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Ocean City is Getting Wetter / Sea Level Rise

Letter below was submitted to the Star Ledger on 03-02-21.  The Rutgers report cited in the letter is here:  STAP_20191204_Sea Level Rise Editor: You published a very interesting article on March 1 on how Ocean City is getting wetter.  A … Continue reading

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RAWLS: Why Doesn’t Everybody Do It?

Message below was sent to some members of the CCL Raritan Valley chapter and to other persons on 01-03-21.  It is the third in a series on regenerative agriculture with livestock (RAWLS).  Click tag “RAWLS” to see all. Bill Allen    … Continue reading

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RAWLS: How It Works

Message below was sent to members of the CCL Raritan Valley chapter and other persons on 12-06-20.  It is the second on the subject of regenerative agriculture with livestock (RAWLS).  Click tag “RAWLS” to see all. Bill Allen    01-11-21 Hello … Continue reading

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RAWLS: Scoping the Drawdown Challenge

Message below was emailed to members of the CCL Raritan Valley chapter and other persons on 11-30-20.  It is the first of several dealing with regenerative agriculture with livestock that I call RAWLS.  Click tag “RAWLS” to see all. Bill … Continue reading

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At stake is the society that we know

Letter below was submitted to the Bernardsville News on 06-11-18.  It was published in the on-line edition on 06-13-18 and in the print edition on 06-21-18. I show two charts below the published letter and a comment.  Bill Allen    06-21-18 ============================================================== … Continue reading

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Global Horizontal Irradiance and Solar Power Generation

The morning headlines speak frequently of new solar powered plants for generating electricity and the declining unit costs for these.  My purpose here is to show that solar power generating performance depends upon the amount of energy received from the sun and how this varies across … Continue reading

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Fire and Flood

The article below mirrors a letter submitted to the Bernardsville News today, except that the letter does not include the charts.  Bill Allen,  06-27-16 The letter was posted on the paper’s web site on 07-12-16 and in the print edition today.    Bill … Continue reading

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Facts and Confusion: Carbon Fees for CO2 and Coal

Post below is an updated and expanded version of CO2 is heavier than coal. Chemistry:  Carbon is an atom with atomic weight of 12. During combustion it combines with two oxygen atoms with atomic weight each of 16. The outcome is a … Continue reading

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Climate 101: Our Critical Atmosphere

This article is the first “session” in a series that will describe the science that underlies the concerns for climate change. Most of the data below are from the book “Is the Temperature Rising” by S. George Philander. [Philander 1998] … Continue reading

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Facts and Confusion: CO2 is Heavier than Coal

Carbon is an atom with atomic weight of 12. During combustion it combines with two oxygen atoms with atomic weight each of 16. The outcome is a CO2 molecule with atomic weight of 44. The molecule that results from the … Continue reading

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