By Dr. Roy Spencer. Partly in response to the crazy claims of the usual global warming experts (Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lawrence, Mark Ruffalo, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Pope Francis), I decided to write another Kindle e-book. This one is entitled, Inevitable Disaster: Why Hurricanes Can’t Be Blamed On Global Warming. …
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September 19, 2017 at 12:50PM
You have to hand it to The Australian – they will publish both sides. Take this (please, take it): “Our energy policy still stuck in coal country”. This is Alan Kohler, bless him, who doesn’t get it and dreams of a nation of motor-heads “going electric”. But, wow, ouch, watch how he reasons it out… not with numbers and graphs (he’s the numbers man on the nightly finance report) but with pop psychology?
The idea of an Australian government banning petrol and diesel cars to promote public health seems especially remote right now: we can’t keep the lights on as it is, having closed a few fossil fuel power stations.
But you can bet that the Coalition government and its media supporters will argue that the electrification of transport makes it even more necessary for there to be more “baseload power” from coal-fired power stations — how could we possibly charge millions of cars, and run millions of airconditioners and fridges if we let Liddell close in 2022?
And you can fix that Mr Kohler, how?
Wait for it…
This is the underlying reality of Australia’s energy debate: a majority of the government does not actually […]
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September 19, 2017 at 12:42PM
WE WERE WRONG, CLIMATE SCIENTISTS CONCEDE Ben Webster, The Times Catastrophic impacts of climate change can still be avoided, according to scientists who have admitted they were too pessimistic about the chances of limiting global warming. The world has warmed more slowly than had been predicted by computer models, which were “on the hot side”…
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September 19, 2017 at 11:20AM
By Paul Homewood
While Hurricane Maria continues this year’s run of hurricanes, it is worth reading this Telegraph article from Sep 8th. It certainly makes a refreshing change from the wearying drivel written by Jillian Ambrose and co:
The destruction left by hurricanes Irma and Harvey has left many wondering why this year has been particularly bad for disastrous weather.
Harvey pummeled Texas, while Irma has been barrelling through the Carribbean and Bahamas, hurtling towards Florida.
Many thousands of homes have been destroyed and lives have been lost after the worst hurricanes seen for some years came in from the Atlantic Ocean.
The US expects hurricanes – they have a season of them every year – but not of this magnitude.
So why is it so bad? And can we expect more in the future? We asked scientists and other experts to explain.
Julian Heming, the Met Office’s tropical prediction scientist, told The Telegraph about the reasons Irma is such a large hurricane.
"Irma is a powerful hurricane because all the characteristics required to produce an intense hurricane in the Atlantic are coinciding:
The Met Office said that this is not totally unexpected and we have seen hurricanes of this magnitude in the past.
Mr Heming said: "It is worth pointing out that it is the peak of the hurricane season, so having hurricanes in this region now is not unexpected.
"Having three simultaneous hurricanes in the Atlantic region does not happen every year, but has been recorded several times before in the last 50 years: 1967, 1980, 1995, 1998, 2010.
"The North Atlantic hurricane season runs from June-November, with peak activity during August-October. During peak season around 96% of all Atlantic major hurricanes (categories 3, 4 and 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane wind scale) occur."
Unfortunately they then go on to spoilt it quoting the usual crooks.
They might instead have quoted some of the ample evidence that hurricanes are not becoming bigger or more powerful, despite the theories.
For instance, NOAA’s own data from their Hurricane Research Division:
Atlantic basin cyclone intensity by Accumulated cyclone energy, timeseries 1895-2014
Contrary to popular myth, the season with the highest ACE was not 2005, but 1933.
And as NOAA’s Chris Landsea explains, data prior to 1966 almost certainly underestimates ACE.
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September 19, 2017 at 11:03AM
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