Today in Global Warming Hysteria
5th January 2023
Why everyone is going to need a heat pump (Washington Post)
Farming Destroyed Brazil’s Rain Forests. It Could Also Save Them (TIME) Except that there is plenty of rainforest left, they just want to scare people.
Welcome to a new year on a warming planet, now with 8 billion people (AZCentral)
Shadow Carbon Pricing: The Unexpected Costs of Fossil Fuel Opposition (Energy Institute at Haas)
Lowest sea ice on record powers ocean gyres as a heat source that is poised to take out W Antarctica (Daily Kos)
New York Times essay says you should mate with short people to save the planet (N.Y. Post)
New York Times mocked for essay on short people being better for the planet: ‘Ridiculous’ (Fox)
Eelgrass: the endangered marine plant vital to keeping climate stable (The Guardian)
Pa. lets polluter resume drilling in protected zone, outraging Dimock residents in fracking’s ‘ground zero’ (Philadelphia Inquirer)
‘Boys will be boys’: why consumers don’t punish big polluters for greenwashing lies (The Conversation) Perhaps because they just don’t give a shit?
Electric Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us (The Atlantic)
Forget the climate: Steep prices the biggest reason EV sales aren’t higher It’s easy to be ‘green’–if you’ve got the green….
Wash Post: ‘Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence’ Climate Change! Is there anything it can’t do?
Europe Experiences a “Climate Change” Heatwave
Climate Enforcers Need Hard Evidence. Friederike Otto Has It (Wired ‘Science’) Evidence is not proof, and climatology is not a science. SCIENCE works every time; it’s not a creature of statistics and probabilities.
Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles? No.
Tim Robbins Says COVID Has Become A “New Religion”