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)

Ed. Note: This article on the front page of the New York Times by noted environmental reporter Philip Shabecoff, (June 24, 1988) marked the beginning of the media-driven climate scare. Particularly important is the estimated anthropogenic warming and sea level rise: 3-9 degrees F and 1-4 feet between 2025 and 2050. Today, 35 years later, the recorded increase is 1F and 4 inches.

The earth has been warmer in the first five months of this year than in any comparable period since measurements began 130 years ago, and the higher temperatures can now be attributed to a long-expected global warming trend linked to pollution, a space agency scientist reported today.

Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing rising global temperatures of recent years to the predicted global warming caused by pollutants in the atmosphere, known as the ”greenhouse effect.”…

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

“Are humans like frogs in a simmering pot, unaware that temperatures have reached the boiling point? Or has global warming been spun into an ‘alarmist gale,’ as Richard S. Lindzen, a climatologist at M.I.T. wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed article?” (Revkin 2006, below)

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Seventeen years ago, and eighteen years after James Hansen yelled Fire in his testimony before the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee (tomorrow’s post), New York Times climate columnist Andrew C. Revkin published “Yelling ‘Fire’ on a Hot Planet.” The media propaganda machine was out in force, and the alarmist side was debating what to do to ‘wake up’ the public. One idea was to emphasize adaptation instead of mitigation, a controversial strategy as Revkin reports below.

The article questions whether polar bear drownings were due to climate change.…

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

The Liberating Theory of Resourceship

Shakedown! Climate Governance Initiative (UK)