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Terri Jackson, fysiker och klimatolog, i Belfast Telegraph: Pouring cold water on global warming -- Global cooling has arrived. Global warming is dead.

Michael Economides i Energy Tribune: Obama’s Energy Radicalism.

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It is clearly ironic that Pravda, the former official instrument of the Soviet communist party has implored the US to stop “carbon communism.”

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Secretary of the Interior [...], Salazar, the Wall Street Journal reported, “raised eyebrows when he said offshore wind farms could replace 3,000 coal-fired plants.” Never mind that the US only has 600 of them. He also claimed that offshore wind in the Atlantic could deliver 1,000 gigawatts of capacity – approximately equal to the entire electric generation capacity of the US.

Even by the accounts made by vested interests (such as wind turbine manufacturers), offshore and onshore wind farms, which internationally now account for [...] less than 0.4 percent of electricity production, may account for 5 to 7 percent of electricity after many decades. Salazar’s statement should raise a lot more than eyebrows.

One has to wonder what are the motivations of this “gusher of lies” which surely falls under psychobabble rather than energy policy? Why is it that potential changes, which would take many decades to accomplish, are presented as imminent solutions?

Ett fel hos Economides själv verkar vara påståendet att tredubbling av vindkraft 20 gånger inte täcker nuvarande energiproduktion. Nog bör 3.5 miljarder gånger mer vindkraft räcka... (Men USA:s landyta?) Antagligen avsågs årligt tillskott av tre gånger dagens vindkraftproduktion. Annars en intressant artikel som blottar häpnadsväckande okunskap hos politiker.

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A species of bream, sarpa salpa, which can trigger hallucinations when eaten, has been been discovered in British waters due to global warming.

Trovärdig miljöjournalistik från anrika The Telegraph.

Anthony Watts har nu ljudfil och transkript på förra fredagens presskonferens på NASA om solaktiviteten. De anger minimum mellan solcykel 23 och 24 till december 2008 och menar att solcykel 24 blir den svagaste sedan nummer 16, vilken peakade 1928. NASA:s prognoser tycks hittills ha legat i överkant så jag antar att även denna prognos kan göra det. Då solcykel 24 blir svagare än normalt torde väl även risken för kraftiga solstormar närmsta åren vara lite lägre. (Vad den mest kraftiga kända solstormen, år 1859, orsakade och skulle kunna orsaka idag tas upp.)

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