FACT SHEET: EPA’s Claim That Its Coal Plant CO2 Rules Will Save Lives By Reducing Particulate Matter Emissions Is False


Progressives will do or say anything to get their way — they are nothing but spoiled brats throwing temper tantrums when they don’t get their way!

Steve Milloy's avatarJunkScience.com

You may submit this information to EPA by December 1, 2014 as a public comment. A PDF of this fact sheet is here.

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A First Look At SURFRAD


Good work — I was not aware of these stations!

Cold is warm, warm is cold, say the warmers


The Warmers have adopted a Muslim trick of religious dissimulation, or taqiyya which allows them to say what ever they want as long as it advances their Cause! Since the warming believe is not based on fact but is based on belief it is a religion and therefore this is allowed!

john1282's avatarJunkScience.com

They think that the coldest November in a long time is just a prelude to the warmest year.  I am Michael Jordan and can dunk with both hands.

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All Energy Transfer Is Due to Differences In Energy


Amen to that!

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

Venus is very hot, but has no weather. This is partly because they have a uniform temperature across the surface, day and night. There is no mechanism to produce heat flow. The Arctic is very cold, but has a large flow of heat, as indicated by the high frequency of storms.. Heat and temperature are different things, and should nt be conflated.

Heat flow is driven by differences in energy. Storms occur at frontal boundaries, because there is warm moist air on one side, and cold dry air on the other side.

Electricity flow is driven by differences in energy. When you purchase a 1.5 volt battery, it has 1.5 volts difference between the two terminals. Over time, the voltage difference decreases and the amount of power the batter can generate can degrade.

People build dams to increase the potential energy upstream. Similar to the glass in the greenhouse, the dam creates…

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One word changes the meaning


There is one other issue that applies to Solar and Wind power generation and that is the issue of UP TIME. Since most modern coal, oil, water and nuclear plants have UP TIMES around 90% and solar and wind are 1/3 of that, that means that their effective power ratings should be reduced by 2/3’s so we can compare apples and apples. This is not an insignificant fact and it has serious ramifications when use is high like in the winter when its cold and in the summer when its hot. Last winter the grid came very close to dropping out — with less available power we will be more vulnerable to brownouts this winter!

Bob Greene's avatarJunkScience.com

The headline says more than 2/3  of U. S. capacity from wind in October.  They left out the word “new.”

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Less energy is not GOOD for anyone!


The less energy there is available to people the poorer are the people that is fact. American energy use is way down and so is the median American household income. All this has happened in the last 6 years and this administration is continuing to reduce our ability to make energy for the people so one wonders why they are doing what they are doing?

Needed: Accurate climate forecasts


No disagreement from me, the push to reduce CO2 is counter productive in all areas as all it does is misuse scarce resources to no real purpose.

How Does A Glass Greenhouse Work?


Basic science at work here, the science of the earths temperature is some what different and is not a true greenhouse effect as just described. There is a warming effect its just based on different principles.

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

Greenhouses receive solar radiation through the glass. Essentially all of that energy has to escape back out of the greenhouse. The only place for it to escape is back out through the glass.

Heat flow between two points is proportional to the temperature difference, and also proportional to the thermal conductivity. The glass has low thermal conductivity, so the temperature inside the greenhouse has to rise to keep the heat flowing out at the same rate it is coming in – creating a large temperature drop across the quarter inch of glass.

Without the glass, the heat would escape much more efficiently, and the temperature would be lower. The energy flow through the system is the same with or without the glass, but the temperature is higher with the glass in place.

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Paul Driessen teams up with David Legates, great meteorologist


The IPCC climate the climate models (GCM’s) in the most recent report AR5 indicates that global temperatures should be about .5 degrees higher than they really are.

That is like a local weatherperson saying it was going to be 80 degrees F in Minneapolis this December. Give me a break they have no clue as to what is going on.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #157


Good and informative summary but a bit technical for a lat person!