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Miscellaneous Energy and Climate References

Over the past few months, a number of people have asked for references and charts.  Here are hotlinks to a number of them.
Wind Power: Bonneville Power Administration Balancing Authority Wind/load chart.  http://www.transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/wind/baltwg.aspx and this blog, August 29, 2009.
Climate: Arctic Sea Ice extent:   http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Solar/Sun spots: (this year has been running 15-19% void, better than last [...]

Ocean CO2 Acidification Impact Questioned

The gauntlet was thrown on climate change when the sound bites of ‘the science is settled’ and ‘consensus of scientists’ were uttered. Long before that, this scientist was aghast at the pontificating that man can change the weather, at least to the extent of catastrophe. As a result of the bites and the [...]

British Review of Climategate

The British House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee has just completed its review of the culpabilty of University of East Anglia’s Professor Phil Jones regarding ‘hiding the decline’ emails and related correspondence.
 
The response is well crafted, winding around the very obvious that, yes, these principals were hiding data.  One could say that they were hoarding, but the [...]

DOE Litigation Hold Notice – Climategate

“What did they say, a hundred years ago, when they burned cow hides?”
“Carbon dioxide!” get it… “carbon theoxhide”…. Uttered by David Q.’s ten year old son in comment to blog post at http://tinyurl.com/ydl8xdq. (just couldn’t resist)
Not only does David’s son get it, but so too, the US Department of Energy Office of Inspector General.   [...]

Surface Sea Temperatures (SST)?

With wild enthusiasm, AP reporter Borenstein again focuses on an anomaly that requires reader investigation.  The White Sea, a small area near Kamchatka, is showing unusual temperatures, but the whole of the SST is fairly normal.  A good review of trends and facts can be found here with this summary statement:
“To sum up the Borenstein [...]