New Study Outlines Fallacies of So-Called ‘Sustainable’ Investments

Press release from Heartland 'Fiduciaries have a moral obligation — and, in some cases, a legal obligation — to avoid sustainable investment practices' ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL – A Heartland Institute Policy Brief on "Fallacies of So-Called 'Sustainable' Investments" documents the growing efforts of climate alarmists force fund managers, in violation of their fiduciary duties to…

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Shackleton’s evil ice scuppers hopes of finding Endurance

From The Times Excerpts: On November 21, 1915, Ernest Shackleton left Endurance for the last time and watched as his ship — his only refuge in the bleakest spot in the world — was slowly crushed by the Antarctic floes. "Huge blocks of ice, weighing many tons, were lifted into the air and tossed aside…

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[ASAP] Nanostructuring Single-Molecule Polymeric Nanoparticles Macromolecular Architecture

ACS Nano

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b09374

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[ASAP] Fluorinated Aromatic Monomers as Building Blocks To Control a-Peptoid Conformation and Structure

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13498

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Analysis: Andrew Wheeler Has Shown He Can Run the EPA. Here’s What He’s Achieved.

https://dailysign.al/2IfiDPZ By Mike Howell The Senate will soon get a chance to put its stamp of approval on the great work of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump. Andrew Wheeler, the current acting administrator, will soon be up for a vote to be confirmed as the EPA's 15th administrator. He's been serving as [...]

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Wettability control of conjugated polymer films by electric-field polarization technique

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09363F, Communication

Su Yan, Wei Li, Huan Bi, Mian Wang, De Sun, Qi Wei, Shiwei Wang, Zhe Wang, Mingyao Zhang
Polymer film materials with smart wetting surfaces can be widely used in aerospace, petrochemical, shipbuilding, automotive, energy saving, environmental protection and other fields. Here, the wettability of conjugated polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene)...
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Congressional Climate Resolution

The current world political climate is shame-and-blame in order to gain approvals for drastic reduction of CO2. Thus pressure is applied to political officials at every level to show their colors on acting to "fight climate change."  The so-called Green New Deal will apparently be put as a resolution for the House to vote its approval of the concept.  It seems timely to propose an alternative resolution.

There is no place to hide these days, and politicians who have a rational position on climate science had better legislate on the issue. A common sense legislative motion could read something like this (followed by supporting documentation and references).

 

Whereas, Extent of global sea ice is within the range of historical variability;

Whereas, Populations of polar bears are generally growing;

Whereas, Sea levels have been slowly rising at the same rate since the Little Ice Age ended 150 years ago;

Whereas, Oceans will not become acidic due to buffering from extensive mineral deposits and marine life is well adapted to pH fluctuations that do occur;

Whereas, Extreme weather events have not increased in recent decades and such events are more associated to periods of cooling rather than warming;

Whereas, Cold spells, not heat waves, are the greater threat to human life and prosperity;

Therefore, This chamber agrees that climate is variable and prudent public officials should plan for future periods both colder and warmer than the present. Two principle objectives will be robust infrastructure and reliable, affordable energy.

Comment:

The underlying issue is the assumption that the future can only be warmer than the present. Once you accept the notion that CO2 makes the earth's surface warmer (an unproven conjecture), then temperatures can only go higher since CO2 keeps rising. The present plateau in temperatures is inconvenient, but actual cooling would directly contradict the CO2 doctrine. Some excuses can be fabricated for a time, but an extended period of cooling undermines the whole global warming mantra.

It's not a matter of fearing a new ice age. That will come eventually, according to our planet's history, but the warning will come from increasing ice extent in the Northern Hemisphere. Presently infrastructures in many places are not ready to meet a return of 1950s weather, let alone something unprecedented.

Public policy must include preparations for cooling since that is the greater hazard. Cold harms the biosphere: plants, animals and humans. And it is expensive and energy intensive to protect life from the ravages of cold. Society can not afford to be in denial about the prospect of the current temperature plateau ending with cooling.

Footnote:

The Trudeau initiative is an example of the alternative to legislating a rational position. It is virtue-signalling by adopting a token carbon price, which will not lower CO2 concentrations, nor reduce temperatures. The tax will enrich government coffers, which is a key motivation for politicians hiding behind this noble cause.

In 2015, gasoline taxes in Canada represented on average 38.5 cents per litre, which is approximately 35% of the pump price. That includes 10¢/litre federal tax, provincial fuel taxes ranging from 6 to 19 ¢/litre, plus sales taxes. Taxing at $10 a tonne starting in 2018 would add a carbon tax on top as shown below:

Fuel Type	UNITS FOR TAX	2018 Added Tax
Gasoline	¢/litre	2.22
Diesel (light fuel oil)	¢/litre	2.56
Jet Fuel	¢/litre	2.61
Natural Gas	¢/litre	1.90
Propane	¢/litre	1.54
Coal – high heat value	$/tonne	20.77
Coal – low heat value	$/tonne	17.77

These pennies added on top will not change behavior, but millions of consumers' dollars will be skimmed in a hidden way, including rising transportation costs of everything.

If this was anything other than a tax grab, they would do one or both of two things:

• Make the tax revenue neutral by paying the monies collected back to consumers; and
• Make the increases in the carbon tax rate conditional upon rising temperatures as measured by satellites. (as proposed by economist Ross McKitrick)

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Is the Future of Grocery Shopping B.Y.O. Container?

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Week 108: Who Put the Appalachian Trail in the Way of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline?

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Climate Action World War III++?

User Peter L writes: Some groups taking "climate action" into their own hands, be they activists or governments, could lead to a war and potentially a world war as others attempt to use violence to stop their "climate action". One can easily imagine scenarios where this grows out of control quickly. From MIT Technology Review…

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What would happen to Earth’s Climate and Weather if we had no Moon?

A provocative hypothetical question: What if the Moon was not there? Video follows. This giant rock lights up the night and can even change colors. So what would we do without it? Would we all need night vision goggles? How would it affect the ocean tides? Our seasons? Or our sleep cycles? Or would the…

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Bureau Rewrites History – Again, at Albany

THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology keeps remodelling the temperature record for Australia – and not just by a little bit. Temperatures are changed through a process known as homogenisation, and then changed again, sometimes by as much as 6.4 degrees Celsius for the one day. For example, on 8th February 1933 the maximum temperature as [...]

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[ASAP] Unique Topology Analysis by ToposPro for a Metal–Organic Framework with Multiple Coordination Centers

Inorganic Chemistry

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03104

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[ASAP] Simultaneous Formation of - and -CH3OCu(OH) Intermediates in Methane Activation by Cu in Solid Ar

Inorganic Chemistry

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03322

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[ASAP] Porous High-Valence Metal–Organic Framework Featuring Open Coordination Sites for Effective Water Adsorption

Inorganic Chemistry

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03042

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[ASAP] In Situ Formation of Homogeneous Tellurium Nanodots in Paclitaxel-Loaded MgAl Layered Double Hydroxide Gated Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Synergistic Chemo/PDT/PTT Trimode Combinatorial Therapy

Inorganic Chemistry

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02821

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[ASAP] Valence Variations by B-Site Doping in A-Site Columnar-Ordered Quadruple Perovskites Sm2MnMn(Mn4–Ti)O12 with 1 = = 3

Inorganic Chemistry

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00049

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[ASAP] Charge Transport and Thermoelectric Properties of Carbon Sulfide Nanobelts in Single-Molecule Sensors

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b05119

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[ASAP] Gas-Flow-Driven Aligned Growth of Graphene on Liquid Copper

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03998

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[ASAP] Thermoelectric Performance of Rapidly Microwave-Synthesized a-MgAgSb with SnTe Nanoinclusions

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b05014

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[ASAP] Tunable and Efficient Red to Near-Infrared Photoluminescence by Synergistic Exploitation of Core and Surface Silver Doping of CdSe Nanoplatelets

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b05334

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[ASAP] Sandwiching h-BN Monolayer Films between Sulfonated Poly(ether ether ketone) and Nafion for Proton Exchange Membranes with Improved Ion Selectivity

ACS Nano

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b08680

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[ASAP] Nanocatalytic Tumor Therapy by Single-Atom Catalysts

ACS Nano

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b00457

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[ASAP] Theoretical Investigation of On-Purpose Propane Dehydrogenation over the Two-Dimensional Ru–Pc Framework

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b12274

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[ASAP] Ionic Liquid Mixture at the Vacuum Interface and the Peaks and Antipeaks Analysis of X-ray Reflectivity

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b11958

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