AGW ← the digital glebe

After the Gold Rush 3

May

2013

Scottish Islands Renewable Project: Final Report https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/scottish-islands-renewable-project-final-report ‘Our study concludes that the costs of deploying renewables on a large scale in the Scottish Islands is high, and that there are a number of technological and environmental challenges. However, onshore wind on the Scottish Islands is cost competitive with several other forms of low carbon generation ...

Does Fear Still Sell? 8

Apr

2013

I think the ‘bobos’ have had their chips to be honest. If there’s hope, it lies with the proles. “Concern about the environment is legitimate, but catastrophism transforms us into cowering children. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self–sacrifice to ‘save the planet’ and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, ...

Know Thy Enemy 3

Apr

2013

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” John Maynard Keynes Almost to a man, the four main parties in UK politics -Lib Lab Con SNP- all repeat the following mantra with little deviation: “Climate change is the greatest threat faced by humanity and the most important political issue of ...

Not By Fire 3

Mar

2013

Source: Steven Goddard & NASA The blue bars show arctic ice growth at a ten-year high, which I have superimposed over sunspots for the same period. We can extend the data across the full satellite record since records began in 1979: Orkney’s latest March visitor: “Wildlife experts said it was extremely unusual for a walrus ...

They Just Don’t Get It 9

Feb

2013

Liam McArthur, Orkney MSP “Parliament’s energy, economy and tourism committee report makes clear that the government’s renewables targets are achievable. It also highlights the need for both Scotland’s governments to play their part in making this happen. “Two critical areas identified by the committee are the need to improve grid capacity and reform the system ...

WGII AR5 Gate

Jan

2013

Found on the Net: http://wg2ar5gate.wordpress.com/ Handy link to all the WGII AR5 ‘secret santa’ files. “The purpose of this blog is to provide easy access to a plain text dump of the WGII AR5 Chapters, currently without any graphics. This will allow an easy opportunity to copy,cut, paste or search as required without the hassle ...

Our CO2 14

Jan

2013

CO2 emissions from human sources are around 3% of the global total: The white line below shows the UK’s contribution: In fact, that white line is a little too thick, but I couldn’t make it any thinner as it then disappears from the graphic completely. Why do we not see such easy to understand graphics ...

Peak Solar 6

Jan

2013

We may possibly see an additional spike in the next month or two, but the NOAA’s red line is still woefully optimistic. We are now in Dalton Minimum territory, which coincided with a period of lower-than-average global temperatures. The Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2.0°C decline over 20 years.

Time’s Arrow 5

Dec

2012

We are mortal beings. Our lives are linear and each of us have had a beginning and will have an end. Because of this, we -in the west- tend to interpret the world in the same way; we assume the Universe had a beginning, and therefore, will also have an end. To my mind this ...

IPCC AR5 Draft Leaked 6

Dec

2012

It looks like strong evidence for solar forcing beyond TSI is soon to be acknowledged by the IPCC. Full AR5 draft leaked here. I’ll stick my neck out, but I think the CO2 warmist cause is officially over. So I’ll open a bottle of Duvel & toast old Helios once again! I did an article ...