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Hurricane Dorian’s 185-MPH Wind Speeds Don’t Stand Up To Scrutiny

Written by Paul Homewood

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I have some updated data for Hurricane Dorian which is relevant to my earlier post, Hurricane Dorian–The Facts v The Myth.

Just to recap from that post:

1) Claims of 185 mph winds were based solely on hurricane hunter aircraft data.

2) Based on the central pressure of 910 MB, wind speeds would be expected to be 165 mph. This is how wind speeds were calculated prior to aircraft and satellite data.

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How Blind Am I?

Written by Jerry Krause PhD (Chemistry)

Abstract: Personal observations made at the top of Mary’s Mountain OR and from other sources are reviewed and compared with the data seen in Picture 1.

One conclusion is that condensation nuclei, which are silicates (sand), are hygroscopic (form weak, relative to the strong attractions of atoms to each other in molecules, attractions with water molecules) and therefore cause cloud droplets to form, as the air temperature cools, well before the relative humidity of the environmental atmosphere becomes 100{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}.

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Plate Climatology Theory Receives Boost

Written by Richard F Cronin & John O'Sullivan

Emergent Plate Climatology theory gets a boost from a new study from the University of California with a new paper titled, ‘Hydrothermal carbon release to the ocean and atmosphere from the
eastern equatorial Pacific during the last glacial termination.’ [1]

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Combination of wood fibers and spider silk could rival plastic

Written by Aalto University

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Achieving strength and extensibility at the same time has so far been a great challenge in material engineering: increasing strength has meant losing extensibility and vice versa. Now Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland researchers have succeeded in overcoming this challenge, inspired by nature.

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Solar Panel Toxic Waste ‘A Ticking Time Bomb’

Written by Duggan Flanakin

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For decades, the solar industry benefited from generous federal, state, and local subsidies to increase its footprint. Yet these generous subsidies ignore the costs of disposal of solar panel waste.

Things may be changing. In May 2018, Michael Shellenberger, a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Green Book Award Winner, wrote in Forbes that the problem of solar panel disposal will explode with full force in two or three decades and wreck the environment because it is a huge amount of waste which is not easy to recycle.

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Computer modelling of future climate

Written by Andy Rowlands

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Of the 102 current computer models used to predict what the climate will do in the future, 101 of them have what is known as ‘climate sensitivity’ far too high.

The previous CMIP5 models had sensitivity such that they were producing up to three times as much warming as is being observed.

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Millennials Facing Climate Crisis Meltdown

Written by Roger Higgs DPhil Oxford & John O'Sullivan

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Young people are writing to us expressing enormous anxiety triggered by the relentless climate alarmist propaganda in the media. As always, we offer reasoned scientific reassurance.

One example, (name withheld) has prompted us to post this article to rebuke the junk science claims, and to shame the idiotic purveyors of doom.

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Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor

Written by DC Agle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system.

The object – designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) – was discovered on Aug. 30, 2019, by Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Nauchnij, Crimea.

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The great failure of the climate models

Written by Patrick Michaels and Caleb Stewart Rossiter

Computer models of the climate are at the heart of calls to ban the cheap, reliable energy that powers our thriving economy and promotes healthier, longer lives.

For decades, these models have projected dramatic warming from small, fossil-fueled increases in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, with catastrophic consequences.

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Duke Energy: solar power causes increased pollution

Written by Dan E Way

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Pictured is the H.F. Lee power plant in Goldsboro, N.C. According to records obtained by NSJ, Duke Energy requested modifications to the air quality permit at the station due to the increasing amounts of solar energy cycling on the grid. (Photo: Duke Energy)

RALEIGH — A seven-month investigation and numerous public information requests have revealed the move to increase solar power might be leading to an increase in the very emissions alternative energy sources aim to reduce.

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