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therightinsight.org/Social-Cost-of-Subsidies
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6/6/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Subsidy: a grant by a government to a private person or company to assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public.
The US federal government, several state governments and numerous local governments offer subsidies to assist ...
therightinsight.org/Socrates-Shrugged
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11/26/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.”, Socrates
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound ...
therightinsight.org/Solar-by-the-Numbers
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3/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Administration goal of a fossil free grid by 2035 would require that the renewable portion of grid energy supply be supported by additional renewable generation plus electricity storage. The hourly, daily, monthly and seasonal ...
therightinsight.org/Solar-Capacity-Factor
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3/26/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The capacity factor of solar photovoltaic generation systems varies as a function of geography, season, time of day, weather conditions and solar collector type. The most common utility scale solar array consists of numerous parallel rows ...
therightinsight.org/Solving-the-Climate-Crisis
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9/8/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis has released Solving the Climate Crisis, The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America, a majority staff report ...
therightinsight.org/Some-Irreverent-Independent-Thoughts-on-Independence-Day-2018
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7/3/18 at 9:35 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The United States was on the “bleeding edge” of the end of colonialism in 1776. The US is the most successful of the ex-colonies, but has not attempted to use that success to become a colonial power. The US voluntarily ...
therightinsight.org/Specter-of-Climategate
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8/1/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Climategate was an ugly blot on the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, the consensed climate science community and the IPCC in which they participated. The release of a batch of e-mails among a number of climate ...
therightinsight.org/Standards-of-Evidence
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1/29/19 at 5:45 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Paris Accords call for the developed nations to provide $100 billion per year by 2020 to fund climate change “adaptation and mitigation” programs in the developing nations. The Accords also call for the developed nations to ...
therightinsight.org/Standby-Generator-Issues
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9/27/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Intermittent renewable generation displaces a portion of the output of conventional coal and natural gas generators, but does not replace those generators. However, depending on intermittent renewable market penetration, the annual output ...
therightinsight.org/Stark-Reality
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12/3/19 at 7:25 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The focus of the UN-led initiatives regarding climate change has been almost exclusively on mitigation programs, although attention is now turning toward adaptation as well. This is a timely and welcome change, though mitigation is still ...
therightinsight.org/Stasis
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11/3/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Stasis : a state of static balance or equilibrium : stagnation – Merriam-Webster
All aspects of life on earth are subject to continual change. The changes are the result of numerous factors including: changes in the sun; changes in ...
therightinsight.org/Storage-by-the-Numbers
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3/15/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A reliable electric grid supplied predominantly or exclusively by intermittent renewable generators such as wind turbines and solar arrays would require massive energy storage to provide continuous power to the grid when the output of the ...
therightinsight.org/STUDY-96-percent-of-US-Climate-Data-is-Corrupted
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8/18/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Summer-warming-1895-2023-in-U-S-cities-exaggerated-by-100-from-the-urban-heat-island-effect
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10/12/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Suspend-Skepticism
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5/10/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Climate skeptics question assertions and projections which are not based on, or are in conflict with, observations and data. These are the common bases for skepticism regarding "adjusted” near-surface temperature measurements, &...
therightinsight.org/Tech-Forcing-Economics
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6/15/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Technology forcing is a regulatory strategy that establishes currently unachievable and uneconomic performance standards to be met at some future point in time. ... Basically, technology forcing sets regulatory standards and provides...
therightinsight.org/Tech-Forcing-Risks
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6/22/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Technology forcing is a regulatory strategy that establishes currently unachievable and uneconomic performance standards to be met at some future point in time. ... Basically, technology forcing sets regulatory standards and provides...
therightinsight.org/Technology-Forcing
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5/25/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Technology forcing is a regulatory strategy that establishes currently unachievable and uneconomic performance standards to be met at some future point in time. ... Basically, technology forcing sets regulatory standards and provides...
therightinsight.org/Technology-Forcing-2023
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6/27/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Government regulators periodically issue regulations which they are fully aware cannot be met with currently available technology; that is, the regulations force the development of the new technology needed to satisfy them within some ...
therightinsight.org/Technology-Forcing-2050
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6/1/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“Technology forcing is a regulatory strategy that establishes currently unachievable and uneconomic performance standards to be met at some future point in time. ... Basically, technology forcing sets regulatory standards and provides...
therightinsight.org/Temperature-and-Anomalies
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10/17/17 at 6:24 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Temperature-Graphs
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3/30/21 at 11:23 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The graph below shows proxy-based global annual temperature anomalies from proxies for the period approximately 800,000 years ago to the present. This graph shows the cyclical nature of global temperatures over the period. The ...
therightinsight.org/Temperature-Measurement-Bias
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7/31/18 at 7:56 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The evolution of ambient temperature measurement technology has exposed several fundamental biases in the measurements taken to monitor changes in the climate. These biases must be quantified and compensated for to maintain the integrity of...
therightinsight.org/Temperature-Variability
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4/27/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The consensed climate science community has argued that previous climate warming and cooling events were the result of natural variability, but that the recent warming is the result of increased anthropogenic CO2 concentrations in the ...
therightinsight.org/Temperature-Variability-2
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5/4/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The “Climate Crisis”, or “Climate Emergency”, or climate “Existential Threat” is an international political construct based on the projections of an ensemble of numerous, unverified climate models run ...
therightinsight.org/Temperature-Adjustments-ad-Infinitum
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3/6/18 at 6:27 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The temperature measurements taken to produce the global near-surface temperature anomaly record are “adjusted” for a variety of reasons. However, the measurements are not “adjusted” once, to achieve a ...
therightinsight.org/Thanksgiving-2022
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11/22/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
We have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving and much to be concerned about as well.
We can be thankful that the increased CO2 in the atmosphere has contributed to increased agricultural productivity, which is essential to feed our ...
therightinsight.org/Thanksgiving-2023
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11/21/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
We have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving and much about which to be concerned.
We can be thankful that the much-predicted “climageddon” has not occurred and does not appear to be imminent, or even reasonable, despite ...
therightinsight.org/The-15-Minute-City
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7/11/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The 15-Minute City is a relatively recent fascination of those interested in fomenting concern about climate change and using that concern to expand control over our lives.
The basic premise is a city, or section of a larger city, in which...
therightinsight.org/The-Adjustocene
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11/1/16 at 7:42 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The earth is currently experiencing the Holocene, the period of 11,700 years following the last major ice age. Some in the climate science community have begun referring to the most recent years of this period as the Anthropocene, ...
therightinsight.org/The-Battle-Lines-are-Drawn
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8/30/16 at 8:59 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Climate change is the most politically charged scientific issue of our time. The positions of the parties are summarized from their platforms below in the direct quotations below.
Republican Party Platform 2016
Information ...
therightinsight.org/The-Big-Lie
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6/25/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences ...
therightinsight.org/The-Big-Lie-2
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7/2/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
One of the keys to “success” of “The Big Lie”, according to Joseph Goebbels, is that its proponents “keep repeating it”. This requires either a media controlled by the proponents of the lie, or a ...
therightinsight.org/The-Big-Lie-3
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7/9/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The two historical components of “The Big Lie” are exaggeration of the situation and repetition of the exaggerated situation. In the case of climate change, the UNFCCC, the IPCC, national governments and the consensed climate ...
therightinsight.org/The-Big-Lie-About-Global-Warming
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9/7/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf-Hurricanes-and-Climate-Change
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10/31/17 at 8:10 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Hurricane Harvey was one of the most extensively and most accurately tracked and reported hurricanes in history. Predictions of its track, timing, intensity at landfall and expected precipitation amounts were extremely accurate. Federal and...
therightinsight.org/The-climate-crisis-isn-t-what-it-used-to-be
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12/1/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Conscience-of-a-Skeptic
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9/13/16 at 8:33 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
One of the principal foundations of science is measurement – the ability to determine what has happened or what is happening. The accuracy required of the measurement is frequently determined by the technical or economic ...
therightinsight.org/The-contradictory-Green-policies-to-limit-CO2-emissions
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4/13/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Cost-of-Net-Zero-Electrification-of-the-USA
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6/23/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Energy-Storage-Conundrum
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12/15/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Energy-Transition-Isnt
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10/5/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-extraordinary-climate-events-of-2022-24
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4/18/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Folly-Of-Climate-Leadership
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2/29/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Gates-Math-Formula
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8/2/16 at 6:28 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Bill Gates has propounded what he asserts is the math formula which will solve climate change.
P * S * E * C = CO2
Where: P is the population of the globe;
&...
therightinsight.org/The-Global-Warming-Doomsday-Religion-Is-A-Suicide-Pact-To-Wreck-Our-Economy
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3/30/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Impossibility-Of-Bridging-The-Last-10-On-The-Way-To-100-Clean-Electricity
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1/5/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Many-Costs-of-COP-21
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6/21/16 at 11:52 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things; of painted ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings.”
The pledges of GHG emissions reductions made by the developed country participants at COP 21 will impose ...
therightinsight.org/The-Mouse-That-Roared
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10/9/18 at 5:23 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
There are numerous interests attempting to influence the future course of the global response to climate change including the consensed climate change community, politicians, media outlets, non-government organizations (NGOs), allegedly ...
therightinsight.org/The-Myth-Of-Replacing-Fossil-Fuels
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7/27/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
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