Dru Trahan

Environmental Geologist 37 yrs; Creation-centered Incomprehensible size, age, and energy; To understand, harvest, and manage as stewards #climatechangeisnatural

[Dru Trahan @drutrahan]

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[Watts Up With That @wattsupwiththat]

𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗽𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗚𝗕 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀❗
Christian climate activists are demanding the Church of England investigate a donor who gave it £28 million.

Sir Paul Marshall co-owns GB News and has called the UK's climate efforts a case of derangement syndrome.

Operation Noah says his views directly oppose the church's net zero plans and wants questions asked about his influence.

The group is a small climate lobby that pushed denominations to dump fossil fuels.

Marshall's money went to a major evangelical church and its revitalization trust.

Read the full article:
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[Tom Nelson @TomANelson]

100% scam; 0% science

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The world's clean energy transition represents a colossal expansion of the world's mining industry.

To catch a diffuse energy source like sunlight or wind needs an unprecedented volume of physical machinery. A single solar farm requires roughly 30 times more total metal infrastructure than a conventional gas plant. We aren't moving away from mining; we're swapping enormous oceanic drilling rigs for vast open-cut metal mines.

The demand for heavy mining and rare earths is just as compelling as the downstream e-waste crisis, but the numbers are even more staggering. While solar cells rely heavily on high-purity silicon, silver, and copper, the broader 'green infrastructure' ecosystem demands far more.

The EV motors, wind turbines and massive national grids required to tie intermittent solar together are entirely dependent on an unprecedented surge in heavy mining and rare earth extraction.

This physical mining demand has simply exploded with the shift from conventional fossil fuel energy generation to wind and solar. Because wind and sunshine are so diluted and diffused, harvesting them requires a massive physical footprint, necessitating endless extra acres of complex machinery.

This translates into heavily vandalised landscapes and grotesque coastal settings. According to the IEA, replacing them world's fossil-fuel system with renewables increases the total volume of materials requiring extraction and handling by a factor of 10.

Solar alone is exceptionally copper-intensive, using roughly 850 kg per megawatt for intricate grid connections, inverters and cabling. Renewable energy is projected to drive 45% of total global copper demand by 2030. Yet, developing a new major copper mine takes an average of 16 years from initial discovery to first production.

The world faces a massive demand spike for a metal where the supply chain is notoriously slow, costly, and inflexible.

Solar panels don't use much in the way of rare earths, but wind turbines and the electric vehicle motors that back up the low-carbon shift are hungry for permanent magnets made from neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium. Processing these elements involves intensive chemical leaching that produces vast amounts of toxic and radioactive wastewater.

Compounding the problem, China controls roughly 60–70% of the extraction and up to 90% of the refining for these specific elements.

This has created a massive geopolitical bottleneck.

Image: this massive chasm is the Bingham Canyon Mine (also called the Kennecott Copper Mine) just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. It is one of the largest man-made excavations on Earth and the deepest open-pit mine in the world, stretching 4 kilometres wide and more than a kilometre deep.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Calling the carbon cycle settled while leaving that machinery poorly quantified is a joke.

Full breakdown (& more) in today's Substack: https://t.co/GXHLtNaEvP

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

We are told that coal, oil, and gas are a dirty, planetary misstep—unique to Earth's dark biological past.

But the physics of the cosmos tells a completely different story. Far from being dirty, rare or accidental, hydrocarbons are basic building blocks of the universe.
Look at our own solar system. Saturn’s moon Titan holds hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons in its vast methane-ethane seas than all known reserves on Earth.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover found ancient organic molecules in Martian mudstones, while the atmospheres of Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus are thick with churning methane.
The restrictive nomenclature of 'fossil fuels' misses the grander scope.

When these energy-dense compounds dragged humanity out of the freezing starvation of Europe’s Little Ice Age, they didn’t derail us. They allowed us to emerge into a modern world of unprecedented sparkling light and power. They aren't a cosmic mistake—they are cosmic abundance.

Why should we treat a fundamental building block of the universe as a dead end.

IMAGE: Liquid oceans of methane and ethane on Saturn's moon, Titan. SOURCE: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library / Getty Images

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Earth is not facing urgent climate-related damage, despite claims embedded in the United Nations' 40-year grand plan.

The real damage can be measured in global instability and widespread economic and industrial decline. The estimated price tag for this UN agenda is a staggering $275 trillion by 2050 (based on a 2022 McKinsey Global report). This involves constructing a completely new global grid, blanketing landscapes with stadium-sized wind and solar arrays.

The global warming agenda is an ideology, driven in part by a misleading, fear-laced 2006 documentary by former US vice president, Al Gore. 'An Inconvenient Truth' has not stood the test of time, yet its purpose was achieved: to blame human society for an environmental collapse that hasn't happened. The movie gained widespread exposure, injecting deep cultural guilt into the drive to build today's worsening glut of turbines and solar arrays.

In effect, it replaces dense and dependable hydrocarbon energy with mechanical gadgetry - systems that have proven to be intermittent and unreliable and subject to 20-to-25-year replacement cycles.

The idea that human society is single-handedly overheating the world has its own dedicated core of followers. But no Western country sought the genuine backing of its citizenry via democratic consultation for this shift.

The UN has led a relentless, top-down economic campaign, denouncing any doubts as 'science denial'.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Germany currently has about 26 gigawatt hours of battery storage. Most of it sits in home batteries with only 4.3 gigawatt hours actually serving the grid.

Building that storage already cost more than 10 billion euros and at national demand levels it only covers roughly 30 minutes of summer electricity usage.

The winter months bring what's known as "Dunkeflaute" - cold dark windless periods and higher energy usage.

To survive a 10-day winter lull (the minimum realistic requirement), Germany would need about 12,000 gigawatt hours of batteries, 470 times today's storage.

Such a system would weigh roughly 60 million tons and would be made from vast quantities of lithium, nickel, graphite, copper, aluminum and steel, all requiring intensive mining.

At current battery prices, the system would cost trillions of euros. And batteries last only 10 to 15 years, meaning the entire system would need constant replacement.

The conclusion is unavoidable...

Wind and solar require reliable backup power, renewables need oil, coal, gas and nuclear.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

One only has to look at the sheer scale of the planet to see the flaws in the climate agenda.

Combined, every town and city on Earth occupies a mere 3% of the world's landmass. The true driving forces for regional climates rest in the oceans and major landforms - the planet's genuine engine rooms. Oceans cover 72% of the globe to an average depth of 2.3 miles. They contain roughly 86% of the global carbon reservoir and 91% of all retained heat energy; by comparison, our thin atmosphere holds a meager 1 to 2% of each.

Ancient ocean currents give balance to the world's weather, carrying tropical warmth to northern regions in cycles that drive migration, cloud formation and global storms. Landforms guide ocean currents across deep geological time, as tectonic changes to continental land masses reshape the entire world.

The legacy of ignoring this planetary scale of the environment can be seen today in our defaced countryside and industrialised coastal retreats. Sweeping vistas are being vandalised by massive arrays of wind and solar structures, causing immeasurable localised environmental carnage.

It has created a perpetual, asset-swapping loop of renewal and replacement at a staggering, endless cost to national economies, while hollowing out traditional industries and aggressively mining the earth for rare metals like copper and silver.

The back-end of this 'clean' energy loop is an impending hazardous waste crisis. With global solar capacity now officially surpassing 2 Terawatts (TW)—representing between 7 and 8 billion solar panel equivalents—the world is utterly unprepared for the onslaught of disposal.

The International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste by 2050. Because there is little financial incentive for complex recycling, up to 90% of decommissioned panels currently go straight into the ground. When left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into surrounding soil and groundwater.

This will remain the most visible legacy from the Twenty-First Century.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A new study examining Antarctic ice cores suggests today's warming is not unusual in the context of natural climate history.

When snow falls in Antarctica, it traps tiny air bubbles. Over time, the layers compress into ice, preserving a record of past temperature and atmosphere.

The Vostok ice core record stretches back about 800,000 years. The study analyzed the last 20,000 years since the end of the last ice age and found that about 16% of centuries warmed by at least 1.1C. Roughly one out of every six centuries warmed as much as the past 100 years.

In short, today's 1.1 C rise over a century falls within the range of natural climate variability recorded in the ice.

Nothing unprecedented is occurring.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

We now find the intermittent energy harvested from wind and sun is physically unable to replicate the dense, reliable power of hydrocarbons.

Trying to force wind and solar to deliver baseload power has failed. McKinsey Global (2022) estimates the full cost of a net-zero transition by 2050 at $275 trillion—running at an astronomical $9.2 trillion every year.

This utopian experiment has already squandered trillions in global capital, triggering an economic shockwave that has sent Western nations into a general decline.

There is no climate apocalypse in sight. In fact, NASA satellite data confirms the world has been steadily greening for two decades, driven by a CO₂-led global vegetation recovery.

There was never a reason for such destructive haste to dismantle coal, oil and gas energy, because there was no urgent crisis. Geologists have already mapped vast, proven reserves of untapped hydrocarbons that offer a natural bridge to the future:

* Coal: 1.06 trillion tonnes (approx. 132 years remaining).
* Natural Gas: 7,299 trillion cubic feet (approx. 143 years remaining).
* Crude Oil: 1.65 trillion barrels (approx. 53 years remaining).

The actual volume of untapped hydrocarbons could easily be two or three times as much—enough to power humanity for another three centuries. This abundance allows ample time for adequate forward planning until truly viable, next-generation alternatives are invented.

Image: Two decades of satellite-verified biomass expansion. Source: Stocktrek Images / Getty Images

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A new study tested the Doomsday Glacier narrative - not with flaky climate models, but instead with bedrock cores near Thwaites Glacier.

Today, the drill sites sit under about 41 meters of ice. But during the Holocene, as little as two meters remained. Then the ice thickened again.

The scare story says modern retreat means inevitable collapse. However, the physical record says ice has thinned before and then recovered.

There is no "Doomsday" Glacier - just bad science.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Wind and solar aren't the future - they are a high-maintenance, low-yield, asset-degrading collection of unreliable gadgetry.

Ultimately, the actual physics makes them exceptionally intermittent and they fail to deliver a true net profit to everyone who was forced to subsidise them. We are told wind and solar are the limitless, romantic future of energy. But when you strip away the romance, they are not pristine monuments to progress.

The reality is, they are complex jumbles of electronics, specialised glass, composite blades and concrete foundations. Like any domestic appliance, they degrade, malfunction and eventually they just wear out, sooner rather than later.

Whether it is a 'minor rural block' or a massive multi-million-dollar commercial farm, the financial equation is plagued by intermittency. Because these technologies only work sometimes, they require trillions in redundant grid infrastructure, backup gas plants, or toxic, short-lived battery arrays just to keep the lights on.

The narrative promises clean, free power from the sky. But both wind and solar are bound by physical barriers that guarantee they can never deliver the promised utopian returns.

A wind turbine cannot simply absorb all the energy passing through it. In 1919, physicist Albert Betz proved that if a turbine extracted 100% of the wind’s kinetic energy, the air behind the blades would stop moving entirely, blocking any new wind from entering. The absolute mathematical maximum efficiency for any open-airflow turbine is 59.3%.

Because of this physical wall, real-world utility turbines max out at around 45% efficiency in perfect conditions. But because the wind rarely blows at perfect speeds, their actual annual average output (capacity factor) globally sits at a dismal 25% to 40% depending on location. They aren't magical power plants; they are mechanical bottlenecks.

Solar panels face an equally rigid thermodynamic wall. Standard silicon panels have a maximum theoretical efficiency of roughly 33% because nearly half of all incoming solar energy is simply too powerful to be captured and is instantly lost as heat, while another chunk of photons passes right through the material like a ghost.

Millions of homeowners who bought into rooftop solar since the late 2000s are discovering the financial math didn't hold up. As early subsidies and high buy-back tariffs evaporated, owners were left with creeping daily grid supply charges and degrading panels.

After only 10 to 15 years, the costly inverters fail, leaving properties with expensive, non-functioning roof clutter.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

This database contains more than 300 peer-reviewed papers that question key pillars of the climate narrative.

The papers cover temperature attribution, solar variability, greenhouse gas physics, ocean chemistry, and sea level change.

A 2024 Nature paper, for example, finds no detectable surge in the rate of global warming beyond the 1970s.

While a William Happer study examines atmospheric radiative transfer and finds additional CO2 produces diminishing warming due to absorption band saturation.

Research by Judith Curry highlights large uncertainties in sea level projections.

While other studies examine solar variability and natural circulation patterns as major climate drivers.

Many papers question climate model reliability and attribution methods that link modern warming to human CO2 emissions.

At the very least, these 300 plus studies show that climate science remains an active field of debate, not the 'settled science' often presented to the public.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Today's warming is not unusual.

A new study using Antarctic ice core data reveals the roughly 1.1C warming of the past century is not unusual in Earth's climate history.

The research analyzes temperatures preserved in ice cores stretching back hundreds of thousands of years.

Looking at the last 20,000 years, the study finds that 16% of all centuries warmed by at least 1.1C. In other words, roughly one out of every six centuries warmed as much, or more, as the past hundred years.

Also, the ice core records show temperatures rising about 12C since the last ice age, with the last interglacial period around 125,000 years ago several degrees warmer than today.

The modern 1.1C century scale increase falls well within natural variability. There is nothing alarming or unprecedented or even rare occurring with Earth's climate.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The vast, featureless wastes of the Sahara Desert have shrunk by about 8% since the 1980s.

This astonishing recovery is due to rising CO₂ levels, fueling a remarkable global green renaissance. Data from NASA’s AVHRR and MODIS instruments show 25% to 50% of Earth's vegetated lands have become significantly greener—an area equivalent to twice the continental United States that has also spurred a global windfall for agricultural production.

CO₂ fertilisation has driven around 70% of this boom, making green plants far more efficient with water. By reducing the time stomata (leaf pores) stay open, it directly cuts water loss and boosts drought resistance.

This unplanned green miracle has allowed vegetation to reclaim zones of great emptiness in inhospitable places like the Sahel (the Sahara's southern fringe), the Middle East and Australia's sunburned outback desert. It has reclaimed over 700,000 km2 of barren sand waste in the Sahara alone, pushing back the desert in formerly barren terrain.

Atmospheric CO₂ now hovers around 426 ppm, enabling plants to thrive where once they couldn't. This protracted greening shows the clear, measurable benefit from higher levels of CO₂.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Endless coal trains, 150-cars-long, are constantly feeding China's power plants.

The generated electricity helps manufacture the solar panels later shipped to the West.

Panels made with coal, transported on oil-burning ships, installed and called emissions-free.

Asia, led by China and India, currently operates over 5,000 coal plants, with almost 1,000 more on the way.

The West is doing the opposite. Europe has retired, cancelled or mothballed over 1,000 coal plants.

China is building power.

The West is dismantling it.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A study in Communications Earth and Environment shows temperatures over Greenland peaked around 2012 and have stalled or declined ever since.

The authors point to natural variability driven by shifting wind patterns, and they add that modern climate models struggle to reproduce Greenland's natural swings.

A second study backs this up. It also finds Greenland temperatures are essentially flat, with no significant trend.

Greenland is not following the warming script.

Temperatures peak, stall or cool depending on circulation, not CO2.

And in 2026, Greenland has been flirting with record cold. Summit Station logged -65.3C on February 25, a reading just 2C shy of its monthly record.

Natural variability is still in control.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Claims that 'CO₂ is a pollutant that poisons crops' are being used to criticise a global expansion of plants and food crops.

However, any claims of 'nutrient deficiency' in quickly expanding green growth soon dissolve under biological scrutiny. Nutrient lag is a well studied short-term side effect of rapid plant growth, which biologists call the 'dilution effect.'

When plants are exposed to sudden elevated CO₂ levels - such as in commercial greenhouses - the photosynthetic rate rises quickly. It builds carbohydrates (sugars and starches) faster than the root systems can respond absorb trace minerals, like zinc and iron.

Rising CO₂ levels have been credited with the majority of fresh areas of global greening, particularly in arid or desert regions. This has been detected by NASA satellites, delivering a massive global agricultural payoff via rising crops and vegetables.

The nutrients aren't just disappearing; the plants are just growing larger and faster. This delivers an immediate luxury of abundance. If a grain of wheat has 10% less zinc but the crop yields 30% more total grain, the total pool of nutrients produced per acre has actually increased. Framing this global expansion in food biomass as a net negative is a bizarre inversion of agricultural reality.

This argument relies heavily on the Harvard FACE (Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment) experiments, where pipes spray pure CO₂ over open fields. These studies are notorious for creating artificial conditions, by suddenly blasting plants with high CO₂ concentrations in isolation. In the real world, atmospheric changes happen over decades, giving wild plants and agricultural products ample time to adapt.

Commercial greenhouse operators worldwide already deliberately pump CO₂ levels up to 1,000 or 1,500 ppm - nearly quadruple outdoor ambient levels - precisely because it supercharges growth, water-use efficiency and yield.

If higher CO₂ levels truly ruined the structural and nutritional integrity of crops, the multi-billion-dollar global greenhouse industry wouldn't exist. Chefs, consumers and regulators would have noticed decades ago if greenhouse-grown produce was fundamentally nutrient-depleted 'junk food.

[Watts Up With That @wattsupwiththat]

𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺: 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲
To tackle climate change, the poorest half of the world must jump from holding 2 percent of global wealth to 30 percent.

French economists at the World Inequality Lab want 20 percent annual taxes on billionaires and income tax rates up to 90 percent to fund their global justice plan.

Rich countries must halt economic growth and cut working hours while poorer nations catch up.

Read the full article:
https://t.co/AgascUHoey

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

If emissions reduction were the real goal, nuclear would already dominate.

First off, it is the safest energy source per unit of power produced.

Secondly, it has the lowest life cycle CO2 emissions, lower than coal, gas and even wind and solar.

Thirdly, nuclear runs 93% of the time. Wind and solar don't come anywhere near that, just 33% and 23% respectively.

And on top of all that, a one gigawatt nuclear plant fits on about one square mile and powers 750,000 homes. Wind and solar require vastly more land, materials and backup batteries for the same power.

If climate alarmism were serious, the answer would be nuclear.