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Month: September 2017
By Paul Homewood
The latest con trick to get us all on to smart meters:
One of the UK’s biggest energy firms will for the first time offer cheaper deals to customers if they agree to have a smart meter installed.
The move by E.on, which has nearly 5 million customers, the vast majority of which do not yet have a smart meter, is being described as a "ploy" to get more people to accept the new-style meters.
From next year E.On customers with smart meters will no longer pay its so-called "standard variable tariff", which is the default option they are moved onto when they have finished a fixed deal.
SVTs are notoriously poor value with the Government preparing to impose a cap to stop consumers’s bills spiraling out of control.
E.On will replace its SVT with a one-year fixed deal which it promises will be a cheaper option. A spokesman refused to reveal how competitive the rate would be.
The controversial move will draw criticism both from customers – many of whom doubt the new technology – and consumer groups, who argue that lower tariffs should be unconditional.
It comes as the Government’s smart meter roll-out is in chaos as a number of Big Six energy firms have admitted that more than half of households are not accepting them.
Only 750,000 of E.On’s 4.6 million customers currently have one, a rate of just 16pc, however the rate could rise if consumers find they can slash their bills by getting a smart meter.
E.On are still working on the detail, but drawbacks are plain to see.
Although customers will not automatically be transferred to expensive standard tariffs, they will instead be put on to one-year fixed deals.
Even though the latter may be cheaper, it is not clear that customers will actually benefit. As the deal is fixed, they will be stuck for a year on a deal that may still be a lot more expensive than alternative offers.
There is one further issue. If customers are so keen to monitor their electricity usage with smart meters, are they really then dopey enough to stay on standard tariffs when their deals are up?
This desperate behaviour from E.On is an indication of how poor the uptake of smart meters has been so far.
via NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
September 22, 2017 at 07:33AM
Arctic sea ice extent is well above the ten year mean.
National Geographic published this map of the Arctic multi-year sea ice edge in 1971
Here is the current map for Arctic sea ice – all of this ice is by definition multi-year ice, because it has all survived the summer.
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The next image overlays the two. Green is 2017 and red is 1971. There is a little bit less ice thank 1971. Also note that the 1971 ice edge was inside of the NSIDC pink median line.
Government agencies like NOAA, NASA and NSIDC start their sea ice graphs in 1979, in order to make it look like there is a linear decline in sea ice.
NOAA claims they don’t have satellite data before 1979, but they are lying. The 1990 IPCC report showed NOAA satellite data back to 1973, which was much lower than 1979.
In fact, there is good ice data going back to the 1920’s, which shows that ice extent was very low in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
Projecting the climatic effects of increasing carbon dioxide (Technical Report) | SciTech Connect
This agrees with historical accounts at the time.
The Changing Face of the Arctic; The Changing Face of the Arctic – The New York Times
I combined the DOE and IPCC graphs, to show what government agencies are up to. They start their linear graphs at the century maximum sea ice extent.
Then fraudsters like John Cook release completely fake graphs like this, so that they can blame it on “human activity”
Human activity is driving retreat of Arctic sea ice
Arctic warmth and melting is cyclical. In 1922 the Arctic was melting rapidly.
2 Nov 1922, Page 1 – Great Bend Tribune at Newspapers.com
Instead of trying to understand past warmth, government climate scientists simply try to bury it with fake data.
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis: Analysis Graphs and Plots
Like all of the other climate scams, the Arctic melting scam is based on junk science, hidden data, fake data and corrupt scientists.
via The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
September 22, 2017 at 07:15AM
From the Fabius Maximus Blog. Reposted here. By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website, 21 Sept 2017. Summary: The gridlock might be breaking in the public policy response to climate change. Let’s hope so, for the gridlock has left us unprepared for even the inevitable repeat of past extreme weather — let alone what…
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September 22, 2017 at 07:02AM
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