Month: March 2024

Daily News 18 Mar 2024

The Conclusion Humans Drive Atmospheric CO2 Increases Is Undermined By Carbon Isotope Data

“From modern instrumental carbon isotopic data of the last 40 years, no signs of human (fossil fuel) CO₂ emissions can be discerned.” – Koutsoyiannis, 2024

It is routinely claimed that a telltale sign human emissions (fossil fuels) have irrevocably altered the atmospheric CO2 concentration is a declining trend in carbon isotope 13 (δ13C), considered an interruption of natural carbon cycle processes.

But new research examining isotopic data from four observation sites (South Pole, Mauna Loa, Barrow, La Jolla – regarded as “global” in their coverage) indicates there is no isotopic pattern consistent with a human fingerprint.

“The standard metric δ13C is consistent with an input isotopic signature that is stable over the entire period of observations (>40 years), i.e., not affected by increases in human CO2 emissions.”

In fact, not only has the input isotopic CO2 signature not been declining as proposed by those who believe humans are fully responsible for the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, but, according to multiple detection techniques using both modern data and data extending to the Little Ice Age (19th century), δ13C [input] has actually been increasing.

This directionality is the exact opposite of what is supposed to happen if fossil fuels were driving atmospheric CO2 increases.

“…for the longer subperiod lengths, 20 and 30 years, the tendencies are clearly increasing, opposite to the hypothesis that they are caused by fossil fuel emissions”

“…the trends are small and always positive, again contradicting the fossil fuel origin of the phenomenon”

“…from period B to C [1899-1976 to 1977-1997], we note an increase in δ¹³C [input, from -13.9‰ to -12.9‰], contradicting the fossil fuel origin of the phenomenon”

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March 18, 2024 at 04:01PM

Daily News 18 Mar 2024

Climate Superheroes plan to rescue Arctic with 10 million wind powered pumps

By Jo Nova

Brave researchers have decided to save the world by pumping seawater onto ice sheets in the depths of winter. They are struggling through -30C windy conditions somewhere off the top end of Canada. Their plan is to thicken the ice so it will survive longer in summer, thus presumably raising the albedo of Earth.

For some reason the dedicated team at the BBC don’t mention what energy source drives the pump. I wonder where that cord goes?

Climate change: The 'insane' plan to save the Arctic's sea-ice

Could the cord go to a diesel gen, sitting on arctic ice, snipped out of the photo?

If it was a solar panel, we know they would have told us.

Even the BBC calls the plan “insane” — though we sense they mean it in the same way a fourteen year old might describe a diamond encrusted skate park.

Their goal? To slow global warming.

But a small number of advocates claim their approaches could give the planet a helping hand while humanity cleans up its act.

The ultimate goal of the Arctic experiment is to thicken enough sea-ice to slow or even reverse the melting already seen, says Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, whose team at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Climate Repair is behind the project.

Researchers are apparently excited that they’ve “already seen the ice thicken by a few tens of centimeters across their small study area.” That much eh?

Since arctic sea ice stretches across some 10 to 15 million square kilometers, this could be quite a task.

The experts at the BBC didn’t think readers need to know these details, but they do briefly hint that they might need “10 million wind-powered pumps to thicken sea-ice across just a tenth of the Arctic.”

Apparently the words “diesel, petrol, fossil fuel” can’t be mentioned in a story about solutions of climate change.

Naturally, they have a struggle session about whether this is even a wise experiment given that salty ice might melt faster than normal ice. The worst possible thing of course, is that polluters might get the crazy idea they could burn fuel without tantric guilt.

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March 18, 2024 at 01:40PM

Daily News 18 Mar 2024

Climate protesters in England and Wales lose criminal damage defence

Appeal court says defendants’ ‘beliefs and motivation’ do not constitute lawful excuse for damaging property. They may think their imaginary weather scenarios, supposedly based on climate models and ‘greenhouse effects’, should be taken seriously but the rest of the world has no obligation to do so.
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One of the last defences for climate protesters who commit criminal damage has been in effect removed by the court of appeal, says The Guardian.

The court said the “beliefs and motivation” of a defendant do not constitute lawful excuse for causing damage to a property.

The defence that a person honestly believes the owner of a property would have consented had they known the full circumstances of climate change has been used successfully over the last year by protesters.

After an appeal by the attorney general, Victoria Prentis KC, based on a case brought against a defendant known as C, the court of appeal said “the political or philosophical beliefs” and the “reasoning and wider motivation” of the defendant were “too remote” from the criminal damage and did not constitute lawful excuse, and said evidence from defendants about the facts of climate change would be inadmissible.

Tom Little KC, acting for the attorney general, had told the appeal court judges that use of the so-called “consent” defence under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 was wrong and too broad an interpretation of the law.

The defence, which relates to criminal damage only, involves a defendant arguing they had an honest belief that the owner of the property damaged would have consented if they had known the reasons why the action had been taken.

The lady chief justice of England and Wales, Sue Carr, said the court had to consider whether the circumstances of the damage included the merits, urgency or importance of any matter about which a defendant was protesting.

She said: “The court holds that the circumstances of the damage have to be linked directly to the damage. They might include, for example, the time, place and extent of the damage. In a protest case, they would include the fact that the damage was caused as part of a protest.

“But the circumstances would not include the political or philosophical beliefs of the person causing the damage. They would not include the reasoning or wider motivation of the defendant. Those matters are too remote from the damage.

“Evidence from the defendant about the facts or effects of climate change would be inadmissible.”

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March 18, 2024 at 01:09PM

Daily News 18 Mar 2024

BP Shareholders Unhappy With Green Strategy

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Doug Brodie

For too long activist green investors have been the tail wagging the dog.

Hopefully this is the start of a fightback:

Almost all of BP’s biggest shareholders are unhappy with its shift to green energy, an activist investor has claimed, amid a growing backlash over the oil giant’s focus on net zero targets.

Giuseppe Bivona, chief investment officer of Bluebell Capital, which has a minority stake in BP, said he had spent the past three weeks talking to many of the company’s top 30 investors.

He said: “With only the exception of one shareholder, I am still to find someone who supports BP in its entirety.”

Bluebell is spearheading a brewing investor revolt after sending a 30-page letter to the FTSE 100 company in January.

In the letter it urged BP to halt investment in renewable energy schemes, prioritise oil and gas production, and rewrite net zero targets to clarify that they will be achieved “in line with society”.

BP has been under increasing pressure over net zero commitments that have allegedly left shareholders £40bn poorer.

Mr Bivona said he plans to share negative feedback with BP on a no-name basis, which he said will “clearly expose them to the fact that many investors are sympathetic to what we are saying”.

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March 18, 2024 at 12:02PM