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therightinsight.org/Level-Playing-Field
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1/17/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Wind and solar generation are intermittent forms of renewable generation. Wind generation functions only when wind velocity is above a minimum threshold and below a maximum threshold. Solar functions only during the daytime, and then only ...
therightinsight.org/Life-after-Climate-Change
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4/6/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
From: National Review
By: Bjorn Lomborg
Date: March 30, 2023
Life after Climate Change
Better than you think
The global discussion about climate change has become quite hysterical. Some 60 percent of people living in the rich...
therightinsight.org/Looking-For-The-Official-Party-Line-On-Energy-Storage
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12/29/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Media-Visibility
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10/8/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Memo-to-President-Trump
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11/13/18 at 5:39 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Mr. President
Many share your reasonable and clearly articulated skepticism of the climate change “consensus” and the consensed climate change community, including many active climate scientists. Regrettably, among the reasons ...
therightinsight.org/Midwest-Farming
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11/16/21 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A major concern regarding climate change is its potential future impact on food production, resulting from increasing temperatures and changes in precipitation. Experiments can demonstrate the effects of varying temperatures and ...
therightinsight.org/Misinformation-Commission
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2/23/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The past several years have seen the appearance and proliferation of “fact checkers”, some of which are more like “fake checkers” driven by their founders positions on current issues. This evolved into organizations ...
therightinsight.org/Misperception-and-amplification-of-climate-risk
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1/26/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Mitigation-Adaptation
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12/6/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The principal thrust of the UNFCCC and the IPCC has been on climate change mitigation through reductions in global annual emissions of CO2 and other ‘Green House Gases’ (GHGs). The focal point of their efforts has been keeping ...
therightinsight.org/Modeling-Challenge
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4/26/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Modeling has an uncertain reputation in climate science. However, the climate models are the purported underlying cause of the political concern regarding climate change and the “global” efforts to fundamentally change the ...
therightinsight.org/Models-and-Crises
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6/30/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Numerous professions develop and apply models to project how a process of interest to them might change in the future as the result of process maturation or the effects of external perturbations. The utility of these models is a function of...
therightinsight.org/Models-Myths-And-Misinformation-Undergird-Climate-Models-And-Energy-Policy
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2/15/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/More-Anomalous-Anomalies
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3/7/17 at 8:32 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The three primary producers of global near-surface temperature anomalies, NASA GISS(Goddard Institute for Space Studies), NOAA NCEI(National Centers for Environmental Information) and HadCRUT all begin the process with access to the same ...
therightinsight.org/More-Climate-Issues-2019
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1/8/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Climate Priorities 2019 focused on issues related to measurement and modeling of the earth’s climate: temperature measurement, climate sensitivity, forcings and feedbacks, and, model verification. These issues are a priority for 2019,...
therightinsight.org/My-Energy-Storage-Report-Hydrogen-As-An-Alternative-To-Batteries
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12/22/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Narratives-and-Coincidences
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10/18/16 at 7:34 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Global temperatures began rising in 2014, leading ultimately to the proclamation of 2014 and later 2015 as the warmest years in the instrumental record. The narrative propounded by the consensed climate science community was that this ...
therightinsight.org/National-Ambition
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2/4/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Ambition a : an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power
(link) &...
therightinsight.org/Natural-Variability-Exists
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6/13/17 at 7:50 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The consensed climate science community attributes the approximately 1°C increase in global annual temperatures since 1880 to anthropogenic CO2 emissions; and, discounts the effects of natural climate variability. Great concern is ...
therightinsight.org/Natural-Variation
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9/28/21 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The earth has experienced roughly cyclical warming and cooling periods over at least the past 800,000 years, accompanied by roughly cyclical increases and decreases in atmospheric CO2. The positive temperature anomalies over this period ...
therightinsight.org/Natural-vs-Unnatural-Temperature-Change
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3/20/18 at 6:44 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The graph below shows the satellite lower troposphere temperature anomaly from inception through January 2018, as prepared by Drs. Roy Spencer and John Christy of the University of Alabama – Huntsville (UAH).
The graph has been ...
therightinsight.org/Nature-Intervenes
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10/24/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Nature has intervened in the climate change narrative in a major way with the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga (HT) volcano on the South Pacific seabed. The eruption has experienced minimal exposure in the media because it did not result in ...
therightinsight.org/Navigating-Americas-net-zero-frontier-A-guide-for-business-leaders
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5/19/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
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/Net-Zero-Averted-Temperature-Increase
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7/25/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Net-Zero-CO2-Emissions-A-Damaging-and-Totally-Unnecessary-Goal
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6/6/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Net-Zero-Emergency-Power
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3/12/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Many electricity customers in all customer classes have fossil fueled emergency or standby generators which they use to power some or all of their electrical loads in the event of a grid power outage. For some commercial customers, such as ...
therightinsight.org/Net-Zero-or-Good-Enough
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3/2/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
From: Climate Etc.
By: Russell Schussler and Roger Caiazza
Date: February 9, 2023
Net Zero or Good Enough?
This good enough plan may get you to net zero before the more ambitious ones. It is likely to have less carbon ...
therightinsight.org/Net-Zero-Targets-Sustainable_Future-or-CO2-Obsession-Driven-Dead-end
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11/30/23 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Net-Zero-Targets-Sustainable-Future-or-CO2-Obsession-Driven-Dead-end
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12/21/23 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/NETZERO-is-impeding-progress-on-UN-Sustainable-Development-Goals
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12/28/23 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
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/New-Report-Highlights-Green-Failure-in-Europe-and-Warns-America
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1/11/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/No-Coal-Storage
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4/16/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
In a summary of a recent peer-reviewed paper, the principal author stated that an electric grid predominantly powered by intermittent renewables such as wind and solar would require storage approximately equal to 25% of annual generation to...
therightinsight.org/No-Gas-Storage
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4/23/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
In a summary of a recent peer-reviewed paper, the principal author stated that an electric grid predominantly powered by intermittent renewables such as wind and solar would require storage approximately equal to 25% of annual generation to...
therightinsight.org/Not-All-Electric
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4/4/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US Energy Information Administration Annual Energy Outlook 2022 does not reflect the Administration’s Net Zero by 2050 goal, as shown in the graph below. It also does not reflect the Administration’s “All-...
therightinsight.org/Not-So-Fast
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10/11/16 at 8:14 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
In my commentary from September 6, 2016 “Climate Deniers”, I discussed some of the numerous efforts currently underway to silence and punish “Climate Change Deniers” (catastrophic anthropogenic 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/NPR-and-Climate-Change
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6/18/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
NPR recently broadcast and published a piece entitled: “It’s 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change”. The approach they describe has 3 major elements.
- Mass Electrification
- Urbanization of Everything
- Reduced ...
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/Offshore-Wind
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7/27/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
We begin by reviewing the measurement unit for electric demand and consumption.
1 Terawatt = 1 trillion watts
= 1 billion kilowatts
&...
therightinsight.org/Offshore-Wind-Project
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6/7/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Dominion Energy has proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), the first large offshore wind project in the United States. CVOW would be a 2.6 GW wind farm consisting of 176 15 MW wind turbines, 3 offshore electric substations,...
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/Tropical-Hot-Spot-EPA-CO2-Endangerment-Finding
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9/23/16 at 7:36 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/On-site-Generation
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5/18/21 at 3:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
On-site power generation was common in the mid-20th century for large power users with the need for high reliability power supply. These users included industrial plants running continuous processes, plants with large steam consumption, and...
therightinsight.org/Opening-the-Kimono
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2/21/17 at 6:34 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Steve Goreham, the author of the book Climatism! Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic coined the term Climatism, which he defines as “the belief that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are destroying the ...
therightinsight.org/Optimum-Climate
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2/27/18 at 6:07 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The instrumental temperature record began with the Central England Temperature (CET) record in the mid-1600s. This period roughly coincides with the nadir of the Little Ice Age (LIA), which extended from approximately 1350 to approximately ...
therightinsight.org/Our-Coming-Energy-Famine
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8/8/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
From: National Review
By: Mario Loyola
Date: June 13, 2024
Our Coming Energy Famine
Economic change and Biden’s hostility to fossil fuels are setting up an electricity crisis
Most Americans are unaware of a grave danger ...
therightinsight.org/Our-Energy-Future-Conserve-to-Convert
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11/14/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
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