Losing the narrative: Climate change causes inflation
Or something: Bank of Canada plans to keep eye on climate change impact on inflation | The Star
Sounds just like inept Covid messaging: “Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class”
No kidding: Increasingly, even climate scientists are noting that the constant, and often poorly supported doomsaying threaten the credibility of the movement itself. And there have been quiet reversals; the…
Follow up: 2021 Fire Season
Some forecasts in early summer suggested the U.S. would experience its worse fire season on record. This is a follow up with an early look back at what actually happened;…
Costs of charging an EV
Study says EV charging can exceed costs of fueling costs: The study has four major findings: There are four additional costs to powering EVs beyond electricity: cost of a home…
This sure looks like the goal is to control the people
This Nature item advocates taxing EVs by weight, saying because batteries are heavy, models say EVs will result in more highway fatalities (all things being equal – but what if…
Long lasting fire retardant approved for use against wildfires
Neat! The U.S. Forest Service approved Perimeter Solutions’ fire retardant that’s intended to be used as a preventative measure and can last for months. Source: Fire retardant could be ‘game-changer’…
“Flight shaming”: Global travel should be banned.
Saving the planet requires that we stop gaping and gawking at travel blogs and vacation selfies. Instead, everyone who cares about the environment should shame those who clamber onto an…
California banning New gas powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers
Source: CA moves to end sale of gas powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers | The Sacramento Bee Switching to EV lawn mowers will have no impact on air pollution relative…
Climate Change to Be Treated as Public-Health Issue
So it will be managed as competently as Covid-19? The new federal office—designed to address what the White House says are health risks that disproportionately affect poor and minority communities—is…
Next up: A push to ban air travel
Air travelers create a lot of greenhouse gas emissions that mostly harm other, less well-to-do people. Source: Opinion: Big Tech flies too much. It’s time for these companies to practice…
Random correlations are not science conclusions
About as weak a study as you can find: Link between wildfires and COVID cases established. This poor quality paper is receiving mountains of press coverage purporting to link the…
52 billion face masks were thrown away in 2020
Good thing this environmental degradation was for a good cause – it stopped Covid dead in its tracks!
Six US States ban the sale of high end gaming computers because “climate change”
My house is powered by solar photovoltaic panels – why should my use of a gaming PC be prohibited? I generate my own power, carbon free. US States California, Colorado,…
Electric vehicles are not a panacea to controlling climate
Read the whole thing: Opinion: The unintended harm of subsidizing electric vehicles and charging stations – MarketWatch
About the high heat here in the PNW
The high heat here in the PNW over the next few days is caused by a combination of factors, including atmospheric waves that have created and inland high pressure system,…