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With the CAGW “scare” showing signs of winding down, there’s still debris to clean up, e.g. “green” energy like wind. I’m shifting a lot of my attention to Industrial Wind Turbines in New Hampshire. Near the Newfound Lake region one project is complete (Groton Wind on Tenney and Fletcher mountains) and three or four more are in various planning stages.
Next up is Wild Meadows, http://iberdrolarenewables.us/wildmeadows/index.html , which originally proposed several turbines that I think would have been visble from our yurt on the side of Mt Cardigan. A revised plan drops that ridge, but puts larger turbines (500 feet tall) on the other ridges they’re eying.
Partially thanks to throwing the towns of Groton and Rumney under the bus, the opposition to these projects is much greater, Wild Meadows should be filing their formal application to the state this month.
I’m getting interested in issues behind infrasound emitted from IWTs. This started from reading very similar accounts from all over the world, and finding that noise studies generally use “dBa weighting” which greatly discounts lower frequencies. However, the infrasound component unweighted is often over 100 dB and appears to be responsible for many health problems.
I’m also interested in taking infrasound recordings and shifting them some seven octaves through faster playback and frequency scaling. WUWT community – if you know of recordings that people have done like that, please share links.
Also, this might be a good Open Thread to talk about other wind projects that have or will impact people.
Not a regular football fan, but it was fun watching so many football games being played in the snow today. Just like I remembered growing up decades ago. My Philadelphia Eagles didn’t disappoint me either.
Didn’t IPCC tell us we’d never see another football game played in the snow ever again?
Or it might also be a time to reflect that almost everybody with a science training thinks himself or herself to be of a higher calling, almost Godlike, compared to mere mortals. But William S. Burroughs, a mad old junkie, once sagely observed, “there is no job too dirty for a f****** scientist”.
Read on and if the link doesn’t work google Unit731.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Enjoy the AGU mtg in San Fran.
John
I’m curious, and I don’t have cable/satellite. I was in the path the recent winter storm that tore through America. We got anywhere from 8 to 12 inches of ice, sleet and snow. I’m still stuck in my home due to icy roads. Anybody seeing any attributions to “climate disruption” regarding this storm? It’s not just been the precipitation. It’s been damn cold as well. Any source out there blaming the melting polar ice caps? or any other such nonsense? And to all you who are sharing my cold feet – God bless and keep you warm.
Hey, Ric Werme checkout this article from Bishop HIll a day or two ago.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/12/6/windfarm-noise-state-of-play.html
I ran across this interesting reply from Ehrlich-worshiping Malthusian, Michael Mann at Real Climate.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/08/language-intelligence-lessons-on-persuasion-from-jesus-shakespeare-lincoln-and-lady-gaga-a-review/comment-page-1/#comment-244623
Evening. I am a lay person trying to hold my own in an extremely pro-warmist group.
Someone made the following remark to my attempt to explain why I was intrigued more by the uncertainties of AGW than the peer-reviewed IPCC account: First point is that, like with CFCs, we don’t actually have a way to put the genie back in the bottle. If moving enough carbon out of the mineralized form does push the climate into the same temperature range that it was in in the Pleistocene then we don’t have any way to walk that back, even if it does take 300-400 years to reach that median temperature. A scientific view means recognizing that the climate is the result of a many factors, a few of which have the ability to move the climate baseline up or down and many many of which are responsive to mean conditions. CO2 moves the climate baseline and it does so on a timescale of thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of years, because that is the typical rate that the fractions move between their aqueous, mineralized and atmospheric forms. So no, no sensible person believes that the real dramatic climate impacts with start in the next hundred years, the stuff that we care about, like storms and small changes in sea level is pocket change to the global climate. That we might actually be really screwing with things that took geological time to get where they are? Yeah, that’s a pretty solid concern.” Do you agree?
Delingpole “Wind farm noise: a government cover-up”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100248760/wind-farm-noise-a-government-cover-up/
http://www.windvictimsontario.com/
Snow at football games? Meh. The latest Australian Bushfire report:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zxzcyxkucnqt3o0/cc.bushfire.report.web.pdf
In line with the hundreds of thousands of Bitish homeowners who are having difficulty gaining any access to any home insurance at all, homes in some areas of Australia have also become uninsurable and the increase in insurance rates for homes in Australia far outstrips the rate of inflation.
Better you than me. Glad you could go. I did my time in Berkeley and that was plenty.
Ice banks are starting to form south of Milwaukee (near Wind Point) on Lake Michigan. Usually these don’t form for three-four more weeks. No New Years Day polar bear ice plunges this year.
Deloitte Report on the Insurance Industry in the United States. Note in particular point 8 in the challenges. Note also comment on what insurers are going to do to US premiums in order to manage their climate risks:
http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/FSI/US_FSI_P&C2013Outlook_010913.pdf
Ric… I just threw up in my mouth when I read your comment.
I learned to ski at tenney mt. It was my favorite place to ski.
Great times with great friends. It really sickens me to hear
what these a..holes are doing . For what? I’ve signed partitions
What else can l do. I live in mass but go up to N.H. for skiing
Snowmobiling and ice fishing on conway lake. This bullshit
Has to stop. How?????
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.I do think it is extremely disturbing that well meaning people have to go through such contortions to try and sort through the lies and the facts without a solid scientific background. This was his further concern: Our current warm climate seems to be to due shifts in terrestrial baseline climate factors and not extra planetary shifts which should by rights place us somewhere in the persistently cold phase. If the move from global persistent ice age to global tropical experience is due almost entirely to a shift in atmospheric content, then yes, it is very valid to assert that artificially accelerating that process should accelerate the shift to an even warmer climate, essentially taking the slow impact of the higher CO2 levels that shifted us away from 40% icecap and doubling them. When you look at it only from the perspective of human experience it seems impossible for the climate to shift that much with such a seemingly small cause, but if you look at the climate over a wider scale there is this terrifying portent that already the climate might have shifted away from a much colder mean temperature, rapidly, and in response to a relatively smaller change in GHG.
I am thinking there could quite easily be extra planetary shifts though. Especially from the sun:
COSMIC RAYS AND CLIMATE
Jasper Kirkby CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Abstract
Among the most puzzling questions in climate change is that of solar-climate variability, which has attracted the attention of scientists for more than two centuries. Until recently, even the existence of solar-climate variability has been controversial—perhaps because the observations had largely involved correlations between climate and the sunspot cycle that had persisted for only a few decades. Over the last few years, however, diverse reconstructions of past climate change have revealed clear associations with cosmic ray variations recorded in cosmogenic isotope archives, providing persuasive evidence for solar or cosmic ray forcing of the climate. However, despite the increasing evidence of its importance, solar-climate variability is likely to remain controversial until a physical mechanism is established. Although this remains a mystery, observations suggest that cloud cover may be influenced by cosmic rays, which are modulated by the solar wind and, on longer time scales, by the geomagnetic field and by the galactic environment of Earth. Two different classes of microphysical mechanisms have been proposed to connect cosmic rays with clouds: firstly, an influence of cosmic rays on the production of cloud condensation nuclei and, secondly, an influence of cosmic rays on the global electrical circuit in the atmosphere and, in turn, on ice nucleation and other cloud microphysical processes. Considerable progress on understanding ion-aerosol-cloud processes has been made in recent years, and the results are suggestive of a physically-plausible link between cosmic rays, clouds and climate. However, a concerted effort is now required to carry out definitive laboratory measurements of the fundamental physical and chemical processes involved, and to evaluate their climatic significance with dedicated field observations and modelling studies.
Keywords aerosols, clouds, climate, solar-climate variability, cosmic rays, ions, global electrical cir- cuit, CERN CLOUD facility
Published in Surveys in Geophysics 28, 333–375, doi: 10.1007/s10712-008-9030-6 (2007). The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
I looked at the program…
Sure — give my warmest regards to Dr. Mann:
http://www.bubblews.com/assets/images/news/1524579090_1369941782.jpg
Cheers and have a good meeting.
climateace says:
December 8, 2013 at 2:45 pm
Ah yes! A report from “Big Insurance”. Munich Re reduxulous.
“UNICEF”, etc. creates precedent. How about “UNIPOCC”? (The “O” stands for “on”.) With UNIPOCC, the definite article often need not be used, the same as within UNICEF.
“A pox on UNIPOCC” might be the next coinage. Followed by little rhyming couplets employing Mock, Nock, Rock, Sock, Block, Clock, Schlock, etc. If this tickles your fancy, let’s start a bandwagon!
reduxulousreduxilous.Just copied this off the very bottom of my local radar web page :
“NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE: for Safety, for Work, for Fun – FOR LIFE”
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Interesting, that they feel the need to promote themselves ?
Don’t know how long it has been there, I usually just look at the radar returns.
I’m glad I don’t have to commute between Barrie, Ontario and Toronto airport like my friend has to.
“Flurries or snow squalls” are often the same thing in that neck-of-the-woods.
Now for something fun–If an ideal absorber received the same solar intensity as the Earth, the temperature would be at 360K (87C, 189F).
(How does that “screen capture” work again?)