Examining ESG

  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...

 This week we bring you a shorter list than recent posts, but a notable focus on one truly horrific story (see Culling for Climate) about an intellectual leader Bill McGuire, author of HOTHOUSE EARTH: AN INHABITANT'S GUIDE, who let slip how evil his ideas truly are.  SCIENCE • The cloud thermostat is the dominant climate controlling mechanism • Scientific Integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters” • #GettingWorse: Global wildfires edition INVESTMENT/ECONOMICS • Even Stupider Than The Stupidest Litigation In The Country • Culling for Climate • The Retreat From ESG Proxy Voting ABSURDITIES • 17 Million Scottish Trees Lost to Big Wind SCIENCE The cloud thermostat is the dominant climate controlling mechanism Dr John F Clauser was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics for his experiments with quantum entanglement. Dr Clauser demonstrates, based on his recent groundbreaking research, that there are serious faults in the IPCC models of the Earth’s atmosphere and...

  A whole lot of science this week: Temperature and CO2: cause and effect The IPCC’s new hockey stick Holocene temperature variations Iceland’s ice not melting Greenland near lowest temp of last 10,000 years The end of el-Nino brings cold for the coming years No trend in Rainfall   Also a bunch of Investment/Economic articles: The regulatory climate disclosure fraud Flawed ESG statistics Canadian fund disclosures required, but complete lack of due diligence by regulators ESG series in Invesmtent Executive, again no due diligence Exxon on the offensive Banks shoot themselves in the foot by adopting ESG Nearly useless battery energy storage Diversity hiring is racist   And then Absurdities: Chopping down 120,000 to place industrial wind turbines to save the environment A true ban on fossil fuels would quickly force a reality check. Will any...

This week we have a batch of science, including a dive into the greenhouse effect and how CO2 change has not affected it, a low CO2 climate sensitivity, CO2 fertilizing and greening the Earth, and recent low cyclone activity.  In the investment/economics category we have the high cost of climate alarmism, ESG manager exodus, the failure of plastic bags, ESG bait-and-switch, the woke investing disaster, net-zero modelling errors, stealing with solar, and DEI captures scientists.  And finally, in the theatre of the absurd, $4M cost per green job, the giant footprint of urban agriculture, and the fantasy of battery locomotives. SCIENCE Revisiting the greenhouse effect – a hydrological perspective and commentary at New Study Finds The Post-1900 CO2 Rise Has Not Discernibly Altered The Greenhouse Effect  "Variations in the greenhouse effect are predominantly modulated by water vapor and cloud cover. CO2’s role in the greenhouse effect is so minor it cannot be discerned." The a...

This week in the Science category I bring you the tantalizing possibility that hydrocarbons may have not only a biogenic origin, but an abiogenic one, where hydrocarbons are created at high temperature and pressure deep in the Earth, followed by a review of research purporting that the vast majority of scientific papers support the man-made global warming hypothesis, then data on cyclone and burned area trends. Under Investment/Economics we have articles on climate safety denial, alternative energy reality checks, ESG fund trends, wind and solar sick days and opposition to a battery plant. For Absurdities this week I bring you the Extinction clock, rapid-wearing EV tires and boiling testicles.  Check it out. SCIENCE Abiogenic Deep Origin of Hydrocarbons and Oil and Gas Deposits Formation This chapter from the peer-reviewed book "Hydrocarbon" examines the rationale for the creation of hydrocarbons deep in the earth by a combination of high temperatures and pressures. This is ...

The Guardian newspaper is well known to be one of the most climate-alarmist papers. On the occasion of the 28th Conference Of The Parties (COP28), they published an article titled " The Climate Crisis Explained in 10 Charts " that provides an excellent series of examples of how to misuse statistics, omit full context, and demonstrate biases. Let's have a look at some of them. This post will look at some of the problems with just the first graph referenced by the Guardian, and their short text attached to it. Let's list the errors, omissions, and biases in this very small dose of Guardian information, and perhaps I'll show the extent of errors in other Guardian graphs in future posts. I do think examining just the first one tells you all you need to know about the likely quality of the rest, since it reveals a deeply untrustworthy source of information. Figure 1 - from the Guardian. Note that I take no exception to the data presented since it is an objective measu...