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SA Premier turned down a $30m coal deal that could have saved a billion dollars
The SA blackout cost around half a billion, and building a new gas
plant (with a $170b in green bribes) adds another half. It’s now emerged
that Alinta offered Jay Weatherill a deal to keep the Port Augusta
power plant running which he turned down. If he had paid just $30m to
keep the Northern coal fired station in business, there might have been
no statewide blackout, and no need for regular loa
Curry, Christy, Pielke and Mann testify
Fantastic to finally see real scientists get a voice in a considered,
official forum. This should have happened 20 years ago. I expect only
climate-tragics will watch a 2 hour dry Congressional testimony, but it
is so very rare that both sides of the debate get questioned in the same
forum and almost never that skeptical scientists outnumber the
unskeptical ones. Michael Mann has little more than
Mar 30
Putin: Climate change doubters may not be so silly
What can I say? Putin has the same scientific quals as Al Gore, but
more polar bears. The Greenies should love him: Climate Change Doubters
not so silly Sam Meredith | Geoff Cutmore In an interview by CNBC at the
International Arctic Forum in Arkhangelsk, Russia, Putin was asked
about the rollback of environmental regulations from U.S. President
Donald Trump‘s administration. “Those people who ar
A big shift: Labor heavyweight tells Greens MP off for zany and mean climate zealotry
The unravelling of the climate religion continues: Graham Richardson is
an old-school Australian Labor powerbroker and former senior minister,
and yesterday he was bagging out Adam Bandt, the Greens MP, for his
atrocious timing, and “meanness of spirit” in using cyclone Debbie to
score political points about climate policy “while hundreds of thousands
of people are wondering what they will have l
Mar 28
AEMO Report blames renewables: SA Blackout due to lack of “synchronous inertia”
The Final AEMO Report on the big-SA Blackout deals up some hard truths,
and contradicts its earlier claim that the “energy mix” didn’t matter.
The key theme here is about the system inertia. The Blackout on Sept 28
last year was an accident waiting to happen, and it wasn’t storm damage
to lines that caused it. The blackout would not have happened if wind
power had not been so dominant. The transi
Mar 27
Watching Debbie — Cat 4 hits the coast
From the BOM animated satellite viewer. (Click to enlarge, or click
here for the animation — if you have the bandwidth). This image was
taken at about 6pm EST as darkness started to sweep across the nation.
(It is all dark now). Tropical Cyclone Debbie: Queenslanders preparing
for worst cyclone since Yasi 256km Radar at Mackay (for a cat-4 the rain
is very underwhelming) The fantastic Nullschool
Mar 26
Hazelwood — the shutdown begins — lowest cost electricity forced out by government design
TonyFromOz reports that the first generator at Hazelwood Power Station
has stopped after 53 years of operation. If only the Victorian
government saw value in keeping an old cheap power generator going.
Marvel that even though this plant can sell wholesale electricity at 3
or 4 cents per KWhr it is unable to make a profit. There is no free
market in electricity in Australia, only the illusion of i
Mar 25
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EU countries used €600 million climate loophole worth extra “114 million cars”
Taxing a basic molecule of life on Earth was never going to be easy.
Leaked paper exposes EU abuse of climate loophole EXCLUSIVE/ European
Union countries exploited loopholes in United Nations forestry rules to
pocket carbon credits worth €600 million and the equivalent of
global-warming emissions from 114 million cars. That’s slightly more
cars than exist in Germany, France and Italy combined. Y
Mar 24
Climate media news coverage collapsed in the 2016 election year
After the 2009 peak of Copenhagen-fever and ClimateGate, media coverage
dropped precipitously. Then there’s been a kind of dead cat bounce as
the extreme voodoo climate meme was pumped and every hot afternoon
became a front page headline. But media interest has plummeted — and in a
US election year. To some extent this was coming as the crowd was tired
of the hottest year after the hottest year,
Mar 23
Climate caused Brexit sayth the Gore
Righto. It’s time to blame climate change for causing British voters to
vote against German rule of Britain. Back when the climate was ideal,
the Brits would’ve been fine with that. Instead, even though the world
has not warmed for 80% of the history of the EU, the EU is breaking up
because of climate change. It’s not like Al Gore to draw conclusions
from a long nebulous chain of dubious reasonin
Mar 22
Gottleibsen: Australian Energy Crisis “criminal” with 75% chance of blackout
Last days before Hazelwood shuts down. Robert Gottleibsen in The
Australian a couple of days ago has investigated our energy crisis, and
discovered our old centralized grid design is quite likely to fall over
next summer in an incredibly expensive way. It’s nice that he did some
research and even talked to engineers: The looming crisis is much worse
than I expected. Three state governments, Victo
Watch the 12th International Conference on Climate Change Live (Thursday morning US time)
The 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-12) will take
place on Thursday and Friday, March 23–24 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in
Washington, DC, thanks to the Heartland Institute. Watch and hear the
scientists, economists, engineers, and policy experts who persuaded
President Donald Trump that man-made global warming is not a crisis, and
therefore Barack Obama’s war on fossil fuels m
Mar 20
Hazelwood Countdown: 53 years old and making more electricity than Australia’s entire wind industry
Three days to go: The Hazelwood shut down begins The situation in
Australia right now: The total fossil fuel output compared to total wind
power generation, NEM, Australian electricity market, 21 March 2017 One
old coal plant makes more electricity than all the wind farms Guest
Post by TonyfromOZ and Jo Nova I’ve been watching the output of all
eight generators at Hazelwood closely all month and
Mar 19
All Australians “are detrimental”. Climate Scientist worries that her baby will cause floods, droughts, and warm globe
After years of struggle to conceive, plus tortured introspection about
the effect her baby might have on future storms, Sophie Lewis, climate
scientist, announces conception in the most convoluted way: And then,
just as senselessly as our grief began, it ended. For no particular
reason, the expected bad baby news never arrived and now the complexity
of having an imagined child will become a concr
Mar 18
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Mar 16
Climate-Dollar bragging is over: funding goes underground to avoid “climate-axe”.
Once upon a time governments bragged about how much they spent on
“climate change”. Every Climate Quiz or tin-pot-program to insulate a
chicken-run was wrapped under the Climate Action banner so that
politicians could claim they were saving the world. Nowadays voters have
voted for the guy who called it a hoax, and the funding’s gone
underground because he was going to boast about how much climat
Energy crisis in Australia: Feds versus State
Turnbull announces beefing up the Snowy Mountains Hydro. Weatherill
gets grumpy. Insults exchanged. Things are so serious that suddenly the
Feds are unveiling a new solution to fix the blackouts and “load
shedding”. http://a.msn.com/01/en-au/BBybbQL?ocid=se As Bob FJ writes:
see Canberra Times and note the eye-contact avoidance etcetera twixt
Weatherill and Frydenberg. h/t To Bob FJ Rating: 9.3/1
Mar 15
Infamous Milgram experiments repeated: Only a few will stand up against authority
The Milgram Experiment. Image Wikimedia. The chilling Milgram
experiments have been replicated, and yet again, 9 out of 10 are willing
to inflict electric shocks and pain on another person. In these
infamous experiments the power of a white lab coat was enough to get
more than half the participants (26 out of 40) to deliver a fatal shock
(the participants didn’t realize the shock was faked, and t
Mar 14
Battery powered SA, could be 100% renewable for just $60 – $90 billion
South Australia (SA) is planning to build a new gas fossil fuel plant
for $550 million because it has too much competitive and “cost
efficient” free energy. There are fears this will not only push up
electricity prices in the state but in Victoria, NSW and Tasmania too.
(Bravo, SA). In order to build a new fossil fuel plant with Greens
permission they spend $360m on the new gas plant, and then of
Mar 13
West Australia – Unskeptical conservatives wiped out in election – No Trump, No Brexit vote
Don’t
mention the climate — unskeptical conservatives give away some of their
best weapons The local Liberals (conservatives) got smashed on the
weekend in the Western Australian election. Polls predicted it, but
instead of a Trump-surprise, Colin Barnett’s team got a nasty shock
instead — wiped out. There was no “hidden vote” waiting there because
the local Liberals are just another brand of The
Mar 11
Fake News: Whipping up a media frenzy over bizarre “records” before they occur
Australia’s “leading climate scientists” can’t predict the climate but
they are very good PR operatives. Here in Perth we’ve had a cool year —
for the last twelve months it’s been nearly a whole degree cooler than
the average for the last 20 years. But last weekend in Perth, news
stories told us we’d had an “autumn stinker” and wait for it, we might
get Perth’s second hottest first eight days of
WA Election — Conservatives who believe in “climate alarm” were wiped out
Rating: 8.2/10 (39 votes cast) Rating: 8.2/ 10 (39 votes cast)
Mar 09
Climate Institute runs out of money
The The Climate Institute is a private think tank set up in 2005. It
got about $2m a year back in the heyday of climate panic. Today Planet
Earth is still about to collapse, but it’s not important enough for the
team to keep working without a salary. Amazing what someone, who really
believes in what they do, can achieve with 1% of what they had. No more
propaganda surveys from them then: Climate
Fifty Shades of Loadshedding — “Welcome darkness my good friend”
Love it! (Sing ’til you cry). Welcome darkness my good friend it’s good
to meet you once again Because the power grids are stressing, that’s
the reason for load shedding… – Shrish Viyas Hargoon h/t Lance. …. Why
they do it, we all know cos their resources are low they are doing it in
three stages Feels like we are living in dark ages Lights are taken
away from us without a fuss give a few hours o
Mar 07
Go NCSE “March for Science” — Rage for Cliches!
The whole NCSE march on April 22nd is devoted to a strawman: The
National Center for Science Education was one of the first organizations
to endorse the march, and we are encouraging our members to take part.
Why? Because we believe that the marches will be a powerful and positive
reminder that there is something that virtually everyone agrees on: the
value and importance of science. There is no
Mar 05
VW eco-scam, official corruption, is killing diesel
News is out that diesel cars which don’t comply with pollution
standards will be banned from some roads in Germany on “high pollution”
days. Depending on how often those bad news for diesel industry and
owners. How useless is a car that you can’t drive when you need it?
Stuttgart is being called the “Beijing” of Germany for air pollution.
Residents are suing the Mayor for “bodily harm”. The same
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