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Ridout lashes costly climate policies

ONE of the government’s trusted industry allies, Heather Ridout, has lashed out at a central plank of Labor’s climate change policies – the 20 per cent renewable energy target – declaring it unnecessarily expensive and in need of fixing.

”Already an unnecessarily expensive abatement policy, it [the target] has been turned into a vehicle for funding the most expensive forms of abatement at a cost running into the hundreds of millions of dollars, paid by all electricity users,” she said.

”This is like solving crowded trains by buying the passengers a Rolls apiece.”

http://www.smh.com.au/

Summer starts this week in Australia

http://www.bom.gov.au/

This has nothing to do with being beaten by Newcastle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12031709

The Met Office spokesman described the record low as a “truly exceptional figure given its maritime location”.

Only thirteen feet of snow on the ground at Alpine Meadows. Bummer.

http://www.laketahoe.com/skiing/alpine-meadows/conditions

HadCrut November is not out yet. Will they corrupt the 2010 temperature record upwards as Vicki promised? Tough call with the record cold weather.

At some point you have to figure they will decide that support from the UK public is more important to their survival than keeping Hansen happy.

Bones: he knows why all this is happening, but he won’t tell me.
Kirk: The hell he won’t.

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-12/17/content_21567412.htm

Northern Ireland had its coldest day on record on Saturday with temperatures at Castle Derg climbing no higher than -11C, beating the previous record of -9C.

Temperatures will struggle to get above freezing on Saturday night, with at least -15C (14F) expected overnight in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Forecasters say the cold conditions will remain into next week.

November saw the UK’s most widespread snowfall since 1965, and December has continued to be exceptionally cold and snowy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/news/newsid_9282000/9282009.stm

h/t to Jimbo

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Snow update

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/10_17_10_17_301547/widgets/10shell.swf?revision=301547 Advertisement Helen Willetts with the latest snow forecast Heavy snow and ice has caused disruption in many parts of the UK after arctic conditions returned. Northern Ireland had its coldest day on record on Saturday with temperatures at Castle Derg climbing no higher than -11C, beating the previous record of -9C. Temperatures will struggle to get above freezing on Saturday night, with at least -15C (14F) expected overnight in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Forecasters say the cold conditions will remain into next week. November saw the UK’s most widespread snowfall since 1965, and December has continued to be exceptionally cold and snowy.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article25112.html

Britain and Europe have been hit hard for the third straight record-breaking winter season. Labeled by experts as the coldest winter in 100 years and set to blow well into 2011, it is already raising some very interesting questions about the new ideological split we are witnessing throughout society in the much celebrated green debate.

Tonight Britain braces itself for a further 10 inches of snow and more sub-zero temperatures to come- with no let-up, top forecasters have warned. These unusual Arctic conditions are set to last through the Christmas and New Year bank holidays and beyond and as temperatures plummeted to -10c (14f), prompting the UK’s Met Office to state that this December 2010 was ‘almost certain’ to become the coldest since records began in 1910.

So is it not safe to say that we are witnessing a real, tangible and physical trend here? Unlike the million dollar computer-generated climate model projections produced by the UN’s elite circle of research grantees and bursary

award-winning climate scientists, this new trend is actually a real one- one we can feel, touch, and most importantly… empirically measure.

“These (weather) events would not have happened without global warming,” said Kevin Trenberth, chief of climate analysis for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

http://www.forbes.com/

I thought these fine people were worried about saving the planet.