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EDF: Price rise for low-carbon electricity on the way

The boss of the UK’s largest electricity generator and distributor has warned of imminent electricity price rises across Europe, due to the perceived demands of moving towards a low-carbon economy. Asked how that transition could be paid for, Vincent de Rivaz, chief executive of EDF Energy, told a meeting in the European Parliament on 19 June that there was “an urgent need for new capacity” in many countries, especially in Britain.

“It would be a mockery to deny that the price will go up,” he continued. “It is impossible to invest £110 billion [€134 billion] in electricity generation with no impact on prices in the short term.”

The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said that up to £110 billion would need to be invested in power generation and transmission by 2020 when it unveiled its Electricity Market Reform in May.

EDF: Price rise for low-carbon electricity on the way | EurActiv

h/t to Dave G

Current GISS US temperature data
1999 version of GISS US temperature data

The graph above uses uncorrupted GISS data through 1999, and subsequent years use corrupted GISS data, minus the 1999 “adjustment” of +0.355. This is conservative, because the current GISS upwards adjustment is probably larger than that. GISS doesn’t publish that information and does not provide disclaimers with their graphs that the real thermometers actually show a cooling trend for the last 80 years.

The bottom line is that according to the actual measured thermometer readings, the three hottest years in US history all occurred before 1940. Current US temperatures are close to the post-1880 average.

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Credible evidence of climate change arises
By Robert Oglesby and Donald Wuebbles

Oglesby is a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Wuebbles is the Harry E. Preble Endowed Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois.

It’s been a hot start in 2012. Over Memorial Day weekend, high-temperature records were set in 16 states, including every state that’s home to a Big Ten school. Omaha’s high temperature hit 94 degrees — the hottest May 27 temperature in more than 100 years of record-keeping. Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Madison, Wis., and Pittsburgh all hit record highs that weekend.

Credible evidence of climate change arises – Omaha.com

The professors seem to be endowed with confirmation bias, ignorance and failing grade school math skills.

The US has more than 1,000 temperature stations, and the length of the temperature database averages about 100 years. On any given day, the odds of breaking a high temperature record at any station are 100 to 1.  With 1,000 stations and a three day weekend, we would expect to have about 30 high temperature records set in the US. This is the most basic statistics and it is incredible that the professors don’t understand it.

But it gets worse. Their temperature data is garbage. On Memorial Day Weekend 1934, the temperature in Iowa was 111 degrees. Almost 20 degrees hotter than this year.

May 30, 1934: What would become one of the hottest summers on record in Iowa began to intensify as a heat wave in the last three days of May resulted in nearly every location in the state exceeding 100 F on at least one of those three days. The heat wave peaked on the 30th when the temperature soared to as high as 111 F near Inwood which is the highest temperature ever recorded in Iowa in May. Other high temperatures on the 30th included 110 F at Boone, 109 F at Logan and Spencer, 108 F at Le Mars, and 107 F at Storm Lake. Des Moines and Sioux City also set their respective May records as both reached a high of 105 F. Amazingly this extremely hot weather came only a few days after unseasonably cool temperatures in the 30s had been recorded across much of the state with frost on the 25th and 26th. In fact, at Boone the low temperature on the morning of the 25th was 30 F so the temperature at that location rose by 80 F in just five days. To put this into perspective, the largest temperature range ever recorded across the state of Iowa during the entire month of May is 88 degrees.

http://addins.kwwl.com/blogs/weather/2012/05/may-30

The professors’ statistical and historical knowledge is garbage, and yet they go to the press and claim that they have proved global warming.

Einstein said that as a joke mocking junk scientists, but Hansen took him literally.

In 1999, Hansen was troubled by the fact that millions of temperature records showed that the US wasn’t warming. So in the year 2000, he simply changed the data to match his theory.

Hansen 1999:  “in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country”

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

The graph  below shows the difference between current published GISS US temperature data, and what they published in 1999.

Current GISS US temperature data
1999 version of GISS US temperature data

The 1880s, 1930s and 1940s are now being reported by Hansen as nearly 0.2C below what the thermometers actually read, and current temperatures are being reported nearly 0.4C above what the thermometers read. Based on the data tampering curve above, we can infer that Hansen believes that modern thermometers are poor, and progressively getting worse.

After Hansen’s clever data tampering, the US now appears to be warming and his theory is validated in the minds of  the press and politicians. The entire US warming curve below  is due to the fact that the temperatures being reported by GISS are not what was measured by the thermometers. If the actual thermometer data was shown in the graph, there would be no warming.

They could make a video game out of this and call it Grand Theft NASA.

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Suppose that a CEO was unhappy with a 70 year downward trend in his company’s revenues, so he told his accountants to develop a new accounting method which shows an increase. Then he erased the original raw data from the company website, and presented the new graphs  without mention of the change in accounting practices. Chances are that law enforcement would be hauling him away in the not too distant future.

The sun has passed the zenith and is starting to recede towards winter. The Greenland Ice Sheet is now in full bloom at -8C.

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During the 1940s, clever humans came up with the idea that we can stop forest fires by putting a bear in trousers.

Fire is a normal and essential part of the pine forest cycle. Without regular fires, the forest gets overgrown with thin, unhealthy trees that are susceptible to disease and insects. Most forest fires used to burn primarily along the ground, but now they frequently burn up into the crowns of the trees – because there is so much fuel on the ground and the fires burn very hot.

The combination of fire suppression and clever people building houses right next to stands of trees waiting to burn, now costs taxpayers huge amounts of money. Instead of blaming decades of human interference with the fire cycle and the stupidity of home owners, they blame climate change. A key factor in the belief in catastrophic global warming is a total lack of understanding about how nature works.

AUSTRALIAN ski resorts are bracing for a massive dump of snow this weekend, with up to 80cm predicted to fall over the next three days.  Resorts are gearing up to open more lifts this weekend, with the snow coming in time for the start of the July school holidays.

Huge snow dump set to hit Aussie ski resorts | Herald Sun

The IPCC has been telling us for almost two decades that heavy snowstorms are a thing of the past.

2001 15.2.4.1.2.4. Ice Storms

Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms

http://observatory.ph/resources/IPCC/TAR/wg2/569.htm#1524123

IPCC Draft 1995

shrinking snow cover in winter

http://www.nytimes.com/

Having surrendered its electoral capital through punting a sitting prime minister, with all the complications that involved, the new leader leapt on the perverse idea of bringing in a new “tax” as her central reform and after expressly promising not to. This counter-intuitive play relied on the flawed prediction that the reaction to the backflip would be severe but shallow and would soon give way to a focus on the substance of the reform. Ms Gillard, it was further wagered, would also get a dividend for actually getting something done – in contrast to Kevin Rudd.

Cold comfort for PM | adelaidenow