A strong extra-tropical area of low pressure off the East Coast of the United States that would later become Subtropical Storm Andrea. These images were captured between 0915 UTC and 2332 UTC. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Rainfall cause by Hurricane Gordon on the east coast of the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Map of the West Branch Susquehanna, the major tributary of the Susquehanna River of Pennsylvania in the east coast of the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The Great Paris Flood Of 1910
By Paul Homewood With the floods in France in the news, Dennis Ambler reminds me of the Great Paris Flood of 1910. The following sequence is from the Parisian Field website: https://parisianfields.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/remembering-the-great-paris-flood-of-1910/ There are countless images of the flood, but perhaps none speaks so eloquently of the disruption as […]
French Floods
By Paul Homewood http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-05/french-riviera-flood-victims-drown-in-underground-car-park/6827882 Sad news from France, not helped by President Hollande’s contribution: Mr Hollande also linked the disaster to climate change ahead of landmark talks on the issue in Paris later this year. "There have always been always catastrophes. But their rhythm and intensity are on the increase," he […]
Hurricane Joaquin? Blame It On Climate Change!
By Paul Homewood http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/03/hurricane-joaquin-another-word-for-climate-change.html Another cretinous report from the Daily Beast. It would be difficult for them to have got more wrong: As Hurricane Joaquin devastates the Bahamas and feints toward the east coast of the United States, and as American communities hunker down for superstorm potential, the connection to climate change […]
China Busy Buying Up Mark Carney’s Stranded Assets
By Paul Homewood http://www.iea.org/ieaenergy/issue7/chinese-national-oil-companies-investments-going-global-for-energy.html Mark Carney believes that fossil fuels will soon become stranded assets, as the world will fall for the global warming scam and stop using them. Apparently, nobody told the Chinese! According to the IEA, they have been busy buying up all the global oil and gas assets […]
UK Supreme Court Sponsor Secret Climate Conference
By Paul Homewood http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/10/03/climate-secrets-at-the-uk-supreme-court/ Donna Laframboise has this utterly astonishing of the climate conference co-sponsored by the UK Supreme Court. Donna asks several questions about just what is being covered by the organisers. But the biggest question of the lot is what on earth does the Supreme Court it is doing getting […]
Met Office Forecasts Contain A Warming Bias
By Paul Homewood At the end of each month, the Met Office publish their 3-month outlook for temperature and precipitation. So far this year, for their outlooks from Jan-Mar, through to Sep-Nov, seven have predicted temperatures higher than the 1981-2010 norm, with the other two forecasting temperatures around normal: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/9/s/A3_plots-temp-JFM_v2.pdf http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/d/n/A3_plots-temp-FMA_v2.pdf […]
Another Arctic Scare
By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34324439 From the BBC: Oceanographers have gathered fresh evidence that turbulence in the Arctic Ocean, driven by the wind, is stirring up heat from the depths. As dwindling ice exposes more water to the wind, this turbulence could close a vicious circle, accelerating the melt. The research team has […]
California Drought Is An Environmentalist Problem
By Paul Homewood h/t botanyjrg http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/28/californias-drought-not-an-environmental-problem-an-environmentalist-problem/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saturday&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRouuqjNZKXonjHpfsX57uQlUKGxlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ATcRmNK%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm We’re probably all aware of the smelt fish,but it appears that they are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to greenies prioritizing environmental demands above the basic provision of water resources to the public. From the Daily Signal: SACRAMENTO, Cali... more »
Study Finds Extreme Rainfall Not Increasing In UK
By Paul Homewood A new study has found there has been no significant trend in extreme rainfall in the UK since 1931. This demolishes frequent Met Office claims that such events are increasing with global warming. Interestingly enough, the Met Office, so far at least, has not mentioned this paper at all in any […]
Coldest September Since 1993 In England
By Paul Homewood http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html If you thought it had been a bit chilly lately, you would be right! The CET for last month was a full 1.0C below the 1961-90 average. More to the point, it is even colder compared to the 1981-2010 average, which is 14.0C. It was actually the […]
BBC’s Lies About India’s Climate Plan
By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34424930 It did not take long for the BBC to send out its propaganda army to pretend that India’s climate plan is something it is not. India, the world’s third largest carbon emitter, has pledged to the UN to reduce the rate by which its greenhouse gas emissions increase […]
The Day The Wind Stopped
By Paul Homewood http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm So this is what we’re paying billions a year in subsidies for?
Dutch Power Stations Using Record Volumes Of Coal
By Paul Homewood h/t Andyg55 http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/08/dutch-power-stations-use-record-volumes-of-coal/ Dutch power stations used a record amount of coal in the past five months, despite government pledges to curb CO2 reductions. The use of coal was almost 33% up on the previous three years and led to a 4% rise in CO2 emissions, the Volkskrant says […]
India’s Climate Plan Will Triple Emissions By 2030
By Paul Homewood http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/India-submits-its-climate-action-plan-asks-rich-nations-to-cooperate-in-achieving-its-goal/articleshow/49189501.cms BERLIN: India said on Thursday that it would increase the share of clean energy in its total energy mix by as much as 40%, by the target year of 2030. While submitting its 38-page ‘climate action plan’ to a UN body in Bonn, Germany, India added that it would […]
Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Delayed – Maybe Fatally?
By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-34420631 From the Beeb: The building of a £1bn tidal energy lagoon in Swansea Bay has been delayed by a year as negations over the level of UK government funding for the project continue. Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) received backing by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) […]
Dramatic Recovery In Arctic Sea Ice In September
By Paul Homewood NSIDC have now published the Arctic sea ice extents for the end of September. This is how things compare with previous years: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/ Although the minimum this year dipped below the last two years, the end of September assessment reinforces the “pause” in Arctic ice trends at […]
Ron Clutz Responds To Tamino
By Paul Homewood https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/flap-over-arctic-ice-rebound/ Ron Clutz posts a firm response to Tamino’s hit piece the other day: Grant Foster and friends are committed to a warmer future and expect Arctic Ice extent to decline. They are unhappy with me pointing out the lack of decline recently. So my post is off-message, […]
Relative Pollution Levels of Diesel And Electric Cars
By Paul Homewood Rwoollaston left this comment, so I’ll throw it open for discussion: With the recent suggestion from Sir Paul Drayson that diesel cars should be subject to a scrappage scheme to encourage drivers to switch to electric or hybrid vehicles, I started to wonder what the emissions of an electric vehicle […]
RicoGate
By Paul Homewood Back to RicoGate, the everyday stories of ordinary climatologist folk! That letter which the kindly Mr Shukla wrote, but accidentally left a copy of on the village notice board, seems to have caused a bit of a kerfuffle! Mr Klinger says he is ambivalent about signing the letter, […]
Fraudsters At Work At NCAR
By Paul Homewood https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/1036/record-high-temperatures-far-outpace-record-lows-across-us According to the fraudsters at NCAR: If temperatures were not warming, the number of record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even. Instead, for the period from January 1, 2000, to September 30, 2009, the continental United States set 291,237 record highs and […]
Climate Change & The Myth Of Stranded Assets
By Paul Homewood Nick Butler had this piece in the Financial Times two days ago, which has relevance to Mark Carney’s latest intervention against fossil fuels: The energy business is entirely familiar with the concept of stranded assets. Now, however, a new concept has been introduced: the idea that some assets, […]
New Cameron Climate Pledge Amounts To – Bugger All!
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11895154/Cameron-pledges-6bn-to-fight-global-climate-change.html I meant to look further into this the other day, and forgot! Two things need spelling out: The total amount, actually £5.8bn is to be spread over five years, between April 2016 and March 2021. It also compares to £3.87bn spent over the last five years, so […]
Which Planet Is Mark Carney Living On?
By Paul Homewood The Governor said that the vast majority of oil and gas reserves already discovered could now be "stranded" if new rules on carbon emissions are enforced by governments. The oil and gas would be unusable. Meanwhile, in other news: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/qatar/11900303/Qatari-sheikh-bought-UK-oil-company-while-bound-by-diplomatic-rules.html Clearly someone does not believe the rubbish Carney […]
GWPF Calls For Carbon Floor Price To Be Scrapped
By Paul Homewood The Global Warming Policy Forum is calling on the Government to scrap Britain’s unilateral Carbon Floor Price which is contributing to the crisis of UK steel and other energy intensive industries. SSI’s decision to close its steel plant in Redcar – which is expected to result in 1,700 job losses […]
Was Hurricane Frances Really So Costly?
By Paul Homewood Hurricane Frances making landfall at Fort Pierce http://www.stormchaser.ca/Hurricanes/Frances/Frances.html Talking of how weather related insurance claims have inflated over the years, it is worth republishing this post I ran a couple of years ago about Hurricane Frances in 2004:- Was Hurricane Frances Really So Costly? […]
Carney Repeats Climate Insurance Losses Myth
By Paul Homewood Mark Carney’s latest attack on fossil fuels took place in a speech at Lloyd’s of London. Unsurprisingly then, part of his spiel referred to the supposed rising cost of settling weather related claims: Since the 1980s the number of registered weather-related loss events has tripled; and Inflation-adjusted insurance […]
Mark Carney v Fossil Fuels
By Paul Homewood http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/business-news/finance/fossil-fuel-investors-will-lose-money-and-wreck-the-market-mark-carney-warns/11108.article Not for the first time, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has involved himself in the controversy over climate change: Investors’ money could be at risk due to climate change, the governor of the Bank of England has warned. In a speech at the Lloyd’s of […]
The Letter They Tried To Hide!
By Paul Homewood The Bishop has news that the letter from Shukla et al, requesting that a RICO investigation of sceptics be launched, has been disappeared from the original website. Fortunately, like the elephant, the Wayback Machine does not forget, and it can still be found on the web […]
Hayhoe Accused Of Fraud
By Paul Homewood http://realclimatescience.com/2015/09/more-spectacular-fraud-from-katherine-hayhoe-and-scientific-american/ Tony Heller once again calls out Katharine Hayhoe for outright lies. According to Scientific American about the Texas floods earlier this year: In a Facebook post Sunday, high-profile climate researcher Katharine Hayhoe, director of Texas Tech University’s Climate Science Center, stated that “climate change will affect us in the […]
NOAA’s Fake SST’s Not Supported By Atmospheric Data
By Paul Homewood Between 1979 and 1997, sea surface temperatures, SST’s, increased at a rate of 0.08C/decade, according to NOAA. This was almost exactly the same rate at which the lower atmosphere above the ocean warmed, using UAH data. This, of course, is exactly what should be expected. As NASA state: Sea surface […]
Hinkley: A Truly Major National Scandal
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11893698/Hinkley-a-truly-major-national-scandal.html An excellent piece from Booker on Hinkley Point. Two bizarre interviews last week again highlighted how woeful has been much reporting on the costliest engineering project Britain has ever embarked on. Their cue was George Osborne’s announcement that UK taxpayers are to “guarantee” £2 billion of the money […]
Unreliable Electricity Overtakes Coal
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/11889329/renewable-energy-overtakes-coal-statistics.html Britain generated more of its electricity from renewable sources than from burning coal for the first time in the second quarter of 2015, as more wind and solar farms were built. A record high of 25.3 per cent of the UK’s power came from wind, solar, biomass and hydro-electric […]
Sea Surface Temperatures
By Paul Homewood http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global According to NOAA, SST’s are at a record high. We are told this is all due to GHG emissions. However, if this is true we should surely see a warming signal across all oceans. But the distribution of SST anomalies across the oceans shows nothing of the sort. […]
Annual Arctic Ice Recovering
By Paul Homewood https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2015/09/26/arctic-ice-rebound/ Ron Clutz offers his views on the latest Arctic ice numbers: MASIE Proves Yearly Arctic Ice Recovering You will be hearing a lot about 2015 having the fourth lowest minimum Arctic ice extent ever recorded. Here is what they are not telling you: […]
Public Financing For Overseas Coal Projects Tops $73bn Since 2007
By Paul Homewood http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html As we know, coal production has been steadily rising in the last decade and more. In part, this has been enabled by external financing, whether developing coal mines, infrastructure or new coal fired power stations. Greenies of course are horrified by this, as the NRDC report: […]
If Democracy Can’t Respond to Climate Change, Should We Abandon Democracy? | Big Think
Well at least they’re honest. http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/is-democracy-the-best-system-for-combating-climate-change But I would like to know why there were no floods before we had SUV’s
UK Regional Rainfall Trends
By Paul Homewood The Met Office publish rainfall data by district back to 1910, so how do the trends differ from one part of the country to the other? As might have been expected. there is a north/south split, with rising trends in Scotland and N. Ireland, […]
Drax Pull Out Of CCS Project
By Paul Homewood http://www.drax.com/news/news-articles/2015/09/drax-announces-plan-to-end-further-investment-in-white-rose-carbon-capture-storage-project/ This is the announcement today from Drax: Selby, Yorkshire: Drax today announced it remained committed to fulfilling its current work on a Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) feasibility and technology development project (FEED), but once completed, would not be investing further and will withdraw as a partner of […]
Big Bucks For Another RICO Letter Signatory
By Paul Homewood Another signatory of that letter, and yet another from George Mason University is Paul Dirmeyer, full-time Professor from the Dept of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences. Paul Dirmeyer http://mason.gmu.edu/~pdirmeye/ This is his CV: ftp://cola.gmu.edu/pub/dirmeyer/Dirmeyer_CV.pdf Note that despite being a “full-time Professor” at George Mason, he […]
Edward Maibach, The Center for Climate Change Communication & That Letter
By Paul Homewood http://www.iges.org/letter/LetterPresidentAG.pdf We have already seen that the lead signatory of the letter calling on Obama to launch a RICO investigation into climate sceptics, Jagadish Shukla, has been paying himself $500,000 a year out of government climate grants. Let’s look more closely at another signatory, a certain Edward Maibach, like […]
State Of The UK Climate 2014
By Paul Homewood http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/about/state-of-climate As promised, a closer look at the State of the UK Climate report. The section on temperature tells us nothing we did not already know, and with claims of all the top ten warmest years have occurred since 1990, is highly predictable. RAINFALL They do show, […]
Trends In Wettest Years At Oxford
By Paul Homewood I looked earlier at annual rainfall trends in the England & Wales series. One of the problems with country wide numbers is that they tell us more about geographical distribution than rainfall in individual locations. For instance, one inch of rain across all of the country averages one inch. However, 10 […]
State of the UK Climate Report
By Paul Homewood http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/about/state-of-climate The Met Office have just published their UK State of the Climate Report for 2014, (no, I did not know they had one either!) I’ll be looking at it in more detail later, but one statement that needs clarifying now is their claim that 7 of the 10 […]
What Makes Extreme Weather In The UK?
By Paul Homewood I think we all know what we mean by extreme weather, and I am sure the public does too. In their efforts to get us to worry about global warming / climate change, the Met Office has ignored all the evidence of fewer hurricanes and tornadoes, and the lack of […]
Why Investors Are Shunning Hinkley Point
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11885334/EDF-Investors-shun-Hinkley-Point-because-they-think-it-will-go-wrong.html?WT.mc_id=e_DM50047&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_FPM_New&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_FPM_New_2015_09_23&utm_campaign=DM50047 Investors don’t want to put their money into the proposed £24.5bn Hinkley Point nuclear plant because they fear it will suffer cost overruns and delays, the boss of EDF has admitted. Problems in the construction of the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) technology at sites in France and Finland – […]
Californian Reservoirs Fuller Than In 1977
By Paul Homewood http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action Inevitably, water levels are extremely low in California’s reservoirs, but how do they compare with the last major drought in 1976/7? http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/us/4/0/pcp/12/8/1895-2015?base_prd=true&firstbaseyear=1901&lastbaseyear=2000 Surprisingly, perhaps, only one, Perris Lake, actually has less currently compared to the same date in 1977, and this is only a tiny dam. Two […]
How To Access The USHCN Database
By Paul Homewood I am often asked where I get my USHCN graphs and data from. The system is very easy to access (Note to UK Met Office!), and gives a wide range of data. For anyone who wants to use the system, the interface screen looks like this. http://cdiac.ornl.gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/ushcn_map_interface.html Select a […]
UK Weather Trends
Guest Post by Neil Catto. Neil has been a senior meteorologist at Weather Research Ltd for the last 17 years, and is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. UK Weather, Misconceptions & Consequences For years we have been told, by such eminent organisations such as the UKMO that the Earth […]
Philip Eden Has Forgotten About Heathrow
By Paul Homewood Philip Eden is absolutely right – you should not declare record temperatures when there is doubt about its veracity, whether because of siting or other issues. That is why NOAA have set up a State Climate Extremes Committee to review all claims of record temperatures and other meteorological elements, in […]
Luvvies Too Hot To Talk!
By Paul Homewood http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/21/celebrities-climate-action-emmys/2/ The stars could not have picked a better time to show their support for climate action because the temperature in Los Angeles on Sunday reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit—making it the hottest Emmy’s ever. As celebrities used fans to cool themselves off, they just could not get over how hot […]
Scientist leading effort to prosecute climate skeptics under RICO ‘paid himself & his wife $1.5 million from govt climate grants for part-time work’
By Paul Homewood https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/645710621636296705 Roger Pielke brings the astonishing story of just how much money Jagadish Shukla, one of the scientists leading the effort to prosecute climate sceptics under the RICO Act, makes from the public purse. Just to recap, Shukla was the lead signatory of the letter from 20 scientists earlier […]
The London Floods Of 1903
By Paul Homewood Wanstead Meteo has some more detail on the floods which hit London in June 1903, which I referred to earlier: June deluge that created Redbridge-on-Sea It was the summer when the ‘sea’ came to Redbridge. A record-breaking 59-hour deluge in the middle of June 1903 left […]
Extreme Rain Months At Oxford
By Paul Homewood http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/climate/rms/intro.html The Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford has one of the best sets of climate records in the UK. The Radcliffe Meteorological Station is situated in Woodstock Road in the garden of Green Templeton College beside the old observatory building, adjacent to the old Radcliffe Infirmary site. It possesses […]
Record Rainfall In 1903
By Paul Homewood Climate experts tell us that global warming is leading to more extreme rainfall. This no doubt explains why the wettest month ever recorded in England & Wales since 1766 was in 1903. In October that year, averaged over the country, an astonishing 218mm fell. The Met Office report at the time […]
A History Of Drought On The Great Plains
By Paul Homewood Today’s post on megadroughts in Kansas reminds me of one I ran last year. There are some detailed accounts of the 19th droughts, but also a reference to the unusually wet period in the 1880’s, which led to the theory that “the rain follows the plough”. A drought followed in the […]
History Of Megadrought In Kansas
By Paul Homewood http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/PIC/pic35.html The Kansas Geological Survey have this very interesting study about the climatic history of Kansas over the last millennium, in particular drought trends. Environmentally and economically, drought is one of the most costly natural disasters in North America. Yet it rarely gets the same public attention that other, […]
DMI Show Greenland Was Warmer in 1930’s
By Paul Homewood A few weeks ago, I ran a post on temperature trends at Nuuk and Tasiilaq (Angmagssalik) in Greenland, which I gleaned from the GISS database. The conclusion was clear, that temperatures in recent years were no higher than the 1930’s and 40’s. I have now managed to obtain the source data […]
Pakistan Taliban Blame Power Failures For Heatwave Deaths
By Paul Homewood The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/world/asia/pakistani-taliban-blame-electric-company-for-heat-wave-deaths.html?_r=0 It should perhaps be remembered that Pakistan relies on fossil fuels, mainly gas, for 89% of its energy, with nuclear and hydro providing nearly all of the rest (according to the BP Energy Review for 2014.) In contrast, renewables only […]
GWPF Responds To Met Office’s Latest Missive
By Paul Homewood David Whitehouse weighs in on the Met Office’s latest “We don’t know what’s going to happen, but we’re all going to die anyway” press release: A new Met Office report: Big changes underway in the climate system? released this week, is a textbook example of poor science communication. The […]
India To Double Coal Production By 2020
By Paul Homewood http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-09-11/news/66434412_1_coal-india-coal-projects-mand-raigarh India is pushing ahead with plans to double coal output by 2020. The Economic Times of India reports: Coal India banks on 25 key projects to double production by 2020 KOLKATA: Coal India’s plan to double production to almost 1 billion tonnes by 2020 hinges precariously […]
China Revises Coal Consumption Figures
By Paul Homewood http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=22952# According to the EIA, China has revised previously published estimates of coal consumption back to 2000: New preliminary data from the China Statistical Abstract 2015 (CSA2015) show an upward revision to China’s historical coal consumption and production. Energy-content-based coal consumption from 2000 to 2013 is up to 14% […]
Extreme Rainfall In UK Nothing New
By Paul Homewood http://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2014/12/17/has-there-been-a-recent-increase-in-uk-weather-records/ A few months ago, the Met Office attempted to show how weather in recent years had become more extreme. In terms of temperatures, they found that more hot records had been broken than cold ones since 2000. This is hardly surprising since temperatures have warmed up slightly since the […]
Slingo Junior’s Plum Job
By Paul Homewood http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3239251/Met-Office-created-plum-media-job-daughter-new-230-000-year-science-boss-just-months-graduated.html Bishop Hill has the Mail story of how Slingo’s daughter got a plum job at the Met Office, which appears never to have been advertised. What intrigued me though was the job Slingo Junior has since been promoted to: Mrs Slingo-Hutt, now 29, has since been […]
Indonesia’s Palm Oil Environmental Crisis
By Paul Homewood h/t Stewgreen http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/09/09/indonesias-palm-oil-production-smoking-out-its-neighbours Rapidly rising demand for palm oil, much of it for biofuels, is creating an environmental catastrophe in Indonesia and its neighbours. SBS report: It’s dry season in Indonesia, which in some parts means it’s time to clear more land for palm oil plantations – with […]
NOAA Refuse To Publish Methodology For Temperature Adjustments
By Paul Homewood https://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/climate-money-and-adjustments-keeping-things-in-perspective/ Shub ran this post back in March, which I missed at the time. It’s quite an eye opener: Kent Clibze has been trying to get hold of documents that record the ‘rationale, methodology and discussions’ relating to temperature adjustments carried out by NOAA. NOAA in turn has informed […]
In 1994 The NYT Knew The Real Truth About Californian Droughts
By Paul Homewood h/t Don B http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/19/science/severe-ancient-droughts-a-warning-to-california.html?pagewanted=1 There was a time when you could get proper journalism from the New York Times. This is what they reported in 1994: BEGINNING about 1,100 years ago, what is now California baked in two droughts, the first lasting 220 years and the second 140 […]
Met Office Withhold Data From The Public
By Paul Homewood As readers will be aware, I have done much analysis work of Met Office data since I started this blog. Some of the basic info is readily available on their website, such as monthly rainfall and temperature. Often though I need to look at daily data at individual sites. […]
Natural Climate Variability
By Paul Homewood As I am the first to admit, I don’t do science! Instead I concentrate on data and observations, and leave the science to others. But I know a man who knows a man who does! Ron Clutz offers his thoughts on solar and other natural climate variability here.
Arctic Ice Minimum Earliest Since 1997
By Paul Homewood http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ NSIDC seem pretty confident that Arctic sea ice extent has reached its minimum. According to them, it hit minimum on 11th September, but this is based on using the average of several days. The actual minimum took place on 8th September: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/NH_seaice_extent_nrt.csv This in fact is […]
Wet Augusts!
By Paul Homewood Philip Eden’s columns in the Sunday Telegraph are always worth a read, but often raise more questions than they answer. Last week he pointed out that, in theory, rainfall is heavier in August than the other summer months because that is when the seas are warmest. In particular, he says, […]
California’s History of Mega Droughts
By Paul Homewood You will no doubt have seen the above graphic already. It shows that the current drought in California is not exceptional by any stretch of the imagination. We know that rainfall levels in recent years, though low, are not unprecedented as far as the 20thC is concerned. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/us/4/0/pcp/12/8/1895-2015?base_prd=true&firstbaseyear=1901&lastbaseyear=2000 […]
The Greening Of The Sahel
By Paul Homewood A new study confirms previous findings that the Sahel is regreening. On regreening and degradation in Sahelian watersheds Armel T. Kaptué1, Lara Prihodko, and Niall P. Hanan Abstract Over many decades our understanding of the impacts of intermittent drought in water-limited environments like the West African Sahel has […]
El Ninos Lead To Warm/Cold & Wet/Dry Winters – Met Office
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11864067/Britain-braced-for-long-snowy-winter-as-strongest-El-Nino-since-1950-expected.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11864067/Britain-braced-for-long-snowy-winter-as-strongest-El-Nino-since-1950-expected.html http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/t/s/A3_plots-precip-SON.pdf Compare the two statements: Met Office meteorologist and BBC forecaster Thomas Shafernaker said: “This time round it could be the strongest in decades. “In Europe sometimes winters end up much colder and drier and last ... more »
100% Renewables Myth Destroyed
By Paul Homewood http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2015/09/world-powered-100-per-cent-renewable-as-popularly-conceived-doesn-t-exist.html?cmpid=EnlPEISeptember152015&eid=296412419&bid=1176503 Richard Black, ex BBC propagandist and now PR guy for the ECIU, told us a few weeks ago, in one of his dottier moments, that the world could live on 100% renewables. All this was based around one Mickey Mouse study in Germany. It turns out that real energy […]
Polar Bears – Myths and Facts
By Paul Homewood https://uk.news.yahoo.com/svalbard-shocking-picture-shows-emaciated-122635813.html#uLhF9FS All due to “melting Arctic ice” of course. Polar bear expert, Susan Crockford, has already debunked this theory, and pointed out that it is ice cover during spring which is critical, as this is when the bears consume most of their annual prey. Indeed, as she points out, […]
Does The Met Office Know What It Is Doing?
By Paul Homewood http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/britain-may-face-coldest-winter-50-years-due-el-nino-1519751 The IBT report: Meteorologists have predicted that Britain will face its worst winter in over 50 years as a result of El Niño. The country is expected to be hit by a cold wave as early as October, cutting down autumn to just a month. Experts even […]
Stratospheric Cooling
By Paul Homewood As I mentioned yesterday, the IPCC had this to say about atmospheric temperatures in 2007: For global observations since the late 1950s, the most recent versions of all available data sets show that the troposphere has warmed at a slightly greater rate than the surface, while the stratosphere has cooled […]
IPCC Say Troposphere Should Warm Faster Than Surface
By Paul Homewood https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/09/13/satellite-temperatures-did-not-always-diverge-from-giss/ While we’re on the topic, this is what the IPCC had to say about the correlation of surface and satellite temperatures in 2007: For global observations since the late 1950s, the most recent versions of all available data sets show that the troposphere has warmed at a slightly […]
Met Office Discover Natural Climate Cycles!!
By Paul Homewood http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2015/big-changes The Met Office seem to have discovered that natural forces affect the world’s climate! 14 September 2015 – Regional temperature and rainfall worldwide will be affected by big changes that are underway in key global climate system New research shows regional temperature and rainfall worldwide will be affected […]
Satellite Temperatures Did Not Always Diverge From GISS
By Paul Homewood http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/153658/ Back in 2007, this was what the IPCC had to say about the correlation of surface and satellite temperatures: Lower-tropospheric temperatures have slightly greater warming rates than those at the surface over the period 1958 to 2005. The radiosonde record is markedly less spatially complete than the […]
Chop Down The Trees To Fight Global Warming!
By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public Dave Ward (Sorry Dave!!) http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/row-breaks-out-in-havant-over-bid-to-chop-down-trees-to-get-more-sunlight-to-solar-panels-1-6925677 You could not make it up!! A ROW has broken out over whether trees should be chopped down to allow more light to reach solar panels. Havant Civic Society is objecting to plans to fell a horse chestnut and sycamore […]
Another Attempt To Find The Tropical Hotspot!
By Paul Homewood In his latest rant against deniers, David Holub referred to an article in the Guardian which was, even by their standards, particularly misleading. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/mar/25/one-satellite-data-set-is-underestimating-global-warming Written by the notoriously unreliable John Abraham, it says: A very important study was just published in the Journal of Climate a few days […]
Japan’s Deadliest Storm
By Paul Homewood Damage to a seawall caused by Typhoon Vera. In the background is the ship Changsha beached by the storm. Next week marks the anniversary of Typhoon Vera, which hit Japan in 1959, where it is the strongest and deadliest storm on record. Indeed, it is the third deadliest natural […]
Navitus Bay Turned Down
By Paul Homewood https://www.gov.uk/government/news/planning-decision-for-navitus-bay-offshore-wind-park As expected, the offshore wind project at Navitus Bay has failed to win planning consent. DECC give this announcement: Energy Minister Lord Bourne announces development consent has been refused for the proposed Navitus Bay offshore wind park. The announcement was made today for the wind park off the […]
Arctic Ice Close To Minimum?
By Paul Homewood http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php Arctic sea ice extent may not quite have reached minimum yet, but indications are that more or less bottomed out. According to NSIDC, extent has only decreased by 48,000 sq km since the start of the month. DMI show the 15% ice cover above as being well above 2011. […]
Record Temperatures In 1906!
By Paul Homewood Well, that’s as good as it gets! Enjoy our Indian Summer as it’s back to normal next week. But back in 1906, they knew what a real Indian summer was! On 2nd September that year, a temperature of 35.6C was recorded at Bawtry, S Yorkshire, the highest September temperature […]
BBC Hype Japan Floods
h/t AC Osborn http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34205879 More overhyped nonsense from the BBC: Widespread flooding and landslides in north-east Japan have forced more than 90,000 people to abandon their homes. The city of Joso, north of the capital, Tokyo, was hit by a wall of water after the Kinugawa River burst its banks. Helicopter rescue […]
Mammoth European Carbon Fraud Uncovered
By Paul Homewood http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/09/08/un-climate-change-body-suffers-mammoth-european-carbon-fraud/?intcmp=hplnws The United Nations body that oversees greenhouse gas reductions is reeling from another cap-and-trade scandal that may have put 600 million tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere — roughly speaking, the annual CO2 output of Canada or Britain — while the emissions were ostensibly suppressed, according to an […]
Eemshaven Coal Power Station Given Go Ahead
By Paul Homewood http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2015/09/rwe-coal-fired-power-plant-given-go-ahead-by-dutch-court.html?cmpid=EnlPEISeptember102015&eid=296412419&bid=1172423 Following the announcement last week that the Eggborough Coal Power Station would close next year, a Dutch court gives the go ahead to a new 1.6GW coal plant at Eemshaven. From PEI: A court in the Netherlands has decided that an application to develop a new $2.25bn coal-fired […]
China To Develop New Nuclear Plant At Bradwell
By Paul Homewood http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2015/09/uk-government-set-to-approve-chinese-nuclear-project.html News from PEI: The British government is expected to fully approve a nuclear power project at the Bradwell site in Essex, England next month. The deal, part of a wide-ranging civil nuclear pact between Britain, France and China, may be sealed in October during the Chinese president’s state […]
Out Of One Green Propaganda Outfit, And Into Another!
By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public http://order-order.com/2015/09/09/greenpeace-tools-up-for-propaganda-war/#:TtytJRjwtAoiVQ Of course, the newly appointed Greenpeace hacks will have no influence on reporting at the Beeb!!
Arctic Summer Sea Ice Trends
By Paul Homewood I have posed the question previously, why is there so much interest in the minimum sea ice extent in the Arctic, as opposed to other times of year. The usual answer is albedo, as NSIDC explain: Changes in the timing of the sea ice minimum extent are especially […]
Letter To Philip Hammond
By Paul Homewood Alex Henney has written to the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, to complain about the appointment of Professor King as the UK’s climate representative to the forthcoming conference in Paris. 8th September, 2015. Rt. Hon. Philip Hammond Foreign Secretary Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH. Dear […]
Another Quiet Tornado Year So Far
By Paul Homewood We are now well past the peak of the tornado season in the US, so it is good to see that this year so far tornado numbers have been running well below average. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/#data This is now the fourth year in a row which has been below average. […]
Down The Plughole!!
By Paul Homewood It has been suggested that there might be something wrong with the NORSEX data. However, I can now confirm that the newly tampered corrected NSIDC data also confirms that all the Arctic sea ice has gone down the plughole!
Met Office To Name Storms
By Paul Homewood h/t 1saveenergy http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2015/name-our-storms There has been a trend in the last year or two for storms hitting the UK to be given unofficial names. After all it helps sell papers, and if hurricanes are given names, why not gales? Now the Met Office want to make it official: […]
Wadhams Was Right !
By Paul Homewood http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea-ice Oh, no!! Peter Wadhams was right after all! http://web.nersc.no/WebData/arctic-roos.org/observation/ssmi_ice_ext.png
Britain’s Damp Summer
By Paul Homewood You may have seen stories that this summer has been unusually wet in the UK. The truth is rather more mundane. Overall, this summer’s rainfall of 272mm has only been slightly above the long term average of 244mm, and ranks an unremarkable 31st wettest since 1910. The wettest summer […]
Met Office Move The Goal Posts!
By Paul Homewood http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/6/9/PresentationMOSAC_16.7_Scaife.pdf Back in 2011, the Met Office published their decadal forecast for global temperatures. Their chart showed that temperatures in 1998 peaked well above subsequent years, even 2010. Note also that the observed temperatures were close to dropping out of the bottom of their range of predictions (the red […]
While Obama Fiddles, The West Burns
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/11844952/Cheap-Chinese-imports-hits-profits-at-Britains-biggest-steel-maker.html From the Telegraph: The owner of Britain’s biggest steelworks has reported losses more than doubling as it buckles in the face of high taxes and energy costs, the strong pound and cheap Chinese imports. Tata Steel UK, which owns the giant Port Talbot and Scunthorpe plants, posted a […]
Emma Thinks Richard Betts Is Insane!
By Paul Homewood The Mail report on the Met Office’s Richard Betts’ reactions to the BBC’s interview with the ridiculous Emma Thompson last week: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223826/Met-Office-boss-slams-Emma-Thompson-BBC-scaremongering-claim-world-s-temperature-rise-4C-2030.html One of Britain’s top climate scientists has launched a blistering attack on actress Emma Thompson and the BBC, accusing them of ‘scaremongering’ over the speed of […]
Electricity Network In Uncharted Territory
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/utilities/11844750/Electricity-network-in-uncharted-territory-as-blackouts-loom.html#disqus_thread From the Telegraph’s Black Steam Dept: Picture a cold and dark wintery evening in November and millions of householders across the country are switching on their kettles at the same time after a long day at work but suddenly there is a big problem. Another creaking coal-fired power […]
Doug Brodie’s Letter To MP’s
By Paul Homewood Doug Brodie has written to various MP’s asking them to reconsider the Climate Change Act, and has asked me to publish it. If anybody wants to chase up their local MP’s for their reaction, please feel free! To: Mr Drew Hendry, MP All Tory MPs Lord Lawson […]
NOAA Tampering In Alaska
By Paul Homewood http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/ClimTrends/Change/TempChange.html According to the Alaska Climate Research Center, linear trends show that temperatures have actually fallen in Alaska since 1977, by 0.1F. The stations used give a good geographical spread, and only four sites show any warming at all. Yet NOAA show something totally different, a rise […]
Navitus Bay Set To Be Rejected
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul2 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/11845747/Navitus-Bay-wind-farm-off-Jurassic-Coast-set-to-be-rejected.html Good news from the Telegraph: Plans for Britain’s most controversial offshore wind farm are set to be rejected amid fears it would jeopardise the UNESCO World Heritage Site status of the Jurassic Coast, the Telegraph understands. Developers of the proposed Navitus Bay wind farm are seeking […]
President, Your Pants Are On Fire!
By Paul Homewood Seeing as how it is topical at the moment, here are some facts about Alaska that the Messiah and David Holub apparently aren’t aware of: 1) It was at least as warm, and probably warmer in the Middle Ages there than now. According to the paper, “Surface air […]
Politifact – PANTS ON FIRE!!
By Paul Homewood http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/sep/03/fact-checking-claims-climate-change/ According to their website, PolitiFact is an independent fact-checking journalism website aimed at bringing you the truth in politics. Anybody who claims to offer the “truth in politics” should be regarded with extreme suspicion, and there is certainly a history of them supporting the left wing version of the […]
Watch Your Wallet!
By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34147192 If there was any doubt that this was all about money…………. From the BBC: Rich nations at UN climate talks are said to be edging towards a compromise on the thorny issue of loss and damage. Poorer countries want compensation for extreme weather events […]
Germany’s CO2 Targets “Unrealistic”
By Paul Homewood http://www.thegwpf.com/germanys-green-energy-revolution-fails-its-climate-goal/ Since 2012 a group of experts around McKinsey director Thomas Vahlenkamp has been assessing every six months whether the federal government’s goal of its self-imposed targets of its energy and climate policy are achieved. Die Welt has obtained the latest score: the picture brightens only in some secondary objectives. […]
Denmark’s U-Turn On Climate Targets
By Paul Homewood http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/denmark-s-government-readies-u-turn-on-ambitious-climate-targets From Bloomberg: Denmark’s widening budget deficit is forcing its policy makers to take some hard decisions in the very area where they are considered global role models: the fight against climate change. Denmark’s Liberal government is to reverse ambitious CO2 emission targets introduced by the previous administration. It […]
Another Cold Summer!
By Paul Homewood http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/anomacts Another cold and damp summer in the UK, finishing at 0.5C below the 1981-2010 average, and the third in the last five years to fall below. Indeed, no summers since 1998 have been as cold as 2011, 2012 and 2015. There is clearly no sign of summer temperatures […]
Obama’s Alaskan Lies
By Paul Homewood http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/01/whats-really-melting-obamas-alaskan-lies/ Steve Milloy’s take on Obama’s Alaskan trip, which seems to have been a waste of time anyway: President Obama’s hike up the rapidly melting Exit Glacier today has run into some unfortunate buzzkill: reality. The hike is supposed to be the high point of this week’s trip […]
Wood burners ‘worse than cars’ for contaminating air
h/t Jim Climie The wood stove, so beloved by greenies because it will save us all from global warming! The government is even throwing millions of pounds in subsidies at them to encourage us to have them installed. Unfortunately their new found popularity has meant that more wood is now […]
Small Scale Solar Cannot Exist Without Large Subsidies
By Paul Homewood h/t Tim Channon Govt proposals to cut solar subsidies were in the news last week: The UK government says it plans to significantly reduce subsidies paid to small-scale green power installations. Under the proposals, the amount of money paid to home owners and businesses producing electricity […]
Egypt Discover Giant Gas Field
By Paul Homewood The discovery of a ‘super giant’ natural gas field off the coast of Egypt is set to help the country bridge its energy gap. Eni SpA say deep-water deposit in the Zohr Prospect is the largest find in the Mediterranean Sea, holding up to 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, equivalent […]
IPCC Confirmed Troposphere Should Warm Faster In 2007 Report
By Paul Homewood Interesting to cast how minds back to what the IPCC had to say about satellite temperatures in 2007. http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-3-1.html “Above the surface, global observations since the late 1950s show that the troposphere (up to about 10 km) has warmed at a slightly greater rate than the surface, while […]
UAH And RSS Trends
By Paul Homewood I had not spotted it before, but NOAA keep a database of satellite temperature, and provide a graphing tool which runs both RSS and UAH off the same 1981-2010 baseline (RSS use 1979-98 to calculate their anomalies usually). The Jan – July graph makes interesting reading: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/msu/time-series It […]
I Wonder Where David Viner Is Holidaying This Summer?
By Paul Homewood Another Bank Holiday, another washout! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11834503/August-Bank-Holiday-weather-forecast-Fortnight-of-rain-to-fall-in-one-day.html It was not meant to be like this! Back in 2006, climate genius David Viner told us: Climate change could "dramatically" change the face of British tourism in the next 20 years, with European tourists flocking to the UK to […]
SEPP On Hottest Month Claims
By Paul Homewood Ken Haapala of the Science and Environmental Policy Project has a good summary of recent record warmth claims and the divergence between surface and satellite data: Divergence: It is summertime in the US, and temperatures are warmer. Several readers have asked TWTW for comments on the recent claims that July […]
Greenland Temperature Trends
By Paul Homewood I showed some graphs last month, giving summer temperature trends in Greenland. For completeness, I am doing the same with annual temperatures. The only two long running stations currently operational are Godthab and Angmagssalik. As before, I am using the unadjusted data from GISS: […]
Roy Spencer On Satellite v Surface Temperature Data
By Paul Homewood With the ever increasing divergence of surface temperatures from satellite ones, it is worth republishing this post from Roy Spencer last October: Why 2014 Won’t Be the Warmest Year on Record October 21st, 2014 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Much is being made of the “global” surface […]
Hottest Year? Not According To Satellites
By Paul Homewood http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-2015-will-be-the-hottest-year-on-record-by-a-mile-experts-say-10477138.html Meanwhile, back in the real world, the much more comprehensive and accurate satellite data shows nothing of the sort. Below are the average annual anomalies for 1998 through 2014, along with 2015 YTD. http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0beta3 http://data.remss.com/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_3.txt For UAH to surpass the reco... more »
Slingo Making It Up As She Goes Along
By Paul Homewood http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/release/archive/2015/summer-statistics With just a couple of days left, the Met Office have confirmed just how cold the summer has been in the UK: Despite a dry and sunny June and a brief heat-wave at the start of July, summer overall looks set to be cooler than average and cooler […]
Back Home Tomorrow!
Pleased to say the Ma in Law is well on the mend, if bored stiff in a hospital bed. She’s finally getting a transfer to our local hospital on Monday, so we will be travelling home tomorrow, and normal service will soon be resumed. Stay tuned for the latest story on Slingo’s incompetence!
US Green Energy Subsidies ‘Unfair and Ineffective’, Study Finds | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
A University of California study has slammed the fairness, efficiency and effectiveness of billions of dollars of so-called green energy subsidies provided by the US government. The US federal government has paid $US18.1 billion in tax credits since 2006 aimed at encouraging American households to install energy-efficient windows, air conditioning schemes, rooftop solar in their […]
Renewables Sector Left Reeling After Government’s Latest Subsidy Cull | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
The UK renewable energy industry has reacted with shock and anger at the latest attack by the Conservative Government to slash subsidy support through the Feed-in Tariff scheme. Scottish Renewables described how the removal of support for some wind projects and a reduction of up to 86% for solar would “severely curtail” development. Cuts to […]
It’s the right climate to scrap the Department of Energy and Climate Change | City A.M.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is small compared to other government departments, with a gross annual expenditure of just £5.7bn. However, as the government grapples with how to continue to drive down its deficit, abolishing this arm of the state should be a key priority: it would both provide vital savings and […]
Gross Suppression Of Science …Former NOAA Meteorologist Says Employees “Were Cautioned Not To Talk About Natural Cycles”
Former NOAA meteorologist David Dilley has submitted an essay below that has 2 parts: 1) How the government has been starving researchers who hold alternative opinions of funding, and 2) climate cycles show we are starting a cooling period. Readers will recall that David Dilley is a 40-year meteorology veteran and the producer of the […]
Carwyn Jones hits out at Westminster over soaring energy prices, saying they are crippling Welsh industry – Wales Online
The First Minister was reacting to news that 250 jobs are under threat at Tata steelworks, including Llanwern. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/carwyn-jones-hits-out-westminster-9938823 Meanwhile as many as 73% of manufacturers want to see legislative reform of the UK’s current environmental and climate change policies, according to a new survey by the manufacturers organisation EEF. Respondents claimed that existing regulations […]
Met Office’s Idea of an accurate Forecast,
As part of their desperate attempt to retain the BBC contract, the Met Office have been trying to persuade us how accurate their forecasts are. They reckon that they are in the top two in the world for accuracy, based on WMO guidelines. There is however a huge problem with this, and that is that […]
Only 45% of Scottish people believe climate change is an ‘immediate and urgent’ issue – Home News – UK – The Independent
Only 45% of Scottish people believe climate change is an ‘immediate and urgent’ issue Adults with a degree or professional qualification were more than twice as likely to view the issue as an immediate problem compared with those with none. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/only-45-of-scottish-people-believe-climate-change-is-an-immediate-and-urgent-issue-10473361.html The saddest thing is that, supposedly, the most intelligent people are more likely to […]
China’s Wind and Solar Developers Hit by Subsidies Short of Plan – Bloomberg Business
China’s wind and solar developers are getting much less than they anticipated in handouts from the government because of a quirk in subsidy policies, threatening to stymie growth in the world’s biggest market for clean energy. The issue relates to the support China pays power suppliers as enticement to develop clean energy projects. Surcharges slapped […]
Renewables shift wallops traditional power plants | Business | DW.COM | 24.08.2015
Germany’s shift to renewable energy sources will have a greater impact on operators of traditional power plants than originally thought, according to new data from the country’s grid supervisor. Fifty-seven traditional gas and coal power plants are set to close in Germany as a consequence of Energiewende, or energy transition, which has diminished the profitability […]
India’s coal industry in flux as government sets ambitious coal production targets – Today in Energy – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
India’s rapidly expanding consumption of coal in recent years has not been matched by production, resulting in higher imports but also black outs. As a result, the govt has set ambitious plans ambitious new production targets, and tried to free up distribution bottlenecks. http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=22652 CO2 reduction? You must be joking!
Carbon credits undercut climate change actions says report – BBC News
The vast majority of carbon credits generated by Russia and Ukraine did not represent cuts in emissions, according to a new study. The authors say that offsets created under a UN scheme “significantly undermined” efforts to tackle climate change. The credits may have increased emissions by 600 million tonnes. In some projects, chemicals known to […]
Two coal-fired power plants set for Fukushima – Power Engineering International
Five Japanese firms have joined forces to construct two coal-fired power plants in Fukushima. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Joban Joint Power have joined forces to develop the 540 MW project, which aims to create an industrial base and open up job opportunities to support local […]
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Met Office feels icy blast of competition | Daily Mail Online
The Mail weighs in on the BBC dropping the Met Office. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3208362/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Met-Office-feels-icy-blast-competition.html What is really interesting though is that it is claimed that the BBC contract is worth £30 million a year. We know from the Met accounts that commercial income amounted to £33 million last year, so this would suggest the rest of their […]
I bet the Met Office didn’t see this storm coming either says QUENTIN LETTS | Daily Mail Online
Sometimes you almost feel sorry for the Met Office! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3208345/QUENTIN-LETTS-bet-Met-Office-didn-t-storm-coming-either.html As Quentin Letts says: The BBC indicated yesterday that money was a major reason for its shock decision — which means its forecasts may in future be provided by a private company, possibly with foreign owners. The Corporation had been paying £30 million a year […]
All-Time Record Heat in Germany – weather.com
According to the Weather Channel; Germany tied its all-time record high last Friday, Aug. 7, when Kitzingen soared to a high of 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit), tying the national record it set on July 5. http://www.weather.com/news/climate/news/europe-heat-wave-poland-germany-czech-august-2015 What they forget to tell you is that the previous record was only 0.1C lower, and was […]
Junk Scientist Hansen Cocks Up Again!
It was only last month that junk scientist James Hansen was telling us that expanding sea ice in Antarctica was due to”melting glaciers”! There’s no doubt that growing Antarctic sea ice is a mystery in the climate system — and an anomalous, seemingly contrary indicator. However, if a controversi
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