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Know thyself and also learn about other perspectives, with a focus on the politics, science and psychology of climate change, even coral reefs hoarding carbon. Neither left nor right.
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Hurricanes within Greenhouses (opens the original)
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Perhaps what makes so many academics truly special is that they refuse to see the world as it really is.Remember I explained in an article some time ago about the famous early 20th Century propagandist Walter Lippmann. How Lippmann explained that they define and then we see.The picture that is explained to us, he says, is critical to how we subsequently interpret the world.It may bear no relationship to anything real — to how the world really is. Lippmann was mostly concerned with war propaganda
Oceans Lead: Setting Temperatures at Planetary Scale (opens the original)
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Recent global warming has its origins in ocean warming, is natural, and has nothing to do with increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. That was the conclusion of an essay Bill Kininmonth sent me late in 2024. He also laid out in plain English how he had come to this conclusion.I interviewed Bill as part of a Zoom series that I began in early 2025. As well as explaining the importance of tropical convection to atmospheric circulation, he explained to 80 of us at that time that until
Global Temperatures follow Ocean Temperatures, No Boiling Corals rather Evaporation (opens the original)
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Massive cloud bands are ever present over the tropical oceans, fed by clusters of hot towers. The hot towers reach twelve to sixteen kilometres. Their roofs are ice, causing long-wave radiation losses to outer space. This is Plank 1, of my Climate Resilience Theory.It is possible to see the tops of the hot towers in satellite imagery; infrared imagery with the tops coloured red representing temperatures of minus 70 °C and colder. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substac
Average Doesn’t Work in the Tropics (opens the original)
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The tropics follow a middle line around the Earth, where the Sun beats down with incredible intensity often from a blue-blue sky. It is where I was born and grew-up, feeling the rising tension as the day warmed, and then there might be release often in the late afternoon with a violent thunderstorm.It never snows in the tropics. But the top of the hot towers within the thunderstorms that take away the heat and so violently — they are usually capped with ice, and so the rising column of air that
From Carbon Credits to Gene Edited Corals, Profiting from Junk Science, Even COVID-19 (opens the original)
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Last week I wrote about Net Zero as a Ponzi scheme and followed up with a worked example at my website. Specifically, Meta’s Prineville data centre in Oregon as an example, including to show how 100% renewable claims can be made even if the electricity is drawn from a majority coal-fired power grid. I explained how it works with RECs—the paper right to call that power as having no climate impact when it never had one anyway. Across both articles I explain in some detail how N
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