Concerns about exploding electric vehicles are increasing

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By Chris Morrison

Safety concerns around electric vehicles continue to grow, with Australian Fire and Rescue Services in New South Wales claiming they may have to "tactically withdraw" from a trapped car crash victim if the battery is likely to explode. Australian journalist Jo Nova reported on the story, which was first mentioned  in the EV blog  The Driven ,  and noted :

“They say first responders need more training, as if this can be solved with a certificate, but the hard truth is they are talking about training firefighters and truck drivers to recognize when to stop the rescue.”

The Driven , a widely read blog that appears to be very sympathetic to the rollout of electric vehicles, reported on recent testimony given in the NSW government's electric and hybrid vehicle battery inquiry. The writer suggested that emergency workers were not adequately trained to deal with electric vehicle collisions, and that in the most serious cases crews could be forced to abandon rescue efforts. One specific concern was the need to quickly free a trapped victim after an accident by dragging the person out in a "very undesirable manner". Fire is a major risk in any car accident, but can be quickly controlled in an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle.

https://www.climategate.nl/2024/05/zorgen-over-exploderende-elektrische-voertuigen-nemen-toe/

The Carbon Capture Con
By Viv Forbes -- May 17, 2024

“Pumping gases underground is only sensible if it brings real benefits such as using waste gases to increase oil recovery from declining oil fields – frack the strata, pump in CO2, and force out oil/gas.”

Carbon-capture-and-underground-storage “(CCUS)” tops the list of silly schemes “to reduce man-made global warming”. The idea is to capture exhaust gases from power stations or cement plants, separate the CO2 from the other gases, compress it, pump it to the chosen burial site and force it underground into permeable rock formations. Then hope it never escapes.

An Australian mining company who should know better is hoping to appease green critics by proposing to bury the gas of life, CO2, deep in the sedimentary rocks of Australia’s Great Artesian Basin.

They have chosen the Precipice Sandstone for their carbon cemetery. However, the chances of keeping CO2 gas confined in this porous sandstone are remote. This formation has a very large area of outcrop to the surface and gas will escape somewhere, so why bother forcing it into a jail with no roof?

https://www.masterresource.org/carbon-capture-and-storage-ccs/the-carbon-capture-con/

Science Should Undergird America’s Energy Choices, Not Lobbyists
by John Droz Jr.  9 hours ago 

The fundamental fight over enacting effective energy policies is between lobbyists and the public. (A parallel perspective is that it is a contest between real science and political science.) [emphasis, links added]

Lobbyists are paid to represent their clients’ economic interests or political agendas. The public consists of citizens, businesses, and the military.


Lobbyists are professionals who spend most of their time soliciting legislators on their client’s behalf. See this interesting new book about lobbyists.

The obvious question is: “Who is balancing out this one-sided influence by competently and aggressively representing the public’s interests on energy policies (and other important issues)?  The unfortunate answer is almost no one.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/science-should-undergird-americas-energy-choices-not-lobbyists/

Cycles in Earth’s Climate – Part 1: The Trend Setters
22 hours ago 

Richard Willoughby

Introduction

The emergence of the Isthmus of Panama, starting around 5Ma, due to uplift of the Caribbean plate was a major event in Earth’s recent climate history.  It altered the depth of cyclic glaciation, which resulted in oceans being 138m deeper than the present level 23,000 years ago.  This article looks at the cycles that drive the climate trends that create glaciation and interglacials.  Chart 1 provides the reconstructed temperature history based on EPICA Dome C and the Spratt 800kyr sea level reconstruction over the past 800kyr.


Chart 1 also shows the top of the atmosphere (ToA) solar electro-magnetic radiation (EMR) for July at 15N (left hand scale).  The basic frequency of the solar EMR is 23kyr corresponding to what is termed Earth’s axial precession cycle, which is modulated by eccentricity of the orbit around the sun and axial obliquity,  Over the last 1Myr, eccentricity has exhibited  a period of 89kyr and obliquity  a period of 39kyr.

Fourier Transform of Temperature and Sea level Histories

Fourier transformation of time based data transforms the data from the time domain to the corresponding frequency domain to tease out the significant cyclic components in the data.  Chart 2 displays the frequency components inherent in the change in sea level for the sea level shown in Chart 1.


There are three period peaks in the frequency domain.  The two shorter periods, 23.3kyr and 39.4kyr align reasonably well with precession and obliquity cycles.  The peak at 102.3kyr is a little longer than the period of eccentricity in the present era.  It is noted here that the time interval for the sea level data is 1kyr with 512 data points so the resolution for longer periods is quite poor.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/16/cycles-in-earths-climate-part-1-the-trend-setters/

Wrong, Mainstream Media, Tree Rings Aren’t Reliable Indicators of Past Temperatures
 
By
Anthony Watts
May 16, 2024
 

Dozens of media outlets such as ABC News, The BBC, The New York Times, and many more, hyped a study that claims summer temperatures in 2023 were unprecedented over the past 2000 years. This claim, in fact, can’t be verified by tree ring data, which isn’t that precise. Researchers are falsely assuming tree rings are reliable temperature indicators when in fact tree rings can indicate a multitude of different conditions, not just temperature.

Further, the study, Esper, J. et al., Nature, 2024, is using an old trick, pioneered by Michael Mann, Ph.D. in his controversial hockey stick graph, where estimated temperatures from select tree rings and other proxies far into the past are grafted onto more reliable temperatures, measured in the present, and presented as one unified dataset, when in fact they are radically different.

For example, the BBC’s article about the study presented this graph, which is highly reminiscent of Mann’s original “hockey stick” graph.

https://climaterealism.com/2024/05/wrong-mainstream-media-tree-rings-arent-reliable-indicators-of-past-temperatures/