A new meaning to "WiFi hotspot" – increased CO2 may ruin future WiFi connections

That’s it then, we’re all gonna die. Again.

Wow, DEFRA, wow. Talk about a government agency that could just disappear without any notice.

“higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications…”
Then it’s a good thing that Global Cooling is taking over. But then once the alarmists recapture their 1970s refrain of Evil Republicans are going to put us in an Ice Age, they will find a way to Chicken Little this one, too.

Ahhh….the ultimate scare story for the kids…not the previous “we will all get malaria because of the warm climate” but……..”your iPhone won’t work”!
Now they really are pulling out all of the alarmism stops!
Interesting story though, as I always like to keep track of what the (official) effects of global warming will be, as this seems to change from year to year depending on the “weather”. So DEFRA now think that we will have “drier” summers and “wetter” winters? Quite a surprise that, given that the current meme is that the incredibly wet summer was caused by global warming “melting the icecap”… etc.
I really must try harder to keep up with this cutting edge climate science.

You never know with the leftist media these days, is this poorly marked satire or the normal deluded fare. Even Paul Krugman can’t tell the difference, and he’s got a Nobel Prize.

Uff da!

What kind of garbage story are they pushing? Why oh why do they not take into consideration, the age of lines where the signal is coming from. I should know because I have had the telephone company come to my house many times, to fix my problems. I know the age of the phone line to this house is old and near an underground spring that was here previously before they buried the phone and power lines. Crackling in my phone line every time the seasons changed was what I have to put up with, so it reduces the strength of my signal to the wifi router which would trouble the rest of us who were trying to connect to the internet.
I wish I could give them a good smack on the back of their skulls to wake them up from their stupidity.

Notice the lack of specifics here and their apparent ignorance that it rains already and gets hot already. If they’re expecting that much rain, I’d say wi fi problems aren’t their real problems.

The Minister of State for the Environment, responsible for this drivel, lost her job about a month ago, thank the Lord.

There were actually a number of very interesting things in the actual video. For example, showing the steam emerging from the cooling towers of a nuclear power plant as if it were a source of CO_2. Are they mad, or just plain stupid?
A number of the other things they claimed are utterly bogus. The emperor penguin may or may not be in trouble in one part of the world, but it isn’t because of global warming. Proving that species of tree frog have become extinct from the specific cause of global warming is similarly impossible to prove (assuming that it is true at all). Try deforestation, acid rain, human encroachment on and elimination of habitat — all more likely causes both for tree frogs and just about everything else in the same general category. It is quite impossible to see how spring happening “7 days earlier” is anything but beneficial, assuming again that it is true (earlier than what, when?).
Finally, their assertions of rising sea levels are truly utterly bogus. Sea level rise is measured in millimeters per year, and the rate has held rather steady for 140 years. Their assertion that it has “doubled” over the last 20 years is egregious cherrypicking, especially given the error bars and changeover in methodology (we have direct satellite measurements over a time frame of less than 20 years. The Maldives are not submerging, California is not submerging either, and there isn’t the slightest reason in the data to think that sea level will rise more than 1 inch per decade over the next 9 decades to the end of the century (or roughly 2.5 mm/year). The assertion of a 20 inch rise over a single decade is utter and complete bullshit, akin to Hansen’s assertion, 20 plus years ago, that the Hudson river would have overflowed its banks by now because of CAGW and sea level rise.
Oh, and yes, the primary assertion of the top article, that “global warming” (obviously, caused by naughty humans and their CO_2, not nature) will interfere with wireless is so full of shit that as assertions go, it should explode in one big shit-bomb. Don’t they actually understand that England is in the temperate zone? All of the “conditions” they list as being some sort of dire future state hold right now throughout the tropical world — high temperatures, high humidity (hell, I’ve lived through years’ worth of monsoon rains in midsummer in India). Do they really think that an 802.11 wireless network won’t work in tropical climates? They need to come out to Beaufort where I teach next to the sea every summer and observe that — fortunately — both my laptop and my cell phone seem to work fine under hot, humid, rainy conditions. Poor people living in India, in the Phillipines, in the rain forest! No cell phone for you!
Did I mention the tired (and false!) assertion of more frequent and more violent hurricanes? Where do they even get their data? Don’t they realize that the exact opposite is true, that we have just extended by almost a full year the previous record for number of days since a major (cat 3 or better) atlantic hurricane has made landfall in the US, with no major hurricanes in sight and the season over halfway finished? Don’t they understand that AFAIK even NASA admits that the reason there are more named storms now than in 1900 is that in 1900 many hurricanes went unreported (because they didn’t make landfall) where now every vagrant tropical storm out in the middle of nowhere gets a name even if it never comes without 1000 miles of land before it downgrades to nothing more than a patch of heavy rain? Satellites mean that no hurricane is ever missed. We didn’t have them until rather recently.
So yeah, very annoying article, quite aside from the question begging involved with asserting all of this damage is due to CO_2 and nothing else, as if the warming post LIA is entirely our “fault”.
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