Happy 4th: Driving, Grilling, Fireworks

Independence Day could also be called the CO2 Holiday with all the driving, grilling, and fireworks. So ignore the climate alarmists and eco-snoops. Celebrate the traditions of July 4th with gusto!

Drive to a favorite place, grill outdoors to your heart’s desire, use plastic for convenience, keep the house cool and drinks cold, and watch the fireworks. The climate will not notice.

Here are some photos for inspiration.

Andrew Dessler on Texas Heat: Vague but Exaggerated

“Rob, your question makes zero sense & and I don’t have the patience to deal with people like you. Please crawl back under the rock you emerged from or I’ll ban you from my substack. Seriously: your next comment that displeases me is your last, so make sure it’s a doozy.” (Andrew Dessler, below)

Climatologist Andrew Dessler, a leading figure on the alarmist side of the debate, is a piece of work–extremely smart and knowledgeable but biased and short-tempered. His personality is akin to that of Joe Romm of yesterday and Michael Mann today–arrogant, condescending, petty. Dessler is certain that he knows what is to be known about all things climate and energy. But, really, he does not know what he does not know. (Yes, climate science is highly uncertain, and climate models are a mess.)…

Pretty Industrial Wind Turbines? (eco-activist reports from the pristine)

UK Climate campaigner Andrew Griffiths, recently posted (with pictures) about his vacation bike tour.

One great things about cycling for hours at a time through beautiful countryside is your mind getting space to creatively wander. Over the last couple of days I found a few more parallel lessons that felt worth sharing…

Similarly in working life, when I have a large and daunting task (like manually coding the conditions for 50+ pieces of legislation in Planet Mark‘s soon to be launched Carbon Policy Tracker 🤫) I find it helpful to break down the task into the smallest possible pieces, ignore how much there is to do and just celebrate each little milestone as it comes before setting my sights on the next one.

The idyllic pictures of green mountains inspired me to comment:

No wind turbines or solar farms … But greenery from CO2.

‘Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate’ (1988 exaggerations vs. today)

So What Has Changed? (Revkin/NYT Alarmism in 2006)

In Search of the “Greenhouse Signal” in the 1990s (and when did they know?)

“In Climate Debate, Exaggeration Is a Pitfall” (NYT article revisited)

Private Property Rights vs. Industrial Wind/Solar: Reply to Giberson

Limits to Wind and Solar on the Grid: A Discussion

The Fossil Fuel Era: Still Young