We Must Consider Extreme Climate Solutions – Watts Up With That?
Essay by Eric Worrall “… Ideas such as thickening sea ice to prevent collapse … may once have seemed extreme. …” We passed the 1.5C climate threshold. We must now explore extreme options David KingMon 7 Apr 2025 19.00 AEST We do not have the luxury of rejecting solutions before we have thoroughly investigated their risks, trade-offs […]
The Looming Electricity Crunch Facing The US – Watts Up With That?
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood h/t Hugh Sharman Major US grid operators are raising the alarm about the looming capacity crunch. Power has the story: “Six major U.S. grid operators have raised a unified alarm about an impending capacity crunch, warning that the pace and scale of explosive demand—including […]
We need a grid battery public safety standard – Watts Up With That?
From CFACT By David Wojick The existing battery safety standards are grossly incomplete for the huge grid grid scale battery complexes being recklessly built in large numbers. Massachusetts recently requested public comments that addressed important issues with its planned multi-billion dollar battery buy. Public safety was one of the issues so I submitted the comments […]
Fresh Evidence Emerges That Global Vegetation Growth Reaches New Highs Due to Increased CO2 Fertilisation – Watts Up With That?
From THE DAILY SCEPTIC by Chris Morrison Global vegetation reached a new greening peak in 2020, continuing a long-term trend since 2000 according to new dramatic findings published by a team of scientists based in the United States. The work helps confirm other recent scientific work that points to massive global plant growth directly related to recent increases […]
Dog walking forecast 2.27.25
It’s a fantastic day for a walk! Today’s set to be a little cooler than yesterday, with highs peaking in the lower 60s. Source link
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline – Watts Up With That?
By Joel Kotkin California’s economic, academic, media, and political establishment still embraces the notion of the state’s inevitable supremacy. “The future depends on us,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at his first inauguration, “and we will seize this moment.” Others see California as deserving and capable of nationhood, a topic that has resurfaced with Trump’s presidency as it reflects, as a New […]
Monday Mirthiness – The ‘Hockey Hole’ – Watts Up With That?
You’ve heard of the “hockey stick“, that infamous climate doom graph created by by Dr. Michael Mann, patched together using some shonky statistical methods, and exposed by McIntyre and McKittrick as being spurious. Mann has made a career out of defending his statistical sausage, and now it seems karma has come full circle. So, let […]
Corals Thrived When Global Sea Levels Were Meters Higher Than Today 6000 Years Ago – Watts Up With That?
From the NoTricksZone By Kenneth Richard on 3. April 2025 Coral reefs expand and thrive as sea levels rise, whereas they undergo millennia of growth hiatuses and “turn-off” or “mass mortality” phases when sea levels fall. According to a new global sea level reconstruction (Feldman et al., 2025), global sea levels were meters higher than today 7000 to […]
Dog walking forecast 4.7.25 | Weather
…FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT CDT /1 AM EDT/ TONIGHT TO 9 AM CDT /10 AM EDT/ TUESDAY… * WHAT…Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s to lower 30s are expected. * WHERE…Portions of southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western Kentucky, and southeast Missouri. * WHEN…From midnight CDT /1 AM EDT/ tonight to 9 AM […]
The Seattle Times Claims About the Termination of the National Weather Service Are False – Watts Up With That?
From the Cliff Mass Weather Blog The Seattle Times ClimateLab stories are often sloppy and incorrect, with the article in today’s paper a good example of poor journalism, with politicized, error-filled claims. The headline on a front page story today asks whether “this story is a goodbye to the National Weather Service…”? Then it describes a last visit to […]