Author: cne4h
from NoTricksZone Author: P. Gosselin 2025 will be the year in Germany when energy inflation increases and the right to free speech is lost Effective immediately, Germany's carbon dioxide surcharge will rise from 45 euros to 55 euros per ton, which will further exacerbate inflation and social dissatisfaction. Germany’s electricity prices are already the highest in the world and the most expensive in Europe: Chart: strom-report.com/ Germany cracks down on dissent and free speech But 2025 will not be an easy year for dissidents and critics of the government, as such behavior is increasingly criminalized in Germany due to recently…
Guest post by Kip Hansen — January 4, 2025 — 1000 words/4 minutes prelude: This is a new entry in a series discussing ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which is often referred to in the scientific media and elsewhere as “wars”—such as the Wars of the Monarchs, the Wars on Meat, the Obesity Epidemic, the War on Salt, the War on Sugar, and Great Barrier Reef War. All of these controversies, these scientific wars, have common characteristics that I lay out in the book Modern Scientific Controversies Part 5: Common Elements”. food war serves as a model for…
FROM MANHATTANCONTRIAN In a post a few weeks ago on December 21, I observed that Germany seemed to have won the race to be the first among all countries and states to hit the “green energy wall.” Its pursuit of the fantasy of “renewable” wind and solar power has put it in a situation where regular wind/solar droughts have caused electricity prices to skyrocket, and major industries have become uncompetitive. It has no way out and cannot go further. If Germany has “hit the wall”, what is the appropriate metaphor for New York? New York passed the Climate Act in…
Roger Kayazza Here are some comments published in early 2024 about The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has proposed an amendment to Part 490, “Projected Sea Level Rise” (Amendment). Kip Hansen wrote an article titled Sea level rise in New York state: Fantasy is law. a few days later Anthony Watts responds An article from the New York Post By Carl Campanile, titled: Sea levels around New York City could soar to 13 inches by 2030s due to climate change: State study. I prepared a review and summarized it in the post. In September 2024, the DEC…
The landslide victory of Trump and the Republicans in November showed that the country is in urgent need of change, and Americans made it clear to Washington that “this is not working” relative to the current situation in the United States. [emphasis, links added] While the mandate may be clear, executing this change will be a huge challenge. The Biden-Harris administration has thrown our fiscal sector into complete disarray, limiting many of Trump’s options and making core policy proposals contradict our fiscal realities. Here are three of the biggest challenges the incoming administration must address. Cut spending and deficits With…
If you've ever camped along the coast in the winter, you'll be well aware of the cool westerly winds that blow in most early mornings. In this model animation from ikitesurf.com/WeatherFlow-Tempest, you can see the north wind that often blows throughout the night in the Sea of Cortez. However, this 7am model animation clearly shows that although there are strong northerly winds outside, the winds nearshore are much weaker and more from the west. Morning westerly winds in the Baja California Peninsula are driven by the difference in heat and cold between the land and ocean, a phenomenon common in…
A reader asked us: What can be done to reduce the amount of plastic in the ocean, i.e. how can at least some of it be removed from the ocean, and what plastic can be recycled in the future? We asked YCC contributor Johani Ponce to find the answer to this question. This is his answer: Plastic pollution in the ocean is a serious environmental problem that affects not only marine life, but also the health of communities and the planet. Studies estimate that there are 15 to 51 billion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans, from the equator…
From Dr. Roy Spencer's Global Warming Blog Author: Dr. Roy W. Spencer 2024 sets new record for hottest year in satellite era (since 1979) The December 2024 global mean lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly in version 6.1 is +0.62 degrees. C deviates from the 1991-2020 average and is slightly below the November 2024 anomaly of +0.64 degrees. The global regional average temperature trend in Version 6.1 (January 1979 to December 2024) remains at +0.15 °C/decade (+0.22 C/decade on land, +0.13 C/decade on ocean). As can be seen from the following ranking of years from hottest to coldest, 2024 is by…
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, has turned the United States into the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, but not New York, where idiot politicians like Governor Hochul stubbornly refuse to exploit the vast wealth beneath our feet. [emphasis, links added] Two huge shale formations lie beneath much of northeastern North America. The relatively shallow Marcellus Shale extends from West Virginia into southern New York state. The Utica Shale, which lies beneath the Marcellus River and may contain more natural gas, extends further northwest into Canada and east into Albany, a large swath of the Empire State. Together, the two…
not many people know Paul Homewood https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/mexico While Miliband wants to lead us to the cliff, the rest of the world is business as usual. Mexico is another country whose emissions continue to rise. Even their Paris National Data Center makes this clear, as it promises to reduce emissions only on a “business as usual” basis. The resulting target emissions for 2030 will be higher than in 2015! Mexico has since increased emissions reductions from 22% to 35%, but as Climate Action Tracker points out, they have also increased their BAU: Mexico’s climate policy continues to regress, prioritizing the use…