Monthly Archives: February 2024

Time to Retire the Term “Renewable Energy” from Serious Discussions and Policy Directives: Part 3

By Planning Engineer     Russ Schussler

“Renewable good, non-renewable bad” is far too simplistic and unfortunately influential

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Time to Retire the Term “Renewable Energy” from Serious Discussions and Policy Directives: Part II

By Planning Engineer  (Russ Schussler)

Renewables”:  some resources support a healthy grid, other challenge it

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JC’s ethics complaint against Michael Mann

by Judith Curry

BREAKING.  The verdict is in – GUILTY.  

Mann’s lawyer introduced into evidence an old ethics complaint against Michael Mann that I had addressed to the Penn State administration.

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JC’s expert report

by Judith Curry

Here is the text of the expert report on Mann v. Simberg/Steyn in 2020 that I prepared at the request of Mark Steyn’s counsel.

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Time to retire the term ‘renewable energy’ from serious discussion and energy policy directives

by Russell Schussler (Planning Engineer)

Part I: Renewable energy as a grouping lacks coherence

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Two model-observation comparisons confirm: CMIP6 models run too hot

By Frank Bosse and Nic Lewis

A recent article by Roy Spencer was (strongly) criticized by Gavin Schmidt over at “Real Climate”. 

In the summary Gavin S. wrote:

“Spencer’s shenanigans are designed to mislead readers about the likely sources of any discrepancies and to imply that climate modelers are uninterested in such comparisons – and he is wrong on both counts.”

Let’s have a detailed and objective look if the wording “…to mislead the readers” is sound.

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