2023

On the margins of this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and OPEC Fund Director General Abdulhamid Alkhalifa signed Practical Arrangements on Cooperation in the Area of Climate Adaptation to enhance collaborative efforts by both entities to develop and implement joint projects on climate adaptation.

The nation’s plants processed 5.33 million barrels of crude a day in the first six days of the month, down about 81,000 barrels a day from the prior week’s average, according to a person with knowledge of industry data.

The declaration says the countries recognise the need for a tripling of nuclear energy capacity to achieve "global net-zero greenhouse gas/carbon neutrality by or around mid-century and in keeping a 1.5 degrees celsius limit on temperature rise within reach".

And that is what climatologists have completely overlooked. They have noted that the mean surface temperature is far hotter than the solar radiation to the surface, or even just to regions above in the troposphere, could explain in accord with the Stefan-Boltzmann Law.

The United States is entering a period of severely constrained electric supply. Demand is rising — including anticipated electric load from artificial intelligence, the need to shutter all coal facilities, and the limits to transmission from the renewable resources (wind and sun) 0f the West — and it will overwhelm the system unless it is substantially augmented with new generation.

Brent climbed 1 cents to $77.21 a barrel, WTI were down 4 cents at $72.28 a barrel.

Россия, Саудовская Аравия и другие взявшие на себя обязательства по добровольному сокращению добычи нефти страны – участницы соглашения выполняют свои договорённости в рамках ОПЕК+ в полном объёме.

These additional voluntary cuts are announced by the following OPEC+ countries : Saudi Arabia (1,000 thousand b/d); Iraq (223 thousand b/d); United Arab Emirates (163 thousand b/d); Kuwait (135 thousand b/d); Kazakhstan (82 thousand b/d); Algeria (51 thousand b/d); and Oman (42 thousand b/d) starting 1st of January until the end of March 2024.

Россия углубит дополнительное добровольное сокращение поставок нефти на 300 тыс. баррелей в день ещё на 200 тыс. баррелей в день, чтобы достичь 500 тыс. баррелей в день, и продлит это добровольное сокращение поставок до конца I квартала 2024 года в координации с некоторыми странами ОПЕК+.

It is actually downward convective heat which can and does proceed from cooler to warmer regions but can only do so because the Loschmidt Gravito-thermal effect exists and is the state of maximum entropy or, as physicists call it, thermodynamic equilibrium.