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Comment on Dominion Energy’s absurd reply to CFACT’s whale protection lawsuit by guidvce4

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Is anyone truly surprised by the dominion reply? Shouldn’t be. Dollars rule over common sense and the environment. Dominion will lose billions if they lose lawsuit and a lot of their pockets will not be so full of taxpayer cash. Just sayin’.


Comment on Officialdom Responds to Doubts That a Renewables-Based Electricity System Will Work by usurbrain

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Presently the United States consumes 122 Quadrillion BTUs [that is 122 with 15 zeros or 122,000,000,000,000,000 Btu] of energy per year. 110 of that is Fossil or not designated as renewable, e.g. Nuclear. Of the 12 Quadrillion obtained from “Renewable” only 1/3 comes from Wind/Solar. Also, about 1/3 of the so called renewable, e.g. biomass, ethanol, etc., emits CO2.  

A solar panel, regardless of how “Efficient” it is can only produce name plate rated power for less than six hours a day with no interruptions by clouds or shadows from trees. Factoring in the the potential areas of the US as shown on the maps of available solar energy shows that less than 1/4 of the US will even provide rated name plate power for even six hours a day. https://www.altestore.com/diy-solar-resources/solar-insolation-map-usa/
The same is also true for Wind Power. https://www.windsolarenergy.org/map-of-best-locations-for-wind-power.htm

Comment on Behavioural Scientists Aren’t Just Wrong About How to Win Over Electorates to Crackpot Progressive Policies; Their Evident Contempt for the Masses Has Contributed to the Global Populist Revolt by AGW is Not Science

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/25/behavioural-scientists-arent-just-wrong-about-how-to-win-over-electorates-to-crackpot-progressive-policies-their-evident-contempt-for-the-masses-has-contributed-to-the-global-populist-revolt/#comment-3887464">Nansar07</a>. He's only one word off. It should be a study to "determine the effects of climate change POLICIES on declining democracy."

Comment on Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute Shows January Arctic Sea Ice Now 20 Years Stable! by Trying to Play Nice

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/28/germanys-alfred-wegener-institute-shows-january-arctic-sea-ice-now-20-years-stable/#comment-3888642">TheFinalNail</a>. Take out the one high year and two low years and you have no meaningful trend. That's why small sample sizes make for bad conclusions. And what do those numbers actually mean in a physical sense? Do they mean the actual mass of ice? Is there a missing error bar?

Comment on Dominion Energy’s absurd reply to CFACT’s whale protection lawsuit by Greytide

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It is the science of consensus again, the modern way of proving something. No facts, no data but we all agree so it must be true.
Please can we go back to real science.

Comment on Officialdom Responds to Doubts That a Renewables-Based Electricity System Will Work by David Dibbell

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<span>"As small and lonely as our voices may be, somehow we must be getting under their skin."</span> <span>Thank you for doing so, and please keep up the good work. </span>

Comment on Officialdom Responds to Doubts That a Renewables-Based Electricity System Will Work by James Snook

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A truly great picture to head the article!

Comment on Officialdom Responds to Doubts That a Renewables-Based Electricity System Will Work by Ollie

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/28/officialdom-responds-to-doubts-that-a-renewables-based-electricity-system-will-work/#comment-3888639">strativarius</a>. <span>"But then, that doesn’t address the problem of what is being taught in schools and universities. That too has to be corrected."</span> <span>Particularly Journalism departments.</span>

Comment on Study: Aussie Outback Carbon Offset Tree Planting “… not reducing emissions as promised …” by SteveZ56

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If, according to Chris Bowen, “the rain doesn’t always fall” in the outback, does he have any plans to bring water from the coast to the outback to water his trees?

Comment on Here’s A Better Way For Billionaires To Give Their Money by MyUsername

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In reply to Ollie.

As of 31st October 2022, the installed electricity generating capacity in the country was 409 GW including 166 GW of RE generating capacity (including large hydro), which is about 40% of the total installed electricity generating capacity in the country. India has envisaged to increase the non-fossil fuel based installed electricity generation capacity to 500 GW by 2030.

https://cea.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/notification/2022/12/CEA_Tx_Plan_for_500GW_Non_fossil_capacity_by_2030.pdf

Comment on Here’s A Better Way For Billionaires To Give Their Money by MyUsername

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/27/heres-a-better-way-for-billionaires-to-give-their-money/#comment-3888627">More Soylent Green!</a>. So calling something you don't like foolishness and fabricated is thoughtful criticism nowadays.

Comment on Artificial intelligence and weather forecasting…a quiet revolution is taking place in numerical weather prediction by ToldYouSo

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/26/artificial-intelligence-and-weather-forecastinga-quiet-revolution-is-taking-place-in-numerical-weather-prediction/#comment-3888555">TimTheToolMan</a>. <blockquote>"Note that ChatGPT told you what it couldn’t do, <strong>not what it could do</strong>. Perhaps you missed that subtlety in the answer.</blockquote><blockquote><strong>This is what it said it could do</strong> . . ."</blockquote> Your post, with my bold emphasis added. Perhaps you missed the contradiction in your statements.

Comment on Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute Shows January Arctic Sea Ice Now 20 Years Stable! by John Hultquist

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I’m sure I have seen several statements that Arctic Ocean ice would be gone in some summer long ago.
Then, the goal was changed so that Zero no longer meant 0. (–> 1 M sq. km. now called a Wadham – – see the 1st comment by bnice)
97% of scientist would call this and inconvenient truth. Did you just hear and echo?

Comment on Here’s A Better Way For Billionaires To Give Their Money by MyUsername

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/27/heres-a-better-way-for-billionaires-to-give-their-money/#comment-3888573">bnice2000</a>. If you had as many sources as catchwords I'd be amazed.

Comment on Here’s A Better Way For Billionaires To Give Their Money by strativarius

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/27/heres-a-better-way-for-billionaires-to-give-their-money/#comment-3888661">MyUsername</a>. You are funny. What''s the pay rate for Son of Griff?

Comment on Officialdom Responds to Doubts That a Renewables-Based Electricity System Will Work by Ollie

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/28/officialdom-responds-to-doubts-that-a-renewables-based-electricity-system-will-work/#comment-3888649">John Hultquist</a>. That's the price for cutting off fossil fuel production and refining. And at what point does imported power become intermittent like renewables when external sources can't keep up with local plus California demand?

Comment on Hailstorm in Texas destroys thousands of acres of solar farms by Laws of Nature

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In reply to Duker.

Maybe I just do not understand what your point is, but your answer “landfills are toxic for a thousand reasons.” to that cited article showing a Cd leaching form CdTe solar panels “650-fold” over an US-EPA limit in an experiment seems utterly meaningless!

I can make irrelevant statements too..
“Most days the sun rises in the East!”
or “Dinosaurs roamed the earth a long time ago!”
and there is some truth in “Watch the road, man!”

Comment on Here’s A Better Way For Billionaires To Give Their Money by MyUsername

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/27/heres-a-better-way-for-billionaires-to-give-their-money/#comment-3888567">bnice2000</a>. Look at whats happening in South africa. How solar is doing what the failing fossil fuel grid isn't capable of.

Comment on Living Outside The Niche by Bellman

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"<em> The “human climate niche” lies between 11°C (blue line) and 15°C (red line). "</em> The paper isn't saying everyone lives between 11 and 15°C. It's saying there is a "niche" which has a <em>major mode</em> between those values. It also has a secondary warmer mode due to India. The spread of people. The actual distribution is over a wider range of temperatures, but has a peak density somewhere around between those values.. Here's a graph from the supplementary material showing current population density by temperature.

Comment on Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute Shows January Arctic Sea Ice Now 20 Years Stable! by TheFinalNail

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In reply to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/28/germanys-alfred-wegener-institute-shows-january-arctic-sea-ice-now-20-years-stable/#comment-3888654">Trying to Play Nice</a>. <blockquote><span>Take out the one high year and two low years and you have no meaningful trend.</span></blockquote> <span>We could extend that to the UAH data. Just remove all the warm years and we stop global warming! Why has no one thought of this?</span>




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