Acknowledgements of Seditious Conspiracy

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All the following pictures and captions are from Desmogblog .  Find one caption which is not an evidence of Sedition (as defined in 18 U.S. Code, § 2384).

Gasland director Josh Fox filming an impromptu DisruptJ20 march, which was a movement meant to stymie Trump’s swearing in and related activities, on Inauguration Day.

 

Participants in a movement called DisruptJ20 take to the streets the night of Trump’s inauguration in an attempt to shut down activities related to it.

 

Participants in the DisruptJ20 movement, aimed at shutting down the inauguration and related activities, express their disapproval of several Trump Cabinet picks at the Washington Monument.

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June 20, 2017 at 06:27AM

Decarbonization poses risks to Europe’s grid operators says Moody’s

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By Paul Homewood

I do like contrasting headlines!

 

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Bloomberg would of course like you to believe that “investment” is good. In fact much of it will be money wasted, as replacement for perfectly good existing power capacity.

Meanwhile, it takes the credit risk company, Moody’s, to inject a bit of realism:

Europe’s drive to decarbonize its energy “poses long-term risks to the region’s regulated electricity and gas network operators” according to a new report from credit and risk company Moody’s Investors Service.

 

And the study states that Europe’s continued transition to renewables, particularly wind and solar, is prompting new business models, developing technology and evolving regulation that could all “potentially undermine the credit quality over time” of those network operators.

"The shift to renewables in Europe has thrown up different challenges for the region’s energy network operators, with the huge uptick in renewables-related investment into electricity networks posing execution risks, while the move to decarbonization casts doubt over the long-term use of natural gas and the networks that distribute it," said Stefanie Voelz, vice-president Senior Credit Officer at Moody’s.

Moody’s report also states that large scale energy network operators “may also be slow to adapt to the changing generation and consumption landscape, with electricity users becoming partially independent from the grid as they increasingly operate their own renewable generation and/or storage units. Furthermore, the growing electrification of transport or heating could significantly change network requirements.”

The report warns that these ongoing developments could lead to sector fragmentation, potentially threatening existing network operators. However, it adds that their role as system operators – whereby they coordinate the efficient use of power generated by widely-distributed, independent sources and ensure supply security on a wider level – may become more important.

Voelz said that the regulatory response to the renewables shift “will be key to the future evolution of the energy network sector, as the change in scope of activities in an environment of significant technological shift, may necessitate changes in the way European networks are remunerated and customers’ tariffs are set, if credit quality is to be maintained.”

Moody’s says that affordability will remain a key focus for network operators, as cost pressures increase on consumers. It also finds that with investment requirements remaining high, leading to growth in companies’ asset base beyond 2020, pressure on customer bills will rise. “As renewable subsidies continue to weigh on bills, affordability concerns could lead to deferral of cost and investment recovery for networks, a credit negative,” said Voelz.

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Modern society has been built upon a reliable, secure and affordable energy system.

Obsession with decarbonisation is now putting all of this at risk.

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June 20, 2017 at 06:03AM

History Channel’s Little Ice Age Documentary

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By Paul Homewood

 

 

 

 

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I have not seen this documentary about the Little Ice Age by the History Channel.

It is well worth a look, even if just for the first 20 minutes or so.

All the elements are there that most of us will be familiar with. Not just the cold and expanding glaciers, but the extreme and volatile weather, storms, floods, famine.

A reminder as well about how the MWP that preceded it was a golden period as far as the climate was concerned.

Possible causes of the LIA are discussed, such as solar radiation, volcanic activity and natural oceanic cycles.

I have not watched it through to the end, but gather from the comments that there is the usual plug about global warming at the end.

Nevertheless, whenever you hear anybody talk about the tiny increase in temperatures since the 19thC, show them this video and ask them to explain why it is not part of just a natural cycle.

Or for that matter, which climate they would prefer today.

Well worth a bookmark.

 

 

Also, don’t forget my two posts summarising Brian Fagan’s book on the Little Ice Age:

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June 20, 2017 at 05:03AM

1988 : The Start Of The Global Warming Scam

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The US experienced a severe heatwave and drought during the summer of 1988, the Mississippi River nearly dried up, one third of Yellowstone Park burned up, and it was the perfect time for James Hansen to start the global warming scam. He told Congress that he was 99% certain the heatwave was due to CO2, and that heatwaves would get much worse starting in the 1990’s.

Iowa was hot, so it wasn’t hard to get the useful idiots at the Des Moines Register on board with a front page headline declaring 1988 to be the hottest year ever, less than half way through the year.

24 Jun 1988, Page 1 – The Des Moines Register

05 Oct 1988, Page 2 – Arizona Daily Star

The days ahead of his testimony were record hot in the US. Late June temperatures had been plummeting in the US for 60 years, but the heat of 1988 provided the perfect opportunity for James Hansen to perjure himself before Congress and get his scam going.

Almost the entire country was over 90 degrees, and Iowa was over 100 degrees – which made the Des Moines Register easy pickings for a scam.

In order to really make sure they got the global warming scam going, Hansen and his fellow climate scamster Senator Tim Wirth  of Colorado sabotaged the air conditioning at Congress the night before the June 23 hearing.

we called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer. Well, it was June 6 or June 9 or whatever it was, so we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo: It was the hottest day on record in Washington, or close to it. It was stiflingly hot that summer. [At] the same time you had this drought all across the country, so the linkage between the Hansen hearing and the drought became very intense.

… What we did it was went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right? So that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room and so when the, when the hearing occurred there was not only bliss, which is television cameras in double figures, but it was really hot. …  So Hansen’s giving this testimony, you’ve got these television cameras back there heating up the room, and the air conditioning in the room didn’t appear to work. So it was sort of a perfect collection of events that happened that day, with the wonderful Jim Hansen, who was wiping his brow at the witness table and giving this remarkable testimony.

Interviews – Timothy Wirth | Hot Politics | FRONTLINE | PBS

By December of 1988, global temperatures had plummeted due to La Nina, which Hansen declared to be an unusual ocean current. Hansen was forced to back off his hottest year ever claim, so he replaced it with a claim that hurricanes would get 50% stronger.

Ellensburg Daily Record 

FEROCIOUS STORMS AND DROUGHT SEEN – NYTimes.com

Since then, both major hurricanes and droughts have plummeted in the US.

HURDAT Re-analysis

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

By 1999, it was obvious even to Hansen that his 1988 Congressional testimony was garbage.

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

Hansen was upset that the US was cooling.

His heat, hurricane and drought forecasts had failed, so Hansen got into a new business which became the basis of the ongoing scam – data tampering.

Without Hansen’s bold move into massive data tampering, the global warming scam would have been dead decades ago. Hansen quickly learned that he could use the trust NASA had built up during the Apollo program as cover to turn cooling into warming. All things become possible once a scientist makes the move into data tampering and fraud.

Make no mistake about it, the people behind this scam are criminals – not scientists. They have nothing but failed predictions and fraud in their past and present.

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June 20, 2017 at 04:11AM