Mercury will go down even further.

Winter has knocked in North India including Delhi. Scientists from the Meteorological Department of India (IMD) said the national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 12.5C on Thursday.

According to IMD, the normal minimum temperature at this time of the year is 15–16C. Kuldeep Srivastava, head of IMD’s regional forecasting center, said the last low temperature in Delhi in October was recorded in 1994.

On October 31, 1994, the city’s minimum temperature was recorded at 12.3C. On October 31, 1937, the city recorded its lowest temperature of the month – 9.4C.

The minimum temperature is likely to be around 12 ° C in the next two-three days.

IMD scientist said that the minimum temperature is likely to fall to 11C in Delhi by 1 November.

https://www.sott.net/article/443645-26-year-October-cold-record-broken-in-Delhi-India

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October 31, 2020 at 11:21AM

Video – Temperatures 40 to 50 degrees below normal across the state.

27 Oct 2020 – NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Record-breaking winter storm continues overnight for parts of New Mexico bringing more snow and cold.

Bracing for a second night of record cold across the entire state

More than a foot of snow in some areas.

Broke record cold high temperatures across the entire state.

https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/record-breaking-snow-cold-continues-overnight-and-into-wednesday/

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October 31, 2020 at 11:00AM

Existing Sizewell B nuclear power station

The cost would be a drop in the bucket compared to proposed spending on non-nuclear ‘green’ energy, in futile attempts to influence the weather.
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The government is close to giving the green light to a new nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk, says BBC News (via The GWPF).

The BBC has learned that talks with the Sizewell contractor, EDF, have intensified in recent weeks.

This comes after the collapse of projects in Anglesey and Cumbria when Japanese firms Hitachi and Toshiba pulled out.

Government officials are insisting that it “remains committed to new nuclear”.

This commitment to new nuclear may be included as part of a 10-point government plan to be published in early November.

That plan is expected ahead of a detailed government white paper in late November which will attempt to set out the course of UK energy policy for decades to come.

Unions have warned that a failure to transfer jobs, skills and new opportunities from the current project under construction at Hinkley Point in Somerset to Sizewell in Suffolk would put thousands of high skilled jobs at risk.

The details of how new reactors at Sizewell will be paid for are still being hammered out.

The government is considering taking an ownership stake and consumers may see a small addition to their bills to pay for the project as it is being built, in order to drive down the costs of financing a project that may cost up to £20bn and take about 10 years to build.

The bigger the government stake, the smaller the call on consumers to “pay as you go” for the development and construction costs.

This funding model has been treated with suspicion before, as opponents say it transfers the risk of delays and budget overruns from the contractor to the consumer and the taxpayer.

However, the BBC understands that the fact Sizewell C is a carbon copy of Hinkley – which has seen work on a second reactor there completed 30% more quickly than the first – is thought to have substantially mitigated that risk.

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October 31, 2020 at 09:15AM

  Economic growth is bad for the climate, Europe’s Science Academies claim

GWPF, 30 October 2020
 
Europe’s main science academies reveal their anti-growth agenda

 
Europe faces a catastrophic economic crisis and tens of millions of redundancies as a result of the political measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, there is growing tension among policy makers between saving the economy and economic growth or saving Europe’s costly climate agenda.

In her speech to the United Nations last year, the eco-socialist activist Greta Thunberg denounced world leaders for their main focus on what she called “the fairy tale of eternal economic growth.” Her anti-growth attack didn’t come as a surprise. After all, critical observers have always known that this kind of radical climate activism is driven by an anti-capitalist agenda.
 
Now Europe’s main scientific body, the European Academies Science Advisory Council (which comprises of the National Academies of Science of EU Member States, plus Norway, Switzerland and UK), has followed in Greta’s footsteps, hitting out against policy makers and governments who prioritise economic growth.

“Generation Greta gets it. Our focus should be on well-being and welfare, but our economic system puts all focus on growth and GDP which adds fuel to the climate and biodiversity crises.”
 
That’s how the European Academies Science Advisory Council press release highlights the main take of its report that calls for “‘transformational’ change that is necessary if policy-makers and their public (sic) are to support the conclusions of the advocates of change.”
 
The capture of Europe’s scientific institutions and organisations by degrowth ideologues is a tragic reflection on the state of green ideology which is bringing institutional science ever more into disrepute.
 

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October 31, 2020 at 09:06AM