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March 1, 2024
Powerful blizzard dumps snow across Sierra Nevada with 145 mph wind gusts in biggest storm of the season
Heavy snow is falling, with areas forecast to pick up between five to 10 feet of snow, and localized areas up to 12 feet.
With snow falling two to four inches an hour, travel is life-threatening and impossible, and portions of the highly-traveled I-80 will likely close for days.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/powerful-blizzard-dumps-snow-sierra-nevada-145-mph-wind-gusts-biggest-rcna14138
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NY Post: Andrew Schwartz, the lead scientist at UC-Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Lab, said it is possible they could break their modern-day record of about 3.5 feet of snow in a single day from back in 1989.
On the bright side, California water officials said the storm should provide a much-needed boost to the Sierra snowpack, which is vital to the state’s water supplies.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/02/us-news/blizzard-dumps-snow-on-mountains-in-california-and-nevada-stretch-of-i-80-shut-down/
Not rainy enough in 2023?
Energy-Related Emissions Hit a Record High Last Year Despite Renewables Surge – Mar 01, 2024
Despite a decline in fossil fuel use in developed economies, global energy-related emissions rose last year to another record-high level as coal use rose in major developing markets hit by low hydropower generation, the latest emissions report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed on Friday. [bold added]
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Energy-Related-Emissions-Hit-a-Record-High-Last-Year-Despite-Renewables-Surge.html
Inverted logic here we come…
Global warming may be behind an increase in the frequency and intensity of cold spells
Published: March 4, 2024
https://theconversation.com/global-warming-may-be-behind-an-increase-in-the-frequency-and-intensity-of-cold-spells-223153
Tell us what global warming doesn’t cause 😜
EDF’s Scottish wind farm slapped with £5.5m fine by Ofgem – 5 March 2024
Experts have highlighted the broader issue of constraint payments and their impact on consumer bills…
“Wind curtailment payments cost £590 million in 2023, adding on average £40 to consumer bills. These costs are set to more than quadruple to £180 by 2030. And worse still, our outdated grid is actively driving away the precious private investment that is needed to decarbonise the UK’s energy.
“Our own research in February showed that almost half (44%) of energy companies had found lack of grid connections were a barrier to them investing in the UK. The UK Government needs to act fast to fix the grid, or the cost of inaction will keep falling on the public.”
https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/03/05/edfs-scottish-wind-farm-slapped-with-5-5m-fine-by-ofgem/
Huh, Sooooh ? The consumer has already paid, …. and as in so many other “public Bodies” having to pay fines, it is just going from one hand to t’other …..( or 1 back pocket to …. ) I mean, do we get a rebate ( as well ?) Naw not likely Not just window dressing. Something else on the horizon ( and not the Red Arrows today ). … AND where’s the WIND today ? COAL is putting out around 1.5 GW — nearly a THIRD of wind. Herons hanging around he re again
Is that new EV guilty of containing even one part made by Chinese slave labour? If so and it gets to the US they may impound it.
https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/05/weakest-link-for-evs-is-in-chinas-supply-chain/
The American revolt against green energy has begun
There’s no such thing as a wind or solar ‘farm’, just an ugly industrial site — 1 March 2024
These kinds of forced solutions are in fact incompatible with the maintenance of a free society that protects the rights of all stakeholders. That reality is the central conundrum of this forced, heavily subsidized energy transition – which is not, in fact, a transition at all – and it is the reason why so many local governments are rejecting these proposed industrial sites. The climate alarmists understand this, which is why their rhetoric has grown more shrill and heated over time.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/03/01/american-green-energy-renewables-permit-revolt-net-zero-mad/
Oldbrew, you’re so right: “There’s no such thing as a wind or solar ‘farm’ ” , but in the vernacular world, there are now so many farms: about as many as ENgineers and Experts!
But but but, like real farms, there is an INPUT – of Solar or Wind, …. W8 4 it, now: SUBSIDIES and yes, indeed, it has become Industrialised: Just as very large scale Agric. Producers become industrialised and different regulation applies. … We’re farming COLD this now: where is it all coming from? Power demand is bit lower today so far enabling WIND to apply a BIGGER PERCENTAGE of our power supply …. but that doesn’t put FISH in the pond for the Herons. Peewit peewit I hear and an Oystercatcher or two, but beware the SeaEagles .. no lambies yet so dinner is featherclad.
and PS. Inverness CT Football Club got the go-ahead for a 50MW Battery pack ( storage) from the Coonsil, who have now called the approval back in. ICT is said to be claiming compensation off the Coonsil ( according to local Radio news this morning. Farming or Industry or what ? Just swanning around in the Gravy Lake.
The Postie is busy today: How the ONS is working towards measuring depletion of UK natural capital
” Activities that lead to depletion create a short-term economic boost as an increase in gross domestic product (GDP). However, this cannot be sustained … “ Why is this important? they say “This work is part of the wider ‘Wellbeing and Beyond GDP’ agenda to provide a complementary and more holistic view of national prosperity and well-being” ….
Was fracked gas ‘part of the Paris Climate Agreement‘?
How To Profit From Europe’s $800 Billion Energy Crisis
OilPrice.com – Thu, March 7, 2024
The regulatory atmosphere has changed dramatically since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Germany has pleaded that the Bloc “work together with countries that have the capacity to develop new gas fields, as part of the Paris Climate Agreement commitments.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/profit-europe-800-billion-energy-000000375.html
Researchers find that 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide may need to be pulled from Earth’s atmosphere and oceans annually to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230309164719.htm
Cost of direct air carbon capture to remain higher than hoped – 4-MAR-2024
ETH spin-off Climeworks operates a plant in Iceland that currently captures 4,000 tonnes of CO2 a year, at a cost per tonne of between 1,000 and 1,300 dollars. But how quickly can these costs come down as deployment increases?
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1036381
A gigaton = one billion metric tons. The sums don’t work, the annual cost is insane even at half or quarter the price.
“Researchers find that 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide may need to be pulled from Earth’s atmosphere…”
Presumably these “researchers” never got as far as Dalton’s law and Henry’s law when they were obtaining whatever passes as their qualifications.
I doubt a single one of them would know a partition coefficient from a hole in the road.
Record negative electricity prices hit Britain
Britain endured a record 214 hours of negative electricity prices in 2023, according to a report – Friday 8 March 2024
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The prevalence of negative prices is associated with wind farm curtailment, which reached 5% of output in 2023, equivalent to 4.3TWh.
https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/03/08/record-negative-electricity-prices-hit-britain/
What a shame…🙄
Dutch CO2 storage project nearly three times over budget
The first large CO2 storage project under the North Sea is nearly three times over budget. The Porthos project launched in 2018 with a price estimate of 400 to 500 million euros. The costs have now risen to 1.3 billion euros, NRC reports after speaking to those involved. The project has also been delayed due to legal proceedings.
https://nltimes.nl/2024/03/08/dutch-co2-storage-project-nearly-three-times-budget
Li ion conductor discovery unlocks new direction for sustainable batteries
In a paper published in the journal Science, researchers at the University of Liverpool have discovered a solid material that rapidly conducts lithium ions. Such lithium electrolytes are essential components in the rechargeable batteries that power electric vehicles and many electronic devices.
https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2024/02/15/li-ion-conductor-discovery-unlocks-new-direction-for-sustainable-batteries/
Developments awaited.
Why headlines blaming extreme weather on climate change don’t hold up, the peril of catastrophism, and the case that we’re actually safer than ever before
by Ted Nordhaus
Discussions of weather-related natural disasters in recent years have largely focused on one particular human factor: the consequences of an anthropogenically warming planet. But the heavy concentration of catastrophic disasters prior to the period when climate change began to significantly warm the planet should remind us that the earth’s climate has always been highly variable, extreme, and dangerous. What determines whether hurricanes, floods, heat waves, and wildfires amount to natural disasters or minor nuisances, though, is mostly not the relative intensity or frequency of the natural hazard but rather how many people are in harm’s way and how well protected they are against the climate’s extremes.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/did-exxon-make-it-rain-today
Forgotten Gas Reserves Could Be A Gamechanger For European Energy – Mar 12, 2024
In Austria, MCF recently moved the rig on location, began drilling the Welchau prospect and in their latest press release (11 March 2024) announced an active petroleum structure was discovered and that total depth will be reached before the end of the month.
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All elements are in place for a significant discovery, with a best-estimate technical prospective resource of 584 billion cubic feet of gas with 10.1 MBO, proximity to the national gas pipeline infrastructure (~18km), and a nearby historic gas discovery. Welchau is targeting the same reservoirs as the nearby Molln-1 well, which tested gas in 1989.
Next up is drilling in Germany’s Lech prospects in April, which MCF considers its highest-impact asset.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Forgotten-Gas-Reserves-Could-Be-A-Gamechanger-For-European-Energy.html
Uncle Sam link…
Britain to import energy from US under plan for transatlantic power cable
Rapid technological improvements enable longer and more powerful grid connections
15 March 2024
Britain homes could one day be powered by electricity generated in America under plans to install up to six power cables across the Atlantic.
The cables would stretch roughly 3,500 miles across the ocean, reaching depths of up to 11,000 feet, and carrying power roughly equivalent to several nuclear power stations.
A group of London investors and energy consultants are behind the ambitious scheme, as they claim technological advances in subsea cables could allow the creation of a global “intercontinental grid”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/03/15/britain-plans-import-us-energy-transatlantic-power-cable/
Geologists reject ‘Anthropocene’ era designation.
Stanley Finney, a stratigrapher at California State University Long Beach and head of the International Union of Geological Sciences, said “It would have been rejected 10 years earlier if they had not avoided presenting it to the stratigraphic community for careful consideration.”
Finney also complains that from the start, AWG was determined to secure an “epoch” categorization, and ignored or countered proposals for a less formal Anthropocene designation…. The Anthropocene backers will now have to wait for a decade before their proposal can be considered again…
https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/03/10/1849256/are-we-in-the-anthropocene-the-human-age-scientists-say-nope
Net Isotopic Signature of Atmospheric CO2 Sources and Sinks: No Change since the Little Ice Age
by Demetris Koutsoyiannis – March 2024
These findings confirm the major role of the biosphere in the carbon cycle and a non-discernible signature of humans.
https://www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/6/1/17
The House Manager ( new title) tells us that the Highland Council has received over £6_1/2 Mill from Scots Gov towards more recycling stuff: Our OLD Green everyday rubbish Wheeliebin is to be used for Green stuff, Blue for (forgotten already) collected every 4 weeks and an EXTRA New (all PLASTIC – yes, MORE PLASTIC) Bin for non-recyclable waste- collected every 2 wks. … so for those of us too dottery to, er em, where am I going with this rubbish, they are giving us a Booklet of stickers n dates. Dates? Mmmmm!
So now I’ve (going to) acquired a Freebie wheeliebin for stuff …. we recycle our own: a lot of plastics get melted down into ingots for playthings in the workshop! A great cheap source: cheaper to buy the food than the plastic : Even the FrayedBendus pie tins are free food considering the cost of a small magnetic tray for the workshop! … And the GOvernment has no money? WHat’s the Pelicans saying today? 41% of Energy supplied and we have 35mph gusts like in the previous Hurricanes that flew over us at turn of the year…. Hurricanes? I haven’t seen our Gail tell the weather for some time now …. and gotta thinking maybe because we have taken so many stupid measures to extreme and our emissions are so low now, that MAYBE, maybe that is why the Climate is going daft – making things “worse” …
Sun getting active: Kp at 8 on a 0-9 scale.
Source: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity/kp-index.html [frequent updates]
Multistability and intermediate tipping of the Atlantic Ocean circulation
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-scientists-explore-complex-pattern-atlantic.html
The bottom line here is that alarmists have been spouting off about the future of the AMOC on the basis of minimal real knowledge.
Self-heating concrete is one step closer to putting snow shovels and salt out of business
Drexel researchers show concrete with phase-change material can warm itself when temperatures fall
Date: March 18, 2024 - Source:Drexel University
Summary: Researchers recently reported on the science behind its special concrete, that can warm itself up when it snows, or as temperatures approach freezing.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240318142246.htm
End of snow due to warming not imminent.
Anthropocene unit of geological time is rejected
Published 4 days ago
In the meantime, we remain in the Holocene epoch, which started at the end of the last ice age, some 11,700 years ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68632086
This Holocene…no industrial fuel burning 8000 years ago 🙄
See also: The Holocene Temperature Conundrum
— https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/2023/02/24/the-holocene-temperature-conundrum/
The extraordinary climate events of 2022-24
‘Energy transition’ numbers – 2% wind+solar…
H/T Ron Clutz — https://rclutz.com/2024/03/25/wind-and-solar-the-grand-illusion/
Sunspots viewed from Scotland…RAF A400 Passing in Front of the Sun
https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=205021
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=29&month=03&year=2024
Thornborough Henges unlock Yorkshire’s ancient past
31st March 2024
About 5,000 years ago, the Thornborough Henges in what is now North Yorkshire would have dominated the surrounding landscape.
What would have been three striking white monuments, now known as the “Stonehenge of the North”, were covered in gypsum and their banks are believed to have towered up to 23ft (7m) high.
According to historians, anyone stood inside the circular earthworks in Neolithic times would only have been able to see the vast sky above them.
Cut off from the landscape and enclosed in this huge human-made arena, our ancient ancestors would have felt “centred within nature” and could even have had a “cosmic experience”, they say.
It is an experience that, in 2024, people can perhaps finally get just a taste of once again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68685372
Not reached ‘Warm’ since 2004…
Winters of 1962-63 and 2009-10 were unusually cold in the UK at least
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1962%E2%80%931963_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2009%E2%80%9310_in_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
APRIL 2, 2024 – Why we need to rethink what we know about dust
Our new understanding of dust distribution, quantity and seasonal shifts has significant implications. It will require revisions to historical reconstructions that explain past climate changes. Our findings will also influence future climate projections and how the dust cycle interacts with the carbon, energy and water cycles of Earth’s systems.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-rethink.html
Mann, that’s old news ! We’re surrounded by Weenmills which are t least 25 years old now, and others getting in for Point FIVE that age …. but it was then that we found out that they must have POWER to maintain heat and lubrication to the gearboxes and bearings as they sit in the windchill, ready to react to a load demand ( Ha ha ha …. unlike Hydropower etc ).
BTW Hydropower looking for planning permission for ( Another ?) new system in the GreatGlen to take up the EXCESS Production for pumped storage ….. Thought all those EVs and Batteries had to be RE-charged ..
Yuk…
Earth Hero: Climate Change
About this app…
Earth Hero empowers you to take positive practical action in response to the climate emergency. It connects you to a global movement rising to the interconnected crises of climate change and rapid species loss.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earthheroorg.earthhero
‘Works in theory’ news…
APRIL 3, 2024 – Machine learning enables viability of vertical-axis wind turbines
In a paper published in Nature Communications, Le Fouest and UNFOLD head Karen Mulleners describe two optimal pitch profiles for VAWT blades, which achieve a 200% increase in turbine efficiency and a 77% reduction in structure-threatening vibrations.
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The paper represents Le Fouest’s Ph.D. work in the UNFOLD lab. Now, he plans to build a proof-of-concept VAWT. The goal is to install it outdoors, so that it can be tested as it responds in real time to real-world conditions.
“We hope this air flow control method can bring efficient and reliable VAWT technology to maturity so that it can finally be made commercially available,” Le Fouest says.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-machine-enables-viability-vertical-axis.html
And: The blades are also more wildlife-friendly: because they rotate laterally, rather than slicing down from above, they are easier for birds to avoid.
How much more exploring of feasibility do SMRs need?
Mini-nukes to be built in Hartlepool under multimillion-pound proposal – 4 April 2024
Hartlepool could host a fleet of mini-nuclear reactors within a decade after the Government awarded a multimillion-pound grant to engineering group Babcock to explore the project’s feasibility.
X-Energy and Cavendish Nuclear, which is owned by FTSE-250 group Babcock, have won funding from the Future Nuclear Enabling Fund to progress plans to build new mini-nukes in Teesside.
The companies are developing advanced nuclear power plants known as small modular reactors (SMRs). The hope is that these mini-nukes could be partly built in factories and constructed in large numbers of locations, providing cheaper green energy than larger nuclear sites.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/04/mini-nuclear-reactor-built-hartlepool/
Clouds dissipate quickly during solar eclipses as the land surface cools – 12 February 2024
We demonstrate that neglecting the disappearance of clouds during a solar eclipse could lead to a considerable overestimation of the eclipse-related reduction of net incoming solar radiation. These findings should spur cloud model simulations of the direct consequences of sunlight-intercepting geoengineering proposals, for which our results serve as a unique benchmark.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01213-0
More: GCMs modeling the response to (extraterrestrial) dimming of sunlight are based on idealized scenarios22. They inherently suffer from uncertainties23, mainly focus on the long-term impact, and highly parameterize short-term and small-scale processes such as cloud formation20,23.
Inconvenient…
The ozone hole makes a comeback
Are we witnessing a new chapter in the story of the ozone hole over Antarctica? The past three years have seen the re-emergence of large, long-lived ozone holes, which seem to be expanding. This raises questions over whether global efforts to heal the ozone layer have been successful. New findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggest that the ozone has not been recovering over the last few decades as many forecast it would.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/ozone-hole-makes-a-comeback
“Observation of large and all-season ozone losses over the tropics”
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/12/7/075006/2818805/Observation-of-large-and-all-season-ozone-losses
Jupiter-Uranus conjunction was on March 14th. Sunspot increase followed immediately.
https://earthsky.org/tonight/jupiter-and-uranus-meet-in-the-sky/
Whilst in Scotland we may no longer grow our own trees as a fuel crop, but grow Subtropical MAIZE with high fertiliser and fuel inputs for Electricity or gas production ( for OTHERS ) in Germany the auld wifies will be keeping warm if they can get auld Elec Tricity to find his way to them along the wyres.
They tend to say this whenever La Nina shows up…
Atlantic hurricane season will be ‘extremely active’ in 2024, forecasters warn – Monday 8 April 2024
Forecasters at Colorado State University are unusually confident of this year’s forecast because the conditions are so “favourable” for hurricanes. Those factors are due to warmth in the Atlantic and a change to the current El Nino weather pattern.
https://news.sky.com/story/atlantic-hurricane-season-will-be-extremely-active-in-2024-forecasters-warn-13110759
Time to Pack a Bug-Out Bag, Hurricane Season from Hell Predicted
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/08/time-to-pack-a-bug-out-bag-hurricane-season-from-hell-predicted/
Whiff of climate hype in the air.
The Overlooked Benefits of a Warmer Planet
BY RICHARD BURCIK 11 APRIL 2024
In 1988, James Hansen advised us that untold climate catastrophes were on the immediate horizon, and for 35 years he has been only wrong.Like it or not, the moderate warming seen to date has saved countless lives.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/11/the-overlooked-benefits-of-a-warmer-planet/
Sounds pricey…
Australian super battery Waratah gets connection greenlight – Apr 12, 2024
The super battery is anticipated to be 850MW/1,680MWh.
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According to Akaysha Energy, Waratah is understood to be the largest committed battery project in the southern hemisphere and most powerful battery in the world.
Located approximately 100km north of Sydney and approximately 25km south of the retiring Eraring coal-fired power station, the BESS will reside in a 138,000m2 site.
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The approval for Waratah, which is declared a critical state significant infrastructure project, is also being hailed as a watershed in the energy market, paving the way for other ‘super batteries’ to come online.
https://www.powerengineeringint.com/energy-storage/australian-super-battery-waratah-gets-connection-greenlight/
So it IS a BATTERY then ( ie for storage ) and NOT a GENERATOR of Electrical Energy. How will that work?
paving the way for other ‘super batteries’ to come online
They send coal to China and bring solar panels back, putting them in their many sunny regions to keep charging up their *super* batteries?
Dundee climate change Rangers excuse blown apart by Tayside Fire Brigade – Wed 10 April 2024
Dundee have just been embarrassed by an amateur Tayside club after their call off with Rangers.
The Ibrox side are furious after Dens Park failed a second pitch inspection ahead of the visit of Philippe Clement’s treble-chasing bears.
The Tayside Fire Brigade – who play in the Dundee Saturday Morning Football League Division 1 – will be able to play their game this evening.
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For a Scottish Premiership stadium to have a game called off whilst an amateur match goes ahead is a shambles and highlights the incompetence which surrounds the situation.
In a message on Facebook, the cheeky amateur side said: “Fortunately for us the game is not at the Scot Foam tonight therefore, the game goes ahead. 6:30 kick off at Riverside.”
Dundee blame global warming for Rangers pitch call-off
The Tayside Fire Brigade match also comes after Dundee’s club secretary Eric Drysdale blamed global warming for the the state of the Dens Park pitch.
Seriously, we’re not joking.
https://www.rangersnews.uk/news/dundee-climate-change-rangers-excuse-blown-apart-by-tayside-fire-brigade/
Tony Heller says: A startling new revelation that much of the USHCN temperature data is fake. I’ve been reporting on this for ten years, and the number is closer to 50% than it is to 30%.
https://realclimatescience.com/2024/04/startling-new-revelation/
NOAA Has Been Using Climate Data From Sensor Stations That Don’t Exist
TYLER DURDEN FROM ZEROHEDGE 8:20 AM | April 12, 2024
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/12/noaa-has-been-using-climate-data-from-sensor-stations-that-dont-exist-n3786351
Puh! no idea about what happens around Dundee … but Rangers LOST to our local wee team Ross County today…. in the Cold and Rain ( Lambing showers – but worse actually). Should have gone to Goal Savers and practiced (ie played) against Dundee. Maybe not enough brown envelopes lining the pitch there….
Football? a mug’s game.
Why replace what works with what doesn’t sound good and costs a lot more, even with a fat subsidy?
Britain shuns ‘patriotic’ heat pumps with subsidies worth £173m left unclaimed
UK rollout ‘way behind’ rivals as official data reveals weak uptake among households – 15 April 2024
Just 18,900 heat pumps were installed between May 2022 and December 2023 under the scheme, less than half of the 50,000 installations that had been expected.
By contrast about 1.5 million new gas-fired boilers were installed, mostly to replace worn-out models, even though homeowners could have chosen heat pumps instead.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/15/more-than-half-heat-pump-grant-money-unclaimed/
Dubai underwater: Influencers are stranded in their Rolls Royces in flooded roads as skies turn black in apocalyptic scenes as storm hits region
16 Apr 2024
Torrential rain and violent thunderstorms have brought apocalyptic scenes to Dubai with parts of the UAE brought to a standstill by heavy flooding.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13314921/dubai-influencers-stranded-flooding-uae-airport.html
Don’t mention the cloud seeding…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates
Scientists say they have found evidence of an unknown planet in our solar system
New findings represent the ‘strongest statistical evidence yet’ that Planet 9 exists, researcher says – 1 day ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/planet-9-nine-solar-system-b2530985.html
Has link to preprint of science paper.
The sunspot number is 283 today, 240 yesterday. New territory for cycle 25, above last year’s peak.
No sign of sunny warmth for the BBC to get alarmed about…
When is it going to get warmer? – 22 April 2024
The week ahead will be chilly for all of us with temperatures below average.It might turn warmer into May, but we may have to wait longer for spring-like weather.Why is it so cold?
https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/cp4g7ex1zpeo
Fewer frosts than usual is the best they can offer climate worriers – maybe because it’s been raining a lot?
Avoch , Awa ye go! Despite all that lasses (lassies) fit evva, trying to forecast, we’re havin braw wevva in the inner Moray firth for a change. Cold this morning +3C at 6am on the morning rounds around the Fields. Nope the weather forecasts are still WAY OFF the MArk. DO they even know what they are talking about ? Look at the WEbcams, even.
Around 17C yesterday… nothing unusual about that but the nights are cold … lost a lot of fruit blossom again like last year.
Something to get triggered about VOSA: “We are making this change to become more environmentally friendly.” this comment sums up our GOv departments: WHO IS in charge ?
posted on 15 March 2024
So at roadside check with no plating certificate attached to the vehicle or trailer as now proposed, how was the driver supposed to know the vehicle’s legal taxation weight and axle weights before setting off? Don’t tell me he will be expected to look them up on his smart phone during his walk around check.
Asylum seekers pouring into Ireland from UK, says minister
More than 80pc of migrants and refugees in Republic have entered country via land border, Irish Parliament committee told – 24 April 2024
Last month, Ireland’s High Court ruled that a decision by the Irish government to list the UK as a “safe country” to return asylum seekers to was unlawful. A judge found that Ms McEntee had exceeded her powers in designating the UK as a safe country after Brexit took legal effect.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/24/asylum-claims-ireland-come-over-land-from-uk-says-minister/
Anti-Brexit open border policy backfires 🙄
Minister: “It is absolutely a challenge.” Migrants seizing an opportunity, many of them Nigerians it seems.
Another approach to ‘kite power’?
https://windswept-and-interesting.co.uk/
Got a mention 3 years ago…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-59190335
Climate fear merchants feel the fear…
Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear
Plan to break up Noaa claims its research is ‘climate alarmism’ and calls for commercializing forecasts, weakening forecasts – Fri 26 Apr 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/trump-presidency-gut-noaa-weather-climate-crisis
Tensions grow as China ramps up global mining for green tech – Published 9 hours ago
The BBC Global China Unit has identified at least 62 mining projects across the world, in which Chinese companies have a stake, that are designed to extract either lithium or one of three other minerals key to green technologies – cobalt, nickel and manganese.
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As Chinese companies have increased their overseas mining operations, allegations of problems caused by these projects have steadily risen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68896707
Avoch munn, Has the BBC not got better things to do?
APRIL 29, 2024
Study says California’s 2023 snowy rescue from megadrought was a freak event. Don’t get used to it
This year’s April 1 snowpack was the second consecutive year of above average accumulation.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-california-snowy-megadrought-freak-event.html
Computer models wouldn’t have predicted that.
50 years ago…’the weather is getting worse’ says this Radio Times cover – due to being cooler 🙄
I think this Generational thing is all about MICRO Management. BUZZING words of excretement ( not a spelling mistake… on the lines of edutainment) If people would just STEP BACK to see the whole picture …. comes from experience, or very keen as a youngster, watching from afar to learn the whole procedure / picture. Caffie takes around months, crops take a season ( or under 12 months, to harvest) but micro managing it would drive you daft – it does when Politicians etc get in the way of Mother N.
Oldest Antarctic ice poses climate puzzle
Analysis of the Pliocene air trapped in the ice shows that the Earth was several degrees warmer than today, even though carbon dioxide (CO2) levels were similar to those today. Further analysis suggests that CO2 levels were low in the late Pliocene, and did not change very much between 2.7 million and 1 million years ago, the time when the Pliocene ended and the ice ages began.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/oldest-antarctic-ice-poses-climate-puzzle
CO2 is a passenger, not the driver.
Another tax grab excused by shouting ‘climate’.
Sea-bed ‘air batteries’ offer cheaper long-term energy storage
May 06, 2024
BaroMar claims it should beat competing long-duration energy storage (LDES) options on cost, thanks to its long-lasting, very low-cost tanks and low-to-zero underwater maintenance costs. Running a 100 MW/1 GWh installation 350 days per year for 20 years, BaroMar says it can deliver a Levelized Cost of Storage (LCoS) of $100 per MWh, as compared to “other LDES technologies” which, it claims, come in closer to US$131/MWh.
https://newatlas.com/energy/baromar-compressed-air-underwater/
Net zero policy using renewables creates its own problems, but the ideas for solutions are costly and unconvincing.
Pointing to the Looming EV Market Crash Suddenly Goes Mainstream
David Blackmon May 06, 2024
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174363326
Nahhh! Look ye here UK found to be the most EV-suitable market in Europe and much more here.
But here’s hoping too!
Well NO, …..
but here’s another one: still wanting ( ?) to make more EVs !
The Industrial Manufacturing and Vehicle production Press is just so Foo’ of this stuff. examples Construction and Profession (?) Grass chewing yokels, and Machinery nerds etc etc
and here’s more like this all encompassing stuff Making more triggers.
Lots of peat trundling a few hundred yards down a grassy slope…
Footage shows landslide at Shetland wind farm
Work has stopped on a section of the Viking Wind Farm site in Shetland after a landslide.
SSE said the peat slip happened in an area of hillside at Upper Kergord in the centre of the islands on Tuesday afternoon.
As a safety precaution the energy company said all work had been stood down and an investigation was under way to assess the extent of damage to the hillside.
Nobody was injured in the incident.
Published 4 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-68978378
Churning up the scenery to save the planet 🙄
Avoch I saw that this lunchtime on local Nieuws. Another trigger point: The Daft telling the not-so-knowalls what to be doing at some earlier phase of the job. BILLIONS of Years of CAABon been vandalised. The poor quality of that Drone shot ( Flat DoF ) doesn’t do justice to the damage – which way did the peatslide go ( wait until the end to figure out )
Sunspot 15 times wider than Earth…
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=09&month=05&year=2024
We want you to panic! – poll result.
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature
Suck more ‘carbon’ out of the atmosphere! Never mind the cost and practicality, or the negative effect on nature 🤪
What exactly is the justification for *selecting* anomalies?
Huh, as a flippant reply; Maybe like pointing out that the Lay-by on the roadside is not a SHORT Dual Carriageway ? .. just something that happens and not to get excited about but good to know. (? )
Heavy snowfall and rain may contribute to some earthquakes – May 8, 2024
Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Summary: Episodes of heavy snowfall and rain likely contributed to a swarm of earthquakes over the past several years in northern Japan, researchers find. Their study shows climate conditions could initiate some earthquakes.
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Looking to the future, they predict that the climate’s influence on earthquakes could be more pronounced with global warming.
“If we’re going into a climate that’s changing, with more extreme precipitation events, and we expect a redistribution of water in the atmosphere, oceans, and continents, that will change how the Earth’s crust is loaded,” Frank adds. “That will have an impact for sure, and it’s a link we could further explore.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240508140638.htm
Give us more money so we can investigate further!!!
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Ron DeSantis Makes “Climate Change Isn’t Real” Official Florida Law
The Florida governor has taken his fanatical war on the climate to the next level – May 15, 2024
“The legislation I signed today [will] keep windmills off our beaches, gas in our tanks, and China out of our state,” DeSantis told Florida’s Voice, an outlet friendly to the Florida governor. “We’re restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/181622/ron-desantis-climate-change-florida-law
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Striving for sanity is ‘fanatical’ 🙄
Coffee time reading … “Striving for sanity is ‘fanatical’” Aye Striving for a lot of things in this Newage Wokeage world is turning out to be fanatical ” Be all you can be” …… except when it tramps on the toes of the controlling or would-be controlling “elites” who never canna be – that is the problem. ENVY, I think it is called. Dangerous stuff
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What’s Up With the Sun These Days?
=Northern lights in the American South, clusters of huge geomagnetic storms—as if April’s solar eclipse didn’t give it enough attention, the Sun is back and throwing a tantrum. If anything, it’s right on schedule. This ferocious and disorderly 11-year behavior cycle of the Sun, with its sunspots and solar flares, is one of the most bizarre phenomena in our solar system. Why every 11 years? So when do we get Southern Lights( Aurora Australis ) ? Is it possible to have both ( at around the same time ) ? Have new Phone but still see no lights. If Eye can’t see it, is it there? If special “receivers” ‘see’ things which the eye doesn’t , what else are we missing everyday? The Spectrum of vision & Hearing ( & Taste/ smell) Ol’ factory needing to be moved to China – maybe get something cheaper there, then ? !!
and I missed this bittie Dyson spheres are hypothetical …..maybe – like models, then?
The radical new Dutch government is the canary in the EU coal mine
The Netherlands’ escape from orthodoxy signals a wider revolt against the Brussels establishment – 17 May 2024
The Netherlands may well be the canary in the EU’s coal mine, signalling a far wider revolt against a failed political class – even as the UK, traditionally the country it most resembles, is travelling as fast as it possibly can in the opposite direction.
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If growth in the Netherlands accelerates, while it stagnates in Britain, it will be hard for Rachel Reeves and Ed Miliband to explain that away. And on the Continent, it will power a wider revolt against the EU’s high regulation, zero-growth agenda.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/17/radical-new-dutch-government-wilders-canary-in-eu-coalmine/
Scientists just discovered an enormous lithium reservoir under Pennsylvania
Published 3 days ago
The new source of lithium, which could meet up to 40% of U.S. demand, was discovered in fracking wastewater.
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The element could be extracted from wastewater with up to 90% efficiency, lab results showed.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/scientists-just-discovered-an-enormous-lithium-reservoir-under-pennsylvania
Solar cycle 25 update:
‘May 2024 has been the most active month on the sun in decades.’
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=29&month=05&year=2024
Rethinking the sun’s cycles
New physical model reinforces planetary hypothesis
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Latvia have posited the first comprehensive physical explanation for the sun’s various activity cycles. …
https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=71921&pNid=0
Phil says: May 29, 2024 at 11:20 pm
We think Stefani’s HZDR group is on the right lines, but they’re confusing the de Vries cycle (208~ years) with the solar magnetic cycle (193~ years). They aren’t the same thing, as Ian Wilson makes clear here…
Click to access prp-1-147-2013.pdf
It’s odd because Stefani said elsewhere that he got the 193 year period from Ian Wilson’s paper!
10 surprising things that are made from petroleum
published May 25, 2024
From chocolate to toothpaste, many surprising household products and everyday items are made from petroleum.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/10-surprising-things-that-are-made-from-petroleum
Dumb and dumber…energy policy twins…
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1796859319142510714
JUNE 3, 2024
Shape and depth of ocean floor profoundly influence how carbon is stored there, study shows
The researchers also found that for the current geologic era, the Cenozoic, bathymetry alone accounted for 33%–50% of the observed variation in carbon sequestration and concluded that by ignoring bathymetric changes, researchers mistakenly attribute changes in carbon sequestration to other less certain factors, such as atmospheric CO2, water column temperature, and silicates and carbonates washed into the ocean by rivers. [bold added]
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-depth-ocean-floor-profoundly-carbon.html
“This new understanding that the shape and depth of ocean floors is perhaps the greatest influencer of carbon sequestration can also aid the search for habitable planets in our universe.”
Now there’s a thing. Who’d have thought it! I think these modellers should stick to Airfix.
coecharlesdavid says: June 4, 2024 at 1:34 pm
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Phys.org: The breakthrough represents only the beginning of the researchers’ work.
Stand by 😎
Floods kill at least four in southern Germany
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who visited affected areas, said the flooding was a reminder of critical environmental challenges.
“We cannot neglect the task of halting man-made climate change,” he said on Monday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gg3nwwpryo
He’s forgotten these events have been going on and recorded for many centuries in the same places he’s now visiting. This one is in Passau, Bavaria where the Danube and Inn rivers meet.
JUNE 5, 2024
New findings challenge traditional beliefs about the cause of earthquakes
“Our findings suggest that it might be more relevant to look at the geometry of the faults in these fault networks, because it may be the complex geometry of the structures around those boundaries that creates this unstable versus stable behavior.”
The geometry to consider includes complexities in the underlying rock structures such as bends, gaps and stepovers. The study is based on mathematical modeling and studying fault zones in California using data from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Quaternary Fault Database and from the California Geological Survey.
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-traditional-beliefs-earthquakes.html
Sounds plausible.
The Importance of Wetland Science for the Success of the D-Day Landing
The success of the D-Day landings during World War II was significantly influenced by the detailed reconnaissance and scientific analysis of coastal substrate, particularly peatlands, by Allied wetland scientists. This paper examines the critical role of wetland science in ensuring the feasibility of the Normandy invasion. Initial geological intelligence raised concerns about the stability of the beaches due to extensive peat deposits underlying the Normandy coast.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13157-024-01820-9 — Published: 05 June 2024 —
D-day’s secret weapon: How wetland science stopped Normandy landings from getting bogged down
by Christian Dunn, The Conversation
My new report explains how scientists with knowledge of sediments and substrate formation, such as peat found in bogs and fens, were also instrumental in the planning and execution of D-day.
ttps://phys.org/news/2024-06-d-day-secret-weapon-wetland.html
More climate nonsense…
World’s biggest companies snap up ‘likely junk’ carbon offsets: analysis – May 30, 2024
Read more: https://yen.com.gh/business-economy/258943-worlds-biggest-companies-snap-junk-carbon-offsets-analysis/
Coal Meets India’s Record Power Demand As Net Zero Gets Sidelined – 42 mins ago
Having the planet’s largest population, the country will register the world’s highest rise in power demand for this decade and is expected to do the same over the next three decades.
Meeting this need for electricity is good old coal, the energy workhorse of the West’s Industrial Revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Westerners who have seen power prices spike and economies suffer under “green” policies might take a lesson from India, whose commitment to coal is rooted in its dedication to economic growth as a sovereign nation.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/coal-india-record-power-demand-net-zero-sidelined/
They’re just doing this to make RCP 8.5 looked vaguely credible, helping out the IPCC.
UK: Siemens Mobility Looks to Build Battery Trains in Goole
The manufacturer envisions that battery trains could replace rolling stock for operators such as Chiltern, Great Western Railway (GWR), Northern, ScotRail, TransPennine Express (TPE) and Transport for Wales (TfW) within the next decade.
This would mitigate the need to electrify all sections of the track to deliver zero-emission solutions. In doing so, 3.5 billion GBP could be saved and 12 million tonnes of CO2 emissions could be avoided over 35 years.
https://railway-news.com/uk-siemens-mobility-looks-to-build-battery-trains-in-goole/
No mention of costs, but 3.5 billion GBP could be saved is nonsense. Diesel trains don’t need an electrified system anyway, which is where all the imaginary ‘saving’ is.
Oh …h! THAT kind of battery trains …. thocht it wis a train load of Big batteries like a portable dieselgenerator to take somewhere when there was a power cut .. Heh! that’s a brilliant idea… even if it WAS a Diesel Generator ( plural – each wagon) Huh, what did they do with all the railroads around the COuntryside ? Puh, couldnae get there now onywise, snow or leaves on the track, or climate change causes the track to buckle or get wet. …..