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July 2023: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs.
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Carbon Dioxide Benefits the World:
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The media weather people are as dishonest as the news and political news people are...In the UK for this example, there has been an absence of the typical heatwave for this summer...Where have all the headlines been stating this cooler summer?...When the heatwave was present last year the headlines were in panic mode and raging about the climate change, but when it's cooler that's not news worthy?...
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No One Talks About It: Solar System “Climate Change”… Happening Beyond Planet Earth
Mysteriously, warming is happening across the solar system. The one common factor is at the center of it all: the sun.
Because man is burning fossil fuels, our planet is allegedly becoming increasingly covered by a blanket of “heat-trapping” greenhouse gases, scientists like to make people believe. The recent global warming simply couldn’t have anything to do with the sun, they insist. They’re likely way off the mark.
Today German prof. Stefan Homburg tweeted a summary of warming that’s happening at other places within our solar system, suggesting the sun is behind it.
“Global warming isn’t only happening on earth,” he tweets.
Triton has warmed 3°K
For example, warming is happening on Triton, Neptune’s moon. According to Germany’s wissenschaft.de: “Neptune’s giant moon Triton is the first body in the solar system where global warming could be detected.”According to measurements, the atmospheric pressure doubled and the temperature rose 3 degrees Kelvin. “The cause is probably higher solar irradiation of the nitrogen ice cap at Triton’s south pole.”
Mars warmed 0.65°K since 1970s
German online news weekly Stern also reported in 2007: “The average temperature on Mars has risen by about 0.65 degrees Celsius since the 1970s,” citing American astronomers. Blamed here, though, are Martian dust storms. Why would dust storms on Mars be getting stronger? It’s likely linked to increased solar activity.The Moon 3°C warmer, due to man!
Newly analyzed temperature data show the surface temperature of the moon raised by about three degrees Celsius, reported Germany’s Business Insider here in 2018. But NASA blames the astronauts! “By walking around and poking at the lunar surface.”“Climate change” on Pluto
According to www.wissenschaft.de here, Pluto’s atmosphere has warmed to being 40°K warmer than the temperature at the surface (-220°C). The reason for this temperature gradient is the “absorption of sunlight [by methane] reflected from Pluto’s surface into the atmosphere.”Methane makes up only half a percent of Pluto’s atmosphere. This small fraction heats the atmosphere in sunlight.
But not only Triton, Pluto and Mars are warming in our solar system, as Prof. Homburg suggests, other planets are warming as well. And there’s only one common denominator: The Sun. Global warming scientists do all they can to ignore this rampaging elephant in the room.
Jupiter’s “planetary heat wave”
Scientists last year found “an unexpected ‘heat wave’ of 700 degrees Celsius, extending 130,000 kilometers in Jupiter’s atmosphere.”What’s behind it? Jupiter experiences variable intensity auroras around its poles as an effect of the solar wind.
Saturn heating
The surface of Saturn has been “slowly heating up” as well, reports Popular Science here. But NASA blames Saturn’s rings for the recent phenomenon.“According to the paper, the most feasible explanation is that icy ring particles raining down onto Saturn’s atmosphere cause this heating. writes Popular Science. “A few things could be driving this shower of particles, including the impact of micrometeorites, bombardments with particles from solar wind, solar ultraviolet radiation, or electromagnetic forces picking up electrically charged dust. Additionally, Saturn’s gravitational field is pulling particles into the planet while this is all occurring.
Note how it’s never the sun’s solar activity and variability. It’s always some mysterious explanation. Yet, there’s a reason why it’s called the “solar” system. It’s because the sun is at its center, and so its solar storms and variability impact all the bodies in it.
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Grand Solar Minimum: The Future Looks Cold
In recent years, the Sun has been at its weakest state in more than a century, with the two most recent solar cycles (24 and 25) on course to be the weakest pair in more than 200 years, since the Dalton Minimum.This is revealed by the sunspot count (shown below) — a great barometer for solar activity:
Sunspot count, SC5 to SC25 [SWPC/NOAA].
The Sun’s output ebbs and flows on a roughly 11-year cycle.
As visualized above, the most recently completed solar cycle (24) finished up closely matching those of ‘The Centennial Minimum’ (≈1880-1914) — the previous multi-cycle period of low output, aka a ‘Grand Solar Minimum’ (GSM).
Grand Solar Minimums themselves can also range in depth and length, and, crucially for all of inhabitants of Earth, these factors determine the severity of the accompanying ‘global cooling’. The Centennial Minimum was a modest GSM.
Conversely, one of the strongest on record was the ‘Maunder Minimum’ (1645-1715) which, as documented by NASA, sent Europe and North America into a “deep freeze”:
The above facts are no longer permitted in mainstream scientific debates, and calling them out sees you instantly dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. History, however, will view this censorship very poorly, likely seeing it as an illustration of the dangers of propagandizing.
Discovery, it would appear, is no longer welcome in the field of climate science, we apparently know all that there is to know. But in reality, this suppression is a necessity if the AGW train is to keep on rolling. It stands that the return of a cyclically waning Sun would instantly flush alarmists’ claims of a never-ending temperature rise down the proverbial pan.
The climate system is immensely complex; to claim otherwise exposes a blinding ignorance.
Case in point: while Earth’s overall temperature trends colder during prolonged bouts of low solar activity, not all regions experience the chill. As visualized in NASA’s ‘Maunder Minimum Reconstruction Map’ (shown below), areas such as the Arctic, Alaska, and the North Atlantic actually warm during spells of otherwise ‘global’ cooling. It could be argued that this chimes with what we’re seeing today, and, unlike the baseless ‘Polar Amplification Theory’, could explain why the Arctic is warming while the Antarctic is cooling.
The Sun also goes through Grand Solar MAXIMUMS, periods of unusually high solar activity. The most recent maximum, ‘The Modern Maximum‘, ran through the years 1914 –the end of the Centennial Minimum– to 2007. Global temperatures increased during this period (“global warming”) and have only recently, after a multi-year lag likely tied to ocean inertia, begun threatening to come back down.
Returning to past Grand Solar Minimums, ‘The Dalton Minimum’ was another key one. It ran from 1790 to 1820, and is clearly discernible on the sunspot chart below:
Sunspot count, SC1 to SC25 [SWPC/NOAA].
Like the deeper Maunder before it, the Dalton brought about a period of lower-than-average global temperatures. Historical documentation reveals that the Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2C decline over just 20 years, which devastated the country’s food production and led to widespread hardships and ultimately famine.
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Climategate 'hide the decline' explained by Berkeley professor Richard A. Muller.
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This article summarizes recent scientific dissent about the prevailing climate change narrative.
Science article referred to in the story
Challenges in the detection and attribution of Northern Hemisphere surface temperature trends since 1850
Era of ‘Unquestioned and Unchallenged’ Climate Change Claims Is Over
[non-paywall URL: https://archive.ph/UMPYJ ]Science article referred to in the story
Challenges in the detection and attribution of Northern Hemisphere surface temperature trends since 1850
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U.S. Hits Carbon Tech Milestone with First Direct-Air Capture Facility
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Shashank Samala, co-founder and CEO of Heirloom Carbon, at the company headquarters in Brisbane, California, on October 9, 2023.
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Corbin Hiar,E&E News | November 10, 2023
CLIMATEWIRE | TRACY, Calif. — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm used a pair of oversized red scissors Thursday to cut the ribbon on a potentially significant achievement in the battle against climate change: the first commercial direct air capture facility in the United States.
The new plant — built by Heirloom Carbon Technologies — is relatively small in terms of its direct impact on the planet. Heirloom estimates that, when fully operational in the coming months, the facility will be capable of removing 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere per year. That’s roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of just 62 average Americans, according to pollution data crunched by the nonprofit World Resources Institute.
But the real significance of the plant is the potential it signifies for a nascent industry that climate scientists say will be necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. It shows that a homegrown direct air capture company can scale from conception to commercialization in just three years — with even bigger plans on the horizon.
“We have been polluting with carbon our atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution and you cannot unpollute. Except with this,” Granholm said in a speech before she was handed the ceremonial shears. “We see such promise in this company, and in this technology and in what it does for the world.”
Joining Granholm for the photo opportunity at the dusty industrial site was California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, as well as Heirloom co-founders Shashank Samala and Noah McQueen.
Samala, a startup veteran, founded Heirloom in 2020 with McQueen, who at the time was working on a doctorate in chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. McQueen’s adviser at UPenn was Jennifer Wilcox, who now leads the Energy Department’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management.
On Thursday, Wilcox was sitting in the front row to applaud both her boss and former student. Other attendees included executives from JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Mitsubishi and other companies that are major purchasers of carbon dioxide removal credits. Heirloom has also received investments from Microsoft and a grant from DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy.
Heirloom’s new Tracy facility uses sheets of limestone stacked some 40 feet high to pull carbon from the atmosphere. When each sheet has absorbed the maximum amount of CO2, a robotic arm pulls it from the stack and loads it onto a Roomba-like device that automatically delivers the carbon-soaked limestone to an electric kiln.
The kiln, which is powered by renewable energy provided by Pacific Gas and Electric, uses 1,600-degree heat to separate the carbon from the limestone. The pure CO2 is collected in a 30-ton storage tank and eventually provided to concrete companies for permanent storage. The limestone, meanwhile, goes back in the stack to suck up more carbon and start the process all over again.
In August, Heirloom was one of three direct air capture companies selected by the Energy Department to begin building a pair of industrial hubs intended to eventually withdraw 2 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere annually. The other firms are Climeworks, which removes 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year at the world’s largest direct air capture facility in Iceland, and Carbon Engineering, a Canadian startup that Occidental Petroleum has moved to purchase for $1.1 billion.
Granholm, who said her office whiteboard features a countdown of the days remaining in President Joe Biden’s first term, urged Heirloom and the other carbon removal investors and innovators in the audience to move as quickly as possible to deploy the technology.
“This past year was the hottest year on record. And unless we get our act together, it’s gonna be the coolest year we will ever experience” again, she said. “There is a huge sense of urgency.”
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U.S. Hits Carbon Tech Milestone with First Direct-Air Capture Facility
A new facility will suck carbon dioxide from the air, showcasing the potential of a nascent industry that some say is crucial to fighting climate changeCorbin Hiar,E&E News | November 10, 2023
CLIMATEWIRE | TRACY, Calif. — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm used a pair of oversized red scissors Thursday to cut the ribbon on a potentially significant achievement in the battle against climate change: the first commercial direct air capture facility in the United States.
The new plant — built by Heirloom Carbon Technologies — is relatively small in terms of its direct impact on the planet. Heirloom estimates that, when fully operational in the coming months, the facility will be capable of removing 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere per year. That’s roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of just 62 average Americans, according to pollution data crunched by the nonprofit World Resources Institute.
But the real significance of the plant is the potential it signifies for a nascent industry that climate scientists say will be necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. It shows that a homegrown direct air capture company can scale from conception to commercialization in just three years — with even bigger plans on the horizon.
“We have been polluting with carbon our atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution and you cannot unpollute. Except with this,” Granholm said in a speech before she was handed the ceremonial shears. “We see such promise in this company, and in this technology and in what it does for the world.”
Joining Granholm for the photo opportunity at the dusty industrial site was California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, as well as Heirloom co-founders Shashank Samala and Noah McQueen.
Samala, a startup veteran, founded Heirloom in 2020 with McQueen, who at the time was working on a doctorate in chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. McQueen’s adviser at UPenn was Jennifer Wilcox, who now leads the Energy Department’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management.
On Thursday, Wilcox was sitting in the front row to applaud both her boss and former student. Other attendees included executives from JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Mitsubishi and other companies that are major purchasers of carbon dioxide removal credits. Heirloom has also received investments from Microsoft and a grant from DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy.
Heirloom’s new Tracy facility uses sheets of limestone stacked some 40 feet high to pull carbon from the atmosphere. When each sheet has absorbed the maximum amount of CO2, a robotic arm pulls it from the stack and loads it onto a Roomba-like device that automatically delivers the carbon-soaked limestone to an electric kiln.
The kiln, which is powered by renewable energy provided by Pacific Gas and Electric, uses 1,600-degree heat to separate the carbon from the limestone. The pure CO2 is collected in a 30-ton storage tank and eventually provided to concrete companies for permanent storage. The limestone, meanwhile, goes back in the stack to suck up more carbon and start the process all over again.
In August, Heirloom was one of three direct air capture companies selected by the Energy Department to begin building a pair of industrial hubs intended to eventually withdraw 2 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere annually. The other firms are Climeworks, which removes 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year at the world’s largest direct air capture facility in Iceland, and Carbon Engineering, a Canadian startup that Occidental Petroleum has moved to purchase for $1.1 billion.
Granholm, who said her office whiteboard features a countdown of the days remaining in President Joe Biden’s first term, urged Heirloom and the other carbon removal investors and innovators in the audience to move as quickly as possible to deploy the technology.
“This past year was the hottest year on record. And unless we get our act together, it’s gonna be the coolest year we will ever experience” again, she said. “There is a huge sense of urgency.”
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Temperatures hit MINUS 40C as Sweden sees its coldest January night for 25 years
Temperatures fell below minus 40 degrees Celsius in the Nordic region for a second day in a row Wednesday, with the coldest January temperature recorded in Sweden in 25 years.In Kvikkjokk-Årrenjarka in Swedish Lapland, the mercury dropped to minus 43.6C (minus 46.5 F), the coldest temperature in the country in January since 1999, Sweden's TT news agency reported.
Nikkaluokta, a village inhabited by indigenous Sami people, recorded a temperature of minus 41.6C on Tuesday.
The village is in Lapland, which stretches from northern parts of Norway through Sweden and Finland to Russia.
Ida Dahlström, of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, said northern Sweden had overnight temperatures of minus 25-35C 'and the cold seems to stay there for the rest of the week.'
Sweden's lowest ever recorded January temperature was -49C (-56F) on January 27, 1999, in the town of Karesuando near the Finnish border.
The latest icy spell - which has also brought snow and gale-force winds - disrupted transport throughout the Nordic region, with several bridges closed and some train and ferry services suspended. Several schools in Scandinavia were closed.
Meteorologist Mattias Lind, of Sweden's national weather agency SMHI, said of the -43.6C figure: 'To put that into perspective, that is the lowest January temperature in Sweden since 1999.'
It was also the lowest temperature recorded at that specific spot since measurements began in 1888, he added.
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Death Valley could get SNOW for the first time in over 100 years: Weather forecast shows at least four inches is set to fall over two days this month
One of the hottest places on the planet is expected to see several inches of snow in coming weeks - the first measurable amount of snowfall in over a century.Death Valley, found in Inyo County, California, against Nevada's border, has earned a reputation as the driest national park in the U.S.
With daily summer temperatures regularly exceeding 100 degrees, the valley has earned the moniker of 'a land of extremes' from the National Park Service.
Mountains around the park are occasionally dusted with powder, but snow on the valley floor is exceedingly rare.
The last time any measurable amount fell was in January 1922, when half an inch was measured at a weather station at Greenland Ranch, according to the National Weather Service.
Only trace amounts have been recorded since then, mostly recently in 1974. But the park could see up to four inches of snow on January 17 and 18, according to a forecast by weather modelling service WXCharts.
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