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The White House State: ‘Regulatory Reform’ in Sheep’s Clothing (OMB Circular A-4)

By -- April 13, 2023

“My strong first impression is that OMB Circular A-4 is particularly useful for more expediently advancing the administrative state’s ‘all of Government’ agenda to combat the ‘existential threat’ of anthropogenic global warming.”

Last Friday April 7th, The Hill reported:

The White House is [re]forming the country’s regulatory system, announcing a new executive order and guidance that experts say could be used to justify both more and stronger regulations. On Thursday, the White House released an executive order reducing the number of regulations that undergo a more rigorous White House review and promoting public participation from previously underrepresented groups at its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

The Hill’s article, “White House Issues Reforms to the Regulatory Process,” quoted two experts from organizations that generally support the climate alarm/forced energy transformation side of the debate.…

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On RCP 8.5 IPCC Exaggeration

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 12, 2023

“The IPCC reports have become ‘bumper sticker’ climate science—making a political statement while using the overall reputation of science to give authority to a politically manufactured consensus. With such explicit political advocacy, combined with misleading information, the IPCC risks losing its privileged position in international policy debates.” (- Doug Sheridan)

Doug Sheridan speaks truth to power on energy and climate issues. In a recent social media post, he brings attention to an article by Judith Curry in The Australian, “UN’s Climate Panic Is More Politics than Science,” that emphasized how the IPCC markets a warming extremism that is three times the size of its medium-case scenario. [1]

Sheridan’s summary follows:

Judith Curry writes in the Australian, all but few holdouts now recognize that the IPCC‘s worst-case RCP8.5 climate scenario never really deserved the attention it was given.…

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On the Benefits of CO2

By Randal Utech -- April 11, 2023

Some interesting facts on CO2. The trace gas of life is very beneficial. CO2 is greening the earth and feeding the hungry. CO2 has not been proven to ‘drive’ climate change except as conveyed by the models which remain erroneous and incomplete. We are near the lowest level of CO2 over earth history. The secondary feedback heating effect of CO2 is limited by the IR logarithmic forcing law and is nearly saturated at current levels. The earth never had runaway heating even at 10x-20x current levels of CO2. Interesting that most plants evolved at levels averaging near 1200 ppm or roughly 3x current levels.

Desert greening

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/news-releases/2013/deserts-greening-from-rising-co2

Plant fertilizer higher than expected

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.14950

CO2 reducing plant water needs

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1604581113

CO2 sink

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.16866

Greening observed by NASA

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

NASA – greening mitigates warming

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates-surface-warming

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Energy and Environmental Review: April 10, 2023

By -- April 10, 2023
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Southeast Ratebase Debacles: Tony Bartelme Revisited (nuclear, CO2 capture)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 6, 2023
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Massachusetts Offshore Wind Troubles

By -- April 5, 2023
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‘Fuel of the Future’ Methanol: Remembering a California Energy Failure

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 4, 2023
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California vs. Affordable Gasoline (Senate Bill No. 2, March 28, 2023)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 3, 2023
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H.R. 1: Placeholder for Federal Energy Policy Reform (2024 elections ahead)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 31, 2023
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Henrietta Larson: Harvard University’s Answer to Today’s Gobbledygook

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 30, 2023
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