Climate and Weather

I have long admired Grady Hillhouse's Practical Engineering YouTube channel. In this recent offering, he said something that I didn't know before -- a typical rooftop solar installation will not power your house when the local grid goes down. That looks like another question to ask solar power installers before you sign the contract.

 
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Why do the Climate “Scientists” with the megaphones hate science so much?

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Climate Science is About to Make a Huge Mistake

It is déjà vu all over again

ROGER PIELKE JR.
JUN 10

Scenarios are fundamental to climate research and policy. As THB readers know better than most everyone, for years climate science and policy have been off track in relying heavily on an outdated extreme emissions scenario called RCP8.5, one of four RCP scenarios developed starting almost two decades ago.¹ Some in the climate science community, though slow out of the blocks, have come around to recognize that extreme scenarios should not be prioritized in climate research to inform policy. In a paper published last week,² a group of experts in scenarios and scenario-based research gave advice, requested by the climate modeling community, for the next generation of scenarios and they concluded that high emissions scenarios be given “lower priority.³ However, the scientists in the earth system modeling community who received that advice and are deciding upon the next generation of scenarios have rejected that advice, and have instead chosen — again — to assign the most extreme scenario its highest priority.⁴

The climate science community is thus on course to repeat the RCP8.5 debacle all over again, putting at risk the ability of climate research to effectively inform policy and the credibility of climate science.
 
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