climatedepot--2020-11-10--NBC News: “Environmentalists say Biden’s win was ‘crucial’ for climate progress. Now what?”

`` The sobering reality is that even if every country meets their commitment under Paris ( and many , including the U.S. and E.U .
are currently falling short ) , that gets us less than halfway to where we need to be , '' he said in an email .
`` Paris is a good starting point , but we need to go well beyond Paris now to achieve the reductions that are necessary . ''
Biden has said he intends to rejoin the Paris Agreement , but the U.S. has a lot of ground to make up to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And it is becoming increasingly clear that deeper cuts to emissions will be necessary to limit global warming to below 3.6 degrees F , said Michael Mann , a climatologist and professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University .
When Joe Biden clinched the presidency Saturday , climate activists breathed a sigh of relief .
After four years of President Donald Trump ’ s denying the science of climate change and dismantling or rolling back more than 100 environmental protections , climate experts knew the stakes in the election could not have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was very clear-eyed about just how crucial this election was , so I think that made anxiety run pretty darn high , ” said Katharine Wilkinson , editor-in-chief of Project Drawdown , a coalition of researchers and scientists who are working on climate change solutions .
“ Science tells us we don ’ t have time for another four years of a Trump administration .
We don ’ t have time for four more years of bailing out failing fossil fuel companies and four more years of moving backwards.
” Wilkinson , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ project , a women-led climate nonprofit , said the past few days have been “ definitely a roller coaster.
” Now , experts say they are eager for the new president to get to work on tackling the climate crisis .
But if Republicans keep control of the Senate , there may be challenges as Biden tries to turn his plans into action .
Most climate activists have applauded Biden ’ s climate plan , which includes investing $ 2 trillion over four years and aims to achieve a 100 percent clean electricity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Senate seat but need to pick up two more to reach 50 and assume control , with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the tiebreaking vote .
Two Senate seats in Georgia , now held by Republicans , appear to be advancing to runoff elections on Jan. 5 , which means the makeup of the Senate could hang in the balance until then .
Still , Biden can make progress on climate issues even if the Senate majority remains in Republican hands , said Shiv Someshwar , a visiting professor at Columbia University ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It is unlikely that sweeping legislation along the lines of the Green New Deal could move forward without a Democratic-controlled Senate , but a Biden administration can still address some short- and long-term impacts of climate change , he said .
“ While massive investments may not be possible , the Biden administration could be active in rolling out regulations that are designed to limit [ greenhouse gas ] emission and those that minimize climate risk in future on public and private assets , ” said Someshwar , who is European chair @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Paris Institute of Political Studies ( Sciences Po ) in France .
That could include supporting the national adoption of fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks like those that have been introduced by California Gov .
Gavin Newsom , Someshwar added .
Gina McCarthy , president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council , said that if the public demands action on climate , sluggish lawmakers may be forced to take note .
“ Even if the U.S. Senate doesn ’ t lead on strong climate policy , they can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expect to see progress regardless of who is controlling the Senate , ” she said Thursday , two days after the election , at a news conference with several prominent environmental organizations .


climatedepot--2020-11-11--Beware: ‘Post-normal science’ has infected COVID & Climate debates – ‘It is anti-science’

Professor Michael Levitt , who won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 2013 , was due to be the keynote speaker in December at a virtual conference on his areas of special expertise – computational biology and biodesign .
But the First International Biodesign Research Conference withdrew his invitation – according to Levitt because they had received ‘ too many calls ’ from other speakers ‘ threatening to quit ’ because of his views on Chinese coronavirus .
He has long maintained that the threat is overblown and that ‘ we ’ re going to be fine.
’ Morano comment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this type of crushing of dissent for decades when it comes to ‘ climate change.
’ Whether you support COVID lockdowns equates to whether you support the UN Paris Pact or Green New Deal in the climate world .
If you oppose mandatory masks , that is like not believing in the alleged ‘ 97 % consensus ’ on climate .
Can the government ‘ control ” a virus equates to can government ‘ control ’ the climate .
The COVID/Climate connection runs deep.
” See : Read : Bonus chapter : Intimidating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ Consensus ’ – Climate ‘ deniers ’ threatened with being ‘ thrown in jail ’ – ‘ The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change ’ NO DISSENT ALLOWED : Polar bear expert Mitch Taylor barred from conference in 2009 over ‘ extremely unhelpful ’ skeptical global warming view– Attendance voted down by members because of his views on global warming ’ — Research revealed bear ‘ numbers are higher than they were 30 years ago ’ OUTRAGEOUS : A Large Danish Study on Mask Wearing Is Being Delayed by Publishers of Major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Being Made Public “ When the media says ‘ listen to the science , what they really mean is ‘ listen to the science that we didn ’ t censor from social media , ’ ” explained Dr. Simone Gold about the censoring of views that diverge from the official public health stance about COVID-19 and lockdowns .

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climatedepot--2020-11-11--Global hurricane frequency data updated: No notable trends despite media hysteria

Dr. @ RyanMaue has updated the global hurricane frequency chart .
Top plot shows all hurricanes , and the bottom @ @ @ @ @ all the news hysteria , no notable trends can be found .
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climatedepot--2020-11-11--The ‘Climate Refugee’ Scare Never Happened – ‘There has been a reduction in climate-related refugees

The ‘Climate Refugee’ Scare Never Happened – ‘There has been a reduction in climate-related refugees’

For decades , climate alarmists have claimed that catastrophic climate change would lead towards tens of millions of climate refugees fleeing their homes looking for safe haven .
These claims have failed to pan out , and as the planet has modestly warmed , climate refugees have decreased , not increased .
Read more here .
• As the Earth modestly warms , there has been a reduction in climate-related refugees rather than an increase .
• The asserted causes of climate-refugees – increasing crop failures , catastrophic weather events , and islands lost to rising seas – have failed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ islands predicted to shed climate refugees due to sea-level rise are growing , not shrinking .
• Almost all nations asserted to shed climate refugees due to crop failures are benefiting from steadily increasing crop yields .
• The United Nations confirms climate-related disasters have been declining this century .
For the past 30 years , climate activists have claimed that islands , cities , and even entire nations will spawn millions of refugees as climate change makes them uninhabitable .
In 1989 , for example , a senior U.N. environmental official claimed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
” Also , in 2005 , the U.N. claimed , “ Rising sea levels…will create up to 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the decade.
” Yet , neither of those predictions has come true , and the U.N. “ disappeared ” the latter claim from its website .
As documented in Climate at a Glance : Islands and Sea Level Rise , most small islands , including the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Tuvalu , ” are growing in size rather than shrinking .
As documented in Climate at a Glance : Crop Production , almost every nation on Earth is benefiting from steadily increasing crop yields as the Earth modestly warms .
And as documented by United Nations data , the number of climate-related disasters has been declining this century .
In summary , all asserted factors leading to climate refugees are becoming less severe as the Earth modestly warms , causing a decline rather than an increase in climate refugees .
30 Year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years to save the world ” Climate Warning , Eric Worrall , WattsUpWithThat , June 2019 https : //wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/30/30-year-anniversary-of-the-un-1989-10-years-to-save-the-world-climate-warning/ 50 million environmental refugees by end of decade , UN warns , The Guardian , October 2005 https : //www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/oct/12/naturaldisasters.climatechange1 The UN “ disappears ” 50 million climate refugees , then botches the disappearing attempt , WattsUpWithThat , April 2011 https : //wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/15/the-un-disappears-50-million-climate-refugees-then-botches-the-disappearing-attempt/ Climate at a Glance : Islands and Sea Level Rise , The Heartland Institute , 2020 https : //climateataglance.com/climate-at-a-glance-islands-and-sea-level-rise/


climatedepot--2020-11-11--Watch: Funniest Things Blamed on Climate Change

What are the most ridiculous things the media has blamed climate change on ?
Andy Singer breaks down the thirty @ @ @ @ @ made yet .


climatedepot--2020-11-11--Biden-linked team rolls out climate plan – Seeks to ‘create a new National Climate Council’

A who ’ s who of Obama administration alumni , climate experts and Biden transition advisers released a blueprint today for how the incoming administration can take a whole-of-government approach to climate change policy .
The policy guide suggests that the Biden White House create a new National Climate Council on par with the existing National Economic Council to coordinate and drive climate policy from the West Wing .
The group that authored the recommendations , called the Climate 21 Project , is co-chaired by the Obama White House ’ s Council on Environmental Quality Managing Director Christy Goldfuss and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carbon cap-and-trade legislation while working for former Sen. Joe Lieberman ( I-Conn. ) .
Its steering committee includes Joseph Goffman , a former senior EPA lawyer , and Robert Bonnie , a former undersecretary of Agriculture , who are now on President-elect Joe Biden ’ s transition teams for those agencies .
It also features former Obama special assistants Joseph Aldy and Jason Bordoff , who have been advising the campaign .
“ In order to achieve ambitious U.S. leadership on climate change , the next administration must be ready to hit the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ response from Day One , ” its summary memo states .
“ As the next administration seeks to tackle the wide-ranging and growing challenges associated with climate change , the need for an effective and efficient federal government workforce has never been clearer , ” it said .
The group makes recommendations for 11 White House offices and federal departments and agencies , drawing on input from more than 150 experts .
There are memos for the executive office of the president , the Office of Management and Budget , EPA , Interior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Department of Agriculture , the Department of Transportation , the Department of State , the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury , and one on “ attracting and hiring climate change talent.
” A memo on climate policy at NOAA is forthcoming , the website said at the time of publication .
The group called for the publication of a new four-year Climate Ambition Agenda detailing actions agencies can take to reduce emissions and support a green energy transition .


climatedepot--2020-11-11--Record Heat In California Claims Not Supported By Data

I suspect we ’ re going to hear this lie a lot in the next few weeks .
The only problem is that it is not true : In the midst of the state ’ s most destructive wildfire season , California shattered temperature records in August , September and October .
All three months were the state ’ s warmest on record , according to a new report by UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain .
“ The long-term warming trend during the peak of fire season in California has been especially pronounced , ” Swain said on Twitter , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point on that.
” The report linked gives this map showing that the £record heat ” was principally along the coast in October : However , when we check out monthly temperatures in Los Angeles and San Francisco , we find that none of the three months were anywhere near being a record : There will of course have been several degrees of warming due to urbanisation since the 1930s , making current temperatures even less remarkable .
When we look at long term trends , it is often claimed that the time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affect monthly average trends very slightly .
However , station metadata shows that the time of observation has remained the same throughout at both sites , which have measured at midnight every day .
I have little doubt that the official NOAA version will support Daniel Swain ’ s claims .
If it does , it will simply reduce their credibility even further .
This is little better than fraud .


climatedepot--2020-11-11--‘The Dr. Fauci of Climate’: Activist Penn State Prof. Michael Mann promoted for Climate Czar in Bide

‘The Dr. Fauci of Climate’: Activist Penn State Prof. Michael Mann promoted for Climate Czar in Biden Admin. – Climate lockdowns coming?!

Michael Mann being promoted for position in Biden administration – Touted as the 'Dr .
Fauci of climate' CBS News : ‘ According to a leading climate scientist , four more years of a Trump Administration is ‘ game over ’ for the climate ’ Michael Mann : “ A second Trump term is game over the climate–really !
That is the prism through which I view the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
” … “ We need a president who will not only meet our current obligation under the Paris accord but double down on them.
” Mann : I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make or break election for climate change .
CBS News reporter : “ it ’ s simply a matter of math .
It ’ s not just opinion , its scientific calculation ?
Mann : “ It is.
” Earth ‘ serially doomed ’ : The official history of climate ‘ Tipping Points ’ began in 1864 – A new ‘ global warming ’ 12-year deadline from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Flashback 2013 : NASA ’ s James Hansen Declared Obama Has One Week Left To Save The Planet !
— ‘ On Jan. 17 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has four years to save Earth ’ — Only 7 Days left !
Prof. Michael Mann to President Trump : Withdrawing from UN Paris climate pact is ‘ a crime against the planet ’ – Warns Trump ’ s ‘ legacy ’ will be ‘ a charred planet ’ Warmist Michael Mann warns of ‘ madhouse effect ’ : Declares Trump could destroy the world !
Trump is a ‘ threat to the planet ’ , claims Michael Mann – ‘ The future of this planet could quite literally lie in the balance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
‘ The future of this planet could quite literally lie in the balance ’ Mann : ‘ The one thing that every American voter can do to try to change that is to ( a ) vote in the upcoming election , and ( b ) vote CLIMATE , not just at the top of the ticket , but all the way down .
The future of this planet could quite literally lie in the balance.
’ ‘ Arguably the single most critical issue facing human civilization today— is human-caused climate change @


climatedepot--2020-11-11--2 More Studies Affirm Nothing Unusual Or Unprecedented Is Occurring In Polar Climates Today

Only a few thousand years ago , when CO2 levels were both stable and low ( ~265 ppm ) , the ( 1 ) Arctic had far less ice and more vegetation than it does now and ( 2 ) the massive rate of ice melt in Antarctica rendered modern melt rates negligible by comparison .
A new study ( Cherezova et al.
, 2020 ) reveals that until about 6,500 years ago Bolshevik Island in the Russian High Arctic brimmed with grass , birch and willow trees , and large herbivores grazing on grass year-round .
At that time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 7.9 mm/yr , which is more than 5 times faster than the global sea level rise trend since 1958 ( ~1.4 mm/yr , Frederikse et al.
, 2018 ) .
Today this same High Arctic island is treeless with “ very scarce vegetation.
” It is locked in sea ice and mean annual temperatures only reach -13°C , which is a “ similar climate to the Lateglacial.
” Modern climate warming “ is not observed ” in either the meteorological or ice core data ( Tvyordoe Lake ) for this region .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ size as they were during the peak of the last ice age ( ~20,000 years ago ) .
Another new study ( Jones et al.
, 2020 ) reveals that from about 7,500 to 4,500 years ago , when CO2 was about 150 ppm lower than today , Antarctica ’ s Ross Sea glaciers abruptly lost 220 meters ( ! )
of ice surface height .
This ice loss – at times reaching > 400 cm per year – occurred throughout the region regardless of the topography .
This strongly implies the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ retreat was an ocean warming trend .
The authors point out that the ice surface lowering may have “ continued below the present-day glacier surface , ” only to advance again during the last few hundred years .
A recent study ( Sinclair et al.
, 2012 ) indicates the sea surface temperatures in this region ( western Ross Sea ) have been rapidly cooling ( -1.59°C/decade ) since 1979 , and there has been no net ocean warming since 1882 .
Still another study from this region ( Yokoyama et al.
, @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Ross Ice Shelf ” between 5,000 and 1,500 years ago .
Modern melting rates are the slowest in the last 5,000 years and there was “ much warmer water beneath the ice shelf at 5 ka compared with the present.
” These studies strongly imply modern polar climate changes and ice melt rates in both hemispheres are neither unprecedented or unusual .
In fact , if there is anything anomalous about today ’ s polar climates , it ’ s that they are colder and ice melt is less pronounced than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 8,000 years .


climatedepot--2020-11-11--San Francisco bars natural gas in new building construction starting in 2021

New homes and buildings in San Francisco won ’ t be able to use natural gas or other fossil fuels for their heating and appliances beginning in June of next year .
Instead , all new construction in the city must use only electricity for heating , cooling , cooking , and other activities , according to a new city passed unanimously on Tuesday by the city ’ s Board of Supervisors .
“ It is necessary and appropriate to stop construction of new natural gas infrastructure in San Francisco in order to reduce the unique impacts San Francisco will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ordinance said .
Buildings make up a huge portion of San Francisco ’ s emissions .
According to the ordinance , 80 % of the greenhouse gas emissions from buildings in the city in 2017 came from the use of natural gas in their heating and appliances .
Any building that applies for a new construction permit after June of next year will be subject to the requirements , though an amendment to the ordinance allows restaurants to apply for a waiver through the end of 2022 to use a natural gas stove @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for San Francisco , which had previously banned natural gas use in new city-owned buildings .
In total , 38 cities in California have adopted measures requiring that all new buildings either be electric or free of natural gas , according to a from the Sierra Club .


climatedepot--2020-11-11--Covid recovery plans threaten global climate hopes: ‘Countries ignoring climate issue, pouring money

Covid recovery plans threaten global climate hopes: ‘Countries ignoring climate issue, pouring money into their fossil-fuel driven economies to stave off a devastating recession’

“ There is a just cause for war to prevent the future hazards of anthropogenic climate change.
” Earlier today , Extinction Rebellion carried out one of their most distasteful protests as they hijacked Remembrance Day memorial at the Cenotaph , moments before the 11 am silence with an XR wreath and banner reading “ Honour their sacrifice ; climate change means war.
” Yet , the real rationale for climate wars has been promoted by climate alarmists who argue “ that there is a just cause for war to prevent the future hazards of anthropogenic climate change.
” A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published two years ago in the Journal of Military Ethics lays out the reason why going to war against what alarmists believe to be enemy nations is a just cause .
This article argues that there is a just cause for war to prevent the future hazards of anthropogenic climate change even if , because of what is known as the Non-Identity Problem , that cause is not grounded in the rights of future generations .
The evidential demands for justifying preventive military action to forestall climate change have been met , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate change is underway and is likely to become seriously hazardous for future generations .
The types and scale of prospective harms threatened by climate change are such that , were they to result from an armed attack , there would unequivocally be a just cause for war .
Though the author argues that there is a just cause for preventive environmental war , such wars are probably unjustified , all things considered .
At present , preventive environmental war would be counterproductive and would harm many non-liable people .
Should non-coercive remedies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such as “ soft war ” and jus ad vim tactics , should then be attempted to coerce compliance by environmental wrongdoers .
Should these remedies prove ineffective , preventive environmental war may be a necessary evil .
WASHINGTON — A Biden administration is likely to place more emphasis on Earth sciences at NASA and slow down the agency ’ s plans to return humans to the moon , and do so with a new person at the helm of the agency .
Joe Biden may leave moon exploration to China , prioritising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden campaign declared victory in its presidential campaign Nov. 7 after multiple projections that Joe Biden would win Pennsylvania , giving the former vice president more than the 270 electoral votes needed to be elected president .
The campaign of President Donald Trump has yet to concede , however .
With its declaration of victory , the Biden campaign has started to roll out its transition plans , including a website that outlines the incoming administration ’ s four priorities : COVID-19 , economic recovery , racial equity and climate change .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state its plans for NASA , many observers expect it to play a role in that fourth priority , climate change .
That stems from a line in the Democratic Party platform from July that states , “ Democrats additionally support strengthening NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’ s Earth observation missions to better understand how climate change is impacting our home planet.
” 6 ) Biden faces surge in US coal use and carbon emissions in first year Financial Times , 11 November 2020 The first year of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ marked by a rebound in the burning of coal and a record increase in carbon dioxide emissions in the US , providing a sharp — if fleeting — contrast to the president-elect ’ s agenda for cleaning up the power sector .
About 546m short tons of coal will be fed to power plants in 2021 , up 23 per cent on this year and the most since the second year of Donald Trump ’ s presidency , according to new forecasts from the US Energy Information Administration .
Greater demand for coal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by 287m metric tonnes , the fastest annual rise in records dating to the 1970s , the agency said this week .
The prediction reflects the vagaries of commodities markets and anticipated recovery from the severe coronavirus downturn , not energy policy .
In the near term , coal is set to gain an advantage because of higher prices for natural gas , a rival fuel to power grids .
There is a view that suggests that now that Joe Biden has ( most likely ) won the US presidential election , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democrats ’ excessive campaign promises face the cold light of day and as the real costs of policy decisions become apparent .
Furthermore , one would have to note that there are limits as to what even a US Presidency – the world ’ s most powerful executive office — can do within constitutional limits .
There is the likelihood that the US Senate will remain Republican and hence provide a check on the more extreme pledges made in the name of ‘ net zero ’ emissions in the power sector by 2035 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But don ’ t be lulled by soothing thoughts of policy continuity under a Biden-Harris administration .
The contrast in Republican and Democratic world-views of fossil fuels and global energy geopolitics could not be more stark .
And nowhere are the costs as extravagant as in the promises made regarding the Green New Deal .
The adverse impacts on US domestic affairs will be as profound as they will be on the global stage .
The policy discontinuity expected to take place in the oil and gas sectors under a Biden administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contemplate in US and global affairs .
The Biden Plan for a “ 100 % clean energy economy [ which ] reaches net-zero emissions no later than 2050 ” will require his administration to sign in its own words “ a series of new executive orders with unprecedented reach that go well beyond the Obama-Biden Administration platform and put us on the right track ” .
The 4-year , $ 1.7 trillion Biden plan – reflecting an even more aggressive “ climate crisis ” action plan set out by the House Democrats — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ waters , denying federal permits for new fossil fuel infrastructure projects , and ensuring 100 % clean renewable energy by 2035 in electricity generation , buildings , and transportation .
Joe Biden flip-flopped during the campaign trial over his proposed ban on fracking , depending on whether his audience was in an oil and gas-producing state like Pennsylvania or in environmentally-obsessed California .
But , as President , ‘ where the buck stops ’ , Biden will have to handle , for example , the situation in New Mexico where Democratic Rep. Xochitl @ @ @ @ @ @ @ constituents of her support for the state ’ s mainstay oil and natural gas industry .
Will a Democrat-run New Mexico – which depends heavily on oil and gas production on federal lands — be somehow “ exempted ” from the anti-fracking ban in federal lands of a Biden administration ?
Or will the oil and gas workers in that state be sacrificial lambs for the global climate cause ?
An analysis by the state ’ s oil and gas association projects New Mexico to be among the states potentially hardest hit by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jobs by 2022 .
Taking a page from the previous Obama-Biden playbook , a politicized Environmental Protection Agency under Biden would block oil and gas pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure by enabling activists to launch interminable legal suits as in the case of the Dakota Access Pipeline .
A Biden Administration would also likely resurrect the Obama EPA ’ s “ sue and settle “ practices — deals through which radical environmental groups file lawsuits against federal agencies so that court-ordered “ consent decrees ” are issued based upon a prearranged settlement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advocates in advance behind closed doors .
At the international level , Biden is committed to immediately re-join the Paris Agreement if elected president .
At a stroke , a Biden-Harris administration will advantage key global energy players which have been sorely tested by President Trump ’ s “ energy dominance ” and “ America First ” agendas .
A Biden presidency which would relinquish the role of the U.S. as the world ’ s leading oil and gas producer would no doubt be welcomed by Russia and the OPEC oil and gas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For oil and gas companies such as Russia ’ s Gazprom and Rosneft or Saudi Arabia ’ s Aramco , the prospect of a US government-induced degradation of its own country ’ s prolific shale oil and gas production as part of a climate change commitment would be like music to the ears .
A Biden-Harris administration intent on renewable energy and climate change priorities by constraining US oil and gas production would achieve , at a stroke , the long-sought and common objectives of Russia , Saudi Arabia and other OPEC oil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ results that Saudi policy since 2014 had consistently failed to attain by engaging in an all-out price war against a resilient and resurgent US oil and gas sector .
But Biden is no unalloyed blessing for the Middle East .
While assisting Russia , Saudi Arabia and the rest of the OPEC+ group by hobbling US oil and gas production , a Biden administration will also consider easing President Trump ’ s “ maximum pressure ” sanctions on Iran .
Biden ’ s loyalty to President Obama ’ s legacy project to rehabilitate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has stated that he would return to the 2015 nuclear deal if Tehran “ resumes compliance ” .
A potential resumption of Iranian exports of over 2.5 million barrels per day ( its peak export level in 2018 before President Trump ’ s oil sanctions were imposed ) would make it impossible for the OPEC+ group to balance supply and demand .
The OPEC+ cutback agreement of 9.7 million b/d would be at the risk of collapse , along with oil prices from their already low sub- $ 40/barrel levels .
According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ OPEC “ are wary that strains in the OPEC+ alliance could re-emerge with Joe Biden as U.S. President ” and “ would miss President Donald Trump who went from criticizing the group to helping bring about a record oil output cut ” .
While President Trump brokered a deal between Russia and Saudi Arabia that brought about a record oil output cut by the OPEC+ group , a future President Biden would likely re-assess US ties to Saudi Arabia ( called by Biden a “ pariah ” state ) and Russia ( which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ security threat to US interests ) .
The surge in U.S. oil and gas exports which gathered pace in the past decade allowed President Trump to pursue an “ energy dominance ” agenda which made the U.S. less vulnerable to political and social upheavals in the Middle East .
It increased its foreign policy leverage in achieving strategic objectives , giving the Trump administration greater latitude to support allies and sanction rivals .
It made it easier for President Trump to impose export sanctions on oil-producing adversaries such as Venezuela and Iran without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global oil prices .
A Biden presidency committed to the radical decarbonization agenda would undermine these achievements , and in the process , make the US and the rest of the world far more vulnerable to the vicissitudes of volatile energy markets and political instability in the Middle East .
Whether the energy shock emanates from the eclipse of the US as the world ’ s leading oil and gas producer ( leading to high oil and gas prices ) or from the collapse of the OPEC+ production cut agreement brought about by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leading to very low oil and gas prices ) , a Biden presidency presents some dangerous scenarios in global energy affairs .
9 ) Electric car batteries are catching fire and that could be a big turnoff to buyers CNN Business , 10 November 2020 ( CNN ) Automakers seeking to forge ahead in the electric vehicle market have been hitting a bump in the road recently : batteries keep catching fire .
At the end of September , BMW initiated a recall in the United States of 10 different BMW and Mini @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of fire caused by debris that may have gotten into battery cells during manufacturing .
Then , in early October , the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into reports of apparently spontaneous battery fires in Chevrolet Bolt EVs .
GM says it is cooperating with the investigation .
A few days later , Hyundai announced that it was recalling 6,700 Kona Electric SUVs in the United States , among about 75,000 of that model to be recalled worldwide , after it had received numerous reports of vehicles catching fire while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ car battery fires remain infrequent occurrences , even compared to gasoline and diesel fires .
But they get attention because electric vehicle technology is still considered relatively new .
And that has the potential to turn prospective buyers away from the burgeoning market for electric cars , said Michelle Krebs , director of automotive relations at AutoTrader .


climatedepot--2020-11-11--Morano in Bloomberg News: ‘Trump should undertake a hiring bonanza of skeptical climate scientists’

Morano in Bloomberg News: ‘Trump should undertake a hiring bonanza of skeptical climate scientists’ in Govt – ‘A scientific version of affirmative action hiring practices’

“ The Trump administration should undertake a hiring bonanza of skeptical climate scientists to fill positions , ” said Marc Morano , a former Republican staffer for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee who runs the ClimateDepot.com website .
“ I expect to see the Trump administration partake in a scientific version of affirmative action hiring practices in the government for the next 10 weeks.
” Also in Yahoo News here .
Trump Ejects Head of Climate Office Whose Report He Rejected By Jennifer A Dlouhy and Ari Natter November 9 , 2020 , 7:49 PM EST Updated on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ EST The Trump administration abruptly removed a top official charting the U.S. government ’ s research on global warming , just as his agency began writing the next climate report card .
Mike Kuperberg , a Department of Energy employee who has for years led the U.S .
Global Change Research Program , was notified on Friday that his assignment atop the agency had ended , according to two people familiar with the move who asked for anonymity discussing a personnel matter .
An email sent to Kuperberg ’ s address at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that effective Nov. 6 , his detail has ended and he ’ s returned to the Energy Department .
The shift , which was reported earlier by the Washington Post , threatens to cause tumult as the program Kuperberg headed lines up authors and the contours of the next National Climate Assessment , expected to be published in 2023 .
Kuperberg is expected to be replaced by David Legates , a climate skeptic who was recently installed as a deputy assistant secretary of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , according to one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Legates didn ’ t respond to an email and voice mail seeking comment .
The upheaval also could foreshadow more turmoil during President Donald Trump ’ s final weeks in office .
Last week , the administration demoted the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , Neil Chatterjee , after a vote allowing electric grid operators to implement state carbon pricing plans .
“ The Trump administration should undertake a hiring bonanza of skeptical climate scientists to fill positions , ” said Marc Morano , a former Republican staffer for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ runs the ClimateDepot.com website .
“ I expect to see the Trump administration partake in a scientific version of affirmative action hiring practices in the government for the next 10 weeks .
”


climatedepot--2020-11-12--The contradictions of Green policies to limit CO2 emissions

The contradictions of Green policies to limit CO2 emissionsCO2 Coalition / by CO2Coalition / 1hIs this article about sustainable development ?
YESNO The context of the 2019 CO2 emissions from various Nations and Nation groups is shown above .
Currently the burning of Biomass is designated as “ CO2 neutral ” by Western Nations to give the appearance of reducing CO2 emissions and thus controlling Climate Change .
The designation of Biomass burning as Carbon neutral is essentially self-defeating as : • is hugely destructive of natural environments and habitats wherever employed at the necessary industrial scale .
The primary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been to mandate a change in the fuels used to generate electrical power .
The Green thinking requires the substitution of fossils fuels , replacing them with nominally “ CO2 emissions free ” fuels such as the Wind and Solar power as well as Biomass and Biofuels , which are designated to be sustainable and CO2 free by policy , because their plant material may well regrow eventually .
These fuel substitution policies have already done proven damage to the reliability of Power grids in the South Australia and California and are making @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are instituted .
A low wind period in the UK and Europe in November 2020 came very close to causing the failure of the UK Grid .
The inevitable CO2 emissions characteristics of their mandated alternative fuels are conveniently ignored by policy makers : • the substitution of fossil fuels particularly by Biomass for electricity generation has gross and immediate extra CO2 emissions consequences .
• the engineering requirements for Renewables , ( Wind and Solar ) , themselves cause very significant CO2 emissions and also imply the utilisation of massive , limited @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in it objective to limit CO2 emissions an save the Climate : • in spite of being declared “ Carbon neutral ” , by EU and UK policy it is far from Carbon neutral by its effect : for the same power produced , burning Biomass releases much more CO2 than other fossil fuels , ( Coal , Lignite and particularly Natural Gas ) .
• is massively destructive of virgin forest environments , wherever the wood is harvested .
In Europe there is insufficient timber feedstock even to maintain partial power production @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years to fully restore the destroyed native forest wild life habitat and virgin environments and to thus reabsorb the total CO2 that is released instantaneously by the burning of the Biomass in power plants .
• requires significant heat energy to dry and process the harvested wood material converting it into the pelletised , transportable product .
• has already required substantial and costly refit of the generation and local fuel supply technologies at Drax where the UK Biomass is burnt .
• these factors in combination result in an additional , instantaneous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3.6 times that produced by burning Natural Gas for the same power output .
Germany and the UK are leaders in the development of Renewable Energy in Europe .
This post uses 2019 hourly generation datasets showing the scale of various generation technologies over the year .
It combines that power output data with data on the CO2 emissions of different fossil fuels to show the extent of CO2 emissions in 2019 .
It questions the efficacy of using Biomass to reduce CO2 emissions at all , as the scale of CO2 emissions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ savings made from using Weather Dependent Renewables .
So all the excess expenditures on Weather Dependent Renewables have done nothing to reduce Global CO2 emissions overall.The excess costs of Weather Dependent Renewable power generation in the EU ( 28 ) : 2020 CO2 emissions from Fossil fuels used in power generation The characteristics of Fossil Fuels and Biomass resulting from their molecular structure , their production processes and their flammability determine their CO2 emissions characteristics as shown below : • the least CO2 emissions for the power produced results from burning Natural Gas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fracking , as has been the origin of the CO2 emission reductions achieved in the USA .
• all forms of Coal produce roughly twice as much CO2 for the power they produce when compared to Natural Gas .
• however , the clear-felling virgin forest , then using some of the timber itself or Fossil fuels for drying , processing and transporting the wood to burn in remote power stations results in roughly 3.6 times the CO2 emissions of Natural Gas for the same power output .
These comparative values are used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trying to avoid Fossil fuel usage as opposed to harvested Biomass .
It is clear from the chart above that there are only limited ways to effectively reduce CO2 emissions from power generation : • the massive use of Nuclear energy , as in France where CO2 emissions / head have now diminished to being below the Global average following the French 50+ year commitment to Nuclear power .
The French now have the lowest CO2 emissions value per head of any developed Nation .
The French thus prove the point of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CO2 emissions .
Nuclear power has contributed to a CO2 reduction of ~200million tonnes per year since 1990 , ( ~-28 % ) .
France now produces less than 1 % of Global CO2 emissions , down from ~1.5 % in 1990 : this represents a reduction of 2019 Global CO2 emissions of ~0.6 % .
• the transition from Coal to Gas-firing for power generation and a Fracking revolution , as in the USA , where annual emissions have reduced by ~1,600 million tonnes per year , ( ~-20 % ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less than 15 % of Global CO2 emissions , down from ~22 % in the year 2000 : this represents a reduction of 2019 Global CO2 emissions of ~4.7 % .
• in the UK , the earlier 1990 ’ s policy , “ Dash for Gas ” , substantially replaced Coal for power generation by Natural Gas .
This has contributed to a CO2 reduction of ~160 million tonnes per year since 1995 , ( ~-30 % ) .
The UK is responsible for ~1.1 % of Global CO2 emissions : this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emissions of ~0.47 % .
The installation of Weather Dependent Renewables , ( Wind and Solar ) , may not have any direct fuel costs but they do heavily rely on the use of Fossil fuels for their manufacture , installation and maintenance .
Even though their “ fuel ” is nominally free , Weather Dependent Renewables do not achieve CO2 neutrality .
Electric power generation is responsible for roughly 1/4 of a Nation ’ s CO2 emissions the remaining 3/4 being emitted from space heating , transport and industry .
So tackling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affects a relatively small part of the CO2 emissions problem .
Coping with the other sources of CO2 emissions will prove to be much more problematic and more costly to achieve .
It should be noted that in 2019 the EU ( 28 ) as a whole emitted less than 10 % of the Global CO2 burden and of that the UK emissions are ~1.1 % Global CO2 emissions .
Whatever actions are taken by Western nations are only ever going affect a marginal amount of the Global “ CO2 emissions burden ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ damaging by Climate activist thinking.Quantifying Futility : 2020 estimate of future CO2 emissions Any action in the Western world , where there is an aggressive movement to take action to reduce CO2 emissions , can only be self-harming in the face of the inevitable growth in demand from the developing Nations requiring enhanced access to reliable electric power .
The USA by transitioning from Coal to Fracked Natural Gas for power generation has made very substantial reduction in its CO2 emissions , ~-20 % since the year 2000 .
The transition from Coal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would give significant CO2 emissions savings for the UK and Germany .
However the UK Policy to transition to imported Biomass , rather than Coal , generating ~7 % of its power output at the Drax site adds the major part of excess CO2 emissions , ~29million tonnes per year for only 7 % of power output .
On the other hand the maximum potential CO2 reduction achieved by the use of Weather Dependent Renewables , ( Wind and Solar ) is about 20 million tonnes per year , ( ignoring the CO2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ maintenance ) .
Thus the policy to use of Biomass in the UK more than cancels out any potential CO2 emissions savings made by the use of Weather Dependent Renewables , ( Wind and Solar ) .
The table below makes rough estimates the effectiveness of actions to reduce CO2 emissions by the two main protagonists in Europe , the UK and Germany , of policy actions to avert Climate Change by CO2 emissions reduction .
It assesses the UK power industry as only producing 20 % of CO2 emissions because of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gas-firing as opposed to other fossil fuels , whereas Germany is assessed at the more normal level 25 % of CO2 emissions for its power industry .
It estimates firstly that the total transition to Natural Gas from other Fossil fuels could avert CO2 emissions : Thus the policy of using Biomass with its excessive CO2 burden , effectively negates and cancels out any CO2 reductions that might be achieved by the use of Solar and Wind power in both the UK and Germany .
Parallel calculations have are shown above for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heavy dependence on Coal and Lignite and to a lesser extent Biomass used for power generation .
Nonetheless German Biomass usage is slightly greater than the UK CO2 emissions level .
German Biomass is both imported and sourced from Germany ’ s indigenous forests , already causing significant habitat damage .
These simple calculations come close to proving that all investments in “ low Carbon technologies ” so far have achieved nothing towards CO2 reduction but only increase CO2 emissions and power costs both in the UK and Germany .
The graphics below @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by technology during 2019 .
The average output is equivalent to ~28Gigawatts .
Since the “ Dash for Gas Policy ” in the 1990s , the predominant UK fuels for power generation have been Natural Gas and Nuclear .
Using Coal for generation in the UK is now largely curtailed .
It is in use only on occasions and provides ~2 % of power output .
This transition has reduced CO2 emissions as a result .
UK CO2 emissions / head are now only 23 % above the Global average .
Although the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still providing ~22 % of power output , most of those Nuclear plants will come to the end of their service lives before 2030 .
UK policies have been slow to replace that base load capacity with alternative base load power .
But The UK on the other hand has significantly increased the installations of Weather Dependent Renewables , which are intermittent and can not provide provide base load power consistently .
In 2019 the UK is also continuously dependent on ~7 % of imported power , mainly importing Nuclear generated power from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is an existential risk to UK power supplies in the immediate future .
Coal-firing has been significantly substituted by the policy of using Biomass mainly imported from the East coast of the USA , where clear-felling of virgin forest fulfils the requirement .
There is insufficient indigenous timber supply from the UK alone .
The Drax Yorkshire power complex has been largely converted to burn wood pellets mostly imported from the USA , replacing its Coal generating plant .
This provides about 7 % of UK power .
The substitution has been imposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ imported Biomass is “ Carbon neutral ” as it will eventually reabsorb the CO2 emitted .
However that re-establishment process will take about 100 years , if ever , to restore the virgin forest and natural habitats destroyed in the process .
The Drax power complex was intentionally situated on a still productive Coal seam : continuing to burn that Coal rather than imported Biomass would result in about half of the CO2 emissions for the same power output .
Recently in November 2020 ageing Coal-fired plants saved the UK Grid from failure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closure within a year or so in the name of saving the World from man-made Climate Change .
Weather Dependent Renewables , ( Wind Power Onshore and Offshore and Solar ) , now make up more than 55 % of the installed UK generation fleet but they unreliably contribute only ~23 % of the UK power produced .
They achieve a combined productivity of ~21 % overall .
Wind and Solar are not dispatchable and provide power only unreliably and intermittently : that alone causes real problem for maintaining the consistent power supply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Renewables Productivity : what do the numbers mean ?
The performance of UK Weather Dependent Renewables : 2002 – 2019 The three CO2 emitting technologies in the UK are a large proportion of Natural Gas , very limited and occasional Coal generation and ~7 % of continuous dispatchable power production from Biomass .
That 7 % Biomass generation output is responsible ~37 % of the whole CO2 emissions from UK power generation .
The policy that asserts that Biomass is CO2 neutral means that CO2 emissions are increased over the use of Natural @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million tonnes per year .
The distribution and scale of the UK CO2 emissions over the year are shown below .
The graphics below shows hourly values of German power Generation by technology in 2019 .
The average output is equivalent to ~65Gigawatts .
Germany has been pursuing its “ die Energiewende policy ” since 2011 , as a result it has installed ~102GW of Weather Dependent Renewables , ( Wind and Solar ) , ~65 % of the generation fleet .
Those Renewables yield ~30 % of German power but intermittently with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Germany has even opened a new Coal-fired power stations to help compensate its power deficit from its Nuclear closure policy .
In spite of its “ die Energiewende ” policy , Germany is still massively dependent on Fossil and CO2 emitting Fuels for its electricity generation : This totals to some 49 % of power generation .
Coal and Lignite generation is increasing in Germany to compensate for its policy closing Nuclear generators , ~13 % of the total productive fleet .
The policy of Nuclear closures , prompted by the Fukushima @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in this decade .
The “ die Energiewende ” has reduced CO2 emissions somewhat .
But German CO2 emissions at 8.4 tonnes per head per year are still 87 % above the Global average and the highest of the EU ( 28 ) , ~30 % above the EU ( 28 ) average .
Germany still has significant Nuclear generation , providing ~12 % of power output .
But , since the Fukushima disaster , German policy has been phase out its Nuclear plants before the end of their useful service life , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy expects the power deficit to be compensated for by their fleet of intermittent Weather Dependent Renewables .
Germany has a significant power contribution from Biomass , ~4.6 % .
However whether imported or from indigenous forest or not , it does already makes contribution to German CO2 emissions of ~20 % .
Weather Dependent Renewables , ( Wind Power Onshore and Offshore and Solar ) now make up more than 64 % of the installed German generation fleet but they only unreliably contribute ~28 % of the power produced .
Over production @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in winter months means that Germany is forced to export that excess power often at negative prices to neighbouring countries .
This imposes a cost burden on German power customers .
Germany is also dependent on some imported power mainly Nuclear power from France in the summer when Wind power is production can be low .
The distribution and scale of the German CO2 emissions over the year are shown below .
• Transitioning to the use of Natural Gas for power generations is an effective means of CO2 emissions reduction , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rational aim to control “ Climate Change ” .
Using Natural Gas it does not meet the “ Net Zero ” ambitions of Climate activists .
• The use of imported Biomass in the UK and Germany is essentially self-defeating as a means to reduce CO2 emissions that might affect the Climate .
The estimates above show that in the UK the Green policies for Renewables and Biomass actually result in additional CO2 emissions .
• In the UK the policy to use Biomass at Drax completely negates all CO2 emissions reduction efforts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dependent Renewables , ( Wind Power , Onshore and Offshore and Solar ) .
• As Germany is much more committed to Coal and Lignite use as well as its Biomass this negates the Wind and Solar investments with excess CO2 emissions of ~ 20million tonnes per year .
• Wherever the Biomass is sourced , remotely for example from Africa , North America , Indonesia , etc .
the environmental damage that the industry causes is virtually irreparable even in the medium term .
The recent Michael Moore film made a telling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forest timber in the whole USA to power its supply grid for a single year : and after that the forests are gone .
Whereas Gas and other Fossil fuel reserves will still be available for the longer-term .
• All investments in Weather Dependent Renewables and the conversion to burning Biomass are obliterated by the contradictory CO2 reduction policies which actually serve to increase CO2 emissions both in the UK and Germany .
• If governments institute policies and mandate their financial support , then businesses are bound to take advantage of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they may be counterproductive .
• The continuing dependence on significant amounts of Fossil Fuels , Coal and Lignite , in Germany , make the Climate Change goals of “ die Energiewende ” very challenging , especially with their added policy of phasing out their Nuclear power .
• Importing Biomass , as in the UK , is imposing a burden on both the balance of payments and thus the clients of the power generation industry .
• All the expenditures on Weather Dependent Renewables combined with burning Biomass have done nothing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Europe .
• The scale of the economic and incidentally “ Climate ” damage that has been achieved by Climate activists in the sentimental but effective termination of Fracking for Natural Gas in the UK and throughout Europe is massive .
An excellent way to undermine Western economies is to render their power generation unreliable and expensive .
That objective of Green thinking is progressively being achieved by policy throughout the Western world .
This article appeared on the Watts Up With That ?
website at https : //wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/11/the-contradictions-of-green-policies-to-limit-co2-emissions/SHAREVISIT WEBSITE


climatedepot--2020-11-12--Latest Alarmist Hurricane Study Easily Debunked – ‘Serious errors in the paper’

Latest Alarmist Hurricane Study Easily DebunkedNOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT / by Paul Homewood / 3min It ’ s amazing how global warming seems to make everything worse !
Yet another junk study from the climate change factory : Climate change is causing hurricanes that make landfall to take more time to weaken , reports a study published 11th November 2020 in leading journal , Nature .
The researchers showed that hurricanes that develop over warmer oceans carry more moisture and therefore stay stronger for longer after hitting land .
This means that in the future , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are more likely to reach communities farther inland and be more destructive .
“ The implications are very important , especially when considering policies that are put in place to cope with global warming , ” said Professor Pinaki Chakraborty , senior author of the study and head of the Fluid Mechanics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University ( OIST ) .
“ We know that coastal areas need to ready themselves for more intense hurricanes , but inland communities , who may not have the know-how or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or heavy rainfall , also need to be prepared.
” Many studies have shown that climate change can intensify hurricanes – known as cyclones or typhoons in other regions of the world – over the open ocean .
But this is the first study to establish a clear link between a warming climate and the smaller subset of hurricanes that have made landfall .
The scientists analyzed North Atlantic hurricanes that made landfall over the past half a century .
They found that during the course of the first day after landfall , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than they did 50 years ago .
My first reaction is why pick a 50-year comparison ?
It is well established that Atlantic hurricanes tend to be more severe during the warm phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation , which started in 1995 .
The cherry picked 50-year time span of course begins at the start of the cold phase .
Why did not the researchers go back to the previous warm period between 1930 and 1960 ?
To make matters worse , however , hurricane expert Ryan Maue has found some serious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ onto to analyse that rash of outliers , and finds things are not quite as have been represented .
For instance , Hurricane Bonnie : He finds similar problems with the rest , and concludes that when these are omitted , the claimed trend disappears : This paper is typical of so many climate change papers nowadays .
Researchers , fed with massive grants , decide what they are going to find , and then massage the data to get the right conclusions.SHAREVISIT WEBSITE


climatedepot--2020-11-12--‘Big Oil execs’ hope Biden is only coming after the small and independent frackers — the ones who de

‘Big Oil execs’ hope Biden is only coming after the small and independent frackers — the ones who destroyed Big Oil/OPEC’s pricing power

'Big Oil execs ' hope Biden is only coming after the small and independent frackers — the ones who destroyed @ @ @ @ @ .
They are of course wrong… and worse , stupid for believing such a fantasy.https @ @


climatedepot--2020-11-12--Biden Would Make Combating Climate Change an ‘All-of-Government Agenda’

Former Vice President Joe Biden is preparing to make combatting climate change a centerpiece of his administration , with top aides signaling the topic is likely to consume all levels of the federal government .
Biden , who promised a New Deal-style approach to addressing climate issues on the campaign trail this year , has begun formulating a governing strategy to curb carbon emissions “ even without congressional action , by maximizing executive authority , ” according to the Washington Post .
“ From the very beginning of the campaign , when President-elect Biden rolled out his climate plan , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as an all-of-government agenda – domestic , economic , foreign policy , ” the Biden campaign ’ s policy director , Stef Feldman , told the outlet .
Former Vice President Joe Biden is preparing to make combatting climate change a centerpiece of his administration , with top aides signaling the topic is likely to consume all levels of the federal government .
Biden , who promised a New Deal-style approach to addressing climate issues on the campaign trail this year , has begun formulating a governing strategy to curb carbon emissions “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ executive authority , ” according to the Washington Post .
“ From the very beginning of the campaign , when President-elect Biden rolled out his climate plan , he made it clear he sees this as an all-of-government agenda – domestic , economic , foreign policy , ” the Biden campaign ’ s policy director , Stef Feldman , told the outlet .
Although it remains unclear just how such an approach will look in execution , Biden ’ s promises on the campaign trail shed some light on the extent of his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ promising to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord on his first day at the White House to pledging the creation of a new division within the Department of Justice to combat pollution , the former vice president has laid out an ambitious agenda on the climate .
Biden ’ s plan , heavily influenced by the recommendations of a unity task force set up earlier this year by the presumptive nominee and his vanquished primary rival , Sen. Bernie Sanders ( I-VT ) , proposes spending $ 2 trillion over four years to combat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the money will be used to create one million new jobs in the auto industry by boosting the production of energy-efficient vehicles .
In order to achieve the goal , Biden is backing legislation , introduced by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ( D-NY ) , to incentivize individuals to trade in their gas-powered vehicles for ones running on either electricity or hydrogen .
Biden has also proposed to adopt a 100 percent clean-electricity standard by 2035 .
A similar idea was initially raised by Gov .
Jay Inslee ( D-WA ) during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nomination in 2019 .
If implemented , it would ensure that all electricity produced in the United States would be “ carbon-free.
” This would likely have a massive impact on the coal and natural gas industries that , according to the Energy Information Association , produce around 63 percent of all electricity in the country .


climatedepot--2020-11-12--Biden’s NASA Would Focus On Climate Change Over Space Exploration

A Biden administration is likely to place more emphasis on Earth sciences at NASA and slow down the agency ’ s plans to return humans to the moon , and do so with a new person at the helm of the agency .
The Biden campaign declared victory in its presidential campaign Nov. 7 after multiple projections that Joe Biden would win Pennsylvania , giving the former vice president more than the 270 electoral votes needed to be elected president .
The campaign of President Donald Trump has yet to concede , however .
With its declaration of victory , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out its transition plans , including a website that outlines the incoming administration ’ s four priorities : COVID-19 , economic recovery , racial equity and climate change .
While the transition site doesn ’ t explicitly state its plans for NASA , many observers expect it to play a role in that fourth priority , climate change .
That stems from a line in the Democratic Party platform from July that states , “ Democrats additionally support strengthening NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’ s Earth observation missions to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our home planet.
” “ Managing the Earth ’ s ability to sustain human life and biodiversity will likely , in my view , dominate a civil space agenda for a Biden-Harris administration , ” said Lori Garver , a former NASA deputy administrator during the Obama administration , in a Nov. 7 speech at the SpaceVision 2020 conference by Students for the Exploration and Development of Space .
Garver , speaking at the conference at the same time Biden and his running mate , Kamala Harris , gave speeches marking their victory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new administration would implement those plans .
“ NASA is a national asset , and if properly directed and incentivized , we can make meaningful contributions to sustaining humanity , ” she said .
Any emphasis on Earth science may come at the expense of the Artemis program .
The Democratic platform endorsed “ NASA ’ s work to return Americans to the moon and go beyond to Mars , taking the next step in exploring our solar system , ” but did not explicitly back the 2024 deadline for returning humans that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 .
“ I don ’ t know anyone who thinks we ’ re going to get there by 2024 , ” Garver said .
That skepticism , she said , is based on the limited funding allocated for the effort to date , with most of the nearly $ 30 billion needed to achieve that 2024 goal yet to be spent .
“ No matter who won , this was going to be an impossible goal.
” Other have raised similar concerns .
“ While there is a lot of excitement in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consensus about when , and what timeframe we should have to meet this Artemis goal , ” said Sen. Maria Cantwell ( D-Wash. ) , ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee , in a Nov. 6 speech at a University of Washington conference .
Doing so by 2024 , she said , “ would require an enormous amount of resources.
” “ I think the 2024 deadline has always been a little bit iffy , just given the history of large-scale space projects , ” said Wendy Whitman Cobb , a professor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Advanced Air and Space Studies , in a session later at the University of Washington conference .
“ A Biden administration might feel a little bit better about letting that go a little bit .
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climatedepot--2020-11-12--New Study: Western North America Was Much Warmer And Drier With Peak Wildfire Rates When CO2 Was 265

New Study: Western North America Was Much Warmer And Drier With Peak Wildfire Rates When CO2 Was 265ppm

The southwestern US was nearly a desert from about 9000 to 5000 years ago , when Holocene peaks in aridity @ @ @ @ @ wildfire rates occurred .
Arctic sea ice was at its lowest extent of the Holocene @ @ @ @ @ new extensively-referenced study ( Lachniet et al.
, 2020 ) reviewing many dozens of climate @ @ @ @ @ America has determined there is nothing unprecedented or even unusual about the modern climate for @ @ @ @ @ in at about 265 ppm during the Early and Middle Holocene , but today ’ @ @ @ @ @ CO2 climate is much cooler and wetter , and there is much more Arctic sea @ @ @ @ @ the Early to Middle Holocene ( approximately 9 to 5 thousand years ago ) this @ @ @ @ @ this : ·2°C warmer , the warmest of the Holocene · “ complete desiccation ” @ @ @ @ @ areas · “ a warmer Arctic , reduced sea ice extent ” – the lowest @ @ @ @


climatedepot--2020-11-12--Climate Scientists Do The Most Flying, ‘Damage’ To The Climate…Fly 9 Times A Year!

A survey appearing in the Journal Global Environmental Change shows climate scientists fly more often than other researchers .
On @ @ @ @ @ by plane more often each year than other scientists , the large , international survey @ @ @ @ @ travel found .
Especially professors , fly more than other researchers .
More than 1,400 @ @ @ @ @ being asked how often they fly and why .
Most respondents came from the Netherlands @ @ @ @ @ Australia .
Climate experts fly on average five times a year according to the study @ @ @ @ @ more frequent with increasing professional experience .
Climate research professors fly nine times a year @ @ @ @ @ , environmental psychologist at the University of Bath , UK , who led the study @ @ @ @ @ figures are pretty blatant and should be a wake-up call for the entire scientific community @ @


climatedepot--2020-11-14--NOAA chief scientist — ‘who questions the seriousness of global warming’ — moves to White House to o

NOAA chief scientist — ‘who questions the seriousness of global warming’ — moves to White House to oversee climate report

By Andrew Freedman , Juliet Eilperin and Jason SamenowNovember 13 , 2020 at 8:09 p.m. EST A second Trump Administration political appointee who questions the seriousness of global warming has been assigned a key role in the program that oversees the federal government ’ s definitive report on climate change.Follow the latest on Election 2020 Ryan Maue , the newly-installed chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) , has been detailed to the White House where he will have an oversight role at the U.S .
Global Change Research Program , which carries out the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questions global warming will run key climate program Maue ’ s move was confirmed by two NOAA officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity .
Maue joins climate skeptic David Legates , a meteorologist who claims that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good for plants and that global warming is harmless .
Earlier this week , Legates was moved from NOAA to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as executive director of the U.S .
Global Change Research Program , overseeing 13 federal agencies that study global @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the program in order to run the congressionally-mandated National Climate Assessment , a report that is issued every five years .
Last Friday , the White House abruptly removed the career climate scientist who ran the climate assessment for the past five years , Michael Kuperberg .
Both Legates and Maue joined NOAA in September .
Each is keeping their NOAA titles while working on the climate report .
According to one of the NOAA officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity , it is generally understood that both Legates and Maue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ edition of the National Climate Assessment , which examines climate change damage and includes projections for the United States , down to regional and local levels .
The report provides information to those navigating the rapidly changing climate , from city officials seeking to build new sewage treatment plants to farmers gauging how shifting rains could affect which crops to plant.AD It ’ s unclear how much headway both Maue and Legates can make in shaping the next report , since the bulk of the work is expected to be completed under President-elect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ groups , and lawmakers fear the duo could derail and set back the climate assessment before Trump leaves office .
But several previous U.S .
Global Change Research Program leaders and scientists have stressed that checks and balances built into its governance should limit lasting damage .
For example , the selection of chapter authors must be approved by the Subcommittee for Global Change Research , compromised of senior career and political leaders at the 13 member agencies .
In addition , the report goes through multiple stages of peer review , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Sciences .
“ If they manage to ram through the selection of authors that are crazy , there ’ s nothing in the system that says they can ’ t be changed ” when the Biden administration takes control , said one scientist who worked for the research program , speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal .
If the new leadership attempted to create a completely new process for developing the climate assessment , “ it would require acquiescence of all these agencies.
” ADnull Several former officials at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be very difficult to implement substantial changes in just 75 days before Biden is sworn in given the slow speed at which the Federal bureaucracy operates .
While Maue and Legates may serve only until January 20 , a mainstream climate scientist , Betsy Weatherhead , was recently assigned the formal role of facilitating the climate assessment through its completion in 2023 .
While Legates ’ views on climate run counter to the scientific consensus that human activities — primarily the burning of fossil fuels — are causing major warming and irreversible damage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are closer to the mainstream consensus.AD However , Maue has questioned what he calls alarmist climate findings showing the effects of global warming will be catastrophic , particularly when it comes to linking extreme weather events and climate change .
Maue and Legates have consistently argued that more emphasis should be placed on uncertainty in climate modeling projections , despite the peer-reviewed studies showing that models have accurately captured historical climate trends and warming-to-date .
Ten percent of the planet has already warmed by 2 degrees Celsius since the industrial revolution started trapping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ atmosphere .
Formerly a developer of weather modeling websites , Maue holds a PhD in meteorology .
He is broadly respected for his weather knowledge but his views on climate change are much more controversial.AD Maue has been sharply criticized by some in the atmospheric science community for inflammatory tweets that have attacked scientists and politicians who have sounded the alarm about the effects of global warming on extreme weather .
He deleted many of those tweets after joining the Federal government .
It ’ s unusual that Maue , as NOAA ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to another office , given the wide portfolio of that position .
Past NOAA chief scientists include Richard Spinrad , a noted fisheries scholar , and former astronaut and subsequent NOAA administrator Kathryn Sullivan .
Maue declined comment for this story , and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said it does not comment on personnel matters.ADADVERTISINGnullnull The Competitive Enterpriise Institute ’ s Myron Ebell , a climate contrarian close to the administration , confirmed Legates ’ and Maue ’ s moves in an interview Thursday .
“ They ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much done in the time that they possibly can , ” he said .
Heartland Institute President James Taylor , whose group disputes scientific findings that human activity is helping warm the Earth , and has advised top Trump environmental officials , said in an interview Friday that conservatives welcomed the staff changes but wished they had come sooner .
He noted it was “ ironic ” that many outside of government attributed the findings of the Fourth National Climate Assessment , released in 2018 , to “ Trump ’ s own people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that assessment were holdovers from the Obama administration.
” ADhttps : //b2ef9525fc908e5051b414dc6c03af4f.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html The authors of that report included dozens of outside scientists unaffiliated with the government , and its findings lined up with those of other independent assessments conducted in other parts of the world and by some states .
Heartland and other groups had urged the Trump administration to install scientists who shared their views , Taylor said , but nothing happened .
“ This is a topic , oftentimes , when Republicans mistakenly believe they should not be engaging , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seen as an environmentally-friendly face , ” he said .
Taylor added that he did not doubt President Trump ’ s commitment to changing the way the federal government assesses climate science , but that not all of White House staffers shared those views “ “ These decisions often don ’ t make it up to the president himself , ” he said .
“ They are often made a step or two below him .
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climatedepot--2020-11-13--Celebrate! ‘We’re past the point of no return on global warming, scientists warn’ based on ‘a new mo

Celebrate! ‘We’re past the point of no return on global warming, scientists warn’ based on ‘a new modeling study’ – So this means no need for Green New Deal or UN Paris?!

Earlier this year , the Earth saw a huge dip in carbon emissions as nations around the globe locked down to slow the spread of the coronavirus .
It offered a glimpse into what the world might look like if we took drastic steps to reduce our carbon emissions to slow the spread of global warming : For a brief moment , smog-choked cities around the world had clear skies .
But according to a new modeling study published in Scientific Reports today , even if we made such drastic reductions permanent , it would still not be enough .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ all human-made greenhouse gas emissions immediately , the Earth ’ s temperatures would continue to rise because of self-sustaining melting ice and permafrost .
These “ feedback loops ” — in which melting ice causes less sunlight to be reflected back into space , which in turn raises temperatures and causes more ice melt — have already been set into motion , the researchers argue .
Humanity “ is beyond the point-of-no-return when it comes to halt the melting of the permafrost using greenhouse gas cuts as the single tool , ” Jørgen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate strategy at BI Norwegian Business School and lead author of the study , tells Future Human in an email .
That ’ s not to say we should give up on reducing emissions : Rather , Randers says that the world “ should accelerate its effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions ( in order to postpone as much as possible the temperature rise ) and start developing the technologies for large scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
” For decades , climate scientists have tried to predict the so-called tipping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ late to stop global warming — too late to limit the amount the temperature rises , the amount of sea level rise , and the number of lives claimed by both and other climate-induced ecological disasters — through reducing carbon emissions alone .
Climate scientists point to either 2030 or 2050 as deadlines for the world to get to zero emissions before runaway climate change kicks in .
But according to the new study , no matter how much we reduce emissions now , warming will continue , and the self-sustained melting of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ begun could continue for 500 years .
“ It simply will not stop from cutting manmade greenhouse gasses , ” says Randers .
“ We need to do something more in order to stop it.
” He and co-author Ulrich Goluke , an associate professor at Business School Lausanne in Switzerland , make the case that it ’ s time to pursue more aggressive climate strategies , like carbon sequestration .
They modeled the impact of greenhouse gas emission reductions on the global climate from 1850 to 2500 , using data from a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) .
They found that even if we stop all greenhouse gas emissions this year , the Earth would still be 3 degrees Celsius warmer and the sea level would be 2.5 meters higher in 2500 than it was in 1850 .
And if we take even longer to take action — allowing our greenhouse gas emissions to peak during the 2030s and reach zero by 2100 — the Earth will be 3 degrees Celsius warmer and the sea level three meters higher in 2500 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to climate change predicts that Earth ’ s temperature will rise between 2.6 and 3.9 degrees Celsius over the next few hundred years .
NOAA scientists projected in 2017 that the sea level will rise between 12 inches and 8.2 feet by 2100 .
To stop this projected rise , we would have had to reduce our emissions to zero between 1960 and 1970 , according to the model .
Randers says it ’ s urgent that larger organizations , like NASA and NOAA , check that their climate models address the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their model .
“ Their models are much bigger than ours , and may reveal counteracting forces that can stop the melting we observe , ” he says .
Self-sustained melting is caused by three things .
First , there ’ s the ongoing melting of Arctic ice , which decreases the area of ice that can reflect the sun ’ s light and heat back to space .
As a result , the remaining ice and permafrost absorb more heat .
Second , higher temperatures increase the amount of water vapor in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the humidity and temperature .
And third , changes in greenhouse gases driven by emissions from permafrost melting and absorption of carbon in biomass and oceans also contribute to increasing temperatures and lead to melting .
To stop self-sustained melting — and the expected rise in temperature and sea level after emissions cease — Randers says the world must undertake a massive effort to capture carbon out of the atmosphere and store it back underground , a technology known as carbon sequestration .
And we would have to start sucking at least 33 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , starting this year .
For comparison , all animal life on Earth collectively weighs an estimated two gigatons .
There are already lots of carbon capture and storage projects of varying sizes underway all over the world — startups like Global Thermostat and CO2 Solutions and multinational corporations like Shell and Chevron have launched such projects .
But none of them attempts to tackle carbon capture on the scale that Randers recommends .
He says we will need tens of thousands of huge plants to capture and store the carbon for at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a very big job , ” Randers says , “ but it ’ s equivalent to the work involved in putting all the manmade CO2 into the atmosphere , which has taken us 100–200 years of industrial activity .
Getting it out again will be the same type of effort .
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climatedepot--2020-11-13--Joe Biden would label countries like Brazil as ‘climate outlaws’ for failing to address ‘climate cha

Joe Biden would label countries like Brazil as ‘climate outlaws’ for failing to address ‘climate change’

How Joe Biden could make Brazil his first “ climate outlaw ” Joe Biden plans to label countries as “ climate outlaws ” for failing to address climate change .
Brazil might be at the top of his list .
President-elect Joe Biden has promised to recommit the US to the Paris climate agreement and leverage the international community to urge reluctant countries to get on board with the target of keeping global average temperatures from rising above 2°C .
As part of this effort , as outlined in Biden ’ s ambitious climate plan , his administration plans to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” in a new “ Global Climate Change Report , ” in order “ to hold countries to account for meeting , or failing to meet , their Paris commitments and for other steps that promote or undermine global climate solutions.
” And during the first 2020 presidential debate , Biden gave an indication of one of the first countries to potentially be labeled an “ outlaw ” : Brazil .
Biden said he would rally countries to come up with $ 20 billion to give to Brazil to protect the Amazon .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ consequences if Brazil didn ’ t stop its policies of deforestation .
For the past two years , Brazil has experienced record-setting wildfires which have been exacerbated by climate change and poor forest management .
As Vox ’ s Lili Pike wrote in September , “ As with 2019 , researchers have linked this year ’ s fires [ in Brazil ] to massive illegal deforestation .
Under Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ’ s administration , ranchers , farmers , and miners have been given much freer rein to clear the rich rainforest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a cheap way to do that.
” Bolsonaro ’ s legacy of climate change denial and his lax attitude toward the clearing of the Amazon helped align him with Trump .
But under a Biden administration , disregard for the Amazon and disbelief in global warming may not be as easy to get away with .
“ There are people in the Democratic Party that would like to go after Bolsonaro and be very tough with him on this issue , and join forces with the Europeans to apply significant pressure , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Inter-American Dialogue , a foreign policy think tank , told Reuters in October .
With Trump gone and most countries in the world working toward achieving the 2-degree goal of the Paris agreement , Bolsonaro could find himself and his government subjected to increased global pressure and shaming , led by the Biden administration .


climatedepot--2020-11-13--Cheers! Trump administration chooses Climatologist Dr. David Legates —  who questions ‘global warmin

Cheers! Trump administration chooses Climatologist Dr. David Legates —  who questions ‘global warming’ — to run key climate program

By Brady Dennis , Jason Samenow and Andrew Freedman The Washington Post David Legates , a meteorologist who claims that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good for plants and that global warming is harmless , has been tapped to run the federal agency that oversees a major scientific report on how climate change is affecting the United States .
Legates , a controversial figure who joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) in September , will move into a new slot as head of the U.S .
Global Change Research Program as early as Thursday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the move who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly .
Legates could not be reached for comment .
His views on climate run counter to the scientific consensus that human activities – primarily the burning of fossil fuels – have generated greenhouse gases that are causing global temperatures to rise , ice sheets to melt , sea levels to rise and other irreversible damage to the planet .
The shift would put Legates in position at least to influence the authors chosen to craft @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mandated report that periodically examines climate change damage and includes projections for the United States , down to the local and regional level .
The assessment is used by federal and state governments and industry to make decisions about infrastructure projects , to allocate resources and to plan for disasters .
The version released in 2018 has been cited in court cases in which cities , states and individuals sued fossil fuel companies and the U.S. government for failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions despite knowing about the severity of the problem .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump administration but largely completed by federal agencies and outside scientists under former president Barack Obama .
It angered the White House by warning of how the effects of human-caused climate change already were fueling deadlier wildfires , increasingly intense hurricanes and brutal heat waves .
The report ’ s authors warned that climate change poses a severe threat to Americans ’ health and pocketbooks , as well as to the country ’ s infrastructure and natural resources .
“ I don ’ t believe it , ” President Donald Trump later said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ official , who spoke on the condition of anonymity , said Legates ’ s appointment made little sense .
“ Sometimes these moves are made at end of an administration .
It ’ s like titling at a windmill : It ’ s a nice move to your base , but there ’ s no substance to it , ” the former agency official said .
As a political appointee , Legates would serve until the end of Trump ’ s term .
The position of executive director of the research program is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another agency , and in this case Legates would be coming from NOAA .
Myron Ebell , a climate change skeptic at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who is close to the administration , called Legates “ an excellent scientist ” and said he ’ d make a successful executive director of the office that produces the assessment .
Legates has a long record of criticizing fundamental findings of climate science studies .
He has been affiliated with the Heartland Institute , a free market think tank that hosts an annual conference bringing together @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he has also questioned the accuracy of models projecting the severity of the coronavirus pandemic , arguing in an April essay that models of potential covid-19 deaths could lead to unsound government policies and economic shutdowns .
Morano in Bloomberg News : ‘ Trump should undertake a hiring bonanza of skeptical climate scientists ’ in Govt – ‘ A scientific version of affirmative action hiring practices ’ White House plans to put ‘ denier ’ in charge of climate program Finally !
Trump Admin is ‘ listening to the science ’ & seeks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ National Climate Assessment Update : Fed climate con job : Obama ’ s UN Paris negotiator & green activists helped prepare dire federal climate report – Obama official helped prepare dire National Climate Assessment – “ The National Climate Assessment report reads like a press release from environmental pressure groups — because it is , ” said Marc Morano , author of “ The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change.
” Morano described two of the authors — Texas Tech professor Katharine Hayhoe and Donald J. Wuebbles of the University of Illinois @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Scientist activists.
” “ These are not ‘ Trump ’ s own scientists ’ as the media likes to claim , ” Mr. Morano said .
“ The key authors are in fact left-wing environmental activists with the Union of Concerned Scientists , Center for American Progress , and the Obama Administration .
And they cited outlier studies funded by Steyer and [ Michael ] Bloomberg.
” Scientists rip new federal climate report as ‘ tripe ’ – ’ embarrassing ’ – ‘ systematically flawed ’ – Key claim based on study funded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Prophecy ’ : How the UN & National Climate Assessment used ‘ fairy tail ’ extreme climate models to scare the public


climatedepot--2020-11-14--No, 2020 Was Likely Not a Record Hurricane Season

The title of a recent Washington Post story about hurricanes makes a bold but likely erroneous claim , “ 2020 Atlantic hurricane season breaks all-time record while leaving Gulf Coast battered.
” The Post is not alone in confidently , but likely wrongly , asserting the 2020 hurricane season has broken records .
The New York Times and the Guardian , for example , published similar stories .
The evidence indicates , however , 2020 ’ s purported hurricane record is largely an artifact of our greater ability to discover and track storms now .
Also , there have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ naming tropical storms and hurricanes .
According to the Post , “ No previous season since reliable records began more than a century ago had this many named storms.
” The Post ’ s claim is highly misleading .
In a recent From the Stacks podcast , Dr. Neil Frank , who served as director of the United States National Hurricane Center longer than anyone before or since , said the criteria for declaring a weather front a name tropical storm has loosened in recent years .
Frank says under the old system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 , particularly tropical storms of short duration , would not have been given names .
In fact , the way storms were discovered , monitored , tracked , and whether they were named , has changed a great deal over the past 50 years , with records from the first half of the 20th century and before being understandably incomplete .
Research indicates many storms that would now be counted as “ tropical storms ” and thus named , were not even known to have existed because they were of short duration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ encountered them .
Before the advent of weather radar , satellites , and storm-tracking airplanes , storms at sea were discovered and named only if a ship encountered and reported them .
As a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) states : “ Existing records of past Atlantic tropical storm numbers ( 1878 to present ) in fact do show a pronounced upward trend , correlated with rising SSTs ( see Figs .
1 and 9 of Vecchi and Knutson 2008 ) .
However , the density of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relatively sparse during the early decades of this record , such that if storms from the modern era ( post 1965 ) had hypothetically occurred during those earlier decades , a substantial number would likely not have been directly observed by the ship-based “ observing network of opportunity.
” We find that , after adjusting for such an estimated number of missing storms , there is a small nominally positive upward trend in tropical storm occurrence from 1878-2006 .
But statistical tests reveal that this trend is so small , relative to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not significantly distinguishable from zero ( Figure 2 ) .
Thus the historical tropical storm count record does not provide compelling evidence for a greenhouse warming induced long-term increase .
“ Additionally , if one explores the tropical cyclone database for the Atlantic ( HURDAT ) more carefully , … one notices that there has been a very substantial increase in the number of short-duration tropical storms ( storms lasting less than two days ) , while those storms whose duration exceeds two days have not shown a statistically significant increase since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are adjusted for likely missing storms ) .
We are unaware of a climate change signal that would result in an increase of only the shortest duration storms , while such an increase is qualitatively consistent with what one would expect from improvements with observational practices .
Thus , we interpret the increase of short duration storms as further evidence for a spurious increase in Atlantic tropical storm counts since the late-19th Century.
” It was , in fact , rare before 1950 to “ name ” a storm unless it made landfall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Climate Change agrees with NOAA ’ s assessment , reporting in its 2018 interim report that there is “ only low confidence for the attribution of any detectable changes in tropical cyclone activity to anthropogenic influences.
” Data on tropical storms and hurricanes were sparse and woefully incomplete before weather satellite tracking began in the late 20th century .
In addition , the way storms have been “ named , ” and thus counted towards storm numbers , has changed over time .
The available data suggesting many storms were missed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no one can declare with confidence 2020 was a record hurricane season .
It likely wasn ’ t .


climatedepot--2020-11-14--MSNBC & Michael ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann Eager For Crippling Climate Regs

On her 2:00 p.m .
ET hour show on Thursday , MSNBC anchor and left-wing climate change activist Katy Tur was salivating over the incoming Biden administration ’ s plans to implement economy-killing climate regulations by executive fiat .
She led off the segment by hailing : “ Four years of climate change denial will come to an end on January 20th when President-Elect Joe Biden takes office.
” Tur excitedly touted how Joe Biden was “ planning a flurry of climate-focused executive actions on day one , including rejoining the Paris Accords , implementing the already-existing Clean Air Act @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their operational climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions.
” Cheering how Democratic hacks crafted “ a 300-page blueprint on how to quickly and holistically approach the climate crisis , ” she proclaimed : “ It begins with reinstating many of the climate regulations that President Trump systematically rolled back.
” Turning to far-left Penn State University professor Michael Mann , Tur continued to revel in the chance to force through a radical agenda : So , Michael , we have had this conversation multiple times about the number one priority for getting back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And you ’ ve always said step one is getting Donald Trump out of office .
Okay , step one seems to be down .
What does Joe Biden need to do now to make sure that we are not in a bad situation 25 , 50 years from now ?
Mann demanded : “ …we ’ ve got to undo first all of the damage that was done by four years of Trump .
And that means restoring regulations against polluters… We have to tighten regulations on carbon and methane emissions , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden to dictate such massive policy changes from the Oval Office rather than try to garner support for legislation in a likely divided Congress : We need to tackle this problem using every avenue we have available to us within the executive branchbecause we may very well see two – at least two more years of inaction when it comes to the legislative branch .
And so it ’ s all about executive action , taking advantage of all of the departments of the administration to attack this problem in a multi-prong fashion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a strategy could lead to regulations being overturned by a later administration : “ How do you get past a seesawing of Democratic president goes for climate change or fights against climate change , Republican president denies all of it and rolls back regulations ?
What needs to be codified ?
What can be codified ?
” Former Obama administration climate crusader Jake Levine tried to reassure her : “ President [ Biden ] is going to be focused on creating an administration with climate expertise in place at every single agency and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ But what do you do so the next president that comes around doesn ’ t roll it back , Jake ?
” Levine clearly didn ’ t have an answer and just insisted : This is an incoming president who campaigned on this issue .
The American people voted for that .
And you know , the hope is that it will continue to be strengthened as federal policy over time because , you know , the politics will demand , you know , that we have a government that actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already proven that it ’ s ready to be a state-run propaganda machine for the incoming Democratic administration , but segments like this prove that the network will also be working on behalf of the far left to demand Biden push an extreme agenda .
This climate change lobbying was brought to viewers by Philadelphia Cream Cheese .
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Remember : None of these economically ruinous regs will affect Katy Tur ’ s bottom line or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact , they ’ ll benefit from increased climate spending via federal grants issued by the EPA , NSF , NOAA , NASA , etc .
–CCD Ed .


climatedepot--2020-11-14--PETER HITCHENS: The dictators have taken over – and we didn’t even notice

In a lecture of astonishing power and force last week , the former Supreme Court judge , Lord Sumption , revealed in sad detail what has happened to our country in the name of Covid .
I have placed a copy of it and a recording on the Peter Hitchens blog and I strongly advise you to read and watch it .
It says that Parliament has been elbowed aside by Ministers who rule by decree .
Now , Jonathan Sumption is not just a brilliant lawyer .
He is also a distinguished historian .
Last year he gave the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were the best for many years .
If he has any politics I have no idea what they are , but he uses language with immense care .
If he says this ‘ has been the most significant interference with personal freedom in the history of our country .
We have never sought to do such a thing before , even in wartime and even when faced with health crises far more serious than this one ’ , then you may be sure that this is so .
When he says ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ except once in five years at General Elections ’ , you may be sure that this is true .
This a complete breach with centuries of law and tradition , and who can say where it might end ?
When he points out that laws , backed by tyrannical , ruinous fines , are now made at televised press conferences and enforced by bluff by police forces operating far beyond their authority , then it is happening .
He accuses the Government of showing ‘ a cavalier disregard for the limits of their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says , is how freedom dies .
And behind it lies an astonishing , previously unnoticed seizure of economic power , which has made the entire Covid panic possible .
By long tradition , Parliament has had ultimate control over the Government ’ s purse strings .
It must permit major spending specifically .
Without this power it is just a mascot or a toy .
That power has been abolished .
Back in March , unnoticed by almost everyone , Parliament vastly increased the Government ’ s freedom to spend what it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emergency spending , was increased from a mere £11billion to almost £270billion a year .
I can not say where or how this will end .
It is my own growing belief that Johnson and Hancock do not understand what they are doing .
Their decision to strangle our struggling economy once again in an alarmist shutdown is one of panic piled on panic and is visibly destroying the NHS they claim to be saving , as well as laying waste to those jobs and businesses they have not yet ruined or obliterated @