributes to increasing CO2 are normal weather events that change over years and decades. See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy and Defending the Orthodoxy.

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Four Fears – 3: Sea Level Rise: On page 9 of its report the WMO displays a standard trick of climate propagandists – it shows three rates of sea level rise taken by three different types of satellite instruments. The first covers Jan 1993 to Dec 2002 and has a rate of rise of 2.1 mm/year (8 inches per century). The last covers Jan 2013 to Jan 2022 and has a rate of rise 4.5 mm/yr (18 inches per century). This increasing rise is used to claim acceleration in sea level rise. There is no effort to standardize or calibrate measurements from different types of instruments or from geologically stable tidal gauges. WMO does not address the quality of its measurements. See links under Defending the Orthodoxy

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Four Fears – 4:  Ocean Acidification: To justify that oceans are becoming acidic, the WMO shows a range of estimates from the Met Office based on data from the Copernicus Marine Service. TWTW was unable to locate the data at Copernicus, but the WMO cited its offspring, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its latest report. (AR6, 2021).

Page 75 of the Technical Summary of AR6 has a graph showing a decline in ocean pH from about 8.2 in 1850 to as low as 7.7 in 2100. Of course, the concept of pH was not conceived in 1850 so the earlier number is a sheer guess. Contrary to the claim of acidification, a pH of 7.7 is still alkaline, though the graph indicates it is high acidity. Further, the “acidification” is dependent on the absorption of carbon dioxide in a warming ocean? When water warms it gives of gases. Further, as CO2 is a weak acid it does not ionize well. Thus, the natural occurring buffering compounds such as chloride and sodium from salt, as well as calcium, hydrogen carbonate (bicarbonate) and carbonate ionswill minimize any lowering of pH. The White Cliffs of Dover and the marine calcifying organisms are safe. Most of the organisms evolved in an environment far richer in CO2 than today. See links under Defending the Orthodoxy and https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_TS.pdf

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Questionable Award: David Attenborough misled the public into believing that climate change was forcing walruses to fall off cliffs when polar bears actually pursued them. There is far too much of the type of propaganda. The two parent organizations to the UN IPCC are the UN WMO and UN Environmental Program (UNEP). Last month UNEP gave a ‘Champion of the Earth’ award to Attenborough for his programs on the natural world. Apparently, it is not the natural world that UNEP is concerned with, but support for its version of nature, no matter how far off it is. See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy.

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Mathematical Malpractice? The Lancet and GeoHealth published studies on estimates of how many people die from air pollution. The abstract of the GeoHealth article states:

“In this study, we estimate health benefits resulting from the elimination of emissions of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides from the electric power, transportation, building, and industrial sectors in the contiguous US. We use EPA’s CO-Benefits Risk Assessment screening tool to estimate health benefits resulting from the removal of PM2.5-related emissions from these energy-related sectors.”

EPA has no physical evidence that PM2.5 causes respiratory damage. It is all based on speculation and belongs in a group of studies that should be called mathematical absurdities. See links under Defending the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science and Article # 1.

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Materials Needed! Scholar and writer Vaclav Smil wrote: “Four materials rank highest on the scale of necessity, forming what I have called the four pillars of modern civilization: cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia are needed in larger quantities than are other essential inputs.” To this list, TWTW adds reliable energy.

Largely unnoticed, ammonia is critical for artificial fertilizer. As Jo Nova posts, Smil writes further:

“The world now produces annually about 4.5 billion tons of cement, 1.8 billion tons of steel, nearly 400 million tons of plastics, and 180 million tons of ammonia. But it is ammonia that deserves the top position as our most important material: its synthesis is the basis of all nitrogen fertilizers, and without their applications it would be impossible to feed, at current levels, nearly half of today’s nearly 8 billion people.”

These materials require intensive energy. If there is a global threat to modern population it is from those who fear fossil fuels and the benefits they deliver. See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy.

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NASA Knew? Writing in WUWT, David Dibbell mentions an essay posted on the NASA website in 2009 on climate and the earth’s energy budget by Rebecca Lindsey. The NASA post begins:

“The Earth’s climate is a solar powered system. Globally, over the course of the year, the Earth system—land surfaces, oceans, and atmosphere—absorbs an average of about 240 watts of solar power per square meter (one watt is one joule of energy every second). The absorbed sunlight drives photosynthesis, fuels evaporation, melts snow and ice, and warms the Earth system.

“The Sun doesn’t heat the Earth evenly. Because the Earth is a sphere, the Sun heats equatorial regions more than polar regions. The atmosphere and ocean work non-stop to even out solar heating imbalances through evaporation of surface water, convection, rainfall, winds, and ocean circulation. This coupled atmosphere and ocean circulation is known as Earth’s heat engine.

“The climate’s heat engine must not only redistribute solar heat from the equator toward the poles, but also from the Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere back to space. Otherwise, Earth would endlessly heat up. Earth’s temperature doesn’t infinitely rise because the surface and the atmosphere are simultaneously radiating heat to space. This net flow of energy into and out of the Earth system is Earth’s energy budget.”

Without identifying it, the essay discusses the Stephan-Boltzmann law discussed by Howard Hayden in his lessons on Basic Climate Physics.

Temperature doesn’t infinitely rise, however, because atoms and molecules on Earth are not just absorbing sunlight, they are also radiating thermal infrared energy (heat). The amount of heat a surface radiates is proportional to the fourth power of its temperature. If temperature doubles, radiated energy increases by a factor of 16 (2 to the 4th power). If the temperature of the Earth rises, the planet rapidly emits an increasing amount of heat to space. This large increase in heat loss in response to a relatively smaller increase in temperature—referred to as radiative cooling—is the primary mechanism that prevents runaway heating on Earth.

The atmosphere and the surface of the Earth together absorb 71 percent of incoming solar radiation, so together, they must radiate that much energy back to space for the planet’s average temperature to remain stable. However, the relative contribution of the atmosphere and the surface to each process (absorbing sunlight versus radiating heat) is asymmetric. The atmosphere absorbs 23 percent of incoming sunlight while the surface absorbs 48. The atmosphere radiates heat equivalent to 59 percent of incoming sunlight; the surface radiates only 12 percent. In other words, most solar heating happens at the surface, while most radiative cooling happens in the atmosphere. How does this reshuffling of energy between the surface and atmosphere happen? [Boldface added]

“Why doesn’t the natural greenhouse effect cause a runaway increase in surface temperature? Remember that the amount of energy a surface radiates always increases faster than its temperature rises—outgoing energy increases with the fourth power of temperature. As solar heating and “back radiation” from the atmosphere raise the surface temperature, the surface simultaneously releases an increasing amount of heat—equivalent to about 117 percent of incoming solar energy. The net upward heat flow, then, is equivalent to 17 percent of incoming sunlight (117 percent up minus 100 percent down).

“Some of the heat escapes directly to space, and the rest is transferred to higher and higher levels of the atmosphere, until the energy leaving the top of the atmosphere matches the amount of incoming solar energy. Because the maximum possible amount of incoming sunlight is fixed by the solar constant (which depends only on Earth’s distance from the Sun and very small variations during the solar cycle), the natural greenhouse effect does not cause a runaway increase in surface temperature on Earth.”

After discussing the different absorption properties of water vapor and CO2, the paper concludes:

“The changes we have seen in the climate so far are only part of the full response we can expect from the current energy imbalance, caused only by the greenhouse gases we have released so far. Global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 and 0.9 degrees Celsius in the past century, and it will likely rise at least 0.6 degrees in response to the existing energy imbalance.

“As the surface temperature rises, the amount of heat the surface radiates will increase rapidly [as the 4th power of T, discussed above.] If the concentration of greenhouse gases stabilizes, then Earth’s climate will once again come into equilibrium, albeit with the “thermostat”—global average surface temperature—set at a higher temperature than it was before the Industrial Revolution.

“However, as long as greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise, the amount of absorbed solar energy will continue to exceed the amount of thermal infrared energy that can escape to space. The energy imbalance will continue to grow, and surface temperatures will continue to rise.”

Hayden’s papers show that there is little imbalance. Further, as Hayden, Happer, and Lindzen have made clear, cloudiness is an issue that needs resolving. See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy and http://www.sepp.org/science_papers.cfm

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Triple Needed Capacity? Using a model called RESOLVE, a couple of think tanks published a study on how California can go to 85% carbon-free electricity by 2030. Francis Menton goes through the calculations and concludes:

“So, what will be the cost of all of this? Building capacity to a level that is triple peak usage; keeping an entire back-up natural gas system fully maintained but idle at least 85% of the time; and adding sufficient storage to deal with the seasonality of wind and solar? Three times the cost of the current system would seem conservative. Five times is more likely. And of course, this Report does not address the cost issue.”

Cost of implication is totally lost to green grand planners, as well as feasibility (or what TWTW terms “proof of concept”). Kip Hansen and Donn Dears look at such “ugly” issues. See links under Questioning Green Elsewhere and California Dreaming

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SEPP’S APRIL FOOLS AWARD – THE JACKSON

SEPP is conducting its annual vote for the recipient of the coveted trophy, The Jackson, a lump of coal. Readers are asked to nominate and vote for who they think is most deserving. The entire Biden Administration won in 2021, so individuals in it are still eligible.

The voting will close on July 30. Please send your nominee and a brief reason the person is qualified for the honor to [email protected]. The awardee will be announced at the annual meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness on August 14 to 16 at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Registration: https://aaps.wufoo.com/forms/qb79fo31o62uh1/; Hotel: https://be.synxis.com/?adult=1&arrive=2022-08-14&chain=6903&child=0&currency=USD&depart=2022-08-15&group=DOC0811&hotel=11548&level=hotel&locale=en-US&rooms=1

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Number of the Week: One per 10,000. The headlines said: “Extreme heat linked to rise in US death rates: study.” The abstract said: “In this cross-sectional study using a longitudinal analysis of county-level monthly all-cause mortality rates from all counties in the contiguous US from 2008 to 2017, each additional extreme heat day in a month was associated with 0.07 additional death per 100 000 adults.”

According to the CDC the death rate in the US in 2017 was 731.9 per 100,000. Looking at mortality rates, by county, these doctors could pick up one additional death per 10,000 deaths as being from heat? And JAMA published it? The funding was from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association. Talk about mathematical malpractice!

See links under Defending the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db328.htm#:~:text=Key%20findings,-Data%20from%20the&text=Life%20expectancy%20for%20the%20U.S.,2016%20to%20731.9%20in%202017.

Suppressing Scientific Inquiry

Faculty Freedom of Speech and Diversity is Threatened at the University of Washington

For a university to serve its community, produce new knowledge, and educate its students, the faculty cannot be afraid to speak freely.

By Cliff Mass, Weather Blog, May 19, 2022

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/05/faculty-freedom-of-speech-and-diversity.html

Challenging the Orthodoxy — NIPCC

Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science

Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), 2013

Summary: https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/CCR/CCR-II/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf

Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts

Idso, Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), 2014

http://climatechangereconsidered.org/climate-change-reconsidered-ii-biological-impacts/

Summary: https://www.heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-IIb/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf

Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels

By Multiple Authors, Bezdek, Idso, Legates, and Singer eds., Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, April 2019

http://store.heartland.org/shop/ccr-ii-fossil-fuels/

Download with no charge:

http://climatechangereconsidered.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Climate-Change-Reconsidered-II-Fossil-Fuels-FULL-Volume-with-covers.pdf

Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming

The NIPCC Report on the Scientific Consensus

By Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), Nov 23, 2015

http://climatechangereconsidered.org/

Download with no charge:

https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming

Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate

S. Fred Singer, Editor, NIPCC, 2008

http://www.sepp.org/publications/nipcc_final.pdf

Global Sea-Level Rise: An Evaluation of the Data

By Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Policy Brief, May 20, 2019

Challenging the Orthodoxy

CO2 Enrichment Improves Plant Water-Use Efficiency

By Craig D. Idso, Master Resource, May 20, 2022

Heat waves are 100% Natural: Part 5 Of How Pressure Systems Control the Climate

By Jim Steele, A Walk On the Natural Side, Feb 7, 2022

Transcript: https://perhapsallnatural.blogspot.com/2022_02_07_archive.html

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eddO6RVZ2CM

“‘Attribution science’ is a newly created so-called ‘science’ that appears to be just a rubber stamping of the climate crisis narratives as their analyses never fully account for all the contributing factors as good science must, preferring to push a meaningless statistic that a higher average temperature means more extreme weather. It clearly is misinformation.”

How pressure Systems control the Climate: Part 1 – The Decline in Extreme Weather

By Jim Steele, A Walk On the Natural Side, Dec 20, 2021

Transcript: https://perhapsallnatural.blogspot.com/2021/

Video: https://youtu.be/67ie20cjJxU

Link to key study: Global climatology and trends in convective environments from ERA5 and rawinsonde data

By Mateusz Taszarek, et al. Nature, Climate and Atmospheric Science, June 11, 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-021-00190-x

[SEPP Comment: Steele explains why a study in Nature found that strong convective storms are not increasing as predicted by the global climate models.]

How Pressure Systems Control Climate- Part 3. How the Sun and Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Controlled Climate and Civilization Collapse

By Jim Steele, A Walk On the Natural Side, Jan 9, 2022

Video: https://youtu.be/ivVTf1_EZH8

Transcript: https://perhapsallnatural.blogspot.com/2022_01_09_archive.html

Inconvenient: The four pillars of civilization all require fossil fuels, and more of them

By Jo Nova, Her Blog, May 16, 2022

WUWT Contest Runner Up, Professional: NASA Knew Better #NASA_Knew

Is there really a climate crisis? NASA Knew Better #NASA_Knew

By David Dibbell, WUWT, May 16, 2022

Link to: Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget

By Rebecca Lindsey, NASA Earth Observatory, Jan 14, 2009

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/EnergyBalance

UK weather has become, if anything, less extreme, annual review shows

Press Release, GWPF, May 17, 2022

Link to paper: The UK’s Weather in 2020-21

By Paul Homewood, Global Warming Policy Foundation, 2022

Defending the Orthodoxy

4 critical climate indicators raised red flags in 2021

A flagship climate report found that four key climate indicators set new records in 2021, prompting the U.N. to highlight a five-point plan for governments and other entities to mitigate harm from climate change.

By Adriana Navarro, AccuWeather staff writer, May 19, 2022 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]

https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/4-critical-climate-indicators-set-new-records-in-2021/1189393

Link to report: State of the Global Climate 2021 (WMO-No. 1290)

By Staff, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2022

https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=22080#.YoarGXXMImB

Climate change benchmarks all set records last year, report finds

By Andrew Freedman, Axios, May 18, 2022

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/18/climate-change-records

Press Release: WMO State of Global Climate report 2021 is released 18 May

https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/wmo-state-of-global-climate-report-2021-released-18-may

Press Release: Four key climate change indicators break records in 2021

https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/four-key-climate-change-indicators-break-records-2021

Report: State of the Global Climate 2021 (WMO-No. 1290)

https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=11178

[SEPP Comment: Doubt that China is impressed.]

Green Upheaval

The New Geopolitics of Energy

By Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2022

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2021-11-30/geopolitics-energy-green-upheaval

[SEPP Comment: Long essay of dubious value.]

Defending the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science

Bringing order to the chaos of sea level projections

Press Release, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, May 18, 2022 [H/t WUWT]

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/953117

Link to paper: Rethinking Sea-Level Projections Using Families and Timing Differences

By A. B. A. Slangen, M. Haasnoot, and ,G. Winter, AGU, Earth’s Future, Mar 30, 2022

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002576

[SEPP Comment: Above all, ignore geologically stable tidal gages which would show most of the projections are wild guesses!]

Extreme heat linked to rise in US death rates: study

By Sharon Udasin, The Hill, May 19, 2022

Link to study: Association of Extreme Heat With All-Cause Mortality in the Contiguous US, 2008-2017

By Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, MD, MPH, JAMA, May 19, 2022

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2792389?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=051922

Curbing energy-related air pollutants could save 50,000 US lives, $600B each year: study

By Sharon Udasin, The Hill, May 16, 2022

Link to paper: Nationwide and Regional PM2.5-Related Air Quality Health Benefits From the Removal of Energy-Related Emissions in the United States

By Nicholas A. Mailloux, et al. GeoHealth (AGU), May 16, 2022

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GH000603

For wetland plants, sea-level rise stamps out benefits of higher CO2

Beneficial effects of rising CO2 for plants disappear under flooding, 33-year field experiment reveals

Press Release by Smithsonian, May 18, 2022 [H/t WUWT]

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/952576

Link to paper: Accelerated sea-level rise is suppressing CO2 stimulation of tidal marsh productivity: A 33-year study

By Chunwu Zhu, et al. AAAS Science Advances, May 18, 2022

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn0054

[SEPP Comment: Sea levels have been rising for 18,000 years!]

Questioning the Orthodoxy

WUWT Contest Runner Up, General: Is There Really a Climate Crisis?

By Ivor Williams, WUWT, May 17, 2022

“The weather and climate of England and Wales have been monitored more closely for much longer than anywhere else in the world. There is no trace of a climate emergency in the temperature, rainfall, storm and tidal measurements.”

Discovery of ‘ghost’ fossils reveals plankton resilience to past global warming events

An international team of scientists have discovered a new type of fossilization

Press Release, University College London, May 19, 2022 [H/t WUWT]

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/952860

Link to paper: Global record of “ghost” nannofossils reveals plankton resilience to high CO2 and warming

By Sam Slater, et al. AAAS Science, May 19, 2022

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm7330

[SEPP Comment: Marine calcifying organisms (mollusks, foraminifera, coccolithophores, crustaceans, echinoderms such as sea urchins, corals, etc.) evolved during an atmosphere richer in CO2 than today. Only modern CO2 alarmists claim more CO2 is harmful.]

Which Woke Mediocrity will Replace the Outgoing UN Climate Chief?

By Eric Worrall, WUWT, May 19, 2022

Intended yet somehow unexpected

By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, May 18, 2022

“There’s a worldwide energy crisis produced by a geopolitical shock colliding with the longstanding plans of Western governments to get rid of reliable, affordable fossil fuels and hope something turns up. Other than the temperature, we mean, since China is blasting ahead with coal plants while letting us cripple ourselves. At some point the painful confrontation between voters’ lives and political virtue-signaling is going to take a toll.”

After Paris!

COP26: No countries have delivered on promise to improve climate plans

By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, May 17, 2022



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