Scafetta : Impacts and Risks of “Realistic“ Global Warming Projections for the 21st Century
The IPCC AR6 assessment of the impacts and risks associated with projected climate changes for the 21st century is both alarming and ambiguous. According to computer projections, global surface temperature may warm from 1.3 °C to 8.0 °C by 2100, depending on the global climate model (GCM) and the shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) scenario used…
Pollack : The Cost of Electricity and CO2 Emissions in the Presence of Sun and Wind Generation
Advocates of non-conventional renewable energies (NCRE or renewables) claim that, by increasing electricity generation from these sources in replacement of fossil fuel-based generation, electricity prices must drop since the investment costs of these technologies have sharply dropped over the last decade and because the fuel cost of sun and wind generation is zero. Likewise, CO2…
Ratzer : Climate Concepts
This presentation was given at the Clintel Climate Conference in Prague. It was designed to be as simple as possible to describe two competing climate theories, the Radiative Transfer Concept and the Heat Transfer Concept, and that they are both valid and work together. The Introduction included a few slides to show the foundation for…
