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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/in-Dependence-Day-2023
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7/4/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The United States energy independence achieved in 2020 has been sacrificed on the altar of climate change, terminated with malice as part of an effort to “end fossil fuels”. This effort would ultimately make the entire US energy...
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/15-Minute-Cities-2
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7/18/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The broad concept of 15-Minute Cities is not new, though the proposed version of the future is very different from its predecessors. The earlier 15-minute cities in the United States were voluntarily established small neighborhoods ...
therightinsight.org/150-Ways-the-Biden-Administration-and-Democrats-Have-Made-it-Harder-to-Produce-Oil-and-Gas
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6/8/23 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/200-Ways-the-Biden-Administration-and-Democrats-Have-Made-it-Harder-to-Produce-Oil-and-Gas
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4/11/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
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/2023-Year-in-Review
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12/26/23 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Administration war on fossil fuels continues, with reduced lease sales, lease cancellations, new emissions rules for electric powerplants and gasoline and diesel vehicles and electric vehicle mandates.
The Administration has less than ...
therightinsight.org/2023-Hurricane-Season
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12/5/23 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The 2023 hurricane season has not provided many opportunities for the wizards of instant climate change attribution to assess the impacts of climate change on the performance of individual tropical cyclones. Perhaps this represents an ...
therightinsight.org/2024-The-Year-Ahead
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1/2/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Altruism dies when it costs.
The promise of the transition from a fossil fuel energy economy to a renewable energy economy was and is lower energy prices and an improved environment. That promise is clearly broken irreparably. Energy ...
therightinsight.org/2024-Annual-GWPF-Lecture-Judith-Curry-Climate-Uncertainty-and-Risk
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5/23/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/2024-North-American-Energy-Inventory
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6/20/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
From: IER
Date: May 14, 2024
2024 North American Energy Inventory
In 2011, IER released the first edition of the North American Energy Inventory. At the time, the U.S. energy situation looked far different than it does today. ...
therightinsight.org/2024-The-Year-in-Review
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12/24/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The year 2024 was a year of growing awareness of the societal effects of “Net Zero by 2050” and of growing resistance to elements of government energy and climate policies intended to achieve “Net Zero by 2050”.
The...
therightinsight.org/2025-The-Year-Ahead
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12/31/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”, Niels Bohr
In 2025,the past is unlikely to be prologue. President elect Trump is reportedly prepared to sign ~300 Executive Orders (EOs) “on day one”. (Sounds ...
therightinsight.org/25-myths-about-extreme-weather-refuted
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10/20/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/33-simple-Bullet-Points-prove-CO2-is-innocent-of-global-warming-by-a-GEOLOGIST-for-a-change
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7/6/23 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-bad-recipe-for-science
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12/7/23 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
From: Climate Etc.
By: Judith Curry
Date: November 17, 2023
A bad recipe for science
Politically-motivated manufacture of scientific consensus corrupts the scientific process and leads to poor policy decisions
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therightinsight.org/A-Brief-History-of-Climate-From-Prehistory-to-The-Imaginary-Crisis-of-the-21st-Century
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8/31/23 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-Rational-Transition
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6/4/24 at 6:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Administration has set the nation on a rapid transition to an “all-electric everything” energy economy powered predominantly by intermittent renewable energy. The goal is to complete this transition by 2050. There is ...
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/Abandon-Fossil-Fuels-Empower-China
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8/24/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,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/Adaptation-Is-the-Answer
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9/14/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
From: National Review
By: JOEL KOTKIN & HÜGO KRÜGER
Date: August 18, 2023
Adaptation Is the Answer
Humans have adapted to a changing climate before, and we can do it again.
The world is careening toward a ...
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 ...
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