The media today write about the proposals by Theresa May for additional financial support for fracking on top of existing financial support for fracking drilling operations.
It's not to hard to see the hypocrisy in the governments energy policies fueled by fears that votes will be lost if rural home owners are upset when a wind turbine is built within 100 miles of their home.
The government has cut ROC support for onshore wind farms and solar energy, both of which are crucial in cutting CO2 emissions and reducing energy costs for home owners.
The so called problem of intermittent renewable energy supply is a problem that is being solved by engineers and scientists. This year global energy storage capacity has doubled, it's a market that is growing rapidly and only ignorant Daily Mail writers think it's unsolvable.
World leading Fareham based energy storage company:
http://www.isentropic.co.uk/
As well as this increased support for Fracking (and carbon emissions) Mays government has been quick to scrap the Climate Change cabinet position and close down the Department of Energy and Climate Change as a separate entity.
It seems that Climate Change are forbidden words within government despite it being a costly problem that needs real technology solutions.
Meanwhile global temperatures this year are already close to breaking the limits set by the Paris climate agreement intended to limit temperatures to a 1.5 degrees C increase. Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) has shown that this year temperatures increased by about 1.4 degrees:
http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2016/spiralling-global-temperatures/
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Sunday, August 7
Sunday, June 12
Rain! lovely rain
Thank goodness that we have had a day of rain after some two months of dry weather. But is this the end? Very unlikely, the last two months should have been wet and now we are heading for the dry season, so things are somewhat screwed.
What about the future?
New research from Stanford University predicts a serious increase in the frequency of higher temperatures over the next few decades as the climate warms. This flies in the face of the lunatic deniers of anthropogenic global warming. Here Noah Diffenbaugh explains what they found if Carbon Dioxide emissions are not cut:
What about the future?
New research from Stanford University predicts a serious increase in the frequency of higher temperatures over the next few decades as the climate warms. This flies in the face of the lunatic deniers of anthropogenic global warming. Here Noah Diffenbaugh explains what they found if Carbon Dioxide emissions are not cut:
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