Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study links changes in regionalized air pollution across the globe to storm activity going both up and down. A 50% decrease in pollution particles and droplets in Europe and the U.S. is linked to a 33% increase in Atlantic storm formation in the past couple decades, while the opposite is happening in the Pacific with more pollution and fewer typhoons, according to the study published in Wednesday’s Science Advances.
NOAA hurricane scientist Hiroyuki Murakami ran numerous climate computer simulations to explain change in storm activity in different parts of the globe that can’t be explained by natural climate cycles and found a link to aerosol pollution from industry and cars — sulfur particles and droplets in the air that make it hard to breathe and see.
Bare Cupboards Biden
ZeroHedge- Biden Admin Cancels Huge Alaska Oil And Gas Lease As Gas Prices Hit Record Highs
The Biden administration has canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease sales which was pending before the Department of the Interior, at a time when Americans are suffering from record-high prices at the pump.
“The Department also will not move forward with lease sales 259 and 261 in the Gulf of Mexico region, as a result of delays due to factors including conflicting court rulings that impacted work on these proposed lease sales,” said an agency spokesperson.
Spring Fever
h/t DeNihilist
Things You See on CBC
https://twitter.com/RealKrisKo/status/1523783564982386688
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Chickens, home to roost.
Blast from the past
Who can forget the heady days of November, 2021? It all seems so long ago…
Rivian went public on Wednesday, marking the largest IPO in the United States since 2014. The electric pickup and SUV manufacturer priced its stock at $78 a share and raised about $12 billion, which the company plans to spend on boosting production and designing more vehicle models. While that price set Rivian’s valuation at around $70 billion, the carmaker’s market capitalization surged above $90 billion, after the stock started trading at nearly $107 a share on its first day.
I’m guessing there are more than a few investors out there wishing they had never heard of Rivian in the first place. After all, the price didn’t get to $179 unless someone ponied up that much money.
Y2Kyoto: The First Cut Is The Deepest
Because until now, no one was this stupid: Operating rooms are the climate change contributor no one’s talking about
Freezing sparky cars
Maybe EVs should come with a small propane heater for your trip. If Shiny Pony has his way, a winter car ride is going to become a race to arrive at your destination before hypothermia sets in.
But it wasn’t just the duration of the journey that was appalling – the temperature during the journey was anything but funny: the heating stayed off for almost the entire return journey in freezing temperatures: Because the colder it is, the more the operation of the heating systems puts a strain on the electric car battery.
For the trip, Brack covered herself with a hat, scarf, gloves and generally warm clothing, because after the first full charge, the VW e-Up shows a range of just 216 kilometers. And even this information is not guaranteed, which is why Brack opts for the so-called Eco-Plus mode and, of course, for the heating to be switched off. When the windscreen is frosty, heating wires ensure a clear view, so the reporter driving the test can do without the power-guzzling fan heater completely.
Sparky cars: burning investment capital
Given the torrid pace of online retail sales the last two years, I was a bit skeptical when I saw this headline. But once I got a few sentences into the piece I saw the reason for Amazon’s stock slide.
EVs are just one industry whose lifeblood is zero percent interest. Now that we are moving in the opposite direction, investors can look forward to even more losses.
The company attributed the loss largely to a $7.6 billion loss from its investment in electric automaker Rivian Automotive. Rivian, into which Amazon led a $700 million investment in 2019, has seen its stock plummet more than 75% since its blockbuster November 2021 IPO.
The Amazon loss came the day after Ford, another early investor in Rivian, took a $5.4 billion pre-tax charge related to that investment, resulting in Ford reporting a $3.1 billion net loss for the first quarter.
The Food Supply Is In The Very Best Of Hands
Biden official Samantha Power celebrates fertilizer shortages that will force farmers to “hasten transitions” to “natural solutions, like manure and compost.”
“Never let a crisis go to waste." pic.twitter.com/rZ5uMy0K5U
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 1, 2022
More, from Trent Loos.
Magical thinking
If I had a dime for every time a government predicted a budgetary surplus while simultaneously promising billions in new spending on a host of money-losing boondoggles, I might have enough to buy Twitter too. This question comes to mind: with “conservatives” like Ford in charge, who needs the Liberals?
Despite investments and enticements for voters — including a promise to invest more than $85 billion over the next 10 years to build highways, transit and other infrastructure projects to fight gridlock, boost the economy and create jobs — Ontario is projected to return to a surplus position by 2027–28.
Astroturf Activists vs Alberta
h/t Tammy
We Don’t Need Your Flaming Sparky “Bikes”
https://twitter.com/batteryfires/status/1517504560591519744
Y2Kyoto: Fixes Exist!
If you’ve been reading this blog lately, you know that the mythical transition to an energy future of pure “green” wind and solar electricity faces a gigantic problem of how to provide energy storage of the right type and in sufficient quantity. To make the electrical grid work, the wildly intermittent production of the wind and sun must somehow be turned into a smooth flow of electricity that matches customer demand minute by minute throughout the year. So far, that task has been fulfilled largely by natural gas back-up, which ramps up and down as the sun and wind ramp down and up. But now governments in the U.S., Europe, Canada and elsewhere say they will move to “net zero” carbon emission electricity by some time in the 2030s. Natural gas emits CO2, so “net zero” means that the natural gas must go. The alternative is energy storage of some sort.
Clearly, it is time to start figuring out how much energy storage we’re going to need, and of what type. Indeed, it is well past time to start figuring that out. If our government were even slightly competent, and also serious about “net zero” electricity by 2035, it would by this time have long since put together detailed feasibility and cost studies and demonstration projects showing exactly how this is going to work. Naturally, they don’t have any of that.
Global Warming Scams Are For The Peasants
Look in the dictionary under the word hypocrisy, and you will find a picture of Justin. Our glorious Dear Leader has been a busy little girly boy, burning jet fuel across the country.
Trudeau flew over 50,000km in the past seven weeks to talk carbon emissions
Solar Powered Tanks
Coming soon to a war near you.
Biden: "In the U.S. military every vehicle is going to be climate friendly. Every vehicle." pic.twitter.com/QdVQdsq1wW
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 22, 2022
The Sound Of Settled Science
A 2021 study appearing in Nature Communications by Buentgen et al reports on the results of a double-blind experiment of 15 different groups that yielded 15 different Northern Hemisphere summer temperature reconstructions. Each group used the same network of regional tree-ring width datasets…
h/t Don
No Food For You
This is nuts at the best of times. But yes, during a global food shortage when we’re about to see record starvation in the third world, the Liberals want to punish Canadian farmers for growing too much food.
The Western Producer- Feds target cereals as major emitter
Ag Canada says cutting such emissions is critical because the federal government wants to reduce fertilizer related emissions 30 percent by 2030.
We must destroy the village to save the village.
Emergency for some but not for others
I’m more than a little curious as to why these ongoing highway blockades have not been met with a declaration of a state of emergency, bank account seizures, or at least daily denunciations in the leftwing corporate media. I guess these protests qualify as revolutionary violence or some such. I expect none of those arrested will be denied bail.
In a statement, the group says 82 people have been arrested to date at protests in Victoria, Nanaimo, Vancouver and Revelstoke, and two members are on a hunger strike until they can have a public meeting with Forests Minister Katrine Conroy.
Potential charges in such instances could include mischief or blocking or obstructing a highway, said RCMP Cpl. Alex Bérubé of the Vancouver Island district.
Y2Kyoto: THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
BREAKING: Singapore and New Zealand to jointly tackle climate change