The Climate Discussion Nexus

Memorandum Of Gooblahoy


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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the supposed Memorandum of Understanding that would let Canada pivot from climate mania to building oil pipelines that was no understanding and barely a memorandum, the arrival of winter once again surprising the smart set, Scientific American claiming the oil industry actually wants to pollute the Earth horribly, moving on to more government prattle in place of productivity in Canada, zealots thinking government subsidies prove something is competitive, New York turning on BlackRock for not being green enough, Canada winning the "Fossil of the Day award" at COP30, a real story about toxic Chinese mines polluting Asian rivers and groundwater, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive look at this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on how unreliable calculations of "radiative forcing" are, especially since it seems the Earth is radiating more heat than it used to and nobody knows why, and from the CO2Science.org archive Knobby Club Rush (no really) also liking CO2.

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The Climate Discussion NexusBy John Robson