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Reflections on energy blogging
by Planning Engineer Five years ago today I started guest blogging on Climate Etc., focusing on energy related issues.
Posted in Communication, Energy
A beneficial climate change hypothesis
by Rud Istvan A novel hypothesis on the role of CO2 in the technological transition from hunter/gatherers to sedentary agriculture.
Posted in Climate change impacts
Sea level rise, acceleration and the closure problem
by Rud Istvan There is no doubt that interglacials change sea level (SL). And that sea level rise (SLR) can be dramatic on millennial interglacial time scales.
Posted in Climate change impacts, Oceans
Vehicular decarbonisation – two new technologies to watch
by Rud Istvan This post addresses issues related to ‘vehicular decarbonization’. It is an energy storage insider’s narrative of how tough a slog developing some of the requisite applied science technologies has been over the past decades. It is a … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Another Antarctic Sea Level Rise False Alarm
by Rud Istvan Aitken et. al. in Nature newly comports to confirm 2015 fears about instability of the Totten Glacier in Eastern Antarctica. This could ‘suddenly’ raise sea level as much as 4 meters! (Or, based on the abstract, maybe … Continue reading
Posted in Polar regions
Modeling Lindzen’s adaptive infrared iris
by Rud Istvan In 2001, MIT’s Professor Richard Lindzen and colleagues published a controversial paper titled “Does the Earth have an Adaptive Infrared Iris?” [1] If there were a tropical adaptive infrared iris, then Earth’s sensitivity to GHGs would be … Continue reading
Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks
Observational support for Lindzen’s iris hypothesis
by Judith Curry It’s nice to see that our ‘discredited’ theory doesn’t seem to go away. – Richard Lindzen
Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks
Intermittent grid storage
by Rud Istvan From the utility grid perspective, a fundamental problem with wind and solar is intermittency.
Posted in Energy
Solar grid parity?
by Rud Istvan and Planning Engineer There are many journal articles, media stories, NGO papers, and blogs … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Lessons from the ‘Irreducibly Simple’ kerfuffle
by Rud Istvan UPDATE: Response from Christopher Monckton The Monckton, Soon, Legates, and Briggs paper “Why models run hot, results from an irreducibly simple climate model” appeared in the January 2015 Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). … Continue reading
Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks
Energy strategies: horses for courses
by Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan Just because something works in one place’s circumstances does not mean it will work elsewhere under different circumstances.
Posted in Energy
No bodies
by Rud Istvan One of the firmer catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) predictions made by IPCC AR4 WG2 was an alarming increase in species extinctions.
Posted in Climate change impacts
Clean(?) Coal
by Rud Istvan Many climate policy debates come down to coal as an electricity fuel, including the EPA’s proposed coal power plant CO2 regulations.
Posted in Uncategorized
Sea level rise tipping points
by Rud Istvan Sea level tipping points are a popular CAGW/media theory, easily suggested by images of calving icebergs and summer meltwater rushing down Greenland moulins. But they are alarmist precautionary mitigation fantasies rather than remotely possible future scenarios on multi-centennial … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Microgrids and “Clean” Energy
by Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan Microgrids and “clean” energy are intertwined in the minds of many. There is a common belief that microgrids will facilitate “clean” energy and that “clean” energy will better support microgrids.
Posted in Uncategorized
JC’s book shelf
by Judith Curry Some new books that I’ve been reading, by Roger Pielke Jr., Rud Istvan, George Marshall and James Gleick.
Posted in Communication, Policy
Public intellectuals in the climate space
by Judith Curry Wanted: disruptive ideas on climate change.
Posted in Sociology of science
True costs of wind electricity
by Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan Wind turbines have become a familiar sight in many countries as a favorite CAGW mitigation means. Since at least 2010, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) has been assuring NGOs and the public that … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Caribbean Water
by Rud Istvan The Associated Press ran an alarming news piece on 9/6/13: Climate Change Threatens Caribbean’s Water Supply
Posted in Uncategorized
When bad news is good
by Rud Istvan The crescendo of climate change ‘bad’ news leading up to release of problematic AR5 SPM continues.
Posted in Uncategorized
Ice sheet collapse?
by Rud Istvan One of the catastrophes associated with anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) is a rising sea. Is the projected rise and rate unprecedented? Will it be catastrophic? … Continue reading
Shell game
by Rud Istvan Is ocean acidification the new global warming?
Posted in Climate change impacts
NCDC responds to concerns about surface temperature data set
Our algorithm is working as designed. – NOAA NCDC
Posted in Data and observations
More scientific mavericks needed
by Judith Curry Mavericks once played an essential role in research. Indeed, their work defined the 20th century.
Posted in Sociology of science
