Plastic recycling claims are deceptive and destructive. Wind and solar waste – never mind.
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October 31, 2024 at 11:09AM
Month: October 2024
By Paul Homewood
I came across this footage of the 1957 floods in Valencia. There does not seem to be any film of the floods themselves – no doubt the authorities had more things to worry about back then!
But the aftermath shows the absolute devastation.
There is also a bit at the end on wildfires around Sydney.
All pre-climate change!
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October 31, 2024 at 10:23AM
By Paul Homewood
The Grid companies now seem to be getting serious about the risk of blackouts this winter.
I got this today:
To simply use “bad weather” as an excuse is just silly. We have bad weather every year, and we often experience blackouts for short periods for all sorts of reasons.
They are an annoyance but nothing more. The telly goes off along with the computer. But the worst thing is next door’s alarm going off!
But we don’t get these well coordinated warnings.
But clearly these minor events are not what Northern Powergrid have in mind. Instead it appears they are worried about major outages when we simply don’t have enough power to go round.
I wonder why?
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October 31, 2024 at 10:17AM
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
Yet more lies from the BBC:
The area of land surface affected by extreme drought has trebled since the 1980s, a new report into the effects of climate change has revealed.
Forty-eight per cent of the Earth’s land surface had at least one month of extreme drought last year, according to analysis by the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change – up from an average of 15% during the 1980s.
Almost a third of the world – 30% – experienced extreme drought for three months or longer in 2023. In the 1980s, the average was 5%.
The new study offers some of the most up-to-date global data on drought, marking just how fast it is accelerating.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvje458rvo
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However, go behind the headlines and you will see that is not a simple matter of blaming climate change. In reality, the lack of water is largely down to how humans use the land:
But this does not prevent the BBC blaming climate change:
The report goes on to give the example of South Sudan:
Which is all very strange, since precipitation there has increased since the 1980, and is now back to levels seen between 1900 and 1960:
We are familiar with these junk studies from the Lancet, and this one at first sight looks just as bad.
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October 31, 2024 at 10:06AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 