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Exxon says NetZero degrades global standard of living so much there’s only a remote chance it will happen

Jo Nova — Mon, 22 May 2023 17:37:30 +1000

By Jo Nova Exxon was told to jump through circus hoops like a performing seal and report the risks of NetZero to Exxon shareholders. But Exxon pushed back by pointing out that NetZero-by-2050 is so impossible it will never happen, and therefore the risks are not even worth assessing. Furthermore, and rather damningly, Exxon said, society would be unlikely to “accept the degradation in the global standard of living required“. Exxon has taken was was supposed to be another PR win for the...

From Jo Nova

Lord Frost warns: Hurtling towards net zero at any cost will be a mistake

Watts Up With That — Mon, 22 May 2023 15:00:00 +1000

"I think people have got captured by this ideology. They believe the messaging without thinking about it rigorously.”.

“…flashy (apparently widely distributed)” – Michael E. Mann

Material on this website is copyright © 2006-2022, by Anthony Watts, and may not be stored or archived separately, rebroadcast, or republished without written permission. (Miriam O’Brien aka slandering “Sou” from Hotwhopper, that means you.)

Some material from...

From Watts Up With That

DAVID BLACKMON: The EU Chief Just Let Slip the Dirty Secret Behind The ‘Green’ Transition

Watts Up With That — Mon, 22 May 2023 11:00:00 +1000

That economic de-growth enforced by authoritarian governments is a fundamental element of its agenda..

Von Der Leyen didn’t blurt it right out, of course: It was all couched in carefully written code words and phrases, but a close reading of her speech leaves no real room for doubt about the message. In her view — and apparently the view of the European Parliament — the time for economic de-growth has come.

“I today want to concentrate on one point, and that is a point that the report...

From Watts Up With That

Relax, Fresh Plaza, Florida Strawberry Production Is Growing

Watts Up With That — Mon, 22 May 2023 07:00:00 +1000

Existing data refutes claims that climate change is harming strawberry production in Florida or nationwide, and when data and model projections conflict, science says believe the data..

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment Climate News. In addition to directing The Heartland Institute’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, Burett puts Environment Climate...

From Watts Up With That

EV’s increase pollution: heavier cars wear out tyres 50% faster, increasing waste and poisonous particles…

Jo Nova — Mon, 22 May 2023 04:35:02 +1000

By Jo Nova The Greens are polluting the world again Last week I told Mark Steyn that heavier cars would wear down tyres faster, which would vaporize more tyre chemicals in the air. And here we are a few days later with news stories saying that EV’s wear out their tyres 50% faster, which is not just inconvenient and expensive, and uses more oil, but unleashes as many as 200 different chemicals into the air and water as well. With 2 billion tyres made around the world each year and the forced...

From Jo Nova

Finally, A Solution to The Problem of Intermittent Power Generation — The “Virtual Power Plant”

Watts Up With That — Mon, 22 May 2023 03:00:00 +1000

As discussed here many, many times, the big problem with generating electricity from wind and solar sources is that they are intermittent. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t. And sometimes they don’t work for days on end. The times when both wind and sun fail at the same time for multiple days tend to be concentrated in the very coldest days of the winter. This poses a huge problem for central planners’ dreams of “net zero” electricity. Try to solve the problem with grid-scale...

From Watts Up With That

John Kerry targets farmers: ‘We can’t get to Net-Zero…unless agriculture is front & center as part of the solution’ – ‘I refuse to call it climate change anymore. It’s not change. It’s a crisis’

Watts Up With That — Sun, 21 May 2023 23:00:00 +1000

We welcome agriculture ministers participating in the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge.

Thrilled to join Chile, Brazil, Australia, and nine other countries in committing to reduce methane emissions from the agricultural sector. Agriculture is the largest contributor to global methane emissions today, and reducing methane emissions is essential to keep 1.5C within… pic.twitter.com/88xyvleuxi

Kerry lamented that agriculture production alone creates 33% of the world’s...

From Watts Up With That

King Charles backed these care homes for 40 years – now Net Zero is forcing them to close

Watts Up With That — Sun, 21 May 2023 19:00:00 +1000

It’s hard to think of anything more damning about the King’s obsession with climate change:.

This fiasco lies at King Charles’ door as much as the political establishment’s.

It is all very well for Charles to pontificate and issue warnings of X months to save the planet. But we are now seeing the practical outworkings of his incessant political campaign, which he began years ago.

I’m no fan of the wingnut king, and even less of nut zero, but it makes me wonder what condition...

From Watts Up With That

Germany’s Growing List Of Bans: Next Up: Wood Stoves And Heating With Wood

Watts Up With That — Sun, 21 May 2023 15:00:00 +1000

It’s becoming clear that the climate movement is all about stripping citizens of choices, comfort and ability to move around. .

One of the boldest initiatives, introduced under the guise of independence from Russian energy, particularly natural gas, was the controversial plan to phase out oil and gas heating systems beginning already next year. In their place, Germans would be ordered to invest in heat pumps – a costly and for many an unfeasible measure.

The latest crackdown on...

From Watts Up With That

Experiment with me: A user-friendly algorithm for chatting about climate change

Watts Up With That — Sun, 21 May 2023 11:00:00 +1000

I decided to experiment with creating my own algorithm to insert into this conversation..

By comparison, Google’s Bard is far more receptive to allowing me some control over how it frames its reply. I was frustrated with its initial response about understanding climate change (far too much IPCC orthodoxy, scented with the Paris Climate Accords) and not enough balance, or perhaps counterpoint, with challenges to the “consensus.” Perhaps I could have warned Bard not to use Wikipedia. I laid...

From Watts Up With That

Coral Snapshot 2022-23, & All the Unanswered Questions

Watts Up With That — Sun, 21 May 2023 07:00:00 +1000

It is impossible to reconcile 60% bleaching based on the official aerial survey with 0% bleaching based on the official underwater survey for John Brewer Reef, with both surveys undertaken in March 2022..

Full marks to David Mills, writing in the Courier Mail, for asking why the government tends to bury good news reports about the Great Barrier Reef.

Key government ministers, marine scientists, and climate scientists have been unable to acknowledge:

Q2. According to official...

From Watts Up With That

The Snows Of Greenland

Watts Up With That — Sun, 21 May 2023 03:00:00 +1000

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach By way of what in my life is a fairly common path, that of a series of misunderstandings and coincidences, I ended up on the….

But I digress. I started out to tell you about the curiosity I found at the Rutgers Snow Laboratory web page. Here’s the oddity I saw when I went there.

… dang, sez I, if I have snow extent data for North America both with and without Greenland, I can subtract one from the other to give me snow extent data just for Greenland.

Hmmm...

From Watts Up With That

Experiment with me: A user-friendly algorithm for chatting about climate change

Judith Curry — Sun, 21 May 2023 01:41:31 +1000

by Joe Nalven I recently published one article about how to incorporate an AI chatbot as part of a college course. I focused on lying, persuasion and self-reflection. I went even further and anticipated a White House comprehensive plan to … Continue reading →.

by Joe Nalven

I recently published one article about how to incorporate an AI chatbot as part of a college course. I focused on lying, persuasion and self-reflection. I went even further and anticipated a White House comprehensive...

From Judith Curry

Unreliable Green Energy Has the World Running Back to Coal and Nuclear

Watts Up With That — Sat, 20 May 2023 23:00:00 +1000

...the reality of energy demand beckons these advanced economies to fall back on trustworthy fossil fuels and embrace highly efficient nuclear energy..

Since an earthquake and tsunami severely damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan has struggled with powering its economy. While the country’s initial reaction to the 2011 disaster was to abandon a once robust nuclear program, a decade later Japan is not only returning to splitting atoms and but also seeking to burn more fossil fuels than...

From Watts Up With That

New high risk, high reward studies will tackle key unanswered questions about our planet

Watts Up With That — Sat, 20 May 2023 19:00:00 +1000

NERC has invested £25 million in a host of high risk, high reward research projects to tackle critical environment challenges.

From Watts Up With That

Oh No – We’re about to Cross 1.5C Global Warming. But There’s Still Time!

Watts Up With That — Sat, 20 May 2023 15:00:00 +1000

Like a bad slasher movie which dissipates its original promise with one lousy sequel too many.

From Watts Up With That

Climate Change Weekly #471: Special Edition: The Republican Debt Ceiling Bill Deserves the People’s Support

Watts Up With That — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:00 +1000

You borrow the money, you pay it back..

The LSGA includes several other critical provisions. One element would rescind the subsidies and open-ended tax credits for Biden’s much-touted green energy transition contained in the IRA. The IRA provided generous subsidies and tax credits for people to add solar panels to their roofs and purchase electric vehicles (EV), subsidies to build more grid-scale solar and wind projects and the transmission lines to deliver them, subsidies to retrofit homes...

From Watts Up With That

USA Today ‘fact-checks’ Milloy tweet as correct

Watts Up With That — Sat, 20 May 2023 07:00:00 +1000

First, USA Today acknowledges that the graph in the tweet is correct and April 1895 was warmer than April 2023..

But the pre-industrial era atmospheric CO2 level is estimated as 280 parts per million (ppm). By 1895, it is estimated to be about 293 ppm and now it is about 424 ppm.

Since the preindustrial era, about 144 ppm of CO2 has been added to the atmosphere. But by 1893, only 13 ppm had been added. If you subtract the 1893 addition from the 2023 addition of industrial era atmospheric...

From Watts Up With That

A new app helps individuals offset climate emissions

INHABITAT — Sat, 20 May 2023 05:30:00 +1000

Corporations are increasingly paying third-party organizations to offset their carbon emissions, but what can individuals do to track and offset their carbon footprint? Toohla is a new app created in Chicago that can help individuals do their part to fight climate change...

From INHABITAT

Tidal barrier proposal for Lincolnshire and Norfolk sets off wave of opposition

guardian.co.uk - Energy — Sat, 20 May 2023 05:08:23 +1000

Wildlife and environment groups condemn plan promising renewable energy for 600,000 homes.

Plans for a renewable energy tidal barrier linking Norfolk and Lincolnshire have sparked fierce debate between scientists, wildlife charities and a port company CEO who is leading the project.

Entrepreneur James Sutcliffe, who has managed and advised port companies in Sierra Leone and Bangladesh, has now set his sights on the Wash, which is the sea, mudflats and salt marsh between the two counties.

The...

From guardian.co.uk - Energy

Organic Mexican products from Mi Rancho are absolutely yummy

INHABITAT — Sat, 20 May 2023 04:30:00 +1000

Mi Rancho is more than a Mexican food product line. It’s a story of generational knowledge that is authentically rooted in family history and culture. .

From INHABITAT

What if the airport radar was generating false record-high temperatures through random electrical noise?

Jo Nova — Sat, 20 May 2023 03:19:28 +1000

By Jo Nova Electronic sensors can pick up phantom electrical noise In the last thirty years the Bureau has installed electronic thermometers all over the country. But unlike the old glass ones, the new sensitive equipment can not only pick up freak gusts of hot air, they can also pick up electrical interference. Theoretically, electronic thermometers could report phantom measurements induced by large electric fields, like perhaps by an airport radar as it sweeps through the electronics..

In the...

From Jo Nova

“Can We All Just Relax?” Julia Hartley-Brewer Clashes With Meteorologist Over Global Warming

Watts Up With That — Sat, 20 May 2023 03:00:00 +1000

Can we all just relax on the basis we are all going to hell in a handcart and you lot can stop nagging us to stop turning our heating off?.

Hello hello – Now we see why Lockdown for Covid was one of the worst possible courses of action?

Hence, going right back to the very top, we see and hear Julia arguing for people to ‘relax’

Dale should take his prophecy to China and India and demand that they slash carbon emissions. See if he makes it out alive!

This...

From Watts Up With That

Los Angeles event discusses shaping the future of the city

INHABITAT — Sat, 20 May 2023 01:30:00 +1000

CityAge Media is hosting an event May 25 in person called Shaping the Next Los Angeles. The focus is forging partnerships and investments that can inform the future of other American towns and cities and set an example for the world. What will it look like?.

From INHABITAT

Climate TV LIVE at 1PM EDT: Shameful Propaganda From the “Union of Concerned Scientists”

Watts Up With That — Sat, 20 May 2023 01:12:09 +1000

Join us for episode 63 of Climate Change Roundtable, titled “Shameful Propaganda from the ‘Union of Concerned Scientists’ – Climate Models Are Not Data.” In this episode, we’ll dissect a recent so-called study from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), which makes a blatantly false claim attempting to tie fossil fuel products to wildfires in the western United States. Not one, not two, but three glaring issues arise: contradictory data, cherry-picked data, and satellite...

From Watts Up With That

Even slight traffic noise has a negative impact on work performance

Top Environment — Sat, 20 May 2023 00:45:44 +1000

As cities are densified at a fast pace, there is now construction very close to roads and thoroughfares. It is already known that noise can have a negative impact on human health, but new research shows that as little as 40 decibels of traffic noise -- the typical level of background noise in an office environment or kitchen -- has a detrimental effect on cognitive performance..

Researchers at Chalmers' Division of Applied Acoustics have conducted a laboratory study in which test subjects took...

From Top Environment

Oldest architectural plans detail mysterious desert mega structures

Top Environment — Sat, 20 May 2023 00:45:39 +1000

Researchers have identified engravings in Jordan and Saudi Arabia as the oldest known scaled building plans in human history..

An international team of researchers including the University of Freiburg identifies engravings in Jordan and Saudi Arabia as the oldest known scaled building plans in human history.

Although human constructions have modified natural spaces for millennia, few plans or maps predate the period of the literate civilizations of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. Researchers...

From Top Environment

How is widespread use of helicopters to study polar bears defensible in a warming world?

Watts Up With That — Fri, 19 May 2023 23:00:00 +1000

…the lifeblood of most polar bear research is jet fuel needed by helicopters.

If there is such an indisputable correlation between human-caused CO2 and sea ice decline that the total collapse of polar bear populations can be predicted with certainty (Molnár et al. 2020), why bother with these energy-intensive studies? If researchers are so sure what will befall polar bears under a “business as usual” approach to CO2, how can they possibly justify the ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions...

From Watts Up With That

Germany’s Federal Network Agency Plans To Ration Electricity As Electric Power Crisis Heightens

Watts Up With That — Fri, 19 May 2023 19:00:00 +1000

The greatest energy folly of all time… Germany restricts electricity supply while ramping up demand!.

Nowadays it seems Germany is doing everything possible to warp-speed ruin itself.

If today’s German leaders were driving a car and wanted to go faster, they would ease off the gas pedal and slam on the brakes – and hope it works! That’s basically how they’re handling the country’s energy crisis. Some would understandably equate it all to lunacy.

While leaders demand citizens...

From Watts Up With That

Past climate change to blame for Antarctica’s giant underwater landslides

Watts Up With That — Fri, 19 May 2023 15:00:00 +1000

Giant submarine landslides have occurred both on southern and northern high latitude continental margins, including the Antarctic and Norwegian continental margins. More knowledge on these events in Antarctica will also be relevant for submarine geohazard evaluation offshore Norway..

Nowadays it seems Germany is doing everything possible to warp-speed ruin itself.

If today’s German leaders were driving a car and wanted to go faster, they would ease off the gas pedal and slam on the brakes...

From Watts Up With That

How is Australia trying to sell a major gas expansion? By badging it ‘sustainable’ | Anne Davies

guardian.co.uk - Energy — Fri, 19 May 2023 12:43:32 +1000

Before Labor invests $1.5bn in Darwin harbour’s Middle Arm precinct, it needs to look beyond the spin.

Before Labor invests $1.5bn in Darwin harbour’s Middle Arm precinct, it needs to look beyond the spin

How do you sell a major expansion of gas exploration in the face of commitments that Australia will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050?

The answer is a combination of spin and reliance on carbon capture and storage technology.

Like the...

From guardian.co.uk - Energy

Professor Ian Plimer book launch – Not For Greens

Watts Up With That — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:00:00 +1000

The Institute of Public Affairs launch of Ian Plimer’s new book from Connor Court Publishing, ‘Not For Greens’, in Melbourne on Tuesday 22 July 2014.

From Watts Up With That

Perfection: The Enemy of Evolution

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 07:20:34 +1000

Scientists are often trained to seek out the absolute best solution to a given problem. On a chalk board, this might look something like drawing a graph to find a function's minimum or maximum point. When designing a turbojet engine, it might mean tweaking the rotor blades' angles a tiny degree to achieve a tenth of a percent increase in efficiency.

From Top Environment

Note to Yale Climate Connections – There Is no Link Between Droughts and Climate Change

Watts Up With That — Fri, 19 May 2023 07:00:00 +1000

The author of the YCC editorial ignored these easily discoverable facts, perhaps out of ignorance.

Anthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute. Watts has been in the weather business both in front of, and behind the camera as an on-air television meteorologist since 1978, and currently does daily radio forecasts. He has created weather graphics presentation systems for television, specialized weather instrumentation, as well as co-authored peer-reviewed...

From Watts Up With That

South Africa: half the country without electricity, plans power cuts 32 hours long

Jo Nova — Fri, 19 May 2023 06:43:21 +1000

By Jo Nova With South Africa only weeks away from the start of winter, the head of the State owned Eskom warns there will be the worst blackouts on record, which is really something because some people are already going 10 – 12 hours a day without electricity at the moment..

The country is allegedly at Stage 6 blackouts with “Stage 8” appearing to be a near certainty (if not there already). But apparently they are making plans to invent a “Stage 16” just in case they...

From Jo Nova

Vegan cheese from Armored Fresh is exploding in the US

INHABITAT — Fri, 19 May 2023 04:30:00 +1000

New York residents and visitors can enjoy the sight of ginormous vegan cheese products on a Times Square billboard, thanks to the Korean company Armored Fresh. The faux cheese makers have boldly entered the U.S. vegan foods market, reserving their billboard space for two years and making a splash at the 2023 Consumers Electronics Show with their newest product: American slices.

From INHABITAT

Wooden lake house was prefabricated off-site

INHABITAT — Fri, 19 May 2023 03:30:00 +1000

Why should architecture be a stopping point for nature? This beautiful Zurich lake house designed by Appels Architects shows that everything can flow together. The natural world can be a part of the interior of a home and in the home, light and space can flow seamlessly throughout.

From INHABITAT

RFK Jr.: Green hero turned anti-vaccine activist takes on Biden – As climate skeptics welcome him – Morano: ‘We need to realign coalitions to oppose Covid & climate coercion’

Watts Up With That — Fri, 19 May 2023 03:00:00 +1000

The climate issues and pollution issues are being exploited by the World Economic Forum and Bill Gates and all of these big Mega billionaires the same way that COVID was exploited..

He helped push a fracking ban. As an environmental lawyer, he spent more than three decades fighting for a cleaner Hudson River. He protected New York City’s reservoir in the Catskills. He pressed for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant. He founded an environmental group devoted to water protection that...

From Watts Up With That

An inspiring interspecies love story at the Gentle Barn

INHABITAT — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:30:00 +1000

Can a final girl find love? After Opal the chicken was the sole survivor of a predatory attack on her chicken coop in 2019, her owner asked animal sanctuary Gentle Barn in Saint Louis, Missouri to take her so she would be safe and not alone...

From INHABITAT

Fossil of mosasaur with bizarre 'screwdriver teeth' found in Morocco

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:09:07 +1000

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of any known reptile. Along with other recent finds from Africa, it suggests that mosasaurs and other marine reptiles were evolving rapidly up until 66 million years ago, when they were wiped out by an asteroid along with the dinosaurs and around 90% of all species on Earth..

It had a unique tooth arrangement with blade-like ridges running down the...

From Top Environment

Cancer cells use a new fuel in absence of sugar

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:09:01 +1000

Researchers have discovered a new nutrient source that pancreatic cancer cells use to grow. The molecule, uridine, offers insight into both biochemical processes and possible therapeutic pathways. The findings show that cancer cells can adapt when they don't have access to glucose..

Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have discovered a new nutrient source that pancreatic cancer cells use to grow. The molecule, uridine, offers insight into both biochemical processes and...

From Top Environment

Past climate change to blame for Antarctica's giant underwater landslides

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:08:27 +1000

Scientists found weak, biologically-rich layers of sediments hundreds of meters beneath the seafloor which crumbled as oceans warmed and ice sheets declined. The landslides were discovered in the eastern Ross Sea in 2017, by an international team of scientists during the Italian ODYSSEA expedition, and scientists revisited the area in 2018 as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 374 where they collected sediment cores to understand what caused them..

Scientists have...

From Top Environment

Perfect 'pathogen' storm: Vibrio bacteria, Sargassum and plastic marine debris

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:08:25 +1000

A new study uncovers how the interplay between Sargassum spp., plastic marine debris and Vibrio bacteria creates the perfect "pathogen" storm that has implications for both marine life and public health. Vibrio bacteria are found in waters around the world and are the dominant cause of death in humans from the marine environment. For example, Vibrio vulnificus, sometimes referred to as flesh-eating bacteria, can cause life-threatening foodborne illnesses from seafood consumption as well as disease...

From Top Environment

New use for A.I.: Correctly estimating fish stocks

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:08:23 +1000

A newly published artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm is allowing researchers to quickly and accurately estimate coastal fish stocks without ever entering the water..

For the first time, anewly published artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm is allowing researchers to quickly and accurately estimate coastal fish stocks without ever entering the water. This breakthrough could save millions of dollars in annual research and monitoring costs while bringing data access to least-developed countries...

From Top Environment

Watch these cells rapidly create protrusions for exploration and movement

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:08:07 +1000

In order to move, cells must be able to rapidly change shape. A team of researchers show that cells achieve this by storing extra 'skin' in folds and bumps on their surface. This cell surface excess can be rapidly deployed to cover temporary protrusions and then folded away for next time..

Cell membranes are very flexible, but they can only stretch by approximately 3% without rupturing. Having extra wrinkles of surface area that can expand on demand allows cells to move and divide while safely...

From Top Environment

Climate change to push species over abrupt tipping points

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:08:00 +1000

Climate change is likely to abruptly push species over tipping points as their geographic ranges reach unforeseen temperatures, finds a new study led by a UCL researcher.

From Top Environment

Scales or feathers? It all comes down to a few genes

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:01:11 +1000

Scales, spines, feathers and hair are examples of vertebrate skin appendages, which constitute a remarkably diverse group of micro-organs. Despite their natural multitude of forms, these appendages share early developmental processes at the embryonic stage. Researchers have discovered how to permanently transform the scales that normally cover the feet of chickens into feathers, by specifically modifying the expression of certain genes..

The laboratory of Michel Milinkovitch, professor in the...

From Top Environment

Adult friendships can triumph over childhood trauma, even in baboons

Top Environment — Fri, 19 May 2023 02:01:08 +1000

Decades of research show that experiencing traumatic things as a child -- such as having an alcoholic parent or growing up in a tumultuous home -- puts you at risk for poorer health and survival later in life.

From Top Environment

Why gas is not the answer to our net zero ambitions – podcast

guardian.co.uk - Energy — Fri, 19 May 2023 01:00:04 +1000

It seems everyone is talking up gas expansion as a solution to ending the climate crisis. Federal resources minister Madeleine King says Australia needs to remain an essential supplier of gas, while opposition leader Peter Dutton is telling the gas industry to fight off Labor’s ‘renewable zealotry’. But in reality gas power is undeniably in decline.

From guardian.co.uk - Energy

Are Lithium Ion Batteries Safe?

ecowho.com — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:25:28 +1100

We ask if Lithium Ion Batteries are actually safe for use in home power storage systems or not?

Solar Batteries Comparison Table is Live

ecowho.com — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:32:18 +1100

The new solar batteries Comparison Table is now live.

After much hard work, the Solar Batteries Comparison Table is now live.
This lists the most common batteries for use with solar panels (or time shifting) with the ability to sort, them got into a detailed page on each battery, so you can easily select which batteries are of interest to you.
These battery pages are fully incorporated into the site, so you will find references to them all over the site where appropriate.
We will also be adding more functionality to the database over time to make the pages more useful, so please keep coming back.
If you did find the pages useful, please remember to Like the pages for us!
Enjoy!

BTW If you are a supplier or manufacturer of a battery and find something wrong, please do get in touch and we will correct. Also, we would appreciate it if you would point us to the following up to date information for your battery:

White background media ready images of your battery.
Fully detailed technical specifications.
Specific description of the warranty and any conditions.

This way we can ensure people are evaluating your batteries based on the most up to date information.

2016 February temperature uptick caused by El Niño

ecowho.com — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:39:36 +1100

The AGW alarmists seem to think the Feb 2016 sudden uptick in temperature is caused by Co2, this is not the case, its a strong El Niño - as it matches what has happened before.

Given the current screaming and shouting going on in the media with respect to the February 2016 temperature increase in the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index, you would be forgiven for thinking the end is nigh - well it isn't. This has happened before and we survived without issue - its called a strong El Niño.

This can be proven to be nothing unusual in the cycle by the following two charts:

The above chart shows the changes differences one month from the next, as can be seen by the red line, the February jump is nothing odd.

Now the above charts show how this El Niño compares to the previous one in 1997/1998 - looks pretty similar doesn't it? Now if you take into account the uncertainties (error bars), and mentally put a +/- band of 0.17 degrees around each line plot - they overlap each other considerably - thereby they are statistically similar...
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Must watch video about the Green movement and environmental damage

ecowho.com — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:26:41 +1100

This video exposes the gross hypocrisy of the Green movement and the damage their policies are causing to the environment and peoples standard of living - their are effectively anti-people and dangerous.

BLUE (Blue Beats Green) Full Movie HD from JD King on Vimeo.

The above video was funded by a crowd funded campaign, it talks to many people negatively effected by the Green movement and provides evidence of the environmental damage caused. Anybody who has an interest in a better future for themselves, their offspring and the planet should watch this video.

The Australian Carbon tax is no more

ecowho.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:04:36 +1000

Yesterday in the Senate the Carbon Tax was removed. This was a great victory for common sense as concerns realistic environmental policy.

The Carbon Tax in Australia is gone - hurrah!
Now, you may think this is somewhat a strange statement to find on an environmental website, but this is actually good news. The Carbon Tax, in its construction and operation, was actually more about money moving around for political gain than actually about doing anything to 'save' the environment.
Australia, in terms of 'carbon footprint' is a minor player on the international stage; China dwarfs us in its Co2 emissions and does so burning coal Australia supplies - anybody detect a hint of hypocrisy here? Our political class seemed perfectly happy to place an additional tax burden in our businesses and indirectly on the public - yet were perfectly happy to let Co2 producing coal go overseas to China?
Anyway its gone and good riddance. Hopefully this might lead to more enlightened policy decisions with respect to the environment and the real issues that impact Australia. For instance:

Water availability and supply;
Land degradation;
Energy usage efficiency.

I'm a firm believer that environmental policy needs to based on rational, realistic and hard science based logic. Of late we have had too much 'knee jerk/follow the leader' policy and too little analytical thinking. It's time to change the game for the benefit of all.

Dueling Climate Reports

ecowho.com — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:13:45 +1000

In the interests of free speech I'm reposting this article so it gets better exposure.

Guest essay by Dr. Craig D. Idso

The release of a United Nations (UN) climate change report last week energized various politicians and environmental activists, who issued a new round of calls to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Some of the most fiery language in this regard came from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who called upon Congress to “wake up and do everything in its power to reduce dangerous carbon pollution,” while Secretary of State John Kerry expressed similar sentiments in a State Department release, claiming that “unless we act dramatically and quickly, science tells us our climate and our way of life are literally in jeopardy.”

Really? Is Earth’s climate so fragile that both it and our way of life are in jeopardy because of rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions?

In a word, no! The human impact on global climate is small; and any warming that may occur as a result of anthropogenic CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions is likely to have little effect on either Earth’s climate or biosphere, according to the recently-released contrasting report Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts, which was produced by the independent Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).

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Second hand building materials

ecowho.com — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:53:46 +1100

Second hand building materials offer an excellent way to reduce environmental impact, we show you how.

Houses and buildings are constantly being demolished and rebuilt all the time. This creates a large amount of second hand building materials, that with a bit of careful planning and thinking can be used to not only reduce environmental impact but reduce the costs of a build as well.

1. Know what can reuse and what you cannot

Some materials from old building are not suitable for reuse, either due to legislation or known health effects. Asbestos is the best know of these, but there are a whole range of 'old' building materials which cannot be used. We suggest if in doubt do not use.

2. Prepare to be flexible

If you are buying second hand, its unlikely you will exactly what you need. So do not wait around for the perfect door or window, rather have a minimal set of requirements and shop to those. This will also make searching for such materials easier online.

3. Take your time

You need to plan to make use of second hand building materials; it won't all come together over night. Plus you carry the responsibility to locate and move anything you find, this all takes time to plan.

4. Have somewhere to store it

Yes, you can store what you buy on your building site, although unless you are regularly onsite and have secure storage - its not ideal. Plus this rather limits your ability to store smaller but higher value items (think door and window fittings, lights, etc).
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Climate Council, represents who?

ecowho.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:03:58 +1000

The Climate Commission is being reformed as the Climate Council, we ask who do they represent and what is their funding model?

According to this article Tim Flannery is reforming the Climate Commission as the Climate Council. The new Climate Council will consist of Commissioners from the old Climate Commission.
They need to be very careful in setting this up, as it could just been seen as an attempt to reuse the 'authority' of the old Climate Commission to continue the same messaging as they did before; which they cannot do, as they no longer have the 'platform' of being a government funded body; i.e. they have to now prove independence and transparency, it cannot be just assumed to be so.
For instance in this article:
'Professor Will Steffen said one of the first orders of business for the not-for-profit Council will be assessing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report, due for release on Friday.

"We will do the very best we can to pull out the main points to this report and make it understandable to the Australian public," Prof Steffen told AAP, adding that he and colleagues hoped to produce a summary document within days of the release.'

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Rise of the Eco Warriors Screening

ecowho.com — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:30:19 +1000

Rise of the Eco Warriors is a film about spending 100 days in the Borneo jungle and saving wildlife

If you are in Sydney and looking for something to do come the 9th of October 2013 - you couldn't go far wrong by going to see an advance screening of 'Rise of the Eco Warriors' - a film about a group of people spending 100 days in the Borneo jungle and saving wildlife effected by the all habit destruction occurring in that country.

See here for more details and on how to book.

Fringe Benefits Car tax change bad for the environment

ecowho.com — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:45:23 +1000

The changes proposed by Labor to the fringe benefits car tax will be bad for the environment actually.

Changes in the fringe benefits tax proposed by Labor will remove the statutory rate; this means for abut 320,000 people they will have to keep log books and loose the ability to salary sacrifice against the benefit of having a company car - essentially making it uneconomical to 'share' the use of one car between a company and private usage.

So why is this bad for the environment? Well, cars these days for most families are essential to getting around. Removing the advantage for a company car to be used for private usage is forcing people to make a choice between having no car or buying another (cheaper) car. This is bad news for the environment, as it forces people into using two vehicles when they wouldn't otherwise need to.

It's also bad for the local car industry, as a lot of new lease hire cars will no longer be needed, the public rarely buys new cars and the manufacturers know this. This is turn is bad for the environment, as vehicles which are less efficient and clean are kept on the road for longer.
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Solar Power Installers, what to look for..

ecowho.com — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 07:11:14 +1100

When looking for a solar power installer, it pays to do your homework and double check that you are getting the best.

Given the money to be made from doing solar system installation, both for the installer and the final client. There are a lot of businesses doing solar power system installation. This, of course, means that some are better than others and some are rather worse than others.

So, given you want to have a system which will last for at least 20 years ideally, we provide some straight forward advice on how to find the best at a price point that works for you.

1. Shop around installers

Do not go with the first company you come across. As with most things in life, it will pay dividends to shop around. Not only will you get a better idea of what the price ranges and differences are between the systems being installed; you will also educate yourself on what goes into these system far quicker than just going with the first you find.

BTW you won't go far wrong read some of our articles in solar power anyways, plus they are free..

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Choosing a water tank

ecowho.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:38:16 +1100

Water tanks, they come in so many different sizes and forms, it is often hard to work out what to choose and why, we can help..

A few years back we were having a reno done, and given we wanted to have a 'lush' garden without the water bill to match; we did some extensive research into what sort of water tanks would work for us and how to maximize the rainwater harvesting our roof would offer.

Well I have good news for you, all the research has been written up in an article - The Facts about Water Tanks . I hope you find it a useful read that will really focus your thinking on what you can do with a water tank or two..

Free Green Business Listings

ecowho.com — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:33:39 +1100

If you are running a Green or Eco Business, you can list it for free.

If you are running a business which is green or eco related, you can list it for free in our Company Listings Directory . This is great if you are a small business looking for additional online exposure.

Also if you provide a link back to ecowho.com, we will upgrade your listing for free.

So, you have nothing to lose, give it a try!

Shale Oil in South Australia, problem or opportunity?

ecowho.com — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:39:48 +1100

Potentially massive amounts of shale oil exist in South Australia, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

According to this article it looks like up to 233 billion barrels of oil might be sitting in shale deposits under South Australia...

Now if that is so, and it looks like it could indeed be, it amounts to a heck of a lot of oil, something to rival the oil rich Middle East. Which in turn equates to billions upon trillions of money to be made from extracting this.

So given the many zeroes sums of money to be made from this - I doubt even the political Green movement will be able to 'bury' this. Sometimes the rewards can be so great to 'leap' over any obstacles, and I think this clearly qualifies on that regard.

Now, of course, if this is going to happen, one wants to see the best outcome for the environment and given the monetary return it should indeed be possible to extract the oil whilst doing proper environmental protection.
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Sea level rise of 1 meter in Australia unproven

ecowho.com — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:18:12 +1100

The ABC is currently saying that properties on the Australian coast are at risk for a 1 meter rise by the end of the century - where is the proof???

The ABC are currently promoting a blatant lie as concerns proven sea level rises.

The problem with this is that what they say will impact on the property market close to the sea, in the same way that a Greenie fraudulently issued a press release, they are in serious danger of making those who issue or present such false statements legally liable.

As regards the 'threat' of rising sea levels - to rise one meter by the end of the century would require 11.5mm per year. Yet if one looks at the current rate of sea level rise, as recorded since 1850 we get the following graph.

As can be seen, there has been no acceleration on this record since 1850. In fact we would need the rate of sea level rise to be eight times faster than it currently is; i.e. in reality we have a rate of sea level rise of about 9cm per 100 years - a darn sight less than 1 meter. For more information on this read this article .
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Tasmania Bushfires, lack of hazard reduction burns to blame

ecowho.com — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:13:40 +1100

The Tasmania Bushfires are more a result of a lack of hazard reduction burns and not due to Climate Change.

Miranda Devine has just published an article concerning the fires in Tasmania and how the lack of back burning and hazard reduction burns have in fact contributed massively to the intensity of the fires and that it is NOT caused by climate change.

She has also done a radio interview on the matter.

To be honest, what she says make a lot of sense. If gum leaves, bark, etc are left to accumulate you quickly have a 'fuel load' so high that it is not possible to be managed in the event of a fire. As someone who has pile burnt leaves, sticks, etc to keep my place tidy, there is a very clear reason why you do not pile it all up too high, rather than being a controllable fire it soon turns into an absolute fireball of intense heat. All those oils in the wood create a 'perfect storm' of conditions in high fuel load to create something that is uncontrollable.
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Mental Maths app Maths Bug updated

ecowho.com — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:27:10 +1100

Maths bug, the app to help teach and improve mental maths skills has been updated.

Maths Bug has been updated as follows:

Several annoying bug fixes
Support for latest version of Android OS
Localized into Chinese and Spanish.

This is a significant update to help users across the globe get more enjoyment from the app.

Its available for free from the Google Play Market here . If you would like to learn more please visit the apps' website .

Enjoy!

Updated Green Directory

ecowho.com — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:21:48 +1100

Our Green Dictionary App has undergone an upgrade.

We have just finished doing some upgrade work to the Green Dictionary App as follows:

Well over 800 definitions and terms covering the green, eco, environment and climate space;
Better support for tablets and latest edition Android (including Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean).
'Live' fetching of related blog posts for each definition, so for instance look up 'solar power' and see the latest blog posts that relate from leading eco, climate and science blogs.

If you have not got the App already you can download it from free from the Google Play market here . Give it a go!

Greenland Ice Sheet Melt

ecowho.com — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:00:45 +1100

We look at reports regarding the rate of Greenland ice sheet melt.

According to recent reports (see CNN & The Australian) it appears that the speed of the Greenland ice melt has been increasing at an 'alarming' rate...

The trouble with this is that this is only a problem if:

The measurements are indeed accurate enough to allow this analysis to stand, and,
The melt water remains as melt water and is not taken up by other parts of the climatic system (i.e. it gets converted back to ice somewhere else) and remains in balance as a whole.

Now, look at the following:

Embracing Data 'Noise' Brings Greenland's Complex Ice Melt Into Focus

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Straw man science: keeping climate simple; watch the pea..

ecowho.com — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:57:10 +1100

The conversation has just published a rather incorrect article claiming that none of the human produced Co2 is absorbed by the natural Co2 cycle, we blow it out the water.

See the offending article here , to quote:

"We produce a modest percentage of all CO2 emissions. But the extra emissions aren’t absorbed by the carbon cycle, so CO2 builds up in the air. A small rise each year has resulted in a 40% increase of CO2."

Wrong, yes Co2 has gone up, but it has been going up for the last 50m years, see here. Although, as noted in the paper, working out the exact source of Co2 and its relationship is very hard to do, as each source does not have a distinct Co2 'fingerprint' - rather there is a lot of overlap as different sources and sinks inject and consume different isotopes of Co2 in different ways.

As for the extra Co2 emissions from man not being consumed in the carbon cycle, it is well know that Co2 is growth promoter in plants. So much so that commercial operations growing plants often inject Co2 into their greenhouses to speed growth. Also it is known that the biosphere is blooming, and that the African Savannah's are turning into forests.
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