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Canada Congratulates Australia – And Gives Finger to British Columbia

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Canada congratulated Australia.

"Ottawa, November 12 2013 — Today, Paul Calandra, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, 
issued the following statement on behalf of the Government of Canada on Australian Prime Minister 
Tony Abbott’s introduction of legislation to repeal the carbon tax:

“Canada applauds the decision by Prime Minister Abbott to introduce legislation to repeal Australia’s 
carbon tax. The Australian Prime Minister’s decision will be noticed around the world and sends an 
important message.

“Our government knows that carbon taxes raise the price of everything, including gas, groceries, 
and electricity. Prime Minister Abbott has said that, in Australia, the repeal of the carbon tax 
will reduce the average household’s cost of living by (in Australian dollars) $550 a year, 
take $200 off household power bills and $70 off gas bills.

“Our government has reduced greenhouse gas emissions while protecting and creating Canadians 
jobs – greenhouse gas emissions are down since 2006, and we’ve created 1 million net new jobs 
since the recession – and we have done this without penalising Canadian families with a carbon tax.”"

 Maybe the Prime Minister should get the f*** out of Ottawa every once in a while.

British Columbia has a carbon tax, and last time I checked, British Columbians were Canadians.

 

The Montreal Protocol Excuse

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I hear there is a new explanation for The Pause in global warming. The new excuse is that a drop in CFC’s (which are a type of GHG)  has saved us!

“Our statistical analysis suggests that the reduction in the emissions of ozone-depleting substances under the Montreal Protocol, as well as a reduction in methane emissions, contributed to the lower rate of warming since the 1990s.”

The World Meteorlogical Organization puts out a Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.  Lets take a quick look at a couple of the claims.

1. “reduction in methane emissions”

Not really. One or two are down. Some have paused. Others are up.

Montreal_CH4

As the WMO says “Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a potent LLGHG. It is produced by the chemical industry, mainly as an electrical insulator in power distribution equipment. Its current mole fraction is about twice the level observed in the mid-1990s (Figure 6). The stratospheric ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), together with minor halogenated gases, contribute ~12%[4] to radiative forcing by LLGHGs. While CFCs and most halons are decreasing, hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are also potent greenhouse gases, are increasing at relatively rapid rates, although they are still low in abundance”

2. “reduction in the emissions of ozone-depleting substances”

Not really! There was a CH4 pause but it resumed rising in 2006.

Montreal_Halocarbons

3. What about N2O which contributes 6% of the radiative forcing? Nope.

Montreal_N2O

Lets take a look at the over all table. I see no reduction. (I also don’t see H2O, but the AGW Cult always ignores water vapor).

Montreal_Table1

Quick Robin … To The Bat Chopper

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It’s not really funny is it …

“BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 8 (UPI) — Wind turbines killed at least 600,000 — and possibly as many as 900,000 — bats in the United States in 2012, researchers say.

Writing in the journal BioScience, the researchers said they used sophisticated statistical techniques to infer the probable number of bat deaths at wind energy facilities from the number of dead bats found at 21 locations.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/09/Wind-turbines-blamed-in-death-of-estimated-600-000-bats-in-2012

The problem with the above article is that it probably grossly underestimates bat deaths considering the deaths of bird and bats found in Spain.

“The Spanish Ornithological Society in Madrid estimates that Spain’s 18,000 wind turbines may be killing 6 million to 18 million birds and bats annually. “A blade will cut a griffon vulture in half,” says Bechard. “I’ve seen them just decapitated.”

http://www.nature.com/news/the-trouble-with-turbines-an-ill-wind-1.10849

Biofuels Kill

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“Based on current technologies, higher biofuel production
necessarily means greater diversion of crops and/or cropland to
the production of fuel rather than food. The iron law of supply
and demand dictates that this would almost unavoidably
increase global food prices over what they would otherwise be.”

 

“Results derived from World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO)
studies suggest that for every million people living in absolute
poverty in developing countries, there are annually at least 5,270
deaths and 183,000 Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost to
disease. Combining these estimates with estimates of the
increase in poverty owing to growth in biofuels production over
2004 levels leads to the conclusion that additional biofuel
production may have resulted in at least 192,000 excess deaths
and 6.7 million additional lost DALYs in 2010. These exceed
WHO’s estimated annual toll of 141,000 deaths and 5.4 million
lost DALYs attributable to global warming.

 

Thus, policies intended to mitigate global warming may actually have increased death and disease in developing countries.”

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 16 Number 1 Spring 2011

( Hat tip to commenter David L Hagen from here. )

 

Environmentalists Win Battle Over Keystone XL – Environment Loses War

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Environmentalists have kept the Keystone XL pipeline from being finished. Pipelines are the safest way to move oil to oil terminals on various costs of the USA and Canada. They are not perfect. There is some risk. But there is risk in every project.

Now oil companies are bypassing the Keystone.  They are going to move the oil (in fact they are already moving the oil) via rail. Moving oil by rail is not as safe. But it is easier to add rail cars and more rail terminals than it is to get a pipeline approved.

Way to go environmental morons. (Warning. Link is to NY Times)

“Since July, plans have been announced for three large loading terminals in western Canada with the combined capacity of 350,000 barrels a day — equivalent to roughly 40 percent of the capacity of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that is designed to bring oil from western Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast.  Over all, Canada is poised to quadruple its rail-loading capacity over the next few years to as much as 900,000 barrels a day, up from 180,000 today.”

“The Canadians remain a few years behind producers in North Dakota, where the paucity of pipelines encouraged early oil explorers like EOG Resources to form a partnership with Burlington Northern Santa Fe to build terminals for the shipment of oil by rail to refineries across the country.  Today more than three-quarters of North Dakota’s production, which also was to move on the Keystone XL pipeline, is transported by rail. The Canadian oil producers took notice.”

40 Years of Rising CO2 compared to Temperature

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40 Years of Rising CO2 … 1940 to 1979. Officially CO2 measurements only started in the 50s, but I think one can extrapolate backwards.

CO2 didn’t have much effect. The Temperature trend over those 40 years was -0.026C per decade. About -0.1C for the 40 years.

40 Years of rising CO2 a

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1979/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1979/trend/plot/esrl-co2/from:1940/to:1979/offset:-300/plot/esrl-co2/from:1940/to:1979/offset:-300/trend

Lets take a look at the same graph without the CO2 part.

40 Years of rising CO2 b

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1979/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1940/to:1979/trend

MET Throws Hissy Fit Over Winter Temprature Predictions

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“We saw similar headlines last year and instead winter 12/13 ended up being only the 43rd coldest on record with an average temperature of 3.3C and flooding until the turn of the year.”

Technically correct, but HADCET March 2013 was the 11th coldest March since 1659.

December 2013 was 3.3C colder than the warmest December.  January 2013 was 4C colder than the warmest January . And February 2013 was 4.7C colder than the warmest February.

No sign of global warming in HADCET for the winter months.

“While we have seen a return to more normal, cooler temperatures for this time of year, this is no indication of what we can expect over the next four months with regards to temperatures ”

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/winter-forecasting-responding-to-the-headlines/

Lets look at the last 15 years of HADCET for each month. What would you predict? 

HADCET Last 15 Years

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Says Killing Eagles is OK!

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“SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27 (UPI) —
A Solano County, Calif., wind farm would be the first renewable energy project in the nation allowed to kill eagles under a federal plan, a U.S. agency said.
Under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal, outlined in a draft environmental report released Thursday, the Shiloh IV Wind Project would be issued a golden eagle take permit for its 3,500-acre plant in the Montezuma Hills, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The plan would allow the company’s 50 wind turbines to kill as many as five golden eagles in a five-year period in exchange for measures to protect the birds, including retrofitting 133 power poles to prevent electrocutions, the Chronicle said.
“The bottom line is a permit will help preserve eagles,” said Scott Flaherty, the deputy assistant regional director of external affairs for the Fish and Wildlife Service.”

http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upiUPI-20130927-131354-9098

Paraphrasing … They had to kill the Eagles to save them, *

It is a pretty sick world where an agency tasked with preserving Eagles is goving out permits to kill Eagles and turning a blind eye to the Eagles already being electrocuted.

Shilo IV is rated at 102.5 MW , which means it may average 25MW.

 

Did you know you can buy a 100MW gas generator for around 30 million.

 

 

 

IPCC Statement About Last 3 Decades

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“Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850”

My Response (using HADCRUT4 data)

Decade Mean Anomaly C

1850 -0.32
1860 -0.33
1870 -0.26
1880 -0.30
1890 -0.36
1900 -0.41
1910 -0.39
1920 -0.25
1930 -0.12
1940 0.00
1950 -0.06
1960 -0.05
1970 -0.08

Each of the 4 decades after the 1870s were successively COLDER at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850

Why did it take until the 1920s to get as warm as the 1870s?

Each of the 3 decades after the 1900s were successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850

But the next 3 decades after the 1940s were COLDER than the 1940s.

Why?

Explain your work.

IPCC AR5 Admits They Have No Clue What Caused the 15 Year Pause in Warming

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From the leaked AR5 Summary:

“The observed reduction in warming trend over the period 1998–2012 as compared to the period 1951–1 2012, is due in roughly equal measure to a cooling contribution from internal variability and a reduced trend in radiative forcing (medium confidence). The reduced trend in radiative forcing is primarily due to volcanic eruptions and the downward phase of the current solar cycle. However, there is low confidence in quantifying the role of changes in radiative forcing in causing this reduced warming trend. {Box 9.2; 10.3.1; Box 10.2}”

Translation: It was the sun. Or super secret volcanoes. Or something.