By Paul Homewood

 

Booker covers the BP Energy Review today:

 

 

One of the more disturbing features of our time is the yawning gulf between the way some of the most serious issues of the day are generally discussed and reported, and the real story behind them, which too often just gets buried from view. Here I update on two familiar examples.

The first concerns our old friend carbon dioxide. It might seem wonderfully ironic that we are now being told that pubs, breweries and our food industry are facing a serious shortage of the CO2 they rely on for much of what they do, such as putting bubbles in their drinks. The more usual picture we are given of CO2 is that it is a deadly polluting gas that we need to get rid of because it threatens the future of the planet.

Far from cutting their emissions in 2017, the EU and the rest of the world, led by China and India, have been increasing their CO2 output, as if Paris had never happened

President Trump is thus vilified for deciding to pull the US out of the Paris accord, by which all the world had supposedly agreed to make unprecedented cuts in its “carbon emissions”. But the real story is revealed by BP’s latest Statistical Review of World Energy. Far from cutting their emissions in 2017, the EU and the rest of the world, led by China and India, have been increasing their CO2 output, as if Paris had never happened.

The one country that has significantly reduced its emissions is the US itself, thanks to its continuing switch from coal to cheaper shale gas. It was precisely because Mr Trump recognised that China, India and the rest had no intention of reducing their emissions that he denounced Paris as just an empty, virtue-signalling charade. He thus, finally, called the bluff of the entire global warming scare story, and these latest figures merely confirm how right he was. But where else have you seen this reported?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/23/co2-brexit-yawning-divide-told-truth/

 

As Booker points out, this news has hardly been headline stuff amongst the MSM. Certainly as far as the BBC is concerned, their Energy News page does not mention the BP Energy Review at all, (see here).

And a quick google of “BP Energy Review 2018” links to BP, me and a few other expert sites.

 

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June 24, 2018 at 07:39AM

Arctic sea ice volume is the highest in 13 years, and melting at a near record slow rate.

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Both the Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passage are blocked by thick ice.

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Arctic sea ice extent is normal, and rapidly approaching the 2001-2010 average.

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Greenland’s surface continues to gain ice, and it is nearing a record summer high.

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

Water around both Greenland and Antarctica is cold.

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Antarctic sea ice extent is normal.

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Meanwhile, climate experts and the press continue to report the exact opposite of what is happening.

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June 24, 2018 at 06:54AM

Winter refuses to die as large parts of the northern hemisphere such as Labrador and Eastern Europe get blanketed by unusual summer snow.  Arctic ice volume reaches 13-year high, Greenland snow mass balance explodes, and tropical Atlantic is “coldest on record”.

Where’s the warming!

The Arctic and North Atlantic have suddenly turned surprisingly cold. First, according to Weatherbell meteorologist Joe Bastardi, the northern Atlantic has turned cold; so cold in fact that Bastardi called it “impressive”:

Source: cropped from Weatherbell

“impressive”…coldest Atlantic on record (since 1982)

All the Atlantic cold could have a big (positive) impact on the upcoming hurricane season, says hurricane expert Philip Klotzbach. One week ago Klotzbach tweeted:

Tropical Atlantic sea surface temps (SSTs) (10-20°N, 60-20°W) remain at record cold levels (since 1982) for mid-June. About 0.2°C colder than prior coldest (1985) and nearly 1.7°C cooler than last year at this time. Colder SSTs typically mean quieter Atlantic #hurricane seasons.”

Canada shivers, “unprecedented” this late in June

Also much of Canada has been cold and the forecast for the next 15 days shows little warming. Labrador was hit severely by a winter storm just days ago.

According to the CBC: “6 feet of snow around Labrador lodge ‘unprecedented’ this late in June. This is the latest in the season to have this much snow at Igloo Lake Lodge, says operator.”

As the following chart shows, there’s no relief from the cold there in sight:

Source: Cropped at Weatherbell.

Labrador may not get a summer, most snow in 50 years

At Friday’s Weatherbell Daily Update, Joe Bastardi  said: “Boy, I’ll tell you what. Canada is just not getting a break. There it’s just really cold. And it’s still plenty cold up here in Labrador where they haven’t had a summer at all, and they may not!”

Just days ago the Weather Channel here reported that there was still six feet of snow: The headline: “Labrador, Canada, Hasn’t Seen This Much Snow in June in 50 Years.”

Summer snow falls in summer…in Poland/Ukraine!

Yesterday, on the second day of summer, snow fell in Poland! according to Severe Weather Europe at Facebook.

In Ukraine in the Karpaten 27 children had to be rescued from summer camp by emergency crews as “several centimeters of snow fell and temperatures dropped near freeing,” the German Weser Kurier here reports.

Arctic ice and snow sees impressive rebound

Looking at the Arctic, Japanese skeptic blogger Kirye tweeted here that the sea ice volume remains strong, and is even a bit above the 2004-2013 mean.

Chart source: dmi.dk.

All of this is much to the detriment of the latest Ship of Fools episode, where activists have chartered Russian ship “Akademik Ioffe“ with the aim of carrying out another climate-change publicity stunt later this summer. There’s a real risk the mission might produce the opposite of what they intend. We’re all watching.

Arctic ice volume 13-year high!

Prominent climate skeptic Tony Heller also posted here the following chart showing that Arctic ice volume has rebounded over the past years and stands at a thirteen year high, the prominent climate critic and skeptic .

Source: Tony Heller, Real Climate Science.

Greenland ice mass explodes

Finally, Schneefan here, citing data from the Danish Meteorological Institute, reports that the Greenland ice mass balance has grown well above average this year.

Source: DMI.

Schneefan reports that mass balance has has exploded “to over 600 billion tonnes since September 1, 2017 and is 50 billion tonnes over the mean and 100 billion tonnes above the 2012 at level at this time. 1

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June 24, 2018 at 05:36AM

New York expects to change its future weather by installing lots of expensive mega-batteries, according to the Governor. But is fear of a harmless trace gas essential to life more like superstition than science?

The state has set a target to install 1.5GW of batteries by 2025, reports Energy Live News.

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced an ‘Energy Storage Roadmap’ to guide the state toward its energy storage target of 1.5GW by 2025.

This figure is equivalent to the electricity demand of a fifth of the state’s homes and if achieved, is expected to deliver approximately $2 billion (£1.5bn) in lifetime benefits, including electricity distribution system savings and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Governor Cuomo says it would also boost the resiliency of the electric grid by reducing the impact of outages caused by severe weather.

Adding more energy storage into the system will also maximise the benefits of other renewable energy sources such as solar and wind and help ensure they are available when needed to meet peak demand for electricity.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said: “Clean energy is the future of our planet and New York will continue to lead the nation in this technology to fight climate change and conserve resources for generations to come.”

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June 24, 2018 at 04:06AM