The war on jobs and affordable energy is real and continues to pick up steam with a swarm of new regulations coming out of President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency contributing to more mine closures and plant shutdowns across the country. Last week, we witnessed the latest round of victims in the war on coal, with Georgia Power Co. announcing its plans to shutter 15 fossil-fuel-fired electric units, impacting nearly 500 jobs in the state.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/...warming-takes-a-vacation/

Before this thread proceeds further could I just say trying to do best by the planet is the right thing to do - I have no beef with this - this is only sensible.

If we could only power our current lifestyle by erecting wind turbines and pointing slivers of silicon towards the sky then this would be great

Improvements in efficiency are not to be scoffed at

What is at debate is the reining in of our freedoms, the reduction in our potential to innovate and to prosper and the fear instilled in our Children caused by the fallacious notion that we control the Climate by changes in the atmospheric concentration of an essential gas that makes up, currently - as it swings up and down throughout the year, 0.039428% of the atmosphere.


Gerald the same is happening at this side of the pond through the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive.

Perfectly good Power Stations are going to be switched off soon and because of the CO2 Hysteria new ones are being abandoned due to "Green" pressure - see the first post in this thread

For those of us living in the UK see how much reserve we have today in the system

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

That first dial which goes to 70 GW soon will not be able to reach the end stop as those coal stations are switched off.

Today we hit 55GW with industry in the doldrums of recession. I have seen the demand for 76GW in Dec 2010 - the 2nd coldest December in 350 years.

It will only take a cold snap like that and

The annual audit continues...

I have completed the visual audit of each weather stations records and removed the anomalies from the data stream (all will be publicly displayed)

Someone at NOAA really needs to send out a missive to the dedicated band of folk that record the weather data around the clock that the temperature is recorded in C not F

Countless times 32C ends up as 0C or 0C ends up as -17C in the USA Records

Anyway I'm ploughing on through it.


Here's an example of a clear anomaly (and not just me modifying history as we have seen in other data series)



One of the temperature measurements from this station isn't right - can you tell which one it is?

This is the temperature record from Cape Town International Airport as found here http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/FACT.html

It's these anomalies that I have removed along with weather stations that have packed up since kick off on this project through the audit

I just want to keep on comparing apples with apples (no bananas to slip up on)

Dave


p.s. as you can see I'm doing the audit offline

Genius

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/98...roject.html#disqus_thread

Just loving the comments below this one


This is the UK Government deal requiring no Government involvement

You take out a loan to insulate your property (assuming you own the property) then you pay it back through higher gas and electricity bills (which are already enormous) if you sell your property the new owners are saddled with the the remainder of the loan and they will also inherit the higher fuel costs

This is the "Governments" Green Deal

Thank you UK Gov for nowt

So it's not true that years go by faster as you get older my days are now 658 microseconds longer than they were when I was born

Just think what you can achieve with all that extra time

(No rude comments from the Gallery - thank you btw the answer is, as always, "twice" )