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Biden's Carbon Capture Programs
They're expensive. From CNN: The Biden administration on Friday announced its first major investment to kickstart the US carbon removal industry – something energy experts say is key to getting the...
View ArticleThe Dominator
Hockey season is coming up, so please pardon the occasional post on this greatest (IMHO) of sports. It's still two months until the NHL hockey season starts--three and a half weeks before the first...
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Oldie But Goodie
By Joel Pett, 2009:From Wikipedia:The cartoon, which first appeared in USA Today in December 2009,[3] around the time of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference,[4] depicts a conference...
View ArticleRoy Spencer's Temperature
Roy Spencer usually publishes their temperature anomaly for the lower troposphere for the month just ended on the first of the month.But it's not published today. (As of Sept 1, 4:54 pm Central...
View ArticleChina's WAP Decline
China's working-age population has peaked. Not good news if you want continued national economic growth. Via The World Bank, via Paul Krugman in the NY Times. He writes:"At a fundamental level, China...
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UAH: Second-warmest Month in Their Records
UAH/Roy Spencer just published their temperature anomaly for the lower troposphere.It's the warmest August since their records start in 1979 (by 0.30°C!) and the 2nd-hottest month since 1979 (just...
View ArticleWarmest Summer Since at Least 1940
Copernicus:https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/world/hottest-summer-record-climate-intl
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BREAKING: Michael Mann Wins Defamation Suit, Awarded Over $1 million
$1 in compensatory damages from Steyn, $1 M in punitive damages.$1 in compensatory damages from Simberg, $1 K in punitive damages.NY Times: Michael Mann, a Leading Climate Scientist, Wins His...
View ArticleThe Greenhouse Effect Strikes Again
From an article about ice fishers in New England having to pull their bobhouses off the ice earlier than in the past:“I had to help pull out a bob-house out that fell in three years ago,” said Cutter,...
View ArticlePOP cp When I Was Born
Just calculated that, when I was born, US population was only 54% of what it is today. World population was 38% of today's.Not really sure why, but these numbers make me kind of nostalgic and kind of sad.
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Things Are Listening
I just asked Siri (my iPhone) "when was Memorial Day in 1996?"She gave one of these "here are some options, check it out" useless responses so I quickly typed into Google on my PC's browser "Memorial...
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Countries That Have Uncoupled CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth
They used to say this couldn't be done.Though I would like to see the same numbers if you count production and service these countries have outsourced to other, less wealthy, more polluted countries,...
View ArticlePlayer's Respect for Injured Referee
There was a scary but touching moment in yesterday's Pittsburgh Penguins vs Tampa Bay Lightning hockey game. A referee and a Tamba Bay player collided head-on and blind, and both went down on the ice....
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The Solar Eclipse From Here #eclipse2024
We were slated to get a peak solar eclipse of 22.4% blockage. Instead we got this:The nice thing about the 2017 total eclipse here in Oregon was that it happened in August, and in summer here pretty...
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Recordbreaking Atmospheric & Ocean Heat is Unexplained
From the NY Times:Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS has an article in a recent issue of Nature about how scientists can't explain the recordbreaking temperatures seen in the last nine months (or so), and...
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Spike in Tube Ties and Vasectomies
In the US. From "Changes in Permanent Contraception Procedures Among Young Adults Following the Dobbs Decision,"JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), April 12, 2024: Conservatives in...
View ArticleSaid Doc....
"It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And...
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The Last 30 Years If....
Top left and clockwise: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and dBarack ObamaThis didn't happen, because, of course, US's Electoral College, whereby the president is elected by votes in the...
View ArticleHip Eclipse Clip
I've seen a couple zoomed-in pictures of solar flares during last week's eclipse, but this is the best I've seen so far: 100x zoom on the solar eclipse byu/ArchontheWings ininterestingasfuck
View ArticleThis is Why Hockey is the Best Sport
Tonight the Pittsburgh #Penguins played their last game of the season. Despite an amazing charge at the end--they were 6-1-1 this month (wins-losses-overtime losses). Yesterday they were eliminated...
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Price of Gas is not High
If you correct for inflation, the average price of gasoline in the US is about the same as in 2005 (when it bumped up due to Hurricane Katrina). And it's lower than the price during about half of the...
View Article🐧 Top Five Goals
My team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, sadly missed the NHL playoffs this year. They had a thrilling comeback in the last ten games but fell short due to lackadaisical play in the early and mid-season. Too...
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More About Gas Prices
So I was playing more with the gasoline data. I added two more lines:yellow line is the latest pricegreen line is what I call the "reverse average"; for any point on the x-axis, it's the average price...
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