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Corona, climate narrative and opportunity costs After the first vaccination campaigns in the corona pandemic, it was reasonable to assume that people would ask themselves questions after the third, fourth or, at the latest, after the fifth vaccination. But this rational assumption cannot be applied when we are dealing with a faith-based model. In fact, the opposite is true. Anyone who got Covid after the initial double vaccination could have told themselves the vaccination doesn’t work, so I can go without it in future. However, after three years, many vaccinations, lockdowns and countless masks, it is now very difficult to ‘opt out’. The opportunity costs are high because you would then have to admit that you had been fooled for years. The climate narrative is very similar. We had the naïve assumption that the appeal “Eat bugs to avoid emissions” would cause believers to pause a moment and ask questions. But it didn’t happen. Many people have internalized the new end-of-the-world prop

"The temperature targets in the Paris Agreement cannot be met without very rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The latter requires large, perhaps  prohibitively large subsidies. The central estimate of the costs of climate policy, unrealistically assuming least-cost implementation, is 3.8-5.6% of GDP in 2100. The central estimate of the benefits of climate policy, unrealistically assuming high no-policy emissions and constant vulnerability, is 2.8-3.2% of GDP. The uncertainty about the benefits is larger than the uncertainty about the costs. The Paris targets do not pass the cost-benefit test unless risk aversion is high and discount rate low." Does the result of this paper matters to the SRF & Billionaires and to the cultists of CO2 Doomsday? Of course it does... At best They can use it to increase even more the TAXES! In the meantime lets at least have a laugh. And the newest one...    Wait for the SPECIAL KIN

  New Study Upends Modeling, Finds Earth’s Rocks Are A Net Source Of CO2 Rivaling Volcanic Emissions Posted by Brandon Campbell For decades rock weathering has been thought to be a net sink in carbon budget models. New research finds rock emissions are a large net source of CO2 to the atmosphere. A few years ago  Buesseler et al., 2020  discovered that all of the climate modelers’ previous estimates of global ocean carbon uptake are substantially wrong because they were measuring from the fixed “canonical fixed 150-m depth.” The alleged new-and-improved way to assess carbon uptake is from much shallower depths: the euphotic zone (Ez). This is the section of the upper ocean layer that sunlight is able to penetrate, and it can “vary from less than 20 m to almost 200 m” in depth. When the variable Ez depth is used to estimate carbon absorption versus export, the absorption estimate changes by more than a factor of 2, from 2.8 petagrams of carbon (PgC) per year to 5.7. Now, new research re

  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 probabl

  Don't hate the player, hate the game On Patrick Brown, Science Wars, and the Academic Publishing Business JESSICA WEINKLE From the internet In a remarkable essay  at  The Free Press , Patrick Brown,  a researcher at The Breakthrough Institute,  gave the world a lesson on how the sausage is made in headline stirring climate change science. Start the research with the publication outlet end in mind. The editorial practices of elite academic journals such as  Nature , matter for how society understands the state of knowledge and how we relate to the world. On occasion matters arise that bring attention to the fraught activity of gatekeeping at the journal and its broader family of journals.  For instance, in the late 1980’s,  Nature , published a research article  under the condition  that the journal could send investigators to the lab to review the researchers’ methods. The  investigating team  included the journal’s editor, a peer- reviewer with a negative opinion of the work, an