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As Retirement Approaches…

Since I’ve been getting questions about my retirement plans, I decided it’s time to address what I know so far.

John Christy will be retiring from UAH July 2026. Because my funding has been tied to his projects (including the Alabama Office of the State Climatologist, which he heads), there is a good chance I will also be retiring on or before that date.

The main issue with me continuing employment past his retirement date is the lack of funding from the federal government. We had a Department of Energy contract, but it is ending and we have very few friends in Washington since we remain on the “wrong side” of the science. The peer review process (which determines what proposals the government will fund) has been stacked against us for many years making it almost impossible to get funded to investigate the issues we believe are important to the climate debate.

It’s a little ironic that even though both John and I are “lukewarmers” that’s just not alarmist enough for us to be allowed to play in the climate sandbox with the big dogs (sorry for the mixed metaphor).

John and I still need to discuss how to keep the monthly satellite temperature updates going (if possible). There are three of us contributing to this effort. Danny Braswell (retired from UAH, but working part time) has been trying to get the newer ATMS instruments folded into our processing, but downloading the historical data is taking forever due to NOAA limitations on the number of files that can be requested on a daily basis. Also, much of the software had to be re-written to handle the differences between the AMSU and ATMS instruments scan geometries. John Christy is a good planner, and I’m hopeful we can work out something to keep the global temperature updates going, keeping in mind none of us is getting any younger.

On that subject, I am often asked if there are new, young researchers who can take our place. The problem is that their careers depend upon getting those same federal contracts we depended upon. Unfortunately, any projects that smell like climate skepticism are generally not funded, and young researchers will likely hurt their careers if they are considered to be replacements for John or me.

It has been many years since we received funding specifically to support the global temperature monitoring effort. The Remote Sensing System satellite temperature monitoring effort has much more funding success due to (in my opinion) Frank Wentz’s long-term, close friendship with one of NASA’s top managers. It helps to have friends in high places.

I will keep everyone updated as I learn more. Personally, I would like to continue the work I have started (especially the urban heat island work) if possible. Staying working, even part-time, helps keep me sane… I need to keep my mind active.

But advancing any science that doesn’t support global warming being a “crisis” remains an uphill battle. Several months before his death, Rush Limbaugh told me he thought we were losing that battle. But I’m willing to continue to fight it, anyway. I’m old enough to remember when the Soviet Union was believed to be an ever-present danger to the world that would never end, and yet it imploded. Maybe one day climate alarmism will suffer the same fate.

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October 26, 2024 at 07:00AM

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Prepare For Blackouts, Say Energy Networks

By Paul Homewood

They’re starting to get worried now:

 

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The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has launched a winter campaign to help UK households prepare for possible power cuts.

The campaign focuses on three steps: “prepare, care, share.”

The goal is to help people know what to do if power is lost during the winter months.

As part of the campaign, the ENA encourages people to sign up for the Priority Services Register.

This service is for households with young children, older adults, those with medical conditions, or others who may need extra support.

While the service cannot prevent power cuts, it aims to offer more information and help during planned work or unexpected outages.

The “prepare” step includes advice on making a plan in case of a power cut.

People are encouraged to keep mobile phones charged and to report power issues online or by calling the free emergency number, 105.

The PowerCut105 website has more tips.

The “care” step focuses on checking in with neighbours, friends, and family who may need help during a power cut.

The ENA advises signing up for the Priority Services Register if eligible, which can be done through energy suppliers or network operators.

The “share” step involves passing on this information.

The campaign encourages people to use social media and other methods to share advice so that more households are ready for winter.

https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/10/23/energy-networks-urge-winter-readiness-across-uk/

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October 26, 2024 at 05:16AM

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Almondsbury WMO 03930 – A modern standard.

51.55156 -2.55941 Met Office assessed CIMO Class 2 Installed 27/3/2018

I follow up my previous review of Craibstone No 2 with Almondsbury to demonstrate what I previously highlighted as double standards operating at the Met Office. Craibstone was relocated to a completely new site in 2021 whilst Almondsbury was newly installed in 2018. The Craibstone Screen now sits 100 metres off a minor road in rural north Scotland, the Almondsbury screen is located by the M4/M5 motorway interchange just to the north of Bristol. Craibstone is assessed as almost as bad as it gets (Class 4) whilst Almondsbury is conversely rated almost as good as it gets (Class 2) and is a World Meteorological Organisation reporting site. How realistic is all this?

Firstly this is the most recent image from google street view as seen from the M5 motorway.

As in the case of Craibstone, the immediate location of Almondsbury is flat (in the latter case due to artificial excavation of the immediate area for reasons evident below) but there is a surrounding slope which rises 13 metres over a distance of 150 metres from 74 metres amsl at the station to a spot height of 87m. The slopes at both sites are comparable.

Craibstone sits 100 metres away from a minor country lane, whilst Almondsbury lies approximately 100 metres from the M5 eastbound carriageway as below.

Craibstone has a few agricultural experimental trial fields surrounding the rural site whilst Almondsbury not only has a significant area of hard-standing by it and a major Urban Heat Island to the south but is also home to a National Police Air Service helicopter base.

https://flightsim.to/file/30992/gb-0838-almondsbury-bristol-npas-gwaa-heli-base

The screen is to the left of the wind sock just north of the hard standing in the image above and is also visible in the image below just to the right of the wind sock…..and there are rather a lot of helicopters regularly operating in the vicinity. Obviously there are imperative reasons for having a weather station reporting immediate weather conditions here – that is beyond dispute. Whether or not data from such an unnatural location should contribute to the ongoing historic nation temperature record is seriously debateable.

I welcome anyone’s views on this seeming different interpretations of standards. For my part I fail to understand how the new Almondsbury site can be so highly rated with Craibstone so poorly. Furthermore why are both Almondsbury and the almost comical Craibstone neighbouring site of Dyce considered worthy of WMO reporting?

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October 26, 2024 at 05:08AM

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Climate Change Committee Tells UK Government that Pace of National Suicide Needs to Quicken – Part Deux

The UK needs to make huge cuts to people’s wellbeing this decade to keep its national suicide plan on track, the government’s climate watchdog has said.

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) says the UK has sufficient stupidity to do this, but that meeting the goal would require wasting much more of our money on renewable energy, electric cars and heat pumps.

While the UK has already cut its people’s wealth and freedom to less than 50% of its 2002 peak value, the CCC says it should reduce this to 19% by 2035, which would make a “vital contribution” to the target of international civilizational destruction by 2050.

A spokesperson said the government would carefully consider the CCC’s advice.

If the government commits to the suggested target, it would represent a significant advance on the UK’s current international pledge to cut lifestyles to 32% of their peak level by 2030.

It is, however, broadly in line with the UK’s self-imposed “legally-binding” wealth-cutting path towards national suicide by 2050.

Since these figures do not include products manufactured abroad and imported, the worst harms to ordinary people in the UK have so far been avoided. However, Greendeath, Enemies of the People, and Climate Action Network UK (CANKER) are demanding that this accounting loophole is rapidly closed.

The UK’s relatively successful path towards self-destruction so far has been largely down to installing large quantities of expensive electricity generators that only produce power when the UK’s notably fickle weather is cooperating. Progress in other areas, such as forcing old people to sit in cold houses in the evening, is proving more difficult.

For now, the UK’s people are thankfully apathetic to their worsening conditions.

“It’s like boiling a frog,” the CCC’s spokesperson said. “You don’t just throw it in hot water. You slowly, slowly, turn up the heat.”

And the CCC is confident that the UK’s targets are still possible.

“All the core money pits have got bigger, and they keep getting bigger, and that’s what gives us more and more confidence that we’ll be able to achieve this very ambitious date for national suicide, as long as the frogs, er people, remain apathetic,” a member of the CCC told the BBC.

‘Mutual suicide pact leadership’ ahead of COP29

As part of global agreements on self-impoverishment, countries have to decide whether to join the UK in a mutual suicide pact, or to continue to prioritise the health and prosperity of their citizens, by early next year.

But the government is expected to announce its new national target early, at the upcoming UN civilisational suicide conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan in November.

It hopes this will set the ball rolling and encourage other nations to follow the UK’s death cult leadership.

“Britain is back in the business of global suicide leadership,” a spokesperson for the Department for Energy Atrophy and Zero Fun (DENAZIFY) said. “But we want others to join ASAP, because if they see how well it goes for us, they might change their minds!”

The focus of COP29, though, will be on poor people’s money in richer countries.

There are hopes for a new deal on the funds that these richer countries should give away to corrupt third-world regimes. The guilt-wracked opinion formers of richer countries are easy to tap for their lower class’s money.

The CCC is calling for the UK to show international leadership by committing more of its poor peoples’ money to be squandered on foreign dictators’ palaces in line with its global suicide leadership ambitions.

It also says that the government should improve its preparations for the impacts of rising poverty and despair back home.

“The frogs might start squeaking,” a DENAZIFY spokesperson told the BBC. “And we have to be ready to shut them up quick.”

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With apologies to Mark Poynting.

The original is here.

My report on the first call of the CCC to quicken national suicide is here.

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October 26, 2024 at 04:37AM