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via JoNova
May 11, 2025 at 09:48AM
Somewhere there may be a line to draw between local schemes, e.g. cloud seeding, and large-scale attempts to influence the weather. But the chances of big schemes to interfere with the sun’s rays being counter-productive or just plain going wrong, and/or a waste of money, are high. Also what suits some countries may not suit others. Meanwhile, the UK’s ‘experiments agency’ ARIA wades in with a £57 million bet.
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Das deutsche Umweltbundesamt (UBA), the German Environment Agency recently published a report stating: “The use and technical deployment of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) is to be rejected. SRM can neither preserve the current climate nor restore the preindustrial climate. Instead, it would create an unpredictable new global climate with significant regional impacts.”
Acknowledged in the paper is the SRM threat to water availability, food security, and ecosystems, says ZeroGeoengineering.com.
The brochure presents SRM as theoretical technologies, while at the same time admitting that the “distinction between research in the context of outdoor experiments and deployment is often blurred in the case of SRM, as it primarily involves the testing of technologies.”
Central in the discussion of SRM is the matter of governance. When honestly evaluated, the only appropriate SRM governance is prohibition.
— 1. Polluting, via SRM or other scheme is a crime.
— 2. The public does not consent to SRM.
— 3. Legitimate governance requires the consent of the governed.
— 4. Therefore the only valid governance option of SRM is prohibition.
Full article here.
via Tallbloke’s Talkshop
May 11, 2025 at 08:49AM
By Paul Homewood
At midday today, solar power was supplying 11.2 GW out of a total demand of 28.27 GW. (This is after adding back solar, which normally appears as a reduction in demand, because it is embedded generation).
Mad Miliband plans to triple the current solar capacity of 16 GW by 2030. So on a sunny day like today in 2030, we might see solar power running at 33 GW. You can add to that figure solar power from all the rooftops he wants to make compulsory for new homes.
Now call be dim – but demand of 28 GW and solar power of 33 GW might cause a few problems for the grid! On top of that 33 GW, you also have nuclear, which cannot be simply turned on and off, and wind power, much of which is also embedded and out of reach of the NESO to control.
It is one thing paying a couple of large wind farms to switch off. But you cannot do the same with embedded generation, because they come under the control of regional distribution networks.
Few solar farms have battery storage, and in any event you could not rely on individual solar farms from sending their power to storage rather then the grid.
The idiots in charge of energy policy doubtless think we can export surplus power, but Europe won’t want it either, because their grids will also be overloaded in summer with solar power.
Which brings us back to the Spanish blackouts.
Excess solar power will quickly destabilise the grid, leading to the same doom loop as in Spain. Generators and substations will trip out, nuclear will immediately shut down for safety reasons and grid frequency will drop to dangerous levels. This then leads to a domino effect.
Without any gas power, there will not be enough inertia to give time for system operators to react. Not that that will make any difference, because there is nothing they could do to save the grid from collapse.
via NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
May 11, 2025 at 08:21AM
Much to the consternation of climate alarmist media, Wright seems to have a good grasp of the issues and is working in his capacity as Secretary of Energy to enact policies not driven by the misplaced and unwarranted fear that humans are causing catastrophic climate change. Instead, Wright is working to advance U.S. and global prosperity on the basis of a factual assessment of energy and climate change realities. Colorado Public Radio should be applauded for publishing Wrights views without much slant.
via Watts Up With That?
May 11, 2025 at 08:03AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 