Unthreaded
Iceland early news reports said "verified carbon negative"
but I spot a correction "This post was updated on 17 October 2017 to clarify that the Hellisheidi power plant is not yet carbon-negative."
Bottomline if it costs so much then it is not sustainable.
stewgreen
Psychiatrists are overworked in Nebraska and Kansas treating patients suffering massive withdrawal symptoms. The most severely affected cannot even stir their coffee without going into a fugue. Roaming the highways in a vain search, all they find are blue skies or damned fluffy rain clouds. "It's those fu¢kin' Canadians sending down their fu¢kin' jet stream wot dun it". Twister dependency is a newly recognized mental aberration and this year is particularly severe. Treatment includes playing the work of Twista and Do or Die, especially their 2015 collaborative work Withdrawal. If tornados don't reappear by next week (in which case the tornado season will start the latest on record and the "Alley will lose its UNESCO status) storm chasers will be in a bad way. Treatment using dust devils in Texas shows some promise. "It's just one of the unexpected features of climate change"
Supertroll
An objective look at electric vehicles
h/t WUWT
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/25/a-positive-perspective-on-electric-vehicles/
Ross Lea
8:30pm Radio World Service
"In Iceland, an ingenious geothermal power plant has opened, which captures CO2 from the air and converts it to stone.
Is this the way forward for solving a desperately urgent problem, or just an expensive and doomed experiment?
Marnie Chesterton takes a look at what's going on deep under Iceland."
Hmm if it magically worked we'd already know about it.
300MW is it stone or methanol ? conflicteing claims
"CO2-to-methanol plant which captures CO₂ emissions, and using renewable electricity from hydro and geothermal energy to produce “green” hydrogen, the CO2 and H2 are converted into #methanol"
"capturing only 50 metric tons CO2 from the air each year " (almost nothing)
"uses more #CO2 than it emits."
stewgreen
libmob undercover mafia to Tories
'OK you can stay in power, but remember we have our giant blackmail book, so you do what we want '
stewgreen
Pcar (Apr 26, 2018 at 11:14 PM): What is the Conservative Party Wednesday? Is that another behind-the-scenes group, like the Monday Club?
Radical Rodent
This is an interesting idea
https://www.nas.org/articles/comment_on_the_irreproducibility_crisis_henry_h._bauer
but I do not think it will get anywhere unfortunately.
Ross Lea
7:30pm Channel Unreported World
The World's Dirtiest Air
In Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia, respiratory illness is the biggest killer of children under five. As Marcel Theroux learns in this week’s report, a layer of smog caused by coal soot means pollution levels are 100 times the accepted limit and cases of respiratory infections have trebled over the past ten years.
As an example of environmental blight, that would be bad enough, but Theroux heads into the countryside, where he discovers why so many people are moving to the capital.
He follows a trail of animal carcasses: some 700,000 animals are estimated to have died in an incredibly harsh period of freezing weather called a ‘dzud’: climate change is apparently making such deep freezes more common.
(Hmm)
The other half of blurb
stewgreen
If Donald Trump does meet Kim Jong-un, should they swap hair stylists?
It is doubtful whether many American hair grooming experts would want to live in North Korea, but if Trump offered the honour to key members of the Hockey Team, they could finally do something beneficial for World Peace and Harmony, before it is too late. Who else would employ them anyway?
golf charlie
Apr 27, 2018 at 10:18 AM | Supertroll It is worse than we thought, and gets worser.
US Country Bumpkins are not happy bunnies:
Likely coldest April since 1895 – U.S. farmers delay planting crops
Anthony Watts / 12 hours ago April 26, 2018
Farmers are suffering as the cold, wet spring has put a stunning halt to agriculture. Ice Age Farmer Report – 19 Apr 2018
Soil temperatures are below normal, and not conducive to planting yet.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/26/likely-coldest-april-since-1895-u-s-farmers-delay-planting-crops/
US Townies are not a lot happier:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/27/some-major-u-s-cities-headed-for-coldest-april-in-recorded-history/
"For some communities, April won’t just be memorable… it will might just go down in history. How? Well there are so many fascinating statistics to swoon over that we dug up! While doing some number crunching for Detroit Metropolitan International Airport, it wasn’t an eye opener that April has been about 10 F below seasonal norms. The normal monthly average daytime high is 59.1 F, we only got 49.7 as an average. Another stat that won’t come as a surprise is the lack of warmth — we have yet to crack 70ºF more than once this April in Detroit, Chicago and Buffalo!"
When Global Warmists tried to rebrand themselves as Climate Changeists, did they know their theories weren't even half-baked Alaska?