“If the site is approved by the scientists who oversee the geological timescale the official declaration of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch will come in August 2024….”
I see… So, time to ramp up the psychological pressure…
“In a time of deep planetary change, how do we begin to recover from the trauma of climate change? … As humans, we face diverse experiences and pressures that require healing. And as a new epoch is unfolding – the Anthropocene – deep planetary changes and environmental destruction are necessitating healing at individual, community and global scales. Feelings of pain, suffering, fear, anger and grief for those directly affected by climate change or those watching through TV screens are real.” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210420-mental-health-healing-the-trauma-of-climate-change
All ist klar. It’s the same strategy. Scare, scare and scare again.
I saw that and got depressed – as in ‘sad & melancholy‘ – not ‘drunk & stupid‘
What they’re actually recording is soil erosion (Natural Variation and how we humans have changed/accelerated it) but that is The Very Last Thing they’ll see.
All they will see, all they want to see, is how bad, wrong and evil everybody else is in this world and how good, lovely and well-intentioned they are.
They are using it to start a(nother) fight.
and THAT is the problem here – the exact same mental slowness, belligerence and magical thinking that saw Henry 8th fall out with everyone – especially womenfolk – just like The Geeks who designed and built the computers we now haha ‘rely upon’
The social awkwardness and fear of girls intrinsic to Gates, Jobs and Zuckerburg etc, allied to an intense desire for Money & Control, has now affected everyone.
And we actually think that more of it (e.g. Models and AI) will solve our self-inflicted problems.
And he set off the Little Ice Age. Simply by chopping trees – as we’re doing now via ‘Biomass’.
Welcome to the KindergartenOcene and the New Dark Ages
“Plutonium spike in Canadian lake sediments marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet”
They make it sound as if dominating the planet is a bad thing! They don’t seem to appreciate that living in the Paleolithic wasn’t so great- when we didn’t dominate the planet.
Off on a slight tangent.
I’ve been watching a few YouTube videos on the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires.
Triggered by discovering that the song Rivers of Babylon by Boney M was based around Psalm 137
There are lots of theories about the fall of these and other Mediterranean empires. Sea People and Climate change being amongst them.
At the fall of the Assyrian Empire the Climate got colder and drier leading to crop failure and social unrest and rebellion. The Sea People were just refugees looking for somewhere to live without starving
One theory is that a mega eruption of Hekla was the cause of the cooling climate.
One of the madcap solutions to the Anthropocene watming is to reduce sunlight reaching the Earth by blocking it’s path. I’m hoping, but expect to be proved wrong that these plans include a removal option
On Amazon there is a series by a lady prof on the Dark Ages or Medieval Times from about 500-1400. She mention several times that climate change caused empires/civilizations to collapse.
She goes into the Vikings in Greenland, Iceland, and North America and a couple others.
Climate change ended several empires and nothing to do with CO2.
Grauniad is upset that British Depleted Uranium munitions sent to Ukraine caused a clear radiation signal in London when Russia destroyed the entire ammo dump recently. The old Chernobyl sensor network picked this up all across Europe.
And by the way Chernobyl’s fire matched exactly the Windscale UK nuclear fire – same design, in 1957, which was a Plutonium fabrik. They actually flew PU in Cesna’s with timber boxes to Scotland for bomb assembly. Both fires spread other isotopes.
Northern France registered Polonium fallout. The alps Caesium isotopes.
The only place I know of with actual Plutonium pollution besides Chelyabinsk in Russia is Hanford Washington. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/786315
Plutonium Fission in the Oklo Natural Reactor”The Oklo natural reactor was discovered in 1972. Experimental evidence has indicated that the fuel source was primarily 235U with a small contribution of 7 to 9 percent from the fission of 239Pu. This article’s reevaluation of data indicates that 239Pu was an important source of fuel in some areas of the reactor. A small portion of xenon and krypton released from Oklo sample 1348 appears to have originated from a source enriched in 239Pu. That fuel source may have been the core of a natural breeder reactor.”
So according to Grauniad Anthropocene began 1800 million years ago!
“British Depleted Uranium munitions sent to Ukraine caused a clear radiation signal in London when Russia destroyed the entire ammo dump recently”
Is that a problem? The detectors are ultra sensitive. Was the radiation level dangerous? How does it compare to getting a dental X-ray? Did the Grauniad bother to elaborate why anyone should be concerned? A little radiation compared to being invaded by The Russian Empire?
The destruction of the ammunition has not, I believe, been confirmed – the information comes from Russian news sites and there has been no evidence of any radiation signal. The sensors are so sensitive that rain in southern Poland caused a bismuth isotope spike but this was deemed to be natural and bismuth has never been connected with DU rounds. All in all, a non-story so far unless any evidence actually comes to light.
DU ammo was pulverized. There is a net that reported the signal.
AFAIK I have no Uranium in my fillings.
Plenty to be found in Iraq though , especially children.
That stuff has now polluted Ukraine’s famous black soil that Monsanto et al actually sold.
Would anyone here trust any agro product from 2022+ Ukraine? Their Sunflower oil briefly turned up on EU shelves, has vanished.
Just imagine Brussels trying to hide this DU gorilla under the carpet.
Britain may prefer its own DU?
Lots of info here. https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/nuclear-expert-depleted-uranium-may-already-be-in-use-in-ukraine
So what is it to be, sweetie? Has it been ‘pulverised’ or hasn’t it? Is it ‘already in use in Ukraine’ or has it been destroyed? You need to make up your mind which story you’re going with?
Climate Change is Natural. Repeat, Repeat, Repeat… ADAPT!
SteveG
July 12, 2023 2:30 am
Story Tip
Green report (models) released today on de-carbonization, Nut-Zero for Australia. Anyone got a spare 5 trillion $? That’s 5xGDP. Of course, the real costs will be way more.
How does one pay for de-carbonization, whilst simultaneously destroying income derived from coal, oil and gas. Oh, that’s right, by becoming a green superpower!. ROTFL…
It wasn’t anything like the christian hell – the Greeks didn’t have a heaven/hell myth; all the spirits or shades of the dead went to the underworld where they existed in a sort of similar world to the one they’d left. In Greek mythology any hero worth a story eventually ended up travelling to the underworld to either get answers, rescue someone or something similar.
This deception is entirely predicated on the fact that most people lack a knowledge of history, specifically knowledge of past climates and (very limited) temperature records. It is sad that it is so easy for the greens to delude people into thinking that we are all going to fry…. not unlike ancient societies whose religions used all sorts of sacrifices to try and keep the weather pleasant. There was enough coincidence and lack of the past for high priests in those societies to scare the populace into willingly providing sacrifices (sometimes human) in order to placate temperamental crop and weather deities.
I just never thought I’d be living in a time where the same is happening again – one can forgive ancient peoples for their lack of knowledge of climate and weather systems. But in this supposed day and age of reason people should not fall to being terrorized into giving up things due to weather fluctuations and natural disasters.
In ancient Meso-America, if your crops failed due to lack of rain, then it must have meant that the corn god was mad at you. Not enough hearts were cut out and sacrificed to him….
These days, if your neighborhood gets scoured by a tornado, then you have used to many fossil fuels and ate too much meat – and the earth itself is mad at you!
This deception is entirely predicated on the fact that most people lack a knowledge of history
What I find amazing is that people who have experienced similar weather in the past (I’m thinking back to growing up in California) are still taken in by this. They’ve forgotten their own personal history.
On our recent trip to my wife’s homeland, it got to 29 C in the East Midlands. A nice warm day. The rest of the time, it barely broke 25, and every one we visited was complaining of the heat. Please define “deadly temps”.
Hi Scissor,
I am not a betting man but I would put a tenner on the London temperatures being in the high teens and low twenties. Here is Dublin, I often put on a pullover when I go outside. Inside, without heating, it is around 24C but with the breeze outside 15C and lower despite being midsummer.
Somewhere like southern Germany has been hot 36C and a relative would like to come and visit Ireland in August because it is usually the hottest month. The problem is that the media confuses weather and climate. Just as one swallow does not a summer make neither does one hot day make the beginning of a climate disaster.
Isn´t it time to refresh the excistence of the word salad organization WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Develpment. They are a big fan of UN/IPCC, WHO, WMO etc etc…!!
This is a summary of the UK National Grid’s ‘Future Energy Scenarios’, and gives a quick account of the cliff over which all UK political parties are driving the country.
The UK political class is arguably the most stupid and unrealistic in its intentions, which have taken over the Grid planners. But the reason why its important for everyone to read and consider this is that the situation which is documented here is where any attempt to take a country to net zero will lead. Something which all the English speaking countries are claiming to be trying to do.
What we know, and most clearly from this, is that it won’t work. The question is however what the attempt will lead to. Surely there are only two possibilities: they back off, or there is a real social and economic crisis?
The amazing thing is the Grid actually supplies all the documentation any rational person needs to show its plans are totally unrealistic. Its hard to account for. Do they simply not see it? Or are they just going through the motions? Or are they desperately hoping their analysis will show the impossibility and lead to a U-turn?
Thanks for posting this reference. Here in the state of New York we are presently accelerating toward the same impossible endpoint. It simply will not work. The only question is – when will the people as a whole finally get fed up enough to call a stop to the insanity? The utility companies are filing rate increases, as they surely must, to pay for the measures necessitated by the state mandates. So the ratepayers will have tangible reasons to start pushing back. I hope it will happen before too much more time passes, but I am realistic enough to acknowledge it may take much more of a cost and reliability crisis to pressure our state government to back off the “climate action” nonsense.
Same for Woke-achusetts- and here I see zero resistance to this new religious cult. It’s so bad here that I may be the only person in this new Mecca to actually read and participate in this site!
OK, so now I know there are at least 2 people here from CT! So I think I’m the only one from MA- at least as a “regular”. There might be a few from NH, VT and ME. Goes to show the intensity of the brainwashing in New England.
Not all of them, some went to other schools or uni’s. The one common denominator seems to be that they, and they alone, know what’s best for the UK population.
The North Atlantic Cat-4 Heatwave as experienced in the NordSea off the Coast of Den Helder. From June 19 – June 25 the Wind blew from the South 5- 10 m/s consistently driving Temperatures up. Then the Wind shifted and started blowing from the WEST, from June 26 – July 5th and the Temperature went Way down again, and ended up way lower then when the Heatwave began.
The K13 and K14 Platforms are in the same general Area in the NoordZee off the Coast of Den Helder towards England
The Correlation between Wind Direction and Water Temperature. When the Wind is from the East, even North-East or the South, the Water temperature goes up.
When the Wind changes to West or North-West the Water Temperature goes Down, like Clockwork. The First graph is Den Helder Harbor close to Shore:
At the Graph in the link set the second box to “28 dagen Terug” same for the others
The K14 Platform has the Wind Direction at the bottom, check the arrows from June 19 – 25, on the 26 of June the Wind Direction changes to the West and the Water Temperature goes straight down Until July 6. Then the wind changes and to the South and it goes back up
“Spanish Socialist Minister Teresa Ribera travelled to the EU Climate Summit on a private jet, pulled up to the venue in a limo and then got out and rode a bike escorted by cars a few feet.
And it was an electric bike. She apparently fails to understand it would have been more impressive if she peddled the bike- forgetting about the private jet and limo.
Princeton University has established a department with a budget supplied by interested parties to research CO2 mitigation in the quest for Net Zero. It’s actually what’s known as a slush fund, a pool of money available with dubious supervision. While Princeton is a private entity, the fact that it receives federal monies means that it is held to the same legal standards as a public institution.
That won’t last long. CO2 mitigation makes continuing with fossil fuels and ICE automobiles possible. That can’t be allowed to happen or the true goal of fundamentally changing western civilization wont’ happen. They want to create a globalist, socialist utopia. They don’t know how to do that, but they do know they must tear down what we have now first.
Denis
July 12, 2023 5:41 am
The Anthropocene? If that is needed, why not define its beginning as the time that agriculture began some thousands of years ago, or the invention of the wheel, or the invention of penicillin or the steam engine? So many choices!
The North Atlantic Cat-4 Heatwave as experienced in the NordSea off the Coast of Den Helder.
From June 19 – June 25 the Wind blew from the South 5- 10 m/s consistently driving Temperatures up.
Then the Wind shifted and started blowing form the WEST, from June 26 – July 5th and the Temperature went Way down again, and ended up way lower then when the Heatwave began, so yeah, a Weather Event. If it was Climate Change it would have stayed up and kept going.
The K13 and K14 Platforms are in the same general Area in the NoordZee off the Coast of Den Helder towards England
The Correlation between Wind Direction and Water Temperature. When the Wind is from the East, even North-East or the South, the Water temperature goes up.
When the Wind changes to West or North-West the Water Temperature goes Down, like Clockwork. The First graph is Den Helder Harbor close to Shore:
Change the Selection Box to “28 Dagen Terug” to see the Graph:
You have to load the picture from your pc, there’s a small icon in the lower right corner of the comment window. Click on it and select the graphic you wish to include.
Driving right now but probably because the file size is too large
Tom Abbott
July 12, 2023 5:56 am
Well, let’s see here. The latest Republican poll for presidential candidates has Trump at 56 percent, with Desantis, second, at 19 percent (a drop from last week), and Tim Scott, the man I’m hoping Trump will pick as his vice president, came in third at 9 percent. All the other candidates were at 5 percent or less.
Please. Let’s cut the crap. Trump is toxic. Almost half of the electorate rejects him outright. He won’t quit harping about 2020. Instead of focusing on what he will do all he talks about is what happened to him. He takes no responsibility for losing the Senate in the 2021 GA run-offs or in the 2022 elections.
“Please. Let’s cut the crap. Trump is toxic. Almost half of the electorate rejects him outright.”
You don’t really know that. It is a talking point of the Left and the Never-Trumpers.
” He won’t quit harping about 2020.”
He should not quit harping about the 2020 election. There were serious irregularities which need to be addressed. Ignoring them won’t improve things.
” Instead of focusing on what he will do all he talks about is what happened to him.”
It’s not about what happened to him. It’s about what happened to the whole nation when the 2020 elections were rigged. It’s about what happened with the federal government using its power to attack the Republican presidential candidate, and then the Republican president while he was in office, and now they are attacking him and his supporters again as he is again the presidential candidate. Trump got millions more votes the second time he ran, which never happens in a presidential election, yet he lost. Trump and all his supporters have serious questions about this and if we don’t raise the questions then it’s all going to happen again, and the Democrats will cheat their way to a dictatorship. So, it’s not all about Trump.
“He takes no responsibility for losing the Senate in the 2021 GA run-offs or in the 2022 elections.”
More leftwing/Never-Trumper talking points. There’s no evidence Trump was responsible for any of these losses. If you care to check, you will see that about 98 percent of the candidates Trump endorsed, won their elections. You want to pick one or two election that were lost and blame the whole show on Trump. Talking points. No truth to them.
“I want MAGA, not Trump.”
I think you are going to get both. Hold your nose, and enjoy the good economy.
Tom, though you prefer Trump over DeSantis- you might want to read DeSantis book. He comes across as smart and with similar policies to Trump but without the flamboyance. And I have no doubt he could beat Biden.
I don’t know that Desantis is bought and paid for, but we do know Trump is not owned by anyone.
Trump is also the most innocent man in American political history. The radical Democrats have done everything they can think of legal and illegal, to try to nail Trump and they haven’t laid a glove on him.
The radical Democrats tried for years to get Trumps tax returns, just sure they could find something in there to beat Trump over the head with, and when they finally got them, they have gone silent. They couldn’t find one damn thing to charge Trump with.
And that includes a lot of business being done over a lot of years, and the Democrats come up with nothing.
Oh, but he got indicted! Yeah, we’ll see how far those go.
I’m not against Desantis, I just think Trump is a proven quantity and see no reason to roll the dice on Desantis or anyone else.
I think there are several of the Republican candidates who would make good presidents, but there is always the question of how they will perform, once in office, and we really don’t know the answer to that from the other candidates, but we do know what we are getting with Trump. I would submit that running a State government is much different than running the federal government.
And just as importantly, if Trump is somehow not the nominee, then the radical Democrats and their hijacking of the federal government using the “Justice” Department and the FBI and other federal agencies to destroy their political opponents will win, and if they win, then our democracy is down the tubes, as Democrats will hold political power in perpetuity as they use the federal government to destroy one opposition candidate after another.
If the American people don’t like what the radical Democrats have been doing and want to repudiate the radical Democrats, then they will elect Donald Trump as their next president. They couldn’t deliver a more powerful slap to the authoritarian Democrats than that.
Slap the Hell out of the radical Democrats, Americans! Show them they can’t get away with their crimes against the American people and the U.S. Constitution.
And btw, Joseph, you do see how the radical Democrats are already trying to demonize Desantis, just in case he is the nominee. They are calling his wife a “Karen” now. And it will only get worse if he looks like he is going to be the winner.
So the atmosphere will not be different if some other Republican is elected in Trump’s place. If that happens, the radical Democrats and their mouthpiece the Leftwing Media will turn whoever is the candidate into the next Trump, and after a few years, people will be complaining that the Republican is just too devisive.
It’s not the candidate that is devisive, it is the radical Democrats and the Press, but somehow this gets confused in the translation, and of course, the radical Democrats count on this confusion.
Trump isn’t the problem. The radical Democrats and the Leftwing Media and their lies and distortions are the real problem.
It’s just that Trump is an easy target due to his lifestyle and personality. By comparison, DeSantis’ lifestyle and personality seem squeeky clean in a conservative sort of way. (I say that as a dedicated independent). In his book he talks about his time in the military, how he’s a regular church goer, his time as governor with battles against far left proposals with good success. He’s fought to stop discussion of trans issues in public schools. He flew illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. As an independent, I’m very impressed. If a peanut farmer from GA could get elected, I think DeSantis can win. I think Trump by now is too tarnished.
I would just like to acknowledge the recent uptick in the number of posts from Charles Rotter. This is a welcome development. CtM is more than just M. 🙂
This article shows how much the ALL-IN, turnkey capital cost of Tesla’s grid-scale, li-ion-based battery systems have increased from 2021, to 2022, to 2023, based on Tesla advertised data on its website.
Those turnkey cost are much greater than the $350/kWh, delivered as AC, bandied about by battery system proponents.
Solar electricity increases with the rising sun, is maximal around midday, and decreases with the setting sun.
The Owners of traditional generating plants, to avoid grid disturbances, are required by ISO-NE, the NE grid operator, to reduce their outputs when solar is present, which decreases their annual production, kWh/y, and increases their costs, c/kWh, plus increases wear and tear of their plants, i.e., those services are not “for free”; they are charged to ratepayers.
Electric grids with many solar systems have major midday solar output bulges, that are counteracted by the traditional power plants reducing their outputs. Combined-cycle, gas-turbine plants, CCGTs, perform almost all of the counteracting (aka balancing) of the variable wind and solar outputs.
Those plants have to increase their outputs during the peak hours of late afternoon/early evening, when solar will have gone to sleep until about 8 or 9 AM the next morning.
Battery Systems Electricity Delivery Periods at Rated Capacity
At present, most recently installed battery systems have about 4 hours of electricity delivery at rated capacity, because the battery systems are primarily used to absorb midday solar output bulges.
Battery systems, in use during all of 2015, delivered electricity, on average, for 0.5 hours
Battery systems, in use during all of 2018, delivered electricity, on average, for 2.4 hours
Battery systems, in use during all of 2019, delivered electricity, on average, for 3.2 hours
The increase in energy-delivery duration is required, because the main function of battery systems is to store excess wind and store midday solar output bulges. They discharge about 80% of the stored electricity during the peak hours of late afternoon/early evening; the other 20% are round-trip battery system losses. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=43775
Battery Systems Perform Multiple Services at the Same Time
A 2018 survey of 43 battery systems, performed by the Energy Information Administration, EIA, found:
26 systems dealt with: 1) excess wind events, which occur at random, and 2) midday solar output bulges, which occur every day
18 dealt with frequency regulation
13 dealt with system peak demand shaving
The annual battery throughput is greatest, by far, for dealing with excess wind and midday solar output bulges.
“This article shows how much the ALL-IN, turnkey capital cost of Tesla’s grid-scale, li-ion-based battery systems have increased from 2021, to 2022, to 2023, based on Tesla advertised data on its website.”
To paraphrase the character Captain Renault in the movie Casablanca: “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that Tesla’s grid-scale battery costs are increasing.”
“The Owners of traditional generating plants, to avoid grid disturbances, are required by ISO-NE, the NE grid operator, to reduce their outputs when solar is present, which decreases their annual production”
And people wonder why their electricity prices keep going up.
Steve Oregon
July 12, 2023 7:28 am
COVID emissions reduction proves Net Zero is a fraud that can only hurt economies.
Not enough attention has focused on the global lockdown reduction in emissions failing to show up as any atmospheric CO2 reduction.
Climate experts have been surprised that while carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell significantly in 2020, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere continued to grow at about the same rate as in preceding years. “We all expected to see it drop” The COVID lockdowns proved Net Zero will not lower Atmospheric CO2. Why persist?
Lessons From the Pandemic
The study took a step back to ask what the pandemic could teach about how a lower-emissions future might look and how the world might get there.
Notably, emissions returned to near-pre-pandemic levels by the latter part of 2020, despite reduced activity in many sectors of the economy. The authors reason that this rebound in emissions was probably necessary for businesses and individuals to maintain even limited economic productivity, using the worldwide energy infrastructure that exists today. “This suggests that reducing activity in these industrial and residential sectors is not practical in the short term” as a means of cutting emissions, the study noted. “Reducing these sectors’ emissions permanently will require their transition to low-carbon-emitting technology.”
Carefully, that’s the kind of information that will get you banned from social media.
Gregory Woods
July 12, 2023 7:31 am
Nut Zero: There are industries which require 24 hour energy supply. Not only staple industries like steel and aluminum, but also like the manufacture of computer chips. I do not understand how anyone in these businesses can even consider locating to States and countries which are attempting to increase unreliable power leading to prolonged blackouts. Can someone explain?
Can you explain how green energy is the future but how you can’t build turbines or solar panels without conventional energy?
Can you explain how we can destroy the current energy infrastructure before the new, “green” energy infrastructure is in place?
Can you explain how we can move away from fossil fuel ICE automobiles and natural gas home heating without producing more electricity to meet the increased demand?
Nobody can, but we’re doing all of this anyway.
joe x
July 12, 2023 7:41 am
“The GOP Is Finally Trying to Disarm Federal Bureaucrats”
this legislation may not make it through but worth a shot.
Climate Reanalyzerout of The University of Maine publishes among other charts one of the Daily Sea Surface temp 60S to 60N from data from NOAA. One temp. to sum it all up with yearly plots going back to 1981.
This year 2023 the temp is warmest on this record..
Does this temp as a value of summation of all that area of ocean have any validity?
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‘Earth Is Screaming’ Meteorologist Warns Amid Unprecedented Heatwave: ‘Need To Listen’
Hmmmm . . . I was previously led to believe that Earth “had a fever”, but now is screaming?
Why, this is simply intolerable. Calling all planetary-level psychiatrists and sedation experts . . . calling all planetary-level psychiatrists and sedation experts . . .
Neo
July 12, 2023 8:22 am
California’s long-awaited high speed train will be solar powered, according to the California High-Speed Rail Authority. It’s been a rocky road so far for the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s promising new project.
.. but will it ever actually run ?
You know, a town state with money is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it.
In 2017, our trains in the Netherlands became the first in the world to run for 100% on wind energy. http://www.ns.nl
What a Nice Story! 100 % Green Trains, Wow!
7 -10% of Electricity in the Dutch Grid comes from Wind. The Train system runs off the Dutch grid, it does not have a separate grid. So, once the electricity from the Wind Farms gets fed onto the Dutch grid, it is mixed in with all the other electricity, and you cannot tell which is which anymore. 80 % of that grid runs off Fossil Fuel.
“In 2017, our trains in the Netherlands became the first in the world to run for 100% on wind energy.”
It’s just a big lie, as you point out.
Periodically, we will get someone or group claiming they are operating on 100 percent wind/solar, and I have never seen one of these claims turn out to be true. They are all just like this claim: A little bit from wind/solar, and a lot from other sources.
Yeah . . . like anyone—anyone at all—should believe what the California High-Speed Authority has to say!
Here, by their own admission, is how badly they underestimated the cost of the project:
“The price tag for the rail system has risen to $128 billion, according to a California High Speed Rail Authority project update report — a nearly 22% uptick from the previous figure of $105 billion from last year and a far cry from the $33 billion cost voters approved in 2008.”
— https://www.constructiondive.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-cost-jumps-to-128b/645269/#
And I have no doubt whatsoever that the latest figures the CHSRA released are themselves biased to be artificially low.
That CA governor Gavin Newsom, now actively positioning himself to be a last-minute replacement for Biden as Democrat Presidential candidate, has allowed this farce to continue throughout his administration is an absolute disgrace and affront to California taxpayers.
Besides which, Newsom is just an idiot, but I digress.
Just stick sails on it.
(Good enough for the Cutty Sark)
Use the solar stuff to power the fans to blow on her sails.
Coeur de Lion
July 12, 2023 8:31 am
Future energy scenarios must take into account Willis’s point that wind and solar produce less than a third of what wood and dung produce, about two percent of world energy, lost in the noise. And after $billions wasted
Coeur de Lion
July 12, 2023 9:03 am
What do we Think about the upcoming El Niño
? Strong at 1.5 is predicted but trending down towards zero and neutral as early as FMA next year
I think that it will peak to levels near early 2020 and then head down afterwards. After that the Earth will cool slightly as typically happens after an El Niño. The pause will continue also.
Via an equal weighted blend of statistical and dynamic models in the IRI ensemble I’m only seeing a predicted peak around 1.3 and falling to 0.7 by FMA.
Neo
July 12, 2023 10:02 am
Marine life booms with a spate of new species every 36 million years, and tectonic heaving is the indirect reason, new research has found.
A deep analysis of the fossil and geological record reveals a changing sea level that occurs in response to a 36-million-year cycle of tectonic movement. https://www.sciencealert.com/an-explosion-of-life-happens-on-earth-every-36-million-years-now-we-know-why
“The cycles are 36 million years long because of regular patterns in how tectonic plates are recycled into the convecting mantle, the mobile part of the deep Earth, similar to hot, thick soup in a pot, that moves slowly.”
There are other triggers throughout Earth’s history that can drive biodiversity. For example, the team also found evidence of a biodiversity cycle of 62 million years.
Musk says ESG is the devil : https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1667329644373356544 Tesla earned just 37 points on the ESG scorecard while Philip Morris posted a score of 84. the London Stock Exchange has given British American Tobacco a score of 94.
Lighting up 20.3 billion tobacco products daily worldwide does wonders for the environment and sustainability?
h/t to ZH , RT.
“Solar wind despite high sunspot number remains weak.”
No big coronal holes…
bdgwx
July 12, 2023 2:36 pm
For those that want to put skin in the game you can place your climate bets at Kalshi. The market is predicting a 67% chance that 2023 will be the warmest in the GISTEMP dataset. My model is saying there is about a 75% chance. BEST says there’s an 81% chance in their dataset.
Participants are not wagering on whether GISTEMP is fit for a purpose or meaningful. They are wagering on whether GISS will report the 2023 value as >= 1.03 C or not.
So it’s a question of what is in the minds of the data mannipulators?
That “warmer” 1.03C number is based on 2016 being 1.02C? The 1.02C number is supposedly the warmest temperature since 1850, which occurred in 2016.
My guess is the data mannipulators will make every effort to make 2023 look like the “hottest year evah!”. If the temperatures get within a few tenths of a degree of a “new record”, then I think the data mannipulators will manage to get it over the top. They did a pretty good job of this since 1998, declaring something like ten of the years between 1998 and 2016 as being the “hottest year evah!”, so I assume they can continue with this practice.
If you look at the UAH satellite chart, there are NO “hottest year evah!’s” between 1998 and 2016, 1998 being statistically tied with 2016 as the warmest year in the satellite era (1979 to present) and none of the years between them are warmer than 1998.
That’s why the data mannipulators don’t like the UAH chart. They can’t scream “hottest year evah!” using it.
For your information, the hot years of 1998 and 2016 were years when global SO2 aerosol levels were reduced by man-made global “Clean Air”efforts.
NASA/GEOS produces global satellite SO2 “re-analysis” aerosol images which are archived, so that it is possible to view global SO2 aerosol levels for any day since 1980.(I am told that the “re-analysis” images are more accurate than the daily images).
My guess is the data mannipulators will make every effort to make 2023 look like the “hottest year evah!”.
You should put your money where your mouth is then. If you think the odds are 100% then you can profit.
If the temperatures get within a few tenths of a degree of a “new record”, then I think the data mannipulators will manage to get it over the top.
If they did then I along with everyone else will know about it since there are many of us that run GISTEMP on our own machines.
TheImpaler
July 12, 2023 5:25 pm
Sometimes the stupid becomes too much. Saw a story this weekend saying that apparently acetaminophen and ibuprofen are made from petroleum. Now some smart greenperson has figured out how to make them from turpentine made from pine trees. The story closed with “This will lower carbon emissions’ (like every story in the MSM). Head scratching. I don’t believe the petroleum is burned in the manufacturing process so no CO2 is released at least from the ingredient standpoint and your solution is to cut down trees that eat carbon dioxide? No, you’re increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. Another non-problem made worse by the warmologists. And how much you want to bet the replacement products don’t work as well as the regular ones?
DonM
July 13, 2023 4:23 pm
Recently it was announced that marijuana was also found in the White House.
“No one was arrested in these incidents, because the weight of the marijuana …”
No where do they state that they didn’t know who had the marijuana. Eventually someone with a little intelligence will recognize that the statement was intended as a form of distraction and ask the follow up question … “Who was given a pass because of the amount found?”
The answer will be that it is a private matter and it will remain so.
Tom Abbott
July 14, 2023 5:57 am
I ran across this in the latest issue of Astronomy magazine:
At the end of an article (page 43, July 2023) was this about the author of the article:
“Ashley Spindler (she/they) is a lecturer in astronomy and data science at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. She spends her time studying the evolution of barred galaxies with the help of AI.”
Several things:
I’m wondering where the (she/they) came from? I checked, and I didn’t see any of the other authors in this issue declaring their pronouns. I assume this must have been a request from the author, or maybe she attaches that to every signature of hers now?
As to the “they”: In what circumstance is this to be used in relation to this person? What’s the rule? What’s the alternative? So many questions!
Ulric Lyons
July 19, 2023 10:10 am
The most important chart in climate science. There are enough clues there to deduce that Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation temperatures are an inverse response to solar wind strength, with very little lag, rather than a direct and lagged response to changes in solar irradiance.
That AMO anomalies remain locked to solar cycles through each AMO envelope, and are always colder around solar cycle minimum during a cold AMO phase, and never colder around solar cycle minimum during a warm AMO phase.
That the very long term mean AMO frequency has to be 55 years, as every other warm AMO phase is during a centennial solar minimum. The last two AMO cycles of 60 and 70 years are due to the previous centennial solar minimum being 130 years before the current centennial minimum.
Story tip – hatchet job needed.
This is all over the British media – particularly on… the BBC and in the Guardian. And it’s beginning to do my head in. Time for a WUWT riposte?
“Nuclear bomb fallout chosen to define start of Anthropocene
Plutonium spike in Canadian lake sediments marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet
By Deviant Carrington”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/nuclear-bomb-fallout-site-chosen-to-define-start-of-anthropocene
Why the sudden push?
“If the site is approved by the scientists who oversee the geological timescale the official declaration of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch will come in August 2024….”
I see… So, time to ramp up the psychological pressure…
“In a time of deep planetary change, how do we begin to recover from the trauma of climate change?
…
As humans, we face diverse experiences and pressures that require healing. And as a new epoch is unfolding – the Anthropocene – deep planetary changes and environmental destruction are necessitating healing at individual, community and global scales. Feelings of pain, suffering, fear, anger and grief for those directly affected by climate change or those watching through TV screens are real.”
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210420-mental-health-healing-the-trauma-of-climate-change
All ist klar. It’s the same strategy. Scare, scare and scare again.
I saw that and got depressed – as in ‘sad & melancholy‘ – not ‘drunk & stupid‘
What they’re actually recording is soil erosion (Natural Variation and how we humans have changed/accelerated it) but that is The Very Last Thing they’ll see.
All they will see, all they want to see, is how bad, wrong and evil everybody else is in this world and how good, lovely and well-intentioned they are.
They are using it to start a(nother) fight.
and THAT is the problem here – the exact same mental slowness, belligerence and magical thinking that saw Henry 8th fall out with everyone – especially womenfolk – just like The Geeks who designed and built the computers we now haha ‘rely upon’
The social awkwardness and fear of girls intrinsic to Gates, Jobs and Zuckerburg etc, allied to an intense desire for Money & Control, has now affected everyone.
And we actually think that more of it (e.g. Models and AI) will solve our self-inflicted problems.
And he set off the Little Ice Age. Simply by chopping trees – as we’re doing now via ‘Biomass’.
Welcome to the KindergartenOcene and the New Dark Ages
Peta,
Am I different because I like girls and value Viva la difference? My mobile number is available. …. Geoff S
Try a bit of wooing, Geoff
“Plutonium spike in Canadian lake sediments marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet”
They make it sound as if dominating the planet is a bad thing! They don’t seem to appreciate that living in the Paleolithic wasn’t so great- when we didn’t dominate the planet.
Yes, but lets be honest; we don’t really dominate the planet – we work within it.
correct- we hardly dominate the planet
Off on a slight tangent.
I’ve been watching a few YouTube videos on the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires.
Triggered by discovering that the song Rivers of Babylon by Boney M was based around Psalm 137
There are lots of theories about the fall of these and other Mediterranean empires. Sea People and Climate change being amongst them.
At the fall of the Assyrian Empire the Climate got colder and drier leading to crop failure and social unrest and rebellion. The Sea People were just refugees looking for somewhere to live without starving
One theory is that a mega eruption of Hekla was the cause of the cooling climate.
One of the madcap solutions to the Anthropocene watming is to reduce sunlight reaching the Earth by blocking it’s path. I’m hoping, but expect to be proved wrong that these plans include a removal option
removal of what?
Removal of whatever it is they use to block sunlight when they realise it is a Bad Idea.
THE NUTJOB THAT’S TALKING ABOUT IT.
On Amazon there is a series by a lady prof on the Dark Ages or Medieval Times from about 500-1400. She mention several times that climate change caused empires/civilizations to collapse.
She goes into the Vikings in Greenland, Iceland, and North America and a couple others.
Climate change ended several empires and nothing to do with CO2.
Grauniad is upset that British Depleted Uranium munitions sent to Ukraine caused a clear radiation signal in London when Russia destroyed the entire ammo dump recently. The old Chernobyl sensor network picked this up all across Europe.
And by the way Chernobyl’s fire matched exactly the Windscale UK nuclear fire – same design, in 1957, which was a Plutonium fabrik. They actually flew PU in Cesna’s with timber boxes to Scotland for bomb assembly. Both fires spread other isotopes.
Northern France registered Polonium fallout. The alps Caesium isotopes.
The only place I know of with actual Plutonium pollution besides Chelyabinsk in Russia is Hanford Washington.
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/786315
Plutonium Fission in the Oklo Natural Reactor”The Oklo natural reactor was discovered in 1972. Experimental evidence has indicated that the fuel source was primarily 235U with a small contribution of 7 to 9 percent from the fission of 239Pu. This article’s reevaluation of data indicates that 239Pu was an important source of fuel in some areas of the reactor. A small portion of xenon and krypton released from Oklo sample 1348 appears to have originated from a source enriched in 239Pu. That fuel source may have been the core of a natural breeder reactor.”
So according to Grauniad Anthropocene began 1800 million years ago!
“British Depleted Uranium munitions sent to Ukraine caused a clear radiation signal in London when Russia destroyed the entire ammo dump recently”
Is that a problem? The detectors are ultra sensitive. Was the radiation level dangerous? How does it compare to getting a dental X-ray? Did the Grauniad bother to elaborate why anyone should be concerned? A little radiation compared to being invaded by The Russian Empire?
The destruction of the ammunition has not, I believe, been confirmed – the information comes from Russian news sites and there has been no evidence of any radiation signal. The sensors are so sensitive that rain in southern Poland caused a bismuth isotope spike but this was deemed to be natural and bismuth has never been connected with DU rounds. All in all, a non-story so far unless any evidence actually comes to light.
DU ammo was pulverized. There is a net that reported the signal.
AFAIK I have no Uranium in my fillings.
Plenty to be found in Iraq though , especially children.
That stuff has now polluted Ukraine’s famous black soil that Monsanto et al actually sold.
Would anyone here trust any agro product from 2022+ Ukraine? Their Sunflower oil briefly turned up on EU shelves, has vanished.
Just imagine Brussels trying to hide this DU gorilla under the carpet.
Britain may prefer its own DU?
Lots of info here.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/nuclear-expert-depleted-uranium-may-already-be-in-use-in-ukraine
So what is it to be, sweetie? Has it been ‘pulverised’ or hasn’t it? Is it ‘already in use in Ukraine’ or has it been destroyed? You need to make up your mind which story you’re going with?
Nah . . . the beginning of the Anthropocene should be clearly identified by dating the first empty motor oil can ever found in a landfill.
So, are they saying it was all FDR’s fault ?
Boom times for psychiatrists.
Climate Change is Natural. Repeat, Repeat, Repeat… ADAPT!
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Green report (models) released today on de-carbonization, Nut-Zero for Australia. Anyone got a spare 5 trillion $? That’s 5xGDP. Of course, the real costs will be way more.
How does one pay for de-carbonization, whilst simultaneously destroying income derived from coal, oil and gas. Oh, that’s right, by becoming a green superpower!. ROTFL…
Modelling Summary Report
We need a weekly award for the worst climate alarmist journalism.
Perhaps readers can suggest a real catchy name.
I will start by nominating a Daily Mail article:
Cerberus hits Europe: Deadly heat claims first life in Italy and Spain faces a scorchio 44C as heatwave named after Dante’s Inferno creature hits tourist hotspots across the Mediterranean – and it’ll get even HOTTER in some parts
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12289033/Europe-warned-expect-health-impact-WILDFIRES-wakes-highest-temperatures-ever.html
Cerberus was the mythological 3 headed dog that guarded the entrance to the Greek underworld. Loosely translated, the name means “spot”.
Amazing that the Greek underworld needed guarding- like, who would want to go there?
It wasn’t anything like the christian hell – the Greeks didn’t have a heaven/hell myth; all the spirits or shades of the dead went to the underworld where they existed in a sort of similar world to the one they’d left. In Greek mythology any hero worth a story eventually ended up travelling to the underworld to either get answers, rescue someone or something similar.
I thought it meant “Rin, Tin, and Tin2.” A name for each head.
Oh jeez Clyde I didn’t see that you already gave the answer. I defer to you. And condolences that your mind works like mine.
Heh. Wrong sort of classics!
Umm, Rintintin I believe.
Weekly weather derangement award?
Still on a classical note – how about calling the award the ‘Laverna’ after the Roman goddess of thieves, liars, cheats and robbers?
This deception is entirely predicated on the fact that most people lack a knowledge of history, specifically knowledge of past climates and (very limited) temperature records. It is sad that it is so easy for the greens to delude people into thinking that we are all going to fry…. not unlike ancient societies whose religions used all sorts of sacrifices to try and keep the weather pleasant. There was enough coincidence and lack of the past for high priests in those societies to scare the populace into willingly providing sacrifices (sometimes human) in order to placate temperamental crop and weather deities.
I just never thought I’d be living in a time where the same is happening again – one can forgive ancient peoples for their lack of knowledge of climate and weather systems. But in this supposed day and age of reason people should not fall to being terrorized into giving up things due to weather fluctuations and natural disasters.
In ancient Meso-America, if your crops failed due to lack of rain, then it must have meant that the corn god was mad at you. Not enough hearts were cut out and sacrificed to him….
These days, if your neighborhood gets scoured by a tornado, then you have used to many fossil fuels and ate too much meat – and the earth itself is mad at you!
This deception is entirely predicated on the fact that most people lack a knowledge of history
What I find amazing is that people who have experienced similar weather in the past (I’m thinking back to growing up in California) are still taken in by this. They’ve forgotten their own personal history.
The greens depend on the “some of the people you can fool all the time.”
I’m headed to London in a couple of weeks. Any chance of some deadly temps there?
Hang on I’ll ring the Met Office and see if they can oblige you – how hot do you want it to be?
On our recent trip to my wife’s homeland, it got to 29 C in the East Midlands. A nice warm day. The rest of the time, it barely broke 25, and every one we visited was complaining of the heat. Please define “deadly temps”.
Thank you for not saying “the wife’s homeland”.
Sorry, sturmudgeon – see my response just above your comment.
That would have been a big mistake.
The Met office seem to think that 13ºC is devastating these days. This was the forecast for Thursday July 6th:
Hi Scissor,
I am not a betting man but I would put a tenner on the London temperatures being in the high teens and low twenties. Here is Dublin, I often put on a pullover when I go outside. Inside, without heating, it is around 24C but with the breeze outside 15C and lower despite being midsummer.
Somewhere like southern Germany has been hot 36C and a relative would like to come and visit Ireland in August because it is usually the hottest month. The problem is that the media confuses weather and climate. Just as one swallow does not a summer make neither does one hot day make the beginning of a climate disaster.
“… highest-temperatures-EVER”? Ever is a very long time.
After all I have said over almost a decade, and all I have done to demolish homogenisation of Australia’s temperature records, what can I say?
Oh wait, there is no warming.
Kind regards,
Dr Bill Johnston
http://www.bomwatch.com.au
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Isn´t it time to refresh the excistence of the word salad organization WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Develpment. They are a big fan of UN/IPCC, WHO, WMO etc etc…!!
Green Lockdown as a resultof climate change: Is it coming in near future? – New Delhi Times – India Only International Newspaper
Time is running out, they say … we may, but ofc we don´t “want” to force a climate lockdown upon you…!!
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Everyone should read and consider Paul Homewood’s post here:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/07/10/fes-2023-the-emperor-still-has-no-clothes/
This is a summary of the UK National Grid’s ‘Future Energy Scenarios’, and gives a quick account of the cliff over which all UK political parties are driving the country.
The UK political class is arguably the most stupid and unrealistic in its intentions, which have taken over the Grid planners. But the reason why its important for everyone to read and consider this is that the situation which is documented here is where any attempt to take a country to net zero will lead. Something which all the English speaking countries are claiming to be trying to do.
What we know, and most clearly from this, is that it won’t work. The question is however what the attempt will lead to. Surely there are only two possibilities: they back off, or there is a real social and economic crisis?
The amazing thing is the Grid actually supplies all the documentation any rational person needs to show its plans are totally unrealistic. Its hard to account for. Do they simply not see it? Or are they just going through the motions? Or are they desperately hoping their analysis will show the impossibility and lead to a U-turn?
Thanks for posting this reference. Here in the state of New York we are presently accelerating toward the same impossible endpoint. It simply will not work. The only question is – when will the people as a whole finally get fed up enough to call a stop to the insanity? The utility companies are filing rate increases, as they surely must, to pay for the measures necessitated by the state mandates. So the ratepayers will have tangible reasons to start pushing back. I hope it will happen before too much more time passes, but I am realistic enough to acknowledge it may take much more of a cost and reliability crisis to pressure our state government to back off the “climate action” nonsense.
Same for Woke-achusetts- and here I see zero resistance to this new religious cult. It’s so bad here that I may be the only person in this new Mecca to actually read and participate in this site!
You may be, but I am just south of the border into the PRC (People’s Republic of Connecticut)
OK, so now I know there are at least 2 people here from CT! So I think I’m the only one from MA- at least as a “regular”. There might be a few from NH, VT and ME. Goes to show the intensity of the brainwashing in New England.
The frog in the pot of water being brought to the boil doesn’t notice until it is too late.
You raise many good questions.
It’s hard to say why some people can’t see the obvious.
“The UK political class is arguably the most stupid …” But didn’t they go to Eton and Oxbridge?
Not all of them, some went to other schools or uni’s. The one common denominator seems to be that they, and they alone, know what’s best for the UK population.
When someone dies, they feel nothing, it’s the people around them that feel pain. A similar phenomenon occurs with stupid people.
The CAT 4 Marine Heatwave of June 2023, promoted by CNN and WAPO, in the North Atlantic Explained
Data from Rijkswaterstaat, Dutch Government
Den Helder – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
K14 platform – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
K13 Alpha – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
The North Atlantic Cat-4 Heatwave as experienced in the NordSea off the Coast of Den Helder.
From June 19 – June 25 the Wind blew from the South 5- 10 m/s consistently driving Temperatures up.
Then the Wind shifted and started blowing from the WEST, from June 26 – July 5th and the Temperature went Way down again, and ended up way lower then when the Heatwave began.
The K13 and K14 Platforms are in the same general Area in the NoordZee off the Coast of Den Helder towards England
The Correlation between Wind Direction and Water Temperature. When the Wind is from the East, even North-East or the South, the Water temperature goes up.
When the Wind changes to West or North-West the Water Temperature goes Down, like Clockwork. The First graph is Den Helder Harbor close to Shore:
At the Graph in the link set the second box to “28 dagen Terug” same for the others
Den Helder – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
The K14 Platform has the Wind Direction at the bottom, check the arrows from June 19 – 25, on the 26 of June the Wind Direction changes to the West and the Water Temperature goes straight down Until July 6. Then the wind changes and to the South and it goes back up
K14 platform – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
Frauds away.
“Spanish Socialist Minister Teresa Ribera travelled to the EU Climate Summit on a private jet, pulled up to the venue in a limo and then got out and rode a bike escorted by cars a few feet.
These people are frauds.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-virtue-signalling-environmental-minister-bikes-climate-conference-escort-gas-cars
And it was an electric bike. She apparently fails to understand it would have been more impressive if she peddled the bike- forgetting about the private jet and limo.
More impressive if she pedalled it from Spain.
Princeton University has established a department with a budget supplied by interested parties to research CO2 mitigation in the quest for Net Zero. It’s actually what’s known as a slush fund, a pool of money available with dubious supervision. While Princeton is a private entity, the fact that it receives federal monies means that it is held to the same legal standards as a public institution.
That won’t last long. CO2 mitigation makes continuing with fossil fuels and ICE automobiles possible. That can’t be allowed to happen or the true goal of fundamentally changing western civilization wont’ happen. They want to create a globalist, socialist utopia. They don’t know how to do that, but they do know they must tear down what we have now first.
The Anthropocene? If that is needed, why not define its beginning as the time that agriculture began some thousands of years ago, or the invention of the wheel, or the invention of penicillin or the steam engine? So many choices!
David Middleton has the best take on “The Anthropocene”.
He has ridiculed the idea in several previous posts here at WUWT, although I don’t have a link handy.
New article inbound
When Adam and Eve disobeyed God and had sex- then were thrown out of Paradise?
ha, just joking! 🙂
About the sex, or about Paradise?
So, Abel was the fruit of the Tree of Carnal Knowledge?
I’m going to have to read Dad’s bible again… didn’tkknow there was any ‘sex’ in it.. all I saw was a bunch of “begats”.
https://www.rt.com/news/579403-corporations-esg-goals-backtrack/
ESG thrust weakening —at last!
Its the Russian Times. Clearly disinformation.
I put up a post about the Marine Heatwave in June about an hour ago.
It disappeared? What happened? Was there something wrong in my post?
Feedback would be appreciated.
Ok, I’ll re-post. We’ll see what happens’
The CAT 4 Marine Heatwave of Jun 2023, promoted by CNN and WAPO, in the North Atlantic Explained
Data from Rijkswaterstaat, Dutch Government
Den Helder – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
K14 platform – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
K13 Alpha – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
The North Atlantic Cat-4 Heatwave as experienced in the NordSea off the Coast of Den Helder.
From June 19 – June 25 the Wind blew from the South 5- 10 m/s consistently driving Temperatures up.
Then the Wind shifted and started blowing form the WEST, from June 26 – July 5th and the Temperature went Way down again, and ended up way lower then when the Heatwave began, so yeah, a Weather Event. If it was Climate Change it would have stayed up and kept going.
The K13 and K14 Platforms are in the same general Area in the NoordZee off the Coast of Den Helder towards England
The Correlation between Wind Direction and Water Temperature. When the Wind is from the East, even North-East or the South, the Water temperature goes up.
When the Wind changes to West or North-West the Water Temperature goes Down, like Clockwork. The First graph is Den Helder Harbor close to Shore:
Change the Selection Box to “28 Dagen Terug” to see the Graph:
Den Helder – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
See the Wind Direction from Jun 19 to June 25 from the South, then changing to the West on June 26 to July 5th
K14 platform – Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo (rws.nl)
Four links or more and it automatically gets flagged as spam. Spam flagged comments can take a while to release.
Maybe if you have more that 3 links, replying to yourself with the surplus links might avoid the automatic flag?
Thank you!
Whay can I not Paste the Graph bout the Water Temperature into eh Post directly?
I have seen other Posters include Graphs?
You have to load the picture from your pc, there’s a small icon in the lower right corner of the comment window. Click on it and select the graphic you wish to include.
Driving right now but probably because the file size is too large
Well, let’s see here. The latest Republican poll for presidential candidates has Trump at 56 percent, with Desantis, second, at 19 percent (a drop from last week), and Tim Scott, the man I’m hoping Trump will pick as his vice president, came in third at 9 percent. All the other candidates were at 5 percent or less.
And there are “conservatives” out there whining about Trump calling him “DeSanctimonious”, who is backed by the usual ¡Jeb! crowd.
Please. Let’s cut the crap. Trump is toxic. Almost half of the electorate rejects him outright. He won’t quit harping about 2020. Instead of focusing on what he will do all he talks about is what happened to him. He takes no responsibility for losing the Senate in the 2021 GA run-offs or in the 2022 elections.
I want MAGA, not Trump.
So the elections are all on the up-and-up?
Of course, they were not on the up-and-up. And if we don’t question what happened, then we are going to get more of the same.
“Please. Let’s cut the crap. Trump is toxic. Almost half of the electorate rejects him outright.”
You don’t really know that. It is a talking point of the Left and the Never-Trumpers.
” He won’t quit harping about 2020.”
He should not quit harping about the 2020 election. There were serious irregularities which need to be addressed. Ignoring them won’t improve things.
” Instead of focusing on what he will do all he talks about is what happened to him.”
It’s not about what happened to him. It’s about what happened to the whole nation when the 2020 elections were rigged. It’s about what happened with the federal government using its power to attack the Republican presidential candidate, and then the Republican president while he was in office, and now they are attacking him and his supporters again as he is again the presidential candidate. Trump got millions more votes the second time he ran, which never happens in a presidential election, yet he lost. Trump and all his supporters have serious questions about this and if we don’t raise the questions then it’s all going to happen again, and the Democrats will cheat their way to a dictatorship. So, it’s not all about Trump.
“He takes no responsibility for losing the Senate in the 2021 GA run-offs or in the 2022 elections.”
More leftwing/Never-Trumper talking points. There’s no evidence Trump was responsible for any of these losses. If you care to check, you will see that about 98 percent of the candidates Trump endorsed, won their elections. You want to pick one or two election that were lost and blame the whole show on Trump. Talking points. No truth to them.
“I want MAGA, not Trump.”
I think you are going to get both. Hold your nose, and enjoy the good economy.
Tom, though you prefer Trump over DeSantis- you might want to read DeSantis book. He comes across as smart and with similar policies to Trump but without the flamboyance. And I have no doubt he could beat Biden.
But does he write mean Tweets?
Did HE write the book? Question Everything. DeS. is bought and paid for. PDJT IS NOT.
Well, at least he’s smart enough to write it- whereas I doubt Trump could write a book on any subject.
I don’t know that Desantis is bought and paid for, but we do know Trump is not owned by anyone.
Trump is also the most innocent man in American political history. The radical Democrats have done everything they can think of legal and illegal, to try to nail Trump and they haven’t laid a glove on him.
The radical Democrats tried for years to get Trumps tax returns, just sure they could find something in there to beat Trump over the head with, and when they finally got them, they have gone silent. They couldn’t find one damn thing to charge Trump with.
And that includes a lot of business being done over a lot of years, and the Democrats come up with nothing.
Oh, but he got indicted! Yeah, we’ll see how far those go.
I’m not against Desantis, I just think Trump is a proven quantity and see no reason to roll the dice on Desantis or anyone else.
I think there are several of the Republican candidates who would make good presidents, but there is always the question of how they will perform, once in office, and we really don’t know the answer to that from the other candidates, but we do know what we are getting with Trump. I would submit that running a State government is much different than running the federal government.
And just as importantly, if Trump is somehow not the nominee, then the radical Democrats and their hijacking of the federal government using the “Justice” Department and the FBI and other federal agencies to destroy their political opponents will win, and if they win, then our democracy is down the tubes, as Democrats will hold political power in perpetuity as they use the federal government to destroy one opposition candidate after another.
If the American people don’t like what the radical Democrats have been doing and want to repudiate the radical Democrats, then they will elect Donald Trump as their next president. They couldn’t deliver a more powerful slap to the authoritarian Democrats than that.
Slap the Hell out of the radical Democrats, Americans! Show them they can’t get away with their crimes against the American people and the U.S. Constitution.
And btw, Joseph, you do see how the radical Democrats are already trying to demonize Desantis, just in case he is the nominee. They are calling his wife a “Karen” now. And it will only get worse if he looks like he is going to be the winner.
So the atmosphere will not be different if some other Republican is elected in Trump’s place. If that happens, the radical Democrats and their mouthpiece the Leftwing Media will turn whoever is the candidate into the next Trump, and after a few years, people will be complaining that the Republican is just too devisive.
It’s not the candidate that is devisive, it is the radical Democrats and the Press, but somehow this gets confused in the translation, and of course, the radical Democrats count on this confusion.
Trump isn’t the problem. The radical Democrats and the Leftwing Media and their lies and distortions are the real problem.
It’s just that Trump is an easy target due to his lifestyle and personality. By comparison, DeSantis’ lifestyle and personality seem squeeky clean in a conservative sort of way. (I say that as a dedicated independent). In his book he talks about his time in the military, how he’s a regular church goer, his time as governor with battles against far left proposals with good success. He’s fought to stop discussion of trans issues in public schools. He flew illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. As an independent, I’m very impressed. If a peanut farmer from GA could get elected, I think DeSantis can win. I think Trump by now is too tarnished.
you do see how the radical Democrats are already trying to demonize Desantis,
Fascist, “literally Hitler”, worse than Trump, etc.
Polls are worth exactly what you pay to get them.
I would just like to acknowledge the recent uptick in the number of posts from Charles Rotter. This is a welcome development. CtM is more than just M. 🙂
Thanks. I was dead but I got better.
Managed to climb out of the cart, then?
I love Pythonesque stuff!
This article shows how much the ALL-IN, turnkey capital cost of Tesla’s grid-scale, li-ion-based battery systems have increased from 2021, to 2022, to 2023, based on Tesla advertised data on its website.
Those turnkey cost are much greater than the $350/kWh, delivered as AC, bandied about by battery system proponents.
BATTERY SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS, OPERATING COSTS, ENERGY LOSSES, AND AGING
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital-costs-losses-and-aging
EXCERPT:
This article has 10 parts
Solar electricity increases with the rising sun, is maximal around midday, and decreases with the setting sun.
The Owners of traditional generating plants, to avoid grid disturbances, are required by ISO-NE, the NE grid operator, to reduce their outputs when solar is present, which decreases their annual production, kWh/y, and increases their costs, c/kWh, plus increases wear and tear of their plants, i.e., those services are not “for free”; they are charged to ratepayers.
Electric grids with many solar systems have major midday solar output bulges, that are counteracted by the traditional power plants reducing their outputs. Combined-cycle, gas-turbine plants, CCGTs, perform almost all of the counteracting (aka balancing) of the variable wind and solar outputs.
Those plants have to increase their outputs during the peak hours of late afternoon/early evening, when solar will have gone to sleep until about 8 or 9 AM the next morning.
Battery Systems Electricity Delivery Periods at Rated Capacity
At present, most recently installed battery systems have about 4 hours of electricity delivery at rated capacity, because the battery systems are primarily used to absorb midday solar output bulges.
Battery systems, in use during all of 2015, delivered electricity, on average, for 0.5 hours
Battery systems, in use during all of 2018, delivered electricity, on average, for 2.4 hours
Battery systems, in use during all of 2019, delivered electricity, on average, for 3.2 hours
The increase in energy-delivery duration is required, because the main function of battery systems is to store excess wind and store midday solar output bulges. They discharge about 80% of the stored electricity during the peak hours of late afternoon/early evening; the other 20% are round-trip battery system losses.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=43775
Battery Systems Perform Multiple Services at the Same Time
A 2018 survey of 43 battery systems, performed by the Energy Information Administration, EIA, found:
26 systems dealt with: 1) excess wind events, which occur at random, and 2) midday solar output bulges, which occur every day
18 dealt with frequency regulation
13 dealt with system peak demand shaving
The annual battery throughput is greatest, by far, for dealing with excess wind and midday solar output bulges.
To paraphrase the character Captain Renault in the movie Casablanca:
“I’m shocked! Shocked to find that Tesla’s grid-scale battery costs are increasing.”
If you read the entire article, you will learn a lot about battery systems.
Perhaps.
“The Owners of traditional generating plants, to avoid grid disturbances, are required by ISO-NE, the NE grid operator, to reduce their outputs when solar is present, which decreases their annual production”
And people wonder why their electricity prices keep going up.
COVID emissions reduction proves Net Zero is a fraud that can only hurt economies.
Not enough attention has focused on the global lockdown reduction in emissions failing to show up as any atmospheric CO2 reduction.
Climate experts have been surprised that while carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell significantly in 2020, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere continued to grow at about the same rate as in preceding years.
“We all expected to see it drop”
The COVID lockdowns proved Net Zero will not lower Atmospheric CO2.
Why persist?
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3129/emission-reductions-from-pandemic-had-unexpected-effects-on-atmosphere/
Carefully, that’s the kind of information that will get you banned from social media.
Nut Zero: There are industries which require 24 hour energy supply. Not only staple industries like steel and aluminum, but also like the manufacture of computer chips. I do not understand how anyone in these businesses can even consider locating to States and countries which are attempting to increase unreliable power leading to prolonged blackouts. Can someone explain?
Can you explain how green energy is the future but how you can’t build turbines or solar panels without conventional energy?
Can you explain how we can destroy the current energy infrastructure before the new, “green” energy infrastructure is in place?
Can you explain how we can move away from fossil fuel ICE automobiles and natural gas home heating without producing more electricity to meet the increased demand?
Nobody can, but we’re doing all of this anyway.
“The GOP Is Finally Trying to Disarm Federal Bureaucrats”
this legislation may not make it through but worth a shot.
https://patriotpost.us/videos/98790-the-gop-is-finally-trying-to-disarm-federal-bureaucrats-2023-07-12
Climate Reanalyzerout of The University of Maine publishes among other charts one of the Daily Sea Surface temp 60S to 60N from data from NOAA. One temp. to sum it all up with yearly plots going back to 1981.
This year 2023 the temp is warmest on this record..
Does this temp as a value of summation of all that area of ocean have any validity?
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
Artificially Intelligence Explained (No thinking Required, just LISTEN!):
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I generated the summary, utilizing the sources I hyperlinked above. For a more comprehensive understanding of the topic, I recommend you to read the full article
‘Earth Is Screaming’ Meteorologist Warns Amid Unprecedented Heatwave: ‘Need To Listen’
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‘Earth Is Screaming’ Meteorologist Warns Amid Unprecedented Heatwave: ‘Need To Listen’ – Benzinga
Hmmmm . . . I was previously led to believe that Earth “had a fever”, but now is screaming?
Why, this is simply intolerable. Calling all planetary-level psychiatrists and sedation experts . . . calling all planetary-level psychiatrists and sedation experts . . .
California’s long-awaited high speed train will be solar powered, according to the California High-Speed Rail Authority. It’s been a rocky road so far for the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s promising new project.
.. but will it ever actually run ?
You know, a
townstate with money is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel.No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it.
Solar, Wind, it is the Future! There is a precedent for this: In Holland all trains run on Wind Power!
Green energy for train, bus and station | Sustainability | About NS | NS
In 2017, our trains in the Netherlands became the first in the world to run for 100% on wind energy.
http://www.ns.nl
What a Nice Story! 100 % Green Trains, Wow!
7 -10% of Electricity in the Dutch Grid comes from Wind. The Train system runs off the Dutch grid, it does not have a separate grid. So, once the electricity from the Wind Farms gets fed onto the Dutch grid, it is mixed in with all the other electricity, and you cannot tell which is which anymore. 80 % of that grid runs off Fossil Fuel.
Accounting does the Trick!
Here is a trade publication dispelling the MYTH:
Do the Netherlands’ trains really run on 100% wind power? | Energy Matters (euanmearns.com)
“In 2017, our trains in the Netherlands became the first in the world to run for 100% on wind energy.”
It’s just a big lie, as you point out.
Periodically, we will get someone or group claiming they are operating on 100 percent wind/solar, and I have never seen one of these claims turn out to be true. They are all just like this claim: A little bit from wind/solar, and a lot from other sources.
Yeah . . . like anyone—anyone at all—should believe what the California High-Speed Authority has to say!
Here, by their own admission, is how badly they underestimated the cost of the project:
“The price tag for the rail system has risen to $128 billion, according to a California High Speed Rail Authority project update report — a nearly 22% uptick from the previous figure of $105 billion from last year and a far cry from the $33 billion cost voters approved in 2008.”
— https://www.constructiondive.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-cost-jumps-to-128b/645269/#
And I have no doubt whatsoever that the latest figures the CHSRA released are themselves biased to be artificially low.
That CA governor Gavin Newsom, now actively positioning himself to be a last-minute replacement for Biden as Democrat Presidential candidate, has allowed this farce to continue throughout his administration is an absolute disgrace and affront to California taxpayers.
Besides which, Newsom is just an idiot, but I digress.
So it won’t operate at night?
Oh yes – you see they tilt the panels on the train in such a way as to catch ambient light from the sun below the horizon. It’s a very clever system.
Just stick sails on it.
(Good enough for the Cutty Sark)
Use the solar stuff to power the fans to blow on her sails.
Future energy scenarios must take into account Willis’s point that wind and solar produce less than a third of what wood and dung produce, about two percent of world energy, lost in the noise. And after $billions wasted
What do we Think about the upcoming El Niño
? Strong at 1.5 is predicted but trending down towards zero and neutral as early as FMA next year
I think that it will peak to levels near early 2020 and then head down afterwards. After that the Earth will cool slightly as typically happens after an El Niño. The pause will continue also.
Couer de Lion:
The 2023 El Nino will probably peak at ~2.0 and will NOT trend downward unless we have a volcanic eruption.
We are headed towards periods of extreme weather (just had an atmospheric river event over the North Eastern seaboard on Sunday night).
Read my latest article: “Definitive proof that CO2 does not cause global warming”
https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.1.1329
Via an equal weighted blend of statistical and dynamic models in the IRI ensemble I’m only seeing a predicted peak around 1.3 and falling to 0.7 by FMA.
Marine life booms with a spate of new species every 36 million years, and tectonic heaving is the indirect reason, new research has found.
A deep analysis of the fossil and geological record reveals a changing sea level that occurs in response to a 36-million-year cycle of tectonic movement.
https://www.sciencealert.com/an-explosion-of-life-happens-on-earth-every-36-million-years-now-we-know-why
“The cycles are 36 million years long because of regular patterns in how tectonic plates are recycled into the convecting mantle, the mobile part of the deep Earth, similar to hot, thick soup in a pot, that moves slowly.”
There are other triggers throughout Earth’s history that can drive biodiversity. For example, the team also found evidence of a biodiversity cycle of 62 million years.
Why 36 instead of 27?
Musk says ESG is the devil :
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1667329644373356544
Tesla earned just 37 points on the ESG scorecard while Philip Morris posted a score of 84. the London Stock Exchange has given British American Tobacco a score of 94.
Lighting up 20.3 billion tobacco products daily worldwide does wonders for the environment and sustainability?
h/t to ZH , RT.
The stratospheric polar vortex in the south is not as stable as it seems. Ozone blockages also occur there.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2023/07/17/1000Z/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-225.89,-65.49,281
The blockage begins in the upper stratosphere in the Southwest Atlantic geomagnetic anomaly area.
Solar wind despite high sunspot number remains weak.
“Solar wind despite high sunspot number remains weak.”
No big coronal holes…
For those that want to put skin in the game you can place your climate bets at Kalshi. The market is predicting a 67% chance that 2023 will be the warmest in the GISTEMP dataset. My model is saying there is about a 75% chance. BEST says there’s an 81% chance in their dataset.
I don’t gamble myself, but if I did I wouldn’t bet on RainMann.
So in both “totally unfit for purpose” surface data fabrication… so what !… they are meaningless
On a year-to-date basis UAH has 2023 in 6th place.
Participants are not wagering on whether GISTEMP is fit for a purpose or meaningful. They are wagering on whether GISS will report the 2023 value as >= 1.03 C or not.
So it’s a question of what is in the minds of the data mannipulators?
That “warmer” 1.03C number is based on 2016 being 1.02C? The 1.02C number is supposedly the warmest temperature since 1850, which occurred in 2016.
My guess is the data mannipulators will make every effort to make 2023 look like the “hottest year evah!”. If the temperatures get within a few tenths of a degree of a “new record”, then I think the data mannipulators will manage to get it over the top. They did a pretty good job of this since 1998, declaring something like ten of the years between 1998 and 2016 as being the “hottest year evah!”, so I assume they can continue with this practice.
If you look at the UAH satellite chart, there are NO “hottest year evah!’s” between 1998 and 2016, 1998 being statistically tied with 2016 as the warmest year in the satellite era (1979 to present) and none of the years between them are warmer than 1998.
That’s why the data mannipulators don’t like the UAH chart. They can’t scream “hottest year evah!” using it.
Tom Abbott:
For your information, the hot years of 1998 and 2016 were years when global SO2 aerosol levels were reduced by man-made global “Clean Air”efforts.
NASA/GEOS produces global satellite SO2 “re-analysis” aerosol images which are archived, so that it is possible to view global SO2 aerosol levels for any day since 1980.(I am told that the “re-analysis” images are more accurate than the daily images).
See my earlier post, above.
It is a question of what the output of this source code is.
You should put your money where your mouth is then. If you think the odds are 100% then you can profit.
If they did then I along with everyone else will know about it since there are many of us that run GISTEMP on our own machines.
Sometimes the stupid becomes too much. Saw a story this weekend saying that apparently acetaminophen and ibuprofen are made from petroleum. Now some smart greenperson has figured out how to make them from turpentine made from pine trees. The story closed with “This will lower carbon emissions’ (like every story in the MSM). Head scratching. I don’t believe the petroleum is burned in the manufacturing process so no CO2 is released at least from the ingredient standpoint and your solution is to cut down trees that eat carbon dioxide? No, you’re increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. Another non-problem made worse by the warmologists. And how much you want to bet the replacement products don’t work as well as the regular ones?
Recently it was announced that marijuana was also found in the White House.
“No one was arrested in these incidents, because the weight of the marijuana …”
No where do they state that they didn’t know who had the marijuana. Eventually someone with a little intelligence will recognize that the statement was intended as a form of distraction and ask the follow up question … “Who was given a pass because of the amount found?”
The answer will be that it is a private matter and it will remain so.
I ran across this in the latest issue of Astronomy magazine:
At the end of an article (page 43, July 2023) was this about the author of the article:
“Ashley Spindler (she/they) is a lecturer in astronomy and data science at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. She spends her time studying the evolution of barred galaxies with the help of AI.”
Several things:
I’m wondering where the (she/they) came from? I checked, and I didn’t see any of the other authors in this issue declaring their pronouns. I assume this must have been a request from the author, or maybe she attaches that to every signature of hers now?
As to the “they”: In what circumstance is this to be used in relation to this person? What’s the rule? What’s the alternative? So many questions!
The most important chart in climate science. There are enough clues there to deduce that Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation temperatures are an inverse response to solar wind strength, with very little lag, rather than a direct and lagged response to changes in solar irradiance.
That AMO anomalies remain locked to solar cycles through each AMO envelope, and are always colder around solar cycle minimum during a cold AMO phase, and never colder around solar cycle minimum during a warm AMO phase.
That the very long term mean AMO frequency has to be 55 years, as every other warm AMO phase is during a centennial solar minimum. The last two AMO cycles of 60 and 70 years are due to the previous centennial solar minimum being 130 years before the current centennial minimum.
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Solar wind temperature and pressure: