The Lunatics Are In Charge
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July 4 2008
The madness nears:
REGIONS hardest hit by the new emissions trading regime would win
government handouts and industries investing in clean power would be
rewarded, but the landmark Garnaut report on climate change rules out
compensating coal-fired power stations.
So workers are to get not a wage but a handout, and private operaters of
power plants are to be left to go broke, their assets suddenly stripped
of tens of millions billions in value:
Despite dire warnings from electricity generators and state premiers
about black-outs, bankruptcies and spiralling power bills, Professor
Garnaut remains unconvinced by the argument that electricity generators
should be compensated for the diminished value of their assets under the
new carbon regime.
As-yet unreleased modelling by power generators suggests that three out
of the four brown-coal power stations in Victoria's Latrobe Valley would
close by 2020 and that household power prices would increase by 50 per
cent under modest cuts in greenhouse emissions.
Good plan for a flagellant. Won't slash our emissions by Rudd's 60 pcer
cent, though, or persuade the world to join us in suicide.
Meanwhile, still unmentioned is that the world hasn't actually heated
for a decade. Get the impression the world has gone mad with an
apocalyptic new faith?
UPDATE
I suspect the coal-mining members of the Left-wing CFMEU are finally
figuring that the global-warming preachers leading their union are just
turkeys voting for Christmas:
There was no division in Gippsland when it came to the electoral booths
affected by brown-coal mining - that is the dirtiest coal - because they
all voted against Labor, including traditional ALP booths.
UPDATE 2
Michelle Grattan thinks it's a cheap shot to oppose a global warming
"solution'' that won't work, will hurt and isn't needed:
(The) Liberals will repeatedly face a choice: do they opt for expediency
or judge according to the soundness of the policy? The emissions trading
scheme, due to start 2010, election year, will tempt them to be
opportunistic...
And has she used the right word?
Nelson's populist promise of a five-cent excise cut on petrol
discombobulated the Government (while appalling many commentators).
Shouldn't "while" be "therefore"? And guess which commentator in
particular Grattan means by "many".
UPDATE 3
Rudd should reconsider his expensive plan to switch to renewable power
after this warning in Britain:
Wind power would be too unreliable to meet Britain's electricity needs,
according to a new report. It comes after the Government last week
unveiled a £100 million plan to build at least 4,000 wind turbines, with
a further 3,000 offshore. The programme is expected to drive household
bills up by £260 a year.
Using wind data from the Met Office, researchers found that in January,
when energy demand is highest, wind farms often fail to produce enough
electricity, dropping on occasion to 4 per cent of their maximum output.
Backup fossil fuel plants would need to be switched on and off to make
up the shortfall in supplies - a highly inefficient process that would
reduce any carbon savings from wind farms....
In January 2005, ... a 1,000MW fossil fuel plant would have had to come
on and offline a total of 23 times to make up the shortfall. At 6pm on
February 2 2006 - the point of peak electricity demand for the whole
year - wind farms would have been unable to provide any power at all,
researchers found.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/2008/07/
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
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http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/index.html
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"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for
anything except for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree
panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
"What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the
only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes"
Dr. Richard Lindzen
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately
forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen
chemist
> --
>
> Warmest Regards
>
> Bonzo
>
> Get The TRUE Facts At
> http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/index.html
>
> Excellent Links At
> http://www.warwickhughes.com/
>
> "...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for
> anything except for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree
> panic us"
> Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
> National Academy of Sciences
>
> "What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the
> only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes"
> Dr. Richard Lindzen
>
> [most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
> untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately
> forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen
When CO2 is proved to be innocent will Professor Garnaut or the
government
compensate them for their loss of livelihood ?
The Generators should spend some money on research and take their
concerns to court.
Their is plenty of evidence that CO2 is increased by increasing
temperature, and that all experimental demonstrations of the
Greenhouse effect are scientifically flawed.
V for Vendicar
ScienceDaily (Apr. 19, 2008) - The average global land temperature last
month
was the warmest on record and ocean surface temperatures were the 13th
warmest.
Combining the land and the ocean temperatures, the overall global
temperature
ranked the second warmest for the month of March. Global temperature
averages
have been recorded since 1880.
An analysis by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center shows that the average
temperature for March in the contiguous United States ranked near average
for
the past 113 years. It was the 63rd warmest March since record-keeping began
in
the United States in 1895.
Global Highlights
The global land surface temperature was the warmest on record for March,
3.3°F
above the 20th century mean of 40.8°F. Temperatures more than 8°F above
average covered much of the Asian continent. Two months after the greatest
January snow cover extent on record on the Eurasian continent, the
unusually
warm temperatures led to rapid snow melt, and March snow cover extent on
the
Eurasian continent was the lowest on record.
The global surface (land and ocean surface) temperature was the second
warmest
on record for March in the 129-year record, 1.28°F above the 20th century
mean
of 54.9°F. The warmest March on record (1.33°F above average) occurred in
2002.
Although the ocean surface average was only the 13th warmest on record, as
the
cooling influence of La Niña in the tropical Pacific continued, much
warmer
than average conditions across large parts of Eurasia helped push the
global
average to a near record high for March.
Despite above average snowpack levels in the U.S., the total Northern
Hemisphere snow cover extent was the fourth lowest on record for March,
remaining consistent with boreal spring conditions of the past two
decades, in
which warming temperatures have contributed to anomalously low snow cover
extent.
Some weakening of La Niña, the cold phase of the El Niño-Southern
Oscillation,
occurred in March, but moderate La Niña conditions remained across the
tropical Pacific Ocean.
U.S. Temperature Highlights
In the contiguous United States, the average temperature for March was
42°F,
which was 0.4°F below the 20th century mean, ranking it as the 63rd
warmest
March on record, based on preliminary data.
Only Rhode Island, New Mexico and Arizona were warmer than average, while
near-average temperatures occurred in 39 other states. The monthly
temperature
for Alaska was the 17th warmest on record, with an average temperature
3.8°F
above the 1971-2000 mean.
The broad area of near-average temperatures kept the nation's overall
temperature-related residential energy demand for March near average,
based on
NOAA's Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index.
U.S. Precipitation Highlights
Snowpack conditions dropped in many parts of the West in March, but in
general, heavy snowfall during December-February has left the western snow
pack among the healthiest in more than a decade, with most locations near
to
above average.
Nine states from Oklahoma to Vermont were much wetter than average, with
Missouri experiencing its second wettest March on record. Much of the
month's
precipitation fell March 17-20, when an intense storm system moved slowly
from
the southern Plains through the southern Midwest.
Rainfall amounts in a 48-hour period totaled 13.84 inches in Cape
Girardeau,
Mo., and 12.32 inches in Jackson, Mo. The heavy rainfall combined with
previously saturated ground resulted in widespread major flooding of
rivers
and streams from the Missouri Ozarks eastward into southern Indiana.
From March 7-9, eight to 12 inches of snow fell from Louisville, Ky., to
central Ohio. In Columbus, an all-time greatest 24-hour snowfall of 15.5
inches broke the old record of 12.3 inches set on April 4, 1987.
In the Southeast, a powerful tornado moved through downtown Atlanta on
March
14, causing significant damage to many buildings. This was one of 90
tornado
reports from the Southeast in March.
Rainfall in the middle of March improved drought conditions in much of the
Southeast, but moderate-to-extreme drought still remained in more than 59
percent of the region.
In the western U.S., the weather pattern in March bore a greater
resemblance
to a typical La Niña, with especially dry conditions across Utah, Arizona,
Nevada, and California. March was extremely dry in much of California,
tying
as the driest in 68 years at the Sacramento airport with 0.05 inches, a
2.75
inch departure from average.