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From Climate Warehouse Mark Morano https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/jpmorgan-says-leave-net-zero-banking-alliance-2025-01-07 Simon Jessop The last of the Big Six U.S. banks to exit the group Says he remains 'focused' on pragmatic climate solutions Exit comes as U.S. political pressure mounts LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) said on Tuesday it would withdraw from the Net Zero Banking Alliance, the latest U.S. bank to pull out of the industry's largest climate alliance amid rising political pressure in the United States. The move means six of the biggest banks in the world's largest economy – Goldman Sachs (GS.N), opens in new tab, Wells…
Republican Rep. August Pfluger introduced a new bill Friday that would prevent the president from imposing a nationwide ban on fracking without congressional consent. [emphasis, links added] Pfluger's Protecting America's Energy Production Act would explicitly require Congress to act to impose a moratorium on fracking and prevent the president from doing so directly. Some Democrats have called for a de facto or legal moratorium on fracking, including Vice President Kamala Harris, who ran for president in the 2020 election cycle. “Congress believes that states should maintain primacy in the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on…
The tragic wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles have reignited calls to blame climate change for the disaster. As articles in outlets such as Axios, Newsweek and the BBC demonstrate, there is a growing tendency to link every fire, flood or storm to climate change. Yet a closer look at history, meteorology and land management reveals that these narratives are often oversimplified by poorly informed journalists and fail to address more immediate, actionable causes. The headlines must be separated from the science to understand these wildfires in their proper context. Like many fires before them, the current fires are largely…
What is the difference between weather and climate? Let’s ask the expert government National Weather Service. [emphasis, links added] weather Defined as the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, involving variables such as temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and air pressure. climate Defined as the expected frequency of specific states of the atmosphere, oceans, and land, including variables such as temperature, salinity, soil moisture, wind speed and direction, and current strength and direction. It covers weather over time and also involves interactions between components of the Earth system (e.g., atmospheric composition, volcanic eruptions, changes in…
Bottom line: Models are all over the place regarding wind speeds, but all agree on an unfavorable westerly wind direction. This means our winds will travel over mountains, causing the wind to ripple and randomly reach the surface. Do not launch during brief periods of high winds as you may become trapped in the wind tunnel.Today’s trendy recipe: Today’s recipe has more Basura-inspired ingredients. 1. 60 knot SSW wind blowing over us from near cutoff low at about 18,000 feet. 2. This creates a surface low near the central Sea of Cortez, which generates strong northerly winds from San Felipe…
California's long-delayed high-speed rail plan has a new destination: Las Vegas. The original plan, approved by voters in 2008, was to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles. But after delays and massive cost overruns, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced that the “bullet train” would no longer connect the two cities. [emphasis, links added] Instead, Democrats claim they will build rail between rural Central Valley towns where there is no consumer demand. Then-President Donald Trump canceled $1 billion in federal spending planned for the project over Newsom's objections. President Joe Biden restored funding. But at the same time, a new private-sector-led…
Guest post by Larry Hamlin Colorado State University global northern hemisphere data for 2024 hurricane season shows The most recent season's accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) was 455.1, which is only 78.6% of “normal” (lower than the 1991-2020 30-year climatological hurricane storm season average of 579.2) The chart below shows data as of December 31, 2024) and is lower than the 2023 value of 636.6 (shown in the table below). The highest ACE value measured in the Northern Hemisphere ocean between 1991 and 2020 climatology was 880.3 in 1992 (shown in the table below), which is almost double the 2024 ACE…
The BBC's recent article, “A Year of Extreme Weather to Challenge Billions”, presents a false narrative that directly attributes various weather events in 2024 to climate change. [emphasis, links added] It is undeniable that our planet experiences a series of weather phenomena every year; Confusing individual weather events with long-term climate trends oversimplifies and misleads the complex weather and climate system. It is crucial to distinguish between weather and climate, as the World Meteorological Organization does, and the BBC completely ignores this. Weather refers to short-term atmospheric conditions, while climate refers to the average of these conditions over longer periods…
Transcript: To help bats and wind turbines coexist, researchers took inspiration from moths. Bats have a keen sense of echolocation, but for some reason they don't avoid turbines. Some species are even facing population declines due to wind turbine strikes. To find ways to deter bats, researchers are learning from the bats' prey. When a tiger moth encounters a bat, it emits a high-frequency signal that is thought to interfere with the bat's sonar. Fritz: “So people took that as an idea and built these bat deterrents that emitted high-frequency noise, thinking that maybe it would interfere with the bats'…
Baltimore-area residents will be treated to sunny skies, cold temperatures and gusty winds Wednesday as the area continues to recover from heavy snowfall earlier in the week.The National Weather Service is predicting sunny skies through midweek with frigid temperatures barely above freezing. On Wednesday, highs will be around 31 degrees, lows will be in the teens, and wind gusts will reach 25 mph.More similar conditions are expected Thursday, with windier conditions expected, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Biting wind chills are expected Thursday night.By Friday, winds are easing, increasing the chance of a second round of snow. The…