From The Global Warming Policy Foundation Date: 21/03/19 Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times Exploited by Chinese firms, workers as young as nine risk their lives to feed the world’s growing hunger for cobalt. Solange Kanena sits on her broken orange sofa, heavily pregnant, resting. Looking around her three-room shack, she wonders how she will feed…

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March 23, 2019 at 04:03AM

GWPF Welcomes New-Found Energy Realism Of Cumbrian Councillors

• Date: 20/03/19
• Press Release, Global Warming Policy Forum

London, 20 March: The Global Warming Policy Forum welcomes the decision by councillors of Cumbria County Council to unanimously approve a new coal mine near Whitehaven.

This coal mine will bring many new jobs and £180m of investment to Cumbria, and does not require the job-destroying subsidies enjoyed by the renewables industry.

It goes without saying that local politicians should put the livelihoods of their residents first, but this basic duty is becoming more and more difficult to fulfil in the hyper-politicised and over-heated atmosphere of climate alarmism. So the councillors of all three mainstream parties deserve particular recognition for their energy realism.

The new coal mine will produce higher-value coking coal, which is a key ingredient in steel-making. Steel is used to produce many things, not least wind-turbine blades which cannot be produced cost effectively by renewable energy.

Despite the so-called coal ‘phase-out’, the UK continues to need coal for industrial uses, and to supply back-up power stations which keep the lights on and the national grid stable. During the first nine months of 2018, 37% of our coal came from Russia.

Offshoring our coal production to countries with lower environmental controls will only increase global CO2 emissions due to transportation and further degradation of natural environments.

The GWPF hopes that politicians at all levels of government will take heed of the decision that councillors in Cumbria have made, recognising that the needs of people both at the local and national level should always come before non-sensical demands by climate activists.

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March 23, 2019 at 02:30AM

Our top climate scientists are blaming floods in Nebraska on global warming

Manmade greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, warming the oceans and making the air above them more humid, scientists said. When a storm picks up and eventually spits out that moisture, it can be devastating for people caught below.

“The atmosphere is pretty close to fully saturated, it’s got all the water it can take,” said Michael Wehner, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Big storms like the bomb cyclone and Hurricane Harvey, which smacked Houston in 2017 with record downpours, are where the impact of climate change can most clearly be seen, he said, adding that climate change’s fingerprints were all over the recent storm.

“I don’t think it’s a starring role, but it’s a strong supporting role,” said Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, a federally-funded office, of climate change’s role in the Midwest floods.

He said the bomb cyclone was carrying vast amounts of moisture from the Pacific up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km) away.

Climate change’s fingerprints are on U.S. Midwest floods: scientists | News | The Mighty 790 KFGO

It has been the coldest February/March on record in Nebraska so far. (Average temperatures will rise a little before the end of the month, and may move this year out of the coldest spot.)

Sea surface temperatures are mostly below normal west of the US.  The claims by the climate scientists have no basis in reality, which is standard practice for their profession.

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Nebraska has a long history of floods.

The 1935 Nebraska flood killed more than 100 people and was associated with the world record rainfalls in Texas and Colorado.

03 Jun 1935, Page 1 – Great Falls Tribune at Newspapers.com

On May 31, 1935 Woodward Ranch, Texas set the world record with 22 inches of rain in less than three hours.

Colorado got nearly that much rain a few hours earlier.

Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book – Christopher C. Burt – Google Books

1940 Nebraska flood

05 Jun 1940, 1 – Fremont Tribune at Newspapers.com

1941 Nebraska flood.

10 Jun 1941, Page 1 – Lincoln Journal Star at Newspapers.com

1947 Nebraska flood

26 Jun 1947, 1 – Sioux City Journal at Newspapers.com

1950 Nebraska flood.

11 May 1950, 1 – The Columbus Telegram at Newspapers.com

1951 Nebraska flood

15 Jul 1951, Page 62 – The Lincoln Star at Newspapers.com

1962 Nebraska flood.

27 Mar 1962, 1 – Lincoln Journal Star at Newspapers.com

1963 Nebraska flood

27 Jun 1963, Page 10 – Las Vegas Daily Optic at Newspapers.com

1978 Nebraska flood

28 Mar 1978, 6 – The Lincoln Star at Newspapers.com

Climate science and journalism – all lies, all the time.

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March 23, 2019 at 02:19AM

There’s only one problem with intermittent wind and solar, at scale they’ve never worked and never will. Sure, powering an isolated farm house or pumping water for livestock with a few solar panels makes practical and economic sense. But that’s not what’s being rammed down our throats, and massively subsidised at our expense, at the … Continue reading Wind & Solar Reality Check: Why Intermittent & Unreliable Renewables Can’t Save the Planet

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March 23, 2019 at 01:31AM