lapogus, Against my better judgement, I posted this, as one of the only two comments at Bob Ward's site:

Yeah, right....
Lomborg is one of the people who believes in the standard global-warming theory, but he just doesn't subscribe to to the proposed political solutions. So, despite using models which are approve by the "consensus”, he actually gets a worse hating for that than if he argued about the science.

Meanwhile, Bob Ward's paymaster, Jeremy Grantham, is still not sure how he can best make huge profits from things like carbon trading. Despite having built a whole "Institute" at the LSE to promote his cause.

Paris will offer little succour, Jeremy.

It's still in moderation, but we'll see how it goes. I'm willing to visit almost (almost) any site once to comment.

The Germans name their fronts ( I don't mean as in Westfront or Siegfried Line).

At the moment they have a high-pressure front called Ulrike that is in the south and a low-pressure front called Eugen which will bring them the same storms that we are supposed to have.

I always thought that a bit odd. How quickly do they run through the alphabet ?

turningtide,

I think it is a fantastic idea and one that should inspire us to think of names for the rare occasions that we get a week of sunshine, I would hazard a guess that we haven't had Zachary yet this year!

@NeilC

I too could have sworn Storm Abigail was the (entirely normal) storm we had last weekend.

The people who live in Hurricane Alley would be pissing themselves laughing if they knew about our named storms!

I had to laugh when I heard the weather forecast this morning going on about Storm Abigail expected tomorrow. Considering, as reported in the Daily Telegraph last Friday “Storm Abigail, named by the Met Office following a public consultation – is expected to sweep in from the Atlantic tomorrow.” Now let me think, that would be last Saturday.

So is the Storm Abigail named in the forecast today really Abigail 2 or a rebirth of Abigail or indeed Benjamin or whatever name is next on the list.

Or are they being misleading by getting it wrong last weekend and starting the Storm season again.

Philip when renewable energy companies make their claims like "this project powers x number of homes" You should point out they mean "pixie-homes".

Pixie-home is the official unit of measurement of the Renewable energy companies.
#1. A pixie-home uses far less power than the normal human family home people imagine.
#2. A pixie-home doesn't take any power from the normal 24hour reliable grid as it only needs energy when the renewable company supplies it. At other times MAGIC is used to keep the lights on.
( Anyway pixie-homes don't use much power as they are lit by fairy lights.)
#3. A pixie-home reflects all the power used by a pixie family as pixies don't work in normal jobs, use government services or buy consumer products or services. So in calculating the electrical power used by pixies we don't have to take account of the power used in those external locations.
That's in contrast to a human home where 8 times as much energy is used outside the home as in it.

Future News
Putin agrees to sighn the Paris Climate treaty on the same day that the international athletics organisation finds Russia completely innocent of all doping charges.