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...

  Welcome to another weekly collection of Examining ESG. This week features: SCIENCE • Extreme Weather and Climate Change • Saving Climate From the Greens INVESTMENT/ECONOMICS • The Earth and Civilization Have Been Saved By Fossil Fuels • A Wealth-Creating Way of Reducing Global CO2 Emissions • New Study Identifies Big Reductions In US Natural Gas Emissions • New York Shows Off Its Expertise In Central Planning: The Buffalo Billion • Why you shouldn’t be alarmed about unusually warm temperatures • Ronald Stein: Environmentalists’ silence on humanity and environmental atrocities • Trillions in taxpayer subsidies haven’t made wind and solar power cheaper or better for Americans • Abolish DEI Statements - Assessing a debate about a controversial hiring practice • Sustainable investments lagging interest: Mackenzie Investments survey ABSURDITIES • Melting ice both speeds up and slows down time • 'Net-Zero' a Problem? Just Change the Name! SCIENCE Extreme W...

  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...

I have assembled some quotes from the intellectual leaders of the global warming alarmist movement and links to some recent articles. it is amazing how completely wrong they have been, and always in the same direction. While they forecast things getting much worse, they actually got much better. To preface all this, here is a quote from Alex Epstein, author, energy expert and philosopher, who studies how supposed experts lead us astray.   “Imagine if we had followed the advice of some of our leading advisors then, many of whom are some of our leading advisors now, to severely restrict the energy source that billions of people used to lift themselves out of poverty in the last thirty years? We would have caused billions of premature deaths  - deaths that were prevented by our increasing use of fossil fuels. What happens if today’s predictions are just as wrong?” “Today, proposals to restrict fossil fuels are more popular than ever.” Alex Epstein , The Moral Case for Fossil...

Two political documents were just published at essentially the same time, but with opposite intentions. One is all about liberating the human mind in pursuit of life-promoting energy. The other is about using government force to stop citizens, energy producers, and energy sellers from speaking freely the truth about fossil fuels. First, the good stuff. Not being American but Canadian, and being in favour of any politician or political party that has pro-reason, pro-human, pro-rights policies, it is wonderful to see the Republican National Committee come out with an energy policy resolution that is likely the best one ever crafted. You can download it using this link , but the full text is below. How inspiring to see such a statement published in a world that has such irrational ideas about energy and prosperity!  RESOLUTION SUPPORTING A TRANSFORMATIVE ENERGY FREEDOM POLICY FOR AMERICA WHEREAS, Affordable, reliable energy is essential to American and human prosperity because it giv...