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Australia’s new PM, when pushed, is a mini-Turnbull. The RET is the toxic renewable energy target, the guaranteed gift to unreliable, uneconomic performers. It’s the cancer on the system that makes the cheap generators die. At it’s best, the RET is theft through electricity bills to support industries in China in the hope that storms will be nicer in 2100. RET is safe, says Morrison Scott Morrison has assured key crossbenchers he will not dump renewable energy targets as he hedges against the possibility of the Coalition losing the Wentworth by-election and finding itself in minority government. Morrison’s hand is forced thanks to Malcolm Turnbull, because of the Wentworth byelection to be held October 20th. Turnbull didn’t have to resign in a one-seat majority government, but he did. When you look at how well his resignation works for the Labor Party and the green-freeloaders, how could he say “No”? Thanks to Turnbull being such a bad choice as PM, he lost so many seats he could barely form government, so every byelection now means the entire government is up for grabs. His “safe” seat is no longer safe. Labor are well ahead in the polls there on Wednesday. […] September 14th, 2018 | Tags: Australian Politics | Category: Global Warming, Politics |  Print This Post | | Someone leaked an in-house Google video to Breitbart. A couple of days after Donald Trump won the 2016 election the impartial and analytical monopoly team was doing group hugs, almost in tears, and doing psychoanalysis of how Trump and the fascist extremists won. In their expert opinion voters are irrational, and motivated by xenophobic fear or conversely boredom (which is a lot like fear, except for being the opposite. The Google team clearly have a good grip on the topic.). It’s a message of hate and ignorance. In Google-land half the US population are like extremists, have things in common with terrorists, and definitely didn’t have any legitimate concerns. Amazing how these brains had more access to search keywords and websites of Trump supporters than almost anyone on the planet, yet have not apparently read any. Google has come out saying this was just some employees and executives expressing personal opinion. So let’s just clarify that this was only the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, two Vice Presidents and the two men who founded Google. Not the whole of Corporate Management then, and there might be one secret Trump voter in the Maths and Algorithms Department. Though they […] September 14th, 2018 | Tags: Free Speech, Google | Category: Global Warming, Media-matters | Print This Post | | Viv Forbes sums it up brilliantly. — Jo Politicians again show “Real Genius”. Welcome to Futility Island A British observer [in 1975 or so] noted “Any fool can bugger up Britain but it takes real genius to bugger up Australia.” Australian politicians are again showing real genius. Now, we have incredible tri-partisan plans to cover the continent with a spider-web of transmission lines connecting wind/solar “farms” sending piddling amounts of intermittent power to distant consumers and to expensive battery and hydro backups – all funded by electricity consumers, tax-assisted speculators and foreign debt. We are the world’s biggest coal exporter but have not built a big coal-fired power station for 11 years. We have massive deposits of uranium but 100% of this energy is either exported, or sterilised by the Giant Rainbow Serpent, or blocked by the Green-anti’s. Australia suffers recurrent droughts but has not built a major water supply dam for about 40 years. And when the floods do come, desperate farmers watch as years of rain water rush past to irrigate distant oceans. Once, Australia was a world leader in exploration and drilling – it is now a world leader in legalism, red tape and […] …. 8.6 out of 10 based on 11 ratings “Paris” is rock solid and on the brink simultaneously In a kind of Schrodinger’s-Agreement Paris means everything and nothing all at once. The Grand Emissions-Mouth says every country on Earth has signed up except the US. The Giant Money-Mouth says it’s unravelling, an emergency and on the brink. How can that be? Spot the pea. This strange superposition can exist because the emissions agreement is vaporware: 200 countries signed up but almost none of them are going to meet their agreement and no one cares. On the money side though, almost no one is going to give or get what they expected, and it’s a complete bunfight down to the last comma. It was and always is, about The Money No one gives a toss about the CO2: The Paris climate change agreement has started to unravel as a dispute over a $US100 billion-a-year climate fund prompts new demands that developing countries be given greater freedoms to increase their emissions. Environment groups have claimed the Paris deal was “on the brink” after an emergency meeting in Bangkok at the weekend failed to reach consensus on crucial details on how the agreement would be managed. The […] September 12th, 2018 | Tags: Climate Money | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Announcing the advent of the disappeared scientific paper: Three days later, however, the paper had vanished. And a few days after that, a completely different paper by different authors appeared at exactly the same page of the same volume (NYJM Volume 23, p 1641+) where mine had once been. What topic is too hot to discuss? In this case, hotter than climate — variability of intelligence. Obviously, it is an irrelevant construct, so irrelevant it must be outlawed. This debate got so ugly, half the board members of the second journal threatened not just to resign but to harass their own journal til “it died”. It’s that bad. These institutions are sitting ducks — staffed with nice busy people who avoid conflict and who are not equipped to handle the missiles coming. Empiricism and rational debate is being replaced with bullying and censorship. See his plea at the end. To fight back against the bullies, spread the word, buy Ted Hill’s book, or subscribe to Quillette. Quillette: Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole Ted Hill is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Georgia Tech. He has just published a memoir PUSHING LIMITS: From […]
495,991 comments…. 9.2 out of 10 based on 26 ratings If the IPCC are wrong, the BBC will be the last place to say so Lets all bow to the IPCC — a modern God that shalt not be questioned. The Holy Sacred Climate Cow! The IPCC is an unaudited and unaccountable foreign committee. Not only are no scientists paid to check its findings, now the publicly mandated BBC is making sure none of their journalists will check its findings either. Carbonbrief has a copy of the BBC new internal guidance on how to report climate change. In April, the UK regulator, Ofcom, found the BBC was guilty of not sufficiently challenging Lord Lawson, a skeptic. So in response the BBC now promises they will never sufficiently challenge the IPCC. That’s “false balance” for you. The BBC issues a guidance to journalists What’s the BBC’s position? Man-made climate change exists: If the science proves it we should report it. The BBC accepts that the best science on the issue is the IPCC’s position, set out above. If only BBC baby-scientist-rulers knew what “proves” means in science. The IPCC can never be “proven” right, though it has been proven wrong, and many times. Be aware of ‘false balance’: As […] September 8th, 2018 | Tags: BBC, Media bias | Category: Global Warming, Media-matters | Print This Post | | No link between droughts and climate change in Australia Ken Stewart finds that rainfall may have fallen in the last 30 years over Southern Australia but it has stayed remarkably constant in the long run. Fig. 2: Cool season rainfall, Southern Australia, 1900-2017 Oops! Rainfall has in fact increased over southern Australia. Stewart has also looked at the number of consecutive dry months across Australia. Looking at both 12 month periods and at 36 month periods it’s clear that we had more severe droughts more often from 1900-1970. The only exceptions are in SW WA (which is having a good year for rain this year) and small parts of Victoria and Tasmania. Fig. 4: Number of consecutive months per calendar year of 12 months severe rain deficiency: Australia Don’t forget to pop in at Kens Kingdom and say thanks for all the work he does. Ken Stewart is not paid but can create these graphs. The Australian BoM gets a million dollars a day, and Ken used their definition of a drought, but there are no press releases about this from the BoM. The ABC gets $3 million dollars a day. If […] Old coal plants don’t have to die, they just need to be fixed Vales Point, Power Station, NSW, Australia The Vales Point Coal plant (Part B) was built in 1978. It was sold for $1 million in 2015 by the NSW government. It’s now making a bumper profit. If it gets a $750 million renovation it could keep running til 2049 when it will be 70 years old. Vales has a nameplate capacity of 1,320 MW. On the other hand, we could follow South Australia and spend $650m and get a 150MW solar plant that only works half the time.* When is an old coal plant on death’s door a better bet than the worlds largest solar plant? — Every hour of every day. Plus you get free fertilizer. Profits to keep Vales Point coal-fired power station going for another 20 years John Stensholt and Perry Williams, The Australian The Vales Point power station near Lake Macquarie, which supplies about 4 per cent of power for the national grid, could receive a $750m injection to ensure it runs until 2049, making it the nation’s last standing coal station, with the country’s other facilities due to […] September 7th, 2018 | Tags: Coal, Electricity Cost | Category: Big-Government, Cost, Electricity, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Australia now has 200 years of frackable gas to add to the 300 years of coal And yet we are still buying Chinese solar panels. The big question is how much of our our gas and coal can we use before nuclear energy makes them irrelevant? h/t GWPF In April the Northern Territory lifted its ban on fracking. The Beetaloo basin may have a whopper 50 to 100 trillion cubic feet of gas, and it appears to be a “stacked play” in layers (like Texas). To put that in perspective, the largest gas project in Australia in the Bass Strait has produced 8 trillion cubic feet so far with another 7 trillion to go. Shale turned the USA from an energy dependent state to the worlds largest fossil fuel producer. Geoscience Australia estimates the NT has about 257,000 petajoules of shale gas [Australian Associated Press] The Northern Territory holds enough natural gas to supply Australia for 200 years-plus and is comparable to the shale resources that have revolutionised the US energy sector, Resources and Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan says. Senator Canavan described Beetaloo, located southeast of Katherine, as “a world class shale […] September 6th, 2018 | Tags: Fracking, NT (Northern Territory), Shale gas | Category: Energy, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Green genius: Pay $1400 a year to not stop any storms Finally some veteran engineers checked the Labor Party 50% renewable plan and the AEMO “65% scenarios”. Unlike others, their study that did not involve magical assumptions that the cost of renewables would dramatically fall. Instead they used “actual costs” and found the price of electricity will rise “84%” and cheap coal power will be forced out of business (just like what we also found here). The engineers include Barry Murphy, former managing director and chairman of Caltex. Robert Barr, an electrical engineer and academic at University of Wollongong. If only Kevin Rudd had asked them in 2007. Engineers warn of bill shock under green energy surge Adam Creighton, Economics Editor, The Australian Electricity bills will soar and gas and coal-fired power stations will close if the share of wind and solar generation increases dramatically, engineers have warned after analysing the nation’s energy supply. It found bills were likely to soar 84 per cent, or about $1400 a year, for the typical household, if wind and solar power supplied 55 per cent of the national electricity market. A quarter of Australian rooftops have solar, […] September 5th, 2018 | Tags: Electricity Cost, Renewable Energy | Category: Cost, Global Warming, Renewable | Print This Post | | …. 8.4 out of 10 based on 10 ratings The world still runs on coal and oil After 20 years of subsidies, intermittent renewables account for just 3.6% of total energy generation. That’s the tiny purple sliver in the graph. Global power means not just electricity, but also fuel used in transport. And this is where wind and solar power are respectively old and slow, or modern but useless. Someday solar powered planes might make their first round world trip in 48 hours but at the moment they need 16 months. There’s a a bit of hitch in the global energy transition. Hello fossil wonder fuels: Global Primary Energy, Graph, 1965-2018 Intermittent renewables are pretty useless everywhere: Global Primary Energy, Graph, 1965-2018
Solar energy might have “made waves” and increased by an astounding 100GW last year, but it’s still irrelevant: Oil remains the world’s dominant fuel, making up just over a third of all energy consumed. In 2017 oil’s market share declined slightly, following two years of growth. Coal’s market share fell to 27.6%, the lowest level since 2004. Natural gas accounted for a record 23.4% of global primary energy consumption, while renewable power hit a new high of 3.6%. — Spencer […] September 5th, 2018 | Tags: Renewable Energy | Category: Electricity, Energy, Global Warming, Renewable | Print This Post | | Once upon a time we could afford heating. Volunteer knitters in high demand as soaring power prices leave people cold A national army of knitters is in desperate need of more volunteers to help them meet the growing demand for winter woollies. Victoria returns to the Victorian era Knitters can not keep up with demand “Some people say it has been a colder winter — I actually don’t think so,” Ms Rogers said. I think it’s been milder than what we’ve had, it’s just the need that’s so much greater unfortunately. “Even if people have got heating, they can’t afford to run it, so they need the warm clothes or the blankets.” Can you knit to keep a poor Victorian warm? UPDATE from Beowulf: I hear Audrey Zibelman, boss of AEMO, is a dab hand with a set of needles. Here’s her favourite pattern ladies: plain one, pearl one, skip 10, repeat. It makes a jumper full of holes that must be plugged with other materials, but it saves heaps on the cost of wool and we don’t need to breed any more sheep to make our jumpers. […] September 3rd, 2018 | Tags: Electricity Cost, Victoria | Category: Cost, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Who needs interviews when you know all the answers? Greg Jericho, of The Guardian, can explain why the government is in “denial” and spends 15 odd paragraphs doing psychoanalysis of himself. Has he met a skeptic? Not likely. This government is not even pretending to act on climate change any more Perhaps somewhat surprisingly I have a degree of sympathy for members of the public who are climate change deniers. I have this sympathy because I was once one of them. …doing my level best to deny it was happening. Because it scared the bejeezus out of me. … so I understand why people choose to believe those who say climate change is not the issue, that the issue is power prices and thus we need to fire up the coal furnaces. Denial is a very easy way out of guilt that your lifestyle is leaving your children and grandchildren an awful legacy. Denial is a good way to throw away concerns that you might have to actually wear a cost – either through lifestyle changes or monetary loss. It is a scary thing to hear talk of the impacts […] September 3rd, 2018 | Tags: Guardian (The), Media bias | Category: Global Warming, Media-matters | Print This Post | | After thirty years of Green-Blob disaster porn, there are casualties. Climate change [propaganda] takes a toll on our minds Psychologist Susie Burke tells the story of a woman who came to her for counselling after having her first child. Not because she was suffering from post-natal depression, but because she was “struggling with the enormity of what she had done.” She felt she had brought her child into a “world she knew was going to be a lot harsher and a lot less safe,” Burke told DW. “She came to me when she was overwhelmed by this distress; questioning whether she had done the right thing. The fear she had for his future was really huge.” Look out for the new hotline (Can someone find this number?) Burke is an Australian psychologist and academic who specializes in eco-psychology. She treats people suffering mental illness as a result of climate change, and also recently set up a free hotline called the “Climate Change Psychological Support Network,” where Australians can call a qualified psychologist to talk through their feelings about environmental change. Look out for the handbook: ‘The Climate Change Empowerment Handbook’ is a handy […] September 1st, 2018 | Tags: Bullying, Coercion, Psychology | Category: Academia, Global Warming, Pseudoscience, Psychology | Print This Post | | … 8.8 out of 10 based on 9 ratings |
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