Tag: weather
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Volcanoes, Oceans and Weather
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Jul. 27, 2022) — Despite Green/ABC propaganda, recent Australian floods were not caused by coal, cattle or cars. Weather is driven by winds; solar energy powers the winds and draws moisture for them from the oceans. These eternal natural rain-making processes have been aided recently by…
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Do Wind Farms Change the Weather?
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2022 (Mar. 8, 2022) — The effect of lots of wind turbines on weather and climate is a small but active research area. Wind power converts wind energy into electricity, thereby removing that energy from the air. The research issue of how taking a lot of energy out might affect weather…
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Weather, Climate and Model Madness
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2021 (Sep. 14, 2021) — Weather or climate? It pays to know the difference before we slaughter our economy on the climate alarm altar. “Weather” describes atmospheric conditions at any location – temperature, humidity, clouds precipitation and winds. Every place has its own weather which depends on…
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Publication Recommendation: “The Week That Was”
February 8, 2021 Dear Friends and Colleagues: I am a longtime subscriber and supporter of SEPP. You can sign up free of charge and decide whether or not you’d like to keep reading. Click on the URL and you get this week’s issue which is available first thing Monday morning. Here is the link: http://www.sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm…
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The Poor Get Disconnected
“GREEN HEAVEN” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club It was a night to celebrate the Green goals had been won. The last coal mine was firmly shut and all adored the sun. Their panels covered all the flats and turbines spiked the hills. The young got stoned on ethanol and oldies got…
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Following Foolish Forecasts
“DOCTORED DATA” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (May 5, 2019) — Well-trained meteorologists with mountains of real data and massive computers cannot forecast the weather more than a few days ahead. But make-believe academic “climatologists” using doctored data have created over 100 complicated computer models pretending to forecast global climate decades…
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No Meat to Eat
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (May 1, 2019) — They told us to stop eating meat Or the skies would soon overheat.But the weather started snowingAnd the blizzards started blowingAnd soon there was no meat to eat. Viv Forbesvforbes@bigpond.com
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Fake Climate Science and Scientists
ALARMISTS GAME THE SYSTEM TO ENRICH AND EMPOWER THEMSELVES, AND HURT EVERYONE ELSE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Apr. 29, 2019) — The multi-colored placard in front of a $2-million home in North Center Chicago proudly proclaimed, “In this house we believe: No human is illegal” – and “Science is real” (plus a few other liberal…
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A Green New Deal? Really? Paris Accords? — Stop the Insanity!
“QUI BONO?“ March 29, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Please forgive me, but I must, once again, beat this horse, because it refuses to die. Too many folks, who should know better, are insisting that massive action must be taken to stop climate change – because they “truly believe” it is a life-and-death matter. Such…
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Surviving “the Worst Evaaaah”
“BE PREPARED” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (Feb. 28, 2019) — To view in your browser click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cyclones-and-green-energy.pdf The media loves disaster stories – floods, cyclones, heat waves, droughts and fires – each one “the worst Evaaaah” (evaah since the last one). Each report of catastrophe is usually followed by a…
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Old Frank: Here’s a Thought We Can All Agree With
“CLIMATE HAS ALWAYS CHANGED” January 30, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Everybody east of the Cascades is shivering with near-record cold from the scary “polar vortex.” And meanwhile, ‘great minds’ like California’s Jerry Brown, New York’s Governor Cuomo, and that of my very own, new Governor Northam here in Virginia, joined by members of Congress…
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How Does One Model Chaos or Command Conversion to 100% “Renewable” Energy?
“USE YOUR MINDS” December 9, 2018 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Here I go again – I can’t help myself. Idiocy is gaining traction and I (we) should not sit still for it. I’m referring to the new darling of the left – the increasingly loud, but woefully under-educated Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). She is calling…
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Weather, Climate, Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming
“NATURE RULES, NOT POLITICIANS” by Viv Forbes, ©2018, carbon-sense.com To View in your Browser Click: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/weather-CO2-climate.pdf (May 1, 2018) — There are three big drivers of weather for any place on Earth – the latitude, the local environment and solar system cycles. The biggest weather factor is latitude – are you in the torrid, temperate…
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Preventing Government Data Failures
GOVERNMENTS TOO OFTEN IGNORE DATA, AND FAIL BADLY. CITIZENS MUST TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY. by Justhy Deva Prasad, ©2018 (Feb. 20, 2018) — A primary reason governments exist is to protect their citizens from dangerous threats – foreign, domestic and natural. People can play important roles in this arena, but most lack the resources, funds, legal…
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Climate Alarmism is Still Bizarre, Dogmatic, Intolerant
CLAIMS DEFY PARODY, AS ALARMISTS BECOME MORE TYRANNICAL AND THEIR POLICIES WREAK HAVOC by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Feb. 18, 2018) — Climate alarmism dominated the Obama era and run-up to Paris. But it’s at least as bizarre, dogmatic and intolerant now that: President Trump pulled the United States out of the all pain/no gain Paris…
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Would You Bet Your Paycheck on a Weather Forecast?
UN CLIMATE FORECASTS CONSISTENTLY WRONG by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris, ©2017 (Nov. 28, 2017) — Dr. Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, summarized the problem the world faces with climate change policy: “Would you bet your paycheck on the weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global…
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Keeping the Poor Impoverished
CALLOUS ECO-IMPERIALISTS USE LIES, SCARE STORIES TO DENY POOR COUNTRIES BETTER LIVING STANDARDS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Jul. 24, 2016) — We are just now entering the age of industrialization, newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte said recently, explaining why the Philippines will not ratify the Paris climate accords. “Now that we’re developing, you will impose a…
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Please, Please, Democrats, Sue to Defend Climate Change
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jul. 24, 2016) — In a Heritage Foundation Daily Signal article it was reported that “Fifteen (15) Democrat Attorney Generals from as many states have threatened legal action and huge fines against certain industries, Exxon Mobile being one, to force them to open…
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Climate Change Issues for 2012, Revised
PREPARED BY THE COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW, SUMMARIZING CURRENT KNOWLEDGE ON CLIMATE by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Nov. 12, 2012) — [Author’s Note: Attached is an updated climate change issues summary from the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. It includes new material about Hurricane Sandy and other important topics – and replaces the Q&A that I…