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therightinsight.org/Urban-Heat-Island-Effect-2
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9/3/19 at 7:41 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surroundings. According to the EPA, many U.S. cities have air temperatures up to 10°F (5.6°C) warmer than the surrounding natural land ...
therightinsight.org/Urban-Heat-Islands
An Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a localized area, typically in a city, where temperatures are significantly higher than the surrounding rural areas due to human activities and modifications of the landscape. This phenomenon is caused ...
therightinsight.org/US-Coal-Generation
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2/21/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US currently has approximately 1,250GW of electric generating capacity. Approximately 200GW of that capacity is coal generating capacity, of which approximately 50GW is scheduled to be retired through 2029. The remaining approximately ...
therightinsight.org/US-Coal-Phaseout
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1/11/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US currently generates more than 500,000,000 Megawatt-hours, or approximately 25% of annual electricity production, in coal-fueled generating stations. Coal generation has decreased by more than half over the past 10 years, largely ...
therightinsight.org/US-EPA-Clean-Power-Plan
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6/28/16 at 9:15 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The primary weapon in the US Administration’s crusade to save the world from anthropogenic global warming (climate change) is the US EPA Clean Power Plan, which sets CO2 emissions limits for coal-fired electric generators which ...
therightinsight.org/US-EV-Future
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7/28/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The electric vehicle “market” in the US is a creature of the EPA 2009 Endangerment Finding, “unachievable” Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, extremely restrictive NOx emission standards, the California Zero ...
therightinsight.org/US-ICE-Vehicle-Phaseout
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2/1/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“We need to make green energy much cheaper.”, Bjorn Lomborg
Global policymakers appear to have adopted a uniform approach to the green energy transition – making fossil energy unavailable through supply restriction or ...
therightinsight.org/USA-Climate-Priorities
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8/20/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The UNFCCC, the consensed climate science community and the environmental community assert that the USA should assume the mantle of climate change leadership and prioritize CO2 emissions reductions and financial transfers to the UN Green ...
therightinsight.org/USA-Climate-Priorities-2
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8/27/19 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The previous commentary on USA Climate Priorities discussed priorities regarding climate science, specifically regarding: accurate temperature measurement; establishment of specific values for climate sensitivity and feedbacks; and, ...
therightinsight.org/Utilities-Are-Going-All-In-on-Leftist-Net-Zero-Agenda-at-Ratepayers-Expense
therightinsight.org/Utility-Cost-Allocation
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1/16/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
One of the most contentious issues in utility ratemaking has been the issue of allocation of both capital and operating costs among customer classes. This allocation has been accomplished through monthly service charges, time of day rates, ...
therightinsight.org/Utility-Regrets-(Large)
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12/20/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The electric utility industry functions within the framework of federal, state and local legislation and regulation. The legislators and regulators are influenced by the renewable energy industry and by numerous environmental advocacy ...
therightinsight.org/Utility-Regrets-(Small)
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12/13/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Electric utilities find themselves positioned between the renewable generation industries (wind and solar) and electricity end users. Their relationships with these groups are controlled or influenced by legislation and regulation at the ...
therightinsight.org/Virtue-Signaling-When-Responding-to-Climate-Polls
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8/8/17 at 9:49 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Virtue Signaling refers to the public expression of an opinion on a given topic primarily for the purpose of displaying one’s moral superiority before a large audience to solicit their approval.”, Know Your Meme
“...
therightinsight.org/Warming-Perspective
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11/23/21 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Much technical and artistic effort has been expended to provide the public with some perspective on what life would be like in a warmer world at the turn of the next century. Much of what has been presented is grossly exaggerated. However, ...
therightinsight.org/Warming-Significance
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3/26/19 at 5:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Recent research has provided greatly reduced estimates of climate sensitivity to increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations. This research suggests that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, to 540 ppm, would result in an increase of ...
therightinsight.org/Weather-and-Climate
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10/15/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Weather changes on all time scales. Some weather changes are predictable in general terms: summer will be relatively warm; winter will be relatively cool. This change occurs every year, driven by the seasonal change in the angle of ...
therightinsight.org/Weather-Events
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4/20/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
There is a strong and growing effort to attribute individual weather events and changes in the frequency and intensity of individual weather events to climate change. Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., Bjorn Lomborg, Dr. Joseph D’Aleo and others ...
therightinsight.org/Weather-Forecasting
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8/17/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Weather forecasting: the prediction of the weather through application of the principles of physics, supplemented by a variety of statistical and empirical techniques., Brittanica
There are fundamentally two types of weather forecasts. ...
therightinsight.org/Weather-Climate-Events
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12/10/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Current climate change research is focused on what has happened in the past and what is projected to happen in the future. The study of the past relies on retrieval and analysis of temperature proxies, collection and “adjustment&rdquo...
therightinsight.org/Welcome-to-the-RightInsight
We offer fact-based, non-partisan and in-depth analysis of major political, economic and cultural issues confronting American society -- with emphasis on how these issues are affected by Federal and State governmental policy.
therightinsight.org/Well-Imagine-That-HadCRUT4-Global-Temperature-Record
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10/24/17 at 6:49 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The graph below shows the HadCRUT4 Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere and Global temperature history for the period of the instrumental temperature record from 1850 to the present.
The global average temperature anomaly has varied ...
therightinsight.org/What-if
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5/23/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The consensed climate science community has created a narrative that anthropogenic emissions of CO2, CH4 and N2O are causing additional heat to be retained in the earth’s atmosphere, that this additional heat is increasing the global ...
therightinsight.org/What-Is-Big-Green
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5/26/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/What-President-Trumps-Energy-Plan-Means-for-the-State-Regulatory-Environment-the-Generation-Mix-and-Electric-Transmission
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2/28/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/What-the-COP
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1/21/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.”, Fred Allen
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therightinsight.org/What-We-Know-About-Climate-Change
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5/15/18 at 7:06 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Anybody having to make a decision about climate science needs to understand the full spectrum of what we know and what we don’t know.” Dr. Steven E. Koonin, former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
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therightinsight.org/Whats-Wrong-with-Wind-and-Solar
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4/30/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/When-Politics-and-Physics-Collide
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6/27/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
From: City Journal
By: Mark P. Mills
Date: April 17, 2024
When Politics and Physics Collide
The belief that mandates and massive subsidies can summon a world without fossil fuels is magical thinking.
The idea that the United ...
therightinsight.org/Where-have-all-the-Clouds-gone-and-why-care
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4/21/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Which-Power-Source-is-Best
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4/25/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Whistleblowing-and-Government-Secrets-Chelsea-Manning-edition
In his final days in office, President Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning. While in the employ of the US Army, Manning had downloaded tens of thousands of government documents and passed them on to Wikileaks.
...
therightinsight.org/Who-Is-To-Blame-for-Cronyism
Clever humans can be endlessly inventive in corrupting government powers: bribes, kickbacks, nepotism, insider tips, selective enforcement of rules, threats … the list is long.
Cronyism is the practice of using government power to ...
therightinsight.org/Who-Stole-My-Warming-Problems-With-the-Models
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9/12/17 at 6:32 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” Richard P. Feynman
“Over 95% of climate models agree: the ...
therightinsight.org/Why-Nuclear-is-Cheaper-than-Wind-and-Solar
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8/29/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Why-renewables-cant-save-the-planet-video
therightinsight.org/Why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-Part-III-The-problem-with-power-markets
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6/20/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Wichita-Revisited
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2/12/19 at 6:54 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Wichita, Kansas is located very close to the geographic center of the contiguous United States. The annual average temperature in Wichita is 57°F, which is also the current global average near-surface temperature. Wichita has been used ...
therightinsight.org/Wind-and-Solar-Cant-Support-the-Grid
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1/9/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Wind-and-Solar-Subsidies
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7/14/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Wind-by-the-Numbers
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3/1/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Administration goal of a fossil free grid by 2035 would require that the renewable portion of grid energy supply be supported by additional renewable generation plus electricity storage. The hourly, daily, monthly and seasonal ...
therightinsight.org/Wind-Capacity-Factor
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4/2/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The capacity factor of wind generation systems varies as a function of geography, season of the year and time of day. The capacity of wind generation systems varies as a function of swept area, wind speed and turbine height. The current US ...
therightinsight.org/Deep-Optimism-Manifesto-David-Siegels-cure-for-climate_anxiety
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11/3/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/A-Promise-Kept-Bidens-War-on-American-Energy
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5/5/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Climate-Crisis
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10/4/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The earth has a single atmosphere. There is reputedly a “scientific consensus” that the earth’s climate is being changed by human emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other trace gases and that these climate changes ...
therightinsight.org/Climate_Deniers
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9/6/16 at 7:05 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Punishing “Climate Change Deniers” – Legality Be Damned
There is a growing clamor in some circles to do something about “Climate Deniers”. The clamor arguably began more than 10 years ago, as documented ...
therightinsight.org/Enquiring-Minds
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10/4/16 at 8:14 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Enquiring minds want to know.”
Why, if “the science is settled”, is it still necessary to fund ongoing climate science research at the same funding levels which prevailed before the science was settled?
Why, ...
therightinsight.org/Fake-News
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12/6/16 at 9:15 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
There has been much discussion recently about “fake news”, a concept which has nearly as many definitions as it has observers and commenters. Some “fake news” is totally made up, with no basis in fact. Some “...
therightinsight.org/Free-Range-People
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11/14/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Free Range: allowed to range and forage with relative freedom
(Merriam-Webster)
Residents of the developed nations have largely been “free range” people, free to live where they choose to live, work where they choose to...
therightinsight.org/Greenwashing-Socialism
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7/21/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
greenwashing: expressions of environmentalist concerns especially as a cover for products, policies, or activities – Merriam-Webster
socialism: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ...
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