Climate, Energy & Conservation
by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) In October of 2024, the isolated small city of Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia with a 36 MW load (including the large nearby mines) could not be reliab...
(Photo: Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, England) (The visible emissions from modern coal-fired power plants are water vapor) By Gordon Tomb Has the time come to make coal great again? Maybe. “C...
Gorilla Science is the creation of Martin Durkin and Tom Nelson.
by Lucas Bergkamp On the 12th of November, the Hague Court of Appeal ruled in the “climate case of the century” that Milieudefensie (“FoE”) filed against Shell in 2019. FoE demands that Shell reduce e...
By Gordon J. Fulks At a time when campaigning politicians defy reality with extravagant promises, recent developments suggest reason may be returning to the electric power sector – even as the Biden a...
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by Frank Bosse Neither the trend analysis nor the model-observation comparison supports the conclusions of the attribution study that found: “The combined change, attributable to human-induced climate...
By Gregory Wrightstone As the love affair with so-called green energy cools and “net zero” commitments to eliminate “carbon emissions” wane, we see glimmers of acknowledgment for the benefits of carbo...
by Dan Hughes This post challenges the conventional framework for simulating meltwater flows on glaciers and ice sheets. Increased melting rates due to potential increases in temperature would add liq...
by Leigh Haugen AI’s role in amplifying dominant narratives will continue to stifle dissent, limit open debate, and impose restrictive controls on society. If we allow this to continue unchecked, AI w...
by Dr. Joachim Dengler This post is the second of two extracts from the paper Improvements and Extension of the Linear Carbon Sink Model. Introduction – The linear carbon sink model has a limitation T...
By Steve Goreham Another year has passed, and that stubborn Ozone Hole over Antarctica refuses to go away. Data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that the area of the...
By Gregory Wrightstone On November 2, Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party (UCP) approved a resolution stating , in part: “CO 2 is a nutrient foundational for all life on Earth…The earth needs m...
By Gregory Wrightstone To frack or not to frack has been a hot topic in the United States for several years. That discussion has been most intense in the state of Pennsylvania. That is because the Key...
By Steve Goreham Alternative energy is exploding—literally. Lithium battery fires are breaking out on highways and in factories, home garages and storage rooms. The rise in these fires is caused by go...
By Vijay Jayaraj European colonialism that methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century has been replaced by a climate colonialism that stifles the economi...
By Tilak Doshi Terrence Keeley is a long-time ESG practitioner who until recently headed the official institutions group in the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock advising sovereign wealth funds,...
by Gregory Wrightstone As executive director of the CO 2 Coalition, I quite often present the facts of a prospering planet and the lack of an increase in extreme weather. The Coalition sticks to the s...
By Vijay Jayaraj In a move opposite the direction of the global climate change agenda, India’s newly elected government has announced contracts for an additional 12,800 megawatts (MW) of thermal power...
By Gregory Wrightstone The media has been working overtime linking the latest hurricanes to man-made warming from increasing CO 2. During last week’s U.S. Vice Presidential debate, moderator Norah O’D...