Examining ESG

This week in Science we have a few angles on temperature records, starting with the long term where it is shown that solar system changes dominate, the short term of the last eight years are spot on the 30-year mean, another example of how measurement data has been "adjusted" to change a cooling trend into a warming trend, and a de-bunking of the idea that 2023 was the hottest year ever. In the Investment/Economics category we have a philosophical look at DEI/ESG interactions, ESG in decline, a look at hydrogen, and climate death manipulated data. In Absurdities, we have climate change being racist, and all the safety rails on roads would need to be replaced due to the heavy weight of EVs, just another massive un-considered cost. SCIENCE  The Phanerozoic climate  "We review the long-term climate variations during the last 540 million years (Phanerozoic Eon). We begin with a short summary of the relevant geological and geochemical datasets available for the reconstruction...