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November 17, 2024 at 08:06AM
Author: Iowa Climate Science Education
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
Yet another climate lie from the BBC:
When dangerous weather is forecast, a weather warning will be issued.
The warnings are provided by the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service – and are designed to help us plan ahead and stay safe from the hazardous impacts of severe weather.
Eight different types of weather are covered: rain, snow, wind, thunderstorms, lightning, fog, ice, and extreme heat.
Extreme heat warnings are the newest type. They were introduced in 2021, as a response to our changing climate and the effects that heat can have on our health and infrastructure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c870n009jrgo
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That final sentence is an outright lie – it was not introduced as a response to changing climate. As for the ridiculous comment about “heat”, why is a warning now being issued about snow?
But don’t take my word for it – this is what the Met Office themselves say about their warnings:
History of Met Office weather warnings
The National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS) began in 1988 as a threshold-based service following the Great Storm of 1987. This service involved Met Office meteorologists monitoring the weather and issuing warnings when certain weather thresholds, or levels, were reached.
As the service evolved over the years, we researched and listened to feedback from our broad range of users including emergency responders, members of the public and the media. It became clear that people did not need to know if there would be 40 mm of rain, for example, but instead it was more important for them to know how weather conditions would affect them. Based on this feedback from our users, we moved to an impact-based warning service in 2011.
In 2015, we again carried out more research, going back to the emergency responders, members of the public and the media with two aims. Firstly, we wanted to benchmark the warning service, making sure that it was continuing to work effectively and efficiently and serving the different needs of our various users. Secondly, we wanted to identify any potential improvements.
Feedback from this research focussed our work around two key areas: increasing the scope of the weather warnings and improving the way we communicate severe weather and impacts.
What changed?
Fundamentally, our warnings have not changed; we continue to issue them when the combination of severe weather impacts and the likelihood of these impacts occurring meet the criteria for a warning. However, we have enhanced the way users can access, understand and use our warnings.
We have improved the visual design of warnings across all of our channels from our website and app to Hazard Manager, a specialist product used by emergency responders.
We have also done lots of work behind the scenes bringing greater resilience to our production system as well as improving the efficiency and speed at which warnings can be prepared, issued and delivered.
In short, weather warnings were officially introduced in 1988, and have evolved over time to improve the way they are comminicated.
Another complaint will be winging its way to the BBC this afternoon!
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November 17, 2024 at 07:46AM
I think we are about to see an even starker contrast between the USA energy policy and that of the UK. They will be reducing energy prices while ours will be increasing even more steeply. Of course Ed Miliband claims our electricity prices will drop as a result of increased wind, but I am very doubtful. Time will tell!
Trump’s New Energy Secretary | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
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November 17, 2024 at 06:55AM
By Paul Homewood
Drill, bay, drill!!
Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary called net zero a “sinister goal” and was once censored by LinkedIn for posting a video of his views on climate policy.
Chris Wright, an oil executive and staunch defender of fossil fuels, is also known for drinking fracking fluid that includes bleach on camera to prove it is safe.
Mr Wright, the founder and chief executive of Denver-based Liberty Energy, is expected to spearhead Mr Trump’s “drill baby drill” plans to increase oil and gas production and seek new ways to boost energy.
A climate sceptic who has filed lawsuits opposing climate disclosure rules, Mr Wright has called climate activists alarmist and has likened efforts by Democrats to combat global warming to Soviet-style communism.
In 2019, he made headlines when he drank a fracking fluid cocktail containing a collection of chemicals, which he knocked back with colleagues after toasting the “long lives and healthier lives of billions of people all around the world from oil and gas”.
Last year, he was briefly censored by LinkedIn for posting a video in which he said: “There is no climate crisis and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”
‘Destructive deceptions’
During the 12-minute video, he said that the terms climate crisis, energy transition, carbon pollution, clean energy and dirty energy are all “destructive deceptions” that cause children anxiety.
Mr Wright went on to say that “we have seen no increase in the frequency of hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts or floods” as a result of climate change – a claim that is widely disputed.
The social media platform took the video down, claiming it violated its policy on spam and scams, before restoring it the next day, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Mr Wright, who does not have any political experience, has written extensively on the need for more fossil fuel production to lift people out of poverty.
He has stood out among oil and gas executives for his confrontational, freewheeling style.
In a keynote address to oil and gas industry figures earlier this year, Mr Wright has said “there’s no such thing as renewable energy”, adding that the target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 is “sinister”.
“Net zero 2050: zero chance of this happening, but it’s actually a sinister goal because we spend an insane amount of money pretending we’re going to actually achieve this,” he said.
He added that the net result has been to “make energy more expensive, less reliable, and impoverish people”.
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November 17, 2024 at 05:20AM
