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Propaganda(?)

therightinsight.org/Propaganda
  • 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 ...

Prosperity and Electricity

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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 ...

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.

Pyramid Scheme

Perhaps the most famous ...

RDD&D - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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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...

REALISM OR UTOPIANISM? A proposal for reform of Net Zero policy - Highlighted Article

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  • 2/24/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Climate Change

 

From: The Global Warming Policy Forum

By: John Constable and Capell Aris

Date: May 2021

 

REALISM OR UTOPIANISM? A proposal for reform of Net Zero policy

 

Summary

"This paper calls for root and branch reform ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reid’s 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 ...

REJECT AR6 - Highlighted Article

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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. ...

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. ...

Reliable vs. Intermittent Generation: A Primer (Parts I and II) - Highlighted Article

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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...

Renewable Demonstration - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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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 ...

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...

Renewable Experts: Undeterred and Unmoved by Failed Ideas - Highlighted Article

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  • 5/11/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Climate Change

 

From: Climate Etc.

By: Russ Schussler

Date: April 17, 2023


Renewable Experts: Undeterred and Unmoved by Failed Ideas


“Green” ideas and their proponents can create problems.  Like the antagonist in Terminator 2...

Renewable Productivity - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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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 ...

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 ...

Reparations for What? - Part 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&...

Reparations for What? - Part 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&...

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 ...

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 ...

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-...

RGGI Investment Report Lessons for Cap and Invest Programs - Highlighted Article

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  • 7/20/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Climate Change

 

From: Watts Up With That

By: Roger Caiazza

Date: July 2, 2023


RGGI Investment Report Lessons for Cap and Invest Programs


Cap-and-invest emission reduction programs are supposed to effectively reduce emissions and generate ...

Richard Lindzen on climate science from the inside - Highlighted Video

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  • 10/6/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Climate Change

By: Tom Nelson

 

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.

 

UAH Satellite- Based Temperature of the Global Lower Atmosphere (Version 6.0)

 

The temperature anomaly decreased by 0.26°C...

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 ...

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. ...

Sea Level Graphs

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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Separating Science from Pseudoscience for Floods and Extreme Precipitation - Highlighted Video

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  • 3/24/22 at 7:00 AM
  • Climate Change

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

 

"...

Shifty(?) Climate Sands

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  • 10/27/20 at 3:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Climate Change
  • Ed Reid

The Biden/Harris position on climate change has been shifting (shifty?) as their political campaign has “progressed” toward election day. The Green New Deal is one of the key issues on which the campaign has shifted with regard ...

Should Politicians Force Diversity at Universities?

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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, ...

Signal / Noise Ratio (Climate Change)

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  • 4/28/20 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

 

Previous ...

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 ...

Signal / Noise Ratio (Sea Level)

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  • 4/7/20 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

 

Another of the ...

Signal / Noise Ratio (Temperature)

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  • 3/31/20 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

 

One of the primary ...

Silence of the Grid Experts - Highlighted Article

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  • 5/18/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Climate Change

 

From: Climate Etc.

By: Russ Schussler

Date: May 3, 2023


Silence of the Grid Experts


There are many reasons why grid experts within the electric utility industry have not spoken out when unrealistic “green” goals ...

Six Phases of a Project - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 7/25/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Climate Change
  • Ed Reid

Six Phases of a Project

  1. Enthusiasm
  2. Disillusionment
  3. Panic
  4. Search for the guilty
  5. Punishment of the innocent
  6. Praise and honors for the non-participants

This “smart joke” apparently originated in computer science in the ...

Social Cost of Carbon

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  • 11/2/21 at 7:00 AM
  • Climate Change
  • Ed Reid

The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is an estimate of the present value of the societal cost of the emission of one ton of carbon dioxide. The SCC is estimated using Integrated Assessment Models, none of which has been validated and verified. ...

Social Cost of Mandates - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 6/13/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Climate Change
  • Ed Reid

Broken Window Economics: an event that seems to be beneficial for those immediately involved can have negative economic consequences for many others.

The US and most countries have energy economies based on fossil fuels, plus contributions...

Social Cost of Preferences - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 6/20/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Climate Change
  • Ed Reid

Preference :the act, fact, or principle of giving advantages to some over others
:priority in the right to demand and receive satisfaction of an obligation

The federal government, state governments and state utility regulators have ...

Social Cost of Subsidies - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 6/6/23 at 7:00 AM
  • Energy Policy,Climate Change
  • Ed Reid

Subsidy: a grant by a government to a private person or company to assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public.

The US federal government, several state governments and numerous local governments offer subsidies to assist ...

Socrates Shrugged

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  • 11/26/19 at 6:00 AM
  • Climate Change
  • Ed Reid

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.”,  Socrates

“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound ...

Solar by the Numbers - ORIGINAL CONTENT

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  • 3/8/22 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 ...