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2 stories of bias in BBC From Our Own Correspondent
#1 "El Ninos ..are amplified by global climate change" says reporter as if its a proven fact
\\This morning’s ‘From Our Own (biased) Correspondent’ managed to slip in an unproven assertion that this year’s El Nino was being amplified by man-made global warming and how wonderful Detroit is now that they make bicycles there instead of cars. //(Steve Jones on BBBC)
#2 A BBC 'reporter' laments that Climate Change hasn't been dealt with cos of lobbying money.
I posted more details in the Discussion Thread
stewgreen
US shale frackers eye world conquest despite bloodbath
"........Mr Papa expects the global balance of supply and demand to tighten by 1.6m b/d this year. This would mop up the glut, before gradually eating into record stocks next year. "The market is going to grow to 100m b/d. Where is the quantity going to come from? Capital spending on mega-projects has stopped cold,” he said.
“I can see a case where US shale is the biggest supplier of oil in the world by 2020. We could turn the whole thing on its ear, producing 13-14m b/d. But it will be really ugly getting through this valley,” he said.This would amount to 16m b/d if all liquids are included, more than the combined crude exports of Saudi Arabia and Russia. The International Energy Agency forecast this week that the US would account for much of the growth in world output by 2020 - after dropping 600,000 b/d this year, and 200,000 next year......."
Green Sand
Oscar news : 'Traveling around I see it is more difficult to find snow ' I paraphrase Leo di Caprio
stewgreen
BiasedBBC has an interesting video about NGOs receiving large amounts of EU money.
\\ Astonishingly Oxfam has received over €326 million from the EU between 2007 and 2013….last year it received €82.8 million. Oxfam doesn’t just use this to feed or educate the needy it uses it to lobby and pressurise governments to adopt policies that Oxfam wants them to adopt.//
stewgreen
In Zimbabwe there has been heavy destructive rain
But Mugabe has continued with the declared El Nino drought emergency pausing for his lavish 92 year old birthday party.
US and EU rice bags of aid are flowing in (older background from TownHall Blog
stewgreen
"0.0018 CM & 3grammes" how you measure a baby that accurateIy don't know.
Their 'aving a larf.
Roger Tolson
More problems cause by climate change: Heatwaves and cold snaps make babies shorter and smaller, scientists find.
“Worldwide, pregnant women and their babies and children are often some of the most vulnerable members of society and consequently the hardest hit by climate change. As healthcare professionals we need to work now on finding ways to mitigate the effects of climate change on health.
And there was I thinking that we'd always had heatwaves and cold snaps. UEA involvement, more money needed for research.
Phillip Bratby
While Bish is on his well-earned weekend break, people might be interested in Geoff's article on the pause, Betts, Lew, Karl and Mann.
http://cliscep.com/2016/02/27/mann-blocks-lew-loses-betts/
Paul Matthews
Does anybody know of estimates of power consumption for non wind driven windmills - i.e. maintaining the nacelles and if required slowly rotating the machinery to avoid blade droop + set and gearbox "sawing"?
tomo
BBC news "India gov has announced that all remaining 19,000 villages will have electricity within the next 2 years"
..It seems it was a throwaway line in the Indian budget which just repeats an already existing target of 1st May, 2018
"The government is committed to achieve 100 percent village electrification by 1st May, 2018," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.
The Indian business newspaper pointed out factories are losing faith in the grid and political interference