I am not making this up __ Dave Berry, from just about every other column he has ever written Anyone who reads my stuff probably knows about Mark Jacobson’s lawsuit against Cristopher Clack and is probably even tired of it, but I just can’t help myself. Mark Jacobson has just tweeted out links to four … Continue reading
Author Archives: Mike Dombroski
Sorting Out What Happened in Texas
Following energy has given me a lot of anxiety over the stability of the grid, especially in winter. I’ve had my phones beep out warnings to turn the heat down during polar vortexes. But when I heard Texas might be vulnerable to an upcoming cold spell I was a scoffer. I was even overly flippant … Continue reading
Joint 10 Point 100% RE Declaration
A group calling itself the Global 100% RE Strategy Group has just made a press release for a 10 point joint declaration. It has seven main signers which, of course, includes Mark Jacobson of Stanford. The other six and their main affiliations are: Prof. Andrew Blakers (Australian National University)Hans-Josef Fell (Energy Watch Group)Prof. Brian Vad … Continue reading
Is Mark Steyn Walking into a Trap?
On Mark Steyn’s Se’nnight of Steyn, January 25-31 weekly recap, his most read piece was entitled, Penn State’s Institutional Wickedness. He talks about the new motions he’s filed for summary dismissal of Michael Mann’s eight year old libel lawsuit against him. He has a quote from the leaked Grande Jury presentment that caused a national … Continue reading
An Upbeat Look at Nuclear with Rod Adams
Robert Bryce’s Power Hungry podcast has a excellent interview with longtime nuclear energy blogger and podcaster Rod Adams. It’s almost two hours and has rather few views so I thought I’d post a little bit of background and highlights. Rod Adams is a slightly gruff looking Annapolis graduate (a ring knocker as he calls himself) … Continue reading
Jeff Bezos Gives Big Green to Big Green
According to Jeff Bezos’ paper, The Washington Post, he’s said he’s giving $791 million to 16 groups fighting climate change out of a $10 billion climate fund. The actual article is paywalled, but you can use the scroll bar for a couple seconds before the unremovable subscription pitch kicks in. Bloomberg has a post on … Continue reading
James Randi RIP
It ought to be of interest to anybody skeptical of anything that James (the Amazing) Randi has just died at the age of 92. As a kid in the 60’s and 70’s, I was a major UFO enthusiast with minors in ancient astronauts and bigfoot. I subscribed to publications from outfits such as NICAP (where … Continue reading
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Amazon Climate Book Rankings
I sort of like to keep up on who’s writing books about climate and how they’re doing. Amazon always has a list of product details that includes four rankings. There’s a best seller’s rank and three top categories ranks. Two people I follow closely have just written books so I thought I’d check out how … Continue reading
Tesla’s Battery Day
Yesterday was Tesla’s much anticipated battery day where they announced some of their major new battery developments. They have a 16 minute video with Elon Musk and another guy on stage wearing black t-shirts giving a summary. These developments sound very impressive to me. They appear to have found new manufacturing methods that will make … Continue reading
Peter Gleick Sticks Up for Malthusianism
2018 Sagan Prize winner, Peter Gleick, has written a review of Michael Shellenberger’s new book, Apocalypse Never and it’s been getting a lot of links from Shellenberger’s critics. He starts out with a description of the two opposed philosophies of Cornucopianism and Malthusianism and how they apply to environmentalism. The review is illustrated with side by … Continue reading
