Two of the three come via Junk Science, which actually all deserve their own longer post, but, hey, Sunday. The first is about the urban heat island effect making globull warming worse for the poor
(Toronto Star) Mitigating the Urban Heat Island effect — which can be as easy as switching roof colours — is a matter of social justice, many experts say. And as climate change continues to amplify weather extremes, that task is increasingly urgent.
Wait, I thought cities were the best thing for Everyone? No? But the big point is about social justice, another far left notion, at least in the way they push it, which highlights that the “climate change” movement is really about far left beliefs.
(News and Observer) The European Union and Great Britain have adopted aggressive targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. They have created incentives for electric utilities to cut back on their use of coal and will require renewable sources to provide 20 percent of all energy by 2020. Wind and solar power are expected to meet only a small share of that demand.
Power companies are looking to close the gap with biomass – primarily with imported wood pellets. Biomass use in Great Britain, 3 million tons last year, is expected to grow tenfold over the next five years.
Britain’s biggest carbon emitter is the Drax Group, a Yorkshire utility that operates the largest power plant in western Europe. Drax is converting half its plant from coal to wood pellets. Coal is one-third the price of pellets, but Drax CEO Dorothy Thompson said her company is responding to renewable-energy credits and a British carbon tax, introduced this year at $7 a ton, that will grow by 2020 to more than $60 a ton.
What we have going on here is that loggers are turning more and more of the logging waste into wood pellets, and making some good cash on the deal, because Europe is desperate for consistent, affordable power creation, what with all those restrictions on coal. Wind and solar cannot provide stable and affordable power at this time, and with 4 out of the past 5 winters being bitingly cold, and there having been no real spring or summer, all the “carbon credits” have been used up. Hey, anyone think this might hurt the poor?
(Climate Progress….which has been completely subsumed, BTW, under the Think Progress banner, without even it’s own URL anymore) We can confidently say that the risk of drought and heat waves has gone up and the odds of a hot spot somewhere on the planet have increased but the hotspot moves around and the location is not very predictable. This year perhaps it is East Asia: China, or earlier Siberia? It has been much wetter and cooler in the US (except for SW), whereas last year the hot spot was the US. Earlier this year it was Australia (Tasmania etc) in January (southern summer). We can name spots for all summers going back quite a few years: Australia in 2009, the Russian heat wave in 2010, Texas in 2011, etc.
Similarly with risk of high rains and floods: They are occurring but the location moves.
That’s Warmist Kevin Trenberth attempting to explain why Warmist hypotheses are failing spectacularly. Essentially, he’s just pulling crap out of his ass, like most Warmists do.
