by Judith Curry
This morning I participated Conference on Energy and Decarbonization – A New Jersey Business Perspective. https://njbia.regfox.com/energy-summit.
UPDATE: full recording of the conference [here]
New Jersey is a leader among U.S. states in aggressively tackling the transition to cleaner sources of energy (see the New Jersey Energy Master Plan). So far, they have been doing a better job than California. The near term challenges of the transition to clean energy are described in this article in the City Journal
New Jersey has a pretty good mix of electricity generation sources: 57.2% natural gas, 37.4% nuclear, 1.6% solar, 1.5% coal, 1.1% biomass, 0.9% non-biogenic waste, and 0.1% hydroelectric & wind.New Jersey’s renewable portfolio standard was updated in 2018 to require that 21% of electricity be from renewable sources by 2021, 35% by 2025, and 50% by 2030.
This Conference was a pretty interesting event. Here is the agenda and list of speakers:
- Opening Remarks: Ray Cantor, Vice President, Government Affairs, New Jersey Business & IndustryAssociation
- The Murphy Administration: Joseph L. Fiordaliso, President, Board of Public Utilities and Shawn M.LaTourette, Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection
- Climate Risks and Energy Policy Options: Dr. Judith Curry, President, Climate ForecastApplications Network
- Energy Demand: Dr. Prasanna V. Joshi, Senior Manager of Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil
- Reliability Concerns: Elliott Nethercutt, National Regulatory Institute, NARUC
- Transmission Infrastructure: Bob Martin, Managing Director, Christie 55 Solutions
- Costs of Decarbonization: Dan Shreve, Head of Global Wind Energy Research, Wood MacKenzie
- Offshore Wind: Kris Ohleth, Executive Director, Special Initiative on Offshore Wind
- The Role of Gas Infrastructure in the Clean Energy Economy: Steve Westhoven, CEO, NewJersey Resources
- Nuclear: Rick Thigpen, Senior Vice President for Corporate Citizenship and PSEG Foundation Chair atPublic Service Enterprise Group (PSE&G)
- Solar: Jim Spano, Managing Partner, Spano Partners
- Heavy Duty Transportation: Dawn Fenton, Vice President for Government Relations and PublicAffairs, Volvo Group North America
- Labor Concerns and Workforce: Kate Gibbs, Deputy Director, ELEC 825
- Challenges for Buildings: Joe Uglietto, President, Diversified Energy Specialists (DES)
The State administration of NJ assumes that climate change is a code red emergency. Industry leaders and people in the electricity sector are more concerned about energy reliability and cost, arguing for a slower transition. This Conference promoted dialogue among a range of leaders and stakeholders.
I was asked to update the audience on the latest IPCC assessment, topics of specific relevance to New Jersey, and the implications for the clean energy transition.
The slides for me presentation are here (hopefully you can download it?)
Some of the slides I’ve used before, but are included here again for completeness. My verbal remarks are provided below:
Slide 2 IPCC
The climate crisis can be summarized as:
- Its warming
- The warming is caused by us
- Warming is dangerous
- We need to urgently transition to renewable energy to stop the warming
- Once we stop burning fossil fuels, sea level rise will stop and the weather won’t be so extreme
Last August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, issued its 6th Assessment report. In response, the secretary general of the UN stated that
“This is code red for humanity.”
Slide 3 what’s wrong with this narrative
In my talk today, I’m going to present you with a different perspective on the climate change problem and how we can approach solutions.
So what’s wrong with the crisis narrative? It is my assessment that
- We’ve vastly oversimplified both the problem and its solutions
- The complexity and uncertainty surrounding climate change is being kept away from the public and policy debates.
- Rapid reductions in emissions are technologically and politically infeasible on a global scale, with adverse negative consequences.
- And finally, the climate crisis narrative gets in the way of real solutions to our problems
Slide 4 97% consensus
Even people that don’t know much about climate science have heard that 97% of climate scientists agree. But exactly what do they agree on? Not nearly as much as portrayed by the media. Everyone agrees that:
- Surface temperatures have increased since 1880
- Humans are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and
- Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the planet
However, there is uncertainty and disagreement on the most consequential issues:
- How much of the recent warming has been caused by emissions
- How much the planet will warm in the 21st century
- Whether warming is ‘dangerous’
- And how we should respond to the warming, to improve human well being
Slide 5 21st century warming
For policy making, the most consequential issue is how much warming we can expect in the 21st century. This figure from the latest IPCC report shows climate model projections of global surface temperature anomalies over the 21st century. There’s a large range of warming shown in this diagram, from 3 degrees to 8 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial temperatures. We’ve already warmed by more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit. So whether the future warming is on the low or high end has huge implications for climate policy. The largest amount of warming is associated with an extreme emissions scenario, SSP-8.5, shown by the purple curve.
The large amount of uncertainty in 21st century projections of surface temperature is associated with:
- The amount of emissions
- The sensitivity of the climate to these emissions
- And finally, there is substantial uncertainty about the relative importance of natural climate variability.
Slide 6 Emissions scenarios
On the previous slide, recall that the largest amount of warming was associated with the emissions scenario SSP-8.5. The IPCC 5th Assessment Report regarded the 8.5 scenario to be our most likely future, and it was referred to as the business-as-usual scenario.
However, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the 8.5 scenarios are implausibly high, if not impossible. The gray lines show emissions projections made by the International Energy Agency out to 2050. The IEA projections show fairly steady emissions through 2050, that are much lower than the 8.5 scenarios. The IEA projections are even somewhat lower than the IPCC’s medium emissions scenario, SSP-4.5.
Nevertheless, the most recent IPCC report emphasizes the 8.5 scenario. Not surprisingly, this extreme emissions scenario is the source of alarming impacts.
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The second major source of uncertainty is the sensitivity of the global temperatures to a doubling of carbon dioxide. For decades, the likely range for climate sensitivity has been between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees centigrade, which is reflected by the assessment from the IPCC AR5 published in 2013.
The red bars in this figure shows the range of climate sensitivity from the most recent climate model simulations, ranging from 1.8 to 5.7 degrees. These values are overall much higher than those from the AR5, whose highest value was 4.6 degrees.
In spite of the larger range from the climate models, the most recent IPCC AR6 substantially narrowed the likely range of climate sensitivity to between 2.5 and 4 degrees, indicated by the vertical blue lines, rejecting the highest values from the climate models. However this narrowing of the range is disputed, particularly on the low end. The whole issue of climate sensitivity to increasing carbon dioxide remains unsettled.
The bottom line here is some good news. The extreme tail risks from global warming, associated with very high emissions and high climate sensitivity, have shrunk and are now regarded as implausible.
Slide 7 RCP4.5
So, what is our best estimate of the amount of warming expected in the 21st century? The closest emissions scenario to the projections from the International Energy Agency is the medium emissions scenario, SSP4.5.
The recent IPCC report provides ‘constrained’ projections, that includes only the climate models with values of climate sensitivity between 2.5 and 4 degrees Centigrade. The IPCC’s best estimate for warming by 2100 is 4.9 degrees Fahrenheit, relative to a preindustrial baseline for the period 1850-1900. The policy relevant targets of 1.5 and 2 degrees centigrade, indicated by the dashed lines, reflect temperature change relative to this preindustrial period. We have already warmed 1.3 degrees Centigrade, or 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit. The IPCC’s best estimate has us crossing the 1.5 degree threshold in about 2030, and the 2 degree threshold in about 2055.
There are numerous reasons to expect that the amount of warming will be lower than the IPCC’s best estimate. The current emissions trajectory is running below the 4.5 scenario. Lower values of climate sensitivity would also delay crossing these thresholds. The other factor to consider is natural climate variability. Major volcanic eruptions would have a cooling effect. A solar minimum is expected in the 21st century, following the grand solar maximum that occurred in the late 20th century. Natural variability associated with the large-scale ocean circulations is also expected to contribute to cooling in the coming decades.
We need to recognize that how the climate of the 21st century will play out is a topic of deep uncertainty. Once natural climate variability is accounted for, it may turn out to be relatively benign. Or we may be faced with unanticipated surprises.
Slide 8 Is warming dangerous
The next area of disagreement takes us away from science and into the realm of values. How dangerous is global warming? The IPCC 5th Assessment Report used a burning embers diagram to portray reasons for concern. The level of concern increases with the amount of global warming. Note that the IPCC does not use the words ‘dangerous’, ‘crisis’ or ‘catastrophe’ in its reports; rather it refers to ‘reasons for concern.’
Any evaluation of dangerous climate change must confront the Goldilocks principle. Exactly which climate state is too hot versus too cold? Some answer this question by stating that the climate we’re adapted to is ‘just right’. However, the IPCC refers to a preindustrial baseline, in the late 1700’s. Why anyone thinks that this is an ideal climate is beyond me. This was during the Little Ice Age, the coldest period of the millennia. Think George Washington and the horrible winters at Valley Forge.
While the categories of concern in the burning embers diagram seem a bit nebulous, the 6th assessment report focused on extreme weather and climate events. Lets take a look.
Slide 8 New normal
The recent IPCC report identified an increase in the intensity and frequency of heat waves, but a decrease in cold waves. The decrease in cold events is actually very good news. Numerous studies have found that there are more deaths from cold events than from heat events, by as much as an order of magnitude.
The recent IPCC report also identified an increase in the frequency and intensity of heavy rain events. The IPCC looked at the period since 1950 in assessing trends in extreme events. However, looking only at the record since 1950 can lead to weather amnesia.
New Jersey is facing the prospect of increased flooding. New Jersey is rightfully concerned about impacts from hurricanes. But these impacts are not necessarily worsening as a result of global warming. The worst hurricane to strike New Jersey in the historical record occurred in 1821 – a category 4 hurricane with a 13 foot storm surge.
Hurricane Ida recently caused 7 inches of rain in New Jersey over 2 days. How does this compare with the historical record? Central Park in New York City has a data record that goes back to the 1860’s. The highest daily rainfall accumulation occurred during 1883, over 8 inches.
Looking at the historical data of extreme weather events helps us avoid weather amnesia. Further, it reminds us that even worse extreme weather events have occurred in the historical record, and that elimination of fossil fuel emissions isn’t going to prevent extreme weather events.
Slide 10 hurricanes
The recent IPCC report concluded that it’s likely that the global proportion of major hurricanes (which are category 3 and higher) has increased over the last four decades. However, the actual number of major hurricanes does not show a meaningful trend that can be distinguished from natural variability.
The left-hand diagram shows the number of major hurricanes that have made U.S. landfall since 1900. The year 2005 stands out as the highest, which was followed by a period of 11 years with no major hurricane landfalls. Also, there were a large number of major hurricane landfalls during the first half of the 20th century, when surface temperatures were significantly cooler.
The large amount of natural variability makes it difficult to identify meaningful trends in hurricane activity, and even more difficult to attribute any trend to manmade global warming.
Slide 11 NJ SLR
Sea level rise is an unambiguous impact of global warming. This figure shows the sea level data record for Atlantic City. Since 1910, sea level has been rising at a steady rate of 1.36 feet, or 16 inches, per century. New Jersey’s coastal sea level rise is somewhat larger than the global average, owing to local sinking from geological processes and extraction of ground water.
In 2019, a team of scientists led by Rutgers University prepared a report entitled “New Jersey’s Rising Seas and Changing Coastal Storms.” By 2100, for the medium emissions scenario, the Rutgers report predicted a likely range of sea level rise to be between 2 and 5.1 feet. New Jersey’s plan for Protecting Against Climate Threats, or PACT, adopted 5.1 feet as the basis for its regulations.
Slide 12 Rutgers
In January 2021, I was contacted by Ray Cantor of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association, to provide an independent evaluation of the projections in the Rutgers Report.
The main conclusion of my report was that the Rutgers projections are substantially higher than the IPCC projections, owing to their method of incorporating extreme scenarios of instability in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Slide 13 Global sea level rise
This figure is from the most recent IPCC Report. The left column shows projections of global mean sea level to 2050, and the right column shows projections to 2100. The middle row, circled in red, shows projections for the medium emissions scenario. Looking at the 2100 projections, the yellow bar indicates the likely range from the latest IPCC report, with an upper value of 2.5 feet. Accounting for local effects for New Jersey produces a value of 3.1 feet.
This value of 3.1 feet is substantially lower than the 5.1 feet cited in the Rutgers Report. The latest IPCC report reinforces my previous assessment that the sea level rise projections from the Rutgers report are far too high.
Slide 14 Adapting
In evaluating the dangers of climate change, it’s important to assess how global societies have dealt with the warming that we’ve already seen. So far, the world has done a decent job at adapting to weather extremes and climate change. The upper left figure shows the change in yield for major crops, with yields for many crops doubling or even quadrupling since 1960.
The figure in the lower left shows losses from global weather disasters as a percent of GDP. The spikes are associated with years that showed large losses from tropical cyclones. Overall for the past 30 years, there has actually been a slight decline in losses.
The diagram in the lower right shows the number of deaths per million people from weather and climate catastrophes. Over the past century, climate related deaths have dropped by 97%.
Slide 15 IEA
Under the auspices of the United Nations, the world is attempting to reach netzero in carbon emissions by 2050.
This diagram from the International Energy Agency illustrates the challenge. The blue curve shows expected emissions based on policies that are currently in place. The yellow curve shows the pledges that countries have made as part of the Paris Agreement. And the green curve shows the path we should be on to reach netzero by 2050.
There’s a large gap between our current and committed policies versus the netzero target. There are numerous impediments to reaching netzero: waiting for better technologies, costs of the transition, and politics surrounding natural gas and nuclear energy. But most importantly, there are concerns about maintaining energy security during the transition, in terms of electricity reliability and cost.
Slide 16 Netzero
The path to net zero by 2050 is generally regarded to consist of the following elements:
- The fundamental premise is to eliminate fossil fuels
- Then replace fossil fuel generation with clean energy, focusing on solar, wind, biofuels.
- Nuclear energy remains controversial, although there is a recent surge of support in Europe and Japan.
- There’s an implication of austerity in terms of using less energy
- In doing the carbon accounting, it is very difficult to achieve netzero by 2050 without carbon capture and storage. However, we do not currently have the capability to accomplish this at anything close to the needed scale.
The International Energy Agency finds that there is a possible but very narrow pathway to netzero by 2050, provided that there’s a huge leap in energy innovation and major efforts to build new infrastructure. Other analysts find that reaching netzero globally by 2050 is a social and technological impossibility.
Slide 17 netzero problems
Some countries and states can reach netzero by 2050 relatively easily if they have a large amount of hydropower or an existing base of nuclear power. However, it will be very difficult for most other regions, particularly in the face of growing population and desired economic growth.
But even if we can’t meet the targets, we should try anyways, right?
Well, the fundamental problem is the level of urgency. I’ve shown that the perception of a crisis and the level of alarm that is often portrayed in the media and by politicians is overblown. Targets that are too stringent lead to decisions that aren’t beneficial in the longer term.
Another key issue is that the demand for electricity is growing. We need much more electricity, not less. Going on an energy diet like we did in the 1970’s is off the table. We don’t just want to survive, we want to thrive. We need more electricity to support innovation and thrivability in the 21st century.
Slide 18 robustness
A more pragmatic approach to dealing with climate change drops the timelines and emissions targets, in favor of accelerating energy innovation.
Once the stringent targets are removed, you have space to imagine what the infrastructure for our 21st century electricity system could look like, with new technologies for electricity generation and a 21st century transmission infrastructure that is more resilient to extreme weather events.
Compare this vision against the current plan for urgently implementing 20th century wind and solar technologies, patching them into the existing transmission grid, eliminating backup power sources of natural gas and nuclear, and then hoping for the best. This is where urgently working towards NETZERO by overinvesting in wind and solar is leading us.
Nations and states are coming to grips with their over dependence on wind and solar, notably California, the UK and Europe. In 2021 so far, offshore wind in the North Sea has provided 7% of the UK electricity, compared to 25% in 2020. Concerns about not meeting electricity needs next winter are resulting in a near term reliance on coal in Europe and Asia.
You can avoid this situation by hanging on to your existing nuclear and natural gas generating capacity. Nuclear and natural gas are key enablers for reducing carbon emissions today in the near term. Natural gas is essential for keeping energy prices in check while we invest in the technology and infrastructure necessary to attain net zero in the future.
We can be sure the future of the 2030’s will look very different from the future of today. In evaluating clean energy technologies, extend your horizon to the 2030’s and build in the capability to adopt new technologies in your planning process.
Consideration of these factors can lead to a better and even cleaner electricity system by mid century, including new technologies, such as small modular nuclear reactors and advanced geothermal.
Slide 20 thank you
The Energy Transition will be one of the most capital- and resource- intensive undertakings in the history of mankind. It is essential for business and industry to provide a reality check on both technical feasibility and economic realities.
But more importantly, we need to change the focus of conversation, and here is where business leaders can take charge. Focus on a 21st century vision for electric power infrastructure, with abundant, cheap and clean electricity. Sell prosperity and thrivability as the motivations for this. Support innovation. Not greenwashing, which the energy industry is often accused, but come up with a real plan. Its time to listen to business and the engineers, not the politicians and activists. Come up with a good plan, and even the climate activists will have a hard time objecting.
Judith,
Thank you for this excellent post. I’d like to offer a few comments:
1. The GCMs and the IPCC AR6 grossly exaggerate the projected temperature increases due to GHG emissions. Most of the warming is due to other factors, including the urban heat island effect, which the models and the IPCC do not take into account when projecting future GMST change due to GHG emissions.
2. Empirical evidence indicates that global warming is beneficial for all impact sectors except sea level rise, for which the impacts are likely to be negligible – a little more than last century. Global warming and increasing CO2 concentrations are beneficial for Agriculture and Ecosystems. Global warming is beneficial for energy consumption (reduces energy consumption for heating more than it increases it for cooling, because the extra-tropics warm much more than the tropics) and Health (reduces deaths from cold events more than it increases them from warm events). All other impact sectors except sea level rise also benefit from global warming.
3. Therefore, global warming is net beneficial. We should not be wasting money and seriously damaging the global economy trying to reduce global warming.
https://www.mdpi.com/energies/energies-12-03575/article_deploy/html/images/energies-12-03575-g015-550.jpg
Figure 15.FUND3.9 projected global sectoral economic impact of climate change as a function of GMST change from 2000. Total* is of all impact sectors except energy.
Source: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/18/3575/htm
Dayaratna, K.D.; McKitrick, R.; Michaels, P.J. (2020) “Climate sensitivity, agricultural productivity and the social cost of carbon in FUND” https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-020-00263-w
Bjorn Lomborg Newsletter, https://mailchi.mp/lomborg/jbpl570n9d-623860
“We need to hear the full story on heat and cold deaths”
“Climate change ad deaths from extreme heat and cold”
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Annual average GMST from 1970 to 2020 is available at Berkeley Earth: http://berkeleyearth.lbl.gov/auto/Global/Land_and_Ocean_summary.txt
Linear projection gives the following GMST values per selected year and at +3 °C GMST from years 1970, 2010 and 2020.
Year GMST, °C ΔGMST, °C Δ from
1970 14.0661
2000 14.6621
2010 14.8409
2020 15.0594
2050 15.6554
2100 16.6487
2090 16.4501 2.9911 1970
2161 17.8606 2.9998 2010
2171 18.0593 2.9998 2020
Correction to table for GMST change from 1970. 2090 should be 2121 and GMST should be 17.0659
Year GMST, °C ΔGMST, °C Δ from
1970 14.0661
2000 14.6621
2010 14.8409
2020 15.0594
2050 15.6554
2100 16.6487
2121 17.0659 2.9998 1970
2161 17.8606 2.9998 2010
2171 18.0593 2.9998 2020
Ken Gregory (2021) Social Cost (Benefit) of Carbon Dioxide from FUND with Corrected Temperatures, Energy and CO2 Fertilization
“Climate policies such as carbon taxes are set by governments using social cost of carbon (SCC) values calculated by a set of economic computer programs called integrated assessment models (IAM). The USA government used modified versions of three IAM, called PAGE, DICE and FUND. Neither PAGE nor DICE includes significant CO2 fertilization benefits. Dr. Pat Michaels wrote “By including the results of IAMs that do not include known processes that have a significant impact on the end product must disqualify them from contributing to the final result” and “The sea level rise module used by the IWG2013/2015 in the DICE model produces future sea level rise values that far exceed mainstream projections and are unsupported by the best available science.” Therefore, this article discusses the FUND model.”
Continue reading the WUWT post here:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/05/29/social-cost-benefit-of-carbon-dioxide-from-fund-with-corrected-temperatures-energy-and-co2-fertilization/
Lang wrote:
“The GCMs and the IPCC AR6 grossly exaggerate the projected temperature increases due to GHG emissions.”
I believe it is misleading to say “grossly exaggerate”.
I believe the correct interpretation is in this revised sentence::
“The GCMs and the IPCC AR6 deliberately over-project temperature increases due to GHG emissions because that supports the coming climate crisis narrative.
“Deliberate” s the only logical explanation for 33 years of over-predictions, with no effort to make accurate projections, or at least more accurate projections.
The IPCC is a political organization, not scientific.
Computers project whatever their programmers want to project.
Accurate global average temperature projections have obvious never been a goal.
Articles in today’s Bjorn Lomborg Newsletter https://mailchi.mp/lomborg/jbpl570n9d-623876 :
1 Net zero will cost each American more than $11,000 per year
2 Net zero promises are prohibitively expensive
3 We need less alarmism, more smart climate solutions
4 Want to lock down for the climate?
5 New technology is the answer to climate change
6 Climate change barely affects malnutrition
7 Even with climate change, the world isn’t doomed
8 Can leaders finally go down a different path at COP26?
9 Finding the best policies for Malawi
And:
New study about more climate catastrophes not remotely true: https://copenhagenconsensus.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=40608ac93880d1cb2444f1d20&id=df4cccf904&e=cd46d6390c
Peter Lang commented:
Articles in today’s Bjorn Lomborg Newsletter https://mailchi.mp/lomborg/jbpl570n9d-623876 :
1 Net zero will cost each American more than $11,000 per year
Lomborg says this comes from “a new study in Nature” but doesn’t link to it.
Can you direct me to the study?
There is a 2013 article by Matt Ridley that addresses the benefits of global warming.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-climate-change-is-good-for-the-world
An excellent post by Jennifer Marohasy comparing the costs and impacts of electricity generation by coal, renewables and nuclear. Also some comments on other climate related impacts.
https://mailchi.mp/720c18dc9763/do-glaswegians-mostly-breathe-nitrogen
Low cost energy is a foundation of economic development. What we can expect in Glasgow is more of the rational development objectives of country commitments first revealed in Paris in 2016. With the ubiquitous smoke an mirrors. Taking target dates out from 2030 to 2050.
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Targets are targets – achieving them requires a plan. Contrarians don’t have one. Too busy battling the evil conspiracy of ignorance and catastrophe. Progressives are busy battling the peddlers of doom.
I think that there is no other explanation for why CO2 concentrations in this interglacial are higher and rising than the obvious. And that chaotic dynamics feeding back into clouds, ice and biology create more uncertainty than simple physical argument or hyper complex models can possibly undo in our lifetimes. That’s no reason to stop trying.
My plan is to develop and deploy advanced, low cost energy sources, conserve and restore agricultural land and global commons and build resilient infrastructure.
Robert
I think that there is no other explanation for why CO2 concentrations in this interglacial are higher and rising than the obvious. And that chaotic dynamics feeding back into clouds, ice and biology create more uncertainty…
You imply here that the big boost to plant growth (~30% globally) from rising CO2 somehow is a bad thing since it adds to a cocktail of factors causing chaos – which is also for some reason assumed to be bad.
But more vigorous and efficient photosynthesis and plant growth will do the opposite – stabilise soils and atmospheric humidity and ecosystems in general. I would see plants as dampers, not amplifiers, of climatic instability.
While plant photosynthesis is key to boosting above and below ground biomass – keeping it there is a matter of how land is managed. CO2 sequestration in soils can double productivity and drought proof agriculture.
CO2 fertilisation (an 11% change in foliage in arid areas) is a separate matter – and one that can disrupt ecologies in number of ways.
“On the face of it, elevated CO2 boosting the foliage in dry country is good news and could assist forestry and agriculture in such areas; however there will be secondary effects that are likely to influence water availability, the carbon cycle, fire regimes and biodiversity, for example,” Dr Donohue said. https://www.csiro.au/en/news/news-releases/2013/deserts-greening-from-rising-co2
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I view CO2 in the atmosphere as a resource to be used to restore global ecosystems – while reducing the risk of abrupt and unwelcome surprises.
Peter Lang wrote:
1. The GCMs and the IPCC AR6 grossly exaggerate the projected temperature increases due to GHG emissions. Most of the warming is due to other factors, including the urban heat island effect
Peter, what’s the evidence for this claim?
I don’t expect you to answer, since you never answer challenges here — they seem beneath you.
It is correct that the world needs to transition from fossil fuels to cheaper and cleaner energy sources. But climate changes in not a valid reason. Global warming is beneficial, not harmful, so we should not be trying to reduce global warming.
Fossil fuels are thousands of times more harmful to human health than nuclear power (see Table 1 below). If the ridiculous regulatory impediments to nuclear power are removed, nuclear power could replace fossil fuels and, over time, its cost could reduce enormously. If not for the disruption to nuclear power that began in the 1960’s the cost of nuclear power could now be around 10% to 15% of what it is (see Lang, 2017, ‘Nuclear Power Learning and Deployment Rates; Disruption and Global Benefits Forgone’ [1]).
Table 1 presents estimates of the number of deaths per TWh attributable to electricity generation technologies, the cost per MWh and the total cost to the economy. The calculations use US$11.6 million Value of Statistical Life (VSL) [2], deaths per TWh for each technology [3,4] and US electricity generation per technology in 2019 [5].
Table 1: Health impact of deaths attributable to electricity generation technologies in the US: deaths per TWh, cost of deaths in US$/MWh at Value of a Statistical Life, electricity generation per technology (GWh/a) and total cost of deaths per technology (US$bn).
Technology Deaths/TWh US$/MWh GWh/a Total, US$bn
Coal 15 174 966,148 168.11
Oil 36 418 18,567 7.75
Natural Gas 4 46 1,581,815 73.40
Biofuel/biomass 12 139 58,412 8.13
Solar (rooftop) 0.44 5.1 72,234 0.37
Wind 0.15 1.7 300,071 0.52
Hydro 0.005 0.058 273,707 0.016
Nuclear 0.0001 0.001 809,409 0.001
If each technology was required to pay compensation for the annual cost of the deaths it causes in the US, the estimated amounts each would have to pay per MWh are:
Technology US$/MWh
Coal 174
Oil 418
Natural Gas 46
Biofuel/biomass 139
Solar (rooftop) 5.1
Wind 1.7
Hydro 0.058
Nuclear 0.001
References:
1. Lang, P. Nuclear Power Learning and Deployment Rates; Disruption and Global Benefits Forgone. 2017. https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/12/2169/htm
2. U.S. Department of Transportation. Revised Departmental Guidance on Valuation of a Statistical Life in Economic Analysis. 2021. https://www.transportation.gov/office-policy/transportation-policy/revised-departmental-guidance-on-valuation-of-a-statistical-life-in-economic-analysis.
3. Wang, B. Deaths by Energy Source in Forbes. 2012. http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/deaths-by-energy-source-in-forbes.html
4. Conca, J. How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt? We Rank The Killer Energy Sources. 2012. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid
5. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Total Energy, Data, Electricity, Table 7.2a Electricity Net Generation: Total (All Sectors). https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T07.02A#/
Figures in Lang (2017) ‘Nuclear Power Learning and Deployment Rates; Disruption and Global Benefits Forgone’ https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/12/2169/htm :
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Figure 1. Overnight construction cost (in 2010 US $/kW) plotted against cumulative global capacity (GW), based on construction start dates, of nuclear power reactors for seven countries, including regression lines for US before and after 32 GW cumulative global capacity.
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Figure 2. OCC (2010 US $/kW) plotted against cumulative global capacity (GW) of nuclear power reactors, based on construction start dates; regression lines fitted to points before and after trend reversals.
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Figure 3. Regression lines for seven countries: OCC plotted against cumulative global capacity of construction starts.
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Figure 5. Annual global capacity of construction starts and commercial operation starts, 1954–2015.
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Figure 6. (Top) Cumulative global capacity of construction starts and of commercial operation starts (sorted by construction start date); (Bottom) Cumulative global capacity of construction starts (red and green data points); accelerating projection of 1960–1976 data points (dotted green line); Linear and Accelerating projections of capacity in commercial operation (dashed pink and green lines).
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Figure 7. Electricity generated by fuel type by the Actual (top); and by the projected capacity in Linear (middle) and Accelerating (bottom) deployment scenarios (TWh).
Open the paper to see Tables 1 to 4: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/12/2169/htm .
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Figure 1. Overnight construction cost (in 2010 US $/kW) plotted against cumulative global capacity (GW), based on construction start dates, of nuclear power reactors for seven countries, including regression lines for US before and after 32 GW cumulative global capacity.
I don’t think AR5 WG1 ever thought of RCP8.5 as ‘business as usual’, in fact I don’t think they even used the term. The original authors of it called it a ‘conservative BAU scenario’, and by BAU used it in the sense of no mitigation.
AR6 WG1 has now made it clear that it is unlikely and even uses the implausible word.
Well done Dr. Curry you should be one of the major voices in the current Administration’s efforts to “solve” the CC (wicked) problem. Unfortunately our current Administration is 100% sold on Slide 2 IPCC above, even subscribing to the irresponsible phrase of the UN’s Secretary General “code red for humanity”. If CC is code red what code should we assign to the possibility of Thermonuclear war (by accident or by design) or a more rigorous than Covid-19 airborne pandemic or even a catastrophic Financial Crisis that would wipe out trillions in value?
Energy prices in the EU are going through the roof. On the eve of the 31Oct-12Nov COP26 meeting (26th UN Climate Change Conference) hosted by the British in Glasgow, Scotland (many won’t bother to attend, e.g., China, Russia, Brazil, the Pope), North Sea winds literally stopped blowing, driving wind driven electricity production through the floorboards. A sudden need to fire up gas and coal-fired electricity plants arose overnight.
As to the question, is warming dangerous? More people suffer and die of cold weather and Western Academia’s phony climate change science than from hot weather. Hopefully, another cold winter won’t have the elderly in Great Britain burning books again to stay warm. Unfortunately, the temperatures seem to be plunging.
Capitalism is not some Wokeism Safe Space. You get what you invest in. Good intentions won’t turn on the furnace.
We are fast approaching the clash of feel good theory against the reality of being cold in the winter. Being hot is uncomfortable but being cold is painful and deadly.
> New Jersey has a pretty good mix of electricity generation sources: 57.2% natural gas, 37.4% nuclear, 1.6% solar, 1.5% coal, 1.1% biomass, 0.9% non-biogenic waste, and 0.1% hydroelectric & wind.
Scratching my own itch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California
Last time I checked, 33 is smaller than 57.
Interestingly from your citation, most years the second largest source of energy, after natural gas, is imported energy. Got to wonder how much of that is fossil fuels. So the figures are misleading without that being attributed. Or how to export our problems and pat ourselves on the back for moving toward our goal without paying the price. As neighboring states move toward the same goals, will they have energy to spare. When the wind doesn’t blow in CA and neighboring states or it is cloudy, who do you turn to?
More interestingly, CMS, New Jersey isn’t doing better than California, in contrast to what we can read in the OP.
> When the wind doesn’t blow in CA …
I just came back from visiting a friend in LA, his 80th b-day. There are windmill farms to the south of Interstate 10. I passed twice over three days, maybe 3% were moving. The rest just stood like sentinels of a dead civilization.
The rest just stood like sentinels of a dead civilization.
Every day a troglodyte dies.
Bill Fab,
Re windmills turning or not, can you please give lats and logs so we can locate approximately where you were? (We Aussies need nav aids sometimes). I’m a keen photographer forever looking for the unusual. Like you, I have found some unusual in wind farm photos. Every wind farm photo I have with my expensive Nikon shows NO blades turning. Geoff S
Geoff …
33°53’30.14″ N 116°35’28.86″ W
I’m not sure of the name of the wind farm(s). Maybe they are associated with the Mt. San Jacinto farms? Not sure. They are in an area just northwest of the Salton Sea, bordered by the towns of Palm Springs to the south east, Whitewater and North Palm Springs to the north, and bounded by US Interstate 10, California Hwy 111 and Indian Canyon Drive. Route 10, in that area, is at approximately 600 feet above sea level although the surrounding mountains can get over 10,000 feet. San Jacinto is 10,834 feet, so I’m sure the siting of the farm(s) was to take advantage of the valley.
Like most people, I don’t like to see waste. If they churn out lot’s of power, good. Maybe the wind picks up at night, and they become useful. But the reality is that they don’t turn all the time and the visual is quite stunning. A couple were missing a single blade, no doubt being under maintenance. Nevertheless it adds to the effect.
It had the eerie quality of a graveyard … without the flowers.
You are right, 33 is smaller than 57 and the latter seems a very large number in the context of a good sustainable mix that is also ‘environmentally’ desirable in the context of being sustainable.
Presumably nuclear here is counted as green and renewable, which is not so in many jurisdictions, where by nuclear is still very much frowned upon elsewhere
However, without it, at our current state of development, I don’t see how the lights can be kept on if we ban fossil fuels and presumably it will be even more important in future decades bearing in mind gas is right up there as one of the key fuels to ban-in the UK efforts are being made to rapidly phase it out-
Consequently I can’t see that a state that has such high gas usage and so little solar and wind can be seen as having a good mix in ‘environmental’ terms.
tonyb
Nay not worry, TonyB. What you can or can’t see has little import on reality. More so that it appears that you’re tilting at windmills.
The endgame is to get to carbon zero, and no “ban fossil fuels,” whatever that means, should be required. All we need is to stop burning them like there’s no tomorrow.
Chances are we’ll need plastics for a long while. It’d be nice if got some left in a hundred years, don’t you think?
“The endgame is to get to carbon zero…”
It’s a conditional statement. Subservient to making people’s lives better. So we don’t make them worse to get to carbon zero. But if someone believes carbon zero is more important, I have nothing good to say about that.
Ragnaar commented:
It’s a conditional statement. Subservient to making people’s lives better. So we don’t make them worse to get to carbon zero. But if someone believes carbon zero is more important, I have nothing good to say about that.
Simplistic. The problem of course is that carbon nonzero creates more climate change which makes people’s lives worse. Where is the balance?
David Appell:
I’ll accept simplistic. A hierarchy of values. Where no goal is of exactly equal value to another goal. In the example where making lives better is less important than carbon zero, we sacrifice one value for another. To go further into the weeds, coherent hierarchies succeed and incoherent ones fail. Though they may be held in place for awhile with force. I think renewables are held in place by force, and they will collapse. it’s a question of when and to what extent? Rumblings are being heard today. The renewable system is shuddering. And indicator of a coming colllapse.
I think it’s fair to say in her post, goals were not ranked so much. Options were given, some that the mainstream doesn’t talk about. I really think it is a great presentation. It may be that ranking goals is for policy makers.
> they will collapse. it’s a question of when and to what extent? Rumblings are being heard today. The renewable system is shuddering. And indicator of a coming colllapse.
Are you a betting man, R?
Thank you Dr. Curry, I wished our Administration listened to and acted on voices as yours instead of jumping on the band wagon as listed on Slide 2 even repeating the UN’s “code red”.
Texas Lessons?
The near collapse of the Texas grid this year is a wakeup call for grid reliability in the face of rapid wind and solar expansion.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) reported:
Texas has 37,567 MW installed Wind + Solar capacity for 34.5% of total capacity.
31,390 MW Wind (28.83%)
6,177 MW Solar (5.67%)
5,000 MW load was shed to for stall collapse.
Review of February 2021 Extreme Cold Weather Event – ERCOT Presentation
Now Starwood Energy is proposing to install 11,000 MW of peaker gas turbines for $8 billion to earn a guaranteed 9% return on investment.
Starwood Energy proposal to invest $8 billion in power infrastructure in the state of Texas
near collapse of the Texas grid this year is a wakeup call for grid reliability
unfortunately, it is not a wake up call, it is an incentive, they make the most money when the power is scarce. The people who regulate the grid work for companies that make the most money when power is not enough.
This was written:
Since 1910, sea level has been rising at a steady rate of 1.36 feet, or 16 inches, per century.
From 1910 to 1972 = 60 years
From 1972 to 2021 = almost 50 years
The atomic clocks were put into service in 1972, measuring Length of Day.
Length of day has decreased since 1972, that means sea level has gone down over the most recent half century.
Length of Day is well documented, check it for yourself.
Increasing sea level, loss of ice near spin axis in polar regions and rising sea level around the equator would have slowed down the spin rate of earth and there would have been needed increasing numbers of leap seconds added each decade.
They tell us things that are not true, on purpose, or they tell us things that are not true because they have no actual understanding of the meaning of the most reliable data.
Sea level rise was the poster child of man made warming, a few years ago, they have stopped featuring that because it was an oblivious lie.
Then they switched to “man made” global warming for awhile.
That has not worked out because there are too many cold events.
Now, they feature “Climate Change”, meaning, but actually saying, “Man made Climate Change”, knowing, or hoping, the leaving out the “man made” can sneak by. We just warmed out of the Little Ice Age, this warming is natural, necessary, normal, unstoppable, desirable, self correcting, stable, expected…………
It is naturally warmer now, the Arctic is naturally more open now, there is more evaporation and snowfall on Greenland and around the Arctic now, there is naturally more Arctic Ocean Evaporation and Snowfall in and around the Arctic, this natural warm period will produce more ice sequestering in and around the Arctic for a few hundred years and then the the deep, heavy ice will spread and push into the ocean warm tropical currents and chill them with crushed ice dumped into turbulent salt water currents to chill the water to form sea ice and turn off the snowfall while the little ice age ice depletes.
What has happened will happen again!
Alex Pope
Intriguing bits here
Quote:
“Length of day has decreased since 1972, that means sea level has gone down over the most recent half century.
Increasing sea level, loss of ice near spin axis in polar regions and rising sea level around the equator would have slowed down the spin rate of earth and there would have been needed increasing numbers of leap seconds added each decade.”
Maybe not quite: Isostacy in action. See https://gm1.ggpht.com/NtQNplFTp29jxxzhOB2qhdKwqxRpmCPJ7fIRK-lyuYEte1Pbh9i4udpFEEEvd0BOw6saycE8q8tfjvx0zTj2cTM3X6sD4FvX1FgiwfpdXQMe4CAB4zdJ3k242tss0zQogHOV7KPJK-hJy_B-h2Se1tFK31OYD3o-dDd1XVq0SvQ3ggKNPfcq4azghtA1VEM-VrFfamYCLfEpz4w8u90ZLyigbkRwPwa2ysM7RWfoz2GaiM7opsRU2FXF1W_UNGryoztAOtODF8j8itNTyOBlIcmOD_jSZvfzaIvWVyXjYASspRXuLot0ywmbX60vh0eZcPiOIb4zD8oHq_cEwqeh9gnshSVPkNzHzSKpGcNSqiQtv3QjW_xvlF2wDtl8HERiRyUbfST-QvcuOQczZaCwVXO7UmUL51jbbLqfMq7iZy891B59zDxx2vdaE4nXXvEsTbMPkLDPvuzSDVPd0rmyCkUVq7VmOWI-ZK1jNOc_mjrqKUzol1XgYxRacfUqUSQYJ9yCg5ZkcZwXaafgkRsYCas1k-lHyiTy_7qp994Hv_kN66ihRqczF2m0_NXX1_l3LAB53ReD7bnCdStcuxn6eSEQigb9jdrWtF2XFkmBWNA7E-eWBcUvpwMTPUqaKbx6Ev7u3cLy4BHnzXUYe139Lot5PtPQXqDWLwAxUpfXsKImFXJEKOKS_u-KjgoHTv6MJYAukXG54tGeGiC9G9rq_7e1V5C6NHGNQy6RBwDw8Tw=s0-l75-ft-l75-ft
“Snowfall in and around the Arctic, this natural warm period will produce more ice sequestering in and around the Arctic for a few hundred years and then the the deep, heavy ice will spread and push into the ocean warm tropical currents _____”.
Not while polar regions are warming. Another different actor/driver is needed.
“What has happened will happen again!” That the biggest cause of concern, if we ever come to realise it. Times of change (–are here, check the cycles; DO, Eddy,,).
Willard above said something hitting the nail on the head. Re fossil fuels “All we need is to stop burning them like there’s no tomorrow.”
120 years ago no one had electricity, or drove an auto. There is no going back safely.
“Length of day has decreased since 1972, that means sea level has gone down over the most recent half century.
Length of Day is well documented, check it for yourself.
Increasing sea level, loss of ice near spin axis in polar regions and rising sea level around the equator would have slowed down the spin rate of earth and there would have been needed increasing numbers of leap seconds added each decade.”
Dr. Currie, this proposition has repeatedly been put forward by this poster, but I have never seen anyone comment on it either to rebut it, or to explain why, if true, it isn’t a central feature of an AR6 explanation of how sea levels could be continuing to rise in spite of it. Last I heard, Conservation of Angular Momentum is still part of “The Science”.
Is it true that Length of Day has decreased since 1972? If it has, is there some cause in operation giving rise to that effect which is counter-effecting the tendency of polar ice melt to cause an increase in Length of Day? If so, what is it?
If loss of polar ice is countered by crust rebound, decreased day-length may be a possibility. A speculative point, but is equatorial region volcanic activity a sign of that?
But ‘rising sea level around the equator’ – or more water mass – makes for a changed dynamic.
Judith, why have you not gone back a couple of steps to the fact that no one has come up with any evidence that CO2 is harmful to humans at present levels or up to 4000 ppm as used in real greenhouses? Added is the data over the last 41+ years of lower troposphere satellite temperature measurements with global rises 0.13 C/decade, and 0.18 C/decade over land. These trends are hardly enough to be concerned about, especially as the plots vary as much as a whole degree C over a few years, and with no indication of the rate of change increasing – almost flat for seven years.
To use New Jersey sea level data is atypical as there is subsidence in parts of the USA as the continent compensates for the Canadian post-glacial uplift. Compare it to the Fort Denison tide gauge in Sydney Harbour, NSW, with a steady 0.77 mm/yr over the last 135 years.
So no real need to limit CO2 emissions, no real need to aim for Net-Zero-Carbon by any date, no need to spend trillions of any currency to achieve Net-Zero or on renewable energy systems!!
The Atomic Clocks were put in service in 1972 to me measure time accurately. Since then, Length of Day has decreased.
That means the Inertia of Earth has decreased.
THAT MEANS OVERALL SEA LEVEL HAS GONE DOWN!
Consideration of these factors can lead to a better and even cleaner electricity system by mid century,
All based on the MAJOR LIE THAT CO2 CAUSES ANY HARM!
“A more pragmatic approach to dealing with climate change drops the timelines and emissions targets, in favor of accelerating energy innovation.”
But Judith, remember the saying “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
Speaking from experience as an aerospace engineer, one needs to place stress on the system to create innovation. If there isn’t a problem to solve, one has no incentive to innovate.
Q: So how does one “accelerate energy innovation”?
A: Increase competition. (Difficult to do with a regulated utility though.)
A: Regulatory mandates for greater percentage of electricity from renewables, like Washington State’s Clean Energy Transformation Act.
A: Increase the cost of fossil fuels to include external costs, such as imposing a carbon tax.
A: Regulating greenhouse gas emissions by imposing a cap and trading allowances to pollute.
There may very well be a need for substantially more nuclear power, but let’s try a more connected and intelligent grid first. Let’s try new battery storage like flow batteries. Let’s try demand response and efficiency. There is enough time to let company’s innovate first and then use nuclear to pick up whatever remains.
Afternoon Jeff (UTC),
If you’re an advocate of “new battery storage like flow batteries”, what do you make of the concept of “new battery storage like electric vehicle traction batteries”?
Vehicle-to-grid if you will?
According to the IEA (Update on EVs Aug 23rd 2021) there were 1.7m EVs (BEV & PHEV) in the US by the end of 2020. Unless nearly all of them were in California they are not going to be supplying much electricity to anywhere.
Evenin’ Dave,
Most EVs, even in California, are currently not capable of V2x operation. Particularly Teslas!
If you have a vivid imagination, assume for a moment a future in which all passenger cars are electrically powered, and all those that are parked for long periods are “bi-directional”.
What then?
Innovation is largely driven by profit incentives. Government bureaucrats are not particularly helpful in that regard. Indeed, tends to have the opposite effect.
The antics of government in Washington state provide a good example of misery being inflicted upon the General population in the name of “saving the planet”.
You wrote:
but let’s try a more connected and intelligent grid first.
In other words, you want nationwide power outages, rather than just a State like Texas or like a Region just like the WHOLE NORTHEAST OF THE COUNTRY,
You wrote:
Let’s try new battery storage like flow batteries.
FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC TERRORISTS AND/OR NATURAL DISASTERS CAN TAKE OUT BATTERIES, WIND FARMS, SOLAR FARMS, GRIDS.
Each Region needs adequate power to cut loose from the grid and operate independently. Individually, now, we are all buying our own generators because the grid has gotten much less stable as more coal is replaces with less reliable Wind, Coal, and Yes gas is less reliable because it depends on a pipeline grid that is not reliable.
More connected has been proven to be less intelligent.
“…inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ is a silly proverb. ‘Necessity is the mother of futile dodges’ is much nearer the truth. The basis of the growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.”
This insight from the past provides a rallying call to those that support the idea of ‘blue skies’ research and feel that scientific discovery and invention should be driven by curiosity rather than a strategy or a set of pre-defined rules.
https://blogs.bl.uk/science/2014/02/is-necessity-the-mother-of-invention.html
Opinions vary. A set of predefined rules. That’s how research is funded now. Are you familiar with government grants which fuel a lot of it these days? Science used to be conducted by mavericks. Now it’s funded by government wokesters. Shoehorning the insert future miracle here answer is not going to work. You need a maverick and not some more government money.
The challenge for the century is ten times greater global GDP powered by 3 and a half times more energy demand, providing resources for health and education reversing population by 2050 and meeting twice the food demand.
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0959378016300711-gr1.jpg
Fossil fuels have been great to date – but – with commodity prices surging – are they up to the 21st century.
https://watertechbyrie.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/em-break-even.jpg
‘SAN DIEGO, (Jan. 13, 2021) – General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that it has been selected for the Advanced Reactor Concepts-20 (ARC-20) program, one of three programs supported under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Reactor Demonstration (ARD) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). GA-EMS will develop a conceptual design of a new 50-megawatt electric (MWe) Fast Modular Reactor (FMR) that provides safe, carbon free electricity, and has the capability of incremental capacity additions. The FMR will provide rapid load-following capabilities for seamless integration with renewables and other intermittent power sources, on and off the electric grid…
GA-EMS is committed to the commercialization of FMRs, with a safe and affordable way to build and operate them in the near term,” said Dr. Christina Back, vice president of Nuclear Technologies and Materials at GA-EMS. “The FMR modular design will allow factory built components to be assembled on-site, keeping the cost of capital low, while the use of a helium instead of water coolant allows the reactor to be sited in nearly any location. It will use silicon carbide composite material, SiGA®, developed in the DOE’S Accident Tolerant Fuel program, to provide safe, clean energy throughout the U.S. for generations to come.” https://www.ga.com/general-atomics-selected-for-the-department-of-energys-advanced-reactor-concepts-20-program
Fast neutron reactors are not a novel technology. Factory production is a new way of building them.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/fast-neutron-reactors.aspx
Meeting twice the food demand from existing farmland will require modern grazing and cultivation methods substantially drawing down that wondrous CO2 from the atmosphere.
All advanced reactor types in the U.S face significant challenges attempting to obtain a license as a result of the convoluted and highly prescriptive U.S. regulatory process There are significant technical, safety, and economic hurdles that must be cleared by the General Atomics design. No fast reactor has ever been licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. These elements point towards significant regulatory driven financial risk that US utilities are unlikely to embrace.
The General Atomics’ design is unlikely to succeed in the U.S. The DOE has been out of touch with the US marketplace for quite some time so selection by the DOE is a poor indicator of potential success. However, the General Atomics design may have a chance in Canada where the nuclear regulatory process is more common sense oriented. Not sure about Australia.
5 fast neutron reactors have operated in the USA. There were materials and cost problems. Factory built modules lend themselves to design standardization and generic approvals.
The polar vortex is blocked in the upper stratosphere. This is very unusual for this time of year. Still very high galactic radiation promises an unusual winter in the northern hemisphere.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_HGT_ANOM_OND_NH_2021.png
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_UGRD_ANOM_OND_NH_2021.png
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_t30_nh_f00.png
As for changes in sea ice extent, it is not a simple temperature dependence. In the southern hemisphere, a strong link to El Niño is evident in summer. Large spikes have intensified since 2000, which can be linked to a decrease in solar activity. Changes in winter are smaller.
https://masie_web.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/monthly/images/02_Feb/S_02_extent_anomaly_plot_hires_v3.0.png
https://masie_web.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/monthly/images/09_Sep/S_09_extent_anomaly_plot_hires_v3.0.png
Also in the Arctic, El Nino episodes are linked to major warm pulses of the AMO peaking around August.
A lot of sense being talked there.
My view on ‘policies’ is that you should start with some simple, achievable ones, which don’t turn the world upside down but have clear measurable benefits to humankind.
The first is ensuring that proper building regulations exist for new housing so that they are energy efficient. Note that because of different climates around the USA and the globe, the definition of what is ‘efficient’ in different geographies will be different.
The POLICY problem concerns the drivers of the private construction sector (maximise profits by cutting every corner conceivable) and the health of society (healthy home living conditions brings healthier human beings, less need for healthcare, less absenteeism etc etc).
What politicians haver the guts to quantify the costs to society of shoddy housing? That’s pretty imperative if you want to have safe, efficiently energy-controlled homes.
You won’t get the construction industry changing without a gun to their heads, that is sure.
I won’t comment on SW USA as I don’t live there, but here in the UK, the sensible things to do include:
1. Underfloor heating instead of radiators to create a healthier, more efficient heat distribution inside rooms.
2. HIgh quality glass windows ensuring adequate natural light and insulation superior to bricks and mortar.
3. Appropriate insulation of outside walls, be that using integrated concrete formwork (concrete walls surrounded on both sides with insulating mould materials), the use of Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), appropriate external cladding etc.
4. Appropriate levels of loft insulation.
5. Recycling of air and heat using Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery systems
6. Use of land-based heat pumps to supply energy if appropriate.
What this should mean over the 21st century is that the old housing stock built for days of cheap coal and paying zero attention to heat retention characteristics will be almost entirely replaced by 21st century designs where minimising the requirements for energy are to the fore.
A variety of standards have emerged in the niche self-build sector which focus on slightly different things: Building Biology systems focus on building health, whilst Passivhaus standards are all about limiting heat losses down to almost nothing.
The Structural Insulated Panels system of building houses has transferred a lot of manufacture into factories and much less around labour putting up brick walls brick by brick.
The thing with having these technological alternatives available now is that rigorous analysis of the benefits of each can start to be undertaken, leading to real data-led, bottom-up knowledge of what really contributes to reducing the energy footprint of homes.
Feeding people is another obvious area to look at energy impacts: everyone needs to eat healthily (that is the biggest correlation with reduced need for expensive healthcare going) and, whilst hydroponics makes sense for those thinking that living 365 days a year in a scorching hot desert is the way to go, most civilisations grew up around places where growing food in the soil was reliable and effective.
It’s entirely appropriate to grow at least 80% of food in most places with temperate climates within 100 miles. Greenhouses and polytunnels help with some crops, but the vast majority will find out which crops grow really well in their particular climate. Where I live, we seem incredibly well adapted to growing parsnips, carrots, beetroot, onion, spring onion, garlic, shallot and pretty well adapted to growing potato, broad bean, climbing bean, dwarf bean, fennel, autumn turnip, swede, berries, apples, pears, plums. There are yet more crops that grow reasonably but some seasons they simply fail.
In a green world, it makes zero sense importing that lot from half way around the world. Of course, we can’t grow olives, pineapples, oranges, bananas, avocados etc here. There is still a need for trade for those.
Britain shouldn’t be a net importer of food in any way. The fact it is shows that values are not skewed toward self-sufficiency, energy usage, local seed production etc etc.
Again, it’s not a black and white situation. Choices can be made along a continuum.
But the energy consequences of these things are significant and there is zero technological barriers to making such policies successful, if the economics and energy imperatives stack up.
Rural communities can, to be brutal, become energy independent through pooling animal waste products and using anaerobic digestors at field scale. So much for cows being great satans! Their dung can power entire communities….same with horses. And they power natural fertilisation of fields too, which costs absolutely nothing….of course, the EU thinks cow dung is ‘dangerous’, because the global TNCs don’t have ownership of it. If they did, it would magically become ‘the world’s most important product’….
Truth never did sit well with politicians taking the bungs…..
Completely replacing energy supplies with new ones is the most challenging problem of the lot – the one that should take the longest to solve, and the one that research into scale-up should be the most rigorous for.
Planting trees has no barriers to action and is done entirely for the benefit of future generations. Given them screeching to the world about how everything ‘has been stolen’ from them, showing them billions of trees planted FOR them should shut them up, at least for five minutes…..
Homes, food and trees. Three simple starting points. No excuses not to have transformed those three subjects by 2040. How many people do you know who won’t vote to prioritise healthier homes, healthier food and the calming nature of trees?
Water management, local transportation and forests. Three intermediate points on the map. Break the back of these by 2050. How many teenagers wouldn’t vote to have these sorted out by the time their children are adults?
Long distance transportation, base-level non-oil/gas/coal energy modalities, de-desertification: the things only likely to be solved properly in the second half of the 21st century. Let’s see where we are in 2040 before forcing uncommercial non-solutions onto a world which is sick and tired of oligarchs solely interested in riches they neither need nor deserve?
Thanx Judith
Great presentation
Enjoyed comments
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This study on the Pine Island Glacier contribution to SLR over the next 200 years was released yesterday. Any way you cut it, 5.1 cm over 200 years doesn’t sound frightening. Leave it to the MSM to make it so.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abi5738?et_rid=267930073&utm_campaign=toc_advances_2021-10-22&af=R&et_cid=3968650
Nuclear is renewable! They have essentially no wind and solar. They are code red for climate. Gotta love it.
https://www.cfact.org/2021/10/22/laughing-at-climate-hysteria/
Mr. Wojick
Your column is the first article I read today and it was the best article I read this week. Short, informative and funny too.
One additional fact I leaned yesterday:
The COP26 bigwigs are staying at the luxury Gleneagles Hotel, 47 miles from Glasgow, to rest from their private jet journey. They are being driven to the conference in expensive electric vehicles. There is only one charging station at the hotel, so almost all the vehicles are going to be charged overnight with vegetable oil or diesel fuel powered chargers.
From steam engine to steam turbine generated electricity took a couple of hundred years of engineering ingenuity. Today’s generators have not changed much in the meantime albeit producing higher capacity and via fuels other than coal, and with some improved efficiency here and there.
Wind and solar emerged in the 19thC but were not candidates for progress in mainstream electricity supply. Less than one hundred years later wind and solar appeared again for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with a reasoned out electricity supply strategy.
Without the massive subsidies and incentives neither wind nor solar would have received any attention at all were it not for the hysteria over CO2 from fossil fuel burning and the rejection of a nuclear alternative. All of this to save less than one percent of global emissions when we in the UK could clean up a lot better by building nuclear of all sizes and achieving net zero at some point in the next thirty years or so without a needless battery being manufactured. What has happened to all that serious engineering nous that has gave us all so many improved benefits?
The uncertainty Dr Curry mentions will still be around throughout this century as prediction after prediction fail to register the reality and engineers start looking for a superior style of logic processor or a better understanding of randomness and infinity influencing how computer algorithms are designed and measured for efficiency.
There is also good information regarding the melting of the Arctic.
“Jakobshavn Isbrae has been the single largest source of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet over the last 20 years. During that time, it has been retreating, accelerating and thinning. Here we use airborne altimetry and satellite imagery to show that since 2016 Jakobshavn has been re-advancing, slowing and thickening. We link these changes to concurrent cooling of ocean waters in Disko Bay that spill over into Ilulissat Icefjord. Ocean temperatures in the bay’s upper 250 m have cooled to levels not seen since the mid 1980s. Observations and modelling trace the origins of this cooling to anomalous wintertime heat loss in the boundary current that circulates around the southern half of Greenland. Longer time series of ocean temperature, subglacial discharge and glacier variability strongly suggest that ocean-induced melting at the front has continued to influence glacier dynamics after the disintegration of its floating tongue in 2003. We conclude that projections of Jakobshavn’s future contribution to sea-level rise that are based on glacier geometry are insufficient, and that accounting for external forcing is indispensable.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0329-3
Much as I love a good Arctic discussion Ireneusz, surely this is not the right place?
Sorry, if sea level rise is the biggest threat?
SLR may or may not currently be “the biggest threat” to humankind, but the title of the OP is “Challenges of the clean energy transition” and states that:
“New Jersey is a leader among U.S. states in aggressively tackling the transition to cleaner sources of energy. So far, they have been doing a better job than California.”
All of which seems to imply that “the clean energy transition” is a forgone conclusion in NJ, however quickly sea level may (or may not?) be rising?
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/10/23/science-denialism/
Thanks Judith,
Intriguing information from the other side of the pond.
Was there much discussion about my specialist subject?
Distributed energy storage!
ERCOT in Texas last week requested that businesses reduce power use. Texas temperatures throughout the last week were moderate.
This is an article from July, issuing the same type of warning. I’ll add that Texas summer, 2021, was very mild; only a few days reached into the hundreds, less than half the normal highs.
https://houstondaily.com/stories/604348554-we-should-not-have-problems-like-this-houston-businesses-respond-to-ercot-s-request-for-residents-to-reduce-energy-usage
The summer in Texas was much cooler than normal. Example weather station data:
Austin-Camp Mabry
Average Temperature: 84.1°F
Rainfall: 4.05″
The temperature averaged 84.1 degrees, which was 1.7 degrees below normal. July 2021 tied with July 1959 and July 1947 for the 48th coolest July on record.
This presentation makes sense except for one vital issue. Physics proves that the so called greenhouse gases cannot possibly heat the earth’s surface.
Jeez Alan!
By all means attempt to prove your assertion, preferably elsewhere.
However please note that Ray disagrees with you:
https://youtu.be/slPMD5i5Phg
Greenhouse gases do not “heat” anything, like the sun does.
They reduce the ability of our planet from cooling itself, by forming a partial barrier between earth’s surface and the infinite heat sink of outer space,
The result is a planet that is much warmer than it would otherwise be, and our plants do not freeze and die every night. That’s a good thing !
How much of the globally observed SLR is due to global warming, if any, is unknown. It could all be tectonic. The crust is everywhere in motion, both vertical and horizontal. The shape of the ocean basin is far from constant. So there is no way to predict SLR.
Therefore, the problem of sea level rise is completely independent of man.
https://i2.wp.com/eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018GL078142-Figure-1c-cropped-sized.jpg?w=820&ssl=1
https://eos.org/editor-highlights/carbonate-melting-enhances-mantle-co2-fluxes-in-old-ocean-basins
La Palma and Iceland are giving us signals of what is happening on the mid-ocean ridges.
No, it is not known to be dependent, which is very different. The issue is epistemic, not physical.
Irene and David: Though I’m skeptical of many claims concerning climate change, one thing I am reasonably confident of is that sea level rises with GMST. During the transition from glacial to interglacial, temperature rose about 6 degK and sea level rose 120 m: About 20 m/degK. If that same ratio applied to the EQUILIBRIUM 1 degK of warming we have experienced in the last half-century, then SLR in the tide gauge era has brought us only 2% of the way to a new equilibrium.
Now, as ice caps have retreated poleward, there is less land covered with permanent ice that can melt due to rising GMST. However, 20% as much would be 4 m of EQUILIBRIUM SLR per degK of warming would be a conservative guesstimate. During the last interglacial estimated to have been 1 K above pre-industrial, SLR is currently believed to have been 7 m higher than today. So equilibrium SLR almost certainly will be several meters/degK.
From my perspective, the right question is to ask is: “How quickly will sea level rise, not IF it will rise. Meters of SLR over a few millennia is a vastly different challenge than over a few centuries. It took roughly 10 millennia of SLR at a rate of roughly 1 m/century for most SLR from glacial to interglacial to occur. That process slowed dramatically 7 millennia ago and SLR has been negligible (compared with the 20th century) over the last 4 millennia. When significant warming stopped during the Holocene, SLR stopped many millennia later.
Unfortunately, we haven’t had the technology to track the rate of SLR on a finer scale than meters and millennium until the advent of tide gauges. When tide gauges became available sea level was rising due to the end of the LIA. That rise was still going as very modest warming occurred in the first half of the 20th century and faster warming occurred during the last 50 years. There may be an element of internal variability (chaos) involved because the rate of SLR in the 20th century appeared fluctuated widely (though those fluctuations are on the edge of statistical significance).
At the moment, we are experiencing about 1 inch/decade of SLR, not dramatically different than during the 20th century without significant problems. The cumulative nature of SLR will make it a problem someday. Fearmongers talk about 1 m or more of SLR by the end of the century, which would require an average acceleration of 1 inch/decade/decade. An acceleration of that magnitude isn’t apparent today. If acceleration ever reaches 1 inch/decade/decade, we still have about a half-century to prepare for its consequences, so I’m not impressed by that fear mongering. The observed rate of acceleration measured by satellite altimetry (which has been plagued by systematic errors in the past) puts us on track for the IPCC’s median estimate of about 0.6 m of SLR by 2100. About half of that is due to steric expansion of water as surface heat is transported below the mixed layer, a process that is now being accurately tracked by ARGO. I have high confidence that we understand this phenomena, except for the uncertain in climate sensitivity and rise in GHG. Nevertheless, we already have nearly 1 K of surface warming being transported into the deep ocean today and that will increase though perhaps not as fast as projected. That will go on for more than a millennia – which brings me back to the inevitability of meters of SLR at equilibrium in response rising GHGs.
Sorry this is so late. I haven’t been keeping up with CE very well.
Yes – and SLR from global groundwater extraction is accelerating – to perhaps as much as 30cm/century! ( Yoshikawa, et. al. 2014 )
That is modeled to occur by 2050.
While there is considerable uncertainty, groundwater use, which I believe is a net benefit to humanity, should assuage SLR terror from AGW.
David Wojick wrote:
How much of the globally observed SLR is due to global warming, if any, is unknown.
Wrong:
“Heating of the climate system has caused global mean sea level rise through ice loss on land and thermal expansion from ocean warming. Thermal expansion explained 50% of sea level rise during 1971–
2018, while ice loss from glaciers contributed 22%, ice sheets 20% and changes in land water storage 8%. The rate of ice sheet loss increased by a factor of four between 1992–1999 and 2010–2019. Together, ice sheet and glacier mass loss were the dominant contributors to global mean sea level rise during 2006-2018. (high confidence)”
IPCC AR6 WG1 SPM A.4.3 SPM-14
Ms. Curry misses the boat by a focus on science when that is not the key issue. And I hope she is open to criticism. I realize Ms. Curry has a business and there may be financial pressures to at least partially agree with the coming climate change crisis narrative.
The coming climate crisis is imaginary — a belief that dates back over 60 years — and it not based on science (facts, data and logic), so can not be refuted with facts, data and logic.
The belief is based on claiming to be able to predict the future climate, which is “proven” by consistently wrong inaccurate predictions.
We have over 60 years of environmental predictions that have been 100% wrong — no predicted crisis has ever shown up.
To answer the question of what future global warming will be like — just discuss the past 45 years of actual global warming:
Mild, intermittent warming
Harmless warming
Most affected colder, higher latitude Northern Hemisphere areas
Most affected the six coldest months of the year
Most affected nighttime low temperatures.
Greening of our planet from more CO2 in the air
Reality was mild beneficial global warming, and greening, for the past 45 years.
Fantasy is a coming climate crisis … that has been predicted for the past 64 years, and never shows up.
What do you prefer?
Studying climate reality over the past 45 years?
Or the usual always wrong wild guess predictions of the next 45 years?
Whichever you prefer,
New Jersey’s current mix of electricity sources, except for burning biomass, are ideal for the state. New Jersey does not need any transition. Use the money for something that benefits the citizens of New Jersey !
The ice cores are the only true records of the past. I explain the ice core.
“The ice cores are the only true records of the past. I explain the ice core”
I’m not an expert and didn’t go too deep into the topic. But I have some questions in regards ice-core profiles.
While CO2 concentration data in ice-cores has merit and not controversial, temperature approximations based on isotope ratios is debatable. It is a good hypothesis and nice trick but assumptions used are not cut in stone truths. Plus it is based on calibration using last 80 years only (if I’m not mistaken). Assuming linearity of deposition when processes involved (evaporation, moisture transfer in atmosphere, and condensation) are strongly non-linear is not very convincing.
There is also a very strong assumption on converting depth to years. The rates of ice growth an compaction (that traps CO2) are not stable. Imagine if they would use the rate of 300 feet per 50 years rate of ice growth. https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a22575917/wwii-p-38-discovered-under-300-feet-of-ice-in-greenland/
There is a possibility that Ice formation in a particular location is not just a function of snow deposition. I understand that this is assumed.
I understand that ice-core data is probably the best we have in regards climate in the past. But there might be alternative interpretations of data. However, I admit my poor knowledge of the topic and willing to get clarifications from the expert
I do like calling out the narrative:
“warming – by us – dangerous – urgent – stop”
But I’m less satisfied with the valid responses:
“oversimplified – uncertainty – infeasible – consequences”
In addition:
“bounded – other processes – NOT dangerous – benefits – significance?”
as in:
“warming is bounded – consider other processes – warming NOT dangerous within bounds – consider benefits as well as risks – global warming is not a term of the equations of motion, so what significance?”
* Bound the problem! Any problem that’s not defined and bounded can be the stuff of emotional appeal of infinite extent or continuation. Global warming is bounded from the get go by the logarithmic forcing from CO2. This requires exponential rates of increase just to maintain a constant rate of warming. Five year mean radiative forcing rates peaked in 2017 and are slowly decreasing already. Future CO2 emissions are already limited.
* Other processes that limit CO2 are DEMOGRAPHICS. Fertility rates are falling for every country and most countries, including the largest CO2 emitting ones, have projections for falling population, some quite rapidly. Imposing measures to limit CO2 in this perspective is laughably useless and a waste of time.
* There is more emotional appeal that warming is dangerous iconized by images of earth melting or earth in a frying pan or something.
Humans seem to gravitate to extreme ideas. The often depicted ‘Arctic Amplification’ is an example of global warming leading to less extreme climate, at least on a spatial basis. It is imagination, not models which create the idea of dangers. Many of the dangerous phenomena of climate ( droughts, fires, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, etc. ) actually exhibit decreasing if not significantly decreasing trends.
* As with every cell of nearly all life on the surface of earth, humans are composed of organic molecules, the Carbon molecules of which we ingest from food which grew from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Those in denial of photosynthesis may also be in denial of the increased vegetation on earth and increasing rates of photosynthesis in the oceans. It is very difficult to rectify CO2 as a danger to life on earth when it appears to be INCREASING the amount of life on earth.
* Of course, CO2 is a GHG. GHGs imposed RF. RF changes the energy balance which lead to warming in the global mean. But global temperature is not a term in the equations of motion, and it is the equations of motion which are the bases for the exchanges which create climate variation. It occurs to me that the more direct a phenomena is linked to RF, the more likely it is to occur as a consequence of CO2 increase.
So, increased global mean temperature follows directly.
Also, decreased stratospheric temperature follows directly.
‘Arctic amplification’ results from increased global temperature combined with advective exchange.
These things were predicted, and have occurred.
Global mean precipitation is thought to result from increased water vapor which is thought to increase from increased temperature. This could be occurring, but the effect was very small ( a few % ) and precipitation is not yet measured well enough to determine.
However, spatial changes to precipitation depend on motion! Since the equations of motion do not include global mean temperature as a term, this remains highly questionable.
“Global mean precipitation is thought to result from increased water vapor which is thought to increase from increased temperature. This could be occurring, but the effect was very small ( a few % ) and precipitation is not yet measured well enough to determine.”
Causation for increased water vapor is an afterthought in comparison to CO2. Rising CO2 means more heat; more heat means more evaporation is the argument; but it’s too simplistic. What about man-made reservoir growth; massive irrigation utilized for food crops?
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-precipitation
The chart shows the growth of precipitation throughout the 20th century.
If CO2 leads heat, and heat leads evaporation, then why didn’t heat during early warm periods during the 20th century lead to more evaporation, and subsequent precipitation? Or is increasing numbers of reservoirs, and irrigation perhaps the causation? But water isn’t a good cudgel for global political insurrection, some might think it to be a ridiculous argument.
EPA: On average, total annual precipitation has increased over land areas in the United States and worldwide (see Figures 1 and 2). Since 1901, global precipitation has increased at an average rate of 0.10 inches per decade, while precipitation in the contiguous 48 states has increased at a rate of 0.20 inches per decade.
CO2 works better for creating hysterics; why use loaded guns for global political insurrection when gas and hysterics will work just as well?
Yes, there do even appear areas of strong water vapor decrease:
https://climateobs.substack.com/p/vertical-profiles-of-climate-change
( Figures 7 )
Probably both water vapor and precipitation measures are too uncertain to make useful assessments, but both parameters depend on motion, making them indirect and far less predictable.
Evidence for increases water vapor content:
IPCC 5AR WG1 Technical Summary TFE.1 “Water Cycle Change,” pp 42-45.
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_TS_FINAL.pdf
There is a good chance that the reservoirs in California will fill up within the next seven days.
https://i.ibb.co/t4MrZxs/gfs-apcpn-wus-28.png
Global SLR at 3mm a year for 80 years is 9.5 inches. At 2mm just 6 inches.
5 or even 3 feet is absurd.
Go NJ!
https://www.cfact.org/2021/10/22/laughing-at-climate-hysteria/
David Wojick wrote:
Global SLR at 3mm a year for 80 years is 9.5 inches. At 2mm just 6 inches.
5 or even 3 feet is absurd.
Sea level rise is accelerating, 0.098 mm/yr2.
Also now rising at 4.7 mm/yr
University of Colorado data:
http://sealevel.colorado.edu
David you are such a climate alarmist. The chart that you attach shows that sea level is rising at 3.3 mm per year. A short-term increase in the rate is meaningless. When the short-term rate is falling are we all going to say sea level is now declining. Stop being an idiot
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=130-001
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=120-012
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=150-001
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=1612340
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=170-011
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=840-011
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=680-140
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=170-161
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=170-161
I don’t see acceleration
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=050-201
Rob Starkey commented:
David you are such a climate alarmist. The chart that you attach shows that sea level is rising at 3.3 mm per year. A short-term increase in the rate is meaningless. When the short-term rate is falling are we all going to say sea level is now declining. Stop being an idiot
Learn to read the science. It’s well known that sea level rise is accelerating, and anyone can easily find those papers on Google Scholar. If you fit a quadratic line to the CU sea level data (which they did not), you get the numbers I provided.
Here’s a number for you: in Charleston, South Carolina, over the last 20 years sea level has been rising 1 inch every 32 months, on average. 1 cm/yr.
data source:
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=8665530
Rob Starkey wrote:
David you are such a climate alarmist. The chart that you attach shows that sea level is rising at 3.3 mm per year. A short-term increase in the rate is meaningless. When the short-term rate is falling are we all going to say sea level is now declining.
Learn to read the science. It’s well known that sea level rise is now accelerating — you can easily find those papers on Google Scholar. If you fit a quadratic curve to the CU data — which they did not — you get a better fit than a linear fit, with the numbers I provided.
R.S. Nerem et al, “Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era,” PNAS, February 12, 2018.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717312115
“A 20th century acceleration in global sea-level rise,” John A. Church and Neil J. White, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 33, L01602, doi:10.1029/2005GL024826, 2006GRL (2006).
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005GL024826/abstract
Persistent acceleration in global sea-level rise since the 1960s
Sönke Dangendorf et al, Nature Climate Change volume 9, pages705–710 (2019).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0531-8
and many more
I don’t see SEA LEVEL RISE
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=060-051
I don’t see SEA LEVEL RISE
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=9452210
I don’t see SEA LEVEL RISE
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=050-123
David
The PNAS paper you cited is a garbage paper that took a short term change in the rate of rise and then did a “but if this rate is maintained until 2100” It wasn’t and the rate of rise is inconsequential.
That seems to be your modus operandi when it comes to evaluating climate science. Believe anything that promotes a potential crisis vs coldly evaluating the data.
Rob Starkey wrote:
The PNAS paper you cited is a garbage paper that took a short term change in the rate of rise and then did a “but if this rate is maintained until 2100” It wasn’t and the rate of rise is inconsequential.
It’s based on 25 years of satellite data. Why is that “short-term?” The question is if the result is statistically significant or not. Is it? Have you evaluated the data? Then what was your finding on its statistical significance?
You want to talk about data, let’s talk about data.
https://www.scseagrant.org/water-cities-climate-proof-the-coast/#:~:text=The%20subsidence%20rate%20is%20about,On%20the%20Cover.&text=Global%20sea%20level%2C%20meanwhile%2C%20has,1990s%20because%20of%20climate%20change.
Now remove the subsidence.
. “The subsidence rate is about five inches per century at the water-level gauge in Charleston Harbor.”
Now, just eyeballing your the graph, we see that SLR has ceased again at Charleston, as it’s done previously.
DA
“ You want to talk about data, let’s talk about data.”
Have the next Cole Porter compose a melody for that and you can sing yourself to sleep when it gets frosty in your house. Right after humming “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
Carl Wunsch, one of the giants in Oceanography, (Along with Munk) said this in 2007.
“Although intense interest exists in the global average value of sea level change, and the plausible inference of an average rise, actually obtaining a useful result proves extremely difficult. If errors in the altimetric data are fully understood (not clear), estimates of an average rise near 3 mm yr−1 are sensible, but currently untestable against in situ datasets. Several problems exist: Figs. 1 or 2 show the great regional variability in trend values, sometimes up to TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE (emphasis mine) larger than the apparent spatial mean. In addition to remaining questions about altimetric error sources (e.g., geocenter movement), the sampling errors involving temporal aliasing and missing high-latitude coverage need to be better understood. In situ data are never truly global, have strong seasonal biases, are primarily confined to the upper ocean, and likely contain systematic errors of various types. Meteorological estimates from the so-called reanalyses are unconstrained in terms of global heat and freshwater budgets. Conversions from halosteric to mass components in sea level necessary to compute net freshwater inputs from salinity changes place very strong requirements (Munk 2003) on the accuracy of the mean salinity change and on the equation of state, particularly in models where various simplifications are made………”
“At best, the determination and attribution of global-mean sea level change lies at the very edge of knowledge and technology.”
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/20/24/2007jcli1840.1.xml
Adam Gallon commented:Now, just eyeballing your the graph, we see that SLR has ceased again at Charleston, as it’s done previously.
Then resumed every time.
Eyeballing LOL.
A 14-year old paper, CKid. We now have 14 more years of data — good data, from GRACE satellites, and a great deal more research since then. We have streets in Miami and Key West and Norfolk VA flooding now. We have people being moved from their homes at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to US taxpayers. Increasing sea level rise in Bangladesh & Pakistan. And more. Too much and too real to deny.
DA
You know anytime a location is faced with flooding it’s because of subsidence (not to be confused with subsistence which is what millions of Americans will be on after 3 more years of Bidenomics).
Read a story about communities that are supposedly affected by sea level rise and with some research it’s easily discovered that the root cause is subsidence. But it’s rarely explained in the story because that doesn’t fit the narrative.
CKid commented:
Read a story about communities that are supposedly affected by sea level rise and with some research it’s easily discovered that the root cause is subsidence.
Sorry, I didn’t see this until now — I filter your comments — I read comments via email — straight to trash, due to your earlier juvenile comments. Same for a few others here.
No, flooding isn’t always about subsidence, sorry, especially along the US East Coast “hot spot” — a big factor is the slowdown of the Gulf Stream and AMOC:
“Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic coast of North America,” Asbury H. Sallenger et al, Nature Climate Change volume 2, pages884–888 (2012)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate1597
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/04.02_Jianjun_Yin.pdf
Dear David,
“I read comments via email”
Perhaps it would be prudent for you to read comments in context from time to time?
CKid commented:
I don’t see SEA LEVEL RISE
http://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=060-051
Cherry picking a couple of sites like this just proves you a denier who doesn’t deserve serious consideration or replies.
You make it so easy to dismiss you. And not just with this comment, but with many others.
Pathetic. Fear Mongering always fails. How are you going to spend you Government Grant for this hit piece?
Warming is good. People as a majority love summer. Why? We have more food, more sunshine, it is sunny and warm things grow during this time. Warming is so so Good.
Fools. Man does not cause warming, obviously the sun does. As the sun goes so does the climate.
We are no longer warming. We are now cooling and people are aware of this truth which will only make you look even more foolish than you already do.
As it gets cooler so too will we experience less food production and the population will go down as it has in past cooling cycles.
More people die of cold than of heat.
Fools. You will fail in your agenda Thank Goodness. The question is how much harm will you cause in your attempts to manipulate the Economy to how you want it to be, never realizing nor understanding the Invisible Hand of Self Interest of the Individual that governs the World Economy.
Fools.
Fossil fuels are responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide, as well as global warming. To pretend that we can reduce deaths from cold by warming up the planet is beyond foolish.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide/
“Fossil fuels are responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide”
The local DA is channeling Harvard machinations now. Are you sure they didn’t squeeze automobile deaths into that metric somehow? How did they reconcile their fancy footwork numbers with the average human life expectancy increases throughout the 20th century?
jungletrunks, can’t you even read far enough to get to the second paragraph of the link?
Another inebriated DA observation, the second para: “The study, “Global Mortality From Outdoor Fine Particle Pollution Generated by Fossil Fuel Combustion,” published in Environmental Research, is based on a groundbreaking analysis that enabled the researchers to directly attribute premature deaths from fine particulate pollution (PM 2.5) to fossil fuel combustion.”
What does the silly para you point out have to do with reconciling the average human life expectancy increases throughout the 20th century?
“Fossil fuels are responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide, as well as global warming.”
This is epidemiology which effectively made up.
In the really poor countries, fuel is cow dung.
They’d probably INCREASE their life expectancy by using fossil fuels.
How many deaths have fossil fuels prevented?
( ambulance rides, home heating, transportation, cooking, cleaning, etc. etc. )
Certainly, chronic diseases are mostly from poor diet and exercise.
I’m guessing you should by far be more concerned with that.
Have you ever considered clicking on links, Trunks?
Where’s the study?
Do you think that “Fossil fuel combustion emits particulate matter (PM2.5) harmful to public health” is true because particulate matter causes car crashes?
I mean, it’s not impossible. Perhaps it creates fogs so thick that drivers can’t see through them.
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Thanks for the link, David. I will add it to “But Evidence,” under “gimme evidence that CO2 harms” as CO2 is the by-product of fossil fuel combustion. It illustrates how contrarians have the wrong model of evidence.
Exactly, TE.
The court views the local DA’s ambulance chasing practice with contempt; he’s walking a thin line to disbarment for misleading the courts, using babies no less.
And now Bingo comes to the rescue. I don’t defend aerosol pollution BTW, but peak aerosol pollution was circa 1970’s in developed nations; now you clowns conflate CO2 with carbon black, et al, what bingo cards. I ask the Bingo, how do you reconcile human life expectancy increasing throughout the 20th century with this study now placed into your dogeared portfolio?
TE –
> They’d probably INCREASE their life expectancy by using fossil fuels.
As compared to using cow dung. Is there a reason you didn’t make a comparison to the use of other sources like wind, solar, and nuclear?
> I’m guessing you should by far be more concerned with that.
Based on what? How do you know his level of concern with “that?” And tell me something, can you walk and chew gum at the same time?
Whataboutism works better if you do the reading, guys:
Trunks
>… how do you reconcile human life expectancy increasing throughout the 20th century with this study now placed into your dogeared portfolio?
Can you walk and chew gum at the same time?
What would the increase in life expectancy have been had people had more access to energy from non-fossil fuel sources? Or if people hadn’t had greater access to antibiotics? Or if people hadn’t had more access to education and societal institutions that provide more political agency to more people?
So many unanswered questions.
Josh, I’m more concerned about your flatulence discharges than I am with the pollution from this report.
Trunks –
> Josh, I’m more concerned about your flatulence discharges than I am with the pollution from this report.
Well, your obsession with my bowels, sphincter, and other aspects of my digestion and elimination have been constant and explicit for quite a while now.
Tell, me Trunks, are you similar obsessed with those bodily functions in other people as well, or do I uniquely have that status in your fantasies?
Anal is as anal does—Josh. What politburo do you and cohorts report to? I think they’re calling you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEZQRhVgbP0
My Heart Will Go On – Soviet Edition
Celine Dion’s \”My Heart Will Go On\” as a Soviet march. Q P6P0Q P=Q P9!
http://www.youtube.com
The point is, if like Bjorn Lomborn, you’re claiming that global warming is a good thing because it will reduce cold deaths, which are supposedly a bigger problem than heat deaths, you are seriously miscounting, let alone ignoring all the other problems global warming is causing now and will cause for the next 100,000 years.
David
I have read your link and think your statement rather simplistic. There has been a great deal of research carried out on this in the UK, in particular during the last 3 years when a coroner ruled that someone with asthma had been killed by pollution. They lived very close to a major road.
At this very moment a bill is proceeding through Parliament with various amendments try to force some additional degree of control.
A report just today on the BBC updated this, and it is reckoned that around 25 teenagers will die in the next 2 years due to PM2.5 levels. The numbers you quote I can not see anywhere. Highly regrettable but not on the scale you quote
Here is a detailed UK govt study
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/emissions-of-air-pollutants/emissions-of-air-pollutants-in-the-uk-particulate-matter-pm10-and-pm25
One interesting fact I discovered last year was that 48 tonne trucks created 120000 times more downward pressure on road surfaces than a 1 tonne car.
The net result of all this is that it was the brake dust, tyre remnants, clutch particles, plus dust being thrown up from the actions of the trucks that contributed a very major part of the particulates, not the exhausts.
Ironically EV’s were thought to be worse as regards three of those aspects, due to their additional weight.
So to say fossil fuels are responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide is clearly incorrect and I can not think you believe that, notwithstanding the data for special cases of China and India, the latter of which have their own problems with burning dung and wood
Let us agree however that it is highly desirable to reduce pollution, but banning fossil fuels means the problems will be shifted to electric vehicles.
Most solar panels though are made in China using hugely damaging mining processes and vast amounts of coal
So basically humans trying to improve their lives are the problem and I don’t know your solution to that?
tonyb
climatereason wrote:
The numbers you quote I can not see anywhere….
If you’d read the article I linked to you’d see that the numbers come from a peer reviewed study from a respectable journal:
“Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem”
Karn Vohra et al, Environmental Research
Volume 195, April 2021, 110754
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.110754
David
I gave you a very detailed response that you seem to ignore. Research carried out in resect of the action wanted by anti pollution campaigners do not bear out the figures you quote.
Do you have any comment on the likelihood that brakes, tyres etc cause more pollution and ironically that may be worse by EV’s due to their heavier weight
tonyb
climatereason wrote:
So to say fossil fuels are responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide is clearly incorrect….
As if you get to dismiss a detailed peer reviewed study in a respected scientific journal by throwing out a couple of numbers and anecdotes.
LOL.
Not worth my time.
David
Your 3.49 . After reading your link I gave you a very detailed response which included a link to a UK govt research paper that itself was loaded with references. This you dismiss airily.
I asked your opinion on the findings that brake and clutch and tyre pArticulates were a very large cause of pollution and also that according to the very detailed research going on at the moment in respect to a parliamentary bill, that the I in 5 figure you gave is a wild exaggeration.
Your response LOL
As for this 100,000 year nonsense. Mankind will find something better than fossil fuel in the next few decades and fossil fuel will die a natural death.
How on earth will that affect the earth for 100,000 years?I read the long thaw years ao, thanks
Tonyb
I certainly would not mind chasing down your squirrel, Tony.
Check this graph:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/image_data/file/114170/Figure01.jpg
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/emissions-of-air-pollutants/emissions-of-air-pollutants-in-the-uk-summary
Ammonia does not come from wood stoves, but from Big Ag.
At least 88 percent of it.
What does Bjorn say about that?
Tony –
Any thoughts on the COVID trend in the UK, and what they might say about the impact of NPIs?
Mr. Appel, I read the abstract of that paper and am less than convinced. In 2019, all deaths from lower respiratory infections totaled 3.6 million. 20% of that would be 720,000. Looking at the top ten causes of death, I struggle to see how PM 2.5 can come up to 20% of all deaths.
I can see it being a significant contributor to some, such as lung cancer, although the decline in lung cancer since smoking became taboo makes me wonder. But diabetes? I fail to see the mechanism by which PM 2.5 contributes, and it is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. So is Alzheimers and other dementias–how does PM 2.5 contribute? What is the mechanism? The paper does not explain.
The study crunched numbers in a meta analysis of other studies. We have all seen similar exercises resulting in absurdities like the UN claim that 300,000 deaths a year were caused by climate change. There are others that are not part of the environmental conversation.
I don’t buy it.
1 to 5 deaths a year from fossil fuels?
What are you talking about?
Fossil fuels did not cause any warming for 4.5 billion years.
Blaming all warming in the past 100 years on fossil fuels is an assumption, not a proven fact.
Since warming in the past 45 years has been mainly in colder high latitude areas, mainly in the six coldest months of the year, and mainly at night, the warmer winter nights WILL certainly improve human health. Cold weather related deaths exceed hot weather related deaths by 10x to 20x to 1.
Mr. Apple got three misinformation “strikes” in one comment !
Willard
Thanks for your 5.22. I am not sure what point you are making as Chapter 5 of your second link makes the same point I did, that road/truck wear is a factor in emissions. Also they note that vehicle emissions are going down.
There is an Act of Parliament going through the Lords at present trying to force the Govt to take note of that unusual occurrence, whereby the death of a specific child with asthma, living next to a main road, was related to air pollution, as judged by a coroner. The mother and her helpers have professionally calculated that up to 25 teenagers will die each year because of air pollution. This was on a programme I listened to on the BBC yesterday afternoon.
The govt have said they will throw out any amendments as their figures demonstrate that emissions and deaths are falling.
I suggested that in the light of the evidence that this figure of 1 in 5 from David was not realistic.
I do not deny that particulates are a problem nor that we need to consider the consequent effects of particulates much more, nor the physical damage that trucks inflict.
I also pointed to the irony that EV’s seem to cause particulate problems as they are heavier
tonyb
Mornin’ Tony (UTC),
Since nobody seems to want to discuss “Challenges of the clean energy transition” in depth perhaps we can discuss the “Challenges of transport electrification” instead?
Have you ever driven an electric vehicle? If you had you would no doubt realise that you rely on “regenerative braking” rather than disc brakes, except in an emergency. Lisa the LEAF’s discs go rusty in the bracing sea air of North Cornwall if one doesn’t remember to intentionally engage the physical pads occasionally.
Lisa’s traction battery does weigh a fair bit so tyre wear is worthy of discussion, but overall ICE vehicles are worse than BEVs on the particulate matter front.
Tonyb wrote:
As for this 100,000 year nonsense. Mankind will find something better than fossil fuel in the next few decades and fossil fuel will die a natural death.
How on earth will that affect the earth for 100,000 years?
That’s how long it takes all of our CO2 emissions to ultimately leave the atmosphere via silicate weathering.
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/03/how-long-will-global-warming-last/
> I also pointed to the irony that EV’s seem to cause particulate problems as they are heavier
That was the point that the graph I showed you undermines, Tony. All the indicators are going down. Some are still very high. They’re not from EV’s.
I get that at some point some nuance is required. But when contrarians can’t even grok simple sentences like “air pollution from burning fossil fuels is responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths,” they’re not worth having.
“I get that at some point some nuance is required. But when contrarians can’t even grok simple sentences like “air pollution from burning fossil fuels is responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths,” they’re not worth having.”
I completely get the sentence Willard its just that I don’t believe it and both the links that you and I have provided have surely showed that this figure can not be justified.
The poor woman who lost her daughter is fighting to get the law on pollution changed. If she was able to claim it caused 1 in 5 deaths it would be very difficult for the govt to push back against it.
That after lots of research they believe the numbers (of teenagers) killed is in the low 20’s then it is difficult to see how that 1 in 5 figure has any credence.
tonyb
> I don’t believe it.
You get your skepticism all wrong, Tony.
The motto is “believe it, but check it,” not “disbelieve it, and don’t check it.”
When I say that you can’t grok that air pollution from burning fossil fuels is responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths, I’m not suggesting that you can’t parse it or decipher its meaning. I mean that you will dismiss it without really trying to understand or pay any kind of due diligence how the authors are supporting it.
In other words, you’re mostly powered by contrarian incredulity.
Why should I nurture your bad cognitive habits by spoon feeding you?
Willard
Your 2.23.
If you read back you will see I actually read David’s link then I double checked it myself and came across numerous articles on the subject to which I linked to a recent UK govt one with lots of data
I also took the trouble to refer you and David to the Act of Parliament currently going through the procedures, and the very real anguish of the mother who had lost their child to traffic pollution, as evidenced by the coroner in the first case of its kind in the UK.
The mother has acquired huge amounts of professional support including from scientists and political parties and they came up with the figure of how many people will die of pollution.
If the numbers were as suggested -1 in 5 -the govt would have no choice but to cave in.
However they are not remotely of that category and fortunately pollution has been falling, but is still too high
I can do no more than read, research and link to articles. I am sorry that is not sufficient for you.
You can carry on believing the 1 in 5 figure but real world data doesn’t support it.
Now, no more climate ball please Willard
tonyb
Tony,
There’s no “if you check” that holds – I did check, and there’s nothing in there that supports any kind of criticism regarding the validity of that 20% number. There’s some hand wringing about EV’s which are misguided, and that’s about it.
You got to believe that the paper has been published.
You got to believe that the paper passed peer review.
You got to believe that there’s an empirical basis to the claim.
You got to believe that you might misunderstand what the authors did.
There are lots of things you can believe, and you could still prove the authors wrong!
Not only that, but if you do, the authors might even thank you for it!
So spare me the passive aggressivity, OK?
Willard
I demonstrated that real world people who had suffered real world loss and were trying to amend an act of parliament to ensure other parents did not suffer a similar loss, had experts sieve through the extensive figures available
They did not come up with one that remotely confirmed that 1 in 5 figure. It stretches my credulity and hopefully it will stretch yours
Tonyb
Tony,
You played squirrel, reported some anecdote, and linked to a study that had nothing to do with mortality.
Please give it a rest.
If you want to criticize the study, you need to read it.
I don’t make the rules.
Sorry.
Willard
Thank you
I will stick with the comprehensive real world observations on mortality I reference.
Tonyb
You’re most welcome, Tony.
Here’s the only thing you referenced:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/emissions-of-air-pollutants/emissions-of-air-pollutants-in-the-uk-particulate-matter-pm10-and-pm25
No mortality in that study.
Thomas Fuller wrote:
I read the abstract of that paper and am less than convinced.
Why don’t you read the paper?
An abstract doesn’t contain the science, just a summary of the paper’s findings.
Somebody(?) wrote:
A report just today on the BBC updated this, and it is reckoned that around 25 teenagers will die in the next 2 years due to PM2.5 levels.
I gather this is from a UK report. If this is your understanding of how the “1 in 5 deaths” is calculated you are profoundly mistaken. It hardly means that 1 in 5 teenagers is keeling over from particulates!
Why don’t you read the actual study to find out what they did and concluded? Why don’t you at least read the press release and some of the extensive media coverage? Because your anecdotal responses are extremely naive and the notion that they counter an extensive peer reviewed study in a quality scientific journal is frankly quite delusional.
Willard
And thank you, for that link was only tiny part of the information I referenced, which revolved round the UK coroner decreeing the girl died of air pollution and that as a result a great many people were trying to change the law. The numbers they believed to be at risk of air pollution was a fraction of those in David’s study.
If the numbers had matched those in the study the UK govt would have found it very hard to have resisted the demands.
As I am not giving a TED talk i think the information i gave was quite extensive
Good night Willard.
Tonyb
David Appell | October 23, 2021 at 11:50 am | Reply
Fossil fuels are responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide, as well as global warming. To pretend that we can reduce deaths from cold by warming up the planet is beyond foolish.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide/”
20% of world wide deaths – Appell are you completely unable to recognize “pal reviewed Junk science”
the study says 350k deaths in the US from 2.5 fine particle. Note that is 13% of total us deaths. The CDC shows only 7% from Respipatory deaths.
A little basic background knowledge and it becomes obvious is junk science
Mr. Apple writes:
“Fossil fuels are responsible
for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide”
My comment:
That ridiculous false statement
destroys what little credibility
you had left !
Richard Greene | October 25, 2021 at 9:52 am |
Mr. Apple writes:
“Fossil fuels are responsible
for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide”
My comment:
That That ridiculous false statement
destroys what little credibility
you had left !”
destroys what little credibility
you had left !”
Richard – I would modify you comment slightly “That ridiculous false statement exemplifies why a lot of climate science loses credibility !”
i would also add that acceptance of a “ridiculous false statement” such as that highlights the inability to separate good science with activist science, ie the inability to set off the BS meter.
Willard | October 24, 2021 at 2:23 pm |
> I don’t believe it.
You get your skepticism all wrong, Tony.
The motto is “believe it, but check it,” not “disbelieve it, and don’t check it.”
When I say that you can’t grok that air pollution from burning fossil fuels is responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths, I’m not suggesting that you can’t parse it or decipher its meaning. I mean that you will dismiss it without really trying to understand or pay any kind of due diligence how the authors are supporting it.”
It takes very little due diligence to figure out the study is BS!
Particulate pollution from transportation is courtesy of our climate glitteratti- they ordered Europe to switch to diesel cars and trucks in the 1990s because of the “peak oil” and “global warming” scares.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/22/the-rise-diesel-in-europe-impact-on-health-pollution
Increases in deaths from air pollution are yet another “unintended consequence” of climate policy. And now that they spent global budgets on unreliables, we get to enjoy the affects of thousands of diesel and gasoline powered generators kicking on to burn a million gallons of oil a day to prevent the factories and hospitals from going dark.
Bingo man smiles and asks, again, why we won’t just turn off the lights and heat.
Jefforino reads:
and then he punches hippies.
This story can only mean one thing: PRIVATIZE ALL THE THINGS!
“…big German…”
But… Climate Chancellor!
The “big German” switched electricity generation from nuclear to Russian natural gas, so those “electric” cars that manage to avoid catching fire will be built using fossil fuels and powered by them. Yay.
> But… Climate Chancellor!
Jefforino can’t bring himself to read the complete sentence.
Let’s repeat it for his and our Denizens’ benefit:
Next he’s gonna argue for ethanol like Dubya, one of his role models.
> It takes very little due diligence
You’re on, Joe — show me what you got.
If you can pull it off, more power to you!
PS: Beware that Baron Munschausen’s trick won’t work.
Jefforino notes that governments set policies. Jefforino reminds Willy that even the “big German” needs some sort of industry if she’s going to pay all those social benefits.
Willy is confused. Surely she’ll shut them all down. Any day now. First, turn off the lights and heat.
Jefforino says, again: assume governments will keep the lights and heat and factories on, then set policy accordingly.
No, no, no. Willy says think big! Close it all, figure it out later. When you have, give him a call in Moscow.
Willard | October 25, 2021 at 1:50 pm |
> It takes very little due diligence
You’re on, Joe — show me what you got.
If you can pull it off, more power to you!
PS: Beware that Baron Munschausen’s trick won’t work.”
Willard – you might start with the CDC mortality tables and causes of death.
Once again Jefforino washes his hands over industries that profit from fossil fuels, glosses over the fact that these giants have way more power than hippies, and confuses NOx’s excess deaths with PM 2.5’s for squirrel’s sake.
One day he might realize that the world is complex, but I wouldn’t go long on that.
> you might start
Handwaving does not count as due diligence, Joe.
Better luck next time!
Willard –
Just borrow Joe’s crystal ball. That’s all the due diligence you need:
Just make sure to adjust the calibration a bit first. Joe’s said hhr number was between 40 and 50. Per the CDC it’s now up to 61. It will go higher.
Extend it back to mid-September, as Joe did, and it’s obviously MUCH higher than 40-50.
How can people be that confident even as they’re that WRONG?
Per the CDC, the weekly rate of deaths from mid-Sept to Oct 13 ranged from 1,800 to 500. So say 1100/7 = 157 daily.
Yeah. Calibrate a bit. 40-50 vs. 157. So let’s be gereous and say his crystal ball is off by 300%.
Mr josh
7-day Metrics
Community Transmission
Substantial
How is community transmission calculated?
October 25, 2021
Cases 12,567
% Positivity 3-4.9%
Deaths 46
% Eligible Population Fully Vaccinated 68.2%
New Hospital Admissions (7-Day Moving Avg) 293
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths|new_death|select
Joshy
When I made that statement on oct 13, the 7 day moving average for florida covid deaths was 61, On Oct 14th , the 7 day moving average was 51, and on oct 15th, the 7 day moving average was 42 .
That data is after correcting for the time lag
“Once again Jefforino washes his hands over industries that profit from fossil fuels, glosses over the fact that these giants have way more power than hippies, and confuses NOx’s excess deaths with PM 2.5’s for squirrel’s sake.”
Willard talks “hippies” into burning a million barrels of oil a day to compensate for unreliables, blames Jeff and then makes up yet another false story about Jeff.
Confuses?
Appel’s link:
“The study, “Global Mortality From Outdoor Fine Particle Pollution Generated by Fossil Fuel Combustion,” published in Environmental Research, is based on a groundbreaking analysis that enabled the researchers to directly attribute premature deaths from fine particulate pollution (PM 2.5) to fossil fuel combustion.”
California, before Willy needed it to be otherwise:
“As a significant fraction of PM2.5, diesel PM contributes to numerous health impacts that have been attributed to particulate matter exposure, including increased hospital admissions, particularly for heart disease, but also for respiratory illnesses, and even premature death.”
https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/summary-diesel-particulate-matter-health-impacts
All those diesel generators Willy ensured will be running full steam this winter are going to kill people. But Putin will make a lot of money, so it’s all good, right Willy.
Joshy is still obsessing over Florida? Queeg and the strawberries.
Joe –
> When I made that statement on oct 13, the 7 day moving average for florida covid deaths was 61,
What are you talking about? The statement you made was that the number was between 40-50. Why would you say that it was between 40]-50 if the number was 61?
You did your silly calculation and came up with a number of 43 for the average of deaths daily between mid-Sept and that date. The updated number (using your silly method of calculation) is actually at around 160.
What is it with you boyz trying to deny statements you have made when I freakin’ quoted you when you made them?
> On Oct 14th , the 7 day moving average was 51, and on oct 15th, the 7 day moving average was 42 .
One again, per the CDC, the number is 61 for Oct. 13. And it will go up. You said it was between 40-50.
Why do you boyz have such an incredibly hard time just admitting mistakes?
Joshua | October 25, 2021 at 4:31 pm |
Joe –
> When I made that statement on oct 13, the 7 day moving average for florida covid deaths was 61,
What are you talking about? The statement you made was that the number was between 40-50. Why would you say that it was between 40]-50 if the number was 61?
You did your silly calculation and came up with a number of 43 for the average of deaths daily between mid-Sept and that date. The updated number (using your silly method of calculation) is actually at around 160.
Josh – Golly I missed the number by 25-30% 45 vs 61
At least I didnt miss it by 300% and then brag about how wrong everyone else was.
Jash’s follow up comment – “One again, per the CDC, the number is 61 for Oct. 13. And it will go up. You said it was between 40-50.
Why do you boyz have such an incredibly hard time just admitting mistakes?”
Josh – the florida trend is a solid down trend since Mid Sept, not up
Josh – you are to busy claiming everyone else is wrong instead of noticing your own errors
Joe –
> Josh – the florida trend is a solid down trend since Mid Sept, not up
Josh – you are to busy claiming everyone else is wrong instead of noticing your own errors
What is it with you buyz?
You can provide no quotes where I said the teen is up. That’s because I never said that. There’s no doubt that the trend has been down significantly.
Are you actually not capable of understanding that wblls the tend is down your numbers are way wrong?
Further, you averaged the daily rate from mid-September to early October and came up with 43. I provided the quote.
That number was off by around 300%.
joshy’s comment at 10/25 @6.31 pm
You can provide no quotes where I said the teen is up. That’s because I never said that. There’s no doubt that the trend has been down significantly.”
Joshy’s comment at 10/25 @4.31pm
“One again, per the CDC, the number is 61 for Oct. 13. And it will go up. ”
Keep digging
Joe –
lol.
That’s remarkable, even by your standards. Let me break this down for you:
I said the following.
> “One again, per the CDC, the number is 61 for Oct. 13. And it will go up. ”
That number was for one day. I said that number for one day will go up, because of the lag..
A number for one day isn ‘t a trend.
That doesn’t mean to suggest that the trend is increasing.
You watch. That number of 61 will, in fact, go up – even as the trend continues to decrease (as it has been doing, significantly, since the beginning of September). I have stated repeatedly that the trend is significantly down, because it clearly is.
You see, Joe, that number for that one day can go up because of the lag even as the overall trend is going down.
Can you really not understand that, or are you just pretending to be that dense for some odd reason?
That doesn’t mean that your numbers weren’t totally wrong, and that you and your pals repeatedly show the inability to understand something as simple as the lag in the reporting of data in Florida.
> All those diesel generators Willy ensured
How Jefforino mistakes me from automotive giants is a thing of mischievous beauty.
David’s study refers to 8M deaths. Most of them are in China and India. Am I, as the representative of the automotive giants that bent Euro regulations, responsible for these deaths too?
Oh, and a quick search might have led Jefforino to find out that NOx’s excess deaths are in 40K ballpark worldwide:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/15/diesel-emissions-test-scandal-causes-38000-early-deaths-year-study
Sooner or later Jefforino’s pants will catch fire.
Who would have guessed; Bingo is still pumping the local DA’s propaganda organ.
Said paper purports a death rate attributed to fossil fuels at an “estimated” 20%.
Roughly 25% of India’s and China’s population smoke, waft in some second hand effect, and Bingo! Fossil fuels is the cause of 20% of deaths! It all adds up in the DA’s ambulance chasing practice; it’s good enough for Bingo’s troll fodder portfolio fer sure.
PM 2.5 is the cause of deaths per Appell’s link, Diesel is a major source of PM 2.5, per science.
My pants are chilly.
“…as the representative of the automotive giants that bent Euro regulations, responsible for these deaths too?”
A “but China” from you? How fun!
Deaths in Europe count too, but let’s focus on your question.
According to James Hansen, at the same time that Europe was switching to diesel, thereby ensuring growth of PM 2.5 pollution, Europe and North American leaders were aware that China wanted to address energy needs and CO2 emissions concerns with nuclear power along with hydro. But, at the urging of the warm, western leaders put “roadblocks” in front of the Chinese desires to use nuclear, forcing them to use coal and gas.
The warm’s policies resulted in China’s current air pollution, but I’ll let you tell us if that was intentional or just incompetence. Either way, the blame is obvious.
> Diesel is a major source of PM 2.5, per science.
That would be a lie if you read David’s paper, Jefforino.
Have you?
It could also be a lie if you know that diesel is a very tiny fraction of the fossil fuels market.
Do you?
Either you’re ignorant or your a liar, Jefforino.
Which is it?
Wee Willie needs to get his head out of his… game before he calls people liars. He apparently believes that diesel doesn’t emit particulates under 2.5 um.
Perhaps he needs to read the California Air Resources Board:
“Diesel engines emit a complex mixture of air pollutants, including both gaseous and solid material.The solid material in diesel exhaust is known as diesel particulate matter (DPM). More than 90% of DPM is less than 1 µm in diameter (about 1/70th the diameter of a human hair), and thus is a subset of particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5). Most PM2.5 derives from combustion, such as use of gasoline and diesel fuels by motor vehicles, burning of natural gas to generate electricity, and wood burning.”
“Fine particulate matters less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) in the ambient atmosphere are strongly associated with adverse health effects. However, it is unlikely that all fine particles are equally toxic in view of their different sizes and chemical components. ”
“The highest toxicity score was obtained for diesel engine exhaust particles, followed by gasoline engine exhaust particles, biomass burning particles, coal combustion particles, and road dust, suggesting that traffic plays the most critical role in enhancing the toxic effects of fine particles. ”
Nature, 2018
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-35398-0
Thanks for playing Willy.
But don’t worry, you can take credit for the coal emissions as well as the generators you helped sell.
So Jefforino isn’t exactly ignorant, he’s just being economical with the truth once again. Let’s recall the relevant numbers:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/15/diesel-emissions-test-scandal-causes-38000-early-deaths-year-study
He should know by now that he’s still far from the 10.2 million global excess deaths in 2012 due to PM2.5. Diesel is responsible for less than 10% of these deaths. Which means that Jefforino throws around “but toxicity!” to cover his tracks.
In any event, we reach an intriguing dénouement: unless Jefforino can find nuclear cars and trucks, he’ll have to embrace renewables.
Hi Tom, Willy’s playing the only game he knows: throw out a fantasy number that allegedly supports a ridiculous policy proposal that won’t address the problem. Then blame “industry” when people die.
We’re surrounded by diesel engines in the west because the warm demanded them and China’s choking on coal dust and fumes because the warm insisted on it and, as Appell claims, it’s some sort of “moral” imperative to let them burn coal.
The warm take no responsibility for this, of course, nor are they willing to put thought into their policy proposals. So nothing changes and, naturally, that’s your fault and mine.
Hi David,
It should be obvious by now to you that Jefforino enjoys some leg pulling. Here’s his latest porky: We’re surrounded by diesel engines in the west because the warm demanded them. That’s obviously wrong:
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/why-do-people-love-diesel-trucks-so-much/
Diesel Power Gear. With a name like that, you know it’s a hippie. Or perhaps a hipster. Look at the beard!
Jefforino’s talk about taking responsibility is a lesson to us all.
Ann wrong:
Man does not cause warming, obviously the sun does.
Wrong – no evidence for this.
We are no longer warming. We are now cooling….
Wrong – no evidence for this.
“Let alone ignoring all the other problems global warming is causing now and will cause for the next 100,000 years.”
I think you have been dining out on a rich feast of hyperbole today, David
“The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate,” David Archer (University of Chicago), 2008.
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10727.html
“The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate,” David Archer (University of Chicago), 2008.”
Come back in 100,000 years and report whether this was BS or not.
Turbulent Eddie commented:
“The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate,” David Archer (University of Chicago), 2008.”
Come back in 100,000 years and report whether this was BS or not.
David Archer is a world expert on the carbon cycle and how CO2 leaves the atmosphere — the ocean ultimately absorbs about 75%, and what’s left leaves by silicate weathering, which takes about 100,000 years. This is observed in paleoclimate research, as for the PETM and other hyperthermals.
You’re welcome to read Archer’s more technical book,
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691144146/the-global-carbon-cycle
or this piece:
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/03/how-long-will-global-warming-last/
or some of his papers, such as
“The millennial atmospheric lifetime of anthropogenic CO2,”
David Archer and Victor Brovkin,
Climatic Change (2008) 90:283–297
DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9413-1
David Archer is a world expert
Appeal to authority.
Science is about testing and evidence, not status.
Of course, it’s easy to make claims about 100,000 years because there’s no counterfactual – which is the first reason to dismiss.
I’m familiar with Archer and it appears based on evidence that he’s wrong about accumulation and uptake which exhibits a long term increase.
> I’m familiar with Archer and it appears based on evidence that he’s wrong about accumulation and uptake which exhibits a long term increase.
Argument by assertion.
Argument by assertion.
No.
Un-referenced, sure.
But there’s a certain expectation that participants are familiar with the data.
http://www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/GHGs/CO2_appear+diaspear+AF.png
[TEDDIE] That’s not an argument by assertion.
[ALSO TEDDIE] Un-referenced, sure.
Millions of years of evo to get there.
Turbulent Eddie commented:
David Archer is a world expert
Appeal to authority.
LOL, given that you have no authority whatsoever.
Science is about testing and evidence, not status.
I gave you several things he’s written, including a journal paper. Have you read it? Critiqued it? Nooooooooo.
Of course, it’s easy to make claims about 100,000 years because there’s no counterfactual – which is the first reason to dismiss.
Wrong — there’s paleoclimate evidence, as I said.
I’m familiar with Archer and it appears based on evidence that he’s wrong about accumulation and uptake which exhibits a long term increase
Appeal to authority, as Willard wrote. More LOL.
Turbulent Eddie wrote:
I’m familiar with Archer and it appears based on evidence that he’s wrong about accumulation and uptake which exhibits a long term increase
What does he get wrong, in your amateur opinion?
If man is suffering from the effects of CO2 100,000 years in the future then CO2 at some point became the least of mankind’s worries as civilization had been destroyed.
stevenreincarnated wrote:
If man is suffering from the effects of CO2 100,000 years in the future then CO2 at some point became the least of mankind’s worries as civilization had been destroyed.
Well look at that — a glimmer of understanding.
Wonders never cease.
Judith, the IPCC doesn’t say that “Once we stop burning fossil fuels, sea level rise will stop.”
On the contrary, they say “In the longer term, sea level is committed to rise for centuries to millennia due to continuing deep ocean warming and ice sheet melt, and will remain elevated for thousands of years (high confidence).”
IPCC AR6 WG1 SPM B.5.4
You start with a fabricated quote, as usual.
Curious George wrote:
You start with a fabricated quote, as usual.
Liar.
My apology. I included the full stop in the search string.
Apology accepted. Thanks.
More IPCC nonsense
— 33 years of one wrong prediction after another.
When our current interglacial ends,
the planet will get colder,
probably for a long time.
The current wonderful climate
will be viewed as “the good old days”
> I don’t defend aerosol pollution BTW, but
Trunks does not defend aerosol pollution.
BUT
In Sex and Culture, J.D. Unwin categorized uncivilized peoples on the basis of how they responded to what they considered un-natural events.
One of those categories was ‘Weather Control”
https://ia800309.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/33/items/b20442580/b20442580_jp2.zip&file=b20442580_jp2/b20442580_0062.jp2&id=b20442580&scale=4&rotate=0&type=test.jpg
Uncivilized peoples would appeal to a ‘Magician’ or ‘Priest’ who would guide the masses to some ritual ( a rain dance, human sacrifice, or the like ) that would reverse or prevent weather calamity. Whether or not it was effective, the unified belief in the ritual was important.
Somehow, I get the feeling that the appeals to carbon restriction to reverse or prevent imagined calamity are similar for our modern primitive peoples.
It’s all the more interesting that Unwin predicted modern collapse of Western civilization because of the collapse of family structure and morality. Given the evidence of his case in the decades since, it would seem to make climate change a moot point.
[TEDDIE] Somehow, I get the feeling that the appeals to carbon restriction to reverse or prevent imagined calamity are similar for our modern primitive peoples.
[ALSO TEDDIE] It’s all the more interesting that Unwin predicted modern collapse of Western civilization because of the collapse of family structure and morality.
Black carbon from electricity is not the problem.
https://watertechbyrie.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/forcing-by-region-copy.png
‘All BC-rich sources together constitute 99% of the
global inventory. Low-BC sources include coal power plants for generating electricity. These are not considered a large source of BC because the high temperatures and well managed combustion promote burnout of any BC that is formed. However, BC emission rates from power generation in developing countries are not well known (section 4.6.1).’ vhttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jgrd.50171
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97% figure is really astonishing. In John Cooks’s paper with Badford in 2013 he writes following in regards his famous 97% paper that most a referring to: ” Cook et al. (2013) found that over 97 % endorsed the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause”. This statement was the basis for the famous twit by Obama.
But let’s look at the details of the original work. In the original paper Cook lumped together 3 categories: 1) explicit endorsement with quantification; 2) explicit endorsement without quantification; 3) implicit endorsement. Only the first category falls under “main cause” description, Also the number of the papers in that category was diminishingly small, while most were in category 3). This is a very typical cheating on the part of “consensus science”. Is there any dirty trick that they will not use in propping their agenda?
The less critical issue is that in his sampling 64% of papers didn’t express any opinion on AGW, even though they discuss the climate. But those papers are excluded from statistics. Sounds like cherry picking to me.
Again, do not take my word for it. Go to the original paper and see their data for yourself.
The whole exercise, was like asking about existence of God inside the church after Sunday mass, while question is asked by the high priest with powers to excommunicate you for a wrong belief. That is why I’m surprised that they had to massage the data so much, it should have been 97% in category 1).
‘We classified each abstract according to the type of research (category) and degree of endorsement. Written criteria were provided to raters for category (table 1) and level of endorsement of AGW (table 2). Explicit endorsements were divided into non-quantified (e.g., humans are contributing to global warming without quantifying the contribution) and quantified (e.g., humans are contributing more than 50% of global warming, consistent with the 2007 IPCC statement that most of the global warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations).’ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-018-0044-6
There is broad agreement on basics because the science on radiative physics is solid.
e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2016/12/14/fact-checking-the-97-consensus-on-anthropogenic-climate-change/?sh=ce6052311576
Although the source of most warming over the past 40 years is not so easily determined.
‘Indeed, the reconstruction of this pair of modes for regional climate indices (Fig. 3b, c) manifests as a multidecadal signal propagating across the climate index network (with certain time delays between different indices)—a so-called stadium wave (refs. 20,35,36,37)—which we will refer to as the global stadium wave (GSW) or, when referring to the global-mean temperature, Global Multidecadal Oscillation (GMO), although, once again, the oscillatory character of this phenomenon is impossible to establish due to shortness of the data record. The phasing of indices in the GSW is consistent with earlier work (ref. 20), which analysed a limited subset of the Northern Hemisphere climate indices (Supplementary Fig. 6). The global-mean temperature trends associated with GSW are as large as 0.3 °C per 40 years, and so are capable of doubling, nullifying or even reversing the forced global warming trends on that timescale.’ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-018-0044-6
Robert, As usual you do not know how to debate topics. Or is it some serious comprehension issues?
John Cook claimed that “97 % endorsed the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the MAIN CAUSE”. While in his own paper Explicit endorsements with quantification (e.g., humans are contributing more than 50% of global warming, consistent with the 2007 IPCC statement that most of the global warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations) was just few % of the papers that they examined. >90% papers either didn’t say that it is >50% or didn’t give any endorsement at all. Go and read the paper.
So to prove me wrong you don’t need to provide Forbes paper but to show that either I’m wrong in quoiting Cook’s original work or you can agree with me and say that Cook cooked up his conclusions for PR stunt.
Simple.
This is even before we address the issue of Cook’s methodology.
John Cook’s criteria are so broad as to be almost unobjectionable. Whish is why I quoted them. Only extreme loud mouth contrarians have quibbles.
We have all read the Cook et al paper long ago and moved on. Forbes gives a broader perspective.
John Cook’s criteria by the way ARE NOT WHAT ISAKOV CLAIMS THEY ARE.
“John Cook’s criteria by the way ARE NOT WHAT ISAKOV CLAIMS THEY ARE”
Lying is bad habit. Didn’t your mother teach you?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024/pdf
Table 2.
(1) Explicit endorsement with quantification. Explicitly states that humans are the primary cause of recent global warming
(2) Explicit endorsement without quantification. Explicitly states humans are causing global warming or refers to anthropogenic global warming/climate change as a known fact
(3) Implicit endorsement. Implies humans are causing global warming. e.g., research assumes greenhouse gas emissions cause warming without explicitly stating humans are the cause
“To simplify the analysis, ratings were consolidated into three groups: endorsements (including implicit and explicit; categories 1–3 in table 2), no position (category 4) and rejections (including implicit and explicit; categories 5–7).”
“Table 3. Endorse AGW 97.1%”
Robert, you make it so easy to catch your BS.
Only one of the 3 categories was that AGW was most recent warming. And I discussed that.
‘(1) Explicit endorsement with quantification. Explicitly states that humans are the primary cause of recent global warming
(2) Explicit endorsement without quantification. Explicitly states humans are causing global warming or refers to anthropogenic global warming/climate change as a known fact
(3) Implicit endorsement. Implies humans are causing global warming. e.g., research assumes greenhouse gas emissions cause warming without explicitly stating humans are the cause’
Isakov’s characterisation is a misrepresentation. After being corrected – what else would that be but a lie?
“Forbes gives a broader perspective”
If only there were example of solid investigative journalism from Forbes….
Theranos, anyone? ;)))) “By 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America on the basis of a $9-billion valuation of her company.[3] The next year, following revelations of potential fraud about Theranos’s claims, Forbes had revised its published estimate of Holmes’s net worth to zero”
When can we expect revision by Forbes regarding “climate science”?
“Isakov’s characterisation is a misrepresentation. After being corrected – what else would that be but a lie?”
Robert, Why are you so bent on lying?
We are discussing the claim: “” Cook et al. (2013) found that over 97 % endorsed the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the MAIN CAUSE”
The only categories that qualifies for MAIN CAUSE is the one that quantifies the effect to be >50%. This was a a small fraction of the papers that they included into 97%. That means that they grossly misrepresented their own finding – deliberate lying to the public.
Did you hit your head, or something?
> Read my original post.
John did not make you mess that one up, cupcake.
“But Censensus” and “But Religion” again, Dmitry.
Get new material.
Your 64% is incorrect, btw. Revise and resubmit.
You got me Willard, now I have to go into the corner and cry in shame.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024/pdf
Page 4, Table 3. No AGW position 66.4%.
You are correct. It is 66% not 64%. But wait, when they asked authors of the papers to rank their own papers the number became 64% (in the same paper).
Willard, will you ever be capable of constructive debate? Or are you only capable of 1 sentence snarky vomits? Why can’t you ever substantiate any of your statements with evidence? It is not that hard, try it.
Still incorrect, Dmitry. You need to read things properly.
Here is the first line of the legend for Table 3:
Here are the items the second line:
– Position
– % of all abstracts
– % among abstracts with AGW position (%)
– % of all authors
– % among authors with AGW position (%)
So yeah, 97% represents the percentage of abstracts with AGW positions.
C13 did not go with the percentage among authors with AGW position.
That would be 98.4%.
I guess you could argue that C13 undersells its results.
You would have a point.
Better luck next time.
“So yeah, 97% represents the percentage of abstracts with AGW positions”
So yeah, we confirm that you have comprehension issues because my original post is specifically talking about Cook’s claim that “over 97 % endorsed the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the MAIN CAUSE”, and not just AGW positions.
I’m afraid it’s you who has comprehension issues, my dear Dmitry. From the horse’s mouth:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024
You’ll have to read back the introduction to understand where they’re going with this.
You know, I spent months at the time on various contrarian misrepresentations. And that includes Richard’s hit piece. He even thanked me in one of his earlier versions. We had to part ways when he kept saying stuff about kappas.
You really are new here.
“You’ll have to read back the introduction to understand where they’re going with this”
Willard, Willard. How many times should I reamind you to read things carefully? You have comprehension problem. We all know it, so we advise you to read slower and more carefully.
Read my original post. See where the quote is taken from. Hint, it was different paper of James Cook in which he lied about the conclusions of his original paper. And it was that later paper that Obama put a link to in his twit. And this is how consensus science operates: misrepresentation and blatent lying.
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Isakov, the consensus is 99.94% of scientists, this study found:
“The Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming Matters,” James Lawrence Powell, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, May 24, 2017.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0270467617707079
Consensus is meaningless in science.
So a 97% consensus is meaningless
97% is also not even close to being true.
Students reading abstracts is not an accurate method
for understanding a paper — you must question
the lead author and ask specific questions.
When a leftist talks,
always assume he or she is lying.
You will often be correct.
The Cook “study” was quickly debunked by Legates et al. (2013) in a paper published in Science & Education. Legates et al. found “only 41 papers
– 0.3% of all 11,944 abstracts, or 1.0% of the 4,014 abstracts expressing an opinion, not 97%, had been found to endorse the standard or quantitative
hypothesis.”
Most of the papers they studied were not about climate change, and its causes, but were taken as evidence anyway. Papers on carbon taxes, for example, naturally assume that carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming – but merely using that assumption does not mean the paper does anything to support an assumption of dangerous man made warming !
The easiest way to show how David’s “only 41 papers” is preposterous is being provided by RG’s concedo:
An assumption works quite well as a tacit endorsement.
However, the last part of that quote is incorrect. The “assumption of dangerous man made warming” in only in RG’s mind. That’s not what C13 studied.
97% consensus – is now 98% consensus
invalid denominator
Invalid numerator = 98% consensus
Richard Tol twitter’s “You studied 3000 papers, but only 1107 on the topic at hand, of which only 216 take a position. 212 agree, 4 disagree, a consensus rate of 98% (which is what Cook really found).”
Reading abstracts is what passes for a “study” in the leftist world !
You start with a conclusion (want a really high percentage)
and then cheat / misinform / data mine to get there.
It is totally irrelevant what a popular vote of scientists adds up to.
97%, 99%, 100%, 101% — does not matter !
Anyone quoting the 97% number is very likely to be in the “science is settled” category = too ignorant of real science to be taken seriously.
And you don’t evaluate science papers by having students read the abstracts. Abstracts are notorious for inaccuracy — too often making claims to attract readers, that are not fully supported in the paper itself.
Of course if you are a leftist, a paper written by a leftist, that attacks CO2, predicts climate doom, and you agree with the conclusion or prediction, automatically becomes “the truth”.
Mr. Apple follows that pattern almost all the time.
Since the 1960s, every prediction of environmental doom has been wrong,
Climate alarmists are unable to predict the climate in one year.
They grossly over-predict warming in the next 10 to 20 years, and have been doing so since the Charney Report in 1979.
And now we have Mr. Apple quoting 100,000 year climate science fiction — just like one would expect from a “CO2 is a satanic gas” religious zealot !
There was a study.
Mr Apple likes the conclusion / prediction.
So it must be true !
Exact number is irrelevant. The main point is that Cook blatantly and deliberately misrepresented results of his own original paper.
All consequitive claims, including Obama’s twit, came out of the secondary paper with this gross misrepresentation.
The primary concern is not the fact of misrepresentation but the obvious intent in deceiving public. That deception was used in a blatant corruption schemes based on renewable energy projects.
Conclusion, “consensus science” cult is not interested in science and they do not really care about climate or future. All they want is to make a lot of money now. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2020/04/20/how-a-110-trillion-green-recovery-can-save-the-world-new-report/amp/
Richard & Isakov
We are in agreement.
Richard Tol was mocking the “consensus study”
Though another activist apparently did not recognize the mocking since he posted on his twitter feed.
> Reading abstracts is what passes for a “study”
RG missed the second half of C13.
For him it’s progress.
Judith, I think you are paying attention to minor factors
” The other factor to consider is natural climate variability. Major volcanic eruptions would have a cooling effect. A solar minimum is expected in the 21st century, following the grand solar maximum that occurred in the late 20th century. Natural variability associated with the large-scale ocean circulations is also expected to contribute to cooling in the coming decades”
You need to explore the issue of latent heat transfer. Most people can intuitively see the impact we have on the water cycle and it doesn’t even need any debating. One can also asses the heat transfer potential. It is actually quite straightforward. No need to believe me. Anyone can make those calculations on their own. Total water vapour content in the atmosphere is around 10^16 kg. Cycling of less than 10% of this vapour between surface and top of the troposphere is enough to compensate hourly heat input from the Sun. So a small disturbance that affects this value will have a much larger effect that radiative forcing from all GHG. At the same time water vapour is the primary GHG and thus disturbance to water cycle is also the root cause for GHG forcings.
“But ABC.” (Since you’re new here, ABC stands for Anything But CO2.)
You’re spamming a thread on energy issues, BTW.
Isakov Dmitry wrote:Total water vapour content in the atmosphere is around 10^16 kg. Cycling of less than 10% of this vapour between surface and top of the troposphere is enough to compensate hourly heat input from the Sun. So a small disturbance that affects this value will have a much larger effect that radiative forcing from all GHG
How much “cycling” actually occurs? What do observations and data say?
Wouldn’t meteorologists notice such a cycle in absolute humidity?
Even surface pressure pressure? 10^15 kg comes to 2 kg/m2 over the surface. Surface pressure is 10,093 kg/m2 = 101,325 Pa, so the cycle’s difference is 20 Pa. A 20 Pa cycle can’t be measured?
“How much “cycling” actually occurs? What do observations and data say?
Wouldn’t meteorologists notice such a cycle in absolute humidity?
Even surface pressure pressure? 10^15 kg comes to 2 kg/m2 over the surface. Surface pressure is 10,093 kg/m2 = 101,325 Pa, so the cycle’s difference is 20 Pa. A 20 Pa cycle can’t be measured?”
Exactly, very small variation of water cycle can give huge variation in latent heat transfer. 10^15kg * 2000 kJ/kg = 2*10^21J. Hourly heat input from the Sun is 4.3*10^20 J. Just look at the orders of magnitude. Latent heat transfer is the primary heat transfer method from the surface to the top of the troposphere. Then at the top of the troposphere nucleation and condensation provide liquid water surfaces at 250K+ that are efficient IR emitters into the universe. There is close to nothing absorption in stratosphere.
Isakov Dmitry wrote:
Exactly, very small variation of water cycle can give huge variation in latent heat transfer
What do OBSERVATIONS AND DATA show???
Do they support your hypothesis of “cycling?”
“What do OBSERVATIONS AND DATA show???
Do they support your hypothesis of “cycling?”
Do not get angry ? ;))) why can’t you find it yourself? Fine, I’ll do the work for you.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/18/6/jcli-3299.1.xml
“The total mean mass of the atmosphere is 5.1480 × 1018 kg with an annual range due to water vapor of 1.2 or 1.5 × 10^15 kg”
Now, imagine if there is something that disturbs that cycle. The equivalent amount of generated water vapour from absorbing 100% of hourly Sun heat input is 4.3*10^20J / 2000kJ/kg = 2.1*10^14 kg. Just think about it.
Isakov Dmitry commented: Now, imagine if there is something that disturbs that cycle. The equivalent amount of generated water vapour from absorbing 100% of hourly Sun heat input is 4.3*10^20J / 2000kJ/kg = 2.1*10^14 kg. Just think about it.
More theoretical calculations.
What OBSERVATIONS AND DATA support your hypothesis?
MEASUREMENTS IN THE REAL WORLD???
Clearly you don’t have any.
Nothing.
“More theoretical calculations.
What OBSERVATIONS AND DATA support your hypothesis?
MEASUREMENTS IN THE REAL WORLD???
Clearly you don’t have any.
Nothing.”
You were given a paper with measurement on water content. And you were given way to asses the latent heat input. But you just wave the hand and say there is nothing. Quite a dishonest approach. Pathetic actually.
But let’s give you another chance. i have shown to you that just 1% of water vapour cycling in the atmosphere can take care of total hourly Sun input. So fraction of that value, e.g. below 0.1%, can cause climate change. Unless you will pretend that you are blind and cannot see hard numbers.
Now, you want measurements from the real world. Here are the measurements from NOAA https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/timeseries/timeseries1.pl
Choose specific humidity to get values in g/kg. I choose latitude from 60 to -60 and Longitude from 0 to 359. For easier observation choose seasonal average from Jan to Dec. And then ask them to plot data from 1000 mbar (surface) and from 300 mbar (around 9 km altitude).
So for 1000 mbar you will see that water content at the surface increased from 10.5 g/kg to nearly 11 g/kg from 1970 to 2020. Exactly when IPCC shows warming at the surface. 4.5% change. And remember we were talking about fraction of 1% to be critical. IPCC makes a wrong and totally unsubstantiated conclusion that Global warming causes moisture increase. While there is no reason of why it should not be opposite.
But this is at the surface. This is water molecules with low kinetic energy content, as most of the energy was wasted on penetration through oil layers at the surface.
The large kinetic energy water molecules are supposed to reach top of the troposphere and their radiate heat to the universe. Let’s see what is happening there. Plot the graph for 300mbar. you will see that at the same period of time from 1970 to 2020 the water content at those altitude decreased from 0.28g/kg to 0.25 g/kg. 11% decrease. That means that planet cannot release enough energy through radiation and all that excess heat does into heating up the oceans.
Now behave as a grown up and talk proper science and hard numbers when you argue against this data.
The effect of the solar wind on the polar vortex.
The low in the upper troposphere has settled into the Gulf of Alaska. This is supported by a renewed decrease in solar wind speed (increase in GCR to over 6700 counts at Oulu).
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=ak&product=wv-mid
Yes, topic of solar wind is always downplayed in “consensus science”. And indeed when you take the energy density of solar wind it will be 3-4 orders of magnitude lower than radiative input. But this ratio is only valid when total surface area of the earth is considered. The reality is that solar radiation is dominating energy input at equator, while solar wind is concentrated to around 10 degrees latitude bands at the poles. Exactly the locations where solar radiant heat flux is minimum. I have no means of getting exact number but I would expect that at worst they will become equivalent, and possibly it might be higher for solar wind in those locations
Here is an innocent paper on green houses. I call it innocent because it is not debating climate change topic.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e5fe/0ae32dcc39282fd9c3ba3ac1596537b7b446.pdf
They have a very interesting observation. They make several green houses. Baseline greenhouse uses Low Density Polyethylene film. The beauty of this film is that it is highly transparent in LWIR range. You can put a black PE bag on yourself and IR camera will barely notice the presence of that bag. It is that transparent in this spectral range.
Now the alternative coverings for the greenhouse are modified films that are much more absorptive in LWIR range. According to standard GHG theory, higher absorption in the layer above the ground will lead to heating at the ground. But what a miracle in the paper they found that covering with higher LWIR absorption resulted in up to 5C lower temperatures inside the green house.
So what is wrong, their measurements or maybe, just maybe, certain assumptions in GHG theory? ;))))
‘The Effect of Radiative Cooling on Reducing the Temperature of Greenhouses’
Hardly relevant as the atmosphere is not – as we all know – a greenhouse. But how does he possibly get from radiative cooling to surprise that the greenhouse is cooler?
Yes, atmosphere primary holds the temperature at the surface through latent heat transfer and convection, not by Radiation.
“Hardly relevant as the atmosphere is not – as we all know – a greenhouse. ” Unfortunately consensus science cult is brainwashing kids with greenhouse analogy. And this has to stop.
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-effect/
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/08/does-a-greenhouse-operate-through-the-greenhouse-effect/
He pulls anything at all out of his arse. None of it reliable information.
“He pulls anything at all out of his arse. None of it reliable information’
Are you talking to your self in third person? is it an attempt of self-reflection?
Isakov Dmitry,
Do you share the opinion atmosphere keeps Earth’s surface +33C warmer?
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
“Do you share the opinion atmosphere keeps Earth’s surface +33C warmer?”
Just to clarify. Do you mean atmosphere or green house gasses in that atmosphere?
Also, in general I do not like the averaged meaningless values. What is the average temperature of the surface of the Moon? Any number will be meaningless due to huge variations.
I mean the widely accepted view which claims without atmosphere Earth would have been a snowball planet. It says atmosphere is the cause average surface temperature is not 255K but it is 288K.
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
“I mean the widely accepted view which claims without atmosphere Earth would have been a snowball planet. It says atmosphere is the cause average surface temperature is not 255K but it is 288K.”
This is where confusion is. What consensus science implies is that additional heating is due to GHG in atmosphere, not atmosphere per se. That is why they push fairytales. I didn’t have time to go through your theory but I think it is redundant. The key for keeping relatively high and stable temperature is adiabatic lapse. It determines base thermodynamic state of the system (PRESSURE, VOLUME, TEMPERATURE at fixed number of molecules of air). The main reason for variations comes from latent heat transfer between surface and top of troposphere. And top of troposphere is where they expect their 255K. They do not have a good theory uniting CO2 And this particular location in atmosphere. So instead they just ignore the basics. Wave hands and switch immediately to theories that assume this to be true by definition. That is why Pierrehumbert has to give a childish story about 300m shift of adiabatic lapse boundary and thus, somehow it lead to 1C increase at the surface. He never bother to explain why adiabatic lapse boundary is where it is in the first place.
Isakov Dmitry commented:What is the average temperature of the surface of the Moon?
Easy to calculate, at least for the dayside. Just do a surface integral over the temperature at each dayside point. Without an atmosphere, the temperature at each dayside point is the pointwise equilibrium value given by its blackbody temperature with the Moon’s albedo. The integral gives a couple of gamma functions. I did it for the Moon’s equator here, and got exactly the right value, which all the knuckleheads at Tallbloke’s Talkshop nattered on about pseudophysics:
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2012/04/norfolk-constabulary-made-wrong-charges.html
The darkside temperature is determined by thermal conductance through the regolith, and is mostly a constant temperature.
“The darkside temperature is determined by thermal conductance through the regolith, and is mostly a constant temperature.”
Am I reading it right? Are you seriously claiming that Moon has day and night side and heat conduct through the Moon regolith from one to the other and this determines the temperature of the night side???????
Do you know that Moon is rotating similar to Earth? Do you know why we see only one side of the Moon? I’m sure you cannot be that stupid. Ok…. i think you are capable of being that stupid, but probably you are just not expressing yourself clearly.
Just for our information, during the day on equator the part that is facing Sun heats up to 150C, then it rotates and when it is facing away from the sun into the 4K universe the temperature drops to -100C. It has very little to do with thermal conduction through regolith.
Also, do you know that at north pole of the Moon there are spots that are at -248C?
I think you should seriously delete your blogpost. Or better leave it. So that we can always put your face into this “treasure”.
Isakov Dmitry wrote:
And top of troposphere is where they expect their 255K. They do not have a good theory uniting CO2 And this particular location in atmosphere.
What does this even mean? Talk about hand waving….
I see what you mean, thank you.
Isakov, what’s the rotation rate of the Moon?
Do you realize your constant insults are a sign of insecurity?
27 days
Isakov Dmitry wrote:
Just for our information, during the day on equator the part that is facing Sun heats up to 150C
Just for your information, you’re wrong — the temperature varies strongly by latitude and longitude. Here’s the measurement along the equator:
https://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/diviner_moon_temperatures.png?w=614
, then it rotates and when it is facing away from the sun into the 4K universe the temperature drops to -100C. It has very little to do with thermal conduction through regolith.
So what’s keeping the surface temperature from dropping to 2.7 K?
PS: It’s 2.7 K, not 4 K
Oh. Sorry I used info from NASA. But this is not update website, apparently it remeasured now more accurately.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20101005-lunarpole.html
However, how does it change the fact that you do not know that moon rotates?
“So what’s keeping the surface temperature from dropping to 2.7 K?”
You know such thing as heat capacity?
David Appell
In the Link you provided there is graph “Diviner-Measured Moon Equatorial Temperatures”
“… Standard physics says (this is from Pierrehumbert’s textbook, Chapter 3, pgs 152-153) that, on a body like the moon, with essentially no atmosphere, there is no large scale equilibrium, so the temperature on the dayside is due to its radiation at that point. ”
Very good!
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
Isakov, yes, 27 days. So the temperature of any spot on the Moon isn’t changing very fast. Especially the nightside.
So what do you think determines the temperature of the dayside?
And of the nightside, and why isn’t it the background temperature of space, 3 K?
Isakov Dmitry commented:
However, how does it change the fact that you do not know that moon rotates?
Didn’t I just ask you to tell me the rotation rate of the Moon???
“So what’s keeping the surface temperature from dropping to 2.7 K?”
You know such thing as heat capacity?
Is it? Do a calculation using the heat capacity of lunar regolith exposed to the vacuum of background space for 13.5 days.
“Didn’t I just ask you to tell me the rotation rate of the Moon???”
Your initial post was confusing and ambiguous. That is why, if you carefully read my first reply, you will see that I considered the option that you are just not clear in your expression.
” Do you know that Moon is rotating similar to Earth? Do you know why we see only one side of the Moon? I’m sure you cannot be that stupid. Ok…. i think you are capable of being that stupid, but probably you are just not expressing yourself clearly.”
So the only issue left is why moon doesn’t cool down to 2.7K.
“So what’s keeping the surface temperature from dropping to 2.7 K?”
You know such thing as heat capacity?
Is it? Do a calculation using the heat capacity of lunar regolith exposed to the vacuum of background space for 13.5 days.”
So your claim (again, maybe you are not expressing it clearly) is that heat from day side conducts to the night side, which keeps it at 100K. That sounds implausible due to poor thermal conductivity of regalith.
However, the good thing is that China lunar mission explored subsurface distribution of temperature and found that in less than 0.5m of the surface the temperature is actually quite stable at 240K. And this heat inertia ensures that surface temperature of the night side doesn’t go much below 100k.
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/4/731/htm
So we can probably rule out that you are stupid, just misinformed. But I hope that now you will go and improve your blog post. 😜
David,
On examining your blog post more carefully, I see that you talk about thermal inertia
“In effect, they assume (as Shore put it to me) “a body with no thermal inertia or thermal transport. For body with significant inertia and thermal transport (and especially rotation), these assumptions will be poor.”
At the same time you insist that ” Since the Earth’s annual average temperature is about about 286 K, climate scientists say the greenhouse effect is approximately the difference, about 30 K.’
How do you reconcile those things in your mind?
Something is missing. I’m fine to assume that problem is me and I misunderstand your writings. I mean, I did it earlier;)))), as to me it seemed that you imply no rotation on the moon. Maybe I do not see something in your blog as well ;)))
Isakov Dmitry wrote:
How do you reconcile those things in your mind?
There’s nothing to reconcile that I see.
Isakov, where’s your calculation of the rate of temperature change of lunar regolith, using its heat capacity, when exposed to the vacuum of background space for 13.5 days?
PS: Notice your MDPI paper’s abstract says …the temperature of regolith deeper than ~0.6 m is controlled by the interior heat flow.
Isakov, so where’s that calculation of the rate of temperature change of lunar regolith, using its heat capacity, when exposed to the vacuum of background space for 27/2=13.5 days?
PS: Notice your MDPI paper’s abstract says …the temperature of regolith deeper than ~0.6 m is controlled by the interior heat flow.
“Isakov, so where’s that calculation of the rate of temperature change of lunar regolith, using its heat capacity, when exposed to the vacuum of background space for 27/2=13.5 days?
PS: Notice your MDPI paper’s abstract says …the temperature of regolith deeper than ~0.6 m is controlled by the interior heat flow”
Didn’t you read section 2. Methods of the paper? They provide thermal transfer calculation. Or do you desperately need me to make those calculations for you?;))) The top surface absorbs heat during the day to 355K. This creates gradient to the internal 240K that starts from 0.25m. When night comes the top surface cools down, all the heat stored in regolith starts to dissipate. But it cannot dissipate too much, because there is a constant heat source at 240K from below 0.6m. So we get a balance at 100K.
Are you seriously going to claim that heat stored 0.6m below the surface comes by conduction from the hot side of the Moon? Look at Fig.11 of the paper. it is nearly constant temperature starting from 0.25 m and below. There is no gradient for heat conduction to take place. The is just stored heat. Now, the question is what is the source of that heat. Heating during the day will not suffice based on their data, so it is something else. . And I do not see them explaining the source of the heat (let me know if I missed it).
But most probably it is similar to gravitational flexing on Io (Jupiter’s Moon) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130404170227.htm.
It is just Earth’s gravity is much less than Jupiter’s, so we do not have such a strong effect. But this can explain internal heating. Alternative is a potential radioactive source deep below. We do not know.
Greenhouses. Greenhouse effect.
Please learn the difference, my favorite crystallographer.
“Greenhouses. Greenhouse effect.
Please learn the difference, my favorite crystallographer.”
Willard, I know the difference quite well. It is “consensus science” crowd that is teaching greenhouse effect using greenhouse analogy. So go bother them.
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-effect/
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/08/does-a-greenhouse-operate-through-the-greenhouse-effect/
Dear Dmitry,
There’s an obvious alternative to mismeasurement and invalidity of a theory that does not apply to greenhouses.
I’ll let you find it.
Isakov Dmitry commented:But what a miracle in the paper they found that covering with higher LWIR absorption resulted in up to 5C lower temperatures inside the green house.
No, they found that this material resulted in lower temperatures compared to other materials. But it’s still a greenhouse.
“Experimental results showed that under 35 ◦C ambient conditions, the inner temperature of the simulated greenhouse with the newly developed cladding was 4 to 5 ◦C less than that of the greenhouse with the commercial agricultural polyethylene (PE) film.”
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e5fe/0ae32dcc39282fd9c3ba3ac1596537b7b446.pdf
“No, they found that this material resulted in lower temperatures compared to other materials. But it’s still a greenhouse.”
Oh. Why do I need to explain you basics? Ok. Let’s do it.
IPCC model of “Greenhouse effect” in the atmosphere implies 3 heat loss mechanisms from the ground with different magnitude: 1) IR radiation 390W/m2; 2) Latent heat 78W/m2; 3) Convection 24W/m2. So 80% loss is by radiation, a dominant factor.
Then we have “consensus science” constantly making equivalence between atmospheric “greenhouse effect” and effect that keeps actual greenhouses warm (It is not done by me but by “consensus science” so all complains should be addressed to them).
Now, we have a paper that has greenhouse with different coverings. Base covering is made of PE that is transparent in the critical wavelength range. PE is than compared to a covering made of the material that has strong IR absorption between 8um and 10 um with a peak at 9 um. They start their experiment with ground temperature at 35C. If we use Wein’s displacement law we will get that it corresponds to black body radiation with a peak at 9,4um. So we have a material that is catered for most efficient absorption of BB radiation from the ground. According to IPCC this should lead to highest temperature for material with highest absorption. But what a surprise we get an absolutely opposite effect. Greenhouse that has cover with highest IR absorption is the coolest.
Now question to you. Is there any reason to rethink IPCC model of the Greenhouse effect?
And maybe, just maybe we should suspect that IPCC grossly downgrades Latent heat and convective heat components and grossly exaggerates radiant component. Particularly we can consider the multilayer absorption model as total rubbish and unphysical. ;))
> It is not done by me but by “consensus science”
You cited a page for kids and Roy’s, Dmitri.
Roy’s.
You have no idea how silly that makes you look.
“You cited a page for kids and Roy’s, Dmitri.
Roy’s.
You have no idea how silly that makes you look.”
Yes, I cite what “consensus science” is pushing to kids and to general public. The number of sources that use greenhouse analogy to explain greenhouse effect is enormous.
https://www.readingma.gov/climate-advisory-committee/faq/what-are-the-greenhouse-effect-and-greenhouse-gases
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/greenhouse-effect
I do not care who is Roy. He is your “consensus science” cult member.
> Yes, I cite what “consensus science”
You still don’t get it, Dmitry, do you?
Go there:
https://skepticalscience.com/tcp.php?t=home
Search for Roy’s abstracts.
“You still don’t get it, Dmitry, do you?”
No, it is you who still do not get it. Roy or not Roy, “consensus science” cult pushed unsubstantiated Greenhouse analogy for nearly a century. And this is a fact. And this analogy is garbage. Why can’t you make simple logical conclusions of what is written?
As usual, Willard, you are hopeless.
> Roy or not Roy
I’m not the one who used Roy as an epigon for your “but consensus” bait, dear Dmitry.
Look. You made a silly rookie mistake. It’s no big deal.
At least own your blunder before trying to rope-a-dope to another talking point.
Is it all you have. You are really hopeless
We’re just getting started, dear Dmitry.
Here could be a follow-up: did you ever consider that the atmosphere wasn’t made of glass? Everybody knows that, including the kids that are being told that the atmosphere works like a greenhouse.
Did you notice what I just did? The atmosphere works like a greenhouse. Not the atmosphere is a greenhouse.
Anyone who’s more than three years old who has no problem with figurative language should be able to grok that one!
How about you, my dear Dmitry?
Isakov Dmitry wrote:
“No, they found that this material resulted in lower temperatures compared to other materials. But it’s still a greenhouse.”
Oh. Why do I need to explain you basics? Ok. Let’s do it
This has nothing to do with the atmospheric greenhouse effect. It has to do with the paper you cited. You misunderstood it.
“This has nothing to do with the atmospheric greenhouse effect. It has to do with the paper you cited. You misunderstood it.”
Dare to explain my misunderstanding. ;)))
Isakov: If the greenhouse effect doesn’t exist, explain the shape of the Earth’s outgoing longwave spectrum:
https://directory.eoportal.org/image/image_gallery?img_id=217998&t=1339757099534
Isakov Dmitry wrote:
Dare to explain my misunderstanding. ;)))
Your misunderstanding is obvious — the issue was about the greenhouse discussed in the paper, which had absolutely nothing to do with the atmosphere.
Did you at least read the paper’s abstract? That was sufficient to point out your misunderstanding.
End of discussion on this topic.
The last is a comment that should disappear. The first couple of sentences are sufficient.
A greenhouse cladding designed to radiate heat to space resulted in cooler conditions inside. Now there’s a surprise. Exactly the opposite happens – of course – in the atmospheric greenhouse effect.
“A greenhouse cladding designed to radiate heat to space resulted in cooler conditions inside. Now there’s a surprise. Exactly the opposite happens – of course – in the atmospheric greenhouse effect”
What happened to Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation? Robert, stop embarrassing yourself. Respect basic science at least.
The silica in the experimental cladding emitted was designed to emit at 750-2500 nm frequencies and provide passive, low cost heat loss from greenhouses in subtropical and tropical regions. I can’t see how Kirchhoff is at all relevant. Isakov is as usual fraudulently throwing around terms and names he doesn’t show he understands.
“The silica in the experimental cladding emitted was designed to emit at 750-2500 nm frequencies and provide passive, low cost heat loss from greenhouses in subtropical and tropical regions. I can’t see how Kirchhoff is at all relevant. Isakov is as usual fraudulently throwing around terms and names he doesn’t show he understands.”
Figure 7 is not visible for you. Base covering is made of PE that is transparent in the critical wavelength range. PE is than compared to a covering made of the material that has strong IR absorption between 8um and 10 um with a peak at 9 um. They start their experiment with ground temperature at 35C. If we use Wein’s displacement law we will get that it corresponds to black body radiation with a peak at 9,4um. So we have a material that is catered for most efficient absorption of BB radiation from the ground. According to IPCC this should lead to highest temperature for material with highest absorption. But what a surprise we get an absolutely opposite effect. Greenhouse that has cover with highest IR absorption is the coolest.
But it is ok. Let’s not bother discussing it with you. You cannot understand references that you provide yourself, obviously you cannot read references from others.
Hopeless, as usual.
The silica doped cladding was designed to provide passive radiative cooling at frequencies not involved in photosynthesis.
It is in the title of the report.
1 appeared after adding silica particles. The
characteristic peaks at 720, 1380, and 1460 cm−1 belong to –CH2– in polyethylene. The peaks near
1111 cm−1 were attributed to SiO2.
Materials 2018, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 7 of 12
Figure 5. (a) A range of the visible radiation (VIS) transmittance of low-density-polyethylene (LDPE),
1%S monolayer, and 1%S double; (b) A range of the near-infrared radiation (NIR) reflectance of LDPE,
1%S monolayer, and 1%S double.
3.4. FT-IR Spectrum of the Samples
Figure 6 showed an FT-IR spectrum between 500 and 2500 cm−1 (4 to 20 µm) of different films. It
was clear that there was no change when LDPE had added HALS (LDPE + H) and GY-NA-3000
(LDPE + G). A strong absorption peak near 1000 cm−1 appeared after adding silica particles. The
characteristic peaks at 720, 1380, and 1460 cm−1 belong to –CH2– in polyethylene. The peaks near 1111
cm−1 were attributed to SiO2.
Figure 6. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectra of different films.
If the electromagnetic waves radiated by the object cannot be absorbed by the atmosphere, then
it can penetrate the atmosphere and dissipate energy in outer space. It is well known that the Earth’s
atmosphere has a highly transparent window in the infrared (IR) wavelength range between 8 and
13 µm. Thus, whether the newly developed cladding has an absorption peak within 8–13 µm is very
important. In order to observe this precisely, Figure 6 was converted into an absorption spectrum
and x-axis units were converted to micrometers, as shown in Figure 7. Firstly, LDPE + H and LDPE +
G had no clear change in the overall curve in Figure 7a, and this result represented that UA994 and
GY-NA-3000 were useless for passive cooling. In Figure 7b, a powerful absorption peak near 9 µm in
the 1%S monolayer and 1%S double appeared because of the characteristics of silica. The absorption
of the 1%S monolayer is evidently stronger than that of 1%S double. During the manufacturing
processes of the films, all additions were mixed and extruded into a 1%S monolayer with a thickness
of 0.16–0.18 mm. However, there were two layers in 1%S double, with only half the silica content
Figure 6. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectra of different films.
If the electromagnetic waves radiated by the object cannot be absorbed by the atmosphere,
then it can penetrate the atmosphere and dissipate energy in outer space. It is well known that the
Earth’s atmosphere has a highly transparent window in the infrared (IR) wavelength range between
8 and 13 µm. Thus, whether the newly developed cladding has an absorption peak within 8–13
µm is very important. In order to observe this precisely, Figure 6 was converted into an absorption
spectrum and x-axis units were converted to micrometers, as shown in Figure 7. Firstly, LDPE +
H and LDPE + G had no clear change in the overall curve in Figure 7a, and this result represented
that UA994 and GY-NA-3000 were useless for passive cooling. In Figure 7b, a powerful absorption
peak near 9 µm in the 1%S monolayer and 1%S double appeared because of the characteristics of
silica. The absorption of the 1%S monolayer is evidently stronger than that of 1%S double. During the
Materials 2018, 11, 1166 8 of 13
manufacturing processes of the films, all additions were mixed and extruded into a 1%S monolayer
with a thickness of 0.16–0.18 mm. However, there were two layers in 1%S double, with only half the
silica content (0.08–0.09 mm) at the same thickness. This reason caused the 1%S monolayer to have a
bigger absorption at 9 µm than 1%S double.
Materials 2018, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 8 of 12
(0.08–0.09 mm) at the same thickness. This reason caused the 1%S monolayer to have a bigger
absorption at 9 µm than 1%S double.
Figure 7. (a) An absorption spectrum of LDPE, LDPE + H, and LDPE + G; (b) An absorption spectrum
of LDPE, 1%S monolayer, and 1%S double.
3.5. Inverted Metallurgical Microscope Images of the Samples
Dispersion will affect the properties of the materials, so it is very important to study the
dispersion of silica particles in the films. Figure 8 showed inverted metallurgical microscope images
of the 1%S monolayer and 1%S double in different areas. Silica particles are a white powder and their
size is around 1300 nm. Compared to 1%S double, the 1%S monolayer white points, as shown in
Figure 8a, did not evenly distribute. In the black box, the size of the white area was about 15–20 µm.
This result indicated that silica particles were reunited in the films. However, in Figure 8b, it can
clearly be seen that the size of the white points were within the range of 1–1.5 µm, which suggests
that silica particles dispersed well in 1%S double.
Figure 8. Inverted metallurgical microscope images of (a) 1%S monolayer and (b) 1%S double.
3.6. SEM Images of the Samples
To understand the dispersion of silica particles in the films, the cross-sections of the films were
observed with a SEM. Figures 9 and 10 were the SEM images of the cross-section of the 1%S
monolayer and 1%S double, and a–d were at the same position in the 1%S monolayer or 1%S double
Figure 7. (a) An absorption spectrum of LDPE, LDPE + H, and LDPE + G; (b) An absorption spectrum
of LDPE, 1%S monolayer, and 1%S double.
3.5. Inverted Metallurgical Microscope Images of the Samples
Dispersion will affect the properties of the materials, so it is very important to study the dispersion
of silica particles in the films. Figure 8 showed inverted metallurgical microscope images of the 1%S
monolayer and 1%S double in different areas. Silica particles are a white powder and their size is
around 1300 nm. Compared to 1%S double, the 1%S monolayer white points, as shown in Figure 8a,
did not evenly distribute. In the black box, the size of the white area was about 15–20 µm. This result
indicated that silica particles were reunited in the films. However, in Figure 8b, it can clearly be seen
that the size of the white points were within the range of 1–1.5 µm, which suggests that silica particles
dispersed well in 1%S double.
Materials 2018, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 8 of 12
(0.08–0.09 mm) at the same thickness. This
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2853/2020/essd-12-2853-2020.html
Figure 7 shows an additional absorption peak in the silica doped cladding – keeping the greenhouse cooler. How this disproves the atmospheric transparency window is another Isakov mystery.
‘It was clear that there was no change when LDPE had added HALS (LDPE + H) and GY-NA-3000 (LDPE + G). A strong absorption peak near 1000 cm−1 appeared after adding silica particles. The
characteristic peaks at 720, 1380, and 1460 cm−1 belong to –CH2– in polyethylene. The peaks near 1111 cm−1 were attributed to SiO2.’
Polar Vortex Blockade.
“As the second half of the season approaches, the predominant wind direction will shift across northwestern Europe and become more easterly in nature. Since the core of cold air across the European continent is forecast to set up over the east, an easterly wind will be able to transport that chilly air farther to the west.
These cold pushes of air from the east can lead to significant spikes in heating demands for several days to even a week at a time across northwestern Europe. If energy production and demand issues are still in flux by January or February, these cold snaps may place a significant strain on residents’ wallets.
On top of chilly winds out of the east, the La Niña phase will increase the opportunity for snow across the United Kingdom and Ireland as well as areas from France to Poland, especially later in the season.”
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/accuweathers-2021-2022-europe-winter-forecast/1032617
I am interested to understand how the presentation was received at the Conference on Energy and Decarbonization. What sort of comments and questions were generated by it?
Jim
Hopefully you will see this at the bottom, as the reply to this thread is a long way away
Yes of course I have driven EV’s. I like them but have considerable concerns on range and using them as a first car.
If you start to look at overall impact you then have to look at the morally and environmentally dubious nature of EV’s (and solar panels etc) from mining of rare earths (less sustainable than fossil fuels as this resource seems limited) and their assembly (all elements including batteries) and the solar panels to power them. Often with coerced workers and using vast amounts of coal.
So it is not a straightforward like for like comparison. EV good ICE bad.
My interest in the impact of lorries on roads arose from the terrible state of the roads. No wonder when you realise the enormous downward pressure exerted by trucks then add in the particulates, and they are an area that warrants more attention than they get, albeit as the driver shortage shows, they are an essential part of modern life
Wet and windy here today, but the grockles are around in large numbers for half term. Shall I send you a few million across the Tamar?
tonyb
tonyb,
In the last few years there has been a huge increase in companies that recycle solar panels and batteries:
https://www.enfsolar.com/directory/service/manufacturers-recycling
The glass, aluminum, copper and silver are easy to recycle. The hard parts are the thin solar cells made up of lots of different minerals and elements.
If I were much younger (and the capital) I would jump on this growing industry!
Once the EVs hit the tipping point in numbers we will start hearing a lot more about Vehicle-to-Grid and refurbished batteries as household backup.
Check out this new home electrical panel to turn any house into a microgrid.
https://www.span.io/
Afternoon Tony,
EVs & “rare earths” is not really an argument any more. See for example this “Great British” technology from 6 years ago:
https://ricardo.com/news-and-media/news-and-press/ricardo-develops-next-generation-electric-vehicle
However the effect of HGVs on the environment is certainly worthy of discussion.
As for the grockle => emmet transformation, we have plenty of our own already, thank you very much:
https://twitter.com/DavidstowInfo/status/1450012326518722563
The next gen motor sounds good. The technology was developed 6 years ago, so what level of penetration has it reached since then? Is this the primary motor used across all EVs now being assembled? If not, why not?
Here’s a recent overview from Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/automakers-cutting-back-rare-earth-magnets-2021-07-19/
In brief, penetration is currently a lot less than 100%, Renault being the exception.
The reason – Most auto OEMs have been putting off developing BEVs explicitly designed for that purpose for as long as (in?)humanly possible?
Tesla backtracked with the Model 3, allegedly for “efficiency” but presumably for cost reasons?
https://chargedevs.com/features/teslas-top-motor-engineer-talks-about-designing-a-permanent-magnet-machine-for-model-3/
Hi Jim
I am not convinced you have enough tourists over there, surely more are needed to clog up the roads and surfing beaches?
I just hope we get some respite during November.
As for the engine, I remember reading about it some years ago. I have just looked at their latest newsletter and looked generally and I can’t see that this has as yet been taken up by anyone anywhere. It also doesn’t address the battery problems.
If we can develop a genuinely rare earth free engine ethically made and with batteries to match and solar panels not made by coercion and vast amounts of coal then that will be exciting.
As far as I am aware none of those requirements have yet been met. Will it be like fusion, always at least a decade or more away?
Barnes askes a good question so I look forward to your answer
tonyb
Evenin’ Tony,
See my reply to Barnes re motors. Here’s a Nature article on cobalt in EV batteries:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02222-1
Tesla has started using LFP batteries in China, and CATL has cobalt free sodium-ion batteries waiting in the wings:
https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3143051/tesla-supplier-catls-cheaper-sodium-ion-battery-gives-electric
Electrify vehicles -> 6 fold increase in electricity -> x fold increase in fossil fuel use because wind & solar are not sufficient for most of the world ( US is an exception – see Peter Zeihan ).
This is the big problem. We are being asked to electrify everything, cars and heat pumps, at the same time as we remove reliable sources of energy generation. I don’t know where the base load power is supposed to come from
tonyb
There are other potential problems for many of us in the UK located at the wrong end of long (and thin!) low voltage feeders. See for example the comments to this article:
https://V2G.co.uk/2021/05/electric-vehicles-as-energy-smart-appliances/
“The UK has c. 330,000 LV substations and c. 1 million feeders with about 450,000 km of buried cables. Sustained demand per home is c. 7-9 kW which the network must deliver; but only c. 10-15% of the UK LV network is able to deliver this“
On cue:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/24/more-embarrassment-cop26-luxury-evs-to-be-recharged-using-diesel-generators/
Diesel powered virtue signaling!
climatereason wrote:
This is the big problem. We are being asked to electrify everything, cars and heat pumps, at the same time as we remove reliable sources of energy generation. I don’t know where the base load power is supposed to come from
In 2020 97.4% of Scotland’s electricity consumption was met by clean power.
https://renews.biz/67495/scotland-misses-2020-renewables-goal/
Problems exist. Problems can be solved. That’s what humans do. Or some of them.
My understanding is that with lorry EV’s the rubber still meets the road.
Yet this is still a bit of a conundrum, since roads are either made from petroleum products, or concrete. To be good stewards I suppose we may ultimately need to consider reinventing hammer and chisel cobblestone technology, but maybe for efficiency instead go new school, utilize wind powered pneumatic hammers! There’s further benefits to this strategy; it’s a bonanza for blue collar job growth, under the auspice of New Green Deal job growth. It should poll well. Piecing together wind turbines and paving cobble stone roads as far as the eye can see! It’s all starting to make sense now.
“In 2020 97.4% of Scotland’s electricity consumption was met by clean power.”
So, why not shut off fossil fuels?
Because that number is designed to be misleading. Scotland does pretty well, but only 24% of its energy is “renewable” and only 6% of its heat. Turn off fossil fuels and Scots will freeze to death in the dark.
https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/statistics/2018/10/quarterly-energy-statistics-bulletins/documents/energy-statistics-summary—march-2021/energy-statistics-summary—march-2021/govscot:document/Scotland+Energy+Statistics+Q4+2020.pdf
To some, that seems to be a feature, not a bug. We’ll see how the big green confab goes, the president of Uganda has a piece in the Wall Street Journal that basically says “sod off” to the warm. Great way to start a global meeting!
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Challenge #1: It isn’t market driven. The economics simply don’t support it, nor will they likely to support in within our lifetimes.
Challenge #2: It will require an astronomically powerful and coercive Global Government to force it upon the Globe that will make the Fascist 20 and 30’s look like a picnic.
Challenge #3: Once the climate alarmists get their way, and we have a Global Government run by the Chinese, do you honestly think they will give a damn about climate change?
Challenge #4: How do we know all our efforts were successful? Where is the benchmark of a non-changing climate against which we can measure our current climate? When in the history of earth hasn’t the climate been changing? Since when has a non-changing climate existed? How do we even know it would be beneficial?
Challenge #5: An ice age is infinitely more likely, in fact an almost certainty, to occur in the relatively near future. The decarbon movement leaves us totally unprepared to deal with the real risks society faces.
Humankind have always adapted to a changing climate for thousands of years. It works just fine. We need to keep our reliable fossil fuels and nuclear and shun what is not cost effective – wind and solar.
Yes – a good perspective to keep.
Humans have moved to and evolved in every climate of earth:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Early_migrations_mercator.svg
Climate change helped shape our genes – who we are is very much a result of climate change!
You’re ready for your TED talk:
https://xkcd.com/1827/
You’re ready for your TED talk:
Nice – robust climate change survivors.
But what if Western Civilization collapses, Teddie?
But what if Western Civilization collapses?
As we know from history, the question is when not if.
Unwin said ‘three generations’ after marriage collapses.
How long a generation? When was the collapse?
It could be getting close.
It could also be ugly, but much less carbon emission, right?
> three generations
JD died in 1936, Teddie.
A generation is 20-30 years.
The counter is ticking!
The counter is ticking!
Yes, it is:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/07/15/us/unmarried-families-increasingly-the-norm.html?ref=us
jim –
>… and shun what is not cost effective
How do you determine what’s “cost effective” without accounting for externalities, including but certainly not limited to negative health outcomes from inhaling particulate matter that results from from burning fossil fuels?
Should we just ask Sydney Powell and Lin Wood?
After all, you promised us that they had proof that the election was stolen and look how well that turn…
Oh. Nevermind
Josh – the external costs pale in relation to the external benefits.
I bet when you are accounting for all the glorious benefits of wind and solar, you don’t include the cost of new transmission lines from the middle of nowhere to where the electricity is needed, the backup generation needed for when the wind don’t blow or the sun don’t shine, the roads to nowhere to maintain the wind and solar facilities, the paying of wind and solar producers for electricity that can’t be used because production peaked when no one needed it, the subsidies paid by tax payers, the deaths that come from winter blackouts, the materials lost when manufacturers have no electricity during blackouts, or the cost of cleaning up worn out wind farms and solar farms. You would be better off burning your money.
jim2 commented:
Humankind have always adapted to a changing climate for thousands of years.
Examples? The global climate has been remarkably stable over the Holocene…though there are records of southwestern North American civilizations going extinct due to droughts.
The global average temperature change since the late 1600s has to be estimated, but is very likely already +2 degrees C. warmer
The global average temperature change from pre-industrial also has to be estimated, although the IPCC claims to “know” the number, was already +1.5 degrees C., temporarily, at the peak of the late 2015 / late 2016 El Nino.
There is no evidence that the +2.0 degree C. rise, or the +1.5 degree C. rise, harmed anyone … and strong anecdotal evidence that people living in the cold, late1690s would have loved the more moderate climate today.
Global warming in the past 325 years has been good news.
Global warming in the past 45 years has been good news.
There is no evidence, beyond wild speculation, that a planet +1 degree C. warmer in the next 50 to 100 years will be dangerous in any way.
Especially if the warming pattern of the past 45 years continues:
Mainly in Northern Hemisphere’s higher latitude areas,
mainly in the six coldest months of the year,
and mainly at night.
Think of warmer winter nights in Siberia !
Another +1 degrees C. in 50 or 100 years would not even be noticed,
(if not for hysterical leftists bellowing about a climate emergency)
just like almost no one noticed the warming in the past 45 years.
The difference between the 1970s and now, here in Michigan, is slightly warmer winters. We LOVE that climate change, and want a lot more warming. Climate change would be even more pleasant if the hysterical climate scaremongers were all deported to Bulgaria !
Vikings.
Here you go, DA –
https://judithcurry.com/2021/10/22/challenges-of-the-clean-energy-transition/#comment-963302
“It’s a good reminder that people have been responding to and adapting to climate change for a long time,” Balascio said. “It’s not something that’s necessarily new or happened in the last 150 years with global warming. This is something that civilizations have dealt with for a very long time.”
https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2018/how-will-humans-adapt-to-climate-change-ask-a-viking.php
I am amazed about the lack of interest in finding real measured or known data vs. something theorized for whatever purpose.
Tonyb makes statements about trucks exerting 120,000 times as much ground pressure as a passenger car!? My car specifies 35 psi; truck tire pressures should not exceed 145 psi. That’s a factor of 4.14, not 120,000. (could the problem be the convention of periods vs. commas? But a factor of 120 or 1200 would still be outlandish). My guess – the road damage is related to the vertical shear stress at the border between tire contact and the surround, not plain contact pressure.
Then, the New Jersey sea level rise: real and incontestable measurements come from tidal gages. Sealevel.info has a treasure trove of data. From NOAA’s 375 world-wide tidal gage records the averages are 1.56 mm/yr and acceleration of 0.0524 mm/yr^2. This translates to a total of 8.76 inches in the coming century (not 3 or 5 or Gore’s 20 feet).
Further, there are numbers on three New Jersey locales:
Sandy Hook 4.06 mm/yr rise and 0.0057 mm/yr^2 acceleration,
Cape May 4.55 and 0.1262, and Atlantic City 4.08 and 0.0125 respectively. It becomes clear that the Cape May zone is sinking rather remarkably. Therefore, New Jersey trends need a judicial local focus, not a statewide generalization.
Lastly for a hard measurement vs. modeling discrepancy we may want to revisit the graph by Dr. Christy, which shows 102 CIMPS atmospheric temperature model runs, on average predicting temperatures 4.4 times as high as actual measurements via balloons! That is, from 1980 to 2015.
Find the measurements!
Dietrich
When I first heard that truck figure I thought it sounded like something from Greenpeace written to make a political point but not belonging to the real world.
So I checked it with the Govt agency in the UK responsible for Road Transport then checked it with the country’s leading vehicle recovery agency. As far as I can see the figure is roughly correct.
https://www.denenapoints.com/relationship-vehicle-weight-road-damage/
If anyone can come up with a better figure then please link to it.
tonyb
Tony,
this report was written by a law firm, and they cite a GOA report. They also make non-sensical statements on taking cargo from trucks to railroad. Think of it, we had railroads crisscrossing the land and nowadays truck delivery has relegated cargo movement via rail to non-perishables like coal and new car deliveries, etc. Go ship the strawberries from California to NY by rail, and you have juices running over the rails. The fourth power multiplier is questionable as to axle loads – I’ll do some more digging, as you suggested – and of course overloading is no good. That’s why we have weighing stations and police mobile scales, but also stated bridge weight limits. I would also suggest that neglect of bridge structures, like by corrosion, and further, water penetration at pavement seams is a similar road deterioration cause.
Dietrich
Apparently the problems are not so big on motorways which are specifically built to allow the pressure exerted by trucks.
The problems arise when the trucks come off the motorways and then go by ordinary roads to distribution centres and direct to supermarkets in suburban areas where the roads were never designed for the pressure exerted.
Roads need to be maintained and joints sealed to prevent water damage but the trucks damage the roads faster than they can be fixed.
As I say the figures came from the uk transport organisation responsible for building roads.
Wil be interested to see what you come up with. The other factor of course was that trucks are shedding particles of clutch, brakes and tyres directly into suburban areas thereby contributing to pollution but different to that coming from the ail pipe.
Tonyb
Dietrich Hoecht commented:
Sealevel.info has a treasure trove of data. From NOAA’s 375 world-wide tidal gage records the averages are 1.56 mm/yr and acceleration of 0.0524 mm/yr^2. This translates to a total of 8.76 inches in the coming century (not 3 or 5 or Gore’s 20 feet).
Tide gauge data is actually exceeding the modern satellite data on SLR:
https://www.globalchange.gov/sites/globalchange/files/global_average_sea_level_change.png
so your 1.56 mm/yr is too low.
Though it’s tempting and fun, you can’t just extrapolate a quadratic fit out to 2100 to get sea level rise. The physics just isn’t that simple — warming isn’t quadratic, hence thermal expansion of water isn’t, ice sheet melt isn’t, glacier melt isn’t, etc. You need a climate model with a good bit of sophistication.
David, something is wrong. If I take your chart and try to get a gradient I read 2.3 inches in recent 12.5 years. That translates to 0.184 inches or 4.67 mm/yr. That would be higher by a factor of 3 over the 1.56mm/yr. I have no idea where globalchange.gov gets its numbers from.
Dr. Curry,
Perhaps I missed it but did you get any feedback from the organizers or attendees?
As usual, nice presentation.
The Vostok ice core shows we have had 4 ise ages in the last 400,00 years. We began this ice age about 20,000 years ago when the oceans were at their lowest.
It took about 8,000 years to make the ice blocks. The next about 8,000 years nature was loosing more heat to the black sky than it retained. The oceans began to drop and the edges of the ice blocks began to break off. About 4,000 years ago the ice breaking off, floating away and melting, equaled the amount of heat lost to the black sky daily.
The oceans stopped dropping, the radiant heat reflected remained constant. The average surface temperature remained constant.
The amount of ice floating from the ice blocks, melting is constant.
We will stay here for about the next 110,000 years.
At that time the ice bocks will be gone, the oceans will begin to drop.
When the oceans get the level where we begin to retain more radiant heat than reflected to the black sky the next ice age will begin.
I PROBABLY WILL NOT SEE THIS, BUT THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE UNTIL THERE ISN’T!!!!
Actually, by the standard (Smithsonian) definition of Ice Age, our current began 2.5 million years ago and we are still in it. The most recent glaciation began 110,000 years ago, end of the Eemian, and we emerged from the LGM about 16,000 years ago, with no preceding CO2 change, immediately dropped into the Younger Dryas and rapidly emerged from that to the Holocene Optimum, from which we have been cooling for the last 8,000 years, with no CO2 causality for any of these movements.
I have explained my reading of the Vostok ice core. I believe I am correct and there is no more I can do to win any more over to my belief.
I am going back to save the hard work the AMERICAN PEOPLE, TESTERS and CONTACT TRACERS have done to control of COVID-19.
I have begun talking about ICE MAKING and ICE MELTING on reply in week in review 10/31/2021
David Appell
“The darkside temperature is determined by thermal conductance through the regolith, and is mostly a constant temperature.”
Exactly, that is why the night-time temperature in the Graph appears as linear. Because the night-time IR emission intensity is ruled by conductance through the regolith, and conductance is a linear function…
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
David, here is the link to NOAA’s 375 gage stations with the average and mean summary.
http://www.sealevel.info/MSL_global_trendtable5.html
If data do not support David’s narrative,
then they do not exist.
Dietrich Hoecht wrote:
David, here is the link to NOAA’s 375 gage stations with the average and mean summary.
But linear trends that start many decades ago, or even a century ago, do not represent modern sea level rise if there is an acceleration, nor modern rates of sea level rise.
The sea level rise of a quadratic fit (the first derivative) will not equal the sea level rise from a linear fit (also the first derivative).
It looks to me that the “trend” in your table is the linear fit.
This is from the US Fourth National Climate Assessment 2018 pg 107:
“Multiple researchers, using different statistical approaches, have integrated tide gauge records to estimate global mean sea level (GMSL) rise since the late 19th century (e.g., Church and White 2006, 2011; Hay et al. 2015; Jevrejeva et al. 200961,73,74,256). The most recent published rate estimates are 1.2 ± 0.2 mm/year73 or 1.5 ± 0.2 mm/year74 over 1901–1990. Thus, these results indicate about 4–5 inches (11–14 cm) of GMSL rise from 1901 to 1990. Tide gauge analyses indicate that GMSL rose at a considerably faster rate of about 0.12 inches/year (3 mm/year) since 1993,73,74 a result supported by satellite data indicating a trend of 0.13 inches/year (3.4 ± 0.4 mm/year) over 1993–2015
(update to Nerem et al. 2010;75 see also Sweet et al. 2017,57 Figure 12.3a). These results indicate an additional GMSL rise of about 3 inches (7 cm) since 1990. Thus, total GMSL rise since 1900 is about 7–8 inches (18–21 cm).”
Scotland exports by far the biggest portion of its electricity generation – allowing it to claim 97% renewables in domestic supply. Even then – some 50% of energy is used for heat and 25% in transport. Renewables barely scratch the surface.
https://watertechbyrie.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/uk-electricity.png
A ‘clean energy transition’ is less of a challenge than an opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs. But the starting point must be realistic analysis.
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Judith: As best I can tell, the political goal of net zero emissions ignores the fact that about half of emissions are being taken up by sinks. As best I can tell, we could cut emissions of CO2 by about 50% and the level of CO2 in the atmosphere would stop rising. Instead of Net Zero, Net 50% should be enough to stabilize climate – at least until land-based sinks saturate. So I suggest that the goal for 2050 might be reduced to a far more practical “Net 50%”. If terrestrial sinks show signs of saturating, then the next step might be Net 25%. Deep-ocean uptake of CO2 will never saturate.
It says a lot about the IPCC and other climate activists that they aren’t think in terms of doing the minimum possible to deal with climate change.
Franktoo,
When the emissions were 50% of what they are now, roughly 50% of those emissions were taken up by sinks. In fact, about 50% of emitted CO2 was absorbed by the sinks regardless of the amount emitted. If we reduced the emissions by 50% it would not lead to the level of CO2 stabilizing, as the sinks would simply stop taking in around 50% of what they do now given that the return trip results in the sinks moving back to were they where. The return trip being equivalent is debated, but what is not debated is that any CO2 emission will lead to an increase in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, and that increase in the atmosphere will be less than the actual emission, but not zero as long as there are emissions.
What you are trying to say is not physical in a system regardless of whether the system has gone to equilibrium or not.
You need to qualify what you mean by “Deep-ocean uptake of CO2 will never saturate.” If you mean that we could pump enough CO2 into the deep-ocean to stabilize atmospheric CO2, then I would agree with the statement. However, doing so would require energy, and would have effects such as bringing the pH of the ocean to a more neutral pH. If you are saying that nature is going to move significant amounts of CO2 into the deep-ocean by itself, then that has demonstrably not happened in the past, and any expectation for it to do so in the future is imaginary.
atandb: Vertical currents in the ocean (including the thermohaline circulation) carry heat and CO2 into the deep ocean for free. Before industrialization, 98% of carbon dioxide was in the ocean and 2% was in the atmosphere. (Even larger amounts of carbon were buried in the ground as carbonate rocks, fossil fuels, organics materials in soil.) If the ocean pH and temperature remained constant, 98% of the carbon dioxide released by burning of fossil fuels would eventually be taken up by the ocean and CO2 levels would drop to near 300 ppm. However, with more CO2 dissolve in the ocean, its pH will drop modestly and “only” something like 90% of the CO2 added by burning fossil fuels will be taken up by the ocean. The warmer temperature of the ocean will also reduce how much CO2 goes into the deep ocean.
The IPCC likes to confuse this simple picture of CO2 uptake by the ocean over about a millennium with a discussion about the much larger amount of time needed for CO2 to be “permanently” sequestered in the ground as carbonate rock rather than fossil fuel.
At the end of the last ice age, ocean currents released enough CO2 from the deep ocean to raise CO2 in the atmosphere from about 180 ppm to 280 ppm over millennia. So during ice ages, the ocean held perhaps 98.7% of CO2 and the atmosphere 1.3%.
Franktoo commented:As best I can tell, the political goal of net zero emissions ignores the fact that about half of emissions are being taken up by sinks. As best I can tell, we could cut emissions of CO2 by about 50% and the level of CO2 in the atmosphere would stop rising. Instead of Net Zero, Net 50% should be enough to stabilize climate – at least until land-based sinks saturate.
No, this is wrong. Warming won’t stop until about a decade after we reach net zero emissions. About 50% of our emissions are going to stay in the atmosphere no matter what — the “airborne fraction” has stayed about constant for decades. Emit less and 50% still stays and builds up.
David: You are confusing several different phenomena. CO2 stabilizeif we reduce current emissions by about 50% and sinks continue to take up CO2 at the current rate (which is somewhat more than 50% of current emissions). The ocean sink won’t ever saturate and eventually will take up about 90% of the CO2 we have emitted, but has taken up only about 25% so far. There are questions about long term uptake by the land sink, but the IPCC has consistently under projected uptake. So 50% reduction in emissions will, at least for several decades, keep atmospheric CO2 constant and its radiative forcing constant.
Currently, about 0.7 W/m2 of current radiative forcing is being taken up by the ocean. If current forcing were 2.7 W/m2, then 1 degK of current warming is already sending 2 W/m2 of more LWR + reflected SWR to space (and climate sensitivity would be about 2 K/doubling). As ocean heat uptake gradually slows as the deep ocean slowly comes into a new state state with the warmer surface, another 0.35 K of “committed warming”) would be needed to send an additional 0.7 W/m2 to space. This committed warming process will take most of a millennium and isn’t worth planning for. (The IPCC’s models say ECS is higher than 2 degK, but that is inconsistent with current warming, forcing and ocean heat uptake.)
If we reached net zero emissions, then CO2 would be falling while we are still experiencing “committed warming” as due to less uptake of heat by the ocean.
“Net zero” emissions is merely a slogan for developed countries that will let developing countries continue growing their emissions for decades, producing something approximating the global 50% reduction in emissions that will stabilize CO2 levels at current levels.
Franktoo: I agree and the IPCC ( https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf , Fig. SPM.7 also.
https://i.imgur.com/znIE0pI.png
The “budget to zero emmission ” disagrees. A wicked problem??
Frankclimate: Thanks for the link. The information in Figure SPM.7 makes little sense to me. Since the end of the last ice age until the industrial age, ocean uptake and release of CO2 had been in equilibrium at about 280 ppm. Around 1970, CO2 had reached 325 ppm, 16% above 280 and causing to a first approximation a 16% increase in ocean uptake of CO2 below the mixed layer assuming ocean overturning was unchanged. (Rising ocean pH has only a minor impact on how much CO2 dissolves in ocean water.) At that point IIRC, we were emitting enough CO2 to raise the amount in the atmosphere by 2 ppm and 1 ppm of that was disappearing into sinks and about half was uptake by oceans.
By the time we reached 400 ppm (a 43% increase) ocean uptake of CO2 below the mixed layer should have increased by 43%. At that point IIRC, we were emitting enough CO2 to raise atmospheric CO2 by 4 ppm/yr and only 2 ppm was accumulating in the atmosphere with the other 50% disappearing into sinks.
My understanding of SSP (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways) isn’t very good, but SSP2-4.5 is about double today’s forcing and perhaps around 560 ppm of CO2. So Figure SPM.7 NOW shows almost 2/3rds of emitted CO2 having been taken up by sinks so far and falling to 54% by the time CO2 doubles in the future??? And notice that the amount going into the ocean isn’t increasing in proportion to the amount in the atmosphere. Pre-industrially, 2% of CO2 was in the atmosphere and 98% was in the ocean. In the long run, more than 90% of anthropogenically emitted CO2 is supposed to end up in the ocean after equilibrium is restored, despite rising ocean pH.
jim2 commented:
China alone generated about the same amount of CO2 as the next four countries combined. And its carbon output is still rising every year.
China emits a lot because it has a large population. Americans emit more on a per capita basis. America has emitted twice as much CO2 since 1850 than has China, creating twice as much warming.
Perhaps we should instead be focusing on the world’s wealthy — the richest 10% emit half of all CO2 emissions, and the richest 20% about 70%. (Oxfam 2015):
https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/ej8010/percentage_of_co2_emissions_by_world_population/
Perhaps we could start with a global ban on superyachts, private jets, SUVs and homes over, say, 10,000 sq ft. We’re in a crisis — it’s time to start acting like it. Otherwise my suspicion is that in the not-too-distant future a small subset of the burgeoning youth climate movement is going to see to it, by other means, that owning such property will be made uncomfortable, undesirable and then taboo.
Think they’ll start with all the carbon Sasquatches that attend the IPCC meetings?
People on this thread might also be interested in this – https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2021/10/Kalghatgi-Net-Zero-Challenges.pdf
A “Bomb Cyclone”, the latest in the CAGW industry to use Madison Avenue tactics to scare the most naive, gullible and frankly dim witted elements of the populace. How about saying what they said 70 years ago. It’s a big storm.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/weather/weather-bomb-cyclone-pacific-northwest-california-rain-snow/index.html
“snow”?
Now, now, I’m expecting the TV to tell me that outside my house on the east coast there is “Lower Atmospheric Disturbance Zeus” and it will be confirmed as at least a category 36.4. It would be a 40 if the dog gets damp.
Jeff, or anybody: explain why a Chinese citizen, or any other citizen of the world, shouldn’t be able, morally, to emit just as much CO2 as you did, today?
DA
How do you know he did? Maybe he was sick and stayed home in bed with the furnace off all day and read by candlelight.
Personally, I stayed home and mowed the lawn with my new electric lawn mower. Do I get good dooby points now? Since I bought an electric lawn mower, I think I’ll go buy a 7 passenger SUV. Seems like a good tradeoff.
Although, now that I think of it, I’m going to have to wait 6 months for a new car because of a lack of chips. Labor shortages. Supply chain disruptions. Bidenflation. What a great economy. We could shut down the economy completely. Go back to the Stone Age. But think of all the benefits of cutting CO2 emissions.
The world’s top five polluters were responsible for 60% of global emissions in 2019. China alone generated about the same amount of CO2 as the next four countries combined. And its carbon output is still rising every year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-china-climate-change-biggest-carbon-polluters
jim2 commented:
China alone generated about the same amount of CO2 as the next four countries combined. And its carbon output is still rising every year.
China emits a lot because it has a large population. Americans emit more on a per capita basis. America has emitted twice as much CO2 since 1850 than has China, creating twice as much warming.
Perhaps we should instead be focusing on the world’s wealthy — the richest 10% emit half of all CO2 emissions, and the richest 20% about 70%. (Oxfam 2015).
Perhaps we could start with a global ban on superyachts, private jets, SUVs and homes over, say, 10,000 sq ft. We’re in a crisis — it’s time to start acting like it. Otherwise my suspicion is that in the not-too-distant future a small subset of the burgeoning youth climate movement is going to see to it, by other means, that owning such property will be made uncomfortable, undesirable and then taboo.
jim2 commented:
China alone generated about the same amount of CO2 as the next four countries combined. And its carbon output is still rising every year.
China emits a lot because it has a large population. Americans emit more on a per capita basis. America has emitted twice as much CO2 since 1850 than has China, creating twice as much warming.
Oh, so global warming is dependent on CO2 emitted PER CAPITA – I see! I would like to see your physics explanation for that one.
Jim, it’s made in China. How long could it possibly last?
jim2 wrote:
Oh, so global warming is dependent on CO2 emitted PER CAPITA – I see! I would like to see your physics explanation for that one.
Did you see the part about the US having already emitted more than twice as much CO2 as has China?
Physics doesn’t depends on per capita emissions, but ethics and fairness do. Until the US drastically decreases its per capita emissions, especially in light of its historical emissions and the very high emissions of its wealthy, it has no moral right to tell other countries how to live, especially once poor countries who aspire to a similar standard of living.
If you are worried about ethics, David, you won’t take away a reliable and relatively cheap source of energy. That act will kill people. And are you going to demand from China they stop using fossil fuels when they catch up with the US? No, I’m thinking you won’t. Also, there’s that little detail that China is turning into a military power that is a huge threat to the US. Why in h*ll should the US cut them any slack AT ALL? (Note, that was directed to the Chinese government, not the people, but of course they can’t be separated when it comes to not helping them. That’s life, cruel as it is.)
jim2, it will be many decades before China catches up to the US in CO2 emissions.
By then they will be the global superpower running on sustainable energy and the US, it sure looks like, will be a diseased and broken antique.
Your argument is a red herring. How about engaging with the issue as presented?
The good news here, Jim, is that Appell admits that renewables aren’t even close to being cost competitive or effective. If they were, China would be adopting them because they’re better than fossil fuels.
But we all knew that.
The other good news is that Appell (accidentally) emphasizes the political conundrum- emissions cuts in Europe and North America will not result in less CO2 in the atmosphere, every cut there is offset and then some by increases in China. If you’re going to have a policy that cuts emissions, have a policy that cuts emissions instead of increasing them.
Finally, we get the mention of “the very high emissions of its wealthy.” This is a serious political issue. In “green” California, for example, this means poor and middle class people pay more for gasoline and electricity and get less of it, but the wealthy retain access to daily flights to Hawaii, New York, Europe and Asia from a long list of California airports. The Democrats are so invested in cutting greenhouse gases that they are boasting today that the new infrastructure bill in Congress will spend $1.5 billion on California airports.
People who can’t afford to drive to work will get to wave to the wealthy flying overhead in gas guzzlers and pay for their improved airports.
jeffnsails850 commented:The good news here, Jim, is that Appell admits that renewables aren’t even close to being cost competitive or effective.
It’s well known that wind and solar are cheaper than coal.
Especially when you include the huge external, damaging costs of the pollution from coal to health and the environment. It’s not even close.
China just announced that they will not build coal-fired power plants anywhere outside their country.
Jeff, stop making up things that I didn’t say, or I’m not going to respond to you.
I never wrote anything like ‘every cut there is offset and then some by increases in China.’
Finally, we get the mention of “the very high emissions of its wealthy.” This is a serious political issue. In “green” California, for example, this means poor and middle class people pay more for gasoline and electricity and get less of it, but the wealthy retain access to daily flights to Hawaii, New York, Europe and Asia from a long list of California airports
Completely convoluted. The point is to ban private flights by the wealthy, not have the middle class watch them fly overhead.
Try to pay attention.
“It’s well known that wind and solar are cheaper than coal.”
Then there is no moral or fairness reason to limit CO2 emissions in China, yet you believe there is.
“I never wrote anything like ‘every cut there is offset and then some by increases in China.’”
It’s the net effect of the global policy you prefer (the “fairness” excuse for allowing more coal burning in China). And my point was that this is a serious political issue- you cannot get votes in democratic western nations on emissions reductions that don’t reduce emissions, but do cause economic pain. The is the cause of all those charts showing the gaps between pledges and reality. No democratically elected government is going to tank its economy because it’s China’s turn to burn.
“Completely convoluted. The point is to ban private flights by the wealthy, not have the middle class watch them fly overhead.”
What benefit do you get from a ban on private flights (which nobody is doing, by the way) if you spend $1.5 billion in taxpayer dollars to give them more wide-body global flights? The inequality is obvious- in California, the poor must not be able to afford to commute to work by car or drive to take the kids to Disney World. But we’ll make it more comfortable for the wealthy to commute by air to London or New York and vacation on the beaches of Hawaii and Tuvalu (there being no beaches in California, apparently).
At the very same time California insists people pay the nation’s highest energy prices, there are no less than 14 non-stop flights to Honolulu from LAX alone on a typical Tuesday and you can get round trip for as little as $224.
David Appell | October 26, 2021 at 1:52 pm |
jeffnsails850 commented:The good news here, Jim, is that Appell admits that renewables aren’t even close to being cost competitive or effective.
Appell response- “It’s well known that wind and solar are cheaper than coal.”
Absolutely true when using “levelized cost of energy” LCOE
Wind & solar advocates love using LCOE since that analysis is specifically designed not to capture all the true costs – deception is the name of the game with LCOE
Jeff: I haven’t said anything about California, so I don’t know what you’re going on about.
I’m saying that an individual Chinese citizen has a right to as much energy and to emit just as much CO2 as an individual American citizen.
Explain to me why they don’t.
“I’m saying that an individual Chinese citizen has a right to as much energy and to emit just as much CO2 as an individual American citizen.
Explain to me why they don’t.”
Last I checked, there were some people gathering in Scotland on the premise that there was some sort of “existential threat” to the entire globe from CO2 emissions. Are you now saying that’s not the case?
Perhaps we could start with a global ban on superyachts, private jets, SUVs and homes over, say, 10,000 sq ft. We’re in a crisis — it’s time to start acting like it. Otherwise my suspicion is that in the not-too-distant future a small subset of the burgeoning youth climate movement is going to see to it, by other means, that owning such property will be made uncomfortable, undesirable and then taboo.
Mr Apple claims “we’re in a crisis”
We are not in any crisis
We do not have any climate problem
The current climate is the best climate
for humans, animals and plants
since the 1600s.
If the planet warms 1 degree
in the next 50 or 100 years,
the climate will be even better.
Mr. Apple is deluded about
the current climate and speculating
wildly about the future climate.
Making wild guess predictions
is not real science.
Mr. Apple is a reality denier
and a science denier.
Perhaps we could start with a global ban on superyachts, private jets, large vehicles and homes over, say, 10,000 sq ft. We’re in a crisis — it’s time to start acting like it. Otherwise my suspicion is that in the not-too-distant future a small subset of the burgeoning youth climate movement is going to see to it, by other means, that owning such property will be made uncomfortable, undesirable and then taboo.
If you truly believe we are in a crisis due to CO2 emissions, David, you wouldn’t be giving China a pass no matter what. So you are willing to let the Earth bake to a cinder because China is a developing country, David? This makes your entire shtick here on CE look disingenuous. But to make matters worse, you want the developed countries to switch from reliable and cheap fossil fuels to unreliable and expensive wind and solar. This will cause people to die from the cold during the ensuing blackouts. This certainly calls into question your ethics, which, once again, makes you look disingenuous. You spend an awful lot of time here just to make yourself look foolish.
jim2, you completely misunderstood my reply. It said that since the rich emit a great deal of the CO2, far disproportionate, let’s begin by banning their superyachts, private jets (they can teleconference), SUVs and massive homes.
They’re massive CO2-belchers.
That’s far more ethical than expecting the poor of China and India and the developing countries to cut their CO2.
How about it?
Check out this chart:
https://i.redd.it/mfez247tvg841.png
How about the US suck their CO2 out of the atmosphere until their contribution is equal to China’s?
The technology exists. A plant was just installed in Iceland. It currently costs an estimated $600 per ton of CO2.
China’s emissions are so vast that its biggest companies, few of which are household names, create more pollution than entire nations. China Baowu, the world’s top steelmaker, put more CO2 into the atmosphere last year than Pakistan.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-china-climate-change-biggest-carbon-polluters
The only emissions that are harmful to humans are all those other than CO2. The air pollution over large cities in China and India is ignored by almost all “environmentalists”, along with slave labor building solar panels in China, and the cleanest safe source of electricity — nuclear power — protested by almost all “environmentalists”
This is one big science denier group !
The planet hit +1.5 degrees C. for at least a month in late 2015 / 2016 and probably for a month in 1998 — both at the peak heat of large El Ninos.
No one even noticed.
The +1.5 degree C. is a nonsense number based on another nonsense number of +2.0 degree C. created by some economist with absolutely no scientific basis.
Just like the past 64 years of predicting a coming global warming crisis — always wrong — staring with oceanographer Roger Revelle and associates in 1957.
Meanwhile, the ACTUAL climate is the best climate for humans, animals and planets in 325 years since the cold, low solar energy Maunder Minimum decade of the 1690s.
But climate predictions don’t need facts, data and logic to be repeated for years. They obviouly don’t even need to be correct !
Some people still believe there were weapon of mass destruction in Iraq.
Many leftists still believe the false Trump Russian Collusion political dirty trick pushed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
And many Americans now believe COVID vaccines are defeating the disease. They have no idea US COVID daily average deaths per 100,000 in 2021 are actually +16.9% higher than US COVID daily average deaths per 100,000 in 2020, with no vaccines at all in 2020 !
Why let facts get in the way of a “good” narrative !
Details on the +16.9% number at the link below:
Replace each “DOT” with a period to get the correct URL:
https://electioncircusDOTblogspot.com/2021/10/the-2021-daily-covid-death-rate-is-169DOThtml
“We have already warmed 1.3 degrees Centigrade, or 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit. The IPCC’s best estimate has us crossing the 1.5 degree threshold in about 2030, and the 2 degree threshold in about 2055. ”
But in SPM, p. 5, and other passages of AR6, WG1 we can read: “Global surface temperature was 1.09 [0.95 to 1.20] °C higher in 2011-2020 than 1850-1900.”
So: About 1.1 degrees, not 1.3 degrees.
Also important: SPM, pp. 17/18/19: “This includes the revised assessment of observed historical warming for the AR5 reference period 1986–2005, which in AR6 is higher by 0.08 [–0.01 to 0.12] °C than in the AR5.”
So: About 0.1 degrees of the 1.1 degrees above are a result of “revised assessment” of former decades.
Why we should cross the “1.5 degree threshold in about 2030” (“central estimate of 20-year averaged global surface warming”, TS, S. 36/37, Box TS.1 ), is puzzling for me. For the increase per decade by now did not exceed 0.2 degrees, and I couldn’t find any reason why it should be 0.4 degrees per decade within the next 20 years.
gfkeller: What’s wrong with a “revised assessment?” Happens all the time in science. That’s what science is.
But I agree with the rest of what you wrote — I also don’t see how we cross 1.5 C in 2030.
First “science” assessment on the future climate:
” It’s worse than we thought ! ”
Revised “science” assessment on the future climate:
” It’s worse than worse than we thought ! ”
Next assessment:
worse x3
For Mr. Apple, who cherry picked Scotland to brag about their very high percentage of electricity from renewables in 2020, mainly from wind and hydro:
Here are some facts you left out:
Scotland’s population is about 5.5 million, considerably smaller than the population of New York City.
Scotland energy use is about 25% for producing electricity.
What about the sources for the other 75% — for transportation and heating — they are not renewables !
The bottom line is that Scotland represents a very tiny percentage of the world population (7.8 billion people) and electricity represents only 25% of all energy use of that tiny population.
Data mining at it’s worst !
Judith: From my perspective, natural gas is cheap way of converting “renewable electricity generation” into “reliable electricity generation”.
Consider a society without fossil fuel where electricity is generated exclusively by wind and solar. That society, like ours, is struggling to build enough batteries to meet the needs of car transportation and has limited ability to store electric power behind dams. Even though they have built wind and solar electric generation capacity capable of meeting twice or thrice normal demand, every month or so a combination of cloudy and calm days results in a major expensive disruption in the supply of electricity. Now imagine that such a society discovers natural gas and begins building natural gas plants to generate electricity. How many plants would such a society build knowing that the GHE places limits on how much natural gas they should burn?
I think that society would build as many natural gas generating plants as needed to make the electricity supply reliable, but would run those plants ONLY when wind and solar were inadequate. They would use natural gas to make unreliable renewable electricity into reliable electricity. The fixed cost to have a natural gas plant sitting around doing nothing most of the time is relatively low (about $0.01/kWh the way our plants are typically used) and the variable cost of the natural gas only needs to be paid when wind and solar aren’t delivering enough electricity (and their suppliers don’t need to be paid). Instead of trying to drive up the cost of natural gas by limiting production, that society would open production so that competition kept the price of natural gas as low as possible.
Our society hasn’t experienced many major disruptions in the supply of electricity, so we don’t see natural gas as the solution to converting unreliable renewable electricity into reliable electricity. Consequently, we perceive use of natural gas as something to be eliminated, rather than as a relatively cheap solution to the problem of unreliable renewable electricity. We need a large capacity to generate electricity from natural gas for reliability, BUT we need to use that capacity as little as possible as renewable capacity grows. AND we need to grow renewable electricity in a fiscally sensible manner. Installing a large number of very expensive solar panels in cloudy Germany a decade ago was pure folly. German consumers will be paying those cost for decades. Installing much cheaper solar panels in the deserts of Southern California today produces electricity at about $0.02/kWh. Unfortunately, today Southern California doesn’t new more electricity when the sun is shining; they are already paying much more for renewable electricity installed when costs were much higher. California needs to be investing in the safety and reliability of its grid! The panic created by legislating NETZERO goals is blinding us to the financial practicality 50% renewable power that is 100% reliable and can power a society using mostly EVs rather than traditional cars. Then we can work on getting to 60% renewable that is 100% reliable.
When the cost of increasing the fraction of reliable renewable electricity is too high, we obvious need to turn to nuclear power.
I could not agree more, Frank.
Let’s imagine a world in which we do not live.
The only conclusion we can infer is that is should be like ours.
We really live in the best possible world.
Willard: Thought experiments can be useful: There are two extreme worlds that are possible and a reasonable compromise somewhere between the two. Extreme World 1 uses fossil fuel to generate most electricity for reliability and ignores the massive cost of rising CO2. That is the world we lived in before we became interested in reducing climate change. Extreme World 2 ignores electricity reliability and the massive cost associated with unreliable electricity. If we had grown up in Extreme World 2 and discovered natural gas, we would have begun using it to make electricity more reliable, despite its global warming effect. The cost of unreliability was much higher than the cost of warming. Somewhere between these two extreme is where an optimum solution can be found.
From a purely pragmatic point of view, going too far and too fast toward unreliable high-cost renewable electricity will likely simply torpedo public support. In green Germany, public support for continuing investment in expensive renewable electricity appears to be waning. The key to maintaining public support for renewable power is maintaining reliability – which means adequate backup with natural gas. Restriction the supply of natural gas simply makes that backup more expensive.
> Thought experiments can be useful:
I agree, Frank. My point is that you didn’t make any!
I’m still glad that you now realize the wisdom of Energiewende. It’s never too late to be too late.
https://mobile.twitter.com/aaronshem/status/1451169354947629062
https://mobile.twitter.com/aaronshem/status/1448594973994242055
aaron, if you have something to say, write it — posting just a link is rude.
Sinks are increasing faster than emissions.
What data says that? If it’s true, why is atmospheric CO2 increasing?
Because sinks are smaller and growth lags.
The site used to embed twitter links.
In the earlier years emissions growth rate was faster. Biological growth lags. The relative size of emissions is still much larger than size of sinks. The size of sinks are still smaller and will likely be for some time.
aaron wrote:
Because sinks are smaller and growth lags.
Data??
https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/global/pdf/Keenan_2016_Recent%20pause%20in%20the%20growth%20rate%20of%20atmospheric%20CO2%20due%20to%20enhanced%20terrestrial%20carbon%20uptake.NatureComm.pdf
aaron
Interesting link. Thanks.
A “recent pause” aaron? That’s all you got?
Typical denier b.s., as always.
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Renewable portfolio standards are often criticized for excluding nuclear. In my view nuclear and renewables do compete with each other for resources so renewable portfolio standards should be changed to clean energy standards that include nuclear. It’s interesting to note that the renewables listed here total up to 5.2% of electricity generation, far short of the 2021 standard of 21%. Nuclear at 37.4% is already past the 2025 standard of 35%.
Without additional gas supplies to Germany, the German economy may have trouble ensuring continued production. More gas is now used for room heating.
During the winter, solar energy and wind cannot meet energy demand in mid-latitudes. When a cloudless eastern high prevails over Europe, nighttime temperature drops will quickly deplete energy reserves.
“A solar minimum is expected in the 21st century, following the grand solar maximum that occurred in the late 20th century.”
We are just over halfway through a very short centennial solar minimum. The next centennial solar minimum starts in the 2090’s.
to David Appell ,
I tried reply on the calculation of heat on the moon. But comments disappear. already 2 times. Frustrating. Will try again later.
Ok. this comment went though. So I’ll provide estimates here.
First of all. If you look at MDPI paper Fig 11, you will see that from 0.3 m and below the temperature is constant at around 240K. Constant temperature means 0 gradient and thus, zero conduction. So your theory that heat is conducted from hot side of the Moon to the cold side to sustain 100K is incorrect. Unless you mean something else and again just not expressing yourself clearly when you say: “The darkside temperature is determined by thermal conductance through the regolith, and is mostly a constant temperature”
Now let’s explore heat capacity. Actually they provide full calculation in Methods section of the paper. But I will just a make few simplifications to avoid solving differential equations. We will first explore the day time. As it is shown in figure 11, during the day you get an approximately linear gradient between surface and depth of around 0.15m. Maximum temperate 355K and base temperature 240K, or 115K temperature difference. So we average and take half of it to estimate stored heat, e.g. 57K. Heat capacity and density are complex functions, but we can take some average value from the paper, e.g 850J/kgK and 1500kg/m3. So we get 57*850*1500*0.15 = 10 MJ/m2 of stored heat per sqm of surface. Now during night the surface temperature quickly drops to 100K. Let’s average and assume all the stored heat is a half depth of 0.08m. So we get a temperature gradient of roughly 200K per 0.08m. Thermal conductivity, according to the paper is 0.0007 W/mK. So we get heat loss from that depth to the surface at a rate of 0.0007*200/0.08= 1.7W/m2. How long it will take to loose all the heat during night, 10*10^6/1.7= 5.8 million seconds = 67 days. Most probably I oversimplified, but even if we take 1/5 of the stored heat value we get 13.4 days, just nice to sustain heat during lunar dark period.
Of course the more interesting question will be what is the source of heat that maintains constant temperature of 240K below 0.3m. I have a good guess but it is probably not important for our discussion at this moment.
“Maximum temperate 355K and base temperature 240K, or 115K temperature difference. ”
Moon rotates and the maximum temperature point changes, so the next moment the previous maximum temperature point’s inner layer will be hotter than the outer skin layer’s temperature.
Thus stored energy flow will change direction from in to out. Eventually, long before dark the surface will be cold again.
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
“Moon rotates and the maximum temperature point changes, so the next moment the previous maximum temperature point’s inner layer will be hotter than the outer skin layer’s temperature.
Thus stored energy flow will change direction from in to out. Eventually, long before dark the surface will be cold again.”
That can explain why my value is 5 times larger than necessary (more than 60 days instead of 13.5 days of the lunat night). Still enough heat was stored.
In any case, what is your take for the reason why it is constant 240K from below 0 3m of the surface?
“why it is constant 240K from below 0 3m of the surface?”
I think the diurnal temperature fluctuations do not go deeper. Also I am sure the numbers change with latitude.
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
Isakov Dmitry wrote: How long it will take to loose all the heat during night, 10*10^6/1.7= 5.8 million seconds = 67 days. Most probably I oversimplified, but even if we take 1/5 of the stored heat value we get 13.4 days, just nice to sustain heat during lunar dark period.
Nice fudge factor with the 1/5th.
If your hypothesis is correct, why isn’t the temperature of the nightside regolith continually declining, from when it first leaves sunlight to when it next enters sunlight?
Instead the temperature is constant on the nightside. Your hypothesis of heat capacity does not explain that.
“Nice fudge factor with the 1/5th.”
You are very dishonest debater. You asked for calculations. To have a precise estimate you need to solve differential equations couples with non-linear boundary conditions. Obviously I use crude simplifications to make my assessments but I provided very clear assumptions and even expressed how I calculate.
1/5 factor is an admission that I was oversimplifying particularly for the heat storage phase on the hot side, as I used constant temperature difference. It is not constant for sure, but my estimate shows that I can use 5 times smaller value and it will still be enough to explain how thermal mass of the regolith prevents “night” side not to cool down much below 100K.
I have also shown that your assumption on thermal conduction from hot side to cold side is unphysical and total garbage (if you want to be so personal).
“If your hypothesis is correct, why isn’t the temperature of the nightside regolith continually declining, from when it first leaves sunlight to when it next enters sunlight?”
Are you blind? I gave you order of magnitude estimate that explains how heat accumulated in thermal mass during sunlight is slowly released from depth to the surface. Don’t pretend to be stupid.
“Instead the temperature is constant on the nightside. Your hypothesis of heat capacity does not explain that.”
It does and I was even surprised on how well it does it. It is not constant it is slowly decreasing because radiative loss is still faster than conduction of heat stored in regolith within 0.15m depth.
The bigger question is what ensures 240K at depths below 0.3m. This cannot be explained by heat storage during lunar day. But there are good explanations in cosmology for such subsurface heats.
Isakov Dmitry wrote:
I tried reply on the calculation of heat on the moon. But comments disappear. already 2 times. Frustrating. Will try again later.
I sympathize, and often find the same. Now I copy every reply before I hit “Post Comment.”
Australia is set to a announce a net zero target. It’s politically pragmatic. Most Australians are behind it – even if there are some details to be worked through. And even if there are some contrarian curmudgeons with crude and eccentric climate theories left looking discombobulated
‘As the government prepares for the COP26 United Nations climate talks in Glasgow in November, the survey showed 41 per cent of voters wanted the government to reach net zero before 2050 and 32 per cent believed net zero should be reached by 2050. By contrast, 12 per cent believe 2050 is too fast and 15 per cent believe no goal should be set.’ https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australia-s-biggest-climate-poll-shows-support-for-action-in-every-seat-20210829-p58mwb.html
I expect that the how will look very much like the 2030 target. Some of it in the land sector. Precision agriculture to apply nitrogen where it is needed and avoid nitrous oxide emissions. Methane digesters at feedlots. Animal dietary supplements to improve feed conversion efficiency and reduce methanogenesis. Changes in grazing and cropping management.
The global land area is 13 billion hectares. There are about 8 billion hectares of forest, woodland and mountains and ice. 5 billion hectares is agricultural. Cropping is some 28% of agricultural land, orchards 3% and grazing 69%. Cropping and orchards provides staples and nutrients – as well as culinary diversity. Grazing animals convert otherwise unusable resources on marginal lands into important sources of protein. Australia has about 400 million hectares of agricultural land. We can sequester all of our emissions for the foreseeable future. Farmers all over the world are pioneering a 21st century agriculture that restores carbon to soils – and Australian farmers at least are not lagging behind. One key process in Australian conditions – across landscapes – is to get fire regimes right. I’d suggest insisting that bushfires in 2020 were AGW and claiming huge improvements in management.
https://watertechbyrie.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/emissionsreduction01.jpg
There are opportunities still with CFC’s and Ozone. Along with those from increased efficiency. As well as with new technology. I’m technology agnostic – why not 10-15% wind and solar balanced with existing hydro, biogas and geothermal. Perhaps even a little battery storage to stabilise grid frequency. But running an industrial economy on wind and solar with tangible range anxiety seems a bit whimsical. Factory built fast neutron reactors offer the opportunity to provide electricity, process heat and enable liquid fuel and fertiliser manufacture. They await practical commercial deployment. A decade or so will transform the energy landscape.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/fast-neutron-reactors.aspx
Within two days, cold air over the Rocky Mountains will reach as far as Texas.
https://i.ibb.co/LzjXpJm/gfs-pvort-320-K-NA-f072.png
https://i.ibb.co/wrkmP85/gfs-hgt-trop-NA-f072.png
Willard, Appell, and Joshua are pushing policies that will produce social unrest. Where are your ethics?
Blackstone Inc. co-founder Stephen Schwarzman said the world is facing energy shortages so severe they could cause social unrest.
“We’re going to end up with a real shortage of energy,” he said at a conference in Saudi Arabia. “And when you have a shortage it’s just going to cost more and it’s probably going to cost a lot more. And when that happens you’re going to get very unhappy people around the world, in the emerging markets in particular.”
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/energy-squeeze-will-trigger-unrest-says-blackstones-schwarzman
Indeed. Not only that, but they push for a non-solution to a non-problem given that wind/solar don’t generate sufficient energy to power the machinery needed to reproduce themselves.
For example, the Caterpillar 797F dump truck is powered by a 4,000 horsepower turbocharged diesel engine. At full power it will require 2.98 megawatts of energy. Assume the truck runs at 50 per cent of maximum power for an eight-hour shift. It would consume around 12 megawatt-hours of electricity. It would need 120 of Tesla’s latest automotive batteries to power it. The batteries would weigh 64 tonnes. So, if I understand things correctly, and frankly, I may not, to charge those batteries would require a single 1.5 MW wind turbine operating at full capacity for 8 hours. However, given that wind turbines have a capacity factor of between 30-35%, that would mean 3 turbines – except that, you could have 100 turbines and not power anything if the wind is not blowing, something the UK and the EU are now beginning to understand. Anyway, that is for a single dump truck at a single mine and does not include all the other heavy machinery operating at a mine – hydraulic shovels, graders, front end loaders, bull dozers, etc. Then you must process the raw materials, transport, fabricate, prepare the site, transport to the site, assemble, test, maintain, decommission and ultimately dispose. And notice that the machinery used to bury decommissioned turbine blades is not is not solar or wind powered.
https://i2.wp.com/dawgonnit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/020821_1619_THENOTSOCLE1.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1
Barnes, because the Caterpillar 797F dump truck can’t yet run on sustainable fuel doesn’t mean we shouldn’t and can’t electrify almost the entire transportation sector.
Because wind and solar can’t yet supply 100% of power needed doesn’t mean they shouldn’t supply as much as possible.
We have to stop emitting carbon, or climate change will keep getting worse. Yes, it’s a big, wicked problem. But many smart people are willing to work on the solutions, instead of whining about dump trucks.
> the Caterpillar 797F dump truck is powered by a 4,000 horsepower turbocharged diesel engine
You should have a word with Jefforino, Barnes.
He wants to take your Caterpillar because it kills people.
For DA and Willard, read up a bit on the material supply chain required for batteries and materials in general for weather dependent unreliables. We are pi$$ing away $ on non-solutions to a non-problem. Had we invested as much for nuclear as we have for wind and solar, we would be much further along to your goal of replacing fossil fuels. Neither wind or solar can provide for the 2 fundamental requirements of an electric grid – that is provide base load power that provides for our basic requirements, and dispatchable energy for when our demand exceeds baseload. Wind does not always blow and the sun does not always shine, and you can’t command the wind to blow or the sun to shine to meet excess demand.
Some reading for you:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/15/weakest-link-to-ev-growth-is-the-material-supply-chain/
https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/mines-minerals-green-energy-reality-checkMM.pdf
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/01/27/bright-green-impossibilities/
I won’t read Tony’s or Willis’ crap unless I’m paid to do so, Barnes.
You might like:
https://www.danfoss.com/en/service-and-support/case-stories/dps/danfoss-electrifying-excavators/
Hydrogen is also a thing:
https://www.trucknews.com/transportation/hydrogen-heavyweights-join-forces-to-develop-standard-fueling-equipment/1003154016/
And propane:
https://www.conexpoconagg.com/news/the-death-of-diesel-alternative-fuels-for-construc
Raising concerns is good. Trying to solve them is better.
jim2 commented:Willard, Appell, and Joshua are pushing policies that will produce social unrest. Where are your ethics?
Oh knock it off. No one is promoting an energy shortage, we’re promoting an energy transition. You know that.
The social unrest will come from climate change, deaths (already), sea level rise, expenses, climate refugees.
Jim, I noticed you ignored my reply to your claim that “Problems due to global warming are like fusion power – always 50 years out.” How come?
https://judithcurry.com/2021/10/06/ipcc-ar6-breaking-the-hegemony-of-global-climate-models/#comment-962394
Appell – energy shortages are already occurring due to the policies you promote. These problems are much more directly related to your favored policies than “climate change” weather extremes are related to CO2 emissions.
Slide 8 …
The recent IPCC report also identified an increase in the frequency and intensity of heavy rain events. The IPCC looked at the period since 1950 in assessing trends in extreme events. However, looking only at the record since 1950 can lead to weather amnesia.
New Jersey is facing the prospect of increased flooding. New Jersey is rightfully concerned about impacts from hurricanes. But these impacts are not necessarily worsening as a result of global warming. The worst hurricane to strike New Jersey in the historical record occurred in 1821 – a category 4 hurricane with a 13 foot storm surge.
Hurricane Ida recently caused 7 inches of rain in New Jersey over 2 days. How does this compare with the historical record? Central Park in New York City has a data record that goes back to the 1860’s. The highest daily rainfall accumulation occurred during 1883, over 8 inches.
Looking at the historical data of extreme weather events helps us avoid weather amnesia. Further, it reminds us that even worse extreme weather events have occurred in the historical record, and that elimination of fossil fuel emissions isn’t going to prevent extreme weather events.
Jim2, last winter’s energy shortage in Texas wasn’t due to renewable energy, it was due to bad policies, a bad grid, and power company greed. It was a huge blackout, greatly affected many people. People died.
Blackouts are a problem to be solved. We have to stop emitting carbon or climate change will only get worse.
Jim2, those are just anecdotes.
An increase in extreme rainfall events is a scientifically proven hypothesis linked to anthropogenic climate change:
“Global warming already driving increases in rainfall extremes: Precipitation extremes are affecting even arid parts of the world, study shows,” Nature 3/7/16
http://www.nature.com/news/global-warming-already-driving-increases-in-rainfall-extremes-1.19508
“Increased record-breaking precipitation events under global warming,” J Lehmann et al, Clim. Change 132, 501–515 (2015).
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-015-1434-y
Evidence for more extreme downpours:
Papalexiou, S. M., & Montanari, A.(2019). Global and regional increase of precipitation extremes under global warming. Water Resources Research, 55,4901–4914. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024067
It doesn’t matter if there was a worse hurricane in the distant past. It matters if there are worse storms now and in the future, more extreme rainfall events now and in the future, more and worse droughts now and in the future, etc.
We’re living now, not them. Our children and their children will live in the future, not 1821, and will have to face the significant problems of climate change.
David Appell | October 26, 2021 at 1:46 pm |
“Jim2, last winter’s energy shortage in Texas wasn’t due to renewable energy, it was due to bad policies, a bad grid, and power company greed. It was a huge blackout, greatly affected many people. People died.”
Unbeknownst to Appell – The Wind produced less than 10% of capacity from Feb 12th through Feb 19th – Across the whole north american continent!
That is 9 days for wind and solar not the 48 hours for natural gas
Unbeknownst to Appel – The MRO and SPP grid also came close to collapsing – though not nearly as close as ERCOT since the wind/solar penetration was only in the 10-15% range instead of the 25% penetration.
Unbeknownst to green zealots – wind and solar is not the solution
It doesn’t matter … in the … past.
Interesting…
You are making the valid case that theoretically reducing global temperature won’t prevent the kinds of events that occurred when global temperature was lower.
The reason that reducing global temperature won’t reduce the kinds of events that occurred when global temperature was lower is that these events were the function of dynamic variability, which is not a function of global temperature.
David – you don’t even have anecdotes to back up your claim that CO2 emissions have exacerbated weather extremes now, much less in the future. You don’t have anything that any reasonable, rational person would consider proof.
Europe is a good example of what the elimination of fossil fuels will do! They are having an energy crisis!
“Increased record-breaking precipitation events under global warming,” J Lehmann et al, Clim. Change 132, 501–515 (2015).
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-015-1434-y
The second sentence From the article Appell cites
“There is now medium confidence that human-induced greenhouse gases have contributed to changes in heavy precipitation events at the global scale. ”
Definition of Medium confidence by the IPCC
“Medium confidence means around a 50 per cent chance of being correct.”
Appell – do you realize that the study admits that it has only a 50% chance of being correct !
jim2 wrote: David – you don’t even have anecdotes to back up your claim that CO2 emissions have exacerbated weather extremes now
I cited three papers for you. I’ll keep going.
“Here we show that, worldwide, the number of local record-breaking monthly temperature extremes is now on average five times larger than expected in a climate with no long-term warming.”
– Coumou, D., A. Robinson and S. Rahmstorf, 2013: Global increase in record-breaking monthly-mean temperatures. Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-012-0668-1.
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“Extreme Precipitation Events are on the Rise,” Climate Central, 5/6/14.
http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/maps/extreme-precipitation-events-are-on-the-rise
Turbulent Eddie wrote:
The reason that reducing global temperature won’t reduce the kinds of events that occurred when global temperature was lower is that these events were the function of dynamic variability, which is not a function of global temperature.
What does that mean?
Turbulent Eddie commented:
You are making the valid case that theoretically reducing global temperature won’t prevent the kinds of events that occurred when global temperature was lower.
Of course such events will still occur if the temperature goes back to baseline. That’s obvious.
David, yep, those pay-walled articles prove a lot, I’m sure.
jim2 commented:David, yep, those pay-walled articles prove a lot, I’m sure.
Not my problem.
Go to your library.
Search the web for a PDF.
Try Sci-Hub.
Write to the authors and ask for a copy.
At least read the abstracts.
So the third link is available. They only used data from a warming period. They should have selected periods of no warming or cooling for comparison. It’s exemplary of the sloppy work coming from some quarters of climate science.
Third link of what? Explain yourself.
jim2 commented:
Europe is a good example of what the elimination of fossil fuels will do! They are having an energy crisis!
And this is all due to renewable energy, huh?
It’s not due to the sharp increase in the price of natural gas (up 78% in the US market in 12 months) or oil (Brent crude up 101%)? Or the massive problems in the supply chain?
Come on.
If people can’t afford to heat their homes, their government should give them sufficient financial aid, of course.
jim2 commented:
Europe is a good example of what the elimination of fossil fuels will do! They are having an energy crisis!
It’s not due to the sharp increase in the price of natural gas (up 78% in the US market in 12 months) or oil (Brent crude up 101%)? Or the massive problems in the supply chain?
Come on.
jim2 commented:
So the third link is available. They only used data from a warming period. They should have selected periods of no warming or cooling for comparison. It’s exemplary of the sloppy work coming from some quarters of climate science.
Sure Dr. Scientist Jim2. How do you assess their methodology, which they explain in section 2.3, Assessment of Trends?
The local DA likes to peddle tyranny by numbers using scripted peer review. Want to know why these papers on growth in precipitation start around 1950, or later, measuring increasing precipitation?
This chart shows the growth of precipitation throughout the 20th century:
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-precipitation
If CO2 leads heat, and heat leads evaporation, then why didn’t heat during early warm periods during the 20th century lead to more evaporation, and subsequent precipitation? Or is increasing numbers of reservoirs, and irrigation perhaps the causation?
EPA: On average, total annual precipitation has increased over land areas in the United States and worldwide (see Figures 1 and 2). Since 1901, global precipitation has increased at an average rate of 0.10 inches per decade, while precipitation in the contiguous 48 states has increased at a rate of 0.20 inches per decade.
First you explain why they didn’t do the same analysis for global temperature flat and down periods. It’s possible heavy rains have been increasing irregardless of the temp trend. Nice dodge though.
Still not allowed to post a comment with actual content.
Why not Judith?
Why are you censoring me?
I think I know why my substantive comments are being censored…..
Same reason all deniers do.
jim2 commented:
First you explain why they didn’t do the same analysis for global temperature flat and down periods.
No, I don’t have to explain anything.
You have to explain why their methodology didn’t prove their claim. It’s explained very well in their methodology section. Have at it.
jungletrunks commented:If CO2 leads heat, and heat leads evaporation, then why didn’t heat during early warm periods during the 20th century lead to more evaporation, and subsequent precipitation?
How many times do you have to be told that CO2 isn’t the only factor that affects climate, and this was especially true in the early 20th century when CO2 was low, solar irradiance was changing, and skies were clearing of volcanic dust?
Another reply to Jim2 doesn’t appear.
Why Judith Curry?
jungletrunks wrote:
If CO2 leads heat, and heat leads evaporation, then why didn’t heat during early warm periods during the 20th century lead to more evaporation, and subsequent precipitation?
What says it didn’t?
OF COURSE emitted CO2 leads heat. There’s absolutely not doubt about that whatsoever, an infant child can see it. Claiming anything else, I’m sorry, truly idiotic.
jungletrunks wrote:
If CO2 leads heat, and heat leads evaporation, then why didn’t heat during early warm periods during the 20th century lead to more evaporation, and subsequent precipitation?
What says it didn’t?
OF COURSE emitted CO2 leads heat. There’s absolutely not doubt about that whatsoever, an infant child can see it. Claiming anything else, I’m sorry, is truly id.io.ti.c.
Funny, you can’t use the word “id.io.ti.c” on this site.
WordPress is for child.ren.
With early parole from postal incarceration the local DA should be all smiles, yet his petty misdemeanor logic ensues. Better call Saul to hone up on charm skills, DA; also consider looking into an apprenticeship with one who has true skill in your trade. I’m not sure if your parole officer would approve, but ambulance chasing chops can only go so far.
“How many times do you have to be told that CO2 isn’t the only factor that affects climate, and this was especially true in the early 20th century when CO2 was low, solar irradiance was changing, and skies were clearing of volcanic dust?”
We all know water vapor is a GHG, DA, no need for the shake down here. To your point; there were, as we all know, hot periods in the early 20th century. But my point is that it doesn’t matter that CO2 atmospheric content was lower then; your simplistic argument is that with the rise of CO2, and resultant heat, that this led to more evaporation. But implicitly your argument is that without CO2 there can’t be more evaporation even if there’s more heat, but even if there was more heat, without CO2 there can’t be more evaporation? Regardless, it’s your logic. I accept your onion version of idiot BTW.
How Europe’s energy crisis threatens to push up bills
In the European Union, around 6.9% of people, or around 30 million people, said in a 2019 Eurostat survey that they could not afford to heat their home sufficiently.
But many experts say that number could increase as natural gas prices surge to all-time highs in Europe, increasing by more than 500% since last year.
“The increase of energy prices is also coinciding with an increase in energy consumption, mainly because of COVID. A lot of people were at home more often. And for this reason, they use more energy,” said Lidija Živčič, who coordinates the EmpowerMed energy poverty programme from Slovenia.
She added that people who lost work due to the COVID-19 crisis could also be impacted by the price surge.
“Energy poverty is no longer just an issue for four or five people with low incomes,” says Mari Carmen Gómez. “Even someone who has a job and earns a half-decent salary is finding it very difficult to make ends meet.”
https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/26/europe-s-energy-crisis-why-it-s-not-just-spain-s-poor-fearing-a-rise-in-electricity-bills
Jim2, so this post says the energy crisis is due to the surge in natural gas prices, not a transition from fossil fuels, as you implied elsewhere.
Odd that a real comment isn’t allowed here.
Can’t post a meaningful comment here.
Dumb site is a waste of time.
yet again,
not allowed to post the simplest reply to jim2’s comment.
Why Judith?
Why don’t you care?
Why are you censoring science speech?
https://twitter.com/davidappell/status/1453202820677595140
David Appell
“If your hypothesis is correct, why isn’t the temperature of the nightside regolith continually declining, from when it first leaves sunlight to when it next enters sunlight?
Instead the temperature is constant on the nightside. Your hypothesis of heat capacity does not explain that.”
Actually the temperature of the night side regolith is continually declining, from when it first leaves sunlight to when it next enters sunlight.
The temperature is constant 240K from below 0.3m of the surface on the lunar equator.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4447774/bin/40064_2014_Article_1586_Fig5_HTML.jpg
I think the diurnal temperature fluctuations do not go deeper. Also I am sure the numbers change with latitude.
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
The night side of the Moon does cool from dusk to dawn, from about 125K to 95K at the equator.
The standard method calculates the equivalent black-body temperature for Earth, by imagining that the solar irradiance is spread evenly over the whole sphere. Which gives a black-body temperature of 278.6K, and minus 30% albedo is 254.83K. An additional 33K of proposed greenhouse effect raises that to 287.83K, or 14.68°C
For the Moon with 11% albedo the figure is 270.6K, which is 73.3K higher than the real global mean surface temperature of the Moon, at 197.3K. So what’s gone wrong?
Calculating the Lunar surface temperature for the sunlit side only, (divide by two and not by four) and averaging that with the mean temperature of the dark side, gives a far more sensible value.
394*0.5^0.25 = 331.31K
minus 11% albedo
331.31*0.89^0.25 = 321.8
and averaged with a dark side mean temperature of 90K (guess, it could be less)
(321.8+90)/2 = 205.9K
Note that the Lunar dark side temperature is dependent on the regolith heat capacity, which if higher would raise the dark side temperature but make little difference to maximum temperatures on the sunlit side.
Earth’s sunlit side (at any given time), is cooler than the sunlit surface of the Moon, mainly due to clouds and water vapour, but Earth’s global mean surface temperature is far higher than on the Moon, primarily because of the oceans keeping its dark side so warm.
The standard model removes the night cycle, and falsely attributes all of the influence of heat capacity on mean global surface temperature to the atmospheric greenhouse effect, and treats heat capacity merely as zero sum thermal dampening.
Earth’s black-body temperature for the sunlit side only, after 30% albedo, 6% Rayleigh scattering, and 16% solar near infrared absorption by water vapour, is 12.5°C. As opposed to 48.65°C for the mean BB temperature of the Lunar sunlit side.
There are additional losses on Earth from non-radiative surface cooling, and gains from poleward heat transport, and from longwave back radiation.
Christos Vournas |wrote:
Actually the temperature of the night side regolith is continually declining, from when it first leaves sunlight to when it next enters sunlight.
Slightly, yes. But in my blog post my interest was in the radiative physics, i.e. the nightside.
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2012/04/norfolk-constabulary-made-wrong-charges.html
The animation below shows the rate at which the surface temperature of the Northeast Pacific is dropping as a result of the blocked circulation over the Bering Strait.
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/data/5km/v3.1/current/animation/gif/ssta_animation_30day_large.gif
Due to the increase in solar activity (in the solar southern hemisphere), a further decline in the Niño 3.4 index can be expected.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/nino34.png
The Aleutian low is confined to the north by a divergent anti-cyclone off the Californian coast where we may see cooling in the PDO pattern.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/equirectangular=-159.87,-0.01,204/loc=-131.793,29.339
The Antarctic Oscillation is moderately positive driving less flow in the Peruvian Current and more through the Strait of Magellan. But at this stage sea surface temperature in the Nino 3.4 region is the result of Ekman transport and oceanic upwelling. Seen in the wriggly bits of blue in the central Pacific.
Just more internal variability that has nothing to do with external forcing.
I like to keep Ren on his toes. But this from David just goes to show we need more and better censorship.
No, this is not a temporary situation, but a blockage of circulation in the lower stratosphere that will soon cause temperature to drop in many southern US states.
https://i.ibb.co/v1Fc5Tv/gfs-t100-nh-f00.png
Although the polar moves with the Arctic front in more meridonal – which is what I presume you mean by blocking – or zonal patterns – the mass atmospheric movement at the polar front is what delivers frigid conditions to surface dwellers.
https://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/jetstream-2.jpg
The relevant index is the Arctic Oscillation and this is hugely variable. The AO is currently moderately positive meaning less blocking.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao.obs.gif
This circulation pattern is not valid in winter. Satellites observe something different.
“As mentioned above, the stratospheric and the tropospheric circulation are connected with each other through wave mean flow interactions. The Eliassen-Palm (E-P) flux (Eliassen and Palm 1961) is widely used to characterize the wave activity. The direction of the E-P flux is proportional to the group velocity and indicates the direction of the propagation of the waves. Approximately, the vertical and horizontal components of the E-P flux are proportional to the eddy heat and momentum flux, respectively. The divergence of E-P flux is proportional to the northward flux of quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity, so that it is a direct measure of the total forcing of the zonal mean flow by eddies. Therefore, the E-P flux and its divergence are important and useful to diagnose planetary waves propagation as well as the effective mean zonal force induced by the waves. Some figures on this web page display E-P fluxes under different forms, such as meridional cross sections and time series, for monitoring the stratospheric circulation.”
http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/clisys/STRAT/gif/zuep_nh.gif
You are in the wrong. Blocking at 500 hPa is now visible over northeastern Canada.
https://i.ibb.co/DQ7fycX/500gz-anomalies-nh.png
It is meridional patterns in the polar front that deliver frigid conditions to surface dwellers.
There is a constant turnover of atmospheric water content at a cycling rate of about 9 days. Hydrologist Dimitris Koutsoyiannis finds no evidence of intensification against background decadal variability. As he suggests – there is likely a small change in a large energy dynamic.
‘According to Fig. 14, the total evaporation on Earth (precisely equal to the total precipitation according to Eq. 14) is 522 700 km3/yr and corresponds to 5.227×1017 kg/yr of water flux. For the average temperature of Earth equal to 14.46 ◦C (Table 2), the latent heat of evaporation (calculated from Koutsoyiannis, 2012; Eq. 40) is 2.467 × 106
J/kg. Thus, the total energy involved in the hydrological cycle is 1.290 × 1024 J/yr or 1290 ZJ/yr. This corresponds to 4.086×1016 W, which, if reduced to the Earth’s area (5.101× 1014 m2), results in an energy flux density of 80 W m−2 that is precisely equal to the value given by Trenberth et al. (2009). This is about half the global solar energy absorbed by the Earth (161 W m−2, according to Trenberth et
al., 2009). Compared to the human energy production, which in the past decade was about 170 000 TWh/yr or 0.612 ZJ/yr (corresponding to the year 2014; Mamassis et al., 2020), the total energy involved in the water cycle is 2100 times higher.
Put differently, the total human energy production in 1 year equals the energy consumed (or released) by the hydrological cycle in about 4 h.’ https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/24/3899/2020/hess-24-3899-2020.pdf
I might add that at the surface there is a balance of radiant and latent heat that depends on surface water availability. The radiant heat is lost in nanoseconds. Latent heat is carried slowly up in water vapor until reaching a height where it condenses.
“constant turnover” does not mean a discrete cycle.
Regardless of your water guy, the increase in atmospheric water vapor is well known and well documented.
The entire 25mm of water vapour in the atmosphere turns over about every 9 days. The increase related to temperature in the past 40 years might be 0.5mm.
https://watertechbyrie.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/water-vapor-and-cloud-e1570480850178.png
This is another of David’s inanities showing that there should be more censorship.
this is really annoying. Why comments are not going through
Comments usually don’t appear for me either. Judith agrees to WordPress’s censoring of keywords, which is incredibly broad, or censors on IDs.
Which is it, Judith?
Of course she won’t respond.
Am about ready to leave this site because of such games.
Ok. Then I will just have to simplify my response to your comments.
You are wrong ;))))
Unfortunately arguments defending this statement are not allowed, so you will have to just trust me ;)))
And yes, I agree with you. Time to leave this site
Chief –
I owe you an apology. Remember when you said the following?:
And in response I told you that no, the CDC data are not unreliable but that there was a lag in the recording of deaths and in the end the number would be much higher than 18?
Remember how you reacted to that? How you got insulting? How you called me “nuts?” How you told me that newspaper articles describing the reasons for the lag were “yellow journalism”?
And do you remember how on October 19 I told you the number had been updated to 126, and that in fact the number you called “definitive” was off by 700%
So I owe you an apology. The number you said was definitive was NOT off by 700% after all.
No, that number has been updated. The number is now 141. So actually you’re getting on towards being off by 800%. The lag may have now been closed – with the karat number being updated AFTER 3 WEEKS. So your error may not reach the level of 800%. But sometimes the lag in recoding deaths in Florida has taken as long as over a month so it’s hard to say just yet.
I’ve almost given up on you having a sense of integrity and accountability so as to acknowledge your error and to acknowledge I was correct. It seems that you simply don’t have the psychological makeup to be able to do so. You know, that whole grandiosity thingy and all. But it’s never to late and I will always hold out a bit of hope no matter how unlikely it might seem that you’ll step up to the plate.
Josher is very weird. I said that one uses the available data and does not create 1000’s of deaths for partisan political purposes. Florida cases and deaths continue to decline. The latest count is 106 deaths in the week to 21 October.
http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_archive/covid19-data/covid19_data_latest.pdf
I said he was nuts for repeating this BS endlessly at many inopportune instances. That’s obviously still correct. Where’s a quality control censor when called for?
Please beware your wishes, Chief.
Josh –
Instead of being a jerk
can you give us a link to the CDC data that shows you are correct and everyone else is wrong.
the data you are citing conflicts with the data from both the florida department of health , and John Hopkins and 91-divoc
chief gave you a link that shows Florida deaths are no where close to what you say the CDC is showing
Hi Joe, thousands of New York City municipal employees marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in protest of vax mandates.
At Joe Biden’s request, the city is set to fire 50,000 city employees Friday.
This is why Capt. Queeg is obsessing about Florida. He assumes Florida’s governor will challenge Biden in 2024. His hopes of using Covid to generate hatred of Republicans is fading. They’re aren’t in the streets shouting “let’s go Brandon” in Brooklyn out of anger at DeSantis. Queeg needs squirrels and strawberries STAT.
By the way, twice as many cases in the last 7-days in New York as there are in Florida. It’s not due to the high prevalence of testing either- California is testing at the same rate as New York and has less than half the number of cases as New York. Fall is here and authoritarianism isn’t stopping the spread of Delta in New York.
Joe –
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths|new_death|select
You have to select the parameters.
Chief continuously cites the data for the current date, to deliberately (and transparently) obscure the effed of the lag.
On Oct 4 he stated that the 7-day moving verge for number of deaths in Florida for Oct 3 was “18,” and that number was “definitive.”
I told him that number would go up. By a lot. Because of the lag. He said I was nuts. He mocked the very idea that it would take weeks for that lag to close.
It’s now up to 141, up from the 126 that was listed on Oct 19 (for Oct 3).
Joe –
This is why Jeff is lying. Here is what he said on Sept 22:
I explained to Jeff at that time how he was wrong. His error was also becicause he failed to grasp the simple concept of the lag.
So, Jeff said there were more deaths in the week prior to Sept 22 in NY than in Florida.
Let’s see how that worked out, shall we?
Now that the lag is effectively closed, according to the CDC, the number of deaths in Florida for that week was in the area of 1,624. The number of deaths in NY (city and state) was about 252.
Is 262 larger than 1,624, as Jeff said?
And Joe –
> the data you are citing conflicts with the data from both the florida department of health , and John Hopkins
That’s simply not true. Have you descended to the point where all you have left is lying also?
The data I am citing is from the CDC, and broadly consistent with ANY of the other reliable sources, including the Florida DOH.
Look for one statement I mads which isn’t and kcixd a quote.
You can’t becauas there aren’t any.
Once again:
I said the following.
> “One again, per the CDC, the number is 61 for Oct. 13. And it will go up. ”
That number was for one day. I said that number for one day will go up, because of the lag..
A number for one day isn‘t a trend.
That doesn’t mean to suggest that the trend is increasing.
You watch. That number of 61 will, in fact, go up – even as the trend continues to decrease (as it has been doing, significantly, since the beginning of September). I have stated repeatedly that the trend is significantly down, because it clearly is.
You see, Joe, that number for that one day can go up because of the lag even as the overall trend is going down.
Can you really not understand that, or are you just pretending to be that dense for some odd reason?
That doesn’t mean that your numbers weren’t totally wrong, and that you and your pals repeatedly show the inability to understand something as simple as the lag in the reporting of data in Florida.
And Joe –
I said the following (with reference to the 7-dag moving average in Florida):
> Per the CDC it’s now up to 61. It will go higher.
The 7-day moving average for Oct 13 is now up to 76.
Yeah, exactly as I said it went higher.
That doesn’t mean that the trend at time was increasing (in fact it was decreasing).
Do you understand now?
Queeg says the CDC are “liars” and nobody should look at death stats.
CDC says Covid is spreading twice as fast in New York as Florida right now. Queeg says the CDC are liars and we shouldn’t look at cases, we should look at deaths, but only in September.
Queeg says Ron DeSantis is “anti-vax” and everyone outside of Florida loves mandates, but the New York Times says Brooklyn has mass protests against mandates.
Queeg needs squirrels because “let’s go Brandon” is trending.
The ‘lag’ is all?
https://watertechbyrie.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/compare-state-trends-13.png
Joe –
Jeff and chief are proven liars. I have provided the quotes.
Part of their lying it so say people said things but never oeicde any quotes.
This is the crew you want to join?
Joster is an irredeemable radical spin doctor indulging in endlessly repeated lies and insults. Apart from being pointless it is obsessive to the point of being disruptive and disturbing.
Chief –
> irredeemable radical spin doctor
I quoted you.
Unfortunately, your fragile ego simply won’t allow you to acknowledge that you made an error.
The context was declining delta variant cases and deaths in Florida – and that continues to be the case. Contrasted with wild stories about how bad it was because it is a red state.
Joster is an irredeemable pest.
I know you are but what am I.
hahha. So I’m only aloud to complain about the comment dynamics on this blog and nothing else. ;))))))
Ok. David, If I cannot provide arguments to defend my position I will just have to have a short comments to our previous exchanges.
You are wrong ;))))
I’ve had it with this site.
Too many of my comments don’t show up. Something censors them. Judith Curry abets this censoring.
Ironic, given her conservative political stance.
This has become a waste of time and I’m done with it.
sent you email instead. To continue discussion;)
don’t bother
Come on David !
Don’t leave us.
Some of my comments don’t show up.
That can be frustrating,
unless you lower
your expectations.
I save a copy of my comment and
if it doesn’t show up in a day,
I try again.
I have a theory that the Moderator
deletes every twentieth comment
just to show us who is boss.
I have a another theory that the Moderator
is a heavy drinker, and sometimes hits the
wrong key, sending the comment
to another planet.
Besides, who are we going to pick on
if you leave?
Goodbye David,
I suppose this means that I’m never going to get the apology I’ve been patiently waiting for?
https://judithcurry.com/2021/10/06/ipcc-ar6-breaking-the-hegemony-of-global-climate-models/#comment-962135
Jim Hunt wrote:
Goodbye David,
I suppose this means that I’m never going to get the apology I’ve been patiently waiting for?
Yes, it does.
Afternoon David (UTC),
That being the case, congratulations on your entry into the GWC 2021 “New Einstein” competition:
https://GreatWhiteCon.info/2021/09/the-great-white-con-2021-new-einstein-award/#David
David, don’t be paranoid.
The filtering is automatic.
I too noticed comments go into the void.
But haven’t you noticed the changes in WordPress?
You can no longer post images.
That’s not because of aesthetics or politics, but because of security.
The same thing applies to special characters in links.
Hackers use nasty tricks which use images and characters to attack sites.
Try making one of your dropped posts, but exclude all links and see what happens.
I don’t believe you are being censored anymore than I have been.
DA, the court suggests you consider a federal habeas corpus brief to review the legality of your postal incarceration.
David. –
It’s not “censorship.”
Leave the shallow arguments for the “skeptics.”
The website imusws a fikger in comments. That’s not censorship.
Sometimes Judith deleted comments she doesn’t like. I happen to think her moderation is sometimes selective. But that’s here right. It’s her blog.
It’s not “censorship.”
“Too many of my comments don’t show up.”
Too many of your comments do show up – over 100 just at this post.
Off topic, “models do work”, not very well, see
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/27/is-california-experiencing-more-weather-whiplash/
I have had comments here that do not show up. However, I am systematically blocked at sites like Real Climate, And Then There’s Physics, etc.
Believe me, it’s easy to spot the difference.
> I am systematically blocked
He’s luckwarmingly welcome too comment, whereas here’s what S Y S T E M A T I C A L L Y looks like:
But censorship!
“Problems exist. Problems can be solved.
That’s what humans do.”
Mr. Apple
My short list of problems not solved:
Solar power at night
Wind power with wind under 6mph
Getting permits for a new nuclear power plant
(A cure for) The common cold, influenza or COVID
Crime
Poverty
Terrorism
Politicians lying
Hysterical climate alarmists predicting a coming climate
crisis for 64 years in a row, so far, while sensible people
try to enjoy the excellent current climate.
Lots of problems can’t be solved.
When leftists are in charge, they often get worse!
For a couple of years now, the value of this site has been debased by individuals who turn it into conversations of their own making. That is not showing courtesy to a host who deserves it.
Can you people who have repeatedly shown this poor performance please give it a rest for a while.
FWIW, nothing that these serial offenders has offered has added to my prior knowledge. Meaning, you know a hell of a lot less than you think you do. Geoff S
It’s hard to know less than Sherrington.
Congratulations.
Sanity is in short supply as well.
The upcoming winter in the Northern Hemisphere could be surprising in many regions. It begins with a pronounced braking of the polar vortex in the upper stratosphere. These anomalies will move into the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere over time.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_UGRD_ANOM_OND_NH_2021.png
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_WAVE1_MEAN_OND_NH_2021.png
U.S. meteorologists should keep a close eye on the circulation over the Bering Sea, which is clearly decelerating.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&prod=alaska×pan=24hrs&anim=html5
From a recent email sent to me. We have zealots from both sides who spend their time repeating word for word the same points endlessly.
But there are solutions that maximise human development and economic growth and conserves and restores natural environments. Surely that’s the common goal.
‘I’ve been following the climate issue on the blogs since about 2006. Judith Curry is my single most trusted source, but I must say I appreciate your persistent comments on her blog.
The two things I appreciate most are:
1. Your focus on abrupt climate change as the most serious concern.
2. Your focus on soil carbon capture, including your advocacy of Rattan Lal’s work.
In a world in which the issue has become highly politicized, with nonsense from both “alarmists” and “skeptics,” sane voices are rare. Insofar as a focus on real solutions is desirable, the fact that almost no one is focused on the issues above is frustrating.
I just followed you on Twitter, but it doesn’t look as if you are very active there.
Is there a place to follow you other than as a commenter on Judith’s blog?’
Chief –
Stop lying
I owe you an apology. Remember when you said the following?:
And in response I told you that no, the CDC data are not unreliable but that there was a lag in the recording of deaths and in the end the number would be much higher than 18?
Remember how you reacted to that? How you got insulting? How you called me “nuts?” How you told me that newspaper articles describing the reasons for the lag were “yellow journalism”?
And do you remember how on October 19 I told you the number had been updated to 126, and that in fact the number you called “definitive” was off by 700%
So I owe you an apology. The number you said was definitive was NOT off by 700% after all.
No, that number has been updated. The number is now 141. So actually you’re getting on towards being off by 800%. The lag may have now been closed – with the karat number being updated AFTER 3 WEEKS. So your error may not reach the level of 800%. But sometimes the lag in recoding deaths in Florida has taken as long as over a month so it’s hard to say just yet.
I’ve almost given up on you having a sense of integrity and accountability so as to acknowledge your error and to acknowledge I was correct. It seems that you simply don’t have the psychological makeup to be able to do so. You know, that whole grandiosity thingy and all. But it’s never to late and I will always hold out a bit of hope no matter how unlikely it might seem that you’ll step up to the plate.
Tawdry, salacious and a lot mad.
Ok. Let me see if I’m out of the ban list. As I will not communicate to any particular commenter, hopefully can avoid censorship ;)
First, let establish some facts. Total water vapour content in the atmosphere is 1.6*10^16kg. The seasonal variation is in the range of 1.5*10^15 kg. Link to the source for this numbers was provided earlier, so I will not repeat it here.
Now, hourly heat input from the Sun is 4.3*10^20J. The equivalent amount of generated water vapour from absorbing 100% of hourly Sun heat input is 4.3*10^20J / 2000kJ/kg = 2.1*10^14 kg (2000kJ/kg is latent heat of vaporization at 1atm). So just 1% of water vapour cycling is sufficient to absorb all energy input from the Sun. And this is the primary mechanism for thermal balancing Earth’s climate, no matter what IPCC and multitude of “consensus science” gurus are trying to claim here.
In order to affect climate or cause the climate change in other words. It is sufficient to disrupt a fraction of this water vapour cycling. Now, do we have evidence for such disruption. From IPCC average temperature graphs for the last 100 years we know that something drastic started happening from 1970s-1980s.
Here are the measurements from NOAA https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/timeseries/timeseries1.pl
Choose specific humidity to get values in g/kg. I chose latitude from 60 to -60 and Longitude from 0 to 359. For easier observation I chose seasonal average from Jan to Dec. And then asked them to plot data from 1000 mbar (surface) and from 300 mbar (around 9 km altitude).
So for 1000 mbar you will see that water content at the surface increased from 10.5 g/kg to nearly 11 g/kg from 1970 to 2020. Exactly when IPCC shows warming at the surface. 4.5% change!!! For some reason IPCC and gurus makes a wrong and totally unsubstantiated conclusion that Global warming causes moisture increase. There is no objective reason why it should not be the opposite way round.
So we have 4.5% change and remember we were talking about a fraction of 1% to be critical for the total climate. But this is the value at the surface. Most of these water molecules do not have enough kinetic energy to reach the troposphere and then release heat as radiation to the universe.
This will be the role of water molecules with large kinetic energy. Let’s see what is happening there. Plot the graph for 300mbar. you will see that at the same period of time from 1970 to 2020 the water content at those altitudes decreased from 0.28g/kg to 0.25 g/kg. First notice that only 0.28/11=2.5% of moisture from the surface reaches the top of the atmosphere. As such it needs to reach 12-15km to really be at the top of the troposphere, so it will indeed be a fraction of 1%.
Second, we see that at 9 km we have an 11% decrease for that period of time. That means that the planet cannot release enough energy through radiation and all that excess heat goes into heating up the oceans – the primary heat storage observed in this period of time.
What can cause a disbalance in a water cycle? I suggest that it is oil lubricants and equivalents that are dumped to the ocean and stay on the surface due to lower density. The effect on evaporation of such oil layer, each of you can check by yourself at home. Take same size dishes and fill them with same amount of water. Then in one of the dishes add oil, so that a thin layer covers most of the surface. And then leave these dishes at location which has low wind speed and no direct sunlight to avoid bias. What you will see is that water in the dish without oil will evaporate much-much faster. Same, but on global scale is happening on Earth. Just plot shipping volumes over the years and you will see that that graph matches the temperature graph much better than CO2 concentration.
This explanation is straight forward and does not require unphysical treatment of radiative heat transfer in the atmosphere that is pushed by “consensus science”.
The good thing is that oil contamination on the surface is not that hard to deal with. Not easy but definitely much cheaper than $130 Trillion that are now demanded for renewables that are supposedly fighting with CO2. Again, this is my opinion and analysis. It is up to you to accept it or just brush away. I will not respond any longer to the “consensus shills” that contaminated the comments on this blog.
Or do we know something about wind speed? Does it by any chance drop during periods of meridional jetstream?
Doesn’t the strong drop in self humidity at 300 hPa since 2000 coincide with a drop in solar activity?
https://i.ibb.co/yB8h4Dw/climindex-217-96-140-193-299-9-51-28.png
https://i.ibb.co/rfqy7Cv/international-sunspot-nu.png
Sorry.
“specific humidity”
The plot of specific humidity over the equator (5N-5S) at 300 hPa compared to the 60N-60S plot indicates the influence of wind.
https://i.ibb.co/BgS2q0B/climindex-217-96-140-193-299-11-8-22.png
The plot of specific humidity on 300 hPa across the Northern Hemisphere clearly shows the influence of solar activity.
https://i.ibb.co/Vq43fp2/climindex-217-96-140-193-299-12-4-48.png
“Or do we know something about wind speed? Does it by any chance drop during periods of meridional jetstream?
Doesn’t the strong drop in self humidity at 300 hPa since 2000 coincide with a drop in solar activity?”
There are many influencing factors. Atmosphere is a complex dynamic system. And my crude estimates cannot are not covering all aspects. However, my point is that based on orders of magnitude small changes in evaporation patterns (fraction of 1% of total water vapour in the atmosphere) can have enormous effect on heat entrapment at the surface. Much bigger effect (based on order of magnitude) that GHG effect. Particularly if evaporation from ocean surface is suppressed it will lead to heat build up in the ocean. Nanometric layer of oil is enough to suppress evaporation by >10 times (anyone can check it at home). Yes, ocean is not a flat surface, but evaporation suppression will still be there. Heat build up in the ocean also coincides with sea freight exponential increase from 1960s and correlation of this increase to average heat build up is much better than between same heat build up and CO2 content in the atmosphere. Hence, I’m suggesting that this mechanism of heat entrapment is wrongly overlooked. IPCC makes a silly mistake in estimating latent heat transfer when they average.
The good news is that cleaning surface layer of the ocean from oil contamination, although not simple but definitely much cheaper than $130 Trillion. And the effect of such clean up on climate stabilization will be much faster.
About half of absorbed solar radiation is converted to latent heat at the surface. Water vapour rises in the atmosphere until the temperature of the parcel equilibrates with surrounding air through a transfer of kinetic energy and it condenses. Energy is ultimately converted to electromagnetic energy and radiated out.
https://judithcurry.com/2021/10/22/challenges-of-the-clean-energy-transition/#comment-962662
It is all extremely odd ideas from Isakov but then I must be a consensus shill.
“It is all extremely odd ideas from Isakov but then I must be a consensus shill.”
The fact that you are a consensus shill we established quite a while ago ;))) But I’m gad that you decided to finally use your knowledge in hydrology instead of just blindly following IPCC. You provide good reference paper but somehow interpret it totally different from me.
For example, you say “Hydrologist Dimitris Koutsoyiannis finds no evidence of intensification against background decadal variability. As he suggests – there is likely a small change in a large energy dynamic.”
But you ignore the significance that Koutsoyiannis puts into lack of intensification. He provides very detailed rebuttal of IPCC assumptions on page 3907: “It has been a common assumption, based on the Clausius–
Clapeyron relationship, that the global atmospheric water vapour should increase by about 6 %–7 % ◦C−1 of warming (e.g. Wuebbles et al., 2017). In turn, this assumption is based on the conjecture that, on the planetary scale, relative humidity will remain roughly constant, and hence, specific humidity is projected to increase in a warming climate (IPCC,2013, p. 91)…Under the assumption that U is constant (dU = 0), irrespective of the increase in temperature, it is seen that for T = T0 = 273.16 K, dq/q = 7.3 % dT , while for T = 25 ◦C = 298.15 K, dq/q = 6 % dT , which is in agreement with IPCC…..HOWEVER, despite the conjecture dU = 0 being widely accepted, the real-world data DO NOT CONFIRM IT. As we have already seen in Fig. 3, in the tropical area, which is most significant as a source of atmospheric moisture, the dew point (and hence e) remains virtually CONSTANT DESPITE the fact that the TEMPERATURE (and hence e(T )) INCREASES. Clearly, this means that the relative humidity U has decreased with the increase in temperature”
Don’t you see it?
And also later on page 3909: “This suggests that, contrary to the IPCC (2013) expectation, the global atmospheric water vapour over land is increasing by only about 2 % ◦C −1 of global warming. In this case, we
may expect a 4 % increase in atmospheric water in the celebrated (yet contradictory) target of 2 ◦C of global warming.”
Why do you think the increase in temperature is not leading to increase in water content in atmosphere? HINT, something prevents evaporation even through the temperature increased. Also notice, moisture content is not driven by temperature, but lack of evaporation can drive temerpature instread.
“About half of absorbed solar radiation is converted to latent heat at the surface. Water vapour rises in the atmosphere until the temperature of the parcel equilibrates with surrounding air through a transfer of kinetic energy and it condenses. Energy is ultimately converted to electromagnetic energy and radiated out”
Surprisingly you are not contradicting me as much as you think. You admit that large portion of Sun light is absorbed through latent heat and rises to the higher levels of the atmosphere. Hence, this heat is not participating in GHG radiant transfer from the surface. The only difference is how much of latent heat is taking part in it to which level does it rise. And also how much disruption to the the water cycle is enough to cause all the changes in the climate that we are observing now.
You are nearly there. I believe in you, Robert. snap out of the cult.
Water vapor content of the atmosphere is increasing.
https://images.remss.com/figures/climate/vapor_global60.png
You should write about what you know. We haven’t seen that yet.
Robert, I was meaning to thank you for the Demetris Koutsoyiannis paper you posted upthread, it was insightful. His research aligns with the EPA chart of precipitation since the beginning of the 20th century which demonstrates inconsistencies of precipitation during differing periods of higher temperatures.
Having said this, however, it’s not consistent with your newest presentation here.
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Concluding remarks (last paragraphs):
This social behaviour of targeting research to deal with recent disasters, which however lose societal focus after some time, has been also known as the “hydro-illogical cycle”, a term attributed to Vit Klemes (Kundzewicz et al., 1993) but perhaps used earlier by others (Anderson et al., 1977).
As a result of the intensification of disaster reporting, people think that rainfall events have become more intense or frequent recently. However, based on a list of world record point precipitation measurements compiled by Koutsoyiannis and Papalexiou (2017) for various timescales ranging from 1 min to 2 years, the fact is that the highest frequency of record rainfall events occurred in the period 1960–1980; later the frequency was decreased remarkably.
A more detailed analysis can be based on the four sources of daily rainfall information analysed here. This analysis has been performed separately for each continent, and its results are presented graphically. Figure B1 shows the temporal evolution of the monthly maximum daily precipitation areally averaged over the continents. Figure B2 shows similar information but for the areal maximum, over each continent, monthly maximum daily precipitation. None of the figures in none of the continents and none of the sources of data provides support on the intensification allegation. In particular, the observational data (CPC and GPCP) could support the opposite hypothesis, namely that of extreme rainfall deinten- sification. This becomes even more evident if we examine the temporal evolution of the standard deviation of daily precip- itation in each month averaged over the land. In this respect, Fig. B3 shows that deintensification, expressed as decreasing standard deviation, is evident in the 21st century both from CPC and GPCP observational data. This confirms an earlier result by Sun et al. (2012) who, using global, land- based (2.5◦ ×2.5◦) observations in seven monthly databases, “Unexpectedly […] found a reduction in global land [pre- cipitation] variance” and concluded that “on average, the dry became wetter while wet became drier”. A similar result is shown in a different manner in Fig. B4 in terms of the pre- cipitation rate exceeding a threshold. Clearly, neither the frequency of high precipitation nor the sum of high-intensity precipitation is intensifying. Rather, in most of the cases, there has been deintensification in the 21st century. Again, however, it will be more prudent to speak about fluctuations rather than deintensification. This confirms that station- ary models (but with appropriate dependence structure; see Sect. 6.3) should also be used for extremes, as also pointed out by De Luca et al. (2020).
Even if, on a climatic basis, there was intensification at percentages like 1 % or 5 % mentioned above, casting catastrophic prophesies about the future, would be a misleading approach. The real data on the impacts of disasters of cli- matic type suggest a spectacular drop in the severest of them since the beginning of the 20th century. Figure B5 summarizes relevant information for victims of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, still have large numbers of victims. Obviously, the reason behind such diminishing is not that floods and droughts have become less severe or less frequent. Rather it is the fact that in the 20th century, instead of casting pessimistic prophesies about the future, societies im- proved hydrotechnology, water management and risk assessment and reduction, while strengthening international collaborations and the economy, so that the advances could be actually implemented.
Isakov: NONE OF THIS is observations, it’s all just theoretical calculations.
You don’t know what observations and measurements are.
I give up.
Conveniently, David exits just when the EU case shows the folly of eliminating fossil fuels. There is enough wind and solar installed now that the problems predicted by w&s skeptics are now coming to fruition. Realty bites, right Dave?
jim2 wrote:
Conveniently, David exits just when the EU case shows the folly of eliminating fossil fuels.
LOL. In another comment here your news article said it was all due to the surge in the price of natural gas, up 500%.
Nothing to do with renewables.
Lynn Allen, a laid-off pipeline worker, took President Joe Biden and his administration to task Tuesday morning, accusing the president and his allies of sabotaging America’s energy independence.
Biden raised many eyebrows in the early days of his administration after he stopped federal oil and gas leases and canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline.
On the first day of Biden’s presidency, he signed an executive order suspending work on the pipeline, ripping jobs away from more than 11,000 Americans.
What are the details?
During an interview on “Fox & Friends First,” Allen said that the nation’s gas prices and fuel charges are quickly skyrocketing out of control.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/laid-off-pipeline-worker-biden-gas-prices
Beijing Biden didn’t stop with punitive measures against U.S. energy independence; he went further by waiving sanctions on the company overseeing the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany. These were sanctions that Trump imposed on Russia (you know, Trump, the canceled guy once accused of being in bed with Russia). Beijing Biden forgot; or perhaps Chairman Xi reminded Biden of something with China and Russia being all kissy faced these days.
You should have a word with Jefforino, Jim.
He seems to be suggesting we should take down your XL pipeline because it kills people.
The prices we pay for energy is a signal they can’t bury. You can call their prices facts. Facts haven’t interested them with wind and solar. Climate change hurts the poor the most they say. They end up hurting the poor the most.
We are from the government. We are here to help!
You were saying:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#/media/File:20201019_Levelized_Cost_of_Energy_(LCOE,_Lazard)_-_renewable_energy.svg
R?
Please bear in mind that if you favor diesel Jefforino might compare you to a mass murderer.
Willard:
Given the plot you linked to, something doesn’t make sense. Prices go up with more wind and solar. XCEL is proposing a 20% increase over 3 years for electricity in MN. They will take down our Sherco coal plant.
The most important thing we have found it the ability to dispatch power. Electricity is a service, with people expecting it less than 1 second after they flip a switch. Power that may or may not be there is discounted. Your plot I am almost certain is not adjusted for the needed, found in reality, discount that come along with non-dispatchable, non-baseload power. We’ve been over this a lot. This situation will not change in the next 30 years. If you can’t dispatch or do baseload, you suck. You can’t make it unsuck with words or laws.
Very well said, Ragnaar.
Your squirrel is duly noted, R.
You mentioned prices of renewables.
You lost.
It’s just a flesh wound.
Ragnaar,
All our problems will soon be solved:
https://physicsworld.com/a/fusion-industry-predicts-electricity-generation-by-the-2030s/
I bet it will be too cheap to meter. (Free) Power to the people!
Side note, my solar system (01/16/2012) has generated 94.3 Mwh so far. Part of my reasoning for building the system would be the fixed cost of my electricity for the next 20+ years. I thought I would at least break even but with the rising price of grid electricity (inflation+regulations) my actual cost per Kwh has dropped slightly.
Check out this smart electrical panel. https://www.span.io/
All the other big players in the industry are starting offering similar systems. Any house can be a microgrid, just add solar and a battery. Should work really well with a V2G enabled car or truck too.
Willard:
I am trying. I pointed to something else in reply to your LCOE plot. In any case or in this case or that case, the accountant’s job is to provide infomation that is useful to management. The LCOE plot is less than useful. It’s like comparing pig iron to aluminum. Few people are choosing to only have electricity half the time. But if they did, here’s the comparison. The LCOE plot is a squirrel that went down a rabbit hole.
Speaking of squirrels, why to they reverse their direction of movement when crossing a street? I think it’s how they defeat pursuing predators.
jacksmith4tx:
The question could be how would home solar best be integrated? I suggest in exchange for hooking into the grid the homeowner provide batteries with one days storage. Because that is what is really needed. Not more random generation. These batteries, the cost of being a big boy, would belong to the utility. And they’d have to be replaced by the homeowner every 10 years. I ask you, would my plan make the grid better or worse? The grid has a job of providing electricity. Not keeping solar panel sellers in the black. According to the hippies, it is to serve the people, not those that can afford to run their personal solar farm. If find it in no way suprising the ones that least need help with their electrical bills end up by some accounts, better off.
Afternoon Ragnaar (UTC),
“I suggest in exchange for hooking into the grid the homeowner provide batteries with one days storage.”
At the risk of repeating myself, how about a V2x enabled electric vehicle with several days storage instead?
> I have pointed something else
Indeed Ragnaar, you switched from price to capacity. Except for true optimists like MarkJ or Amory, very few dispute that we need more than renewables to make it through. At least for a while.
If you look at Jack’s promising newsie, you’ll read at the end:
That seems to puts you in a bind. Either you try to save the world, or you stick to your libertarian principles. Which horn would you pick?
The solution to the current energy crisis in the EU, caused by government intervention via the push for wind and solar, is to get the government out of the picture and de-regulate the energy market. This will ensure a reliable supply of electricity and other energy sources.
We in the US will experience the same bad outcome if we continue to add wind and solar farms.
You are almost suggesting that we should stop subsidizing fossil fuel companies, jim. Now that you say it clearly. Here’s what we can all gain from your commitment:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X16304867
What are you waiting for?
What a bogus article Willard. Subsidies? More like lefty fantasies. Subsidies are when you give people money. Not when you dream up non-existent BS.
Subsidies indeed, Jim:
https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies
The IMF ain’t no hippie, so you can let go of that throat clearing.
I would say if these “subsidies” are defined by the IMF, it’s just global BS. You are attempting the “appeal to authority” argument. It is known to be fallacious.
> I would say
You sure say lots of stuff, Jim. You see renewables and cry “but government!” You see fossil fuels and you wonder: “but what is a subsidy, really?”
Let’s see if asking the question with “But China” would help you get the point:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032114003293
And no, you don’t get to “say” what words mean, as language is a social art.
Negative externalities associated with fossil fuels do exist, but they are overshadowed by the positive externalities. Of course, you won’t even recognize the positive externalities because you can’t think outside the “green box.” Positive externalities include the benefits to the poor of a robust and bountiful economy based on cheap reliable energy. They get the benefits via government handouts and other support from the community made possible due to overflowing goods and services.
“Willard | October 27, 2021 at 6:57 pm |
You were saying:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#/media/File:20201019_Levelized_Cost_of_Energy_(LCOE,_Lazard)_-_renewable_energy.svg”
Willard – if LCOE is a valid measurement of costs – then why are total costs are near directly proportionable to the amount of renewable penetration in the grid?
The concept of positive externality might deserve due diligence, Jim. For starters, what would you say to an imaginary commenter (whom we will call Jefforino*) that would accuse you of killing millions of people by exploiting the positive externalities of diesel?
Nevertheless, “But Growth” is not the same square as “But Government” or “But Renewables.” You might wish to connect them all in an argument instead of trying to rope-a-dope from one to the next. For now we’re onto the consequences of your minarchist tendencies.
One immediate consequence is to accept that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. If you want to cut incentives for renewables because of BIG GOVERNMENT, the same applies to fossil fuels. And that is easier said than done:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuels_lobby
I suppose you could say that this also counts as a positive externality, but that’d be a stretch.
Willard just gave us links to three of the high quality professional studies detailing the subsidies given for fossil fuels. These two studies exemplify the high professional standards and rigor that pervades throughout climate science. Great examples –
Joe,
You just discovered the Inhofe Cheeseburger:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2015/02/inhofe-disproves-poverty.html
Congratulations!
The part that Willy left out when quoting from his link:
“Although the economic benefits per unit of subsidies for renewable energy are lower than those for fossil fuels….”
Why would that be? Well, the world is getting a very good look at the cost of subsidies for renewables that Willy’s experts don’t include- the very high cost and impact on economies when you have to scramble to buy actual energy on the spot market because the pretend energy doesn’t work.
Windmills are the biggest subsidy to fossil fuel producers governments have ever provided- they guarantee high use of fossil fuels at inflated spot prices. Only coal, oil and gas producers could come up with a scheme to switch Europe from nuclear power to oil and gas and convince them to restart coal plants to cover the rest of the gap. The fact that they sold that plan as a way to reduce CO2 emissions is one of the greatest cons ever pulled.
The price for a share of Exxon stock has doubled since election day 2020 when Joe Biden won. Joetato just might be the best oil and gas profit subsidizer since Angela Merkel, though to be fair- he’s subsidizing Saudi Arabia and Wall Street and she’s subsidizing the Russian military.
climate activist are target rich environments for getting punked by the LCOE studies and the fossil fuel subsidy studies
Ragnaar,
I agree storage is key. I use my Volt battery to backup my home’s critical loads but I still have to do it manually by throwing the main breaker, switching on my DC-to-AC inverter and connect it to my house.. One time back in 2018 I actually ran my house off my car’s 10Kwh for almost 36 hours. I’m ready to buy a 120-140 KWH battery as soon as the price falls to $20-$40 per KWH and I will happily disconnect from the grid,
Has anyone recently actually calculated the actual all-in energy cost to produce a solar panel? I have seen estimates from 2 to 4 years but that was when the average panels were just 14%-16% efficient. All the new panels now are about 20%-23% more efficient so I would think the cost per watt has dropped.
https://solvoltaics.com/energy-make-solar-panel/
(all sources were government agencies)
After taking a stand against our murderous diesel, Jefforino now applauds subsidies. The tides are turning. After all these years, our troglodytes are realizing that they are living in a society!
There is hope at last.
Nevermind that it comes after Jefforino forgot to read “the revenue gap can be narrowed by shifting more subsidies from fossil fuels to renewables.” If he’s against emitting toxic fuels and for subsidies, he should not mind helping renewables, wouldn’t he?
We wish him the best of luck in his new hippie role. May he resist punching himself, are more importantly not look at XOM’s five-year chart!
Willard:
“…you switched from price to capacity.”
Thank you for your reply.
The LCOE is not a price. It’s a projection. An average. A guess. Someone’s homework.
A price happens. People sell real estate. With that I can point to a price. I can argue a price is higher for baseload and dispatchable than it is for intermittent and unreliable.
Something close to a price is the instant price of electricity on the grid. People selling their generation right now. And utilities buying it. Government has inserted itself into that in many cases. Weakening the argument that that is a price.
Capacity is related to price. Hoover Dam can provide lots of power for months at a time and ramp it down in a reasonable time. The craf5y Norwegians can do the same. Natural gas peakers also have a similar ability. When I have to pay people so that we can have a reliable grid, those people need to be paid more. Because of their capacity and load following ability. If not, I am an idiot and the grid withers away like Marx said.
It is a system. And could be a well functioning one. Which all things being equal we prefer. It is system where price talks to capacity. And vice versa.
But unfortunately, the idiots in government drown those two out so they can’t hear each other, or puts them in jail for crimes against the state when they insist they need to talk to each other. Then afterwards it comes along and dumps money on the problems it created.
I think markets are always the answer. But we don’t need the libertarian discussion at this juncture.
“Nevermind that it comes after Jefforino forgot to read “the revenue gap can be narrowed by shifting more subsidies from fossil fuels to renewables.”
I read it. It doesn’t make any sense and I demonstrated that it is the warm who are subsidizing fossil fuels right now.
The warm define a “subsidy” to renewables as “we will hand a big check to renewables producers”.
They define “subsidy” of fossil fuels as “we will take a slightly smaller check from fossil fuels producers.”
Even with that, it makes more economic sense today to take less money from fossil fuels than it does to give away more money to renewables.
Why? Because the world just learned that giving money to renewables results in having to buy fossil fuels at a higher price because they are the only things the warm will allow you to use to make electricity.
Write this down- the purpose of “subsidies” is to reduce costs that consumers pay for energy.
Subsidize renewables, and consumers pay more, fossil fuels are inadvertently subsidized by the government (they sell more and sell it at a higher price), and more CO2 is emitted.
Subsidize nuclear and consumers pay less, fossil fuels are less profitable, and less CO2 is emitted.
You will not convince anyone to use electric cars, stoves and heat if you make electricity more expensive, less reliable and dirtier.
Nuclear means electric cars and houses with clean energy and is “subsidized” using the definition “we will take a slightly smaller check from nuclear.”
Throw money at renewables and you are throwing money at Putin, Xi and the House of Saud and are burning oil and coal.
“the revenue gap can be narrowed by shifting more subsidies from fossil fuels to renewables.”
The government can be less in debt by favoring A less and B more. This will distort the markets less in one place and more in another place.
Less government debt is good like less credit card debt is good. In this case we’ve had government debt for the past 50 years. And we are about to get reformed a little bit by finding a scapegoat and a prince. The prince is an all around good guy. A little down on his luck. And a little bit of a working man if you will for people with real money. But nevertheless, this is government money we’re talking about and since we can spend trillions fighting pointless wars in the Middle East, I don’t think they’re going to hang us for this one. We used to go to the Middle East to stop some mad man from burning down oil wells. Now we stop pipelines in our backyards. So those nut jobs in the Middle East were just ahead of the curve.
One the subject of fossil fuel subsidies, comparisons to renewables fall under the category of people who can’t do quantities. How much corn can a grain bin store in pounds? I don’t know. But I do know I can put corn into a shoe box. So a shoe box is just as big a grain bin. That’s the complaint against fossil fuel subsidies summarized. Or, one can drown in a lake. I can put water into a shot glass. So I could drown in a shot glass. I have looked at what are called fossil fuel subsidies. They’re mostly made up smoke. When people are talking about this, there’s a high chance they’re saying B.S.
You are elevating arguing from ignorance to a high art, R.
However artful is your Chauncey Gardner act, once you say A you must say B. What goes for fossil fuels subsidies goes for any other kind. I could pull you from your position and help you concede that finance is double accounting all the way down, but it’s really not worth it.
Jefforino can’t read a stock graph. I’d say he can’t read an abstract, but who knows if he ever read any. If continues like that, his budding career as a hippie will be a short one. Just like he helped me close “But Nuclear”, in this one will help be on “But Renewables.”
At least both of you are good at silly talking points.
Later.
“What goes for fossil fuels subsidies goes for any other kind.”
Deal.
We have agreement.
Identical “subsidies.”
No more direct payments to wind/solar or guaranteed profits, just a reduction in the theoretical high tax rates you could charge if you didn’t care about people, or energy, and didn’t live in a democracy where people can vote you out.
Now, how do we end that massive subsidy you’re providing to Gazprom Willard?
> No more direct payments
I see what you did here, Jefforino.
Who do you think you’re fooling?
jim2 wrote:
Negative externalities associated with fossil fuels do exist, but they are overshadowed by the positive externalities.
So then you won’t mind charging FF companies for negative externalities, right?
Seems you’d rather pay for them yourself.
jim2 wrote:
During an interview on “Fox & Friends First,” Allen said that the nation’s gas prices and fuel charges are quickly skyrocketing out of control.
So nothing to do with wind and solar, huh?
1. Earth’s Without-Atmosphere Mean Surface Temperature calculation
Tmean.earth
So = 1.361 W/m² (So is the Solar constant)
S (W/m²) is the planet’s solar flux. For Earth S = So
Earth’s albedo: aearth = 0,306
Earth is a smooth rocky planet, Earth’s surface solar irradiation accepting factor Φearth = 0,47
(Accepted by a Smooth Hemisphere with radius r sunlight is S*Φ*π*r²(1-a), where Φ = 0,47)
β = 150 days*gr*oC/rotation*cal – is a Rotating Planet Surface Solar Irradiation Absorbing-Emitting Universal Law constant
N = 1 rotation /per day, is Earth’s axial spin
cp.earth = 1 cal/gr*oC, it is because Earth has a vast ocean. Generally speaking almost the whole Earth’s surface is wet. We can call Earth a Planet Ocean.
σ = 5,67*10⁻⁸ W/m²K⁴, the Stefan-Boltzmann constant
Earth’s Without-Atmosphere Mean Surface Temperature Equation Tmean.earth is:
Tmean.earth= [ Φ (1-a) So (β*N*cp)¹∕ ⁴ /4σ ]¹∕ ⁴
Tmean.earth = 287,74 Κ
The planet mean surface temperature equation
produces remarkable results.
The calculated planets temperatures are almost identical with the measured by satellites.
Planet………..Te……..Te.correct…..Tmean….Tsat.mean
Mercury….439,6 K…….364 K………325,83 K…..340 K
Earth………255 K………210 K……..287,74 K…..288 K
Moon……..270,4 Κ…….224 K……..223,35 Κ…..220 Κ
Mars……..209,91 …..….174 K…….213,21 K…..210 K
The 288 K – 255 K = 33 oC difference does not exist in the real world.
There is NO +33°C greenhouse enhancement on the Earth’s mean surface temperature.
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
Enough has been said on this. Repeating nonsense endlessly doesn’t make it less so.
Robert I. Ellison wrote:
Enough has been said on this. Repeating nonsense endlessly doesn’t make it less so.
Agreed. I receive comments by email. I’m filtering Christos into trash — along with a few others, who always insult, who already go there.
David Appell
“Agreed. I receive comments by email. I’m filtering Christos into trash — along with a few others, who always insult, who already go there.”
I did the same with yours. But recently, something happened to you, a change for the better in your insights, so I am reading all your comments again. I am interested to know, what is that changes you for the better…
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
RIE, “Repeating nonsense endlessly doesn’t make it less so.”
Since you admit this with disapproval, why do you continue to do it yourself?
For example, if you were learned in the science and management of soil science and plant nutrition, you would cease your mentions of soil carbon and Rattan Lal. The full story is much more comples and much less favourable than you are trying to show. This would be apparent to those here who have actual experience in the topic. One test of the viabity of a proposal is a study of its acceptance in real life. Farmers have been very reluctant to do what you suggest as a saving for mankind. Geoff S
Complete nonsense based on ideological recalcitrance. Sherrington was an industry lobbyist with a chemistry degree from the middle ages. He has no experience in land management.
Rattan Lal – winner of the 2020 World Food Prize – is a world renowned soil scientist. These are ideas embraced by the world with a passion that bilious buffoons can’t imagine. Our aim is life and life more abundant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDiUdNF5H5w
And a few Australian cases just for GS.
https://soilsforlife.org.au/case-studies/
Sherrington’s first graduate employment was with CSIRO and the successful, widespread introduction of new grasses and legumes for Australian tropical pastures including the legume dubbed “Townsville stylo”. This project was led by Les Edye who was awarded the CSIRO medal for its excellence.
That does not match “no experience in land management”, does it? Apology? Geoff S
And what exactly did this graduate employment 60 years ago entail?
> Apology?
Lol. Yeah. Like that’s gong to happen. Too funny.
Net zero cannot be met by wind and solar. No one but dreary ideologues expect that to work. But there is a real solution one the race is on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFFS_P3EnMk
Mind you there remain the 25% of emissions from agriculture and forestry. For that you need more cows not fewer.
“Mind you there remain the 25% of emissions from agriculture and forestry. For that you need more cows not fewer.”
Enough has been said on this. Repeating nonsense endlessly doesn’t make it less so.
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
I have never posted that video before. And I am equally sure Christos has never seen it.
Robert, we discuss Climate here, not the sustainable agriculture methods.
CO2 is a trace gas in Earth’s very thin atmosphere.
There is nothing to remove there…
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
Christos’ Quixotic windmills aside…
https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2016-05/global_emissions_sector_2015.png
https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2016-05/global_emissions_gas_2015.png
> we discuss Climate here, not the sustainable agriculture methods.
There’s no dichotomy, Christos:
https://unfccc.int/topics/land-use/the-big-picture/introduction-to-land-use
Also, please note that the title is Challenges of the Clean Energy Transition, not Let Me Repeat Over and Over Again My Pet Ways to Fudge a Mere Sanity Check Calculation Because I am a Dragon Crank.
Before anything else admit there is not +33C GHE on Earth’s surface…
https//www.cristos-vournas.com
Thank you for your comment, Christos.
You still haven’t dodged that wrench:
https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2021/04/25/mind-your-units/#comment-190784
And you are peddling something off topic.
Again, my direct replies are not working or not going through. So I will try here.
Robert, the hydrologist, has shown market improvement. He provided a good reference paper but somehow not able to notice what is written in the text.
For example, Robert says: “Hydrologist Dimitris Koutsoyiannis finds no evidence of intensification against background decadal variability. As he suggests – there is likely a small change in a large energy dynamic.”
But he ignores the significance that Koutsoyiannis puts into the lack of that intensification. He provides very detailed rebuttal of IPCC assumptions on page 3907: “It has been a common assumption, based on the Clausius–
Clapeyron relationship, that the global atmospheric water vapour should increase by about 6 %–7 % ◦C−1 of warming (e.g. Wuebbles et al., 2017). In turn, this assumption is based on the conjecture that, on the planetary scale, relative humidity will remain roughly constant, and hence, specific humidity is projected to increase in a warming climate (IPCC,2013, p. 91)…Under the assumption that U is constant (dU = 0), irrespective of the increase in temperature, it is seen that for T = T0 = 273.16 K, dq/q = 7.3 % dT , while for T = 25 ◦C = 298.15 K, dq/q = 6 % dT , which is in agreement with IPCC…..HOWEVER, despite the conjecture dU = 0 being widely accepted, the real-world data DO NOT CONFIRM IT. As we have already seen in Fig. 3, in the tropical area, which is most significant as a source of atmospheric moisture, the dew point (and hence e) remains virtually CONSTANT DESPITE the fact that the TEMPERATURE (and hence e(T )) INCREASES. Clearly, this means that the relative humidity U has decreased with the increase in temperature”
Don’t you see it, Robert?
And also later on page 3909: “This suggests that, contrary to the IPCC (2013) expectation, the global atmospheric water vapour over land is increasing by only about 2 % ◦C −1 of global warming. In this case, we
may expect a 4 % increase in atmospheric water in the celebrated (yet contradictory) target of 2 ◦C of global warming.”
Why do you think the increase in temperature is not leading to increase in water content in atmosphere? HINT, something prevents evaporation even through the temperature increased. Also notice, moisture content is not driven by temperature, but lack of evaporation can drive temperature instead.
You are nearly there. I believe in you, Robert. snap out of the cult.
“It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.” — Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1094b.24
The underlying variability for Kousoyiannis is Hurst-Kolmogorov stochastic dynamics. Decadal and longer patterns in ocean and atmospheric fluid dynamics against which large variability small changes are indiscernible. The power flux from the surface is about 80 W/m2 – about half of the incoming radiation. Water vapor over oceans is increasing at some 1.14%/decade – although I always look for Hurst-Kolmogorov step changes in these things rather than trends.
https://images.remss.com/figures/climate/vapor_global60.png
https://www.remss.com/research/climate/
‘In this respect, even if the established climatic hypotheses of an intensifying hydrological cycle, with rates of the order of 1 %, were validated, hydroclimatic concerns would not be justified. In older times such rates of change would not be discussed at all, as the logical framework about precision was already formed in ancient times (see the motto in the beginning of the article). In fact, the established climatic hypotheses on the hydrological cycle are not validated by the data analysed. Relative humidity is decreasing in the entire atmosphere instead of being constant. Specific humidity is increasing at a rate of about one-third of that implied by established hypotheses, which results from comparing two recent periods of the climatic timescale. When integrated over the entire troposphere and viewed in continuous time, the water vapour amount is fluctuating without a monotonic trend, while there are differences even in the sign of local trends for different datasets. Precipitation and evaporation again fluctuate. The precipitation extremes and their frequencies also fluctuate (Appendix B). Fluctuations are successions of intensification and deintensification, with deintensification prevailing in the 21st century.’ https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/24/3899/2020/hess-24-3899-2020.pdf
Why, Robert? Why?
You were doing so well. You even tapped into your inner hydrologist and referenced a great paper from another hydrologist. But you somehow managed to miss the core message of the paper. What is this selective blindness? Why do you sacrifice scientific integrity to political agenda?
The is no ambiguity in what paper says: “”Under the assumption that U is constant (dU = 0), irrespective of the increase in temperature, it is seen that for T = T0 = 273.16 K, dq/q = 7.3 % dT , while for T = 25 ◦C = 298.15 K, dq/q = 6 % dT , which is in agreement with IPCC…..HOWEVER, despite the conjecture dU = 0 being widely accepted, the real-world data DO NOT CONFIRM IT. As we have already seen in Fig. 3, in the tropical area, which is most significant as a source of atmospheric moisture, the dew point (and hence e) remains virtually CONSTANT DESPITE the fact that the TEMPERATURE (and hence e(T )) INCREASES. Clearly, this means that the relative humidity U has decreased with the increase in temperature”.
It says that IPCC is wrong. Why can’t you read a plain text.
Then, instead of embracing your hydrologist friend, you jump to another source, which talks about increase in water vapour anomaly for total column of the atmosphere.
First of all, let me quote Koutsoyiannis, who said it very well: “In general,
we use actual values of time series, disfavoring the popular notion of “anomalies”, i.e. for differences from a certain mean, which have only a statistical, rather than a physical, meaning while, even in a statistical context, they have several disadvantages (e.g. THEY HIDE BIASES). Thus, whenever possible, data originally given as “anomalies” are converted here
to actual values. As the “anomalies” are usually taken from monthly means, by converting them to actual values we reinstate the seasonality. For this reason, the information given in this study in terms of graphs differs substantially from familiar graphs of the climatic literature. This is a deliberate
choice in an attempt not to hide the variability. All graphs also include running averages on the annual scale, and thus the temporal mean and variability on annual and multi-year scales are also highlighted in the graphs”.
Second, both me and Koutsoyiannis talk about moisture increase, but Koutsoyiannis points that the increase is insufficient (2 times smaller) to satisfy unphysical assumptions by IPCC. Also, if you read my original post and follow instruction, you will see that I indicate moisture increase but most of this increase takes at the surface. Only low kinetic energy water molecules stay at the surface. But actual heat transfer is performed by molecules with high kinetic energy, so that they can reach top of the troposphere. And data from NOAA clearly shows that the absolute moisture content above 9 km decreased from 1970s. And that amount is sufficient to cause climate disbalance and actually cause heating at the surface.
Snap out of it, Robert. You even quote Koutsoyiannis again, and not noticing the key message. IPCC rubbish science predicts 4% increase, while less than 2% is observed.
SOMETHING PREVENTS WATER EVAPORATION and in turn it prevent planet from balancing the energy budget. How hard is it to understand?
Evaporation equals precipitation. A fundamental physical reality. Evaporation is difficult to measure precisely as Koutsoyiannis says in the section on data. Precipitation is more precise but it suggests that there has been no increase in precipitation discernible against natural variability. As precipitation hasn’t intensified – we cannot infer that evaporation has changed. It is physical nonsense. The power flux of latent heat from the surface remains at about 80 W/m2 – some half of absorbed solar radiation.
Data on water vapor in the atmosphere – a separate issue -shows a 1.14%/decade increase.
We can only conclude that Isakov goes well beyond what can reasonably be inferred from the data to confirm a pet but unrelated hypothesis. That Isakov is not in Aristotle’s meaning an educated man.
“That Isakov is not in Aristotle’s meaning an educated man.”
Robert, Robert. You are not capable of reading and analysis your own sources. It is written in plain English there. And some how it is me who is uneducated. Why do you need to be so pathetic?
“Precipitation is more precise but it suggests that there has been no increase in precipitation discernible against natural variability. As precipitation hasn’t intensified – we cannot infer that evaporation has changed”
Both me and Koutsoyiannis are talking about the lack of evaporation that IPCC predicts using their unphysical treatment of Clausius-Clapeyron equation by forcing relative humidity change to be zero. I remember that you made the same crappy mistake in previous discussions. So let me repeat one more time Clausius-Clapeyron equation is determining saturation pressure (maximum possible humidity level) not the absolute humidity in the system. Read Koutsoyiannis carefully. It is not that hard. Both me and him are talking about the LACK of evaporation into the top of the troposphere, precipitation (rain or snow) can only take place if water vapour condenses in the top of the atmosphere. If water vapour condenses at the surface it is not measured by precipitation, it is just dew.
Repeating the same long winded claptrap multiple times adds nothing at all.
Robert, not being able to defend your own argument and failing to understand your own sources, is just showing how hopeless you are.
What is so difficult for you to see in Koutsoyiannis paper? Just read it. It is showing clearly that there is a lack of evaporation, which is counter to IPCC prediction that implies moisture content to be driven by average temperature increase. Now if IPCC is proven to be wrong, it means that the relationship might be opposite. It is the lack of evaporation that is driving energy build up at the surface and thus, increase in temperature.
I can’t be bothered with even reading Isakov’s repetitious nonsense let alone arguing it. What Koutsoyiannis said was that the reanalysis product doesn’t show relative humidity as constant – as the assumption I referred to went – or specific humidity rising as much as the Clausius-Clapeyron equation suggests. One of the real world dynamics has to do with different rates of warming of land and ocean. At the end of the day all that Clausius-Clapeyron suggests is an increase in water vapor in the atmosphere with temperature.
https://climate.metoffice.cloud/humidity.html
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-investigating-climate-changes-humidity-paradox
But if precipitation hasn’t changed neither has evaporation. Hand waving at dew is immaterial – what science requires is data and not sciency sounding word salad.
Hopeless.
Let me quote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which should help to understand Robert’s attitude to reason:
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed- in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous”
Never again will I try to persuade Robert with reasons. It is like talking to a person that thinks that Sun rises in the East every day because the clock shows 6 am.
Pathetic claptrap.
‘It is the lack of evaporation that is driving energy build up at the surface and thus, increase in temperature.’ Isakov
This can’t physically be true. Heat is lost from the surface radiatively or as latent heat – the balance depends on water availability.
e.g. https://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/nt-77.pdf
Heat lost radiatively is a much faster process. But there is no data definitively showing any change in the balance. It is again small changes against a backdrop of large natural variability.
Isakov thinks quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity alleviates his own stupidity and his constant insults, which is in fact nothing but a sign of his own stupidity.
Isakov would rather insult people than address the science.
It’s always easier to insult people than deal with the science.
I’m ignoring Isakov, because he can’t stop insulting people.
He’s just a rude POS who can’t stop insulting people. The h*ll with him.
“Isakov thinks quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity alleviates his own stupidity and his constant insults, which is in fact nothing but a sign of his own stupidity.
Isakov would rather insult people than address the science.
It’s always easier to insult people than deal with the science.
I’m ignoring Isakov, because he can’t stop insulting people.
He’s just a rude POS who can’t stop insulting people. The h*ll with him”
Nice one, David. Very profound. Particularly as complain about insults. ;)
Bonhoeffer was quoted to Robert in response of his quote of Aristotle. It was equivalent exchange between me and him, but if you feel that quote from Bonhoeffer is related to you, I will not object. You qualified well for that description.
Both Robert and you were provided measured data from NOAA, 2 papers from Journal of Climate. Robert Also provided great paper from Koutsoyianni. All give solid evidence for the lack of evaporation in comparison to IPCC predicted models (up to 2 times less).
Data and Observations were given to you, but you, confirming Bonhoeffer description, just not capable to think as an intelligent human.
So GFY. You a re hopeless and not capable of scientific debate
David should note that those who live in glass houses…
This soil carbon store can be renewed by restoring land. Holding back water in sand dams, terraces and swales, replanting, changing grazing management, encouraging perennial vegetation cover, precise applications of chemicals and adoption of other management practices that create positive carbon and nutrient budgets and optimal soil temperature and moisture. Continents are being transformed.
e.g. https://www.excellentdevelopment.com/
Increased agricultural productivity, increased downstream processing and access to markets build local economies and global wealth. Economic growth provides resources for solving problems – conserving and restoring ecosystems, better sanitation and safer water, better health and education, updating the diesel fleet and other productive assets to emit less black carbon and reduce the health and environmental impacts, developing better and cheaper ways of producing electricity, replacing cooking with wood and dung with better ways of preparing food thus avoiding respiratory disease and again reducing black carbon emissions. It is the foundation for balancing the human ecology.
The Aristotle quote was used by Koutsoyiannis to highlight the problem of error in data. Putting unjustified faith in the precision of the data cited is scientifically uneducated.
Here’s a newer comparison of data. I’d discuss the implications with anyone but Isakov.
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2853/2020/essd-12-2853-2020-f01-high-res.pdf
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2853/2020/essd-12-2853-2020.html
“Here’s a newer comparison of data. I’d discuss the implications with anyone but Isakov.”
Whoever is discussion with Robert, please tell him that his new source talks about humidity within 30 m from the surface. It confirms everything that was discussed earlier, data from NOAA and conclusions from Koutsoyiannis. Let me quote Koutsoyiannis so that it is clear what I’m referring to:
”Under the assumption that U is constant (dU = 0), irrespective of the increase in temperature, it is seen that for T = T0 = 273.16 K, dq/q = 7.3 % dT , while for T = 25 ◦C = 298.15 K, dq/q = 6 % dT , which is in agreement with IPCC…..HOWEVER, despite the conjecture dU = 0 being widely accepted, the real-world data DO NOT CONFIRM IT. As we have already seen in Fig. 3, in the tropical area, which is most significant as a source of atmospheric moisture, the dew point (and hence e) remains virtually CONSTANT DESPITE the fact that the TEMPERATURE (and hence e(T )) INCREASES. Clearly, this means that the relative humidity U has decreased with the increase in temperature”
Robert was also reminded several times about the deceptive use of anomalies. Again, let me quote Koutsoyiannis, because it was Robert who referenced him first, somehow thinking that it supported his conclusions, but as usual failing to read the source carefully.
“In general, we use actual values of time series, disfavoring the popular notion of “anomalies”, i.e. for differences from a certain mean, which have only a statistical, rather than a physical, meaning while, even in a statistical context, they have several disadvantages (e.g. THEY HIDE BIASES)”.
It is based on shipboard observations or buoys. Note the surface RH over oceans. None of it supports a decline in evaporation – which in itself is irrelevant to energy dynamics.
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2853/2020/essd-12-2853-2020.html
Robert might wonder about people who live in no houses at all….
Aristotle on limits to the precision of data – and an educated accommodation – was quoted from Koutsoyjannis. Isakov quoted Koutsoyianis on how relative humidity in reanalysis data was declining and specific humidity was not increasing as fast as a simple equation suggests.
Quite apart from being a boneheaded theory of global warming – declining evaporation over oceans is falsified.
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2853/2020/essd-12-2853-2020-f01-high-res.pdf
A recording of the entire NJ energy conference has been posted here
Ironically, the push for green energy will be more disruptive than climate change, which has historically varied anyway.
“The current energy transformation in Europe is probably the greatest geopolitical blunder since World War II, the last time when misguided ideologies plunged millions of people into what can justifiable be called the darkest period of human history,” Schoellhammer said.
Schoelhammer pointed to EU policy affecting international factors surrounding fuel costs.
“More expensive energy will affect the development potential for billions of people around the world, and particularly in Africa. The refusal of Europeans to make cheap energy available will lead to massive migration movements in the future,” he said.
“If people do not have the energy necessary to maximize agricultural output and increase living standards, they will start to migrate, with the most likely destination being Europe.
“Ideas like the implementation of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism —basically a tariff on imports of carbon-intensive goods from countries that don’t meet EU green standards, will continue to worsen the economic and social situation in Africa, a continent that is projected to double its population of 1.3 billion people by 2050,” he went on.
Schoellhammer told Newsweek the decision by European countries like France, Germany, the UK and Norway to stop public funding for certain fossil fuel projects outside Europe “will exacerbate the situation.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-wind-turbine-failures-behind-europes-energy-crisis-are-a-warning-for-america/ar-AAQ1bzc
I am responding to David Appell’s posting Oct. 24 around 4:00 p.m.
I checked the sea level readings from the referenced global change.gov graph and found the following:
Taking the data from the 375 NOAA list of tidal gage readings and superimposing the global summary trend and acceleration numbers into the graph of seal level readings from
https://www.globalchange.gov/sites/globalchange/files/global_average_sea_level_change.png
I get this striking oddity in this graph –
first it follows approximately, from about 1930 to 1987, the prevailing increase of 7 inches/century. Then, there is an abrupt gradient change to 14.8 inches/century until about 2014.
That does not make sense in two ways. First, with the inertial latency of ocean temperatures there cannot be a quick and sharp increase, if temperature is a major percentage of ocean expansion. Second, the rate increase is double that of the earlier rate, which would mean a sudden ‘sizzling hot’ water surface.
Either this is manipulated or erroneous data. Not good.
Dietrich – so what? I don’t see that you’re qualified to judge sea level data, compared to the experts.
I reckon you are an expert in everything. I am blushing with timidity, despite my life of analysis and error calculations, that is, even within a simple graph. At least I’d expect a professional assessment from you.
David Appell repeatedly is untruthful when discussing sea level rise as it relates to climate change. He realizes it is the largest risk from AGE and stupidly argues that there has been vast increase in the rate of rise although objective data shows otherwise.
Climate scientists behaving badly.
https://twitter.com/LabradorIce/status/1452808142220320778
How charming:
https://twitter.com/aaronshem/status/1452962932875214848
“MAJOR X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: Earth orbiting satellites have just detected an X1-class solar flare from Earth-facing sunspot AR2887. The blast at 1535 UT on Oct. 28th created a massive tsunami of plasma in the sun’s atmosphere.”
“During the flare, a pulse of X-rays and extreme UV radiation ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere, causing a strong shortwave radio blackout centered on South America:”
https://www.spaceweather.com/images2021/28oct21/blackout_x1.jpg
Currently, the freezing of the Arctic from Siberia is progressing very rapidly.
https://masie_web.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/NOAA/G02186/latest/4km/masie_all_zoom_4km.png
https://masie_web.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/NOAA/G02186/plots/4km/r05_Kara_Sea_ts_4km.png
It is indeed Ireneusz, although I still don’t see what that has got to do with “Challenges of the clean energy transition”.
However since you insist, here is the latest CryoSat-2/SMOS Arctic sea ice thickness anomaly map:
https://GreatWhiteCon.info/2021/10/facts-about-the-arctic-in-october-2021/#Oct-28
The Finnish company Wartsila (big reciprocating engines, among other products) just released a report titled ‘What is the Cost-Optimal Path to Achieving Net-Zero Energy Systems?” Very optimistic as far a cost goes.
https://pages.wartsila.digital/webmail/251562/555052671/5ffcf6a3f91b00cf0f02d5103be336db180ffb654f0b2c8bf65a9df80acd264f
Looks interesting, but not at all clear about their *assumptions* concerning things like battery cost trajectory, cost of capital assumptions…most studies I’ve seen in this area have been more explicit about what they’re assuming.
Timing of the release was…interesting.
I’m a Wartsila shareholder, and have asked them what backup info, if any, they can provide.
Thanks. They propose producing fuels to power thermal generation plants. The devil is in the detail. I’m thinking. Multiply the land areas in this video by many to produce the electricity required plus fuels, fertilisers, industrial processes etc. Is it remotely possible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf66wBtzuNM
Contrast that with the Rolls Royce video I linked earlier. Two factory built SMR’s providing 24/7 power and excess for making fuels, fertiliser and heating.
It doesn’t matter if Wartsila can make a profit. We need to get to zero carbon emissions. If they can’t do that, they have to go. Out of business. Sorry. They’re no longer wanted or needed. They either adapt to a noncarbon future, or they’re done.
The devil is in the details; there are many details.
Diesels, of some size, have an important place in any form of energy transition. Use of such plant in particular instances has considerable merit.
Specifically designed diesels can burn end of process materials to produce electricity at higher efficiency than other means. (E5, E10 fuels in autos are burned at much lower efficiencies). Used in dedicated diesels may be an all-round more profitable option. Plus other materials that can be/convert to fuels that are presently destroyed in different ways.
A carbon-free future would likely feature nukes. Nukes need a back-up energy source in case of trouble which may come from myriad sources, natural or human instigated. Diesels fit the bill. The smaller the nukes the bigger their proliferation, and thus the human risk associated. Today’s tech failures (mostly instigated by a human element) in nearly every field are a sure sign.
Then there is need for emergency plant, that is primarily low-tech and able to provide power without requiring electrical starting. One aspect this that is usually given little to no attention. A means for black-start.
The plot of relative humidity over the equator (5S-5N) shows a sharp decline in 2006. In the same year there was a deep decline in the Ap index.
https://i.ibb.co/B3rrWs8/climindex-217-96-140-193-300-14-4-10.png
https://i.ibb.co/NWKthPW/1580584182-Ap-Index-png-84f4d05965e2e125d2ca95fc330dcd7a.png
The graph is for the upper troposphere above the equator (300 hPa).
https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/timeseries/timeseries.pl?ntype=1&var=Relative+Humidity+%28up+to+300mb+only%29&level=300&lat1=5&lat2=-5&lon1=0&lon2=359&iseas=1&mon1=0&mon2=11&iarea=0&typeout=2&Submit=Create+Timeseries
It was in moderation a good bit of the day, but is an interesting take on the current crisis …
https://judithcurry.com/2021/10/22/challenges-of-the-clean-energy-transition/#comment-962815
On October 18, 2021, BBC (producer Owen Sheers) aired a “conspiracy thriller” entitled The Trick – though a more complete title would have been The Trick… to Hide the Trick to Hide the Decline.
https://climateaudit.org/2021/10/25/bbcs-fake-climate-audit-screengrab/
Let’s get back on track with this video:
The Sentinel: Record Trebuchet Launching, April 2021
The projectile takes the tangent. Or not. As it’s also accelerating at release.
If you see or hear a UFO in the video, it’s a pursuit drone.
What still eludes me is a Da Vinci’s full size catapult. Another failure of the woke engineering degrees being handed out these days.
Here is an interesting new study: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2821%2901700-1
“In 2019, the average cold-attributable mortality exceeded heat-attributable mortality in all countries for which data were available.”
Then see Table on page 690.
High temperature attributable death in China 46224 and in USA 9854.
Low Temperature attributable death in China 455735 and in USA 101292.
As a best killer COLD wins by 10 times. Stop global warming! World population is too high.
Can I play too:
https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1453779561515159552
Audits never end.
Indeed…
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
“But, unless you’re deeply racist, you’ll know that ethnicity is NOT the causal factor at play (as opposed to, e.g. environmental or cultural factors).
So any stereotype that the differences are *about* ethnicity is wrong from the get-go.”
This is science. If you are a bad person you believe this hypothesis and not my hypothesis. The data cannot show me what I think of as reprehensible. Science!
Ethnic character, background, or affiliation.
An ethnic group.
The common characteristics of a group of people.
ethnic quality or affiliation aspects of ethnicity
a particular ethnic affiliation or group students of diverse ethnicities
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a group of people sharing a common cultural or national heritage and often sharing a common language or religion.
Being a member of a particular ethnic group, especially belonging to a national group by heritage or culture but residing outside its national boundaries.
Of, relating to, or distinctive of members of such a group.
Since ethnicity and ethnic is so poorly defined, you are a racist if you don’t agree with me.
I think we have reached the point where the gun is empty and we keep pulling the trigger. The next more is to throw the gun in the direction of of the alleged threat.
Contrarians seldom have a gun in the first place, R.
“Audits never end.” Nor should they. Companies are audited, usually annually. Governments (democratic ones) are, too. Academia gets audited. Why should this be any different?
Why expect that audits should end? Nobody but a bad editor should have this presupposition. Another case of Reviewer 2, perhaps.
A better question would be: why expect that someone who brands himself as an auditor is really one? The Auditor has never been mandated by the public. His fishing expeditions are never random. He very seldom review records without presenting a hit job at the same time. His techniques do not follow any real professional decorum. His reports are needles in the eyes. Etc.
Willard has zero respect for anything that wasn’t penned by one or more left-wing “scientists,” “peer reviewed” by one or more left-wing “scientists” and published in a “science” journal. At one time, that, other than the left-wing part, was the best available. Sadly, now, likely as not it’s rubbish.
Self-appointed auditors are turning out the best and most honest reviews going.
Jim fails again to realize that just about everyone on Earth is to his left. Perhaps he also fails to appreciate that the Auditor once worked for Red Ed.
Jim was more entertaining when he was dancing. I wish teh Donald could be back just to see him dance again.
Tomorrow, a powerful jet of solar plasma will suddenly hit Earth’s magnetosphere. Such a sudden impact could affect seismic activity.
https://i.ibb.co/Q6vr35g/pobrane.png
Thank you once again Dr. Curry for a common sense commentary on the state of climate change, supported by science and tempered with pragmatism.
‘Clean’ energy is not weathering the reliance on fossil fuels well. It’s business climate has taken a decidedly frosty turn.
From the Edinburgh Evening News:
> “Wholesale prices rose by 250% in the first half of 2021, causing widespread impacts across the UK.
With over 1.5 million customers as of March 2020, Bulb might be the latest energy company to run into issues.
Bulb provides their customers with 100% renewable electricity, using solar, wind, and hydro sources.
For every unit its customers use, another unit of energy is produced and returned to the grid using these renewable sources.
The supplier also uses 100% carbon-neutral gas, as it offsets the emissions from the gas via global carbon reduction products.
So far, Green Supplier Limited, Avro Energy, People’s Energy, and four other smaller suppliers have already closed their doors.
If Bulb goes under, this would be the biggest shut-down of the crisis so far.
To give a sense of scale, the number of customers served by Bulb is almost equal to the total number of customer served by the 14 energy companies that have shut down since the start of August.
If Bulb did go under, it would put roughly 1,000 people’s jobs at risk.
What’s more, as a 100% renewable company, it would be a loss to the market of sustainable energy in the UK, especially coming just before COP26.”
Not to worry though, as with most ‘clean’ energy companies, there’s government and private industry to back them up …
> “For customers of Bulb, if the energy supplier does go bust, then there is nothing you need to do.
Your energy supply will not be disrupted and if you are already switching to a new supplier, this process will be uninterrupted.
Previously, other customers of suppliers that have shut down have been assigned to larger companies, such as British Gas.”
How nice.
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business/consumer/bulb-energy-collapse-is-bulb-going-under-and-what-happens-if-bulb-goes-bust-3437458
Bill Fabrizio wrote:
‘Clean’ energy is not weathering the reliance on fossil fuels well. It’s business climate has taken a decidedly frosty turn.
From the Edinburgh Evening News:
> “Wholesale prices rose by 250% in the first half of 2021, causing widespread impacts across the UK.
And this is due to clean energy, huh?
Not due to the surge in natural gas prices?
Prove it.
Proof? Going out of business.
Get ur green snake oil while you still can!
The Wind Turbine Failures Behind Europe’s Energy Crisis Are a Warning for America
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-wind-turbine-failures-behind-europes-energy-crisis-are-a-warning-for-america/ar-AAQ1bzc?ocid=BingNewsSearch
Above you posted a comment that said the energy crisis was due to the 500% surge in the price of natural gas….
Now comments won’t post here either.
More censorship by Judith….
Watch — my next comment, with just a little bit of technical comment, won’t post…..
Above news story said 500% surge in nat gas
nat gas surge, not renewables
now can’t get emailed comments from this site
Now Judith has blocked the opportunity to receive comments from this site via email.
Just no end to the games she plays here.
Whining and playing the ref is boring, David.
If you don’t like it here, get lost.
How about a fair playing field? Odd you don’t care about that. Says a lot.
David,
Three things.
First, you play the role of a contrarian here. There’s one rule for contrarians:
https://crookedtimber.org/2009/10/22/rules-for-contrarians-1-dont-whine-that-is-all/
Second, I abide by owner’s blog, owner’s rules. I would also enforce a “don’t play the ref” rule. All your comments playing the ref would be deleted if that were me. So you’re lucky I don’t moderate this blog.
Third, if you post a string of posts like a spam bot, Akismet can identify you as a spammer. So your comments can end up in a moderation cue automagically.
You have taken your leave from this site a few times already. I expect people to honor their word. But I also understand addiction.
Calm down. Come back tomorrow. It’s a long game. We don’t need to win by a shutout.
“Reanalysed trends in lake temperature and ice cover in recent decades are extremely unlikely to be explained by pre-industrial climate variability alone. Ice-cover trends in reanalysis are consistent with lake model simulations under historical conditions, providing attribution of lake changes to anthropogenic climate change.”
“Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing,” Nature Geoscience, Grant et al 2021
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00833-x
One wonders if antinuclear sentiment is a residual form of antisemitism. Some association of historic nuclear physics with Jewish scientists? The religious fanaticism and irrationality of antinuclear are at the “core” of Europe’s green parties.
Dawning realisation of the disastrous folly of antinuclear prejudice could be very damaging for the power and prestige of Europe’s greens. For instance even in Germany there are signs of growing awareness of the folly of their shutdown of nuclear:
https://notrickszone.com/2021/10/29/reemergence-of-energy-sanity-europe-now-considers-nuclear-natural-gas-as-sustainable/
Let’s hope a rational reassessment of nuclear does give green politics a long-overdue haircut. They’ve always been narcissistic and irresponsible fools.
What can investors in Bulb do?
Blub.
Not much.
My understanding is that traditionally people invest in utilities as a safe harbor. Their unique structure of monopoly with public oversight is given as a means to provide a consistent public good at a reasonable rate for profit and consumption. Dependability is implicit in the model. That quality of dependability supposedly transferred to the character of the investment, which should be small but steady.
Bulb blubbed by being not dependable, for the consumers or the investors.
Natural gas/oil, even coal, prices have risen. But not because of dependability. Rather because the social climate has caused those businesses to cut back on capex, for production and distribution, resulting in less supply and transport. Simply put, it is no longer as available as it once was. Closing nuclear plants is the same.
As to the unfortunate investors … maybe I should have just said … investing in Bulb was not the usual utility investment, but more like …
Trick or Treat.
The next graph shows a clear increase in the geopotential height above the Arctic Circle at 500 hPa also since 2006.
https://psl.noaa.gov/tmp/climindex.217.96.140.193.302.3.5.12.png
https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/timeseries/timeseries1.pl
https://i.ibb.co/NWKthPW/1580584182-Ap-Index-png-84f4d05965e2e125d2ca95fc330dcd7a.png
The presence of water vapor at the top of the troposphere evidently has a cooling effect under strong sunlight. Therefore, a drop in humidity at 300 hPa may have the effect of causing the temperature of the continents to rise during the summer season. The opposite effect will occur in winter. Therefore, a period of very low solar activity can result in extreme summer and winter temperatures.
The plot of relative humidity over the equator (5S-5N) (300 hPa) shows a sharp decline in 2006. In the same year there was a deep decline in the Ap index.
https://i.ibb.co/B3rrWs8/climindex-217-96-140-193-300-14-4-10.png
Atmosphere above 9km holds around 1% of total water vapour of the atmosphere. But this is the most critical layer for heat loss by radiation. If less water vapour can reach that level, the less IR radiation takes place into universe from liquid droplets or ice crystals. Only high kinetic energy water molecules can reach this height without condensing. Drop in moisture in this layer is a direct result in reduction of such high kinetic energy molecules
James Hansen, mistakenly treats as top height of dry adiabatic lapse rate. Without any logic or physical evidence he declares that GHG causes change in that height by 300m. And then he and his followers make a wrong (childish logic) assumption of constant rate, which in turn leads to algebraic result of 1.5C increase at the surface. It is fascinating how that garbage was published is now the basis of the consensus
The tropopause above the 60th parallel begins in winter well below 9 km. Above the equator it remains at a constant height of about 14 km. The height of the tropopause cannot exceed the 100 hPa level under any circumstances. Of course, these are all average values.
https://i.ibb.co/qs57sSc/temp1.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/56gwX09/time-pres-TEMP-MEAN-ALL-EQ-2021.jpg
Below for comparison is the height of the tropopause in 1990 (10N – 10S).
https://i.ibb.co/HP8H2tB/time-pres-TEMP-MEAN-ALL-EQ-1990.jpg
You can see some decrease in the average tropopause height in the tropics in 2021 compared to 1990.
The increase in geopotential height over the Arctic Circle since 2006 is very pronounced at 250 hPa (jet stream).
https://psl.noaa.gov/tmp/climindex.217.96.140.193.302.5.15.9.png
https://i.ibb.co/hsfJsQR/climindex-217-96-138-234-303-15-51-19.png
The next graph shows a clear increase in the geopotential height above the Arctic Circle at 500 hPa also since 2006.
https://i.ibb.co/S6xLDGB/climindex-217-96-138-234-303-0-47-55.png
RE natural gas prices – not the problem with the EU energy crisis.
The EU has cut back on nat gas production and banned fracking – this tends to drive up the price. So they have to import more expensive NG from elsewhere. Nat gas production has trended up over the past several years, so it’s not a supply cut-back issue.
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/natural-gas/world-natural-gas-production-statistics.html
On top of that Europe has closed a ton of coal plants. That creates LOTS of demand for nat gas.
https://www.newsmax.com/larrybell/climate-change-europe-green-new-deal-democrats/2021/10/06/id/1039361/
So the energy crises in Europe has been caused by them cutting out coal, cutting out fracking, (they have also dissed nuclear), and building unreliable wind and solar.
Of course some of the left -eeees here can’t read anything other than journal articles penned by left-wind “scientists.”
Comment test.
The global natural gas supply has trended up over the last several years. OTOH, Europe has banned fracking and the NG supply has dropped there. NG imports are more expensive than local NG, so there’s that. They have closed tons of coal mines. They tend to be anti-nuclear, so they don’t have a lot of nuclear other than France, which has vowed to close them. They have built out wind and solar which is unreliable and obviously isn’t satisfying demand. They have made their “green” bed and now have to lie in it. They have pushed up demand for imported NG and of course the price of NG has gone up – but in the final analysis – it’s “green” energy and shutting down fossil fuel plants that has caused the crisis.
Judith … I enjoyed your video presentation. Great job!
W:
Video: Triggernometry How Do We Stop Bad Ideas Destroying the West? Gad Saad
To continue our discussion of H.S. Boys being enamored with Ayn Rand, we now can attempt to fit Gad Saad into the model. Who like Rand, at about the age of 11, fled the Lebanese Civil War. Walking uphill in a snowstorm.
Anyways in the video he explains it’s operating either the emotional or the rational systems in our brains at the right time. We all want to imagine John Lennon’s world. But that’s kindergarten thinking. Which was a time we were not asked to have much understanding of the real world.
So while it is claimed I am stuck in H.S., he is claiming the SJWs are stuck in kindergarten.
The trillions of dollars bill being discussed now really does cost nothing to a kindergartner. We can just throw away accounting ledgers and all those bad men. We can reimagine. Yes, there’s a place for emotions. For fear, grief, depression, hopelessness. Hate, anger, revenge. There are good emotions too. Gratitude, accomplishment, freedom, competence, safety, wonder, understanding.
> To continue our discussion
There’s no discussion to speak of, R.
You’re using my name to carry on your usual open mic.
These personal savings don’t carry much weight in the long run against a growing drain, Bingo. This is especially true as they’re targeted for depletion, for fairness.
Ragnaar … Love him!
This one is great, as well:
Gad Saad | The Death Of Truth And How To Revive It | Modern Wisdom Podcast 217
You might also like:
https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/18-gad-saad-oh-my-gad-its-the-saadfather
Willard … No, thank you, I didn’t care for it. It’s one-up humor. Base and childish. Saad isn’t like that. Sometimes, Will, you just have to call east east.
Bull –
> . It’s one-up humor.
Unlike Gad yucking it up about parasitic mindsets?
Touch a nerve?
Dunno. Did I?
See what I mean, One-up?
> Saad isn’t like that
Are you freaking kidding me, Bill?
Gad’s tweets contain 97% really bad dad jokes.
> Left wingers: welfare spending is necessary to help people who are poor, it doesn’t hold them back at all.
Notice two strawman, idiotically binary fantasies, in just that one sentence – all to serve the more proximal goal of venting identity-aggressive cognition and emotion.
Basically the discussion of policy and logic serves no actual function other than to vent antipathy.
The selectivity in concern about kindergarteners is almost as striking a concern about cheap energy deprived poors.
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f17d94d-d8d0-41db-9dd9-e0c9d405aaae_1500x1620.png
Your attachment was unrelated to your comment. Your attachment also made a ridiculous Point regarding spending. What we do have for the next 20 plus years is an ingrained structural budget deficit due to the large numbers of baby boomers retiring adding to that deficit makes no sense whatsoever
Rob –
> Your attachment was unrelated to your comment
I guess I mis-estimated. I assumed anyone reading would get the connection.
J can’t help himself. So predictable. Blame defense spending for everything. Just like blaming AGW for everything.
FY 2000 Social Programs spending $1.1 Trillion
FY 2022 Social Programs spending $4.4 Trillion
Increase $3.3 Trillion per year
FY 2000 Defense Spending $300 Billion
FY 2022 Defense Spending $770 Billion
Increase $470 Billion
It’s not difficult to see where the additional dollars are being spent.
Good point, kid. Let’s just ignore that chart ’cause it’s inconvenient.
Yes, the selective concern is very.tellimg.
Exploitimg the grandchilluns, like exploitimg the poors, never gest old.
Irak Occupation – $3 trillion
War on Terror – $8 trillion
2008-2009 financial crisis – $22 trillion
J
But here is another message. The US has spent north of $60 Trillion over the last 50 years on Social Programs and yet the poverty rate for Families never dipped below 8% until guess who came in and by 2019 it was 7.8%. Clinton didn’t make it. Obama didn’t make it. Proponents of helping the poor didn’t make it. Free market capitalism did. Like JFK said “ The best welfare program is a good paying job.”
Great things happen when the unemployment rate dips below 4%.
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/time-series/historical-poverty-people/hstpov13.xlsx
Kid –
> But here is another message. The US has spent north of $60 Trillion over the last 50 years on Social Programs and yet the poverty rate for Families never dipped below 8%
How many more chilluns would have starved if the programs weren’t there?
> until guess who came in
What would explain why an economist wouldn’t know the limited impact a president has (over a period of 3 years no less) on economic outcomes at the macro level?
But of course guess who wouldn’t be responsible for the historically bad economic outcomes during guess who’s LAST year in office.
All things are possible when the inclination towards motivated reasoning is strong enough.
Kid –
Here’s another chart for you to ignore. You can do it. Just turn up the dial in your motivated reasoning past 12:
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/10/23/a-chart-of-unemployment-under-trump-and-obama-tells-quite-a-tale-column/
You aren’t looking at the right statistic. What you really want is the work participation rate for working age individuals.
The same whiners will try to rationalize why, in spite of saying that massive tax cuts created the deficit, the Trump tax cuts actually increased individual tax revenue by $500 Billion over 2016, the best year for Obama. Individual income tax revenue was $1 Trillion in 2000. In 2016 it was $1.5 Trillion. Trump tax cuts generated $2 Trillion in 2021.
So much for massive cuts in tax revenue.
Steve –
> You aren’t looking at the right statistic.
You don’t understand. Every metric is the right metric until it tells you something that doesn’t match what you want to see.
Kid –
> Trump tax cuts actually increased individual tax revenue by $500 Billion
I would think that any self-respecting economist would be embarrassed
to argue such a simplistic causal narrative for an OBVIOUSLY multi-factorial and complex causal mechanism.
No Joshua, you don’t understand but I’ve come to expect that from you.
Joshua
Revenue increased by over 30% and unemployment reached historic lows after implementing the last administration’s policies, but you Must argue against them since they were implemented by Trump.
Liberals, both in the US and the EU are addicted to buying public support with spending; financed by unsustainable monetary growth at a time of structural budget deficits. Please explain how Biden’s plan to spent millions to hire “climate activists” makes sense when the US is spending 25% more than it is generating.
Rob –
>… but you Must argue against them since they were implemented by Trump.
The only thing I’ve argued “against” here is facile and selective logic. Don’t let your fantasies about ams hatred toward libruls dixtate how you reason.
OK boyz. I admit I was wrong.
All things good economically are attributable to Trump despite the trends prior to his election and, of course, excluding what happened during his last war in office. President—->economy causalityinly applies to Trump I office specifically, only among those metrics that are positive, and only when those metrics are positive.
Coincidentally, it’s exactly the same as with covid outcomes and DeSantis. All good metrics in Florida are specifically and only because of DeSantis’ winning ways. Anything negative he’s, not responsible for, and factors like weather or demographics or improvements of therapeutics are irrelevant if, in any way, they suggest any limitation to the causal mechanism associated with DeSantis—->positive COVID outcomes.
So it is with cults of personality.
Joshua, do you know what happens when someone runs out of unemployment and still doesn’t have a job? They have left the work force and are no longer counted as unemployed. Do you know what happens when someone retires and is no longer trying to work? They are counted as a negative in work force participation rate. There’s a reason why I gave you a specific metric to look at. If you didn’t understand why I chose that metric you should have just asked instead of using your fall back position of ‘well if they disagree with me they are just using motivational reasoning’. You need a lot more arrows in your quiver or stop trying to get in so many archery contests.
Steve –
I know there are limitations to all metrics.
I know that many people are tempted to view metrics in selective ways so as to confirm biases.
Kind of reminds me of how Trump selectively said the BLS was skewing unemployment statistics, or lislh promoting those statistics, depending on whether the numbers were favorable to his propoganda goals. And how his adorers ignored his selective reasoning as long as they could sustain the dopamine rush they got from hearing him speak.
So it is with cults of personality and tribal orientation and identity-aggressive/identity-protective cognition. I get that. There’s really no need for you to demonstrate it any further.
LOL you really are hopeless.
To really understand how benevolent the Left really is, look no further than the recent case study, Venezuela. The idea there was to eliminate poverty, to nationalize certain industries such as their oil and gas industry. Venezuelan leadership embraced new monetary policy, like the Left in the U.S. does, printing money like there’s no tomorrow. But there actually was no tomorrow for Venezuela; inflation skyrocketed, etc, etc, etc. Venezuela did a fantastic job of helping the poor, right? One of their stated goals. All Leftists virtue signal like this. But I don’t see any indication that they really care about it when all evidence points to abject misery resultant from their policies. It’s the same with all tyrannical manifestations of central authority that promise free everything. It’s at the heart of true fascist zeal.
Essentially the hard Left in the U.S. has the same sensibility as Venezuelan leadership did.
The total wealth of all billionaires in the U.S. amounts to somewhere around $4 trillion. The rich can’t be taxed enough to pay for all the programs the Left wants, program costs surpass the total wealth of the most wealthy.
Like the Iron Lady said, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”.
Money hidden in tax havens – $36 trillion.
These personal savings don’t carry much weight in the long run against a growing drain, Bingo. This is especially true as they’re targeted for depletion, for fairness.
It’s interesting how whenever I raise an issue of logic, without reference to ideology even, what I get in return is a string of hateful comments about “the left” or comments in praise of the glory of Trump’s government or fantasies about me (even down to fantasies about my digestion and elimination).
What’s up with that?
Josh: “What’s up with that?”
Call it a dingbat conundrum wrapped within intestinal permutations, josh. Though the depth of you anality truly can’t be measured.
Trunks -as hard as it might be for you to understand, it’s not about me. I’m sorry to disappoint you.
Gas…p
You could buy a dozen NWS each year with the taxes on that kind of “savings,” Trunks, and not just one stock if you catch my drift.
How much could you buy with 11M? That’s what fossil fuel companies get from the public each minute.
But let’s continue to shine on Kid’s moral bankcrupcy – the Libor con was over a meager $350 trillion.
‘You could buy a dozen NWS each year with the taxes on that kind of “savings”
It’s a perpetual fountain of reinvigoration, Bingo, surely.
Debt obligations going forward are over $100 trillion. It will easily get worse based on current policy proposals.
Splitting trillions of hairs, why not, it’s all free stuff.
I’m sure all those who flee their fair share of contribution to society will be saddened by that factoid, Trunks. You’re only 400% over current estimates for the US of A, and in fact you’re 20% above the GDP of the whole wide world, but who’s counting?
Let’s grant your silly catastrophism. What happens if the world becomes insolvent? Here’s a hint: replace “happens” with “happened.”
“replace “happens” with “happened.”
That’s a worthy thought experiment, Bingo. Based on the “happened” scenario, will you be bringing cookies for that party, assuming you can find ingredients?
BTW, I was referring to the U.S. $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities. It’s telling here your first thought here relates to global GDP.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/americas-real-debt-shocker-100-trillion-owed-unfunded-16581
Your federal debt is $20 trillion and change, Trunks. I already mentioned to you of a market that is north of $350 trillion. It’s really easy to get nervous over contracts, but with some trust things can still get done.
That’s the main reason why skepticism, which contrarians mistake day in day out, is not enough to live happily ever after.
Bingo, again, I’m referring to the U.S. growing debt obligations
> I’m talking about
You’re just blowing smokes, Trunk.
Look. TSLA at his best should be worth something like $300. And that’s if they can produce like TYO and have profit margins like DAI. Not impossible, albeit unlikely.
Would you bet against TSLA? I would not. Now, imagine you betting against the World. You can do it, performatively. Will you do it for real and start buying silver? Good luck with beating inflation with this sole asset.
If all hells break loose, there’s always the Biblical solution.
Joshua | October 31, 2021 at 9:01 am |
Kid –
> But here is another message. The US has spent north of $60 Trillion over the last 50 years on Social Programs and yet the poverty rate for Families never dipped below 8%
How many more chilluns would have starved if the programs weren’t there?”
Josh – those stats show that the anti poverty programs really never worked
Its the old saying – give a man a fish and he can eat for a day – teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime.
By far, the single most effective anti poverty program since FDR is completely dispised by progressives has been throughly dismantled. That anti-poverty program was “ending welfare as we know it” enacted during the clinton administraton.
Love me some troglodyte trash talk:
https://twitter.com/JamesSantelli/status/1309151078039138311
Poverty isn’t a lack of character, dummy.
It’s a lack of cash.
I bet you would not be able to survive on a single-mom budget and schedule.
According to Progressives, illegal immigrants don’t collect any social services benefits because they are ineligible.
Also, according to Progressives, the undocumented (who frequently have less than a high school education) move up the economic ladder faster than poor native-born Americans and have a lower than average crime rate.
In fact, any good progressive will tell you that it takes but a single generation for the undocumented to exit poverty and they do it without any welfare benefits and without becoming criminals.
Basically, according to Progressives, the secret to prosperity and lower rates of crime is to make everyone ineligible to receive any welfare benefits. That way, within a generation, people with any level of education will be earning above the poverty line in legitimate employment.
Apparently, it must also help to eliminate the minimum wage as it never has applied to people who take cash under the table.
Joe –
> Josh – those stats show that the anti poverty programs really never worked.
Unfortunately, this is the same kind of logic you apply to looking at covid outcomes.
Anti-poverty programs clearly didn’t eliminate all poverty. The question of importance is how they affected outcomes differentially – what is the counterfactual? What would have happened had there not been any such programs at all? Would the outcomes have been worse? Better?
To evaluate that kind of question, what is needed is more than simply an ideological bias. We could look at the assessments of First Start knitnlimittd to educational outcomes) as a window into that discussion, and there are quality assessments that show a significant benefit proportional to how early the “investments” are made. But there are conflictimg findings there, the analyses are very complicated, as we would expect for such a multi-factorial visual dynamic in such a complex context.
But if you prefer simplistic determinations that feel good to you emotio ally because they align with your ideological perspectives that’s fine. It’s your prerogative.
For me, in light of the complicated nature of the analyses and the complicated difficulties of contextualizing the conflicting findings, there’s an important aspect to consider: how many children, do we know as a matter fact independent of the insights possible from counterfactual analyses, didn’t starve because of social programs. How many seniors had access to healthcare that they wouldn’t have had otherwise?
Joshua | November 1, 2021 at 12:52 pm |
Joe –
> Josh – those stats show that the anti poverty programs really never worked.
Unfortunately, this is the same kind of logic you apply to looking at covid outcomes.<
This comment coming from someone operating under the idiotic belief that mitigation could suppress this virus and such suppression was a viable. Facts prove otherwise
Bottom line – everyone is going to catch covid at some point and natural immunity will provide much stronger long term protection.
Like most individuals demanding and promoting the benefits of mitigation, they fail to see the big long term picture.
Willard | November 1, 2021 at 12:25 pm |
Love me some troglodyte trash talk:
https://twitter.com/JamesSantelli/status/1309151078039138311
Poverty isn’t a lack of character, dummy.”
That response coming from the man who demonstrates his superior high level economic intellectual bona fides by continuing to get punked by all the LCOE studies
Left wingers: welfare spending is necessary to help people who are poor, it doesn’t hold them back at all.
Also left-wingers: undocumented immigrants who come here with nothing and little education are awesome- they do not collect any welfare, are out of poverty in one generation, and have one of the lowest crime rates. They pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Also left-wingers: the ability to get ahead in the US by hard work- the so-called pulling yourself up by your bootstraps – is a myth in this systemically wrong nation.
Got to love troglodyte tears:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/americas/direct-giving-homeless-people-vancouver-trnd/index.html
They don’t realize how being dumb only pays off when one is rich.
From Willard’s link: “…they had been homeless for an average of 6 months. Participants were screened for a low risk of mental health challenges and substance abuse.”
What they found was that people kicked out of a place who aren’t addicts or insane get a new place pretty quickly. They get the new place a bit faster if you buy it for them.
In other words, they gave a lump sum of cash to folks who are not your typical “homeless” and found that they did things with it that are not typical of what homeless people do with their cash and they did it a little faster with cash.
You can replicate something similar by piling $100 bills by the movie theater in your town. People on their way to the movies anyway, will go faster to the theater and get more popcorn when you hand them wads of Benjamins.
It’s brilliant.
Meanwhile people with no access to social services at all – the undocumented – are less likely than average to be homeless, according to left-wingers.
jeffnsails850 | November 1, 2021 at 4:17 pm |
From Willard’s link: “…they had been homeless for an average of 6 months. Participants were screened for a low risk of mental health challenges and substance abuse.”
Jeff what kind of understanding of economics would you expect from someone continuing to get punked –
he got punked with LCOE
he got punked with the progressive studies of fossil fuel subsidies
Just another of the long line of economic concepts he got punked
Jefforino has a choice.
Either he can revise his conception of homelessness.
Or he can reinforce his prejudices.
What does he do?
The latter, of course:
Well played!
***
Dear Joe,
Either you stay in the peanut gallery or you dance.
Which is it?
I certainly don’t mind owning troglodytes because they can’t let go when they lose.
Joe –
> This comment coming from someone operating under the idiotic belief that mitigation could suppress this virus and such suppression was a viable. Facts prove otherwise
Another strawman/idiotic misrepresentation.
Interventions arguably reduced the rate of spread, allowing for the development of better treatment and therapeutics, and the distribution of vaccines, saving likely millions of lives, avoiding many more serious illnesses, reducing stress on the Healthcare system and Healthcare workers, and contributing towards a higher population immunity with less risk associated with infections
But don’t let my actual beliefs interfere with your fantasies about what I believe.
“Or he can reinforce his prejudices.”
The city trains employees and volunteers at homeless shelters on the use of anti-overdose meds and locates “safe injection sites” near the homeless camps. They do this because people who want to solve problems address reality.
People who don’t want to solve problems claim reality is just a “prejudice.”
Now that you (didn’t) shut down the tar sands, and Vancouver is heated by solar power in February, you can focus your efforts on demanding that the city chase off all those bigots offering services for heroin addicts who don’t exist. Make sure you drive down there with a wind-powered car.
> the city
If the homeless population had to wait for city white collars for anything, Jefforino, they’d be dead a long time ago.
You should stick to what you at least know a bit.
Rsgnaar –
Have you been had?
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/95333
The story of civilisation is the story of mankind’s shift from diffuse, high-entropy fuels to concentrated, low-entropy ones. Net zero means trying to do precisely the opposite. Seen in this light, it is clear that Net Zero will fail, and in fact we can already see that it is failing.
But Professor Prins warns that the economic and military weakness that is being built in by the futile attempt to ‘decarbonise’ is a gift to the Chinese communists. He displays the evidence that Beijing has no intention of adopting the ‘green’ agenda. His paper deduces President Xi’s ‘green’ strategy, and shows how environmentalism in the west is facilitating his efforts. Professor Prins said:
We need to wake up. Xi Jinping’s strategy is one of ‘ghost attacks’ in a ‘grey war’, in which Free World ‘net zero’ obsessions have become one of his sharpest weapons. He is quite happy to indulge our fantasies.
But it doesn’t have to be like this. The paper ends by describing a Golden Bridge strategy – one which might lead to a high-energy, clean-energy, ‘China proof’ and economically prosperous future for the Free World.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/the-worm-in-the-rose/
Where can I find the entropy content of fuels?
If you consider entropy as a measure of disorder – a lump of coal is non-fluid and organized. After it’s burned, it’s a gas – disorganized. Its chemical composition has changed – which also factors into concept. Being burned, it has released a large amount of energy per unit mass and its material has transitioned from low to high entropy.
When wind passes through a wind turbine, its entropy changes little. Its energy changes very little. It was a gas beforehand, already “high” entropy, and it’s still a gas afterwards. Wind doesn’t have much energy to give.
I know that isn’t the thermodynamic definition. The author didn’t specify if she meant it that way or just in general, as I have laid out above.
Either way, I believe it makes sense.
No.
CG – “No” isn’t a rebuttal. If you have an argument, submit it. Otherwise, you are looking kind of silly.
Entropy is a measure of the disorder in a closed system. According to the second law, entropy in a system almost always increases over time — you can do work to create order in a system, but even the work that’s put into reordering increases disorder as a byproduct — usually in the form of heat. Because the measure of entropy is based on probabilities, it is, of course, possible for the entropy to decrease in a system on occasion, but that’s statistically very unlikely.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/entropy.htm
“No” means that is does not make sense.
“I know that isn’t the thermodynamic definition. The author didn’t specify if she meant it that way or just in general.”
In other words, it is just hand waving. If you want to supply your own definition of entropy content of fuels, do so by all means. How much entropy is there in one kilogram of ethanol?
Everybody can find how much energy there is in one kilogram of ethanol. But no, the author wanted to sound “scientific”, and invented a nonsensical concept of low-entropy fuels.
Believe what you will, CC.
Great fun here:
https://www.cfact.org/2021/10/28/clintel-catalogs-ipcc-errors-in-time-for-un-cop-26/
My latest. Key finding is misrepresentations in the AR6 WG1 SPM. Lots of them, nicely cataloged.
Robert I. Ellison | October 30, 2021 at 2:39 am | wrote “Here’s a newer comparison of data. I’d discuss the implications with anyone but #####.”
Robert’s recent subject topic on Climate Etc up to here was about effects of humidity on some climate parameters. Since temperature is often an automatic parameter chosen for climate work, I’d like to take up his invitation. I have contributed in some small ways to the various data analyses of Australian weather stations primarily reported by Dr Bill Johnston and available on his blog site named http://www.bomwatch.com.au/
There are various categories of temperature and also of humidity, so some deductions can be invalid if they use different sets or definitions of T and humidity. The measurement circumstances have to be clearly described. Often, this invokes available metadata and often the metadata are less than perfect, even not suitable for the task.
In the broad sense, Bill Johnston has analysed run-of-the-mill weather station data typical of that going into the historical record and ending up in some global form with data analysts like Hadley and Giss. The sweeping outcome is that rainfall cools the Tmax record at a station. In more detail, one can regress T and rainfall to help detect unusual values/outliers and break points in time series analysis. Where a break point is detected, the metadata might or might not show a change, typically a relocation of the Stevenson screen position. The outcome of Bill/s analysis is that there has been very little temperature change in typical Australian temperatures once effects like rainfall site moves are corrected.
See, for example, the studies on bomwatch at the tab “Are Australia’s AWS any good?” for stations at Charleville, Rutherglen, Amberley and Cape Leeuwin. These are for land temperatures, tackled first. More recent posts are about sea surface temperatures.
Robert, you invited discussion of two topics, one under “Development of the HadISDH.marine humidity climate monitoring dataset“ and the other about temperature comparisons in different global datasets. On the later, my opening gambit is that different T datasets will agree if they all make the same mistakes. The mistake that I choose for discussion is misunderstanding of some effects of humidity and/or rainfall on temperatures as typically measured.
So, you are invited to study this work by Bill Johnston and extend his finding into the 2 topics you selected. You will find the standard of the work to be high, relevant and often novel. Let’s hear from you. Geoff S
Do you have a point you’d like to get to?
RIE,
The point is that the comparisons of global temperatures that you displayed for discussion have errors as demonstrated and should not be used for serious work. You would see this if you had started to debate instead of starting to avoid. Geoff S
The comparison I posted was between instrumental humidity data and ‘reanalysis’ data. The latter involving partial data coverage feeding into weather models.
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2853/2020/essd-12-2853-2020-f01-high-res.pdf
Moist enthalpy is a relevant factor in the land temperature record – and is the reason I pay it little attention.
https://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2005/07/18/what-does-moist-enthalpy-tell-us/
Every planet develops a temperature distribution so the
energy in = energy out is met.
There always is a small disbalance because a planet is not a perfect uniform surface sphere, and because the planet orbit is not a perfect cycle, and there are also the solar flux’s fluctuations.
Not to forget the planetary rotational axis tilt and the uneven sea-continents surface distribution.
The presence of an atmosphere plays role too. The presence of ocean, the water cycle, the currents, the winds… The atmospheric gasses content and the atmospheric gasses partial density…
Mean surface temperature Tmean is the result of factors involved. The major factors are
the solar flux
planetary Albedo
Φ -factor
planet average surface specific heat
planet rotational spin
greenhouse effect
Planet surface develops a temperature distribution – resulting to Tmean so the
energy in = energy out concept to be met.
Planet, the matter, does not “want” to accumulate energy. It is a property of the matter to get rid of the energy every possible way – conduction, convection, emission.
https://www.cristos-vournas.com
Heat flows only from a higher temperature body to a lower temperature body. The temperature of the body that gives up heat does not increase.
I have just watched Dr Curry’s presentation video which I found here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_-Yo59_sW8&list=PLqYTl2vNOdmSaM9_SZeYT_zASNFO11rCP&index=3
It is a very clear and intelligent presentation reinforced by a very pertinent answer to the ‘what to do now’ question Dr Curry is required to answer at the end of the video. Her response is an admirable ‘we need businesses and engineers to bring the [climate crisis and remedy] conversation back to reality’
One of the world’s biggest pension funds announced it was going to stop investing in fossil fuels. Unnecessary or not, the environmentalists are ready to burn their bridges to the fossil fuel past and tough it out. Energy poverty be damned; full Green ahead. The poor will be given sops. The Minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain “has redirected more than 2.6 billion euros in profits from energy companies to consumers, slashed electricity taxes, and imposed a cap on how much natural-gas prices are allowed to increase.” But if subsidies will barely soften the blow in Europe in the Third World the impact will be crushing. “Wealthy countries are struggling to lower emissions fast enough. It’s dramatically harder for developing nations, where most of the world’s population lives.”
Nigeria recently made a fortuitous discovery. While its energy department was searching underground for oil, it stumbled upon unexpected reserves of natural gas. Lots of it. It found over 200 trillion cubic feet of gas, and thinks it can find three times that amount if it looks hard enough. … That puts Nigeria in an awkward position. As a signatory of the Paris Agreement, it has committed to getting 36% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, up from 13% in 2015. …
The developing world is in a hard spot, wedged between poverty and climate catastrophe. Poorer countries have a greater need to ramp up energy production and fewer tools to reduce emissions, yet they’re more likely to be affected by human-caused climate change.
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2021/10/31/on-the-brink-of-triumph-green-faces-its-nemesis-n1528334
Per usual, the rich can advocate for this cheap electricity-killing “green” energy because they won’t suffer from it at all – only the poor and middle class. Who cares about them anyway.
As coal, the most polluting fuel, is progressively phased out, many countries resort to natural gas as a transitional resource to act as a bridge before green alternatives, like wind turbines and solar panels, are rolled out. Moreover, gas is also used for residential heating and cooking, making the price surge even more noticeable in the final expenses of consumers.
…
In Italy, Roberto Cingolani, minister for the ecological transitions, has already warned Italians to expect a 40% increase in their bills over the next months. France said it will send one-off €100 payments to over 5.8 million low-income households. In Spain, the government has promised to bring prices down to 2018 levels. Madrid also sent a letter to Brussels asking for EU-wide action. “We urgently need a European policy menu pre-designed to react immediately to dramatic price surges,” the letter said.
https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/28/why-europe-s-energy-prices-are-soaring-and-could-get-much-worse
There will be heavy snowfall in the Scottish mountains tonight.
High efficiency/low emission coal plants can reduce pollutant emissions by 99.9% and CO2 emissions by up tp 33% thus far. Pollutant reduction is paid for with increased efficiency and coal remains the cheapest option for electricity in many parts of the world. 1000’s of these plants are being built and planned. All in accord with Paris country commitments.
https://watertechbyrie.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/hele.png
https://watertechbyrie.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/coal-efficiency.jpg
CO2 sequestration in conserved and restored agricultural land and global commons soaks up emissions with immense ancillary benefits.
I have been predicting an inevitable energy crunch based on an inexorable increase in demand coupled with finite resources. The surge in global commodity prices this year is a sign of things to come. There is a critical need for new, hyper-abundant, low cost energy sources. In the interim there is coal.
It would be interesting to see if coal-fired power plants raise the temperature of the atmosphere, or if they cool it because they release large amounts of SO2.
Sulfur Dioxide Surface Mass
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=so2smass/patterson
I’m talking new coal.
There will be a great awakening where people begin to realize our very lives depend on fossil fuels.
(Bloomberg) — BHP Group’s exit from thermal coal is looking less certain as record prices and shifting investor attitudes put the brakes on its planned retreat from the dirtiest fuel, according to people familiar with the matter.
Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/bhp-s-thermal-coal-exit-in-doubt-after-fuel-hits-record-high
Copyright © BloombergQuint
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/bhp-s-thermal-coal-exit-in-doubt-after-fuel-hits-record-high
The Gore Effect strikes again:
Low wind power output and high wholesale gas and electricity prices hit Scottish Power, which has reported a drop in profits.
The energy company, part of Spain’s Iberdrola, operates wind farms, energy networks and a household supply business in the UK.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scottish-power-hit-by-high-wholesale-prices-and-low-wind-output-55ln7bwhr
Same thing happened across almost the entire north american continent from Feb 12 2021 to feb 19, 2021.
the Texas/ERcot fiasco only lasted from Feb 15 to Feb 17. three days vs the 9 days.
Also ignored is how close the Grids were to collapsing – MISO grid was also very close. One thing that helped the MISO grid was that the renewable penetration was not nearly has high.
bottom line – Renewables may not have been the direct problem in Texas, but they did prove that they are not the solution.
Repeating a porkie does not make it truer, Joe:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/what-went-wrong-with-texass-main-electric-grid-and-could-it-have-been-prevented/
And that’s notwithstanding winterization, which hasn’t been done because we have Freedom Fighters running around crying “Freedom!” instead of acting responsibly.
Willy is fun.
Wind is wonderful because, as EVERYONE knows, you only get 10% of the energy you paid for and installed from wind.
In the winter.
When the sun goes down early and leaves the solar panels useless. And the theory is that the wind will make up the difference. With batteries. Charged by the non-existent wind and solar panels in the night.
And it’s cold.
And that’s why 100% solar and wind, in the winter, is a no-brainer. ‘Cause they should have had more natural gas, and would have if they had listened to the “No Gas NoWhere” movement.
Jefforino is as good to portray my position than he is at placing his comments.
Since we’re into “But Texas” hippie punching:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/power-failure-how-a-winter-storm-pushed-texas-into-crisis-1.5317921
Freedom Fighters have a natural knack to shirk their responsibilities.
jeffnsails850 | November 1, 2021 at 4:43 pm | Reply
Willy is fun.
Wind is wonderful because, as EVERYONE knows, you only get 10% of the energy you paid for and installed from wind.
And that’s why 100% solar and wind, in the winter, is a no-brainer. ‘Cause they should have had more natural gas, and would have if they had listened to the “No Gas NoWhere” movement.”
Willy is the one who thinks renewables are the long term solution, especially in the winter, since under the gold standard measurement of costs, LCOE, renewables are vastly less expensive than fossil fuels.
Try to blame hippies, Joe:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/power-failure-how-a-winter-storm-pushed-texas-into-crisis-1.5317921
Willy cant tell the difference between the immediate cause, the mid term cause and the long term solution –
of course he is the same guy that gets repeatedly punked with the LCOE garbage
You sure can twist yourself in many ways, Joe. Show me how your pretzel logic works for that:
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/
Time for you to switch to “Joe – A Non Natural Gas Expert.”
Willy
Texas lost approx 35% of electric generation from natural gas for two days twice in 10 years
Texas and most of the north american continent lost 90% + electric generation from wind and solar for 7-8 days. That happens 3-4 times a year every year
Demonstrates my original statement – that Renewables are not the solution!
“Demonstrates my original statement – that Renewables are not the solution!”
Solution to what? Willy wants the power to go off. Renewables are the solution for that. Willy wants the world to switch to oil and natural gas, renewables are the solution for that too. Willy wants China, Russia and Iran to have leverage over the rest of the world. Renewables (in the west) are the solution for that.
Willy is still living in the land of the flower children
Willy keeps pointing out as “proof” something that happened twice in 10 years. We all agree that is bad
but Willy and the rest of the greenies point to renewables as a solution.
Willy should know that renewables lose 70% of electric generation for an average of 4-6 days every month. During the 2 day fiasco in Texas, renewables lost 80% + for the better part of 9 days.
the chart below is for any grid in the us or the entire US – Pick any time period
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/expanded-view/electric_overview/US48/US48/GenerationByEnergySource-4/edit
Joe,
Very nice information. You really have to be careful about analyzing the data, though. If you look at TEP, they take 500 MW from APS and give it to SRP. SRP then gives 2000 MW to APS. Since APS, TEP, and SRP have different plants in various locations, I am assuming that this is the reason for these exchanges that don’t make any sense on the surface. For instance, TEP’s coal plants with about 1000 MW of generation (when they are both on) is in Northern AZ. SRP has more than 500 MW of coal generation in Northern AZ. APS has more than 500 MW of generation in Northern AZ as well. However I do not know of any TEP consumers in Northern AZ, whereas APS and SRP definitely have customers. So if we assume that SRP needs 500 MW in Northern AZ, then that could explain the 500 MW that SRP gets from TEP. TEP could then be short 500 MW in Tucson (were all? or most of their customers are) that APS might have a plant that would more easily service them. It is a convoluted mess, and I am only talking about three of the participants.
> You really have to be careful about analyzing the data,
Don’t worry, Joe isn’t into analysis much. Handwaving to stuff while lulzing is more is forte. In any event, his minimization is intriguing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
“Just two days” indeed.
Abbott should have campaigned with that slogan.
From the Land of Fairies and Unicorns:
COMMENTARY
Is there an “energy crisis”? Not really — fossil fuels are collapsing, and it’s high time
Why are energy prices spiking? Mostly because we’re not making the transition to wind and solar fast enough
By Carl Pope
Published October 25, 2021 5:45AM (EDT)
https://www.salon.com/2021/10/25/is-there-an-energy-crisis-not-really–fossil-fuels-are-collapsing-and-its-high-time/
Hahhhaaaa. When will Darwin finally catch up with those kind of people?
Hopefully before they drive us all into the ground
Welcome to your green energy utopia! (probably paywalled)
Three More U.K. Energy Suppliers Collapse After Price Spike
By Rachel Morison
and Todd Gillespie
November 2, 2021, 12:41 PM EDT Updated on November 2, 2021, 1:38 PM EDT
Failures mean 18 retailers have gone bust since early August
Suppliers to 21,400 households stopped trading on Tuesday
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-02/three-more-u-k-energy-suppliers-collapse-after-gas-prices-spike
When things go wrong… Winter storm Uri cost Texas $80 to $130 Billion. Who is going to pay for that? Is that inflationary?
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Texas-winter-storm-freeze-deaths-financial-cost-16585329.php
The people impacted will have to pay, although some will probably get some help from the government.
Perhaps they should use their vote to vote out politicians who advocate getting rid of fossil fuels and building instead wind and solar farms. That, along with using NG to power the oil field, would be a good way to avoid this sort of problem.
Well it looks like we are in luck! /snark
“Genesis is one of the largest Bitcoin miners in the U.S., with the firm estimating it has mined more than $1 billion worth of BTC since its launch in 2013. As of October 2021, Genesis’ data centers represented an operational capacity exceeding 170 megawatts or a total hash rate of 3.8 exahashes per second (EH/s).
The firm has outlined that another 9.4 EH/s will go “online during the next 12 months,” with the company aiming to have surpassed a total capacity of 1.4 gigawatts by the end of 2023. Genesis estimates it represented 2.4% of the Bitcoin network’s total hashing power during September.”
https://cointelegraph.com/news/genesis-digital-assets-announces-new-data-center-in-texas
I hear Ted Cruz is a big crypto fan and has been pulling strings to load up our grid with crypto miners.
“Texas Republicans want to make the state the center of the cryptocurrency universe”
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/28/texas-republicans-blockchain-bitcoin/
The big one is yet to come.
You’ll no doubt be pleased to hear that my Twitter feed is not paywalled!
https://twitter.com/jim_hunt/status/1454425542145499137
It ain’t easy being green …
n mid-October, Salter, a 37-year-old poet and writing teacher, moved into a campsite in the Pahrump Valley — just east of the California border in southern Nevada — to protest a solar project that she and other activists argue will irreparably damage the fragile desert ecosystem.
Yellow Pine, a 3,000-acre solar farm, will provide 500 megawatts of electricity to 100,000 homes in California.
It’s the sort of renewable energy project that scientists and policymakers gathering this week in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations climate conference, or COP26, say is needed on a massive scale to wean the world off fossil fuels and stave off the worst effects of global warming.
But even clean energy, from wind to solar to hydropower, isn’t entirely clean.
More than 100,000 yucca and other plants will be destroyed during construction of Yellow Pine. This year, scientists relocated more than 100 federally protected desert tortoises from the site in preparation for construction, but about 30 of those have died, possibly eaten by badgers.
“Is this really the way we want to do this?” Salter said. “Is this really green?”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/is-this-really-green-the-fight-over-solar-farms-in-the-mojave-desert/ar-AAQgzTn
Hi Judith,
Tamino seems to be unhappy about your sea level rise slide
https://tamino.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/the-truth-about-sea-level-rise/#more-11689
Judith,
Just noticed Tamino’s variations in rate of sea level rise seem to corelate quite well with the AMO stadium waves. Could we expect rate of sea level rise to fall if AMO starts to fall in next few years?
Judith … your presentation and notes are a watershed publication for the global warming discussion. I hope it gets wide distribution.
Now it’s officially announced that the U.K. is investing heavily in nuclear energy in the form of Rolls Royce small modular reactors:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59212983
These are strange times indeed when the U.K. is forced to support British industry.
The only good thing to come from the climate millenarial delusion is this bizarre outbreak of rationality regarding nuclear power. This year’s gas and energy price spike, combined with the global anti-Brexit reaction among left elites, have shown Britain that it needs some strategic independence, and that Talebanic free-market fanaticism won’t always lead to a good place.
Now expect the more deranged antinuclear types to hitch their wagon to climate skepticism. The climate doom religion has for them backfired disastrously by leading to this nuclear revival. It will be fun to watch this unfolding black comedy.
It’s a light water reactor with a focus on mass production in a mega-factory. Someone is bound to get the production formula right.
“These are strange times indeed when the U.K. is forced to support British industry.”
Indeed it is strange since one would have thought that, whilst negotiating the democratically demanded Brexit, the UK Government should have been better planning an appropriate energy policy for such an outcome, with independent reliable and efficient baseload generation and effective grid management would have been crucial to reasonably priced energy bills. Instead the expensive virtue signalling of wind,solar, biomass and wood pellet burning took precedent in an attempt to show what a green UK we are.
We lost at least a decades worth of exploring the nuclear alternatives simply because we haven’t had decent leadership in politics, academia or science for a very long time. We have had far too much short termism and that is always a fault not least when you have made a clear and agreed decision to be Net Zero by 2050.
Let us hope that this ‘new’ love affair with nuclear is based upon unconditional feelings and not more flag waving.
“These are strange times indeed when the U.K. is forced to support British industry.”
ROFL.
Unfortunately Boris and his mates have successfully transferred much of the City of London to Frankfurt, so what choice do we have left?
Judith,
Tamino continues to refer to you in his review of sea level rise.
https://tamino.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/new-york-the-battery/#more-11731
“No answer!” came the stern reply?
It seems odd Tamino’s article doesn’t mention subsidence at The Battery. Should he do more of an in-depth analysis and not just look at the numbers in isolation?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468013320300474
Also, it looks like Tamino is making a big deal of the difference between 16 inches per century vs 19 inches per century. Maybe it will accelerate in the future, maybe it will decelerate, or stay the same. Who knows?
Tamino has always been very good at both detecting and promoting cherry picking.
re “”t seems odd Tamino’s article doesn’t mention subsidence at The Battery.”
Nothing new under the sun.
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