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Public Broadcasting System (PBS) News reported that climate change has caused or contributed to the wildfires currently plaguing New York and New Jersey. This is wrong. [emphasis, links added] Wildfires have historically plagued both states, so the current fire season is not unusual. Furthermore, real-world data shows that the area lost to wildfires in the United States has declined dramatically since the early 20th century. PBS News report “Climate Change's Role in Unusual Wildfire Outbreak in the Northeast” features PBS NewsHour reporter, producer and fill-in anchor William Brangham, who interviews PBS climate change reporter Hillary Hilary Howard. Branham begins by…

Author: Neil Brown Berkeley, California is arguably the most liberal city in the United States. The city is overwhelmingly white and affluent, with a large Asian and small black minority population, a median household income of more than $100,000, and a median home value of nearly $1.3 million. When we think of liberal elites, we think of Berkeley. So green activists across the country were surprised when residents voted down new fossil fuel taxes last week. A local initiative on the ballot in Berkeley this November would impose a heavy tax on large buildings that use natural gas for heating,…

People eagerly donate to wealthy environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets. [emphasis, links added] It claims to use the law to “fight the climate crisis”. What it really does is Pay lawyers to torture people who are trying to do something useful. For example: America needs minerals like copper and silver to make things. Even President Joe Biden gave a speech saying that the United States will need 400-600% of these minerals to make “solar panels, wind turbines, and more!” The iPhone alone requires aluminum, iron, lithium, gold, copper… But when investors dare try…

Many residents in Northeast Houston braced for flooded streets and yards during the storm. Espinoza: “There are people who lost their homes…and now every time it rains, there are just some people who are traumatized.” David Espinoza is a member of the community advocacy group Northeast Action Collective. Houston has more than 2,000 miles of open roadside ditches. They are designed to collect rainwater, funnel it under driveways, and move it away from yards and roads. But this system often failed because many ditches needed regrading and maintenance, or became clogged with weeds and debris. For decades, people have been…

Article by Eric Worrell “Much cheaper than you think” The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think … However, this bit of consensus among climate activists and carbon addicts is actually wrong. The cost of a green world economy will be much lower than either group imagines. … Such estimates often form the basis for decisions. They range from about $3 trillion per year ($4.6 trillion) to nearly $12 trillion per year, which is a really big number. But these numbers are exaggerated in four important ways. … The incremental cost of abatement could be less than $1…

Vijay Jayaraj A farmer in Gyeongbok-do, South Korea, carefully tends his potato fields, while on the other side of the world on a U.S. interstate highway, the engines of a thousand cars idle. These seemingly unrelated scenes are closely connected through the fertilizing effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which has been greening the earth for decades. Yes, CO2 Emissions from tailpipes and industrial flues are good for plants and all life, contrary to the alarming stories that make this invisible gas an environmental monster. increase carbon dioxide2 Concentration has literally made the world a greener place, and in many cases…

bleeding We're excited to join Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. (UC Boulder) and Chris Wright, CEO and Chairman of Liberty Energy, for a live discussion on Wednesday in Denver as part of Liberty Energy's “Freedom and Energy” presentation series part. Roger is a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of the “Honest Broker” substack (link here). Roger's work focuses on the intersection of policy and governance issues related to science, technology, environment, innovation and sport. It was exciting to see the Denver area community come together and have a live studio…

Kip Hansen's News Brief—November 20, 2024 Very brief, mostly in one video and one image. This is what a bomb cyclone looks like: [ click for X video ] I wouldn't want to go out on a boat of any size off the Washington coast: shipping news service, team leader explain: “A powerful weather system is about to explode on the West Coast of the United States, bringing hurricane-force winds and huge waves.” “The rapidly intensifying low pressure system is expected to create hazardous conditions for shipping and coastal communities. “The National Weather Service has issued hurricane warnings indicating the…

Human-caused climate change has increased the wind speeds of recent Atlantic hurricanes, making them more destructive and costly, according to two scientific reports released today. The study, “Anthropogenic ocean warming exacerbates recent hurricanes,” published in the journal Environmental Research: Climate, found that between 2019 and 2023, Atlantic hurricanes' maximum sustained wind speeds increased by 19 mph due to human activity ( 31 km/h). A parallel report from Climate Central, a nonprofit scientific research organization, applied techniques developed in environmental research papers to the 2024 hurricane season and found that climate change increased the maximum wind speeds of all 11 Atlantic…

There's a reason we hear about so many extreme heat deaths during the summer: U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a “call to action” on extreme heat, prompting officials across the organization to take action without letting the facts get in the way A good story to give a warning. [emphasis, links added] The World Health Organization trumpeted the disturbing finding that heat kills more than 175,000 people in Europe every year. This is really an exaggeration four times. When called out, the group quietly edited their online publication to remove the word “extreme” – until the media reported the devastating…