Josh from cartoonsbyjosh.com has been extra busy this week. He writes of the latest IPCC debacle:
Christopher Booker suggested a lovely idea for his latest article They did not use it there… it is here instead 😉
Oh but wait…there’s more…Josh also writes:
Also from the article, the sad fact that Wind Turbines, much loved by the renewable energy lobby, requires back up generators if they are going to supply continuous energy.
So what is the difference bewteen now and a greener future? More dead birds and a hideous view? Great.
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IPCC = I peddle climate crap
IPCC = I Peddle Climate Crap
too good to be missed
No need to make a painting…
In my area: Kraftwerk Mehrum (coal powered).
http://wilfriedheck.tripod.com/wkr36.htm
if only the greenies would see it as most normal folk!
Unfortunately, what many fail to realise is the time it takes for coal fired power stations to ‘fire up’ – hence they normally run continuously – and hence the hydro power for instant ‘demand’. Alternative or renewables energy sources are unreliable, and so mainstream power sources must be kept ‘online’ for when they fail. It’s no different to hybrid cars which have normal petrol/gas for when the battery runs out! (the only difference being that in a power generation scenario, the power station is ‘run up’ in days or weeks, not at the flick of a dashboard switch!)
But, just think of all those green jobs created while increasing everyone’s electric bill!
Thanks
JK
A “Silent Spring” energy policy?
DirkH says:
June 18, 2011 at 4:45 pm
No need to make a painting…
In my area: Kraftwerk Mehrum (coal powered).
http://wilfriedheck.tripod.com/wkr36.htm
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Dirk, that would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
Windmills = Birdamatic. Slices, dices, makes Julienne fries.
Um, idea for the second panel.
“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” (Barack Obama).
Priceless!
Peace? Pachouri?
ICPP
I beleive there are reasonable ways to use particular sources for energy. I want to save the earth but I wouldn’t want to rely on what makes the Hybrid runs. If you uses the right source of energy for whatever reasons then you help save the earth and . I explain more later.
The IPCC strikes again. Has anyone coined the term “greenwashing” yet? Because that’s what the IPCC is doing – rubber stamping Greenpeace’s propaganda and “washing” it. The IPCC is being operating no differently than Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros during the sub-prime mortgage run-up – take a bunch of crap mortgages (or in the IPCC’s case untenable environmental policy) and run it through the machines of perceived respectability, and ta-dah! you have “AAA” mortgages and “peer-reviewed” conclusive evidence. We all saw what happened when the sub-prime mortgage meltdown happened – now we get to watch what happens when the entire AGW movement melts down under the same pressure. Pass the popcorn – this is going to be fun!
Univ Colorado drawing fire for re-working sea level change rates.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/research-center-under-fire-for-adjusted-sea-level-data/
It was a pretty lame attempt even at the time; it’s not surprising that their adjustment has drawn fire. They should have just called it as the satellite saw it.
The whole thing is a laughing stock now. A bloody expensive one.
Oliver Martin says:
June 18, 2011 at 5:01 pm
A “Silent Spring” energy policy?
Nice one – wind power will probably kill a lot more birds than DDT ever did.
I always liked this explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X–SzuqULD0&t=4m43s
Parse Error – even Holland doesn’t have that many windmills! Priceless.
Mine is:
Imbecilic Planetary Control Crew.
Enjoy.
And organic cukes kill more than nukes!
Can he draw one showing the beauty of solar energy, please?
Rather like the huge new solar power plant that they are going to build in Queensland. Most of the MSM reports are totally ignoring the fact that it is in fact a solar/gas plant. It will be interesting once it is in operation to see if they publish how much of its output is from solar and how much from gas.
The viewscape issue with wind farms is something that shouldn’t be ignored. I was thinking about this driving across I-80 last week. An interesting drive in that it crosses several large wind farms & multiple large natural gas fields. The wind farms are visible for 10’s of miles & really detract from some very pretty views of distant mountain ranges. Having driven this many times before the wind farms were there, I can say the wind farms are a pretty big negative impact on the feeling of the “wide open spaces” & “remoteness from civilization” you get in Wyoming (which is what I like about Wyoming) . The gas fields on the other hand are hardly noticeable & in fact probably wouldn’t be noticed at all by those who didn’t already know the gas fields were there.
All that being said, I have never seen Wyoming greener – even in desolate Rock Springs, it was green & there were still snow drifts on the bluffs – in mid June (you have to appreciate that this area is essentially a high desert & generally considered pretty bleak my most – this is very atypical for this late in the year – see other WUWT posts on cold / wet spring in the mountain west). I don’t think this is what the CAGW folks had envisioned.
Imaginary Planetary Crisis Cookbook.
Recipe of the day: Ponzi Pastry Turnovers stuffed with taxpayer Green.
StuartMcL says:
It will be interesting once it is in operation to see if they publish how much of its output is from solar and how much from gas.
I don’t care just as long as they go down this path, (there is no stopping them) and stay the hell away from those ugly useless bird killers.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/sunday-mail/sun-dawns-brightly-on-reginal-queenslands-12b-power-plant-plan/story-e6frep2f-1226077724572
You guys should check out the post on “Render the Debate Moot” at http://www.togetherwecanfixthis.com. Try the alternative to the alternatives.
This
is what
they really
want to do
to mountains
to display the crosses
and monstrous sunset sunrise flickering shadow fields
of sacrificial doomsday religion,
access roads and
power lines
too.