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62% of Australians don’t want to pay even $10 a month for renewables
The
Money Question trumps Three quarters of Australians may believe climate
change is real (so the ABC keeps telling us) but only 13% of
Australians are willing to pay $1 a day or more to save the world.
Anyone can tick the box “Don’t pick on me, I believe in
*Climate$%@$#Change*”. But if people believed it was a threat they
wouldn’t balk at paying $100 a year, which is what 62% of Australians
did
Corals survive 542m years of supervolcano, asteroids, 125m sea level change only to go extinct any year now
Will
Corals Survive?, asks a group of international scientists. Corals first
appeared 540 million years ago, but having made it through
supervolcanoes, mass extinctions, and an asteroid impact equivalent to
10 billion Hiroshima A-bombs, it’s now likely they will be wiped out
because a trace gas has risen from 20% up to 25% of levels common for
half of the last 300 million years. Source: www.geocra
BOM Scandal: One second records in Australia — how “noise” creates history and a warming trend
Instrument errors, noise, may account for a quarter to one half of our
national warming trend in the last century. When the newspapers run a
headline with Sydney hits, say, 44.4 degrees and that number gets
engraved in history, who realizes that the extreme heat may have only
lasted one second? You might think the maximum temperatures were above
44 for at least ten minutes, but the BOM will write
Yesterday
Scientists “thrilled”: fish cope with acidification if tanks mimic normal large daily CO2 swings
The real story here is that past scares claiming that ocean
acidification would create reckless fish were most likely an artefact of
an inadequate experiment. There are big swings of CO2 and pH in shallow
water environments, and the normal day-night cycle turns out to be good
for fish. Putting them in a laboratory tank without these daily changes
may create fish that behave badly. So ocean acidif
Sep 03
Weekend Unthreaded
For all the other stuff… Rating: 8.8/10 (23 votes cast) Rating: 8.8/ 10 (23 votes cast)
Aug 31
Australians forced to pay $60b for expensive “green” electricity
The cost of Going Green, The Australian, Cover, September 1, 2017. The
Australian calculates the total bill will be in the order of $60b for
green electricity. It’s not like we could have done something better
with that. Read it all (if you can), then write to your MP and Senator.
Ask why — if they are serious about helping reduce CO2 — we don’t have a
USC coal plant like so many other countries,
Low Fat consensus was wrong: High carb diets increase death rates
How many people have died prematurely because they swapped their fats
for carbohydrates? More fat meant less death (left). More carbs (right)
meant the opposite (at least above 60%). (Click to see the full table of
Figure 1 results). New research published in the Lancet shows that low
fat diets could increase your risk of death. Specifically, those who are
in the top fifth of carbohydrate-eaters
Aug 30
Ivy league profs warns of the vice of conformism: “Think for yourself”
This is a good sign. Fifteen Ivy league professors have offered advice
and a warning to students everywhere –to recapture the spirit of
truthseeking and free debate. The message might just catch on, because
although the young strive to conform to fashionable norms, approximately
none of them want to be seen doing so. Who wants to be a the weak
minded conformist? The real bigots are those who fear
The backlash against offshore wind, and the big-money, tax dodging backers of Wind.
It’s a very well written article: Bonackers vs. Big Wind by Robert
Bryce. h/t Andrew. The good news is that opponents of wind power are
having a lot of success onshore. The bad news is that the renewables
industry is pushing offshore instead, but fishermen don’t want them
either, and families that have been fishing the same areas for 300 years
are up in arms. “The South Fork fishermen are fightin
Aug 29
Professor Peter Ridd facing misconduct charges for not selling peer review as sacred unquestionable testimony
Professor Peter Ridd has made the mistake of putting scientific
standards ahead of collegial comfort. What was he thinking? He seems to
feel he should serve the people of the Queensland instead of helping the
careers of co-workers and admin staff. Ridd is being accused of “Not
acting in a collegial way” (or something like that, no one is allowed to
say for sure) and is now under investigation for
Aug 26
Weekend Unthreaded
Old power stations run and run and run, Regardless of an eclipse of the
sun. The warmists should be ridiculed in song, To show them up and show
them that they’re wrong. Victoria is really tempting fate, To emulate
the South Australia state. Climate records show from red to blue,
China’s M.W.P. and Little Ice Age too. — Ruairi Rating: 9.3/10 (57 votes
cast) Rating: 9.3/ 10 (57 votes cast)
Who needs solar? Traders burnt during the eclipse: No sun, but lots of cheap electricity
Remember the Electrical Eclipse-Fear? For months, people were coached
to use less electricity during the eclipse for fear that the grid might
fall over as marvelous new-revolution-solar stopped working. The media
were selling the message that we might not cope without solar. I figured
this would be as big a threat as a cloudy day (but easier to prepare
for.). So after all the spin, what happened?
Aug 24
Modern Astrology in NY Times: Justin Gillis says Eclipses show all Scientists are always right about everything
Verily. Eclipses do weird things to people. Justin Gillis, writer for
The New York Times used the recent eclipse to sell something I’d call
Sciencemagic. Essentially, if some Scientists™ can calculate orbital
mechanics to a fine art, it follows, ipso nonfacto, that all people who
use the same job title are also always right. “Should You Trust Climate
Science? Maybe the Eclipse Is a Clue” Thanks t
Aug 23
Victoria plans to reduce electricity prices by copying state with most expensive supply in the world
In a genius move, Victoria, which has “soaring” electricity prices, now
announces plan to copy South Australia where people pay more for
electricity than anywhere: The Andrews government this morning unveiled a
new renewable energy target with a commitment to power up to 25 per
cent of the state from renewables by 2020 and 40 per cent by 2025. The
government has backed the construction of two lar
Chinese scientists find 2,000 years of not-hockey stick
There was no Medieval Warm Period in China. No little ice age either.
Not warm in Roman times either. Obviously CO2 controls this climate.
(Click to enlarge) Quansheng et al show that weather is lumpy, that
modern warming is a lot like past warming. They go so far as to say that
there are regular cycles and hint that sun might have something to do
with it, and volcanoes. “…centenial variation is
Aug 22
Global Warming (Hallelujah) An Inconvenient Music Video
Elmer and the Bureaucrats. (M4GW) I love these guys! h/t Lance Rating: 9.4/10 (87 votes cast) Rating: 9.4/ 10 (87 votes cast)
Aug 21
Historic Eclipse will test US solar-power grid like … clouds do
Eclipse Map: NASA Feel the panic. Or not. Historic Eclipse Will Test
America’s Grid as Solar Waxes, Wanes Grid operators, utilities and
electricity generators are bracing for more than 12,000 megawatts of
solar power to start falling offline as the moon blocks out the sun
across a 70-mile-wide (113-kilometer) corridor stretching from Oregon to
South Carolina. This is the first major test of the p
Aug 20
Weekend Unthreaded
We have our own unthreaded poem! Wind-farms and solar thermal plants
will prey, On birds of every size who fly their way. The public, to pay
less per kilowatt hour, Must vote to drive the zealot Greens from power.
Australia’s constitution has a flaw, When politicians wish to change
the law, By referendum, have the flaw corrected, That very flaw will
rule their wish rejected. Bad-tempered glass ca
The odd case of spontaneously shattering bathroom glass
This used to be black glass, now it’s a sinkless, shattered crazed
basin and bench. Who knew tempered glass could suddenly fracture and in
some cases explosively? We have a bathroom basin and countertop of
moulded thick black glass. For about five years it was happy, then late
one night this week, for no reason, it shattered — the sink fractured
into 100 pieces and fell into the towels below. The
Aug 19
One day when Al Gore gets some evidence he won’t need to call everyone names
Al
Gore creates more skeptics everyday Ross Clark, journalist, met Al Gore
to interview him about his favourite topic. But Ross broke the rules;
he did some research. Clark even talked to a professor about the scenes
of Florida being flooded. The prof explained that it’s not so much that
the seas were rising fast, but that the land under Miami is sinking —
and by an amazing 16-24cm in the last 80
Aug 18
Handy guide for foreign nation to remove any Australian politican. Give them “entitlements” of dual Citizenship.
For foreign readers, the Australian Parliament is undergoing the most
extraordinary spectacle at the moment. Politicians have resigned after
discovering that they were dual citizens of Australia and some other
country — such as Britain, Canada, or New Zealand — which is a clear
breach of the constitution. But this is going far beyond people who held
two passports. The constitutional affliction is
Aug 17
Australia, Denmark, Germany vie to win Highest Global Electricity Cost! (It’s the Nobel Price Prize?)
It’s not even close: If South Australia seceded it would have the
highest electricity price of any nation on Earth. Australian Households
pay highest power prices in the World, AFR. South Australian households
are paying the highest prices in the world at 47.13¢ per kilowatt hour,
more than Germany, Denmark and Italy which heavily tax energy, after the
huge increases on July 1, Carbon + Energy Ma
Aug 16
SA Solar Thermal plant is a copy of US plant that was out of action for one third of its life so far
Crescent Dunes, Solar Thermal Plant, USA. | Wikimedia Author, Amble. A
company called SolarReserve is planning to build the new Aurora 150MW
solar thermal plant at Port Augusta, which is apparently a copy of their
Crescent Dunes plant in the US. But that project has been offline for
most of the time since last October. The whole SA government is meant to
be running 24/7 off “solar power”, which a
Aug 15
Antarctica – 91 volcanoes coincidentally found under glaciers warming “due to climate change”
It’s possibly the densest concentration of volcanoes in the world, some
as high as 4km and we didn’t even know these existed til recently.
Despite that overwhelming ignorance, we’re 97.00% certain that all the
warming in Antarctica is due to your car and airconditioner. Robin
McKie, The Guardian writer, talks about the recent discovery of so many
volcanoes under the ice. Not surprisingly, we have
Aug 14
SA Premier hailed “leader”: govt buys twenty years electricity at twice the price for solar
UPDATE: More details are coming in: The SA govt is effectively covering
all its own electricity use with this one plant, which is about 5% of
the whole state’s demand. The plant will have 8 hours of battery storage
(theoretically). The word I hear is that this is not an outright
purchase of $650m, but an offtake agreement for around 70-78/MWh — which
means the government will buy nearly all the p
Aug 12
Weekend Unthreaded
… Rating: 9.1/10 (30 votes cast) Rating: 9.1/ 10 (30 votes cast)
Aug 11
UK wind farms paid to not make sausages
… OK, a wind farm isn’t making sausages, but it’s also not a farm.
Nothing about this makes sense, unless you follow-the-money. John
Constable and Matt Ridley outline the absolute rort that Scottish wind
generators are screwing out of British electricity customers. Scotland
already has 750 industrial wind plants (the scammers) in their best
moments making a total of 5,700 MW which is more than th
Aug 10
Feed your dog sweet potatoes to get nicer weather for the great grandchildren you shouldn’t have
It’s
another day in a DroneAge religion English Mastiff, Planet warming dog.
It took 12 “researchers” to discover that the best way you, personally,
can change the future global climate is to avoid having kids. If you do
have kids, you can make up a bit, apparently, by all going vegetarian.
If that’s too hard, consider swapping your dog for a hamster. But if you
have to have kids, dogs, and eat me
Aug 09
No wind or solar powered aluminium smelter anywhere in the world? Could be a message in that.
Matt Howell, the CEO of Tomago Aluminium Smelter, told a few home
truths on ABC radio Monday. To paraphrase in my own words: 1. Aluminium
Smelters gobble electrons for breakfast. His smelter uses 10% of the
entire electricity supply of the most populous state in Australia (NSW).
2. If power goes out without warning for more than three hours, the
smelter pot lines freeze, permanently. The company
Aug 08
South
Australia generating electricity from rubbish and diesel powered jets,
if they could only burn government regulations instead
A little update on our favourite green state. SA tries to fix a
Big-Government mess with a Bigger Government: Man-made regulations
created the grid-crisis in South Australia, so the Weatherill government
has decided to take what didn’t work and “do more”. Australian rulers
subsidized unstable energy, and lo, created an unstable system. The SA
state govt thinks it can solve it by running an opposi
Aug 06
Another BOM scandal: Australian climate data is being destroyed as routine practice
Historic
climate data is being destroyed The Bureau have a budget of a million
dollars a day, but seemingly can’t afford an extra memory stick to save
historic scientific data. In the mid 1990s thermometers changed right
across Australia — new electronic sensors were installed nearly everywh
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