Unthreaded
EM, you claim to be an expert in so much, but can not justify or explain anything.
Isn't it lucky that there are blogs with a higher threshhold of tolerance, otherwise, where would you shill?
golf charlie
Alan Kendall
<Blocckquote>. I was led to.believe that BH was a site that welcomed dissent, that did not behave as sites that support alarmism. Yet you repeat a trollism about EM from Hunter, something repeated and used to describe me by Dung. I am surprised.
Welcome to the reality of Bishop Hill.
Entropic man
@Philip "anti-frackers" are embedded within the BBC
Anti-wind farm protesters are not
The Cornwall protesters probably don't have London offices
But Green Blob has London offices and lots of PR people writing BBC scripts.
stewgreen
I see the BBC has been giving lots of coverage to the "controversial" fracking planning application in Yorkshire, citing objections from locals and environmentalists. The strange thing is that the BBC did not cover the public inquiry into the hugely controversial wind farm in Cornwall, which was opposed by locals and environmentalists.
Apparently there is no depth to which the anti-frackers will stoop Anti-Fracking Campaigners Suspected over Email Hacking. Why the local council is allowing so many speakers is a mystery to me. Most LPAs limit the number of speakers because they get repetitive and boring.
Phillip Bratby
Green Sand & stewgreen,
the article clearly says it is due to the 'French interconnector cable' that we can have cheaper and more reliable power in Britain. Obviously British interconnector cables are rubbish. Is this due to the quality of the cable, or what they are interconnecting?
golf charlie
Is France's power cheap cos they have miles more "intermittent renewables" than us ? /sarc
stewgreen
From the company whose CEO told us we should expect our electricity to become exclusive - you can have it when we say you can have it! NG does like the intermittent renewables that enhance its interconnector business. I wonder how France generates all that 'cheap power', don't bother....
National Grid profits rise as UK imports cheap French power
" Profits at National Grid rose 6pc to £4.1bn last year as the company benefited from Britain importing cheaper power from France.The utility giant, which manages Britain's gas and electricity networks, said that a "strong performance" from the French interconnector cable contributed to the rise in group adjusted operating profits, which was in line with analysts' expectations.
Operating profits from its 2 gigawatt undersea power cable rose 19pc to £123m, as the "high power price differential between France and the UK in the first half of the year" meant companies were willing to pay higher fees to use the interconnector to buy cheap power from France.
Profits from the UK electricity transmission business fell by 5pc but gas transmission and distribution profits were up by 11pc and 6pc respectively......"
Green Sand
Discussion thread for BBC Inside Science.
I'm copying across some comments from here.
Paul Matthews
EM, so if you are so confident that insolation is not the basic flaw with climate models, have you worked out what is?
With the hundreds of millions being pumped into false modelling, and the billions being wasted on the consequences, you could save the world from this insanity.
As Grant Foster and Rahmsdorf have dedicated their work to Mann's Hockey Stick, it seems they have boxed themselves into the corner of irrelevance, or worse, George Mason University's
golf charlie
Questions that it would be interesting to hear the answers to:
What evidence is required for the AGW theory to be falsified?
Have any of the changes that AGW is supposedly responsible for happened in the past?
Follow-on questions:
1) If they have, were these caused by human activity?
2) If not, then what was the cause?
3) Could this cause be having some effect now?
What is the global climate, and how is this measured?
What would constitute a global climate change, and how would this be measured?
Who benefits from depriving the general populace of cheap energy?
Now, here is the Big Question: are there any reading this who are willing to provide an answer to at least one of those questions?