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Rice Reactor Turns ‘Greenhouse Gas’ into Pure Liquid Fuel

Written by Mike Williams Rice University


Photo by Jeff Fitlow

A common ‘greenhouse gas’ could be repurposed in an efficient and environmentally friendly way with an electrolyzer that uses renewable electricity to produce pure liquid fuels.

Rice postdoctoral researcher Chuan Xia, left, and chemical and biomolecular engineer Haotian Wang adjust their electrocatalysis reactor to produce liquid formic acid from carbon dioxide.

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What’s Wrong with Academics – New Book

Written by Joseph E Postma

Someone asked me in the comments what must be wrong with academic scientists for them having such difficulty with comprehension of basic physics.  This was my reply and it sets the scene for the following book-link afterwards:

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Living Room Instead of Greenhouse Model?

Written by Sjaak Uitterdijk

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About 5 years ago I was convinced that global warming could not be caused by the Green house effect.

After all, in the last 200 years it has happened four times that the global temperature dropped while the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere kept rising.

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If Environmentalism is a Religion, Climate Change is Original Sin

Written by Francis Arouet

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Numerous individuals have observed that environmentalism as practiced by certain activists is a religion see Rubin, C. T. (1998).  The green crusade: Rethinking the roots of environmentalism. Rowman & Littlefield.

Specifically, environmentalists do not view the world through a complex empirically based lens but instead view issues in simple emotionally motivated terms.

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1,200 Papers Affirm Medieval Warm Period Was Global

Written by Pierre Gosselin

08 | January | 2013

More than 1,200 publications show the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was global – an embarrassment to global warming alarmists who claimed it was regional.

Global-warming-alarmist scientists like claiming that the well-documented Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was mostly a regional, North Atlantic phenomenon, and was not global, and so we should just move along and stop questioning man-made global warming.

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NASA: ‘Not Confident’ We Can Model Clouds

Written by Kenneth Richard

Cumulus cloud - Wikipedia

NASA has conceded that climate models lack the precision required to make climate projections due to the inability to accurately model clouds.

Clouds have the capacity to dramatically influence climate changes in both radiative longwave (the “greenhouse effect”) and shortwave.

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Michael Mann And His Tree-Ring Circus

Written by Daniel John Sobieski

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This has been a tough week for climate hustler Michael Mann, who lost his defamation and libel lawsuit against respected climatologist and warming skeptic Dr. Tim Ball at the same time it was announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that there has been no U.S. warming since 2005.

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Science Goes Up In Rainforest Smoke

Written by David Whitehouse

Amazon rainforest fires

The idea that the Amazon rainforest is the lungs of the world is so embedded in our minds that few questioned its widespread use when news about fires in the Amazon was reported this summer.

The idea is everywhere—so it’s obviously true. Trees absorb carbon dioxide (bad), don’t they, and give off oxygen (good), and there are billions of trees in the Amazon, so surely it makes sense.

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