Image: Earth Day irony: Promoting community or boosting unethical Chinese corporations?
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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly “Wednesday Wakeup” newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne…, starting with the strange way governments, including in Canada, supposedly learned a lesson about energy and sovereignty when Russia invaded Ukraine, then went back to sleep, woke up when the Iran War disrupted international oil supplies, and apparently dozed off again, a silly story about climate making orcas attack sharks solo, yet another AMOC scare story, claims that news outlets ignore climate change, and people clearcutting to get green subsidies, moving on to the US giving the IEA an ultimatum to drop its climate obsession, the EU not dropping its climate obsession, new claims that a three-year blip has overthrown climate science (and yes, it’s worse than the “settled science” claimed, as always), climate activists turning from harrying banks in a monomaniacal fashion to harrying their customers in a monomaniacal fashion, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into last summer’s “red team” climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on sea levels, Qing-bin Lu’s prediction based on his theory that halo-GHGs not the orthodox kind were driving late 20th-century warming that arctic ice will stop melting, which it seems to have so the orthodox models got tweaked to predict a hiatus, and, from the CO2Science.org archive, Buffel Grass loving CO2 although people can’t seem to decide whether they love it
Earth Day Reality Check
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