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therightinsight.org/Anti-Science
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12/8/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
skepticism
1 : an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object
2a : the doctrine that true knowledge or knowledge in a particular area is uncertain
2b : the method of suspended judgment...
therightinsight.org/Astroturf
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12/17/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Demonstrations regarding a variety of issues are becoming more common in the US and several other countries. Climate change is one of the issues which is a focus of these demonstrations. Spontaneous demonstrations are frequently referred to...
therightinsight.org/2-Trillion-Climate-Plan
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3/9/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
President Biden proposed a $2 trillion climate and energy plan during his campaign. He has now begun implementation of that plan, which would provide the funding over his first term in office. The funding would be primarily in the form of ...
therightinsight.org/in-Dependence-Day-2022
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7/1/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Energy independence has been an aspirational goal of the US for decades. However, the US actually achieved that goal in the period from 2017-2020 as the result of the application of US ingenuity and the encouragement of a supportive federal...
therightinsight.org/100-Ways-Biden-and-the-Democrats-Have-Made-it-Harder-to-Produce-Oil-and-Gas
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9/22/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/1984-in-2020
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3/3/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
George Orwell’s novel, 1984 describes a dystopian future in which history is routinely rewritten to fit the requirements of the government and in which independent thought is actively discouraged. Orwell intended 1984 as a warning, ...
therightinsight.org/2019-Retrospective
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12/24/19 at 6:01 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The EPA 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding is still in effect and provides the basis for multiple government climate change initiatives.
The EPA Clean Power Plan has been replaced by the EPA Affordable Clean Energy Rule, though the new ACE Rule...
therightinsight.org/2020-Prospective
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12/31/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”, Yogi Berra, American philosopher
The new year, 2020, is an election year in the US. While there are numerous issues which divide the two parties, climate change is sure to ...
therightinsight.org/2020-Retrospective
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12/29/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.”, Robert Burns
The past year has been a rollercoaster ride for the issue of climate change. The year ...
therightinsight.org/2021-Climate-Prospective
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1/5/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Dichotomy 1 : a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities
Future US climate policies currently face a clear dichotomy. The policies which will be pursued depend on the outcome of a still contested ...
therightinsight.org/2022-Year-in-Review
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12/27/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Climate science focuses on two fundamental issues: the current status of the changed climate; and, projections of future changes in the climate. The science is not “settled” regarding either of these issues.
The key aspects of ...
therightinsight.org/2023-The-Year-Ahead
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1/3/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”, Yogi Berra, American philosopher
Considering Yogi’s caution above, I will not make predictions regarding climate science or climate change policy in 2023. Rather, I ...
therightinsight.org/25-myths-about-extreme-weather-refuted
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10/20/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/34-Years-of-Flawed-Failed-Grossly-Misrepresented-Global-Sea-Level-Rise-Speculation
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4/7/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/A-CERES-Possibility
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1/15/19 at 6:45 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
NASA launched the first of the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellites in 1997. CERES is managed by NASA’s Langley Research Center. The CERES surface datasets include a dataset of the upwelling longwave ...
therightinsight.org/A-Critical-Assessment-of-Extreme-Events-Trends-in-Times-of-Global-Warming
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9/29/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/A-Critical-Examination-of-the-Six-Pillars-of-Climate-Change-Despair
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2/16/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/A-Failure-of-Belief
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8/18/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are — for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable — ...
therightinsight.org/A-Failure-of-Proof
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10/6/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
In the previous commentary, A Failure of Belief, I asserted that neither science nor authority should require belief, but that both should require proof. I also asserted that both science and authority had demonstrated that they did not ...
therightinsight.org/A-Little-Perspective
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1/17/17 at 7:33 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The angst-ridden, consensed climate science community is focused on an increase in global average near-surface temperature of approximately 0.7°C (1.3°F) per century, or a total increase of approximately 0.9°C (1.6°F) since ...
therightinsight.org/A-Look-Back-The-Coming-Ice-Age
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12/5/16 at 8:52 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A friend brought this to my attention today. It is almost 60 years old. (Note the name of the authoress of the article.)
Very interesting. I had not seen it previously. I don&...
therightinsight.org/A-Mostly-Wind-and-Solar-Powered-US-Economy-Is-a-Dangerous-Fantasy
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5/12/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/A-New-Paradigm
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1/31/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Electric grids have demonstrated the ability to adapt to some fraction of intermittent renewable generation, as long as there is sufficient dispatchable generation available to meet contemporaneous grid demand when the intermittent ...
therightinsight.org/A-Stake-Through-the-Heart-Trumps-View-of-Existing-Climate-Change-Activities
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6/20/17 at 6:25 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Trump Administration has raised a number of questions regarding the US and global efforts to limit climate change. Each of these questions must be addressed calmly, carefully, and comprehensively. The Administration must be extremely ...
therightinsight.org/A-Way-Forward
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7/14/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don&...
therightinsight.org/A-Plan-B-for-addressing-climate-change-and-the-energy-transition
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3/31/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/A-Sixth-Mass-Extinction-Coming_Up-Crunching-the-Numbers
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8/11/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Achieving-Net-Zero-A-report-from-a-putative-delivery-agency
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3/17/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Activists-Are-Pushing-Climate-Hysteria
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7/21/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Adaptation-and-Survival
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4/9/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The universe is estimated to be approximately 13.7 billion years old. Our solar system is estimated to be approximately 4.6 to 5 billion years old, while the earth is estimated to be approximately 4.3 to 4.6 billion years old. Earth’s...
therightinsight.org/Additional-Perspective-Temperature-Anomaly-Record
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3/28/17 at 7:31 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
It is generally acknowledged that human influence on global climate was minimal prior to approximately 1950. Therefore, virtually all climate change prior to 1950 is considered to have been the result of natural climate variation or a ...
therightinsight.org/Advance-the-Science
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12/11/18 at 5:53 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
An open memo to key organizations skeptical of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.
To: American Enterprise Institute
American Legislative Exchange Council
Cato Institute
Competitive ...
therightinsight.org/Alarmism-Skepticism
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9/1/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A recent study raised issues regarding climate alarmism and climate skepticism and disinformation. The following statement from the study is the subject of this commentary.
"... the amount of literature examining climate change ...
therightinsight.org/Alternative-Approaches
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8/23/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
There are fundamentally two approaches to the adoption of new technology. The more common approach has been to introduce and market the product, process, or service embodying the new technology and allow the market to adopt the new ...
therightinsight.org/America-First-Trumps-Climate-Change-Budget
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5/2/17 at 6:29 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Trump Administration has released “America First, A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again”. The blueprint is long on direction and short on details. The implications of this document for climate change are significant...
therightinsight.org/An-Engineers-Observations
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11/22/16 at 8:21 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Several aspects of government-funded climate science appear both curious and disturbing. The current level of government funding of climate science is certainly adequate to support rigorous scientific investigation, data gathering and ...
therightinsight.org/Analytical-Caution
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9/29/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The previous commentaries on coincidence and causation regarding temperature anomalies and sea level referred to two interactive composite graphs (here and here). These graphs each combine paleoclimatic estimates of historical conditions ...
therightinsight.org/Anomalous-Anomalies
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10/25/16 at 9:41 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
NASA GISS and NCEI have released their June Climate anomalies; and, they are anomalous. GISS and NCEI both have access to all of the same near-surface temperature data; and, both use the same sea surface temperature anomaly product, ...
therightinsight.org/Anomalous-Anomalies-2023
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4/18/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
anomalies: deviations from the common rule
Global warming is monitored by estimating successive global average temperature anomalies (“...
therightinsight.org/Another-One-Bites-the-Dust-Judith-Curry-Resigns
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2/14/17 at 7:19 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Dr. Judith Curry has resigned her position at Georgia Tech, in frustration over “the politics and propaganda that beset climate science”. Dr. Curry explained,
“the deeper reasons have to do with my growing disenchantment ...
therightinsight.org/Apocalyptic-versus-post-apocalyptic-climate-politics
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8/25/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Are-fossil-fuel-CO2-emissions-good-or-bad
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9/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Asymptotes
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7/24/18 at 8:19 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Atmospheric physics establishes that the impact of incremental additions of CO2 to the earth’s atmosphere approaches zero asymptotically, as shown in the graph below.
This means that any increase in the global average surface ...
therightinsight.org/Attribution-Absurdity
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4/23/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
In the current mantra of the consensed climate science community, every adverse weather-related event is alleged to have been caused by, or worsened by, climate change. Unverified climate models are being used in attribution studies to ...
therightinsight.org/Barely-Measurable
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8/6/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Several recent media articles have suggested that even if the US adopted the Green New Deal, or somevariant thereof, which reduced or eliminated US CO2 emissions, the impact on global warming would be “barely measurable”. These ...
therightinsight.org/Baseload-Replacement
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7/19/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Baseload powerplants operate continuously at, or close to, their rated capacity to meet the continuous demand on the electric grid. Nuclear power plants are typically operated as baseload plants. Some coal power plants are also operated as ...
therightinsight.org/Biden-Climate-Plan
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10/20/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Blame-Game
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10/12/21 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”, Ronald Reagan
The utility industry challenges discussed in the previous commentary, Reliability Roulette...
therightinsight.org/Blue-Green-New-Deal-1
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5/19/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A group of climate change activists and anti-capitalists has sent an “Open Letter and ...
therightinsight.org/Blue-Green-New-Deal-2
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5/26/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
This commentary and those that follow will analyze the programs in each policy proposal which...
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