NEW FIREWORKS PUT GEOENGINEERING TO SHAME

 IN THE COURSE OF THE DECADE THEY DEVOTED TO 

DELAYING THE SCOPEX EXPERIMENT,  

CLIMATE GOVERNANCE ENTHUSIASTS FAILED TO NOTICE

IT WAS BEING UPSTAGED BY ART:

PASADENA THIS IS INGENUITY BASE THE IMAX HAS LANDED!

IT TOOK A LITTLE LOBBYING

The Wall Street Journal

                                       March 11, 2005 

Reading the Red Planet 

               By Russell Seitz   © 2005  Dow Jones Inc

           Full Bandwidth, Please

"… In 1969, the Eagle landed on the moon in pathetic black and white after rising in thunder and flame atop a skyscraper-sized Saturn V like 9/11 run backward. 

Mars deserves better. This time, the taxpaying audience should demand NASA's full bandwidth and the eye-popping resolution of an IMAX camera. For if we encounter anything not of this Earth on Mars, its image will begin a new and endless iconic dynasty. You can only be alone in the same universe once."

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BUT THANKS TO INGENUITY'S OFF-THE-SHELF 

SONY IMX 214  8K CAMERA, 

MARS LOOKS LIKE A REAL LIVE PLANET WITH A LANDSCAPE AS VIVID AS A 

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NATURE SPECIAL

 ON A STATE OF THE ART TV

 

AS WITH THE APOLLO 8 EARTHRISE IMAGE,

IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT & THE PRICE OF THE TICKET

ANNALS OF CLIMATE SWAG

TIRED OF SEEING AAAS  

 CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE 

 T-SHIRTS? JUST PUT AN AAAS 

CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE

 TOTE BAG OVER YOUR HEAD

 SHOW OFF YOUR LOVE OF FOSTERING DIVERSITY AND STRENGTEN THE VOICE OF THE AAAS IN PUSHING THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE! 

 WEAR OUR GLUTEN FREE SWAG WITH PINK HATS,

VEGAN EAGLE FEATHERS AND

100% VIRGIN HEMP 

MORMON LAB COAT UNDERWEAR

CLIMATE OF KIEV: THE 2012 OVERTURE

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WYOMING LAUNCHES NEW CARBON OFFSET INITIATIVE: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON CARRION

Got Roadkill? Now There's an App for That

. 

BAYLEN LINNEKIN 

REASON 19 MARCH

Thanks to record meat prices, a growing number of reports suggest Americans may have to eat less animal protein. Imagine, though, if an app existed that could help you locate free, fresh, tasty, and sustainable meat near you...

In my 2016 book Biting the Hands that Feed Us:

I note that a growing number of states had embraced the benefits of harvesting roadkill.

Seventeen states then allowed the harvesting of roadkill... that number has continued to grow, with at least 30 states now allowing the harvesting of roadkill—with Wyoming one of the latest to do so.

The state's app facilitates legally harvesting animals—from bison to turkey and deer—that were accidentally killed on roadways.

The new tool isn't a standalone roadkill app. Rather, the roadkill feature... works similarly to how apps like Google Maps or Waze do when it comes to reporting speed traps;

Despite these benefits, there's some pushback... But... fears … that allowing the harvesting of roadkill will spur drivers to run down animals intentionally with their cars are somewhere between overblown and fantastical...

America's roads are already littered annually with millions of animal carcasses.

TOSS ANOTHER SUV ON THE BARBIE, MATE A VEGAN'S COMING TO DINNER

 

          NOTED VEGAN BORE AIRS CURE FOR

      HIGH BEEF PRICES: HIGHER BEEF PRICES

RISKY CLIMATE

GERNOT WAGNER

What oil and hamburgers have in common

Hamburgers and fossil fuels are both dense sources of energy, and society has made them convenient. That doesn’t mean they’re good for us.

Hamburgers are sometimes described as “the perfect food” and sometimes as the source of all evil…  I haven’t had one, or any meat, in well over a decade. (See: “evil, source of all.”) ...

You might be asking, dear reader, why I’m delving into the virtues and vices of hamburgers when there are bigger things happening in the world. In short, it’s because you can think of that hamburger as an analogy for oil in one too many ways.

While avoiding that hamburger makes for a healthier life, and perhaps even a happier and longer one, actually doing it requires more than simply knowing that information. 

In the U.S., there are plenty of misguided calls now for gas-tax holidays, and some policymakers are heeding them. It would be much better to give cash directly to the poor who need the help the most, while keeping in place the incentives to get off oil. The best cure for a high oil price, after all, is a high oil price.

Fortunately, we also have a deeper understanding of the overlapping nature of the national security, energy, and climate crises. The moral clarity afforded by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is yet another push.

Here’s hoping we emerge from this moment searching for better alternatives to SUVs and hamburgers, with many more of the right policies helping guide things in the right 

BLOOMBERG : CHINA ANNOUNCES RED NEW DEAL

                                                            FORWARD, COMRADES !

THE COAL STOCKPILE OF A TRILLION POUNDS BEGINS WITH A SINGLE LUMP!

 China Seeks to Cut Reliance on Coal Imports With Mining Boom 

• NDRC aims to increase output capacity by 300 million tons
• Country sets target of 620 million tons of coal reserves

China plans a massive increase in coal mining, a move that will dramatically reduce its reliance on imports and deal a blow to its near-term climate actions. 

The National Development and Reform Commission, the nation’s top economic planner, told officials from major mining regions at a meeting late last week that it wants to boost domestic production capacity by about 300 million tons, according to people familiar with the matter. It also plans to build a 620 million-ton stockpile of the fuel split between government, miners and users.

KEEP YOUR ACCORDION ON THE ICE

The topic of “exploring the Earth’s polar regions”

is topical again now… Unfortunately, the participants 

of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 fared quite differently.

None survived… The expedition took place at a time

that is likely to be among the coldest in the last 2,000 years.

Recently, we reported here on the research of 

Professor Jørgen Peder Steffensen…

His temperature curve looks therefore clearly

different from Michael Mann’s 1999 “hockey stick”,             namely more like an accordion.

DEATH WISH GRAPH WINS DARWIN AWARD

Watts Up With That March 10

Climate Model Democracy

By Andy May 

In my last post, I explained how the IPCC attempts to use climate models to show humans have caused the recent global warming. Models are useful for testing scientific ideas, but they are not proof an idea is correct unless they successfully and accurately predict future events. See the story of Arthur Eddington’s test of Einstein’s theory of relativity"

FOLLOWING THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF CLIMATEBALL, MAY & CHRISTY, PREDICTABLY FOCUS THEIR CRITIQUES OF PREDICTABILITY ON THE LEAST PREDICTABLE CASE

In this case, the focus is the climate skeptics beloved intertropical convergence zone “hot spot.” , where the two hemispheric halves of planetary atmosphere flow, real or modeled, bump into each other with, surprise! , predictably turbulent results. 

THE SECOND PRINCIPLE OF CLIMATEBALL THERMODYNAMICS IS  THE CONSERVATION OF RHETORICAL ENTROPY, WHICH MAY AND CHRISTY ENFORCE  BY FAILING TO MENTION THAT THE 200-300 hPa ITCZ HOT SPOT CONTAINS LESS THAN 1% OF THE MASS OF THE ATMOSPHERE.

THIS PREDICTABLY INCREASES THE  CONFUSION  OF THE AUDIENCE AND THUS CONSERVES THE ENTROPY OF THE CLIMATEBALL SYSTEM.

CLIMATE AND WAR: ONE STEPPE TOO FAR

KUWAIT'S INVADERS EARNED A GENERATION OF INFAMY BY

DARKENING DESERT SKIES WITH FIRES 

THAT STILL REIGN AS ICONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

 HELL BENT ON FOLLOWING THEIR EXAMPLE, PUTIN 
HAS GOTTEN OFF ON THE WRONG STEPPE

A HELL OF A CARBON FOOTPRINT

A drone captures the violent end of a Russian pilot's brief tour of duty in the Ukraine

THE FIRST CARBON FOOTPRINT! BROUGHT TO YOU BY BP AND THE CREATIVE DEPARTMENT OF OGILVY & MATHER

From 2004 until 2009, Cal Tech physicist Steve Koonin served as Chief Scientist of the British Petroleum corporation. Despite decades of dedicated public service directing research for the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, Steve is best known today as the author of   Unsettled:What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters. 

His best seller is at once erudite, informative and infuriating, because despite its astute insights into the energy economy, and lip service to the uncontroversial conventional wisdom of climate science, it is a highly selective narrative that  reads, in  the words of Texas A&M climatologist Andy Dressler, like a brief from:

"A defense lawyer for carbon dioxide"

What makes Andy' pronouncement ironic is the backstory of Steve's British Petroleum years. He was brought on board the oil giant by its President, John Brown, who recruited him as part of the campaign to  rebrand BP as a Green corporation, an effort led by a legendary advertising agency,  Ogilvy and Mather.

One of the memes unleashed then remains with us today. It has become so ubiquitous that the world has largely forgotten whence it came-  this PR  spot ad commissioned by BP:

* ( Full disclosure- I introduced Brown to  the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy  pro bono when he sought logistical support  from the Air Force  for BP's efforts to extinguish the Kuwait Oil Fires)

HIS REPTILES HAVE MORE CLIMATE SAVVY THAN HIS FANS

CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE

WUWT

Attributing global warming to humans

2 hours ago  

Andy May   

My latest book,[1] just released, is about a climate change debate between Professor David Karoly of the University of Melbourne and Professor William Happer of Princeton, emeritus. One of the most interesting debate topics was about the attribution of global warming. The host was James Barham of TheBestSchools.org. Barham asked David Karoly in his interview: “If increased atmospheric CO2 is not responsible [for global warming], what is?” TheBestSchools notes that skeptics point out several factors that need to be considered before we can reach this conclusion:

1. We are, after all, still recovering from the last ice age (in the true sense of the term), which lasted for about 100,000 years and only ended about 12,000 years ago; therefore, why isn’t modest warming simply what we should expect (the null hypothesis) …

IF YOU DONT LIKE THE NULL HYPOTHESIS

  

THERE'S ALWAYS THE ANTITHESIS:

SECRETARY RICE COMES IN FROM THE COLD