The shortest or longest day
The point where the tilt peaks is at 6:50am EST Australia which is 4:50pm Thursday in New York.
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June 20, 2024 at 09:38AM
Month: June 2024
By Paul Homewood
You may recall me writing a couple of weeks ago about the Met Office weather station at Neatishead, Norfolk, which happened to set the highest temperature of the day in the UK at the time.
Ray Sanders discovered that it had only opened in December 2022, and asked the Met Office for its WMO classification.
They have now confirmed as Class 4, which has an error margin of 2C.
This raised a very serious issue. Why is the Met Office introducing new weather stations into its network that are of such low quality?
It is one thing using stations that have been around for decades. But surely only high quality sites should be acceptable for inclusion from now on?
Someone with a suspicious mind might think they are deliberately adding these junk sites simply to make current UK temperatures artificially higher!
I have an FOI out now, which asks for start dates for all stations, so we can see just how many new ones there really are.
We do already know, of course, that the Met Office has been busy adding new sites in recent years which record much higher wind speeds (Needles, Brizlee Wood etc), and much higher rainfall (Honister).
And this is the same Met Office which still refuses to correct the fake information fed to the BBC one of their senior meteorologists in January, that storms are more intense because of climate change.
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June 20, 2024 at 08:29AM
By Robert Bradley Jr.
“A Clean Energy Transition should be occurring but not with the RECKLESS STUPIDITY enhancing the possibility of Trump Again!” (Robert Bibbo, below)
Robert Bibbo, self-described environmental energy analyst and observer, lamented a while back on the growing popularity of Trump relative to President Biden. He stated:
This New York Times Poll Shows Trump Leading in 5 Battleground States. A Point In Time Not Election Day Certainty. Nevertheless! Never Ever Trumpers Should be Concerned.
Bibbo then brought in some historical analysis:
In 2016 The Democratic Brain Trust saddled Hilary with a Clean Power Plant 1 War on Coal. Krugman opines 2x (NYTs) that CPP 1 delivered PA, MI & WI (46 EC votes) to elect Trump45. In 2020 those 46 votes elected Biden. Heading into 2024 the Brain Trust has saddled Biden with a Clean Power Plan 2 War on Fossil Fuels. Add the reasonable chance of midwest grid failures Trump Again is much too real. A Clean Energy Transition should be occurring but not with the RECKLESS STUPIDITY enhancing the possibility of Trump Again! And just like CPP1, CPP2 has no chance to become law.
There is a bit of a civil war with some climate alarmists warning to go slow for political reasons. But doesn’t Bibbo know that the climate is in crisis and the emergency is HERE? Biden, Kerry, and Gore said it. The United Nations said it. Scientist Andrew Dessler said it….
But maybe climate politics is about more that just ‘saving the planet’. Maybe it is about money and power, the Climate Industrial Complex, bleeding prosperity but at a pace that the subjects do not rebel.
I responded:
Ending the transition with an apology would be the best course of action for the Democrats. After all, wind, solar, and batteries are hardly environmental, not only uneconomic.
Joseph Toomey added:
There is no way your “Clean Energy Transition” can occur without “reckless stupidity.” … Add in the fact that the economy will be in FAR WORSE shape one year from now, together with the fact that pollsters like Times/Siena routinely over-sample Democrats in their raw data adjustment process, and these polling disadvantages will likely only grow.
No response from Bibbo, but I think he is on to something that will fully germinate in November.
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June 20, 2024 at 08:04AM
By Paul Homewood
Much gnashing of teeth at the Guardian!
I don’t know why anybody should be surprised by any of this. Anyone with an ounce of common sense could have predicted this years ago.
Most of the world are not bothered about climate change – their priorities are economic growth and improving living standards for their people.
And even in the West we are discovering that reducing emissions is a very slow and extremely expensive process.
Governments may make grandiose promises at COPs, but time after time the real world trumps them.
The report from the Energy Institute is the latest annual update of what used to be the BP Energy Review. The highlights are:
- CO2 emissions are up 1.6% year-on-year
- Fossil fuel consumption is also up, by 1.5%
- Primary energy consumption up 2.0%
- Wind and solar power only account for 6.0% of total energy, up from 5.3% in 2022
Below are the key charts:
https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review/resources-and-data-downloads
It must be painfully apparent, even to the Milibands of the world, that the rich OECD countries are rapidly becoming irrelevant in overall terms. Whatever sacrifices we make, the rest of the world will carry on with business as usual.
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June 20, 2024 at 07:51AM
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