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Industrial-Scale Battery Storage of Wind & Solar Power Does Not Exist & May Never Exist

Industrial-Scale Battery Storage of Wind & Solar Power Does Not Exist & May Never Exist

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With the world now alive to the fact that entirely weather dependent wind and solar power will never stand on their own 2 feet; and that intermittency really does matter, renewables rent-seekers have been banging on about mega-batteries saving the day. Australia’s ‘wind power capital’, South Australia – having destroyed its once reliable and affordable … Continue reading Industrial-Scale Battery Storage of Wind & Solar Power Does Not Exist & May Never Exist

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June 15, 2017 at 02:31AM

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ANOTHER CLIMATE PREDICTION GOES BELLY UP

ANOTHER CLIMATE PREDICTION GOES BELLY UP

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In this article we see how a short term trend can be easily used to make quite wrong predictions for the longer term. This kind of thing is all too prevalent in the eagerness of climate alarmists to make out their case. But when the trend ends or changes they are left with egg on their faces.

    Not long ago California was in drought.
    Senator Barbara Boxer famously told us, “In California, we can just look out the window to see climate change’s impacts.”
    Sorry, Senator, science doesn’t work that way.
    Since then, of course, El Niño / La Niña current and weather patterns kept right on naturally doing their thing and California and the West experienced tremendous precipitation and replenished reservoirs from deep snow melt.
    Our weather, extreme or otherwise, remains well within the range of historic norms.
    According to a NASA study released Monday, climate computer models have been predicting a drier Earth than real-world observations show.
    “NASA and four universities compared climate data from 1995 to 2005 to 23 climate model simulations for the same period. More than 70 percent of the climate models underestimated the amount of rain compared to real world observations.”
    Although far from perfect, computer simulations can be very valuable for short-term meteorology, including such important applications as forecasting hurricane tracks.
    The climate, however, is incredibly chaotic and complex.
    Long-term climate simulations have never come close to being accurate.
    Global warming politics makes them worse.
    Computer simulations are currently not sufficiently reliable to be the main determinant of energy, economic or climate policy.
    They may never be.

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    June 15, 2017 at 01:30AM

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    Record snowmelt and raging rivers claim 21 lives

    Record snowmelt and raging rivers claim 21 lives

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    In Utah, California and Wyoming, raging rivers caused by heavy winter snowfall – record snowfall in some cases – have overflowed their banks and are expected to remain extremely dangerous for several more weeks.

    The rampaging rivers have claimed the lives of at least 21 people across the America’s West so far this season.

    With such hazardous conditions, officials have closed sections of rivers popular with swimmers, rafters and fishing enthusiasts.

    “The force of that water pounds people into rocks and sends them over waterfalls,” said Eric LaPrice, a U.S. Forest Service district ranger at the Giant Sequoia National Monument in central California.

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    June 14, 2017 at 09:00PM

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    Understanding multi-decadal global warming rate changes

    Understanding multi-decadal global warming rate changes

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    Maybe a glimmer of recognition for natural warming from the oceans here, while still believing that alleged man-made effects on air temperatures are somehow warming the water in a cyclical fashion. Could there be a hint of strained logic here? Phys.org reports.

    Despite persistently increasing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, the globally averaged surface temperature has shown distinct multi-decadal fluctuations since 1900, including two weak global warming slowdowns in the mid-20th century and early 21st century and two strong global warming accelerations in the early and late 20th century.

    The multi-decadal global warming rate changes are primarily attributed to multiple ocean surface temperature changes, according to research by Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Australian Bureau of Meteorology.


    It is the net impact of multiple ocean surface temperature changes, rather than a single ocean basin change, that plays a main driver for the multi-decadal global warming accelerations and slowdowns.

    Understanding and quantifying the respective role of individual ocean basin in the multi-decadal global warming accelerations and slowdowns, under the forcing of the sustained increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, could help achieve a more accurate estimate of the future global warming rate to better meet the global warming target of the Paris Accords—no more than 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels by 2100.

    The new finding of the importance of multiple ocean surface temperature changes to the multi-decadal global warming accelerations and slowdowns is supported by a set of computer modeling experiments, in which observed sea surface temperature changes are specified in individual ocean basins, separately. The results are published in Nature Climate Change.

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    June 14, 2017 at 05:09PM