Unthreaded
There seem to be problems with continental power supply. On 5th October, there was a reduction from an almost constant 2GW being imported over the French interconnector down to 1GW, and more recenty it has even been running in the reverse direction at 1GW - a 3GW turn-around that we could ill afford in a winter windless cold snap. It could get even worse - rising to 2GW export, alongside 1GW reverse flow on the BritNed line, a 6GW supply hit in total, if the Continentals outbid us for power cuts. Interconnectors are two edged swords.
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
It doesn't add up...
Two reports out today looking at this winter's energy supply. They can be downloaded Winter Outlook Report and Statutory security of supply report 2015.
Phillip Bratby
Lord Beaverbrook: People who understand these things consider it would be marvelous if the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon failed. They were 'only' asking for £168/MWh, ie 'only' about 4 times the wholesale price of electricity.
Phillip Bratby
'Catastrophic' if £1bn Swansea Bay tidal lagoon fails
"Ioan Jenkins, Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) development director, said they "have to be confident" the UK government will pay the subsidy they want for power generated by the Swansea Bay lagoon.
But he would not reveal the figure.
The company is asking for a higher subsidy than wind turbines, solar power and nuclear."
Oooohh that would be catastrophic then!
Lord Beaverbrook
Australia approves controversial Carmichael coal mine
Could this be a BBC story you ask? How perceptive of you.
Lord Beaverbrook
The GWPF lecture by Patrick Moore is now available Patrick Moore: Let’s Celebrate CO2!
Phillip Bratby
Using the fox killing photo as evidence of warming is one of the most unscientific things I have heard. There has always been an interface/overlap between the two populations. And who knows if the Arctic fox ventured further south because it was too cold? Same logic.
David Schofield
@steveta_uk
"CSI goes downhill! Makes Cook, Lewandowsky, Oreskes, Mashey, fellows"
Jeez the official skeptic movement has "jumped the shark"
CSICOP has made those serial deceivers fellows ..for God's sake they are supposed to be ambassadors for skepticism
It's time for proper skeptics to stand up against the climate True-believers.
It's CSICOP who have left the skeptic movement ..not us.
So far I found no discussion just 2 posts on twitter, but I expect discussion to come to www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/ soon ..unless free discussion of it is banned
stewgreen
@Salopian That rings some bells for me ..about exploiting Wildlife photo competitions for propaganda
- June 2015 Me commenting about Veolia's unhealthy relationship with the Guardian "The Veolia Environment wildlife photographer of the year USED to be frequently mentioned until 2012"
(In 2013 Veolia stopped sponsoring The competition owned jointly by BBC Worldwide and The Natural History Museum)(Veolia is connected to Lord Deben AKA JS Gummer)
- BH in Feb 2015 In a bid to show how careful it is with taxpayer's cash, DECC has decided to launch a climate change photography competition."
Bish didn't follow it up... but on DECC website in March :
Winners of a DECC image competition have shown the impacts climate change is having on people in the UK and across the world.I note a similar but different competition was just awarded in September British Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 is Barrie Williams".James Alexander took first prize for his striking picture of the devastating impact climate change is having in Africa...
..Six runners-up were also selected including Leanne Hughes for her picture of a windfarm taken in Anglesey, and Anna Warner for her image of her family riding their bikes in the countryside in Royston, stressing the need to think local in our action against climate change.
In fact there are about 25+ Wildlife photo competitions each year, so the alarmists have opportunity to spin a climate story from one of them. And plenty of judges to mine for quotes.
Strangely it's the BBC who shoehorned the Climate change mention into this story. The official competition website does mention Climate Change for 3 other photos, but not for the winner)
BTW in the BBC article I see a statement made withOUT quotation marks as if the BBC asserts it's 100% fact
(competition judge) Kathy, who is National Geographic magazine's senior editor for natural history projects, also described it as an image with a powerful message about climate change. (that bits fine)That BBC Jonathan Amos item has no open comments.
Higher latitudes are warming fast*, allowing animals that would not normally come into contact to cross each other's ranges. (*is this really fact ?)
"As it gets warmer (next line has quotation marks, so that's fine)
stewgreen
"The U.K.’s largest closely held company has U.S. shale to thank for its survival.
"Ineos Group Ltd., which manufactures chemicals used to make jet fuel to yogurt pots, was running equipment at its biggest plant, in Grangemouth, Scotland, at less than half capacity. That’s because its sources of raw materials -- oil and gas fields in the North Sea -- were depleting and the volume of fuel heading to the facility dwindling.
"Hoisting the roof in July onto an ethane storage tank large enough to hold 560 double-decker buses was a sign of the company’s reviving fortunes. Amid a $1 billion overhaul -- a life or death revamp for the plant -- the biggest such container in Europe will store feedstock originating not from fields off Britain’s coast, but from as far away as Pennsylvania; gas produced amid the shale-fracking boom."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-14/u-s-shale-surge-saves-dying-chemicals-plant-3-300-miles-away