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A short note by Kip Hansen — December 30, 2024 — 650 words To end the year, I would like to mention an article from Shipping News. Five years at sea: “Argonaut” oil spill drift card appears on Scottish island “Plastic drift cards from one of America's worst oil spills [the wreck of the Argo Merchant off of Nantucket Island in 1976] After nearly five years at sea, it appeared on a Scottish beach. “While clearing debris on her property on the Scottish Isle of Coll after the October 2024 storm, Barbara Payne discovered a red plastic object the size…
Sometimes you stumble upon a “study” that is so self-serving, filled with assumptions, and so blatantly designed to push a particular agenda that you almost have to admire its audacity. Lancet Planetary Health A recent article was published titled “Climate Sentiments, Ideas, and Plans among U.S. Teens and Young Adults.” On the surface, it purports to be a large-scale survey analyzing the impact of climate change on the mental health of young Americans. Yet beneath the veneer of academic rigor lies little more than a thinly veiled manifesto of radical climate policy, with its roots in the overventilated world of…
Roger Kayaza I recently submitted a comment based on my analysis of the New York State Research and Development Agency's investment in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) auction proceeds, and my findings may be of interest to many. Limited investment schemes like RGGI are often touted as “killing two birds with one stone”. “It also places limits ('caps') on the tons of pollutants that companies can emit, while requiring them to pay per ton of pollutants to fund projects that help the jurisdiction move away from polluting energy sources – 'investments.'” Advocate Authors praised RGGI as a successful model for…
As you can see in the actual poster [below] [emphasis, links added] like a movie poster [below]where the hurricane spins the wrong way, Evidence and research don’t always fit the narrative. Look at that spin! A pseudoscientific cottage industry has sprung up linking nearly every famous hurricane to climate change. Today, I look at recent efforts to attribute hurricanes to greenhouse gas emissions. The impact of climate change on hurricanes is said to be huge. Here are some examples for 2024: Let’s take a closer look at what’s behind these press releases. Like the hurricane spinning the wrong way in…
Article by Eric Worrell “…we enable scientists and engineers to pursue research that is too speculative, difficult, or interdisciplinary to be done elsewhere…” Seeking: Doomsday warning system Some experts believe we could reach a catastrophic climate “tipping point” within a few years. The British government, with the help of Dominic Cummings, is trying to prepare. December 30, 2024 4:21 am CETAuthor: Charlie Cooper LONDON – Britain, like the rest of the world, may be on the brink of climate catastrophe. If the worst happens, Whitehall will need a little warning. So it's turning to scientific experts for help, and to…
Brazilian authorities have halted construction of a BYD electric vehicle (EV) factory in the Brazilian state of Bahia after rescuing 163 Chinese workers from what they called “slave-like conditions.” [emphasis, links added] The workers were employed by Jinjiang Construction Brazil Ltd., a subcontractor building factories for the Chinese electric car maker. The Labor Prosecutor's Office reported that The workers' living conditions were extremely poor, their passports were confiscated and 60% of their wages were withheld. After the report was published, BYD terminated its partnership with Jinjiang Construction and pledged to safeguard the rights of subcontracted workers. On Friday, Brazilian authorities…
More than twice as many Americans are dying from cold weather than two decades ago. [emphasis, links added] Between 1999 and 2022, 40,079 people died in which hypothermia was an underlying or contributing causeaccording to a research letter published Dec. 19 online in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The letter's authors, affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, used data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to analyze death certificates. The letter highlights the long-term trend of increasing cold-related mortality, which has more than doubled…
from masterresource By Robert Bradley Jr. — December 26, 2024 On this day in 2008, I launched MasterResource. The first article “New Energy Blog” wrote: We're just getting started, but some of us veterans of the energy debate from a private property, free market perspective have come together to offer our thoughts on the latest energy projects. As I read the newspaper every day, I hope to share some thoughts with people from a historical and worldview perspective. I think we all have something to add – and thus provide inspiration for this endeavor. We have a great core team…
Transcript: Islands are home to species found nowhere else on Earth. As sea levels rise, many unique plants and animals may be lost forever. Take the silver rice rat, a small furry animal from the Florida Keys. They live in coastal swamps and swamps, feeding on small creatures found at low tide. Terry: “They can roam the exposed tidal areas and look for crabs and snails and things like that.” But Paul Tiley of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says rising sea levels are flooding some of the rats' habitats. So far, the animals have adapted successfully.…
not many people know Paul Homewood According to the British Broadcasting Corporation: Species in Britain are under threat as they are 'cheated' by seasonal changes brought on by climate change. On average, key events that herald the start of spring are occurring Nine days ago, external than a quarter of a century ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cly24dxeer1o The only people who were defrauded were the authorized payers of the BBC! According to an article written by HH Lamb in 1982, spring started later on average in the 1960s and 1970s than 30 years ago due to global cooling. “The average spring arrival date…