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therightinsight.org/Personal-Precautions
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1/10/17 at 9:05 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
One of the idyllic images cherished by many environmentalists concerned about the climate is life “off the grid”, free of utilities, living off the land, minimizing their impact on the planet. However, reality frequently rears...
therightinsight.org/Perspective-is-Important
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9/20/16 at 8:02 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The graph below displays the entire history of the satellite temperature record, as analyzed by Drs. John Christy and Roy Spenser at the University of Alabama-Huntsville on behalf of NASA.

The graph clearly shows the very strong El ...
therightinsight.org/Perspective-on-Limiting-Global-Warming-to-2-Degrees
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12/5/17 at 7:01 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The often stated “goal” of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) is to limit global warming to 2oC (3.6oF) above pre-industrial levels; and, preferably to 1.5oC (2.7oF) above pre-industrial levels. ...
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/Pointless-Panic
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11/5/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Current conversation regarding climate change is largely couched in terms such as “crisis”, “emergency” and “existential threat”. However, the use of these descriptors is political posturing, not ...
therightinsight.org/Polar-Bear-Climate
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4/23/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Policy-Implications-Of-The-Energy-Storage-Conundrum
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1/12/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Political-protest-in-a-post-fact-era
therightinsight.org/Positive-Climate-News
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3/7/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Climate Sensitivity
The IPCC has recently lowered its estimated range of climate sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration. The IPCC AR6 estimated range is 2.5-4.0, with an expected value of 3.0. However, studies ...
therightinsight.org/Positive-Weather-News
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3/14/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Weather events which cause significant loss and damage include tropical cyclones, tornadoes, floods, drought and some wildfires. The consensed climate science community has projected that each of these weather events would become more ...
therightinsight.org/Potential-For-or-Of
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1/26/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The potential for climate change to have adverse effects on the globe, its climate and its population is the subject of great international angst, fomented continuously by the UN secretariat, the UN FCCC, the IPCC, international NGOs, ...
therightinsight.org/Precautionary-Adaptation
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11/19/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“The precautionary principle is the concept that establishes it is better to avoid or mitigate an action or policy that has the plausible potential, based on scientific analysis, to result in major or irreversible negative ...
therightinsight.org/Precautionary-Principle
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5/24/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Precautionary Principle is frequently cited as the justification for actions to halt or retard climate change. This commentary will question the application of the principle to the design of a renewable plus storage electric grid.
The ...
therightinsight.org/Priorities
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1/24/17 at 7:43 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
One of the principal concerns raised regarding climate change is its potential effects on agriculture. There is continuing discussion that the potential combination of increased temperatures with drought or increased rainfall might result...
therightinsight.org/Prof-Roger-Pielke-Jr-The-Inconvenient-Truth-about-Climate-Science
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7/7/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Propaganda-2021-09-07
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9/7/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“A society, most of whose members spend a great portion of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical...
therightinsight.org/Propaganda
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11/10/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Propaganda: (Merriam-Webster)
2: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
3: ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's ...
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/Pyramid-or-Scheme
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12/27/18 at 6:01 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A pyramid is an inherently stable structure built upon a broad base which tapers toward a point at its top. A pyramid scheme is an inherently unstable structure built upon a point and expanding to a broad top.

Perhaps the most famous ...
therightinsight.org/R-D-D-and-D
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2/22/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The path to new technology consists of research, development, demonstration and finally deployment. Research and development frequently continue in an effort to improve the technology. However, at some point, the technology is determined to...
therightinsight.org/REALISM-OR-UTOPIANISM-A-proposal-for-reform-of-Net-Zero-policy
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2/24/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Reanalysis-Accuracy
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9/24/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently announced that July 2019 was the warmest July on record. This assessment was based on “adjusted” data provided by NOAA. The WMO attributed the record to climate change driven ...
therightinsight.org/Reckless-or-Ruthless
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11/30/21 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
reckless (Merriam-Webster)
: marked by lack of proper caution: careless of consequences
ruthless (Merriam-Webster)
: having no pity : merciless, cruel a ruthless tyrant
The UK and portions of the EU are currently faced with ...
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/Reids-Laws-RE-Climate-Denier
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4/11/17 at 8:27 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Mike Godwin, a Washington, DC attorney, propounded “Godwin’s Law” in 1990.
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
Godwin describes ...
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/Reliability-Roulette
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10/5/21 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Service reliability has been a hallmark of the utility industry, which has made massive investments to assure reliable service. High reliability is important to the utilities’ customers and is demanded by utilities’ regulators. ...
therightinsight.org/Reliable-vs-Intermittent-Generation-A-Primer
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3/16/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
From: Master Resource
By: Bill Schneider
Date: March 1, 2023
Reliable vs. Intermittent Generation: A Primer
Part 1 --- Part 2
“Why should a thermal plant spend money in a...
therightinsight.org/Renewable-Demonstration
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3/22/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
I believe it is essential that at least one large scale demonstration of a completely freestanding renewable plus storage powered grid be conducted under carefully controlled conditions. This demonstration should begin as soon as possible ...
therightinsight.org/Renewable-Design
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12/7/21 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
This commentary provides a simplified overview of the process of replacing a single dispatchable powerplant with either wind or solar generation plus storage.
The powerplant to be replaced is a 1,000 MW plant, either coal or nuclear fueled...
therightinsight.org/Renewable-Productivity
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4/19/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The wind and solar generation systems installed in the US have been installed in the most favorable locations available, for obvious reasons. However, as wind and solar generation are expanded toward a renewable plus storage generation ...
therightinsight.org/Renewable-Transition
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1/25/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US transition to renewable electric generation is proceeding down a path which assures that electric rates will rise. Wind and solar are “source of opportunity” generators, producing electricity when the wind blows and the ...
therightinsight.org/Reparations-for-What-1
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1/7/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“The United States was warned Wednesday by the United Nations it cannot avoid compensating poorer nations hit by climate change, despite Donald Trump honoring his election promise of leaving the 2015 Paris climate agreement&...
therightinsight.org/Reparations-for-What-2
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1/14/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“The United States was warned Wednesday by the United Nations it cannot avoid compensating poorer nations hit by climate change, despite Donald Trump honoring his election promise of leaving the 2015 Paris climate agreement&...
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/Richard-Lindzen-on-climate-science-from-the-inside
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10/6/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Satellite-Temperatures
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2/16/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) has released their analysis of lower atmosphere temperature anomalies through December 2020. The current graph is shown below.

The temperature anomaly decreased by 0.26°C...
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-Change
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8/9/16 at 9:40 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
One of the greatest climate change concerns expressed by low lying coastal and island nations is the threat which would result from rising sea levels, caused by a combination of thermal expansion and the melting of glacial and land ice. ...
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/Sea-Surface-Temperature-SST-Anomaly-Accuracy
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9/17/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
NASA GISS recently issued a news release regarding the accuracy of their GISTEMP near-surface temperature anomaly product which is discussed here (GISSTEMP Accuracy). This raised questions about the accuracy of the sea surface temperature ...
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-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/Selective-Analysis-when-Studying-Climate-Change
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9/18/18 at 5:47 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are focused on anthropogenic CO2 and other “GHG” (greenhouse gas) emissions as the cause of recent ...
therightinsight.org/Sensitivity-Revisited
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3/10/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The sensitivity of the global climate to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, specifically to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 from 270 to 540 ppm, is one of the most critical issues in climate science. Sensitivity in combination with ...
therightinsight.org/Separating-Science-from-Pseudoscience-for-Floods-and-Extreme-Precipitation
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3/24/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Seriousness-of-the-Charge
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12/13/16 at 7:30 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Precautionary Principle
“When the health of humans and the environment is at stake, it may not be necessary to wait for scientific certainty to take protective action.”
--Science and Environmental Health Network
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