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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/Negligible-future-warming-from-CO2-CH4-N2O
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2/14/25 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
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/New-York-Climate-Lawfare
The State of New York enacted the Climate Change Superfund Act in December, 2024. The Act asserts that climate change has caused damage in the state and seeks to recover some portion of the alleged cost of that damage from elements of the ...
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/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
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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
therightinsight.org/Oxymoron-Alert-Carbon-Taxes
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3/14/17 at 6:19 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Paradigm-Shift
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9/10/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The historical paradigm of the US electric industry has been “the energy you want when you want it.” Generation was adjusted to match contemporaneous demand as required.
The average demand on the US electric grid is ...
therightinsight.org/Paris-Paranoia-The-results-of-the-U-S-withdrawal-from-the-Paris-Climate-Agreement
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7/11/17 at 6:48 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Much has been said and written about the anticipated effects of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Accord. Several US cities and states have announced their intention to conform to the CO2 reduction ...
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-Environmental-Defense-Fund
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8/21/18 at 6:58 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Wall Street Journal recently published an opinion piece by Fred Krupp, the President of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). The piece was not accompanied by a disclaimer that the piece was the opinion of Mr. Krupp and did not ...
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/Paths-to-Net-Zero
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5/9/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Numerous potential paths to net zero annual CO2 emissions have been identified and discussed, including:
- Renewables plus storage
- Massively overbuilt renewables and transmission
- Renewables plus Dispatchable Emission-Free Resources (DEFR...
therightinsight.org/Patrick-Moore-Should-We-Celebrate-CO2
In October of 2015 the Global Warming Policy Foundation invited Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, to deliver a lecture at their annual meeting. See what he has to say about CO2 in his "SHOULD WE CELEBRATE CO2?"
therightinsight.org/Peer-Review-Anew
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8/13/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The members of the consensed climate science community are very quick to assert that the results of their research have been peer reviewed. However, the peers who have done the reviews are typically other members of the consensed climate ...
therightinsight.org/People-Are-Catching-On-To-The-Truth
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1/31/25 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
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/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
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