The Underappreciated Importance of Climate Variability
#Global Warming #ScienceOne of the most pervasive misunderstandings of climate is the belief that any long-term trend in a measured climate variable indicates a change in climate, as defined by the IPCC. In practice, “long-term” is often defined to be only a few decades worth of observations.…
Oceans Giving Back a Little C02
#Global Warming #ScienceCarbon dioxide is indeed the ‘stuff of life’, underpinning photosynthesis, boosting plant growth, enhancing agricultural yields, and enabling practical applications in industry.…
Constructing Climate Catastrophism
#Global Warming #Science #UNOClimate scenarios are ridiculously opaque, as if they are designed not to be understood by intelligent people outside the small community of scholars who invent these scenarios. More people should understand how the sausage is made.…
Tariffs on Chinese Goods Should be 400 Percent
#China #U.S.A. #EconomyBut, like most tycoons, O’Leary takes issue with Trump’s 145 percent tariffs on most Chinese imports. The twist: O’Leary doesn’t think they’re too high. He thinks they aren’t high enough, arguing that China has been ignoring the trade rules that other developed countries abide by.…
Biden’s Dark Climate Money
#U.S.A. #Politics #Global WarmingImagine if Republicans gave the Trump Administration tens of billions of dollars to dole out to right-wing groups to sprinkle around to favored businesses. That’s what Democrats did in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).…
Some History, Including About Cyclones
#Global Warming #ScienceWhen it comes to extreme weather, cyclones are top of my list. The most extreme cyclone to hit Queensland, Tropical Cyclone Mahina, was arguably the world’s most intense with a central pressure recorded at 880 hectopascals, a 12-metre storm surge, and 300 kilometre per hour winds.…
Climate Misinformation from the United Nations
#Global Warming #ScienceLapses of scientific integrity in climate science have become normalized. I no longer expect the community to care about obvious and egregious problems in climate science, even when documented in the peer reviewed literature.…
Putins Ukraine-Feldzug: Es geht auch um Bodenschätze
#Ukraine #Trump #RussiaIn seinem Ukraine-Feldzug geht es Putin um Macht und Ideologie, aber auch um die überreichen Bodenschätze. Erst seit Donald Trump die Welt nach wertvollen Rohstoffvorkommen durchscannt, wird vollends klar, dass es auch Russland um deren reichhaltige Bodenschätze zu tun ist.…
Niall Ferguson: J.D. Vance’s Fighting Words—Against Me and Ukraine
#U.S.A. #TrumpIt is not every day I am accused by the vice president of the United States of purveying “moralistic garbage” and “historical illiteracy,” and of being a “globalist.” But those were the charges leveled against me by J.D. Vance this morning.…