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therightinsight.org/Electricity-Prices-Are-Soaring-Its-Time-to-Hold-the-Energy-Transition-Accountable
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1/18/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Emissions-by-the-Numbers
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5/21/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
In my commentary “Emissions or Equity”, I discussed the philosophical issues regarding global “greenhouse gas” emissions reductions. Now let’s look at the numbers.
The graph below shows the trends in global ...
therightinsight.org/Emissions-or-Equity
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5/14/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The first argument of the consensed climate science community is that global “greenhouse gas” emissions must be reduced to avoid a potential future climate catastrophe if the global average near-surface temperature increase ...
therightinsight.org/End-Subsidies
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8/27/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US government currently subsidizes utility scale wind and solar generation, transmission and electricity storage, in competition with coal, natural gas and nuclear generation. The government also subsidizes on-site residential and ...
therightinsight.org/Endangered-Species-Reconsideration-of-the-EPA-Endangerment-Finding
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5/30/17 at 6:57 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Endangerment-Unfound
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3/10/25 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Clean Air Act (CAA) became law in 1970. It was later amended in 1970 and 1990. Congress considered including CO2 emissions under the Act but elected not to do so both during debate on the Act and during debates on the amendments.
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therightinsight.org/Energy-Inflation-Was-by-Design
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10/27/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/The-Consensus-on-Climate-Change-Facts-and-Myths
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"No challenge--no challenge--poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. 2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn’t make a trend, but this does: 14 of the 15... |
therightinsight.org/Energy-Security-is-National-Security
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4/27/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Energy-Transition-Goal
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1/30/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Administration’s stated goal for the energy transition is an energy system with “Net Zero” CO2 emissions after conversion of all energy end uses to all-electric systems. I often find, when trying to visualize a ...
therightinsight.org/Energy-Transition-Inflation
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11/19/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Energy has been described as the master resource as it affects virtually all aspects of our lives. Therefore, energy cost inflation has the potential to drive inflation throughout the economy.
The ongoing energy transition toward “...
therightinsight.org/Energy-Transition-Security
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12/3/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Energy security is critical for advanced societies. The most secure energy system relies on diverse domestic resources and infrastructure with a comfortable margin of safety under peak demand conditions. This is the type of energy system ...
therightinsight.org/Energy-User-Responsibility
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2/27/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Energy-War-Similarities
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I...
therightinsight.org/Energy-Climate-and-Freedom
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2/10/25 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US and most of the developed nations have set various energy and climate goals, either in legislation or by executive action. These goals are typically intended to achieve Net Zero by 2050. Goals were set for specific sectors of their ...
therightinsight.org/Enlightened-Self-interest-Opposition-to-Trumps-Environmental-Policies
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5/23/17 at 6:28 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Prior to the US election in November 2016 the UNFCCC, the IPCC, the signatories to the Paris Accords and numerous environmental NGOs were quietly confident that the expected future Clinton Administration would continue the environmental ...
therightinsight.org/EPA-Endangerment-Finding
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5/9/17 at 7:07 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Several commentators have identified rescission or substantial revision of the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding regarding CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” as the key to achieving the Trump Administration’s environmental ...
therightinsight.org/Epstein-on-Energy-Fossil_Future-on-Deck
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3/5/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Estimates-and-Averages
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10/3/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Developers of renewable energy generation installations frequently focus their marketing efforts on estimates of the number of homes the installations would serve. The developers’ estimates are not based on consistent assumptions and ...
therightinsight.org/EV-Precautions
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11/15/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Precautionary Principle: An expression of a need by decision-makers to anticipate harm before it occurs. Within this element lies an implicit reversal of the onus of proof: under the precautionary principle it is the responsibility of an ...
therightinsight.org/Evidence-Communication
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12/15/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A recent article in the journal Nature suggested five fundamental rules for evidence communication which apply well to science communication, though they are not always followed, particularly in climate science.
therightinsight.org/Existential-Threat
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8/9/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The United Nations and several national governments have begun referring to climate change as an existential threat, meaning a threat to the future existence of life on earth. This is a political position intended to draw attention to the ...
therightinsight.org/Exploiters-Versus-Experts
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12/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
From: Climate Etc.
By: Planning Engineer (Russell Schussler)
Date: November 28, 2022
Exploiters Versus Experts
The unfolding saga around FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange currently in bankruptcy, appears to share ...
therightinsight.org/Extension-of-the-linear-carbon-sink-model-temperature-matters
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9/19/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/EXTRA-Some-Thoughts-on-Independence-Day-2017
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7/5/17 at 9:03 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The American colonies did not declare independence from Britain and fight the Revolutionary War with Britain to achieve that independence for the United States of America, only to surrender that independence less than 250 years later and ...
therightinsight.org/Fact-or-Fancy
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5/3/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Simple Definition of fact
: something that truly exists or happens
: something that has actual existence
: a true piece of information
Simple Definition of fancy
: to believe mistakenly or without evidence
: to believe without being ...
therightinsight.org/Factual
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8/11/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
- factual: of or relating to facts; restricted to or based on fact (Merriam-Webster)
- nonfactual: not relating to, concerned with or based on facts (Merriam-Webster)
- counterfactual: contrary to fact (Merriam-Webster)
- deceptive: tending or...
therightinsight.org/Falling-into-the-Trap
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1/12/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Numerous individuals and organizations, including Clintel and the Copenhagen Consensus Center, have calculated the potential effect of US CO2 emissions reductions on global average temperatures or temperature anomalies in the future. These ...
therightinsight.org/False-Energy-Transition-The-View-from-Australia
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5/16/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Fauci-Fear-Balance-and-the-Grid
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5/25/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Feasibility-for-achieving-a-net-zero-economy-for-the-US-by-2050
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3/23/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Financial-Mechanism-of-the-Convention
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6/1/16 at 11:30 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at COP 16 in 2010, as an operating entity of the Financial Mechanism of the Convention. The original intent was for the developed ...
therightinsight.org/Fire-Starters
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6/2/25 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Fires require a source of ignition at a temperature above the ignition temperature of the available combustible material and possessing sufficient energy to raise the temperature of the available combustible material above its ignition ...
therightinsight.org/Focus-on-the-Magma
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2/9/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
magma: molten rock material within the earth from which igneous rock results by cooling Merriam-Webster
The land surfaces of the earth and the bottom surfaces of the earth’s oceans compose the earth’s crust, a...
therightinsight.org/Fossil-and-Non-Fossil-Fuels
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8/10/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
From: Watts Up With That
By: Willis Eschenbach
Date: July 7, 2023
Fossil and Non-Fossil Fuels
In my previous post, The Myth Of Replacing Fossil Fuels, I looked at the new BP global use of fossil and non-fossil fuels. In this ...
therightinsight.org/Fraudulent-Fantasy
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1/23/24 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The UN and numerous national governments are promoting the fantasy that the global energy economy can transition to a fossil-fuel-free, all-electric everything energy economy by 2050. In this fantasy, intermittent renewable generation ...
therightinsight.org/From-Idealism-to-Realism
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2/21/25 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Full-Disclosure-Solar
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6/21/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Solar is intermittent. Therefore, solar generation is intermittent. Solar is unreliably available during the day and reliably unavailable at night. Solar conditions vary geographically and seasonally. Therefore, solar generation potential ...
therightinsight.org/Full-Disclosure-Storage
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6/28/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Wind and solar are intermittent resources, so both wind and solar generation are intermittent and require backup. This backup is currently provided by conventional generation. However, with the evolution of a fossil-free grid, storage ...
therightinsight.org/Full-Disclosure-System
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7/5/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The fossil-free, all-electric everything grid envisioned to avoid catastrophic anthropogenic climate change would be a very different grid from that which serves the US today. The fossil-free grid would still include the non-fossil ...
therightinsight.org/Full-Disclosure-Wind
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6/14/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Wind is intermittent. Therefore, wind generation is intermittent. Wind is unreliably available around the clock. Wind conditions vary geographically and seasonally. Therefore, wind generation potential varies geographically and seasonally. ...
therightinsight.org/Full-Disclosure-of-Climate-Research
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6/19/18 at 7:17 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
One of the hallmarks of scientific research is the reproducibility of research results by other researchers. However, reproducibility is extremely difficult, if not impossible, if all of the data, all of the analytical approaches, all of ...
therightinsight.org/Future-Grid
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1/24/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
"The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots." Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
It currently appears that the Administration’s vision of the future US electric grid, supplied ...
therightinsight.org/Future-World-How-Many-Windmills-Would-We-Need
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6/6/17 at 8:51 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US currently consumes approximately 97 quadrillion British Thermal Units (BTU) of energy in all forms each year (97 Quads). Since this quantity of energy and the forms of energy which constitute it vary over time, this analysis will use...
therightinsight.org/Gas-Appliance-Phaseout
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2/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Achieving Net Zero GHG emissions by 2050 would require a complete phaseout of residential and commercial gas appliances, including furnaces and boilers, water heaters, ranges and ovens, laundry dryers, grills, and standby generators.
US ...
therightinsight.org/Gas-Generation-Phaseout
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1/18/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US currently generates more than 500,000,000 Megawatt-hours, or approximately 25% of electric utility annual electricity production, in coal-fueled generating stations, which the Administration has said will all cease operation by 2030....
therightinsight.org/GISSTEMP-Accuracy
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9/10/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies recently issued a news release regarding new studies of the accuracy of the GISTEMP global temperature anomaly product. Based on the results of these studies, NASA GISS currently estimates that ...
therightinsight.org/Global-Greening
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9/4/18 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A recent study by a multinational group of scientists has determined that: “From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric ...
therightinsight.org/Global-Man-Made-CO2-emissions-1965-2021-BP-Data
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8/4/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Global-Temperature
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2/2/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
Model projections of future climate focus on temperature anomalies compared to temperatures in a 30-year climate reference period. The inputs to these models include estimates of climate sensitivity, solar forcing, atmospheric feedback and ...
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