Wrong, NBC News, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Rising Coffee Prices, Production Is Increasing – Watts Up With That?
NBC News recently published an article asserting that climate change is driving up coffee prices by adversely affecting production titled Your daily cup of coffee could get more expensive because of climate change. Production data proves this claim blatantly false. NBC News writes: The price of arabica coffee beans, the high-quality beans found in most restaurants and […]
Tackling The Eddy-Permitting Grey Zone
By: Dr. Thomas Wilder The term “numerical grey zone” might seem abstract to many, but for those involved in atmospheric and oceanic modeling, it represents a challenging predicament. The numerical grey zone describes any numerical model that can resolve processes in some regions but not others, e.g. mesoscale eddies in low and high latitudes, respectively. […]
Outside Study Confirms Natural Gas Needed to Run Data Centers – Watts Up With That?
From the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy By Steve Haner Another analysis of the energy dilemma facing Virginia, this one commissioned by a Democrat-controlled legislative panel, has concluded that use of natural gas to make electricity is going to have to grow over coming decades, not shrink. Virginia’s anti-hydrocarbon energy laws are doomed to […]
Air Quality in a UK Town – A 10-year case study
by: Dr. James Weber Air quality (AQ), and the policies enacted to improve it, is becoming an increasingly important issue. It is also becoming increasingly politicised; exemplified by arguments over clean air zones like London’s ULEZ, low traffic neighbourhoods and even moorland burning (Weber et al. 2023). The negative impact of poor AQ on health, […]
Climate Models, Clouds, OLR, and ECS – Watts Up With That?
By Andy May The IPCC and the climate “consensus” believe that essentially all warming since 1750 is due to man’s emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases as shown in figure 1 here or in (IPCC, 2021, p. 961). This has led to a 45-year search for the value of the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity to […]
Exploring history and colonialism in my approach to climate science research
By: Prof. Joy Singarayer It is broadly acknowledged that colonialism and imperialism hold much responsibility in the causes of the climate crisis. The aggressive and unsustainable extraction of resources from colonized regions laid the ground for today’s economic reliance on fossil fuels and general overconsumption. It is also widely recognised that the industrialized nations responsible […]
Dog walking forecast 12.16.24
Dogs rejoice, at least for a little while! After a soggy Monday we’re set to dry out for a bit today, with highs in the upper 50s, though rain is expected to make another appearance in the evening. Source link
How a Small Chinese Company Tricked the German State
DW Planet A DW uncovered that dozens of Chinese climate projects, certified by the German authorities as carbon credits under the upstream emission reduction scheme, failed to deliver on promises to save millions of tons of carbon emissions. A joint investigation by DW and ZDF reveals how Germany was deceived – and exposes the shadowy […]