Study: Demand for Vegan Soy Driving Climate Change, Brazilian Habitat Destruction
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Covid-19 Claims Another UN Climate Conference
On Monday evening, top climate diplomats decided the intersessional meeting which happens every year between UN climate summits in Bonn, Germany, where UN Climate Change is headquartered, would not be able to take place on the proposed dates of 4-12 October. A new date for the meeting is yet to be decided.
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Did lockdowns really save 3 million COVID-19 deaths, as Flaxman et al. claim?
Key points about the recent Nature paper by Flaxman and other Imperial College modellers
The IEA’s Sustainable Recovery Plan Is Not Sustainable
Governments of the world, take note. The International Energy Agency has a plan for you. If you take the sagely advice of the IEA’s technocrats, you will do your citizens a huge favour as you struggle to recover from the ravages of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Update: Global Man-made CO2 emissions 1965 – 2019, BP data
Introduction Every June BP publish their statistical review of world energy. https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html One element of their comprehensive set of spreadsheets is a table of CO2 emissions by world countries since 1965. For the purposes of this post, the CO2 emissions data provided by BP here is assumed to be correct. That data is here and…
Minerals Council of Australia Fails to Appease Climate Activists
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Minerals Council of Australia has released a climate action plan which pleases nobody. Minerals Council slammed for “woefully inadequate” Climate Action Plan Sophie Vorrath 22 June 2020 Some six months after being named on a list of the world’s top 10 most powerful climate policy opponents, the Minerals Council of Australia…
NSW Government Offers Subsidised Infrastructure for Renewable Energy, Overwhelming Response
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The NSW government has offered support in the form of improved grid infrastructure and streamlined approvals for new wind farm projects in designated renewable energy zones. Government renewable energy investment program swamped by support By Peter HannamJune 23, 2020 — 12.00am Plans to open up the Central West of NSW to…
India Confirms No Increase in Tropical Cyclones Due to Climate Change
by Vijay Jayaraj One of the chief fears about climate change—or, more specifically, global warming—is that it will generate more frequent and more severe extreme weather events. Observed facts, however, should quiet those fears. India, one of the key members of the global climate change pact, has reiterated that there is no increase in cyclones…
NASA is Funding a Search for Alien Civilisations Powered by Solar Cells
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Maybe someone out there has solved the problem of renewable energy intermittency. With intelligent life in scant supply on Earth, boffins search for technosignatures of civilizations in the galaxy Pollution, sprawling cities of megastructures, any sign aliens are screwing up just like us… MON?22?JUN?2020?//?07:52?UTC Astronomers are on the hunt for…
Judges Acknowledge how Climate Litigation Proponents Try to Undermine Rule of Law
June 22, 2020 Washington D.C. – Phil Goldberg, Special Counsel for the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project, issued the following statement in response to Thursday’s decision by the Texas Court of Appeals, which reluctantly dismissed ExxonMobil’s petition to conduct pre-suit discovery against the lawyers, cities and foundations that have been waging the climate litigation campaign against it and other energy…
Greens promote child slave labor and ecological destruction
Why don’t African black lives and ecological values matter? or impacts in and beyond Virginia? Paul Driessen The US Supreme Court recently ruled 7-2 to reverse a lower court ruling that had invalidated a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which will bring West Virginia natural gas to Virginia and North Carolina, for home heating,…