Editor Note: The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season was slightly above normal, with 18 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 3 major (3-5 category) hurricanes versus norms of 12, 6 and 3 respectively, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA, however, noted that 2019 was “the fourth consecutive above-normal Atlantic hurricane season,” the last being 1998–2001.
But what about past hurricane activity? This recent article review at CO2 Science by Craig D. Idso (Ph.D.) follows.
Truchelut, R.E. and Staehling, E.M. 2017. An energetic perspective on United States tropical cyclone landfall droughts. Geophysical Research Letters 44: 12,013-12,019.
One of the more often cited claims of climate alarmists is that CO2-induced global warming is increasing both the frequency and magnitude of hurricane events. Rarely does a hurricane event occur these days without the media quoting someone who places blame for its existence on CO2 emissions.…
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Some of the more important articles in
this issue are:
Another Round of Energy Pork
With climate change Science and Economics
should be paramount
Ontario saves $500± Million by dumping
wind turbines
Expect the ECB to Use a “Climate
Crisis” to Justify Their Next Stimulus Plan
Rolls Royce wants innovative financing
for its first-of-a-kind nuclear SMRs
Short video: Gates Goes Nuclear
Bitter Cold Stops Coal, While Nuclear
Power Excels
Nuclear Power isn’t Green Enough for
Germany
Archive: Solar Produces 300 times more waste
than Nuclear does
Why “Green” Energy is a Terrible Idea
Green Energy Studies: Consulting, or
Advertising?…
The battle against dense, mineral energies is stymied because of a simple concept that the climate alarmists (including the mainstream media) do not want to comprehend: energy density.
Consumers want the best energies, while an intellectual/political elite scheme for and mandate inferior substitutes. And the crusade is further complicated because carbon dioxide (CO2) is the green greenhouse gas, hardly the satanic gas the anti-industrial Left wants to ban.
As energy density drives the world’s daily work, how are the climate crusaders responding? One major complaint concerns the frontal push of China to coal-fired generation.
Jennifer Layke of the World Resources Institute deals with the elephant in the room as follows:
… Continue ReadingAs the world turns attention to the UN climate meetings this week, news from China has captured global headlines: From January 2018 to June 2019, the country added 43 gigawatts (GW) of net new coal power capacity to its existing 1,000 GW coal fleet, while the rest of the world collectively reduced coal capacity by 8 GW.