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therightinsight.org/How-we-have-mischaracterized-climate-risk
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3/3/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Hurricane-Dorian
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10/22/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The weather system which has developed into Hurricane Dorian was first identified as a tropical depression on August 24th, 2019 approximately three quarters of the way from Guinea-Bissau on the northwest coast of Africa to Venezuela the ...
therightinsight.org/Hurricanes-and-Climate
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10/16/18 at 5:49 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Hurricane Florence has called attention to the uncertainties associated with hurricane prediction and with efforts to attribute some change in hurricane characteristics to climate change.
The primary event which focused this attention was...
therightinsight.org/Hyperbolic-Reaction-to-Trumps-Executive-Order
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5/16/17 at 8:04 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Ignorance-or-Duplicity-Average-Global-Temperature
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4/4/17 at 6:53 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Implied-Warranty-and-Climate-Research
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12/4/18 at 5:49 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) recognizes the existence of an implied warranty of fitness for particular purpose in commercial sales contracts, which it defines as follows:
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therightinsight.org/Impound-More-Water
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3/17/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The total quantity of water in the earth system, in all physical states and in all locations, is fixed (with the exception of water vapor emitted by the combustion of hydrocarbons, which is relatively trivial). The vast majority of this ...
therightinsight.org/Incentives-Disincentives
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9/13/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Society employs incentives and disincentives in numerous ways to influence the actions of various members of society. Sometimes these incentives and disincentives are soft and subtle, while at other times they are brutal and explicit.
The...
therightinsight.org/Independence-Day-2019
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7/4/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“We hold these truths to be self-evident…”
Weather
Weather characteristics can be measured.
Weather events can be counted.
Weather event impacts can be measured.
Weather event frequency and severity can be ...
therightinsight.org/Independence-Day-2020
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7/2/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The people of the United States cherish their hard-won liberty and freedom. They have recently been required to temporarily relinquish a degree of that liberty and freedom in the face of a global pandemic. They have reluctantly acquiesced ...
therightinsight.org/Independence-Day-2021
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7/3/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US declared its independence from Britain 245 years ago and fought a long and bitter Revolutionary War to secure it. The US has since fought for and with other nations to secure or restore their independence. Americans cherish their ...
therightinsight.org/Innovation-Instead
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10/18/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“That's why I think we need to recognize it has to be about innovation instead. If we focus on making green energy so cheap that eventually everyone will want it, then we can get everybody on board, and we can do so very, very ...
therightinsight.org/Intended-Nationally-Determined-Contributions-INDCs-Comparisons
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4/6/16 at 12:03 PM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Prior to COP 21, nations were asked to submit Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) toward the COP objective of reducing global carbon emissions. The key aspects of the INDCs submitted by the four largest CO2 emitters are ...
therightinsight.org/Intermediate-Replacement
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7/26/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Replacement of conventional intermediate load generators with renewable generation plus storage is similar to, but not identical to, replacement of baseload generation. Intermediate load generators must be able to deliver their full ...
therightinsight.org/IPCC-AR6-SPM-Credibility-Destroyed-by-Disappearing-Medieval-Warming-Period
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2/26/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/IPCC-Confidence-Game
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9/14/21 at 5:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Definition of confidence (Entry 1 of 2)
: a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances
Definition of confidence (Entry 2 of 2)
: of, relating to, or adept at swindling by false promises
IPCC ...
therightinsight.org/Irreproducibility-and-Climate-Science
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5/22/18 at 8:25 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Is-AR6-the-worst-and-most-biased-IPCC-Report
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6/1/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Is-CO2-the-God-of-Weather
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6/27/17 at 10:09 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Many ancient cultures attributed the significant events occurring around them to the “gods”. Some had individual gods for each type of event. Many had religious ceremonies created to appeal to or to appease the various gods. In ...
therightinsight.org/Is-the-Energy-Transition-Moving-Too-Fast
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7/13/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Is-There-Really-a-Climate-Emergency
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5/7/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/ISO-Damage-Standard
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7/30/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The International Organization for Standards (ISO) promulgates a broad range of standards developed by one or more of its 163 national members and agreed to by the membership. Companies globally are encouraged to adopt these standards in ...
therightinsight.org/Jordan-Peterson-Peddlers-of-environmental-doom-have-shown-their-true-totalitarian-colors
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9/1/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Juxtaposition-A-Tale-of-Two-Crises
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5/5/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Over the past year, there have been growing efforts to label climate change a “crisis” and begin dealing with it on that basis. These efforts have largely been ignored by the general public, primarily because there is no clear ...
therightinsight.org/Key-Climate-Graphs
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3/16/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Graphs are a powerful tool for illustrating, explaining and summarizing technical information. They are frequently used in climate science to provide historical information and perspective on various aspects of weather, climate and climate ...
therightinsight.org/Know-Imagine-Project
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10/31/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Know;
1a(1) : to perceive directly : have direct cognition of
2a : to be aware of the truth or factuality of : be convinced or certain of
Imagine:
1: to form a mental image of (something not present)
2: suppose, guess
3: to form a notion ...
therightinsight.org/Knowns-and-Unknowns
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8/10/21 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/This-House-Believes-Woke-Culture-Has-Gone-Too-Far
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1/19/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/La-Nina-2020
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5/11/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The graph below, from UAH, shows the entire history of satellite global temperature anomalies through March 2021.
Dr. Roy Spencer of UAH suggested in January 2021 that the significant decrease in the global ...
therightinsight.org/Lessons-Learned
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3/21/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The past two years have provided unpleasant lessons for several electric utilities and their customers. The challenge remains for those utilities and the utility industry to learn from those lessons and take actions to prevent their ...
therightinsight.org/Level-Playing-Field
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1/17/23 at 7:00 AM
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
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