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Eric Worrall's paper “…Thinking like thickening sea ice to prevent collapse…may have once seemed extreme. We passed the 1.5C climate threshold. We must now explore extreme options David KingMonday, April 7, 2025 19.00 Aest We have no luxury goods that reject solutions until we thoroughly investigate its risks, tradeoffs and feasibility As a lifelong scientist, I have always thought that if possible, we could find a way to achieve it. However, one of the worst reality we face now is that the world has failed to achieve its climate goals. Last year marked a historic and disturbing threshold: It was…
The Trump administration has raised logging quota by 25% in the U.S. national forests, part of increasing timber production when facing tariffs and preventing fires by removing fuel and causing fire-proof explosions. [emphasis, links added] this San Francisco Chronicles Report: Amid moves that could reshape California’s natural landscape, the USDA issued an emergency order on Friday to accelerate the harvest of nearly 113 million acres of national forest. The directive, announced by USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, calls for a 25% increase in national timber quotas, with special focus on areas in California, including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Los Padres and…
More than thirty years ago, Congress launched an initiative called the US Global Change Research Program [USGCRP]. Today, it spends billions of dollars a year to enhance the capacity of free climate scientists to spread the doom of climate change. [emphasis, links added] The government panel said its role is to provide a “scientific foundation for climate change to support informed decision-making across the United States.” This is done by producing five national climate assessment reports that are considered “the crown jewelry” of climate research. Although funding was obtained from at least ten separate government agencies, making the report seemed…
No one knows Paul Homewood H/T Hugh Sharman Major U.S. power grid operators are raising alarms about the looming capacity tightening. Power has a story: “Six major U.S. power grid operators have issued a unified alarm about the upcoming capacity tightening, warning that the pace and scale of explosive demand (including from data centers, manufacturing and electrification) has caused pre-qualified errors and accelerated retirement and transmission constraints for generators’ retirement agencies. exist At a hearing of the Housing Energy and Business Subcommittee on March 25, Top U.S. power systems are under increasing pressure and the ability to maintain reliable power…
In the town of Morrovis in the heart of Puerto Rico, there is about 1,950 acres of green maze. The place is famous for its numerous caves, it preserves the stories of ancient Bim, rock art and petroglyphs, from paleobotany, unique fauna studies in the Caribbean, and many other stories about life and subsequent industrialization in Puerto Rico before Spanish colonization. These stories can be heard in one of the many tours offered by Cabachuelas Project of Cabachuelas Work Cooperative, a community co-operative founded in 2018 by residents of the town of Morrovis to preserve and manage the land found…
Transcript: Texas summers are very hot. But winter will get colder. When temperatures drop, millions of homes in the state rely on inefficient heating systems for strain residents’ wallets and power grids. Nadall: “Texas has had problems with extreme weather. During the winter storm Uri, they were unable to provide enough power and there were major power outages, a lot of freezing pipes, etc.” Steve Nadel is the U.S. Energy Saving Economics Council. His team analyzed how much money and energy can be saved if Texas homes currently use central AC and resistive heating next time they replace the system.…
From cfact David Wojick Existing battery safety standards are very incomplete for a large number of reckless, huge grid battery scale composites. Massachusetts recently raised public comments, which addressed important issues with planned multi-billion-dollar battery purchases. Public safety is one of the issues, so I submitted the comment below. I just found this request at the last minute, so the comments are short, but they involve some central security issues. By background, a law was passed in December requiring Massachets Electric Power Littilities, but up to 5,000 megawatts of grid scale batteries. The first round will buy 4 to 10-hour…
Daily Skeptics Chris Morrison Global vegetation reached a new green peak in 2020 and has continued its long-term trend since 2000 New dramatic discoveries Published by a team of scientists in the United States. This work helps identify other recent scientific work that shows a connection to the latest increase in carbon dioxide caused by nature and humans. Plants have evolved to grow in a richer atmosphere in CO2 More than the current level of nearly dominance, recent growth and its myriad benefits to humanity are not surprising. Needless to say, the news is mainstream headlines as “pollutants” are temporarily…
From Notrickszone Kenneth Richard on April 3, 2025 As sea levels increase, coral reefs expand and prosper, while as sea levels drop, they experience millennium growth cracks and “closed” or “mass deaths” phases. Based on the new global sea level reconstruction (Fieldman et al., 2025), global sea levels are higher than today 7,000 to 5,000 years ago. Thereafter, global sea levels fell throughout the late Holocene. From about 4500 years ago to 640 years ago, the previously booming coral reefs suffered a “mass death” and “closed” phase as accommodation space gradually declines in the Red Sea region. The growth of…
At least 21 people died in the first week of April due to bad weather and extensive flooding, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The forecast for the entire event is very good (see our April 2 prediction). Under severe personnel and infrastructure pressures, the National Weather Service continues to exist this year, with dozens of life-saving tornadoes and flood warnings issued. From Wednesday to Saturday, a relentless and violent thunderstorm developed from Wednesday to Saturday along the ground front line along the South Plains to the Ohio Valley. As the upper thrusts pass over the head, the front whips…