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The annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy has been released.
Global demand for energy is speeding up again — mainly thanks to China,
India and the US. Tellingly, all fuels — coal, oil, gas, nukes and hydro
— grew faster than their ten year averages, but not renewables. So the
momentum has shifted back to fossil fuels, especially gas which was up a
remarkable 5.3%, one of the fastest rates
Just
another way cheaper electricity saves lives. Photo by Photo by noodle
kimm on Unsplash It turns out hotter rooms have higher indoor pollution.
Levels of formaldehyde are lower in the morning and rise with the
temperature. Air conditioning in hot summers, keeps the temperature down
and will reduce the amount of formaldehyde and other pollutants from
out-gassing from furniture and gypsum walls.
The
UK leads the way with more radical rain-dance h/t James Delingpole,
Eric Worrall If people work only one-day-a-week, they will need to spend
the other six days growing food and feeding the chickens in their own
back yards. The head of the so-called conservative government, Theresa
May, wants to spend $1,000 billion dollars on fashionable weather, and
the leader of the opposition, who may be th
UPDATE:
This beautiful graphic doesn’t show on the home page in some browsers.
Click to open the post. Best way to protect the environment? Save the
children. Cheap energy and clean water go a long way… h/t @mattridley
When babies are at high risk of dying prematurely, parents respond by
having lots of kids. Once medical conditions improve and infant
mortality goes down parents have fewer kids. Ov
Jun 11
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h/t to Charles the moderator at WUWT In the latest Pew survey of 6,000
Americans 50% see made-up news as a “very big problem” — on a par with
violent crime and income inequality. Sadly 46% don’t realize “climate
change” is fake news. Not surprisingly more Republicans than Democrats
worry about fake news. In the “starkest” difference — while many people
think the fake news comes from politicans –
Jun 10
Media elements in Australia are pushing the myth that aging coal plants
are failing and that they can’t handle summer heat as if a plant with
an operating temperature of 570°C plus will work at 38°C and fail at
40°C. It’s a hot topic today because AGL has just flagged an extended
outage of seven months for one unit at Loy Yang A2. That may linger well
into summer — potentially out of action til m
Jun 08
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How
many climate marches does it take to stop a storm? Photo by Vlad
Tchompalov A new climate model includes “social processes” to predict
the climate. They expect the fashionality of hybrid cars or solar PVs
will help predict the future climate. So serious researchers are now
feeding their models with trends in human behaviour. Though there’s no
sign climate models may use the million-mile-an-hou
Jun 07
Hitting the presses today, the vacuous news that lots of companies
picked huge numbers out of the air using broken models to guess
hyperbolic climate losses coming in the next five years, counter to all
the trends for the last hundred years which show declining losses on a
GDP basis. The world got warmer but the disasters got less nasty. Less
bushfire, less cyclones, less tornadoes, less death pe
Jun 06
Solar subsidies were scrapped in the UK in April, and new solar
installations promptly dropped from 79MW a month to 5MW last month, in a
94% fall. Home solar panel installations fall by 94% as subsidies cut
Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian: The Labor party accused the government of
“actively dismantling” the UK’s solar power industry… …showing that
they don’t understand what “actively” means. If the
Does anyone think China or India will rush to point out how stupid we
are? They laugh at us quietly, as we hobble ourselves with unreliable
infrastructure that produces green electrons and vandalizes our cheap
baseload power. The world has 150 years of coal, and China and India are
going to use it (unless they get cheap nukes, in which case, coal
really will be worthless). Meanwhile the West puts
Jun 05
Biblical
doom coming says prophesy Limbourg Bros, Folio 108: Hell. circa 1416. A
new report by a “Breakthrough” think tank has arrived to leave no
stone, or cliche, unturned in scaring the kiddies. Whole thesauruses
have been ransacked: the threat is existential, lethal, and not
survivable. The End Days include choas, collapsing ecosystems, with
devastating wildfires. “Nuclear War is possible”. (Y
Jun 04
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Jun 03
Al Gore is here in Australia to train 1,0o0 useful idiots on Unscience,
neolithic reasoning and witchcraft. The man with no climate science
expertise, and a huge vested interest is being paid by taxpayers to
train people to chant “consensus” and pretend that wind and solar can
stop storms and hold back the tide. These obedient fools help to destroy
any conversation about science by reciting anti-
Several National MP’s have pushed for the Australian Parliament to
discuss whether the land with more uranium than anywhere else should use
nuclear power. Typical how it takes conservative politicians to raise
the question about one of the most successful low-carbon generations
there is. On the one hand a million animals might go extinct, seas will
swallow up our cities and children won’t know wh
Jun 01
Mysterious
CO2 activity in New Zealand shows Phytoplankton at work Tom Quirk both
finds a mystery and solves it. Emiliania huxleyi coccolithophore |
Alison Taylor. Carbon dioxide is a “well mixed gas” yet CO2 levels over
New Zealand start rising there each year in March — a whole month before
we see it CO2 start to rise over Tasmania. Air over Cape Grim in
Tasmania will be blown by the prevailing
Two weeks later, and the excuses are still flowing. The left lost
because: a/ their policies were stupidly ambitious and unfundable, or 2/
Tasmanian greens went too far north. The ABC says “2″. If only Bob
Brown had got some Queenslanders to do the Adani protest instead, Bill
Shorten would be PM: Environment leaders reflect on their role in the
‘climate election’ Michael Slezak, ABC Enviroment an
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May 31
A big new study by electricity grid nerds (and I mean that in the
nicest possible way) shows that after all the money and pain of 20 years
of forced transition Australia’s electricity has shifted from 85% coal
powered to 75% coal powered, which cost billions and as a bonus, made
electricity more expensive and unstable. We drove out some brown coal,
but swapped it for black coal. Instead of oustin
Could the ABC be more incompetent? Not only do they deny linguistic
history, fail to do basic research, have no data, nor cogent argument,
they don’t come up with any new words in common use, and they resort to
kindergarten name-calling as if it was “scientific”. Here’s a group of
paid propaganda workers who have destroyed basic English — now
pretending that the distortion of the language was som
May 29
Back in the unpoliticized Pliocene it’s possible that cosmic rays
bombarded Earth and triggered lightning which started fires all around
the Earth. This may (warning: speculation) have pushed human ancestors
to stand on two legs. In the politicized Holocene, however cosmic rays
are “irrelevant”. Ancient cosmic rays can set the Earth on fire
apparently, change dominant species, and leave a charcoa
May 28
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Who
needs retirement savings if the world’s going to fall apart? (Those who
believe Big Gov are also those who expect to get government help when
they need it). Climate change is the ultimate multipurpose excuse for
pretty much anything you want: Young people blame climate change for
their small 401(k) balances by Kari Paul Like many people her age,
Rodriguez believes climate change will have cata
May 26
Late…. Rating: 7.6/10 (41 votes cast) Rating: 7.6/ 10 (41 votes cast)
May 24
After what Peter Ridd went through, and the flagrant waste of one
million dollars, someone must be held accountable. Otherwise, no
academic would want to risk two years of legal hell for pointing out
systematic problems in academia. Who would dare drily write “for your
amusement” in an email? Its good to see other staff are speaking up.
Sandra Harding is vice-chancellor of James Cook University.
May 23
A week is a long time in politics. Ideas that were stupid this time
last Friday are suddenly mainstream. Scratching to pick themselves up,
the Labor Party may adopt Tony Abbott’s flagship program, but still
cling to the idea that we can do a 45% reduction without major
sacrifices. The Liberals must be praying the ALP keeps that target. What
a gift for the 2022 election. Even the Labor Party recog
I just signed the petition “Zali Steggall: Wind farms for Warringah”
and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name. Our goal is to
reach 15,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and
sign the petition here: http://chng.it/PVhHmxhQkL h/t Steve, Owain
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May 22
When is five billion dollars equal to zero? When the climate cult is
doing maths. Australia spends at least five billion dollars a year
trying to reduce emissions, yet it’s as if it doesn’t exist. The angst
continues, along with the denial that Australia has “a climate plan” :
“The fight is not over,” said Greenpeace Australia. Calling the results
“horrifying,” NYU professor Kate Crawford said on
May 21
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Remarkable! A new study by Ashcroft, Karoly and Dowdy pieces together
an extraordinary 178 years of rainfall data from Sydney, Melbourne and
Adelaide. This is a rare study that brings in much older data, looking
at trends and extremes. This is pretty much the ultimate long term
rainfall paper for South East Australia. Henceforth, there shalt be no
more headlines about “unprecedented” rainfall or
Octopuses survived the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, but look
set to go blind thanks to coal fired power and your car. Octopuses may
go blind from climate change, study warns … Plastic pollution and
climate change may be significantly altering the level of oxygen on our
planet. Now, a new study dives into the impact it could have on marine
life, including squids, crabs and octopuses – blin
May 19
Scott Morrison in Parliament. Photo, ABC: Nick Haggarty The Coalition
can now form a majority government with no need to do deals with a GetUp
candidate. They may win 78 seats. While this is being hailed as a
“great” win it’s nothing like Tony Abbott’s 90 seat landslide in 2013.
Of the last three elections, the most skeptical PM won hugely, and the
biggest believer, Turnbull, almost lost. Morriso
OK, so some other things might have happened around the world this
weekend. Rating: 9.4/10 (26 votes cast) Rating: 9.4/ 10 (26 votes cast)
May 17
Welcome to Election Day 2019 in Australia LOOK OUT for die-hard
skeptics David Archibald running for the Senate in WA (Fraser Anning),
also for Malcolm Roberts in QLD (One Nation). For Australian
Conservatives especially Cory Bernardi , SA and Jonathan Crabtree, WA.
For smaller government or skeptical policies, check out Liberal
Democrats, Australian Conservatives, One Nation, Yellow Vests Austra
May 16
In Borneo, the Dypterocarp forest, one of the species-richest in the
world (F), is being replaced by oil palm plantations (G). These changes
are irreversible for all practical purposes (H). Under the radar: In a
trade dispute with the EU, about six weeks ago, Indonesia threatened to
leave the Paris Agreement. Just like that. – Where was the ABC News?
Showing orangutan rescues… Two hundred and sev
May 15
Brazil, eighth largest economy in the world is unashamedly backing out
of green schemes. In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro is “dismantling”
environmental agencies and missions. Brazil pulled out of hosting the
2019 U.N. climate summit, and has now canceled a United Nations climate
change event that was to be held in August. Environment Minister Ricardo
Salles … said he was more interested in de
May 14
This election has been run on the lowest base primal tactics in
Australian history. National policy has become a cult-like hate
campaign. Which moderate centrist politician do we despise the most? The
Alinsky-ite targeted smear campaign doesn’t attack a party, it isolates
individuals, reducing voting to Good person: Bad person. The marked men
and sole woman are those who question any part of the
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There’s a message to parties that ignore their base: EU Election Poll
Has Farage’s Brexit Party Beating Labour and Tories COMBINED Jack
Montgomery, Breitbart New polling for the upcoming European Parliament
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