ROGER HELMER MEP
“Sustainable energy” just isn’t …. well, sustainable
Posted on April 27, 2012
http://rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/sustainable-energy-just-isnt-well-sustainable/

” …We are hearing in the media that the cost of wind-generated electricity is coming down, and may reach parity with coal and nuclear (although not gas).

David Cameron, speaking on April 26th, reaffirmed his faith in renewables and called for prices to come down.  “I really believe that renewables can be among our cheapest energy sources in years, not decades”, he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9229859/David-Cameron-says-wind-energy-must-get-cheaper.html
I mean no disrespect to our Prime Minister, but the level of ignorance and complacency shown by his remarks is truly frightening.
Let’s get back to reality.
If you want wind to deliver, say, a megawatt, you need four megawatts of installed capacity (because the load factor is likely to be around 25%).  But you also need to build a megawatt of conventional back-up, either Wärtsilä’s internal combustion engines, or conventional gas.  You’ve paid the capital cost twice, for the same generating capacity.  (actually I make that at least FIVE times the capital cost, Roger! But, let’s be Conservative.)

But it gets worse… “

and then, as Roger points out, even at five times the cost of normal power it still doesn’t actually work as an alternative power scource -

” …(We also saw a graph that destroyed the myth of the Greens, that intermittency can be solved with a European super-grid because “over such a big area, the wind is always blowing somewhere”.  No it isn’t.  We saw a graph of aggregate wind output over a month in Spain plus Denmark plus Germany, which showed massive variation day-by-day and hour-by-hour, absolutely requiring back-up)…. “

NO TRICKS ZONE
Papers Showing Sun As Main Driver Keep Rolling In – IPCC Focus On CO2 Looking More Like A Delusional Obsession
By P Gosselin
on 13 Mai 2012
http://notrickszone.com/2012/05/13/papers-showing-sun-as-main-driver-keep-rolling-in-ipcc-focus-on-co2-looking-more-like-a-delusional-obsession/

Dr. Sebastian Lüning (geologist) and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (chemist) at their website here discuss a recent (peer-reviewed) paper appearing in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018212000260

More on the previous post on the latest stupid, over the top, inane, predictions of doom.

JENNIFER MARHOHASY BLOG
Climate Commission Fudges Hot Day Data
Posted by Jennifer, May 14th, 2012
http://jennifermarohasy.com/2012/05/climate-commission-fudges-hot-day-data/

” …But instead of reporting on the long term trend for Sydney as measured at Observatory Hill from 1890, Professor Flannery has chosen to just focus on Western Sydney and in particular use only the data for Parramatta North (see red line in chart). This data set begins in 1970, which was a low point in the hot days cycle. By choosing Parramatta and beginning in 1970, Professor Flannery can make the upward trend in hot days look dramatic… “

Even the Leftist AUS ABC finds it to much.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-14/heatwaves-bushfires-predicted-to-hammer-nsw/4009006

Professor Will Stephan, Climate Commissar, obviously wishes he was elsewhere – backed the loser of the century!

See the Greenie squirm – squirm Greenie squirm.

“well it’s important to say that this warning is after 2100″
“ah, and it’s also important to say that it’s at the upper end of the range in possible rises in sea level, so…”
” …We have to look to the long term future… “
” …We have to adapt to the unavoidable…”
” …We need to get emissions down as our part in a global effort… “
and it seems that the public have turned on him. Well I’m, like, truly shocked, dude!
” …My number one concern was the safety and well being of my staff… “

So this is what it has come down to.

It is really amazing to me that the once principled Australian Labor Party have descended into this moribund, despicable, desperate, cynicism.

No wonder the punters have dropped them.

It is supposed to be Global – G L O B A L – Warming – who gives a stuff what is happening in Western Sydney or SE Western Australia.
Who wants a carbon tax to “lead the world” in fighting the climate?!
How can they “put a price on carbon” that doesn’t actually cost us anything!?
Who wants to listen to dire predictions which simply haven’t come true so far?

The aussie carbon tax starts soon.
The P. R. media blitz is on.
Dr Goebbels would be proud of them.

The punters just want their voting pencils back – the sooner the better.

This main stream media report on AUS Channel Nine – http://youtu.be/6o_-xUvKVXc – treats the latest hysterical Climate Commission Report - http://climatecommission.gov.au/topics/climate-impacts-and-opportunities-for-nsw/ – with the contempt it deserves.

 

“Says it all” indeed Carl!

UK DAILY MAIL
Science &Tech
Is ‘global cooling’ on the way? Lake sediment proves sun cooled earth 2,800 years ago – and it could happen again soon
By Rob Waugh
PUBLISHED: 09:00 GMT, 9 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:23 GMT
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2141705/Global-cooling-Lake-sediment-proves-solar-activity-cooled-earth-2-800-years-ago–happen-again.html

Lake sediment proves ‘solar minimum’ caused 200 years of cooling 2,800 years ago New minimum due soon – after this year’s increased sunspot activity Sun’s activity CAN cause changes in Earth’s climate, claim scientists May throw predictions of global warming out of whack

 30 years is not very long in the Earth’s temperature record, BUT…

62 years is signifigant.

We were told – “Climate Change is here and now” and “we must act NOW before it is too late”.

Since WW2, around 1950, 62 years ago, we have seen an almost exponential rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide as per this CSIRO graph http://www.csiro.au/en/Outcomes/Climate/Understanding/State-of-the-Climate-2012/Greenhouse-Gases.aspx

http://www.csiro.au/~/media/CSIROau/Outcomes/Climate/Understanding/State%20of%20the%20climate%202012/P8-figure2-bottom_inline.ashx (you can ignore the green and the blue curves, the Earth’s GHG is water vapour, measured at around 0.4% of the Atmosphere, CO2 is a trivial 0.04%, methane is an insulting 0.000179% and nitrous oxide is a really, really insulting 0.00003% – here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth )

Now, while the level of the trivial GHG carbon dioxide took off almost exponentially in 1950, 62 years later “The Globe” has simply not warmed. The swings of a fraction of degree in this following graph are trivial. They are entirely in the range of normal, natural variation and show no human footprint on global temperature whatsoever.

Satellites have measured the whole globe, land and sea, since 1980, here is the data plotted as a temperature anomaly – that is, how the monthly global average temperature varies from the norm or average. http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/

“Latest Global Average Tropospheric Temperatures – Since 1979, NOAA satellites have been carrying instruments which measure the natural microwave thermal emissions from oxygen in the atmosphere. The signals that these microwave radiometers measure at different microwave frequencies are directly proportional to the temperature of different, deep layers of the atmosphere. Every month, John Christy and I update global temperature datasets (see here and here)that represent the piecing together of the temperature data from a total of eleven instruments flying on eleven different satellites over the years. As of early 2011, our most stable instrument for this monitoring is the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite and providing data since late 2002. The graph above represents the latest update; updates are usually made within the first week of every month. Contrary to some reports, the satellite measurements are not calibrated in any way with the global surface-based thermometer records of temperature. They instead use their own on-board precision redundant platinum resistance thermometers calibrated to a laboratory reference standard before launch.” 

Do I see your eyes glazing over at the term ”temperature anomalies”?!
Well, it’s because if you just plotted the global temperature by itself you would only get a straight line.
Here is the plot of the actual global temperature that I dug out – while it ends in 2007, trust me it is still a straight line in 2012!

 

Climate Change is NOT “here and now” and we obviously do NOT need to “act now before it is too late”. Climate Change is supposed to be caused by human carbon dioxide causing “the globe” to warm. It’s just not happening. We do not see it.

We can wait and see if the planet actually does need our help before we panic and try to “save” it for nothing!

THE AUSTRALIAN
Government should re-examine the climate data
by: Bob Carter et al *
April 18, 201212:00AM
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnational-affairs%2Fopinion%2Fgovernment-should-re-examine-the-climate-data%2Fstory-e6frgd0x-1226330722566&ei=xw-fT4HzOeW5iQea2djNDw&usg=AFQjCNFTC-Wc0n0Uoy2V9rE5sSpnwq5I1Q&sig2=HrEe-RBrnT7uorUsWO9Y4A
Also here http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=678

“TWO recent, widely publicised reports by the government’s scientific advisory agencies on climate change have sought to raise alarm yet again about global warming. With the world having warmed slightly during the late 20th century, CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and the Climate Commission all advocate that this warming was caused mainly by industrial emissions of carbon dioxide, and that the continuation of emissions unchecked will cause dangerous warming of 3C-4C by 2100. However, these and other climate agencies are now encountering a public that is increasingly aware of the lack of factual evidence for dangerous warming, and of the speculative nature of the arguments advanced in its favour. For example,… “

29 gas-fired and 17 coal-fired generation plants

REUTERS
Germany plans to build, revamp 84 power plants-BDEW
Fri, Mar 30 2012 FRANKFURT, April 23 | Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:30am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/23/germany-energy-bdew-idUSF9E7J100V20120423

” …Of the total number counted by BDEW, 23 units were to be driven by offshore wind, 10 were pumped storage plants, 29 gas-fired and 17 coal-fired generation plants, it said. BDEW, which represents some 1,800 companies active in supplying power, gas, water and heat, traditionally issues power station plans of its members around April.
The plans this year reflect over a year of debate on how to best replace Germany’s nuclear power stations, which must be closed faster than planned in light of the nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011.

The Royal Society motto is “Excellence In Science” – they should get back to science and stop trying to take over the world like Pinky & The Brain!

Royal Society calls for a more equitable future for humanity
26 April 2012
http://royalsociety.org/news/Royal-Society-calls-for-a-more-equitable-future-for-humanity/

“Consumption levels between developed and developing nations must be rebalanced alongside a stabilisation of the world’s population by voluntary methods, according to a new report from the Royal Society…. “

Why Didn’t I Think Of This.

CNG – compressed natural gas has issues, but LNG – liquified natural gas – technology is well advanced in shipping.
Long haul trucks all use a few well established routes and predictable travel times and could easily use up a tank of LNG on their journey and then switch back to diesel again. (LNG will not store, unused, for very long – it must be vented). It could revitalise the railways also.

Note it is now “Natural” Gas – “natural” is a much greener word than “methane” innit?!  We can use “natural” gas in our power stations too and still be “Green” – it’s called semantics.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Cheap Fracked Gas Could Help Americans Keep on Truckin’
Companies and researchers are working on infrastructure and technologies to help bring the nation’s growing stock of natural gas to fuel tanks, including those of long-haul vehicles
By David Biello  | April 23, 2012 |34
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=natural-gas-as-alternative-transportation-fuel

We are leaving the age of coal and entering the age of “natural” gas. Good.