Of course, if I am a doubter, I can say that unless you can show cause and effect, this is post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning.
But on this topic. Since we discussed this last year, I look at weather patterns differently. I now notice how a very hot day is often followed by cloud cover the next, sometimes even rain, and then some clear days after that. The control loop is working. More heat, more evaporation, clouds reflect some heat away, temperature comes down. One day when I meet the master engineer, I’ll be sure to ask about this
Now of course very hot oceans, and the effect that has (which appears to be to counter the effect) should be no surprise. The trouble, for us humans, is that the counter-effect can be somewhat uncomfortable…
Yeah, with all the debates and arguments for and against cause and effect, I now leave that in the hands of people who actually “walk their own talk”, the scientists who do that for a living, who are passionate about their findings. I’m not going to argue with those guys from my armchair.
The fact that the oceans are heating up, that is a serious cause for concern.
I see California has a wee bit of, as they call it, “atmospheric rivers”.
That’s the conclusion from the latest annual energy outlook from the economists at BP Plc. The oil major sees a much sharper decline in demand for fossil fuels in 2035, compared with its analysis conducted before last year’s invasion.
“The increased focus on energy security as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war has the potential to accelerate the energy transition as countries seek to increase access to domestically produced energy, much of which is likely to come from renewables and other non-fossil fuel,” said Spencer Dale, BP’s chief economist.
Yup, that’s something I’ve said a lot. It is a lot easier to make your own electricity than it is to make your own petrol or Diesel.
What is more, it takes about 1kWh of electricity to refine a liter of petrol. Given that your average fuel efficient petrol car can drive 15km per liter, and your average electric car can drive 5-6km on that 1kWh of electricity (about a third as far), you’re already 33% of the way just by skipping that part…
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s single largest investor, has warned company directors it will vote against their re-election to the board if they do not up their game on tackling the climate crisis, human rights abuses and boardroom diversity.
Carine Smith Ihenacho, the chief governance and compliance officer of Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages more than 13tn Norwegian kroner (£1tn) on behalf of the Norwegian people, said the fund was preparing to vote against the re-election of at least 80 company boards for failing to set or hit environmental or social targets.
Again, this is one of those things where people aren’t paying attention. The average climate change denialist on social media is still referencing Al Gore’s book and telling all and sundry that none of his predictions became true. In the process, they miss things like these.
mooi sarel - i bet this fact has been proven over time jokes aside - there is this old adage : ‘life is a gas’ - and as you become older, this rings true
m’thinks that care should be taken of all creation, has man not been given dominion over it, and with that as with all else a responsibility? yip, and that goes for the air we breathe and that includes the air of our grandchildren!
i am not a tree-hugger, i’d rather hug my wife
This is actually precisely what I would expect. If increased CO2 is good for plants, we should see plant life increase, and things should get greener. This is the natural result of the (mostly stable) control loop that is our climate: It does things to get back to some sort of equilibrium.
The worry is that we’re still putting out CO2 faster than the natural processes can react. Which must lead to an overreaction.
So, the good news is, this is probably just a phase. The bad news is, you may not like where this phase has to go before it comes back.
I find that the argument is a little more nuanced. There are alternatives, but (so goes the arguments)…
They cost more
They aren’t necessarily much cleaner
Many of them still rely on fossil fuels for their production
Recycling isn’t always possible
From these arguments, people make one of three conclusions:
We should stick with fossil fuels until there is a better alternative
We should push harder for nuclear power
We should look harder at hydrogen and less towards battery storage
Of course I am completely leaving out of the equation the crowd who says this very hot year is just an anomaly and it will be colder again next year, stop worrying so much, this cannot possibly be our doing, it’s a hoax by the man to force you to spend money… oh oh… no, don’t look at how much money we make from oil… that is a diversion… look over there, at the people with their fingers in the lithium pie… those people are bad!
The simplistic way I look at it … there were dinosaurs and copious amounts of Co2. Eventually, it all ended up in coal/oil.
Along come humans, a blip on the scale of time who “accidentally” came across those copious amounts of oil and coal. Cheap easy energy.
So, we used it. And it makes sense. Came from the earth, then stored in the earth when things changed dramatically. Effectively was always there
The problem is, we did not consider for one second how to balance it all.
The human blip as we know it will “disappear” to the extent that our great great great grandchildren will tell tales of this stupid century of humans and how they messed it up for all generations thereafter.
Every single one of us is responsible for this mess we continue to allow. The tail is wagging the dog … as we are too busy with our lives in our bubbles, to see the growing fiasco around us.
Let’s debate it … but do nothing en mass.
My 2 cents, for the arguments some uphold in the media, just do not make sense when you truly look at the in-depth nuances. They get way too close to having to take “personal responsibility”, heaven helps us if it affects our “comfort zones”. We don’t have “time for that nonsense!”
I don’t see how this is going to be stopped … mass immigration, intense food shortages, clean water shortages, inevitable wars … sigh.
Yup. I look at it as a control loop. The control loop is stable, in the sense that if you push it out of where it wants to be, things will happen to bring it back.
But we’re not going to like those things that happen…
jokes aside - there is this old adage : ‘life is a gas’ - and as you become older, this rings true 
