“Pauses as long as 15 years are rare in the simulations, and ‘we expect that [real-world] warming will resume in the next few years,’ the Hadley Centre group writes…. Researchers … agree that no sort of natural variability can hold off greenhouse warming much longer.”
– Richard Kerr. What Happened to Global Warming? Scientists Say Just Wait a Bit.” Science, October 1, 2009.
Debates over the ‘pause’ or ‘hiatus’ of global warming since its El Nino-driven peak back in 1998 should not forget the false confidence of leading alarmist scientists were saying less than a decade ago about how the warming slowdown was surely coming to an end. After all, model-predicted warming was the best indication of reality if the models had the right physics in them (a Big if).…
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual worldwide celebration of human progress is tomorrow, March 19th. Turn on the lights and celebrate the wondrous ability of natural gas, coal, and oil to overcome Obama energy policy and forced renewable penetration to keep the lights on in despite-all fairly affordable way.
As CEI explains:
…Human Achievement Hour is a time to celebrate innovations that help us all live better, fuller lives. Human Achievement Hour is also the counter-event to Earth Hour, where participants symbolically renounce the environmental impacts of modern technology by turning off their lights for an hour. We believe it’s a misguided effort that ignores how access to affordable energy helps people around the world.
How to celebrate with us? Share your favorite human achievement or innovation that makes your life easier!
“For a long time to come—until all energies used to produce wind turbines and photovoltaic cells come from renewable energy sources—modern civilization will remain fundamentally dependent on fossil fuels.”
– Vaclav Smil, “What I See When I See a Wind Turbine (March 2016).
Vaclav Smil, distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba, has published 37 books and almost 500 papers on “the fields of energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy.”
One of the great energy experts of our age, Smil’s output easily rivals whole US Department of Energy laboratories which, incidentally, are easy candidates for elimination under a new political regime.
This month, Dr. Smil’s published a short piece in IEEE Spectrum titled “What I See When I See a Wind Turbine.”…