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The BBC are fond of rolling out their (English Lit major) Environment Correspondent to claim that Trump is just so wrong about CC. Harabin likes to claim that renewables – solar and wind – are now cheaper in some places than coal power. He also likes to claim that renewables are a great source of employment because there are more ‘green’ jobs in it than fossil-fuel power. But he ignores two glaring dichotomies: 1) Fossil-fuel power is more reliable, has a greater availability and better power factor; 2) ‘Creating’ Green jobs is the broken window scenario of full employment for glaziers.
Where are renewable cheaper than coal. certainly not in any civilized world, maybe on the space station. Certainly solar panels in Alaska that Obama funded don’t work well in the winter, but the Eskimo’s don’t need electricity in the winter to keep warm.
They are using the after subsidy price.
Even after the subsidy solar does not do well because of day/night.
India
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/us/politics/covfefe-trump-arabic.html?_r=0
“India’s coal-power plant developers are growing more pessimistic about their projects after a plunge in the cost of electricity from solar panels improved the economics of renewable energy.
After a string of federal auctions, solar is suddenly the cheapest source of electricity in India. That’s darkening the outlook for the coal-fired power industry as projects struggle to find customers or face cancellation amid a glut of capacity.”
If you are wondering why Griffie did not provide a link, perhaps this sentence will help:
Solar is not cheaper, they are just subsidizing it with the taxes on the coal. It only works as long as you can get taxes from coal.
Still not thinking before you post Griffie?
Just so you know Griff,
I am for any source of energy that
A) Is reliable
B) Is Grid supportalbe
C) Is uninterrupted without the need for fosil back-ups (Occasional outages during storms accepted)
D) Is the least expensive option available
E) Doesn’t rely on
heavyany government subsidies to be affordableF) Doesn’t require Government buy in to afford construction.
G) Isn’t forced on me by anyone elses beliefs.
H) Isn’t inexpensive due to Cheap manufacturing of components.
If the Solar in India you speak of meets all 9 criteria above then I applaud them, but is even 1 isn’t met then their country has my condolences
Solar can win contracts if its “nameplate” capacity is mistaken for its realistic capacity and if its promised lifetime is too optimistic (and if its rate of degradation isn’t taken into account).
And if the cost of maintenance is ignored.
I say it meets all of your points Bryan.
I don’t know if you can say it doesn’t need ‘fossil fuel back up’, because for now there will be areas where both fossil fuel and solar are in the mix… but solar doesn’t need back up as such…
roger, you should check the degradation rate on the latest solar… not an issue.
Griff,
renewables can’t possibly provide reliable 24/7/365 energy and you know it.
Whilst the NH may have a fair amount of wind, it is unreliable and uncontrollable. Humanity abandoned wind power over 100 years ago when it discovered fossil fuels because we could control fossil fuel energy delivery, we have no control over wind.
Similarly, solar is another element humanity has no control over other than we know that at certain times of the day, the lights go out. At the equator, that’s around 12 hours of sunlight a day, and 12 hours of darkness. Moving north or south into the upper and lower hemispheres, that becomes a problem because in winter, when most heating energy is needed, the sun shines for around 8 hours a day. In summer, when less energy is required, it shines for perhaps 16 hours a day, depending on location.
So the problem remains, bridging the average 12 hour gap of no sunlight, across the planet. How do we do that when battery storage simply can’t meet our needs right now?
Humanity has flourished by taking control of it’s destiny. But are we the first to do so, and not be extinct? Many living organisms have taken advantage of the planet, and still died off.
Whatever we do, we are going to be extinct eventually. If not by the sun exploding then by a spinning rock from space hitting us, which will happen at some point.
The objective, I guess, is to leave our planet at some point, heading for an equally habitable planet where we can all live, until the process is repeated.
To do that we need technology, and lots of it. I don’t want my descendants stuck on a planet of sandal wearing, green luddites, waiting for the sun to explode. I would far rather we all sucked the planet dry before blasting off to new worlds.
And if the planet is consumed by the sun, whilst still full of coal, oil, gas, uranium etc. and our descendants all die in the fireball, isn’t that simply irresponsible of us to allow that to happen? They will be saying “we were betrayed by our predecessors because they valued sandals over our existence”.
So when Trump announces NASA will be focussed on space exploration rather than monitoring a planet that’s going to die anyway, isn’t that actually quite insightful of the man? He might just light the fuse that allows our descendants to get off this rock someday.
And even religion must acknowledge this. If God created a planet, and it’s inhabitants, and the universe, and man evolved from nomad, to settler in his own domain, doesn’t that suggest that’s what man was designed to do? By God!
And there are millions of milky ways, billions of stars and trillions of planets out there we can potentially occupy.
What’s so special about this one?
Griff
You may be incorrect on the fossil back-up point. Grid scale storage batteries are still in their infancy and quite unproven. Grid scale Pumped Storage batteries (hydro) require immense water storage pools (lakes) which is part of why Hydro isn’t considered acceptable green as it replaces land habitat with water and drives animals and birds away from their normal nesting grounds.
For grid electricity to function properly, the power sources must remain fairly constant and uninterrupted. The inherent fluctuations in Solar energy as clouds often pass by blocking the collectors light (about 22% of the year) and at night (about 50% of the year) means that about 72% of the time, solar needs a reliable constant back-up ready to maintain the electric balance of the grid. Fossil is the only energy source capable of reliably fulfilling this function to date. Pumped Storage could and Nuclear could IF the envirofaschists would allow it. Some form of back-up is needed to ensure grid stability when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind isn’t blowing within narrow tolerances. 100% back-up!
Harry
renewables employ so many people because, as I read somewhere (sorry, I didn’t take the link) it takes 70 workers to produce the same energy as a single coal worker.
70 workers
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the media doesn’t understand this. they are barking because Peabody is opening a new coal mine that employs only 70 workers. but think of this. the coal itself is free, all you have to do is dig it up. So, if it only takes 70 workers, the coal is going to be very cheap. If it take 7 million workers, the coal is going to be very expensive.
otherwise, why do we use tractors and machines on farms? why not follow the example of Pol Pot and send everyone out to the farms at harvest time? Pol Pot created millions of farming jobs as a result. If the media is right, then we should follow Pol Pots example and hire millions of people to do the job that one person and a machine could otherwise do.
Over what period of time? Wind turbines last 20-30 years, same for solar.
Chris,
and cost a fortune in environmental damage. http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/wind-still-making-zero-energy/
Coal also doesn’t massacre birds and bats in their hundreds of millions.
Gabro,
sorry, but I hate using that argument. It makes me feel like a sandle wearing (complete with socks) rabid green of old, stopping development of everything for the sake of a tiny newt colony.
Liberal green jobs
The gas man cometh
VEERRRRY funny!! Loved it.
Guys. This is really, really big. A baby step into the uncertain world of reality. I am cautiously optimistic now.
There is still a very long way to go.
Notice that James Hansen is quiet and not the go to person for the NY Times on climate issues these days. Could it be calling the Paris pact a fraud have anything to do with it?
I hope that climate realists will not feel the need to stomp in the faces of the alarmists, but will just move forward in a very business like manner to develop efficient energy sources for the rest of the 21th century.
Just make the alarmists irrelevant. Allow them to recede into the background in a semi-dignified fashion. Mild mockery would be appropriate.
I look forward to the re-tooling of the climate science industry to the new reality in D.C. Downsizing would be an appropriate first move.
The world’s companies say this is a massive mistake. How are you going to convince them? I love the fact that skeptics keep on harping that this is just a bunch of scientists on the dole. The largest companies in all industries except coal say you are wrong.
Chris,
You could not be more wrong.
Look at the reaction of markets yesterday and today. Crude oil down but the three major indeces all set new record highs. Businesses large and small love this sensible, pro-economy action.
TSLA, not so much.
Of course companies were glad to take free money in the form of taxpayer-funded subsidies, but they would prefer to make money the old, hard way, once freed from onerous regulations.
They were hedging just in case Paris went through.
Here in south Florida, the drought has ended. We’ve had an unusually dry May, but this morning the Heavens opened up and it’s pouring rain in Miami. Thanks, Donald Trump. No, really, sincere thanks.
Your mayor sure thinks so.
Not MY mayor. 😉
Yes it’s easy to conflate the city of Miami Beach with the rest of South Florida but they are different. I wish next time the M.B. mayor mouths off someone would ask him; If CO2 suddenly stopped tomorrow, do you think the sea level is going to instantly recede? Your city is flooding right now. Why aren’t you fixing the NOW? Later is going to take care of itself.
Sea levels are still rising. In the long run, your house values in coastal locations will decline. Sad.
Chris,
Depends upon where. Land in northern Britain, for instance is rising, rebounding from being freed of its ice burden, while the south is falling. Same in North America.
In any case, sea level is rising more slowly than a century, two and three centuries ago. It’s not a crisis.
They’ve been rising for quite some time. There is nothing special about the current rate.
Stop deflating Chris’ balloon. He enjoys scaring himself and trying to scare others.
Tell him to try a haunted house. Less work on his part.
Chris,
the only one’s at risk from sea level rise, which isn’t extraordinary, are those who built homes and businesses on estuaries and coastlines to take advantage of the commerce that delivered.
So now they have to spend money moving inland, big deal. They prospered from it, they ought to have considered the consequences of nature over that prosperity.
And it’s not like we don’t have time. An average sea level rise of 3mm per year is hardly a tsunami.
Chris, this is the monthly mean sea level chart from one of the longest continuous tide gauges in the southern hemisphere (Fremantle). Notice any acceleration? You can access many sea level records at this site – perhaps you can find some actual evidence of accelerating sea level rise?
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/rlr.monthly.plots/111_high.png
Oz is a good test case, since it wasn’t heavily glaciated during the Cenozioc ice house.
Sea levels are falling down under. https://pindanpost.com/2017/04/13/falling-sea-levels
More likely the land is sinking in Florida, ever so slightly.
Ground subsidence is an issue in many coastal areas, as well as river valley systems. Just don’t be confusing envirowackjobs with actual facts, it makes them cranky.
Josh nailed this. Too funny!
Provosts and University presidents everywhere are penning directives to climate alarmist elite researchers to…um…er…come up with something else to garner grants. Cause this dog won’t bark no more.
Just wait until the IPCC is forced to reduce their warming predictions, once again, in the face of observed temperatures droping below even their lowest predictions.
I reckon well within the next 5 years, and with CO2 still rising, they will lose all credibility and politicians keen to make a name for themselves will be crawling all over them.
Then the whole scam will fall apart.
Trump has just got a big head start on the rest of the world in terms of productivity and financial recovery.
I believe the proper aphorism is “That dog won’t hunt.”
Kinda sad that she can’t get clichés right
Sadder you said that.
Steven, that is the most inconsequential comeback you have ever offered!
something else to garner grants
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there will be a raft of proposals to undertake a brand new field of climate science. to study how much the climate varies naturally.
The media is the dog that didn’t bark. Not doing their jobs, bigly.
The reaction of the ctrl-left is so extreme you’d think this was a step backward on the road to their goal of global government and control of all people.
Wait . . . what? Oh, it is!
Their reaction tells you all you need to know, and that it is good that Trump took us out!
Earlier this week, the pundits were saying that Trump was going to pick and choose parts to get out of. When he said in his speech that we were getting out – period – I shouted! Yes. Out. No equivocation nor compromise! THAT’S THE TRUMP I VOTED FOR!
This is a great tragedy for the Earth[‘s climate scientists]. The end is Nye
The end is Nye
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Bill did a great service. He showed Climate Science wasn’t Science, that it was Entertainment. That it was the TV commercial with an actor in a white lab coat, telling you how white your teeth will be.
Ahhh…Now I get it…I’m a little slow on the uptake
Covfefe …it means “see you later, screw your own economy, not mine”
Try – Cov fe fe Arabic
Or not…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/us/politics/covfefe-trump-arabic.html?_r=0
Sometimes I long for the good old days, when I believed in truth, justice and the nobility of science. That was almost 30 years ago, when I first heard about the threat of a climate crisis and began reading the research. It didn’t take long to recognize the discrepancies between the actual science and what I was hearing in the news and from certain scientists. The actual science did not support the alarming statements!
At first, I thought I was practically alone in this recognition; the message was so uniform, urgent and persuasive. It seemed like there was a ‘consensus’ the moment the crisis was widely announced. It made my head spin. With the advent of the internet, I discovered that I was far from alone. Thousands of others, most more knowledgable than me, had come to a similar conclusion: there was no crisis! But that didn’t explain what was going on in the world of atmospheric science, academia and politics.
Oh, my naivete ran deep. I thought to myself, “Certainly science and those noble professors are above corruption!” It took me ten years of research into such things as human and group psychology, the history of science and human nature in general to finally realize that my beloved ‘science’ was no more noble than Monsanto on a bad day, maybe even less so. It was very disheartening.
Yet, I remain optimistic, because deceptions are extremely difficult things to maintain over a long period of time, especially when each day presents evidence that there is a deception going on . It becomes exhausting, and those weaving that tangled web start to look crazy as they attempt to pull their strings.
Most people on the planet are familiar with the desperation of liars on the verge of being discovered, even if it is only at the subconscious level. We have all had someone in our lives get a little crazy as their deception collapses. Perhaps we have gone a little crazy ourselves as we try to dodge the consequences of our own falsehoods. The point is…we know this dance! We recognize these behaviors at some level. Even if we don’t consciously acknowledge that we are being lied to, our spider sense is tingling and we become more cautious and alert.
Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement is by most measures an insignificant event, as the agreement itself was no more than a symbol, with no real ability to affect climate change. The reactions from the warmests, however, are having a subtle, yet for more important impact. They are doing the crazy-liar dance! They look like children claiming that the dog ate their homework. They are throwing out the race card, the women card, the poor card, the victim card, the economic card, the hunger card, the polar bear card, the whole deck of cards, and none of them make any sense. This type of behavior resonates at some level with nearly everyone. We have seen the liar dance before, and even if we cannot name it, we lose trust in those displaying such behavior.
The warmests did far more damage to their ’cause’ yesterday than Trump ever could. Many in the world are as blissfully naive about ‘science’ as I was 30 years ago, but they know the liar dance. Now, the world is seeing the warmests as they really are; children caught with the hands in the cookie jar, sounding crazy as they try to talk their way out of it.
Scoundrels inhabit every aspect of society. Nothing is immune.
You can add Russian-Unicorn-addled Democrats to your description, too! Meanwhile, there’s evidenct that Obama broke the law: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/01/spying_on_you_spying_on_me_spying_on_the_president_134052.html
My, but what an impact an honest president has on grifters and liars!
I was very pleasantly surprised that DJT’s speech was thorough and data filled, making a solid case that the “agreement” was political and economic, and would have no measurable impact on temperatures (using Lomborg’s calculations from IPCC data). He clearly highlighted the absurd imbalance of the “treaty” with respect to India and China. He also pointed out that of all the signatories, the US was currently far ahead in CO2 reductions. It was almost as if he were reading from Marlo Lewis’s WUWT article earlier this week. 🙂
We all expected the response from the Consensus Scientists and the “useful idiots”.
But as mentioned below, the disappointment was the lack of understanding of what was said by even “responsible” journalists. On Fox, both Chris Wallace and Bret Baier made fools of themselves. (Charles Krauthammer was the sole voice of reason.)
As for the general public, they never internalized what “skyrocketing” energy prices would mean for them (e.g. Germany’s experience) so when their electricity and gasoline costs DON’T go up they won’t realize the difference.
As the cartoons point out, the Alarmists will now have someone they can blame for every tornado, drought or flood that occurs.
I have yet to see a rebuttal that addresses any of the facts or data in the speech.
what “skyrocketing” energy prices would mean
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it means your employer will move somewhere that energy prices are lower, because free trade laws allow companies to move freely. people however are not allowed to move, so you can kiss your job goodbye.
on the bright side, since you no longer have a job, you won’t have any money to but the high priced energy, so it won’t matter how high the price. it will be like worrying about the price of platinum. sure its expensive, but since you can’t afford it anyways, what does it matter?
George,
In my opinion, what Trump did yesterday was to take a massive roundhouse swipe at an assembled world green policy making consortium, saying, climate change is a green money making scam.
His voice of reason said, show me the evidence that CO2 is harmful to humankind and I’ll consider another Paris treaty.
The world has been screaming for political change. It comes along, and what happens, they rail against it.
This is political change. This is what the world has been wanting, an end to stagnating politics. Rightly or wrongly, Trump is making the worlds politicians think for a change.
Plus many. The “crazy-liar dance”. I love it. Squirreling that one away.
Jclarke341- very well put
I’m just wondering how this will play out in the long run. Probably more like the “Obummercare” thing… the replacement, whatever parts wind up actually replaced, being worse than the original. Don’t think that Trump is any friend to individual liberty, much less loss of power/control over everything possible. I’ll wait until the other shoe drops before I celebrate anything. No politician can be trusted with anything at all.
No politician can be trusted
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the press tells us every day that Trump cannot be trusted because he is not a politician.
Not a politician? That’s hysterical. 🙂 I can’t think of the word that describes the situation where the answer is as false/ridiculous as the question. Anyone who wants to control the lives and property of others is a politician by definition, if not by name.
covfefe was the master stroke. Utter genius and straight out of Monty Python.
Coz they just *had* to go off and make themselves out to be *so* clever trying to decode it.
And the timing of the actual killer blow after that – it enabled them to double down on being self important, ignorant & chattering gossips. and they did.
covfefe set the trap and they stormed right into it.
There’s an expert at work, one with that GSOH that our pin-up (climate marching girl) is after.
I got wimps wrong B4 sigh
WIMP = Weakly *Intelligent* Massive Person
I made a cofveve video, it’s bigly yuuuuge!
https://streamable.com/g65da
@philjourdan 4:57 June 2nd
Yeah, re Nick & Moshpit: It is not raining money anymore. Get a life, me hearties!
And Griffie, we hardly knew ye!!! Does a Bear sh*t on the ice? Yowza!
Warming regards,
T-Man
Just how can he do what he told the electorate he would do just what sort of politician is he keeping his promises that’s totally totally outrageous, he’s single handedly brought the whole of politics into disrepute!!!!
Sarc
James Bull
Don’t get too giddy about this yet. The Paris deal never did have any teeth… but he also promised to end Obummercare, and so far is not even close. The “new and improved” version looks to be even worst than the original. I’ll hold off on the celebration myself.
While I do not agree about replacing Obama care but would rather see it gone all together, how is getting rid of the mandates and letting States opt out worse than the original?
Lots of things, Tom. First, it pretty much casts in cement the idea that there can be “insurance” for per-existing conditions. Can you get any insurance company to write a homeowners police AFTER the house burns down? After the hurricane has destroyed it? No… that is not possible. Anything that promises this is fraud. It can only be paid for by further and increasing theft from productive people.
Read about how this is developing in California. The cost projections ALREADY exceed the state revenue expectations… And the “single payer” was the actual goal all along with Obummercare. That’s actually why any involvement of government in medicine is only going to get worse – at least for a while.
But it doesn’t really matter who has the reins in the district of criminals… The “people” voted for Trump as much for more free shit as anything else. Wishing for unicorns and rainbows… The “people” really have to figure out soon that there is “NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH.”
Sorry Mama, but with the thousands of lawyers appointed by Pres. Obama I’m quite sure the eviro-nuts can find more then one that would agree to require the government to enforce anything the Pres. agreed to or even said he agreed to when he signed us up for the Paris accord, which by the way is now being referred to as the Paris Treaty. That slight misnomer being a Ben Rhodes, or Ben Rhodes type ‘slip’ designed to prepare the ‘useful idiots’ for the next step in indoctrination, i.e., “Trump is arbitrarily removing the U.S. from a valid treaty signed by President Obama. He should be impeached!”
re: MamaLiberty June 2, 2017 at 11:33 am
All valid points with which I agree but that doesn’t answer why you think the new ACA is worse than the original. Only total repeal and no more government interference would suffice but that is not going to happen. Career politicians will never give up their control over this. At least the new version doesn’t require anyone to buy it.
Glad you brought up “pre-existing” conditions insurance. The very definition of insurance prohibits such a thing. The now so called pre-existing conditions must be recast as “continuing care conditions” and removed from any discussion of insurance. It is that simple. Now how do people with continuing care conditions pay for them? This is where the government can step up and lend a hand. There is no easy solution and open to discussion but it at least it would take it out of insurance and so we all can buy real insurance at a reasonable cost.
Trump has correctly called it. The Climate Alarmist Emperor (Paris Agreement) has no clothes. Now if only the other 195 or so countries that complimented the Emperor on his clothes would also follow suit. Unfortunately, here in Canada, fashion star Trudeau likes taking selfies with the Emperor.
Most of those 195 countries are in the Agreement because they think they’re going to get free money from the west, ie. the US.
It is important to see that Trump not only did the right thing, but also in the right way.
His speech did not take issue with the scientific claims of global warming. Rather Trump’s position is based on the small projected benefits from the hugely expensive program, and the unfair burden placed on the US compared with other nations. As noted here before, the climatist case is a three-legged stool:
-Humans are warming the climate.
-The warming is dangerous.
-Government can stop it.
The third point is about climate policy and is even weaker than the science beneath the first two. The programs currently advocated are woefully inadequate even if you believe the scientific house of cards.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/trump-did-the-right-thing-in-the-right-way/
-Government can stop it.
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the war on climate. like the war on drugs. took a small problem and made it a huge problem.
Too true. Without such problems, we might not need so much government.
There’s more. Remember RICO and the definition of racketeering? “A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem, such as for a problem that does not exist, that will not be put into effect, or that would not otherwise exist if the racket did not exist.” I always thought IPCC fit that category.
use the money to pay for the wall…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/google-eu-fine-search-9-billion-search-results-rigging-alphabet-shopping-service-a7768621.html
Publicly shame Pittsburgh, California, et al, weekly with graphs showing their energy consumption and the miniscule portion contributed by intermittents. When summer comes,show them just what the energy requirements are just for air conditioning. Laugh at them, and Brussels.
Well I think you’d find California getting much more than a miniscule amount from solar and wind. With the new grid battery storage and the solarr CSP it can extend renewable power throughout the day…
“The Golden State has soaked up enough rays to generate 67.2 per cent of its energy from renewable sources last month, smashing previous records.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/california-renewable-energy-record-80-per-cent-state-power-green-methods-water-hydro-wind-solar-a7748956.html
I looked at California ISO and it showed on 6/1 at 1 pm when renewables reached their peak output they were generating 48% of demand. On 6/1 at 9 pm when demand peaked the renewables were generating 20% of demand. On 6/2 at 6 am the renewables were generating 10% of demand.
The EIA for the 1st quarter of 2017 shows California renewables generated 26.4%.
NG—————37.9%
Renewables—26.4%
Hydroelectric–24.5%
Nuclear———9.8%
Other————1.4%
Be interesting to see a daily, weekly, or monthly update showing something like this:
Pittsburg’s expenditure to fight climate change to date: $xxxx
Predicted impact on global temperatures by 2100: 0.xxxxx degrees
World expenditure if every city followed Pittsburg’s example to date: $xxxxxxxxxxxx
Predicted impact on global temperatues by 2100 if every city followed Pittsburg’s example: 0.xxxx degrees
Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement is a start and obviates a horrendous American liability. Next step is recognizing that CO2 has no significant effect on climate. The final step is realizing what actually does affect climate. The still-rising water vapor trend is rising at about 1.5% per decade which is about three times faster than expected from water temperature increase alone. WV has increased about 8% since 1960.
The added warmth from increasing the ghg water vapor is welcome and is countering the temperature decline which would otherwise be occurring. But more WV increases the risk of catastrophe from precipitation related flooding.
Dan, interesting observation. Wonder about the data source and time frame. A study from RSS shows water vapor and precipitation trends measured by satellites from 1998 to 2014 for the area 40S to 40N globally.
Water vapor trend was 0.1 mm/decade
Rain trend was -0.0002 mm/decade
http://images.remss.com/papers/rsspubs/Wentz_JClim_2015_TMI_17yr_ESDR.pdf
Ron – The data I referenced is also from NASA/RSS satellite. It is for 60N-60S and is reported monthly. 1988 – April, 2017 at http://data.remss.com/vapor/monthly_1deg/tpw_v07r01_198801_201704.time_series.txt. The link changes monthly. The data is graphed in Fig 3 at http://globalclimatedrivers2.blogspot.com which also shows how to get the latest link.
Thorough address.
It is only a certain part of society that is freaking out. The governing classes and their media. Widespread polling on about 20 issues places concerns about climate virtually at the bottom of the list.
The popular uprising has a determined executive.
The “American Spring” is moving along.
Actually the goal seems to be to make Trump satanic, and his policies the embodiment of evil. I sincerely hope his security is very thorough and extremely well vetted. Look what happened to the Roman Emperor who tried to prevent the ascension of the Catholic Church as the official state religion that was started by Constantine.
“Actually the goal seems to be to make Trump satanic, and his policies the embodiment of evil.”
That’s the goal of the Left and the MSM, and it doesn’t just apply to Trump but to any Republican/Conservative.
Character assassinaton is the Left’s stock in trade. They have to do it that way because they don’t really have any ideas the people want to buy, so instead they try to make themselves out to be the lesser of two evils.
Where is the missing $20 billion from First Wind/Sunedison?
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4077979-sunedison-bankruptcy-case-something-seriously-wrong
The Paris Treaty, Accord, Consortium, Gang, Collection, Cabal or whatever is a tremendous success – hey 194 of 195 countries signed on. Now get out there and start cooling the planet by about half a degree and all will be good again…
HA! Excellent Josh!!!
I love the juxtaposition of the schizophrenic bearded ‘butter ball turkey’ reactions to changes in the weather! This is the satire side of Mikey’s Nature Trick….. Beautiful!!!
Economic Reason Trumps Socialist Politics!
The climate changes as environmental profits cool.
I still can’t get over how the Green Climate Fund could just suck million$ out of the US government without some sort of legislative process. … how an international governing body could be allowed to determine how the US spends million$ of its dollars without some sort of legislative process WITHIN the country, … how a president one president could just sign us up for a four-year commitment that exceeds HIS term by FOUR YEARS without some sort of legislative process that extends such a decree beyond his term.
All this is funny, … in a troubling way, but I’m still laughing, in the spirit of “Friday Funny”. I don’t drink champagne anymore. The one time I drank a lot of it years ago, I got wasted — non-drinker sweats bullets, gets dehydrated, REALLY thirsty, and gulps the ice cold bubbly. Stupid ! I still eat popcorn on occasion, though.