Month: September 2017

Ooops! Scientist Eric Blake @NHC accidentally spawns “fake news” at MSN

From the HEAD LINES MATTER department. Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder, did you know what you just said? Case in point, Eric Blake, from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) tweeted September 7th: And that Tweet  has the takeaway “Never seen anything like this in the modern record” and spawned this…

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September 9, 2017 at 03:30PM

WORLD ENERGY CONSUMPTION – WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON?

Editor’s note: Abacus Data has just released a poll about how Canadians ‘feel’ about oil, pipelines, climate and change. Friends of Science Society thinks that while feelings are important, facts and evidence should be the basis for sound public policy.  Continue reading

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September 9, 2017 at 01:44PM

HADCRU Power and Temperature

By Andy May Generally, it is agreed that the Earth’s top-of-atmosphere (TOA) energy budget balances to within the margin of error of the estimates (see Kiehl and Trenberth, 1997). The incoming energy, after subtracting reflected energy, is thought to be roughly 239 W/m2 which matches, within the margin of error, the outgoing energy of roughly…

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September 9, 2017 at 01:29PM

Adelaide Govt reverse RET blocked by wind/solar/storage lobby

To improve South Australian grid security AEMO made recommendations to keep more “real” generation online. Real = “fossil fuel” which for SA means only gas or diesel. The SA Govt created its Energy Security Target (EST), a key plank of its $550 million energy plan. The EST is in fact a reverse or counter RET – so the EST was a sound move to attempt a bandaid repair of the damage caused by destroying the coal fired power stations in Port Augusta. Now we see the mega-powerful renewables/storage lobby has monstered the SA Govt who have now postponed EST to the outer darkness in 2020. You could not make this storyline up.

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September 9, 2017 at 12:58PM