“September [2017] sets alarming global temperature record and negates a favorite denier talking point … It was also the most active month on record for North Atlantic hurricanes.”
“2017 is so unexpectedly warm it is freaking out climate scientists.”
– Joe Romm, ThinkProgress, October 5, 2017
Remember Joe Romm? Head of his own nonprofit Center for Energy and Climate Solutions (CECS) until it folded? Climate pundit at the Center for American Progress until Climate Progress folded?
Romm might be busy elsewhere on the Progressive Left, but his exaggerations remain for the record. (Thankfully, CAP has left his posts up for historical evaluation.)
Here is one. Going on five years ago, Romm highlighted a +0.54C (about one degree Fahrenheit) monthly reading above the 30-year average for September 2017. He all but went nuts, stating:
… Continue ReadingSeptember 2017 smashed multiple climate records, alarming scientists and further negating a favorite talking point of climate science deniers…. It’s
“PHMSA admits the purpose of the Proposed Rule is not really about safe transportation of hazardous materials in interstate commerce. Rather, it is intended to indirectly regulate the extraction, production, and ultimately consumption of natural gas….”
“It is high time the Biden Administration put America first. Biden’s environmental virtue-signaling is burdening American families and jeopardizing the safety and security of our homeland.”
President Biden, or at least his puppeteers, supports liquefied natural gas (LNG) for Europe during their energy crisis. But when it comes to the home front, Biden does not.
Recently, officials from 25 states petitioned the Biden administration to not reverse a Trump rule allowing natural gas (LNG) transport by rail. The letter by Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry et al., was addressed to Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Acting Administrator Tristan Brown (emphasis added; agency views yellowed).…
Continue Reading“While quiet transformers and inverters exist [to reduce pure-tone transformer noise], due to premium cost, it is generally not a specification point the solar facility designers are willing to consider…. There is a real need for acoustic evaluation and noise control with respect to nighttime operations of solar energy components.”
“Clark County regulators have substantiated 37 of the 49 complaints they have received about the project from the public. ‘Can’t breathe from all the dust coming off the solar field!!!!!!,’ one person wrote to the county on Sept. 15. ‘Someone need to take care of this it happens way to often.’”
Anti-fossil-fuel environmentalists, when pressed, will state that all energy choices have environmental drawbacks and tradeoffs. But they do not take this seriously when it comes to wind and solar power, which have infrastructure requirements (including land and power lines) that are a multiple of other choices on a per kWh basis.…
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