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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 [...]

August 26th, 2010 | Category: Climate Change, Energy, Windpower | Leave a comment

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 [...]

June 13th, 2010 | Category: CO2, Climate Change | Leave a comment

Great American Swindle – 2009

Based on the references below, the US economy is heading for a disaster of unprecedented impact orchestrated by a few financial players.  Revealed by Matt Taibbi in RollingStone, these decades long players were trained in and by Goldman-Sachs’ operations and were part and parcel of culpable action in the demise of Lehman Brothers, the propping up [...]

July 18th, 2009 | Category: Climate Change, Energy, Financial | One comment

The climate is changing.

Yes, the climate is changing.  Globally, it’s been getting warmer for the last 10,000 years.  That’s when the ice age glaciers started melting and the oceans started rising. 
For half that period, the rate of ocean rise is in line with the 20th century, nothing really new there. 
Climate has also had its ups and downs with [...]

June 22nd, 2009 | Category: Climate Change, Global Warming | Leave a comment