Roger Pielke Jr believes in CC and the IPCC. He's always been a thorn in the CC narrative, because he's rational, articulate, and often times right. A Trojan Horse of sorts, the enemy within the CC movement, a "climate criminal".
Almost an hour long, but also includes some basic background, history...right up to a more rational discussion on CC.
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Earth.com is a notorious CC zellot, shows up regularly in the Google "news" feed...The Science is Settled. There is nothing CO2 cannot do, warming, cooling...and it's all bad.
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Climate change has a paradox hiding in plain sight. While temperatures rise at the surface and in the lower atmosphere, the upper atmosphere has been cooling dramatically.
A new study conducted at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has shed more light on this phenomenon.
Up there, CO2 molecules act more like a radiator than a blanket. They absorb infrared energy coming up from below and emit some of it out into space.
The stratosphere has since cooled by roughly 2 degrees Celsius since the mid-1980s – more than ten times what would have been expected without human-caused CO2 emissions.
Link if you must.
Here's my solution, on the cheap and easy. Home Depot sells 120inch long galvanized base tracks. Can make six (6) of these panels 43.75" x 16". Each panel will take two insulation batts (double thickness). There are 12 batts in a safe & sound package. Total coverage about 32sqft.
Total cost without fabric to make six is about $160usd using the whole package. The more you make, the cheaper it is.
My SO collects used fabric, so the felt was free to me. So final cost will depend how high-end fabric you go, or use an old bedsheet. Hit the used clothing store for fabric.
I know, I know, people might fret about the steel being sound reflective, is wood that much better? But it's better than nothing... it's light, cheap and easy.
The only 'specialty' tools needed are tin snips, and electric drill for screws. I had leftover garden fabric and aluminum tape. Scrounge up what you have and improvise. Like electrical tape would work too.
It still needs back (air) spacers and a mounting method, or feet for floor mounting. Those details can be easy to work out for each application... that's on you.
I plan to also make double tall versions, 96" tall for two corners using two tracks.
Love it, hate it, improvements, all comments welcome.
Posting this without prejudice really, more for interest.
This paper was James Hansen's (the father of climate change) from 1987. It's old enough that it looks like a scanned copy of the original. I've never seen it before.
Not suggesting to read every word. But it is interesting on the methods...
...possibly most interesting in the first paragraph how they determine stations separated by 1000km (620 miles) are highly correlated. This is 10 hours of driving at highway speeds. Where I live, 10 hours could mean the difference between tee-shirt weather and hats and gloves, including snow.
Some of the graphics are interesting too and look a lot different in 1987, then today. Way more warming between 1800 to 1950, than 1950 to 1980.
Just for interest.
Link to the original PDF
This Roger Pielke Jr. article is 6 months old, but ties in with current events, the IPCC removal of RCP8.5 pathway "baseline".
In just a few years, RCP8.5 has moved to something more resembling (less than) RCP4.5. The climate change movement should be celebrating, but aren't.
What do alarmists do, move the goal posts, double down on fear.
MIAMI -- With the ever-encroaching threat of climate change, some prognosticators have recommended that South Floridians better learn to swim.
According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences, Miami and Hollywood are two of the dozens of coastal cities in the U.S. predicted to be washed away by rising sea levels this century.
Hollywood has a lock-in date of 2025. New York City is at 2095.
Trillions have been spent, tens of thousands of research papers used it as their basis, governments used it for taxation, restrictions...and it was wrong.
Big news: The new framework has eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades — specifically, RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5, and SSP3-7.0. This is an absolutely huge development in climate science which will have lasting impacts across research and policy.
“For the 21st century, this range will be smaller than assessed before: on the high-end of the range, the CMIP6 high emission levels (quantified by SSP5-8.5) have become implausible, based on trends in the costs of renewables, the emergence of climate policy and recent emission trends.”