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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #431
Climate News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2020-11-14 (November 14, 2020)
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)
The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." —Thomas Jefferson (1809)
Number of the Week: 86 to 238%
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Out of Date: For the past two weeks TWTW has described work by W. A. van Wijngaarden and W. Happer (W & H), on the thermal radiation of the five most abundant greenhouse gases. The most abundant greenhouse gas, water vapor, and the second most abundant, carbon dioxide, are extremely saturated. This means that with the possible exception of polar regions, it would take major increases in the concentrations of these gases in the atmosphere to have a significant impact on global temperatures. For carbon dioxide to have a significant impact on temperatures, it would require burning of more fossil fuels than are known to exist.
The findings of W & H are backed by the temperature trend findings of John Christy and Roy Spencer. The atmosphere of the globe is warming very modestly, not significantly. Further, the atmospheric "hot spot" above the tropics suggested by the climate models is not to be found. Thus, increasing greenhouse effect is not to be feared. The global climate models that produce results of significant warming are out of date. Yet, US modelers ignore the physical evidence of what is occurring in the atmosphere, thereby ignoring their obligations to the public. Modelers in other countries may have similar obligations, which are ignored as well. Consequently, all such models are out of date.
Similarly, we have studies of agriculture which show the authors do not understand recent changes in the industry. For example, the 2018 National Climate Assessment stated that the US Midwest would become too hot for corn (maize) and soybeans and that farming will move north into Canada. Yet, over the past decade the biggest US competitor in the international market for corn and soybeans, and still growing, is tropical Brazil. Technically, the assessment was supported by the US Department of Agriculture. Surely, that Department should know the biggest competitors to the US in important agriculture markets!
Last week the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, released a news report featuring a study performed under ARPA-E, The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy. The report draws into question whether or not the entities involved understand modern agriculture.
The study focused on C4 crops which probably evolved 30 to 35 million years ago when the atmosphere was becoming low in carbon dioxide. In addition to corn, C4 crops include millet, sorghum, and sugarcane and C4 plants include about 50% of grass species. C4 plants have a different form of photosynthesis than C3 plants, which evolved previously. C4 plants use carbon dioxide and water more efficiently than C3 plants (wheat, soybeans, rice, virtually all trees). In nature, C4 are typically found in warm- to high-temperature areas, particularly where water is scarce.
Apparently, the ARPA-E study and the Institute review did not consider the abundant research showing that increasing CO2 allows plants to better adapt to stress, be it water, temperature, salt, etc. C3 plants become more drought resistant, reducing the natural advantage of C4 plants. More importantly, the study did not consider advances in modern agriculture, where hybrids and cultivars (a plant produced by selective breeding for cultivation) can be selected or produced for particular local conditions. As a result, the fear of warming erasing entire crops over the years is meaningless because crops can be tailored to such changes. However, the fear of cooling, freezing or cold preventing ripening, which is real, still remains.
Further, Craig Idso of CO2 Science provided links to studies demonstrating that increases in CO2 benefit corn production. Apparently, the research under the ARPA-E grant did not consider investigating the benefits of adding CO2.
As with climate studies that fail to recognize recent research of what is occurring in the atmosphere, agriculture studies that fail to recognize the modern agricultural industry are out of date. See links under Defending the Orthodoxy, Review of Recent Scientific Articles by CO2 Science (tomato seedlings), https://co2science.org/subject/a/agriculturemaize.php and http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/dry/z/zeam.php
Ignorance of History: In "The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War," Joe Bastardi of WeatherBELL Analytics states that a problem of many alarming papers is that their data does not go back more than 50 years. This ignorance of history was demonstrated by a paper in Nature and a news release by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University. The paper claimed warming oceans means hurricanes weaken more slowly and inflict more destruction farther inland. The study period was the last 50 years.
A quick look at the U.S. Hurricane Strikes by Decade from 1851 to 2004 posted by the National Hurricane Center shows possibly the three worst decades for hurricanes in recorded history. A ranking of the major storms (Cat 3 or above) reveals 1941 to 1950 with 10, 1931 to 1940 with 8; 1951-1960 with 8. Unfortunately, the decadal classification of these data has been discontinued, thus TWTW cannot contradict the study with one easily available table.
However, both Kenneth Richard and Paul Homewood produced information that the conclusions of the paper are not correct. Most compelling is a graph of Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls at Hurricane strength 1970 to 2019 presented in an article by Roger Pielke and Ryan Maue in Forbes in January. This clearly indicates there has been no increase in major hurricanes hitting the US. Consequently, the evidence indicates that the conclusions of the study are wrong. See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy, Defending the Orthodoxy, Changing Weather, and https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml
Point of No Return: Even more outlandish, Nature published a paper claiming that: "An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020." Thus, according to the paper, even if humanity stopped CO2 emissions immediately, the temperatures of the Earth will increase out of control.
The fear of melting permafrost is driven by the fear of atmospheric methane increasing, intensifying the greenhouse effect. However, there are several reasons why the fear is far-fetched. One, as shown in numerous studies, increasing permafrost melting is increasing plant growth, particularly in root mass. Thus, melting of permafrost is not releasing methane because plants are using it as fertilizer. Two, methane has a short lifetime in the atmosphere, because it is rapidly oxidized into CO2 and H2O. Both these gases are saturated, and have logarithmic, self-limiting impacts on temperatures.
Not surprisingly, the Nature paper has been retracted. Even global warming alarmists found it too much. It may prompt the public to claim that expensive reductions in CO2 emission are useless because we are all doomed anyway. Needless to say, Nature has little understanding of nature. See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy, Defending the Orthodoxy, and Lowering Standards.
Disconnect: On Judith Curry's Climate Etc., Kenneth Fritsch has an explanation for the apparent statistical disconnection between the earlier UN CMIP5 models and the latest CMIP6 models. Frisch considers this disconnection from the standpoint of individual model climate sensitivities and Global Mean Surface Temperatures (GMST).
To TWTW, the real disconnect is the inability of climate models to describe what is occurring between atmospheric temperature trends and greenhouse gas increases. Further, seeking the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity to carbon dioxide is a false goal. One must establish an example of an equilibrium climate. Given the constant turmoil ongoing throughout history, such a climate never existed before or after man appeared. See links under Model Issues.
Censorship: Unfortunately, scientific journals have been censoring valid papers submitted to them that question the theme that carbon dioxide is causing dangerous warming. This politicized censoring has been a difficult problem since the 1990s. The flow of scientific information to the public is being highly restricted for political reasons. For these reasons, blogs and "preprints" that have not undergone official "peer review" are becoming more common. In many cases "peer review" is about the same as "approved by the censors." For information on how such "peer review" is avoided, see link under Censorship.
Number of the Week: 86 to 238%. As reported in CO2 Science, a study by Vanaja, et al. presented data on "Harvestable grain yield of well-watered and fertilized plants grown from seeding to harvest at Hyderabad, India, out-of-doors in the field within open-top chambers made of transparent PVC sheeting having a 90% transmittance of light." The increase in yield from an increase in CO2 concentration of 300 parts per million ranged from 86 to 238%, depending on the cultivar of corn used. The fear of CO2-caused warming eliminating corn is misplaced and corn cultivation benefits from increasing CO2. See http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/dry/z/zeam.php
NEWS YOU CAN USE:
Free science is here and growing fast
By David Wojick, WUWT, Nov 9, 2020
Challenging the Orthodoxy — NIPCC
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science
Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), 2013
Click to access CCR-II-Full.pdf
Summary: https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/CCR/CCR-II/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts
Idso, Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), 2014
Summary: https://www.heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-IIb/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels
By Multiple Authors, Bezdek, Idso, Legates, and Singer eds., Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, April 2019
http://store.heartland.org/shop/ccr-ii-fossil-fuels/
Download with no charge:
Click to access Climate-Change-Reconsidered-II-Fossil-Fuels-FULL-Volume-with-covers.pdf
Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming
The NIPCC Report on the Scientific Consensus
By Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), Nov 23, 2015
https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming
Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
S. Fred Singer, Editor, NIPCC, 2008
Click to access nipcc_final.pdf
Global Sea-Level Rise: An Evaluation of the Data
By Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Policy Brief, May 20, 2019
Click to access SeaLevelRiseCCRII.pdf
Challenging the Orthodoxy
Dependence of Earth's Thermal Radiation on Five Most Abundant Greenhouse Gases
By W. A. van Wijngaarden and W. Happer, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, submitted June 4, 2020
Link to prepublication version: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.03098.pdf
Facts and Theories, Updated
By Andy May, WUWT, Nov 10, 2020
Modern Climate Change Science
[SEPP Comment; Does not include work done using HITRAN or MODTRAN.]
Climate Sensitivity Considering Urban and Natural Warming
Guest Post by Ken Gregory, P. Eng., Not a Lot of People Know That, Nov 12, 2020
What 50 Years Of Global Hurricane Landfall Data Can Teach Us About Climate Change
By Roger Pielke and Ryan Maue, Forbes, Jan 9, 2020
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/01/09/tropical-cyclone-landfalls-around-the-world-over-the-past-50-years/?sh=681769683b00
Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality
By Gordon Hughes, Renewable Energy Foundation, Nov 3, 2020 [H/t GWPF]
https://www.ref.org.uk/ref-blog/365-wind-power-economics-rhetoric-and-reality
Defending the Orthodoxy
Corn and other crops are not adapted to benefit from elevated carbon dioxide levels
News Release: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov 5, 2020 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
Link to paper: Retrospective analysis of biochemical limitations to photosynthesis in 49 species: C4 crops appear still adapted to pre‐industrial atmospheric [CO2]
By Charles P. Pignon & Stephen P. Long, Plant, Cell & Environment, Aug 2, 2020
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pce.13863
Climate change causes landfalling hurricanes to stay stronger for longer
Warming oceans means hurricanes weaken more slowly and inflict more destruction farther inland, new study shows
News Release, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University, Nov 11, 2020
Link to paper: Slower decay of landfalling hurricanes in a warming world
By Lin Li & Pinaki Chakraborty, Nature, Nov 11, 2020
Study: Humanity "is beyond the point-of-no-return" on Climate Change
By Eric Worrall WUWT, Nov 13, 2020
Link to paper: An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
By Jorgen Randers & Ulrich Goluke, Nature, Scientific Reports, Nov 12, 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75481-z
From abstract: "To stop the self-sustained warming in ESCIMO, enormous amounts of CO2 have to be extracted from the atmosphere."
Media reaction: What Joe Biden's US election victory means for climate change
By Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief, Nov 10, 2020
Questioning the Orthodoxy
SAR, the Turning Point
By Andy May, WUWT, Nov 9, 2020
The Conversation: "Right now, there is no federal agency tasked with developing a systemic understanding of climate change…"
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 12, 2020
[SEPP Comment: Only the 13 agencies making up the USGCRP, which do so incompetently.]
Change in US Administrations
Energy in the Executive Branch
By Steven F. Hayward, Real Clear Energy, Nov 11, 2020
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/11/11/energy_in_the_executive_branch_583551.html
The Coming Energy Shocks Under A Biden Administration
By Tilak Doshi, Forbes, Nov 11, 2020
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tilakdoshi/2020/11/11/the-coming-energy-shocks-under-a-biden-administration/?sh=38225201229d
Biden administration expected to emphasize climate science over lunar exploration at NASA
By Jeff Foust, Space News, Nov 9, 2020
Biden's climate plan could reduce global warming by about 0.1°C
By Marco Tedesco, Earth Institute at Columbia University, Phys.org, Nov 12, 2020 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-biden-climate-global-01c.html
Problems in the Orthodoxy
Who turned out the lights?
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Nov 11, 2020
China's Coal Power Rising Again
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Nov 11, 2020
France relights coal power plants to keep the lights on
By Staff, Europe1, Via GWPF, Nov 13, 2020
Science, Policy, and Evidence
Will we learn from Oregon's wildfire history and avoid the clearly predictable coming firestorms?
By Bob Zybach, Commentator, Statesman Journal, Nov 6, 2020
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/2020/11/06/we-learn-oregons-wildfire-history-and-avoid-clearly-predictable-coming-firestorms/6168469002/
Review of Recent Scientific Articles by CO2 Science
Projecting Mid- and Late-century Spring Potato Yields in South Korea
Kim, Y.-U. and Lee, B.-W. 2020. Earlier planting offsets the adverse effect of global warming on spring potato in South Korea. Science of the Total Environment 742: 140667, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140667. Nov 13, 2020
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V23/nov/a6.php
The Interactive Effects of CO2 and Salt Stress on Tomato Seedlings
Zhang, Y., Yao, Q., Shi, Y., Li, X., Hou, L., Xing, G. and Ahammed, J. 2020. Elevated CO2 improves antioxidant capacity, ion homeostasis, and polyamine metabolism in tomato seedlings under Ca(NO3)2-induced salt stress. Scientia Horticulturae 273: 109644, doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2020.109644. Nov 11, 2020
"Salt stress is a serious challenge to the growth and yield of crops in many parts of the world. Writing as background for their work, Zhang et al. (2020) note that soil salinization often leads to physiological and metabolic impairments, including 'mineral nutrient deficiency, damage to photosynthetic organs, reductions of photosynthetic efficiency, inhibition in plant growth and development, and ultimately yield decline.' On the other hand, CO2 enrichment has been shown to lead to numerous physiological and metabolic benefits that improve plant growth and yield. Consequently, it is likely that rising CO2 will help alleviate the negative effects of salt stress on plants in the years and decades to come."
Further Evidence the CO2 Fertilization Effect is Presently Enhancing Global Vegetative Productivity
Ueyama, M., Ichii, K., Kobayashi, H., Kumagai, T., Beringer, J., Merbold, L., Euskirchen, E.S., Hirano, T., Marchesini, L.B., Baldocchi, D., Saitoh, T.M., Mizoguchi, Y., Ono, K., Kim, J., Varlagin, A., Kang, M., Shimizu, T., Kosugi, Y., Bret-Harte, M.S., Machimura, T., Matsuura, Y., Ohta, T., Takagi, K., Takanashi, S. and Yasuda, Y. 2020. Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model. Environmental Research Letters 15: 084009, doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab79e5. Nov 9, 2020
Models v. Observations
Out of thin air… and back into it again
"Recently however, in this theory, anthropogenic greenhouse gas accumulation is expected to have thrown the balance off by a whopping 0.1 Watt per square meter, leading to a tiny amount of warming of the atmosphere and oceans. But as noted, our best satellites can't measure the energy flows more precisely than plus or minus 4 watts per square meter. So how do they know when the signal is lost in the noise?"
Models Issues:
Disconnect in the relationship between GMST and ECS
By Kenneth Fritsch, Climate Etc., Nov 11, 2020
Changing Weather
Study On Hurricanes In Journal 'Nature' Plagued By "Massive Error", Expert Says. Cyclones Not Getting Worse
By P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Nov 13, 2020
Latest Alarmist Hurricane Study Easily Debunked
"This paper is typical of so many climate change papers nowadays. Researchers, fed with massive grants, decide what they are going to find, and then massage the data to get the right conclusions."
The Big Dry Ten Years On
[SEPP Comment: Exposing examples of torturing data.]
Storm Approaches With High Winds South of Seattle and Heavy Snow in the Mountains
By Cliff Mass, Weather Blog, Nov 11, 2020
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/11/storm-approaches-with-high-winds-south.html
[SEPP Comment: Brings up some of the challenges in weather forecasting.]
Changing Climate
New Study: Western North America Was Much Warmer And Drier With Peak Wildfire Rates When CO2 Was 265ppm
By Kenneth Richard, No Tricks Zone, Nov 12, 2020
Link to paper: Great Basin Paleoclimate and Aridity Linked to Arctic Warming and Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures
By Matthew Scott Lachniet, et al. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, June 2020
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342133019_Great_Basin_Paleoclimate_and_Aridity_Linked_to_Arctic_Warming_and_Tropical_Pacific_Sea_Surface_Temperatures
Changing Seas
Ocean Chill Increases Oct. 2020
By Ron Clutz, Science Matters, Nov 11, 2020
"The best context for understanding decadal temperature changes comes from the world's sea surface temperatures (SST), for several reasons:
• The ocean covers 71% of the globe and drives average temperatures;
• SSTs have a constant water content, (unlike air temperatures), so give a better reading of heat content variations;
• A major El Nino was the dominant climate feature in recent years."
"HadSST3 is distinguished from other SST products because HadCRU (Hadley Climatic Research Unit) does not engage in SST interpolation, i.e. infilling estimated anomalies into grid cells lacking sufficient sampling in a given month."
Live coral
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2020/11/11/live-coral/
[SEPP Comment: It was dead last week!]
NASA Watches Sea Level Rise from Space, and its Centers' Windows
By Lara Streiff for GSFC News, Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 11, 2020
https://www.terradaily.com/reports/NASA_Watches_Sea_Level_Rise_from_Space_and_its_Centers_Windows_999.html
Changing Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice
2 More Studies Affirm Nothing Unusual Or Unprecedented Is Occurring In Polar Climates Today
By Kenneth Richard, No Tricks Zone, Nov 9, 2020
https://notrickszone.com/2020/11/09/2-more-studies-affirm-nothing-unusual-or-unprecedented-is-occurring-in-polar-climates-today/
Link to one study: Lateglacial and Holocene palaeoenvironments on Bolshevik Island (Severnaya Zemlya), Russian High Arctic
By Anna A. Cherezova, et al. Boreas, An Internal Journal of Quaternary Research, Jan 24, 2020
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bor.12428
Atmospheric rivers help create massive holes in Antarctic sea ice
By Staff Writers, New Brunswick NJ (SPX), Nov 12, 2020
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Atmospheric_rivers_help_create_massive_holes_in_Antarctic_sea_ice_999.html
Link to paper: On the crucial role of atmospheric rivers in the two major Weddell Polynya events in 1973 and 2017 in Antarctica
By Diana Francis, et al. Science Advances, Nov 11, 2020
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/46/eabc2695
Giant berg on collision course with South Georgia
By Staff Writers, Paris (ESA), Nov 11, 2020
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Giant_berg_on_collision_course_with_South_Georgia_999.html
Shorefast ice formation and the fall feeding season for polar bears
By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Nov 11, 2020
https://polarbearscience.com/2020/11/11/shorefast-ice-formation-and-the-fall-feeding-season-for-polar-bears/
Changing Earth
How ancient dust from the sea floor helps to explain climate history
A research team led by geoscientists of the University of Oldenburg, Germany, analyzed sediment cores from the South Pacific
News Release, University of Oldenburg, Nov 9, 2020
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uoo-had110920.php
Agriculture Issues & Fear of Famine
Food emissions could push Earth past global warming limits
By Kelly MacNamara, Paris (AFP) ,Nov 6, 2020
https://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Food_emissions_could_push_Earth_past_global_warming_limits_999.html
Lowering Standards
What Fatih Birol Forgot To Tell You
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/what-fatih-birol-forgot-to-tell-you/
[SEPP Comment: Further exposing the misleading numbers from the International Energy Agency (EIA).]
'Unstoppable' global warming claim withdrawn by Scientific Reports journal
By Staff, The Times, Via GWPF, Nov 13, 2020
https://www.thegwpf.com/false-alarm-unstoppable-global-warming-claim-withdrawn-by-scientific-reports-journal/
Communicating Better to the Public – Make things up.
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2020/11/11/west-side-story/
[SEPP Comment: Defying watery predictions.]
World is running out of time on climate, experts warn
In wake of Covid, leading figures call for bold green measures to boost economy
By Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, Nov 9, 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/09/world-is-running-out-of-time-on-climate-experts-warn?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2020/11/11/arctic-circle/
Communicating Better to the Public – Protest
Remembrance Day Warning: From climate hysteria to justifying green wars
By Staff, GWPF & Journal of Military Ethics, Nov 11, 2020
https://www.thegwpf.com/remembrance-day-warning-from-climate-hysteria-to-justifying-wars/
Questioning European Green
The contradictions of Green policies to limit CO2 emissions
By Ed Hoskins, edmhdotme, Accessed, Nov 12, 2020 [H/t WUWT]
https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/the-inconsistencies-in-green-policies-to-limit-co2-emissions/
"Wherever the Biomass is sourced, remotely for example from Africa, North America, Indonesia, etc. the environmental damage that the industry causes is virtually irreparable even in the medium term."
"The recent Michael Moore film made a telling point, that there is only enough forest timber in the whole USA to power its supply grid for a single year: and after that the forests are gone. Whereas Gas and other Fossil fuel reserves will still be available for the longer-term."
"An excellent way to undermine Western economies is to render their power generation unreliable and expensive. That objective of Green thinking is progressively being achieved by policy throughout the Western world."
Blackout alert from National Grid as Britain sails close to wind
By Staff, The Times, Nov 9, 2020
https://www.thegwpf.com/blackout-alert-from-national-grid-as-britain-sails-close-to-wind/
Questioning Green Elsewhere
The Guardian: Joe Biden's $1.7 Trillion Investment Could Reduce Global Warming by 0.1C
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 8, 2020
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/08/the-guardian-joe-bidens-1-7-trillion-investment-could-low-global-warming-by-0-1c/
World Ignores Green Recovery–Prefers To Avoid Devastating Recession Instead
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/world-ignores-green-recovery-prefers-to-avoid-devastating-recession-instead/
"There is a very simple reason why governments outside of Europe are not going for a green recovery. It is no more than a sham, which will see trillions of dollars tipped down the drain, accompanied by the collapse of traditional economies."
[SEPP Comment: Government spending money to replace a solid functioning electrical system with an erratic one damages productivity and prosperity. It is similar to replacing earth movers with humans using shovels.]
So now can we build back better?
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2020/11/11/so-now-can-we-build-back-better/
"In what direction? If only we knew."
The True Cost Of The Global Energy Transition
By Irina Slav, Oil Price.com, Nov 9, 2020
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-True-Cost-Of-The-Global-Energy-Transition.html
Boris Johnson seeks advice on how to create 2 million green jobs
By Staff, Bloomberg, Via GWPF, Nov 12, 2020
https://www.thegwpf.com/boris-johnson-seeking-advice-how-to-create-2-million-green-jobs/
Funding Issues
HKMA Joins New Alliance On Green Financing As US$29 Trillion In Opportunities Expected Over Next Decade
Alliance for Green Commercial Banks will help lenders address unmet green financing needs, HKMA says About US$18 trillion in green and climate-related financing opportunities are expected in the next decade in Asia
By Staff, South China Morning Post, Nov 9, 2020
https://www.thestreet.com/partner/hkma-joins-new-alliance-on-green-financing-as-us-29-trillion-in-opportunities-expected-over-next-decade-15483852
The Political Games Continue
Labor's climate crisis escalates down under
By Staff, Financial Review, Via GWPF, Nov 10, 2020
https://www.thegwpf.com/labors-climate-crisis-escalates-down-under/
Put More Money into Renewable Energy or We'll Report You to Joe Biden?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/09/uk-pm-boris-johnson-warned-joe-biden-will-expect-more-cash-for-renewable-energy/
Cap-and-Trade and Carbon Taxes
Trump's FERC Pushes Carbon Taxes–and Gets Caught (consumerism, anyone?)
By Martin Rodriguez and Clint Woods, Master Resource, Nov 12, 2020
https://www.masterresource.org/carbon-tax/trump-ferc-carbon-taxes/
Subsidies and Mandates Forever
Green lobby up in arms as France plans to tear up solar subsidy contracts
By Staff, GWPF & Financial Times, Nov 13, 2020
https://www.thegwpf.com/green-lobby-up-in-arms-as-france-tears-up-solar-subsidy-contracts/
Energy Issues – Non-US
Estimating the actual costs of converting to renewable energy sources
By Bob Yirka, Tech Xplore, Nov 11, 2020 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-11-actual-renewable-energy-sources.html
Link to paper: A systematic review of the costs and impacts of integrating variable renewables into power grids
By Philip J. Heptonstall & Robert J. K. Gross, Nature Energy, Nov 2, 2020
From abstract: "Data are scarce at high penetrations, but show that the range widens."
GWPF welcomes delay to UK energy white paper
"Astronomical Net Zero costs no longer affordable"
Press Release, GWPF, Nov 12, 2020
https://www.thegwpf.com/gwpf-welcomes-delay-to-energy-white-paper/
Britain yet to choose between carbon tax or emissions trading post-Brexit
By Staff, The Economic Times, Nov 13, 2020
https://www.thegwpf.com/britain-yet-to-choose-between-carbon-tax-or-emissions-trade-post-brexit/
Brexit Poker: EU threatens Britain with energy blockade
By Staff, GWPF & Bloomberg, Nov 12, 2020
https://www.thegwpf.com/brexit-poker-eu-threatens-britain-with-energy-blockade/
Energy Issues – Australia
AFR: Ignoring Climate Activist Campaigns is No Longer an Option for Australian Business
Energy Issues — US
EIA: US CO2 Emissions From Electricity Generation Down to 1980's Levels… Frac On!
By David Middleton, WUWT, Nov 11, 2020
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/11/eia-us-co2-emissions-from-electricity-generation-down-to-1980s-levels-frac-on/
Link to report: U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide emissions fell in 2019, mainly in electric generation
By Kevin Nakolan, et al, EIA, Nov 10, 2020
Return of King Coal?
Steel! Meet the Metallurgical Coal Producers Association
By Robert Bradley Jr., Master Resource, Nov 10, 2020
https://www.masterresource.org/coal/meet-the-metallurgical-coal-producers-association-formerly-virginia-coal-and-energy-alliance/
Nuclear Energy and Fears
Fusion Soon, Maybe
By Donn Dears, Power For USA, Nov 14, 2020
https://ddears.com/2020/11/14/fusion-soon-maybe/
Alternative, Green ("Clean") Solar and Wind
UK wind subsidy shift raises repowering hopes
By Neil Ford, Reuters, Nov 12, 2020
https://www.reutersevents.com/renewables/wind/uk-wind-subsidy-shift-raises-repowering-hopes?utm_campaign=NEP%20WIN%2013NOV20%20Newsletter%20B&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
"From next year, UK onshore wind developers will be able to bid for government subsidies, ending a five-year moratorium on price support. Under government plans, onshore wind and solar will compete for contracts for difference (CfDs), boosting the business case for greenfield and repowering projects."
Alternative, Green ("Clean") Energy — Other
Wiltshire Council To Waste £484m On Zero Carbon Plan
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/wiltshire-council-to-waste-484m-on-zero-carbon-plan/
"However, it is the improvement of existing homes which sticks out like a sore thumb. According to the council website, the council owns over 5,000 properties. So expenditure of £289m, which works out at a mind boggling £57,800 apiece. Energy Performance Rating B is not even particularly high anyway – typically a condensing boiler, triple glazing, cavity and loft insulation gets a B rating."
"If we apply this cost of £57,800 to the nation's housing stock of 27m, we get a total cost of £1.56 trillion!"
Alternative, Green ("Clean") Energy — Storage
Utility-Scale Battery Costs "Fall" to $625/kWh
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/10/utility-scale-battery-costs-fall-to-625-kwh/
Link to report: Utility-scale battery storage costs decreased nearly 70% between 2015 and 2018
By Sara Hoff, Alexander Mey, et al. EIA, Oct 23, 2020
[SEPP Comment: In July, US peak demand reaches about 660 million kWh.]
Electricity Storage Systems Still Woefully Lack, Indefinitely Hampering The German Green Energy Dream
The pitfalls of planned economies…
Power shortages, power surpluses, seas of milk and mountains of butter
By Reinhard Storz (Translated/ edited by P. Gosselin), No Tricks Zone, Nov 10, 2020
https://notrickszone.com/2020/11/10/electricity-storage-systems-still-woefully-lack-indefinitely-hampering-the-german-green-energy-dream/
Alternative, Green ("Clean") Vehicles
Tory MPs call on Shapps to Stop the war on the motorist
Record Heat In California Claims Not Supported By Data
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Nov 9, 2020
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/record-heat-in-california-claims-not-supported-by-data/
Health, Energy, and Climate
Climate Change Poses Biggest Threat To UK Health–NHS Chief
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/11/08/climate-change-poses-biggest-threat-to-uk-health-nhs-chief/
Other News that May Be of Interest
Noosa River Mouth, 1973 & Yesterday
By Jennifer Marohasy, Her Blog, Nov 10, 2020
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2020/11/noosa-river-mouth-1973-yesterday/
"When we really care about something, we should think about first understanding it. That means we might need to take some time out, to watch and listen and even read. Of course, a best way to learn is to hear different perspectives and then to go see, to trust our own eyes and capacity to reason."
Steam Fog Season
By Cliff Mass, Weather Blog, Nov 7, 2020
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/11/steam-fog-season.html
Virgin's Hyperloop carries passengers for the first time
By Staff Writers, Los Angeles (AFP), Nov 9, 2020
https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Virgins_Hyperloop_carries_passengers_for_the_first_time_999.html
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE
Friday Funny BONUS: Funniest Things Blamed on Climate Change?
Posted by Anthony Watts, WUWT, Nov 13, 2020
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/13/friday-funny-bonus-funniest-things-blamed-on-climate-change/
Michael Kuperberg Fired from National Climate Assessment Post
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/10/michael-kuperberg-fired-from-national-climate-assessment/
Link to full article: Trump Administration Removes Scientist in Charge of Assessing Climate Change
Michael Kuperberg was told he would no longer oversee the National Climate Assessment. The job is expected to go to a climate-change skeptic, according to people familiar with the changes.
By Christopher Flavelle, Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport, NYT, Nov 9, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/climate/michael-kuperberg-climate-assessment.html
"A biased or diminished climate assessment would have wide-ranging implications."
"And, ultimately, it could weaken what is known as the "endangerment finding," a 2009 scientific finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that said carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to human health and therefore are subject to government regulation. Undercutting that finding could make it more difficult to fight climate change under the terms of the Clean Air Act."
[SEPP Comment: The last National Climate Assessment was a joke.]
Jumping the shark
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2020/11/11/jumping-the-shark/
New Video : Biden's Nature Trick
By Tony Heller, His Blog, Nov 11, 2020
https://realclimatescience.com/2020/11/new-video-bidens-nature-trick/
Newly discovered primate in Myanmar 'already facing extinction'
By Marlowe Hood, Paris (AFP), Nov 11, 2020
https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Newly_discovered_primate_in_Myanmar_already_facing_extinction_999.html
[SEPP Comment: Previously, the "newly discovered" had huge recent populations?]
Russian Navy Shoots Bear – BBC Expresses Outrage!
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/russian-navy-shoots-bear-bbc-expresses-outrage/
Biden's Plan to Shift Energy Policy Faces Headwinds
President-elect faces competing pressure from unions, environmentalists, energy industry and Congress
By Timothy Puko, WUWT, Nov 10, 2020
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-plan-to-shift-energy-policy-faces-headwinds-11605016802
TWTW Summary: The journalist writes:
"Energy and climate policy will be among President-elect Joe Biden's top priorities when he steps into the Oval Office next year, but it could also prove one of his toughest challenges.
"President Trump has been a champion of traditional energy industries such as coal and oil. Mr. Biden wants to supercharge a transition to cleaner energy sources and has said reversing several Trump administration rollbacks of regulations aimed at combating climate change is a 'Day 1' priority.
"Mr. Biden's presidential authority gives him the power to move quickly. He can order the U.S. back into the Paris climate accord, end a dispute with California on its tougher tailpipe-emission rules and work with it on a national standard, and slow or halt oil leasing on federal lands. He has promised to do all of these things.
"'President-elect Biden looks forward to implementing his plans to tackle climate change while creating millions of good-paying, union jobs—which not only earned unprecedented support from climate activists, environmental justice leaders, and labor leaders, but also helped deliver a historic victory,' Biden spokesman Matt Hill said Monday.
"Mr. Biden's biggest ambitions, however, will require help. He has proposed a $2 trillion overhaul for energy and transportation infrastructure as a way to address both climate change and the coronavirus pandemic's economic downturn. That would need support from Congress, and lobbyists and analysts expect Republicans will block many of his requests if they maintain Senate control."
After a brief discussion of what may happen if the Republicans retain control of the Senate, the reporter continues:
"Lobbyists and analysts expect more modest, compromised plans. If a divided Congress does pass an economic stimulus package to help people through the pandemic, it is much less likely to be laden with energy and climate projects than if Democrats had commanding control of Congress, they said.
"Concerned by Republican success in many down-ballot races, Congressional Democrats are pushing the Biden team to take more moderate positions and avoid policies that might seem punitive toward the oil industry, according to a person familiar with the talks. They will, however, make a big push on energy-infrastructure spending, believing Republicans will be loath to vote against it.
"'Realistically, to get something that is really game changing, we need to get some legislation,' said former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who represented Nevada as a Democrat. 'All the eyes of the country are going to be on the Republicans in the Senate.'
"Before inauguration, lobbyists and environmentalists are watching for early signals about Mr. Biden's direction on climate—how moderate or radical he might turn—through his appointments to his transition team and eventually to federal agencies.
"Some expect Mr. Biden may devote a White House role to overseeing climate policy across his administration. And some advisers, including former Democratic presidential rival Tom Steyer, are pushing to ensure every cabinet secretary gives priority to measures to slow climate change.
"Mr. Biden's campaign has already signaled it wants to avoid having former 'leaders at fossil fuel…companies' serve on his transition team. But several energy experts from Mr. Biden's inner circle and the Obama administration have ties to the industry, including Amos Hochstein, a former executive at the gas exporter Tellurian Inc., and former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, a board member at utility Southern Co.
"It is a minefield Mr. Biden tried to navigate with nuance while on the campaign trail. He has promised a transition away from oil, saying it benefits the economy for the U.S. to become a leader in clean-energy businesses and to try avoiding the worst of climate change. But he also has said that transition shouldn't happen so quickly that it risks further decimating a workforce now in the middle of a pandemic-fueled slump.
"That stance is in part shaped by unions, which he courted to recapture battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin where working-class voters scared by past environmental policies had drifted toward Republicans and Mr. Trump. Those unions are likely to remain a central force as the Biden administration and its energy policies take shape.
"The Biden transition team's webpage, published late last week, makes climate one of four priorities and calls its response 'The Biden-Harris plan to create union jobs by tackling the climate crisis.'
"It is that attention to those workers and their jobs that brought those very states—and, with them, the presidency—back to Democrats, said Lonnie Stephenson, a Biden climate adviser and international president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
"'We do have an administration that we believe will listen to our concerns,' Mr. Stephenson said. 'The fossil fuel industry has done a lot to ensure a greener environment as well. Sometimes they don't get credit for what they have done.'
"Unions and environmentalists are two important constituencies for Mr. Biden, but the two groups are often at odds.
"Environmental groups have long sought to block pipelines as a way to limit the impact of the oil industry on climate change. Unions support them as a source of jobs and have pressured the Biden team not to stand in their way.
"Mr. Biden's campaign has already said that he would revoke a permit for the operation of Keystone XL, a long-delayed pipeline that would bring oil from Canada to the Midwest. The Dakota Access crude pipeline also is at risk with a key federal permit in legal limbo.
"Court cases are also pending on the country's primary rules for controlling the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change, creating the potential for more influential decisions from the president-elect.
"The Obama administration was the first to set national limits on those emissions from power plants, cars and trucks, and oil and gas producers, but the Trump administration eased or eliminated all of them. All those Trump rollbacks are still in limbo under legal challenge from Democrat-led states and environmental groups.
"Analysts and legal experts expect a Biden administration would have its lawyers ask the courts to halt those cases and give it time to reconsider those rules.
"His campaign has said the priorities for his first day as president would be to revive some of these rules and set even more stringent requirements—namely on methane-emissions limits for the oil-and-gas industry, and fuel-economy standards for new cars and trucks.
"Many businesses and institutional investors have swung hard in recent years to support efforts to address climate change with low-emissions energy. Those private-sector investments trends are likely to continue anyway, but can grow stronger with a president who doesn't oppose them, environmentalists and executives said.
"'Investors are always looking for signals,' said Michael Polsky, founder and chief executive of Invenergy LLC, which develops and operates clean-energy projects. 'The certainty is always better.'"
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Since September, France has relighted four coal-fired power plants to offset the shutdown of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant and the lack of wind.
As the article says, 14 more perfectly working nuclear plants to close and be substituted with coal and gas fired power plants.
I suppose France can still pump money out of the people to serve the Green global de-industrialization. "Back to the USSR" – Sorry Beatles.
The good thing though is that it may improve the CO2 contribution a fraction of a part per million.
Fessenheim was France's oldest reactor.
It was located in an area prone to seismic activity and was at risk of flooding.
Among several safety failures over the years, cracks were found in a reactor cover and internal flooding in 2014 forced an emergency shutdown. Fessenheim's safety was reviewed in light of the meltdown at Fukushima in Japan in 2011 and the accident intensified the campaign to shut it down.
Last year Fessenheim – which was opened in 1977 – was one of six reactors which EDF acknowledged had manufacturing problems, while maintaining they were all fit for use.
So this wasn't a perfectly working reactor and was surely time expired?
Reply to griff
In reply to:
French options/forced change
"I suppose France can still pump money out of the people to serve the Green global de-industrialization. "Back to the USSR" – Sorry Beatles. The good thing though is that it may improve the CO2 contribution a fraction of a part per million."
Reality Vs Griff's Fake Climate Change Issue
When countries have a real problem…. When a country absolutely must cut expenditures and cut stupid wasteful programs to avoid economic collapse.
The first to go are very, very, expensive 'programs' that kill jobs and delivery zero immediate benefits and that do not significantly reduce CO2 emission if honest all in calcs are done.
The Left and the Fake media, have been hiding a country ending problem which countries like France are pretending does not exist.
All of the heavily indebted countries are going to be forced to abandon the Quixotic cause "Fighting Climate Change'.
Covid has created, an instance, cannot be avoided economic crisis.
It is a fact, that France the country (does not matter what party is running France the country) is spending much, much more now then France the country was spending prior to the covid release….
Tourism makes up 18% of France's GDP.
France is now, accumulating a year of debt in a month, rather than a year. France has just become exactly like a new company that is burning all of the cash… France cannot continue to borrow, without consequences.
Ditto all of the democratic countries, including US.
The Left declared covid to be a crisis, which enabled the idiots to create magic money and waste the magic money without thought. And the idiots have not even acknowledged that their country is lost if immediate changes are not made.
JohnC
The censorship applied to AGW is also being applied to SARS-COV-2/CoViD19 papers.
Joseph Zorzin
NONSENSE. Why don't you talk to the forestry industry to find out the TRUTH????
NOBODY in the forestry industry proposes that biomass will mean we can stop burning fossil fuels – NOBODY. Get it? It's not about replacing fossil fuels- it's about getting rid of "junk wood" that we must get rid of to better mange the forests. OF COURSE even if the biomass industry was developed to its potential- it would be a drop in the bucket compared to fossil fuels. And, virtually all forestry people LOVE fossil fuels- forestry couldn't exist without lots of fossil fuels. I sure get fed up with hearing anti biomass comments in this forum from people who don't bother to find the TRUTH by talking to forestry people- instead of watching a bogus film by the commy Michael Moore.
ATheoK
Reply to Joseph Zorzin
You did not refute the quote you started with. If anything, you validate the quote.
Hey Joseph, nobody, but NOBODY here is attacking the forestry industry. Get it? Moron.
A biomass industry is a MAJOR COMPONENT of forestry, moron!
Krishna Gans
No, we have no deforestation in several countries in f.e. eastern Europe 😀
What you tell anout USA may be right, but elsewhete it's completely different, as often shown here.
Importing US wood pellets to the UK is neither green nor renewable and should be stopped: I hope all Watts readers will join Greenpeace and all UK green organisations in campaigning against it
No NGOs necessary
I think everyone except those in the climate science think it is stupid that the ruling was ever made.
"Importing US wood pellets to the UK is neither green nor renewable…"
Try proving that! You can't.
Kevin kilty
I tend to agree with you on this topic, Joe. Out west here when journalists write a story about fires and forect management they rarely interview a forestry expert, but rather head toward the wildlfe management professor or an environmentalist. I wish people could see what forests have become under the present management plans. In some places they don't look terrible, but in others they are a disaster. In southern Wyoming and northern Colorado some of the wilderness areas were so thick with downed and dead trees they were unusable by anyone. Then they caught fire in suspiciously convenient locations, under suspicious circumstances, during an unusually windy late summer and burned half million acres. The fires were difficult to control because of the downed trees and wind. However, I took a drive through the Mullen fire area ten days ago, and was amazed at the job the firefighters did to keep property safe.
I agree with you that a smart forest management program could provide a small, but sustainable input to power production while making the forests healthier. Just my opinion…
Regarding the future allegations regarding corn production…
Part of the trouble, as with so much research is that the researchers have very limited knowledge regarding the claims they make.
"Similarly, we have studies of agriculture which show the authors do not understand recent changes in the industry. For example, the 2018 National Climate Assessment stated that the US Midwest would become too hot for corn (maize) and soybeans and that farming will move north into Canada."
That statement could only be made when people are ignorant of corn's history.
From the original hybridization, selective breeding of mutations, through corn's usage by peoples living in drastically different environments.
Corn initial hybridization and selection of mutations in Mexico thousands of years ago, corn has been grown by peoples at high altitude in the Andes, tropical climate of South America, Central America, Mexico and drought resistant corn varieties grown by the Anazi on the high altitude mesas, (e.g. 8,500 feet, 2,590 meters), of southwest America.
Corn's history includes utilization as significant substantial food crops during much warmer Holocene periods. Yet these researchers cry "Doom" at the slightest beliefs or provocation.
Researchers put alarmism before science and knowledge when they make these literally religious pronouncements.
Just Jenn
You know what would be an interesting intellectual exercise? Take another "crisis" from the past–not a war, but something at the heart of the daily lives of people–say the horse manure crisis in NY–and run all the headlines of pro vs con about that crisis. Then compare the two to today. Or you could just replace anything with climate crisis in it with horse manure and probably achieve the same result in the headlines.
Reply to Just Jenn
Y2k problem: action taken, problem averted. Ozone hole: action taken, problem averted. Whales declining: action taken, whales pretty much saved. Leaded petrol an issue… successful ban. Acid rain: action taken, problem averted.
Splitdog Homee
All of this global warming information means nothing if the USA is destroyed. "STOP THE STEAL" because we require fair elections to exist.
Reply to Splitdog Homee
Those would be the elections your Dept of Homeland Security called 'the most secure election ever'?
Adding in a statement: 'There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. 'While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the upmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too.'
Dan DaSilva
Griff,
I have been using "Splitdog Homee" but this is a time to get serious.
We must investigate this election.
Timo, Not That One
griff- Nobody in government is compromised, so we should just accept their "statements". Scores of witnesses to cheating must be ingnored. They are only citizens and can't be trusted.
Reply to Timo, Not That One
If your state security apparatus makes a statement, either you trust it did its job – or you have a profoundly deeper problem than a contested election result.
The second of those options is profoundly unlikely.
Trump lost, so that means the Dems cheated. Logic.
Julian Flood
C4 plants fix C without discriminating against heavier isotopes. This leaves a light isotope signal in the atmosphere?
The spring diatom bloom only ends when the dissolved silica runs out. Diatoms use a C4-like carbon fixation process.
Agriculture has led to a great increase in dissolved silica run-off (1) (3) which ends up in the oceans. Civilisation produces large amounts of dust, mainly silica. This ends up in the oceans. (1) Diatom dominance delays the bloom of calciferous phytoplankton (1) which are the source of Di-methylsulphide cloud condensation nuclei.. This reduces low level stratocumulus cloud. (1)
The results of the above: ocean warming; an increase in the light C isotope in the atmosphere. (2)
(1) A suitable prediction for checking – Mr Bezos could usefully spend money on this.
(2) Already measured.
(3) Nitrogen fixation for agriculture is having similar large scale effects on the oceans, but the results are less obvious (1)


Sweat was beading on my brow. I was gasping for breath. Running up hill, I needed my iPhone. Fifty yards away I had the spotting scope set up. Binos were around my neck, so was the camera.
A few hundred yards below were 300-400 head of elk. Cows and calves were mewing, the herd bull was grazing, bachelor bulls were cast to the side. It was a mess of elk. The sound and the smell was intoxicating. I was drunk.
I was scouting for deer, with no elk tag for the area, but at the end of the day I love elk. It didn't matter that there was no chance I could hunt these animals. Being in their presence was enough to make me crazy.
The herd bull's full grandeur came into focus through the spotting scope. A 7×6 mainframe with extra junk all over – a Little Mountain monster – everything one comes to expect from this storied Wyoming sanctuary of public lands. A kicker stuck straight up from the base of each first brow tine. Mass extended through the entire main beams. He was simply huge.
I was attempting to look everything over through the scope and binos, while shooting photos. My lens wasn't long enough to do the scene justice. I didn't have an adapter to put the camera on the scope. My brain could barely focus.
I thought maybe I could take an iPhone photo through the scope. Thus the sprint uphill, back to the truck. It didn't work. It didn't matter. The whole scene was breathtaking. Taking a deep breath would have been well advised.
Instead I ran in circles like a crazy person with optics hanging off of me like Christmas ornaments. In hindsight I don't think I'd change a thing.
Steven Brutger is the Wyoming Energy Coordinator for Trout Unlimited. Little Mountain, home to some of the best big game hunting in WY along with populations of native Colorado River cutthroat trout is one of his project areas. This year Steven was lucky enough to draw one of the areas coveted deer tags. When not chasing big bucks he lives in Lander, WY with his wife two children and a couple of gun dogs. To learn more about TU's work in the Little Mountain area http://new.tu.org/tu-projects/little-mountain.


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Bioware hasn't abandoned its popular role-playing series, despite the demands of developing online multiplayer game Anthem. The fate of sci-fi RPG Mass Effect and fantasy epic Dragon Age had seemed to be shaky, following disappointing reviews for their most recent outings. Mass Effect Andromeda arrived in 2017, but DLC plans for the game have evaporated, while Dragon Age has been MIA since Inquisition in 2014.
Now studio manager Casey Hudson has tried to reassure fans that these franchises are not as dead as they seem, saying in the developer's mid-summer update that they hear the demand for more Mass Effect and Dragon Age adventures "loud and clear".
"Rest assured that we have some teams hidden away working on some secret stuff that I think you'll really like," Hudson says, "we're just not ready to talk about any of it for a little while".
It seems that the experience of developing Anthem, with its dynamic and persistent world, may influence where these veteran series go next. Hudson had previously hinted that any new Dragon Age game would be a "live" experience, with a world that continued to generate gameplay and story long after the main questline had been completed.


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On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered what is considered to be the top speech delivered in the 20th Century. In his speech, Dr. King called for the end of racism in the United States. Fittingly, the speech was made from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during a March on Washington in front of an estimated crowd of 250,000 civil rights supporters.
In the opinion of many, Dr. King's message was the defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movements. It was the culmination of years of struggle and a moment of clarity for a nation struggling to define itself racially.
What is interesting about the speech is that toward the end of its delivery, a well-known African American gospel singer, Mahalia Jackson, shouted to Dr. King from the crowd, "Tell them about the dream, Martin."
At that moment, Dr. King stopped delivering his prepared speech and started "preaching". He punctuated his points with the phrase, "I have a dream."
The power of the message delivered on that fateful day was magnified the moment he left his text and began to preach. I believe that it was at that instant that the Holy Spirit empowered Dr. King and his oration ceased being a wonderfully crafted speech and became a powerfully transforming message.
In midst of his "preaching", Dr. King resonated "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." He was quoting Isaiah 40:4-5.
Dr. King's message was impactful because he was being like one of the Old Testament Prophets. He spoke of a crisis and an urgency to change or repent from ways that are sinful to ways that are a part of the design of God and therefore pleasing to God. While delivering his "I Have a Dream" portion of his speech, he was being prophetic.
Ultimately, Dr. King knew something that much of America no longer understands or embraces. If we are to truly be a great and sovereign nation where justice prevails and freedom rings, we need to be one nation under God.
Dr. King's appeal was for us to become a nation that realized God's will for His people and His children.
The "I Have a Dream" speech is what it was because at the moment of its delivery, Dr. King was not just a Civil Rights Spokesman, but a messenger of God and His Word.


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By Money Morning Staff Reports, Money Morning • September 22, 2020
TRON (TRX) is a cryptocurrency that made its initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017 and quickly became one of the top 10 cryptocurrencies in the world. Its fast rise in terms of market capitalization has made TRON price predictions a popular discussion point among crypto enthusiasts and investors.
Adding to the interest in TRX is the fact that its developer, Justin Sun, was both the chief representative for Ripple (XRP) in China and the protégé of Jack Ma – the founder of Alibaba.
Available to purchase for only a few cents per coin, TRX is a penny cryptocurrency that attracts both investors new to cryptocurrency who are looking to dive in with little risk as well as long-time crypto supporters familiar with Sun's history.
Before investing in any cryptocurrency, it is important to be aware of its history, its price fluctuations, and what makes it different from other coins.
Today, we'll break down what makes TRON such an appealing altcoin and why you might want to consider adding it to your portfolio.
What Is TRON?
At its heart, TRON is a decentralized blockchain platform that allows peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing of content among its users.
TRON began using the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain but has since broken free to operate on its own and become one of the world's largest blockchain operating systems with the goal of providing a decentralized Internet.
The cryptocurrency, TRX (also referred to as TRON or Tronix), allows producers of content to be paid for their creation.
By using the TRON blockchain, developers of decentralized applications (DApps) can make their applications available to the public and earn money in the form of TRX without having to go through middlemen such as the Apple or Android stores.
Those with a bullish TRX price prediction see the TRON blockchain as an opportunity for creators to use a free and secure P2P platform that is empowering and offers a fair return for their work.
As such, TRON and TRX have a strong base of support (as evidenced by Justin Sun's 2.1 million Twitter followers).
TRON Price History
On Sept. 7, 2017, TRON made its ICO at $0.0019. A week later, the coin dropped to its all-time low of $0.001091.
Like all other cryptocurrency prices, there have been a lot of ups and downs in recent years in terms of price, but those keeping a keen eye on TRX have certainly had their opportunities to turn a profit…
In its second year of existence, TRON made some big moves, which were reflected in its price. The development of the TRON Virtual Machine, as well as the company's move off of Ethereum's blockchain in 2018 allowed for further on-chain development.
In the same year, TRON acquired BitTorrent, a popular P2P file-sharing platform founded in 2001. An abundance of positive news about the events led to TRX skyrocketing in price to its all-time high of $0.30063 in early 2018.
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Although TRX came back to earth and has remained far from its 2018 high, the coin gained a lot of momentum once again in 2020. In mid-August, TRON entered the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector by launching its first decentralized token exchange protocol: JustSwap.
JustSwap presents a challenge to Ethereum's DeFi protocol, UniSwap. The unveiling of UniSwap led to an increase in Ethereum's price, and JustSwap immediately had a similar effect on TRX.
In early September, 2020, Justin Sun announced a new token, SUN, which TRX holders could mine by staking some of their currency. The new coin adds another DeFi project to the TRON network.
The positive news generated in 2020 rallied the price of TRX from $0.0133 on Jan. 1 to upwards of $.04 in early September.
Why Should You Consider TRON
Important factors to consider when investing in any cryptocurrency are what makes the coin unique and what it offers that can't be found elsewhere. In the case of TRX, there are quite a few characteristics that make it a crypto of interest.
A good place to start is with TRON's charismatic founder, Justin Sun. As mentioned, Sun has important connections in big business stemming from his time learning from Jack Ma, but he also is capable of making big news on his own…
Sun brings attention to TRON through breaking news via Twitter and high-profile events such as having lunch with Warren Buffett (which he donated $4.56 million to charity for). In the world of crypto, any newsworthy event that elevates awareness of a coin can be enough to give its price upward momentum.
What truly makes TRON unique is its goal of reinventing the way we purchase, create, and interact with digital content. If the TRON platform succeeds, all digital content – from apps to movies, music, video games, and more – will go straight from the creator to the consumer.
Ideally, removal of the middle man would allow creators to make more money from their products while at the same time lowering costs.
Much of the future success of TRON relies upon its acceptance by artists and creators. It seems likely that startups, especially those in the music and publishing industry, will be willing to be early adopters of the platform as a means of distributing their products to a large audience for free.
If there is one thing TRON is certainly not lacking, it is ambition. The TRON Foundation has mapped out six stages of growth that will take it through the end of the decade.
The first (now completed) stage was Exodus, which was leaving the Ethereum blockchain and establishing its own decentralized platform where users can share content for free.
The second stage, Odyssey, uses blockchain technology and TRX coins to create, host, and promote content on the platform. Unlike other platforms where clicks are tracked to generate revenue, creators are "tipped" with coins by users; the size of the tip depends upon how much the user enjoyed the content.
The four upcoming stages are Great Voyage, Apollo, Star Trek, and Eternity. Goals of the final four stages include new ICOs (such as the mining of SUN coins) and the establishment of a decentralized gaming platform.
With big plans for the future and deals already being made with players in the gaming industry, it's easy to see why TRX price predictions tend to see upward movement.
Interesting TRON (TRX) Price Predictions
Successfully predicting price swings can help you earn a passive income with cryptocurrency, and paying attention to the experts can help set you on the right path.
The crypto prediction service CoinLiker sees the price of TRX rising to $0.193099 in 2021, with a steady surge to $0.554055 by 2025.
CoinSwitch is even more bullish, predicting a rise to $0.763 over the next five years. This prediction is a bit tempered, and it assumes both greater adoption of blockchain technology and the embracing of the TRON platform by creators. CoinSwitch warns of a "worst-case scenario" of TRX pricing at $0.20 by 2025 if such adoption does not occur.
Looking even further ahead, CoinSwitch names TRX as one of the cryptocurrencies with the most room to grow, citing its enthusiastic community of supporters and developers. The site explains, "TRON's adoption rate might grow manifold, and its accessibility might take a higher stand as compared to its competitors. By the end of 2030, Tron might reach as high as $1.00 USD, considering the volatile market."
Even by Coinswitch's most bearish prediction, holding TRX through 2025 would net a 700% return from its current price of $0.025. On the other hand, if the 2030 TRON price prediction of $1 comes to fruition, you'd net a whopping 3,900% return!
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U.N. Backs Israel in Border Dispute with Lebanon
August 4, 2010 / 12:30 PM / CBS/AP
U.N. peacekeepers said Wednesday a cypress tree an Israeli soldier was cutting down just before a border clash with Lebanese soldiers erupted was in Israeli territory, contradicting Lebanese claims that their frontier was breached.
The clash Tuesday left a senior Israeli officer, two Lebanese soldiers and a Lebanese journalist dead and was the most serious since Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah fought a brief war in 2006. It was a stark reminder of how volatile the border remains, even though both sides appeared to be trying to restore calm and prevent an escalation.
The Israeli soldier was cutting down the tree - something Israel does occasionally to improve its sight line into Lebanon - when Lebanese forces opened fire. The Lebanese army and a witness said U.N. peacekeepers intervened to ask the Israeli to stop cutting the tree, but Israel refused. UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, has not commented on that.
Both sides claimed the tree was in their territory.
Lebanon acknowledged Wednesday that the tree was south of an official, U.N.-drawn boundary known as the Blue Line separating the countries. The line was drawn in 2000 following the end of a two-decade Israeli occupation of south Lebanon that began with a war in 1982.
However Lebanese Information Minister Tarek Mitri said his country disputes the Blue Line demarcation in certain areas, including the village of Adeisseh where the clash took place, and saw Israel's act in as a clear provocation.
"UNIFIL established, however, that the trees being cut by the Israeli army are located south of the Blue Line on the Israeli side," said force spokesman Lt. Naresh Bhatt. He said the peacekeepers were still investigating the clash.
Israel said the U.N. announcement clearly corroborated its version of events.
"Our routine activity yesterday was conducted entirely south of the frontier on the Israeli side and that the Lebanese Army opened fire without any provocation or justification whatsoever," government spokesman Mark Regev said.
Tensions along the border have risen in recent months. Israel claims Hezbollah, a powerful force within Lebanon, has significantly expanded and improved its arsenal of rockets since their 2006 war with help from its allies Syria and Iran.
However Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak sought Wednesday to calm the situation.
"I hope we will have a quiet summer and things will return to their normal course," he told Israel Radio.
An Israeli military spokesman said the army was continuing operations as usual in the area and pruning more trees on Wednesday. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations.
Mitri, the Lebanese minister, said Lebanon had been notified in advance of Wednesday's pruning under UNIFIL supervision and approved it. He said if Israel had done the same on Tuesday, "we wouldn't have had the escalation."
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Andy David said the army was surprised by the violence because Israel carries out maintenance on the border regularly.
"Once a week, the army prunes bushes and trees on the border in coordination with UNIFIL, which coordinates with the Lebanese," David said. "There was nothing unusual in the procedure."
The border area where the clash took place has been a point of tension between the two countries in the past few years with several small incidents during which Lebanon accused Israel of crossing or encroaching on Lebanese territory.
"While (Lebanon) has respected the Blue Line and committed itself to respect the Blue Line, it has always affirmed that the Blue Line is not the international border and there are areas south of the Blue Line that are Lebanese territory," Mitri told reporters in Beirut. "The area where the tree was to be cut yesterday ... is south of the Blue Line but is Lebanese territory."
A fence that Israel erected may contribute to the confusion about which territory the tree is in. An Associated Press photo from Tuesday shows an Israeli standing on a crane reaching over the fence and into a wooded area, angering people on the Lebanese side.
But the fence does not match the Blue Line boundary in all places.
Lebanese and Israeli army officers and UNIFIL planned to meet later Wednesday along the border, the U.N. force's spokesman Andrea Tenenti said. The gathering had been planned before Tuesday's fighting, but it has taken a new urgency now.
Hezbollah did not take part in the latest violence, but the group's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, said Tuesday night that his forces would not stand by idly if Israeli troops ever attack Lebanese forces again.
Adding to the friction, more than 70 people in Lebanon have been arrested since last year on suspicion of collaborating with Israel.
In Beirut, security officials said Wednesday a former army brigadier general was detained on suspicion of spying for Israel a week after a current lieutenant colonel was arrested also on suspicion of collaborating with Israel.
Also Wednesday, funerals were being held for those killed Tuesday.
In the southern Lebanese village of Deir el-Zahrani, hundreds turned out as Lebanese Sgt. Abdullah Tufeili's coffin was carried through the streets.
His 3-year-old daughter, Zahraa, and 6-year-old son, Mohammed Jawad, marched behind their father's coffin draped in Lebanon's white, red and green flag as a military band played funeral music.
As Tufeili laid to rest in his grave, his father, Mohammed, held back his tears as he shouted: "You are a hero, you are a hero!"
First published on August 4, 2010 / 12:30 PM
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PR on the Pitch - MLS: All-Star Game
The last several weeks has delivered a "Summer of Soccer" that gripped Atlanta and the nation. Sidewalk cafes, neighborhood pubs and office buildings (don't tell the boss!) from coast to coast hosted impromptu viewing parties as even the most casual observers were mesmerized by what many analysts are calling the greatest World Cup of all time.
The popularity of the world's game is now at an all-time high in the U.S., with Atlanta staking its rightful claim as the country's latest and greatest soccer hotbed. Record attendances and a dynamic local "futbol" culture were major factors in Atlanta United being awarded this year's MLS All-Star game, which will be played Wednesday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Featuring 22 of the league's best against Italian powerhouse Juventus FC, the 2018 All-Star edition offers a diverse blend of playing styles and compelling storylines that promise to cap off a remarkable soccer summer. And in honor of the big game, we've identified a few public relations prototypes represented by the notable names at The Benz. Keep an eye on some of these players and watch how their presence dictates and influence the overall tempo. The PR game often requires similar characteristics that are displayed on the pitch:
Michael Parkhurst, Atlanta United (DF) "The Stopper"
A six-time MLS All-Star and Atlanta United's first ever captain, Michael Parkhurst is one of the most decorated U.S. soccer players of his generation. The 2007 MLS Defender of the Year and savvy veteran is known as a durable and versatile stopper who can play both in the middle and the flanks, often snuffing out attacks before they develop into a serious threat. Even though his pace has decreased with age, Parkhurst's keen eye and ability to read the opposition has enabled him to stay among the league's elite defenders in the latter stages of his career. When it comes to crisis management, every organization needs a star defender who can sense trouble in the early stages and take proactive measures before a problem morphs into a crisis. This includes working with both internal leadership and the news media. As it is with their counterparts on the field, PR defenders often play a less celebrated role than other positions, but their position is as vital as any within the organization. A dynamic brand and creative storytelling won't save you if you have holes in your back line, so make sure you have a Michael Parkhurst on your team.
Miguel Almiron, Atlanta United (CM) "The Creative Trailblazer"
Arguably Atlanta United's most talented player, Miguel Almiron has accomplished much in the early stages of his blossoming career. The 24-year-old midfielder was named the 2017 MLS Newcomer of the Year after racking up nine goals and 14 assists in his rookie campaign, and was also a finalist for league MVP. Almiron's creative playmaking abilities challenged conventional league standards for his position and set the tone for the bold and exhilarating style of play delivered by United. Still young, Almiron made mistakes and played through inevitable growing pains. But his brilliance and outside-the-box mentality helped propel the club to the playoffs in their inaugural season. Many companies have future young PR stars ready to break out, and benefit from the fresh insight and new ideas they can deliver. By going outside conventional company guidelines and handing over the steering wheel on a key project, a PR team may just find the story angle, social campaign or video segment that takes your brand to new heights. Healthy organizations grow as they entrust more responsibility to young talent. And as Miguel Almiron demonstrates, it's sometimes better to blaze a new trail into unchartered territory rather than following the established path. That fresh, unconventional approach to your strategic communications plan can often reap huge benefits.
Mario Mandzukic, Juventus (ST) "The Clutch Scorer"
One of the heroes of Croatia's World Cup runner-up squad, Mario Mandzukic delivered when it mattered most. An opportunistic striker and two-time Croatian footballer of the year, "Super Mario" scored all three of his World Cup goals in the crucial knockout stages, including one in the championship final. Known for his seemingly endless stamina and relentless work ethic, a huge chunk of Mandzukic's 235 career goals are a result of his constant probing and pressing of the defense. Mandzukic has mastered the art of "goal poaching", which is simply being in prime position to receive a pass or scoop up a loose ball with an eye already toward the goal when opportunity comes calling. But a lot of those goals simply would not have happened had Mandzukic fallen back early or given up on a play before it fully unfolded. He had to be on the ball at all times and ready to pounce at a moment's notice. As Super Mario does on the field, it's important to constantly read up on industry news and stay on top of new trends that are emerging. At The Wilbert Group, we make a concerted effort to cultivate relationships with journalists on a daily basis so our clients stay on the front end of their radar. Being a clutch scorer also means writing the pitch ahead of time, ready to fill in the placeholders once the big story breaks. Some of the most valuable PR opportunities can appear and vanish almost simultaneously, so it's imperative to stay in "goal poaching" position and prepared to take a shot at a moment's notice. As Mandzukic's career can attest, the extra drive and attention to detail pays off.
Every organization that wants to grow in the right direction and maintain success needs to have at least a few PR all-stars on their depth chart, which often means working with an experienced agency. At The Wilbert Group, we're committed to helping you create and execute winning strategies that generate the results your organization seeks. Learn more about how we have effectively partnered with clients here.


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Hitman Review
November 19, 2016 by Peter MacDonald
I'm not going to beat around the bush: I love the new Hitman game. It is an absolutely fantastic return to form for the series after the deeply flawed Absolution. It combined the things Absolution did right with an infusion of the series' core gameplay flow, and some of the best level design in the series thus far. If you're a fan of the series, or are looking for a jumping-on point, you should definitely buy it.
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Hitman: Absolution Review
November 6, 2016 November 6, 2016 by Peter MacDonald
Important Note: the contents of this post were written in 2014 for a series of tumblr posts analyzing Hitman: Absolution and why it failed so hard. I intend to refer to it heavily in my upcoming review of 2016's Hitman: Season One, and am not particularly happy with how tumblr handles long text posts, so I'm republishing it here and reformatting it into a single post.
The latest title in IO Interactive's long-running and much-acclaimed Hitman series, Hitman: Absolution, was fairly controversial on release. Although it reviewed about as well as previous entries into the series (it brought in high-seventies to low-eighties on Metacritic, depending on the platform, whereas Hitman: Blood Money rated low-eighties; Hitman 2: Silent Assassin came in in the high-eighties range but was also released all the way back in 2002, so the numbers may not be perfect comparable), many devotees of the series were profoundly disappointed, even angry, about changes made to the series' formula, to the point that IO Interactive started the development of the next Hitman title with an open letter promising a return to form. But in the meantime, it's worth looking back at Absolution, a few years after its release, and asking: was it really as bad as all that? Was it really as broken as its detractors claimed it to be?
Spoiler alert: Yeah, it kind of was. What's more interesting is why. Closer examination reveals that although some of the game's problems were unique to it, many others were not. Rather, these flaws were minimized by the level design in previous games, whereas in Absolution the levels emphasized these faults and made them stand out. In this post, I will be looking at the game in three areas (Narrative, Game Systems, and Level Design) to try and clearly express what sets Absolution apart from its predecessors and why it comes up short in the process. Click on the read more for an introduction to my perspective and the context in which I will be writing.
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Gaming Hot Takes: Round 1
September 17, 2016 by Peter MacDonald
Everyone who spends any amount of money on Steam is liable to wind up with a bunch of games they never play. I'm certainly no exception to that. And I've decided to turn it into a feature! Using the Wheelhaus, I've rolled up five games in my Steam library which I've never so much as touched, and given each of them half an hour of my time. I'll play exactly half an hour of each, and write up my thoughts. The only condition on which I'll stop early is if for whatever reason, I just can't get the damn thing to work and 5-10 minutes of troubleshooting doesn't solve it, in which case I'll skip it and roll a new one.
Although I normally don't like scored reviews, I am going to give each of these games a score on a scale from 0-5. This score reflects one thing and one thing only: how likely I am to play the game again. 0 means the game didn't work at all, 1 means it's shit and I'll never touch it again, 2 means I probably won't play it again, 3 means I might, but don't feel strongly about it, 4 means I likely will come back to it, and 5 means it's awesome and I plan to complete it.
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Scorpion: Ethernet Cables on a Plane
September 11, 2016 February 20, 2017 by Peter MacDonald
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Power Rangers to bring you something truly special. My friend forced me to watch this, and now I feel obligated to share it with you as well, so that you too can comprehend my suffering. For your consideration, I present the dumbest thing I've watched this year: the first episode of Scorpion.
No, uh.
Right, that one. Although actually, that first one feels thematically appropriate.
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Manga You Might Have Missed
August 24, 2016 August 24, 2016 by Peter MacDonald
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No Power Rangers this week, for the simple reason that my back acting up delayed Sunday's post to Monday, which gave me a shorter timeline to pop out today's post, and the Power Rangers Retrospectives take longer to do than other posts. Instead, I'm going to review and recommend two of my favorite obscure manga series: Double Arts and Qualia the Purple. Both of these are short-running series which can be consumed fairly quickly.
There will naturally be some spoilers within, but I'll try to keep them to a minimum.
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[Review] There Are Stranger Things In Heaven And Earth…
August 6, 2016 August 6, 2016 by Peter MacDonald
There are some shows that need time to breathe; where it's not clear until you've given it a few episodes to sink in whether or not it's good. Netflix's new hit series Stranger Things is not one of those shows. From the very first minute of the first episode, it was clear that I was in for something truly special, and for its entire run of eight hour-long episodes, creators the Duffer Brothers never failed to meet the expectations they had set for themselves. Stranger Things is spooky, touching, well-directed, well-written, and endlessly nostalgic for the eighties. If you want to go in entirely unspoiled, you can stop reading right there, and walk away knowing that it has my highest recommendation, and you should go watch the first episode immediately. If you want to know a bit more, click that read more link. I won't be spoiling anything major, but there'll be some minor ones.
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Thanksgiving is coming up and as much as I'm looking forward to cooking up a feast for my family, I'm especially excited about the Black Friday shopping. There are so many trends I've been eying at Zara, Forever 21, and more. Although many stores mark up their items before adding on a "holiday discount," some sales are just too good to pass up.
As if their clothes aren't cheap enough, Boohoo is offering 60% off its entire store on Black Friday. You can get most of the tops, dresses, and jackets for $10 or less. Definitely a steal!
Shein is one of my favorite online stores. Starting Thanksgiving Day, Shein is offering 60% off its entire store, along with a BOGO 99% off deal for some items. Make sure to snag their tops and sweaters for $5-$10!
I've always considered Zara to be the store that blends with my sense of style but it can be a little pricy when it comes to their long sleeve tops and dresses. If you're like me, now is the chance to snag your favorite items!
Ruffles, sequins, trumpet sleeves, and beaded sweaters are definitely in right now. Although Zara has STILL not yet officially announced their Black Friday Deals this year, the store has historically been known to have 20-30% off the entire store. It's safe to assume that will be the case this year too.
If you haven't bought yourself their 120 Shade Eyeshadow Palette, you need to get on that now. Super pigmented, these crazy colors in the Second Edition palette give me life. The entire store has sales up to 75% off so now you can get the palette for as low as $10.
If you're looking to color your life, look no further. Colourpop Cosmetics is offering 20% off everything in its lineup. The flash sale starts Thursday at 10 am PST and goes on for 48 hours.
On Black Friday, it's launching "Take Me Home," an exclusive palette for Sephora at only $12! ColourPop is also offering BOGO on all Liquid Lippies on November 23 and November 24. Or you can hold out until Cyber Monday when the entire site is 20% off.
From November 24 to November 25, take 30% off your entire purchase both in stores and online. Go get yourself Lip Lingerie Liquid Lipsticks! The In Your Element Shadow Palette consisting of three-element palettes is pretty neat too.
Your favorite drugstore brand is offering a whole 50% off online from November 24th through November 28th. Half. Off. Everything!
Up to 70% off storewide. Their over-the-knee boots are way better priced and of much better quality than I have seen elsewhere. Go get yourself a pair!
This is a collab with Rasmin from The Lipstick Pantry. Go check out her blog for the other half of the list of Black Friday deals!