Examining ESG

 This week features: SCIENCE • HadCRUT Has Fully Removed 0.15°C From 1940s Warmth ‘Blip’ As Proposed In Climategate E-mails • Halfway Between Kyoto and 2050: Zero Carbon Is a Highly Unlikely Outcome • Annual GWPF lecture: Climate Uncertainty and Risk INVESTMENT/ECONOMICS • The amount of copper needed to build EVs is ‘impossible for mining companies to produce’ • Hertz's EV bet goes bust • Gwyn Morgan: Ottawa's EV mandate is in trouble and that's a good thing • Efforts To Oust ExxonMobil Chairman, Board Members Run Aground ABSURDITIES • New 'Godfather' Sequel Features Big Oil in the Lead Role HadCRUT Has Fully Removed 0.15°C From 1940s Warmth ‘Blip’ As Proposed In Climategate E-mails  "The amplitude of the recorded warmth in the 1940s was always a problem for purveyors of the human-caused global warming narrative. So the 1940s temperatures have been artificially cooled to make this less of a problem. In 2009, overseers of the HadCRUT global tempe...

  SCIENCE Pervasive Warming Bias in CMIP6 Tropospheric Layers  "It has long been known that previous generations of climate models exhibit excessive warming rates in the tropical troposphere. With the release of the CMIP6 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Version 6) climate model archive we can now update the comparison. We examined historical (hindcast) runs from 38 CMIP6 models in which the models were run using historically observed forcings. We focus on the 1979–2014 interval, the maximum for which all models and observational data are available and for which the models were run with historical forcings. What was previously a tropical bias is now global. All model runs warmed faster than observations in the lower troposphere and midtroposphere, in the tropics, and globally. On average, and in most individual cases, the trend difference is significant. Warming trends in models tend to rise with the model Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS), and we present evidence th...