http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22031871

In other news

http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/36...eserves-lets-get-fracking

Britain has just won the world's biggest energy jackpot, potentially worth a staggering £1trillion. Yesterday it emerged that the United Kingdom not only holds the biggest shale basin in the world but that Britain most likely has the biggest shale reserves worldwide.

Britain's gargantuan shale reserves finally confirm that the country will have enough cheap and abundant energy for centuries to come.


Best not use it to give the people of this Nation low fuel bills for the foreseeable. They would only go and spend the money on something else.


Paying Businesses not to use Electricity in times of shortage

Now there's a great idea

The June 2013 result is in and the average temperature from 2542 NOAA Weather Stations around the Globe was 20.39C



The average temperature July 2012 through to the end of June 2013 was 12.439C



Here's another forum friendly sized graph that updates hourly



The graph above is (at this moment in time) the result of 55,623,437 individual temperature measurements taken around the Globe from NOAA Weather Stations since the beginning of 2011


Al Gore claimed in his Oscar Winning Movie "A Convenient Tax Gathering Ruse" that we were like a frog in a pan of water. He rightly claimed if you put the frog in boiling water it would jump out. Then he claimed if you put the frog in water that was slowly heating up it wouldn't notice it was getting hotter and eventually it would be boiled alive. An Allegorical tale of our own Alleged situation.
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Dear Mr Gore

You were right, the temperature change is imperceptible.

However I've noticed.

I've noticed that the owner of this pan of water can no longer afford to pay either his or her electricity or gas bill.

As this "pan of water" is now getting decidedly tepid.

Best Regards

Dave

A surprising (to me) argument against fracking is that it can harm wildlife such as birds.
"hear from you about sightings of other ...the drilling sites."

I'm pretty sure that fracking sites have a relatively small anti-bird impact (compared e.g. with clearing woodlands for a biofuel farm). And surely wind farms are far more harmful; just a few days ago horrified birdwatchers saw a rare white-throa...l fly into a wind turbine.

But I suspect climate alarmist articles that argue against biofuel or wind farms are exceedingly rare, and the needletail incident in particular will be rationalized away. Invasive species! Must kill wildlife in order to save them. Whatever.

Interesting. I think wind turbines are the most scenic modern power source.

I live in North Carolina (middle of the East Coast of US) and right now our beach communities are fighting off-shore wind turbines because at 10 miles out they would still be visible on the horizon on most days. For me that would be a feature!

But it isn't all good. Every power source has downsides, which increase with increasing use. We need as clear an understanding of such things as we can get.

"To measure is to know." - Lord Kelvin

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used to give estimates bird mortality from wind turbines, but no longer does.

Truth is always the first casualty of politicization.