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therightinsight.org/Near-Surface-Temperature
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4/16/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Much has been written about the physical shortcomings of the near-surface temperature record, which include:
- inadequate spatial coverage;
- urban heat island effects;
- sensor degradation;
- enclosure degradation;
- ...
therightinsight.org/New-Climate-Reality-is-Passing-New-York-By
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12/14/23 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Not-Zero
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3/28/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Biden Administration has set a goal of achieving Net Zero US annual CO2 emissions by 2050. To accomplish this goal, the Administration has decreed that all coal-fired electric generation would cease by 2030; and, that all natural gas ...
therightinsight.org/Not-So-Green-New-Deal
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2/14/19 at 11:05 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The “Green New Deal” (GND) is the current fascination of the most liberal / progressive / socialist elements of our society and its elected representatives, as well as several declared candidates for President in 2020. The ...
therightinsight.org/Not-so-subtle-Influences-Search-Engine-Bias
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11/28/17 at 6:04 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Google and other search engines are our modern-day paths to knowledge on an extremely broad range of subjects. However, at least on the topic of climate science and climate scientists, they are a not-so-subtly guided path toward information...
therightinsight.org/Nuisance
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8/4/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
DISCLAIMER: I am not an attorney and I did not sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Several California cities and counties filed nuisance lawsuits in state courts against major oil and gas companies based on their production and ...
therightinsight.org/Observation-vs-Supposition
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5/26/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Energy Policy,Climate Change,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Most government environmental regulations are based on observations of atmospheric concentrations, exposure durations and adverse health effects. Specific sources of emissions of the pollutants in question are measured individually and the ...
therightinsight.org/Offshore-Wind-Woes
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1/9/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The year, 2023, was not a good year for the offshore wind industry, which has seemingly been beset by adversity on all sides.
Supply chain disruptions, largely resulting from the COVID pandemic and national efforts to deal with the ...
therightinsight.org/Our-Energy-Future-Conserve-to-Convert
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11/14/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Parsing-Bloomberg-The-Dishonest-Press
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4/25/17 at 7:47 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
I recently propounded “Reid’s Law”, which is an “observational law” regarding climate.
“As an online discussion regarding climate grows longer, the probability of the term “denier” being used...
therightinsight.org/Parsing-The-Washington-Post-on-Climate
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8/28/18 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Physics-Demonstrates-That-Increasing-Greenhouse-Gases-Cannot-Cause-Dangerous-Warming-Extreme-Weather-or-Any-Harm
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7/4/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Energy Policy,Energy Policy,Climate Change,Climate Change,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Pieces-of-a-Plan
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9/21/21 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Biden Administration has yet to release a plan to reach its stated CO2 emission reduction goals for 2030, 2035 and 2050. However, the ...
therightinsight.org/Pragmatic-Environmentalist-of-New-York-Summary-Update-November-4-2024-November-17-2024
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12/26/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Project-2025-Environmental-Policy
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9/5/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
From: Master Resource
By: Robert Bradley Jr.
Date: July 30, 2024
Project 2025: Environmental Policy
“A more conservative EPA … will prevent unnecessary expenditures by the regulated community [and] &hellip...
therightinsight.org/Prosperity-and-Electricity
The United States faces a prosperity crisis. Increased prosperity will make it somewhat easier to resolve many of the problems that the next generation must face head-on. Reviving prosperity in the United States poses some ...
therightinsight.org/Reassess-and-Redirect
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11/12/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The UN Secretary General, the authors of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, numerous developed country governments and much of the consensed climate science community assert that the climate is in crisis, that fossil fuel use must be ...
therightinsight.org/Red-Team-Blue-Team-Public-Climate-Debate
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10/3/17 at 7:52 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has proposed a formal Red Team / Blue Team exercise regarding climate change. However, the recent experiences with hurricanes Harvey and Irma have spontaneously initiated an informal Red Team / Blue Team ...
therightinsight.org/Redundant-Capacity
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9/3/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The capacity of the US electric grid has historically been designed to meet peak demand, with limited additional generating capacity equal to +/- 20% of peak demand or sufficient to replace the capacity of the largest generating unit on the...
therightinsight.org/Reengineer-and-Audit
Reengineer: to reorganize the operations of (an organization) so as to improve efficiency
The Trump Administration has begun a comprehensive reengineering effort in the federal Executive Branch agencies. The agencies of concern regarding ...
therightinsight.org/REJECT-AR6
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4/14/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
From: Ventura Photonics
By: Roy Clark
Date: February 20, 2022
REJECT AR6
The Sixth IPCC Climate Assessment Report (AR6) should be rejected outright because it is based on the use of fraudulent climate models. ...
therightinsight.org/Reluctant-Realization
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12/19/23 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US federal government has set a goal of transitioning the US energy economy to a fossil-fuel-free, “all-electric everything” energy economy by 2050. This transition would require an approximate tripling of the US electricity...
therightinsight.org/Replication-and-Climate-Science
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7/10/18 at 5:45 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
One of the potential approaches to dealing with the Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science is replication of the experiment. Replication of an experiment is far more expensive than merely attempting to reproduce the results of an ...
therightinsight.org/Republican-Platform-2016
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8/16/16 at 10:15 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Republican Party Platform 2016 – Climate Change
Information concerning a changing climate, especially projections into the long-range future, must be based on dispassionate analysis of hard data. We will enforce that standard ...
therightinsight.org/Revisionist-Climate-History
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1/30/18 at 6:16 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The graphs below were prepared and published by NASA in October, 2005 and in January and October, 2015. The graphs were highlighted and annotated by Professor Howard Cork Hayden to call attention to changes made to the historical near-...
therightinsight.org/Satellites-and-Climate
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9/27/16 at 8:44 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The near-surface instrumental temperature record began with the Central England Temperature (CET) record in 1659, which roughly coincided with the trough of the Little Ice Age. The application of temperature measuring instruments spread ...
therightinsight.org/Sea-Level-Graphs
The graph below plots global sea level over the past approximately 800,000 years. Note the cyclical nature of sea level over that period. Sea level ranges from a high of +11 meters to a low of -133 meters. The low levels are associated with...
therightinsight.org/Sea-Level-Rise-Settled-Science
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4/10/18 at 7:09 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“There is a total absence of data supporting the notion of a present sea level rise; on the contrary all available facts indicate present sea level stability. On the centennial timescale, there was a +70 cm high level in the 16th and ...
therightinsight.org/Secret-Science
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4/14/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
US EPA has revised its rules regarding the use of “secret science” in its rulemaking processes. The revised rule now gives preference to scientific studies for which underlying data and models are available in sufficient detail ...
therightinsight.org/Secret-Science-473
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for identifying air, soil and water pollutants which can be harmful to human health and safety, determining the exposure levels at which those pollutants become harmful to human ...
therightinsight.org/Secret-Science-of-Climate-Change
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10/2/18 at 5:57 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Much has been written recently both in support of and in opposition to US EPA’s proposed secret science rule, which would require significant regulatory policy decisions to be based on publicly available data. Most of the support has ...
therightinsight.org/Setting-Utility-Rates
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11/16/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
From: Watts Up With That
By: Kevin Kitty
Date: November 5, 2023
Setting Utility Rates
Until about a year ago, I thought about public utility regulation as too boring, too far outside my education, and unrelated to my ...
therightinsight.org/Shattered-Green-Dreams-The-environmental-costs-of-wind-and-solar
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7/11/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Energy Policy,Climate Change,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Should-Politicians-Force-Diversity-at-Universities
By diversity I mean the intellectual kind. Numerous surveys (e.g., here and here) show that university faculties lean left, often far left in humanities departments.
A purely democratic argument says Yes, ...
therightinsight.org/Signal-Noise-Ratio-Extreme-Weather
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4/21/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Signal-to-noise ratio (abbreviated SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.”, everything.explained.today
In the previous ...
therightinsight.org/Solving-the-Climate-Crisis
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9/8/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis has released Solving the Climate Crisis, The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America, a majority staff report ...
therightinsight.org/Some-Irreverent-Independent-Thoughts-on-Independence-Day-2018
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7/3/18 at 9:35 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The United States was on the “bleeding edge” of the end of colonialism in 1776. The US is the most successful of the ex-colonies, but has not attempted to use that success to become a colonial power. The US voluntarily ...
therightinsight.org/Specter-of-Climategate
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8/1/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Climategate was an ugly blot on the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, the consensed climate science community and the IPCC in which they participated. The release of a batch of e-mails among a number of climate ...
therightinsight.org/Stark-Reality
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12/3/19 at 7:25 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The focus of the UN-led initiatives regarding climate change has been almost exclusively on mitigation programs, although attention is now turning toward adaptation as well. This is a timely and welcome change, though mitigation is still ...
therightinsight.org/Sterns-Climate-Lesson-for-the-Trump-Administration
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1/2/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Sue-and-Litigate
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4/28/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
US EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recently announced the EPA would be reassessing a number of past regulatory actions. Many of the actions being questioned were developed based on the application of the concept of the Linear No ...
therightinsight.org/Technology-Forcing-2023
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6/27/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Government regulators periodically issue regulations which they are fully aware cannot be met with currently available technology; that is, the regulations force the development of the new technology needed to satisfy them within some ...
therightinsight.org/Temperature-and-Anomalies
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10/17/17 at 6:24 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/The-Battle-Lines-are-Drawn
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8/30/16 at 8:59 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Climate change is the most politically charged scientific issue of our time. The positions of the parties are summarized from their platforms below in the direct quotations below.
Republican Party Platform 2016
Information ...
therightinsight.org/The-Big-Lie-3
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7/9/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The two historical components of “The Big Lie” are exaggeration of the situation and repetition of the exaggerated situation. In the case of climate change, the UNFCCC, the IPCC, national governments and the consensed climate ...
therightinsight.org/The-Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf-Hurricanes-and-Climate-Change
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10/31/17 at 8:10 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Hurricane Harvey was one of the most extensively and most accurately tracked and reported hurricanes in history. Predictions of its track, timing, intensity at landfall and expected precipitation amounts were extremely accurate. Federal and...
therightinsight.org/The-Changing-of-the-Guard
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1/20/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Today marks the changing of the guard for the government of the United States. The new Administration promises many changes to programs and priorities throughout government. However, few areas will experience changes of the magnitude of the...
therightinsight.org/The-Folly-Of-Climate-Leadership
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2/29/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Fork-in-the-Road
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11/7/24 at 6:01 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The United States electorate reached “The Fork in the Road” last Tuesday. They chose the fork to the right, away from the Green New Deal, Net Zero by 2050, “all-electric everything”, electric vehicle promotion, ...
therightinsight.org/The-Myth-Of-Replacing-Fossil-Fuels
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7/27/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
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