August 16, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

 The (polar) bear facts

www.nypost.com

It was a cold month in hell for global-warming alarmists.

Speaking for George Soros…$720,000 from him alone produces a lot of fervor. Who pays the piper calls the tune.

You don’t need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows

canadafreepress.com

You don’t need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Violent ideological Weathermen, an increasingly overwrought Weatherman teetering on the edge of insanity, and finally, we’ll meet a Weatherman paid to produce skewed meteorological results.

The Money Trail — Does Big Oil fund climate research? Yes, but for every dollar that goes to fund the research by climate skeptics more than a thousand dollars go to fund the work of people who spread alarm and concern about global warming and climate change.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashe​d/33114.html

www.abc.net.au

The pot calling the kettle black…

http://sppiblog.org/news/david​-suzuki-insults-but-won%E2%80%​99t-debate

Australian truckers can’t take it anymore. They’re gonna have themselves a convoy, a few convoys…

Let them truckers roll down under, 10-4

wattsupwiththat.com

From The Australian, the beginning of a nationwide convoy protesting the carbon tax. I’m sure the delicate sensibilities of the ruling class in Canberra, most of which don’t know the meaning of act…

The”emperor” does not wear clothes.

Why Al Gore Is A Failure: Part One

www.businessinsider.com

Sometimes the truth really is inconvenient.

So, what is the problem with increasing energy consumption? Increasing energy consumption and raising living standards for all will curb population growth, thereby curb unchecked energy consumption… Presto. Problem solved!

Solving Climate Change - Forbes

www.forbes.com

There are, as you will have noticed, a number of different views around how we go about solving climate change. From those who think it’s all nonsense and my, hasn’t Al Gore got fat? to those who insist that only the immediate overthrow of capitalism, the return of medieval peasantry, […]

“Verdict: The science of climatology is seriously compromised and broken. Spread this video to anyone you can think of.” P. Gosselin ( http://notrickszone.com/2011/0​8/08/new-video-seriously-indic​ts-climatology-science/ )

A Peer-Reviewed Deception

www.youtube.com

Deconstructing Anthropogenic Global Warming alarmism and the myth of ‘peer-review’. http://skepticdenialism.blogsp​ot.com/2011/06/peer-reviewed-d​eception.html…

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July 16, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

The king wears no clothing, but it is even worse that he can’t afford to pay for being made to look like a naked fool.

High Costs Bury AEP’s Carbon Burial Plan
Posted on July 15, 2011 by News Staff

American Electric Power has scuttled its pilot project to bury CO2 from its Mountaineer coal-burning plant in Red Haven WVa. The original projected cost, before unanticipated overruns, was $668 million. About 1/3 of the gross output from a plant would be required to capture, compress and inject the CO2 into the ground, generating an automatic 50% increase in the cost of net output, before conversion costs.

“The AEP plan, announced with much fanfare in 2009, marked the first time that carbon dioxide was to be captured and buried at a US power plant.”

The pilot system would only have captured 110,000 tons of CO2 per year, out of a total of 7.9 to 9.8 million tons per year from the plant. The company, headquartered in Columbus, “cited difficulties in getting state regulators to approve charging customers for the costs of carbon capture.”

From this morning’s Columbus (OH) Dispatch: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2011/07/15/high-costs-bury-aeps-carbon-plan.html?sid=101

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It is a good thing that the people that made the decision to scuttle the AEP CCS project came to their senses. A country that is at the verge of bankruptcy should not waste one-third of a power plant’s energy production to bury even a fraction of the beneficial natural fertilizer that plant exhausts into the air, fertilizer that is essentially free of cost.

The economics of the decision to scuttle the CCS project are sound and make sense. It boggles the mind why anyone in their right mind and not blinded by harmful environmental fanaticism ever made a move to spend even a single dollar on such a hare-brained scheme.

The situation with Shell’s CSS project in Alberta is no different with respect to it being a hare-brained scheme by environmental fanatics and government agencies catering to them holding Shell over a barrel. Don’t blame Shell for the idea that blowing CO2 down Mother Earth’s derriere at a billion-dollars a shot is a thing that Alberta consumers must fund. It is a political decision which Shell supports only because it cannot lose on it on account of taxpayers and consumers footing the bill.

I you think that those observations are not substantiated by facts, then you better have a look at the comments that were posted at wattsupwiththat.com in relation to the AEP CSS scheme.

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March 1, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

It is cold today.  In central Alberta, at Elk Island National Park, the source of the “local” official temperature values that are being shown for the communities of Andrew, Lamont, Chipman, Mundare and Bruderheim, the temperature reading at 9 a.m. was -39°C.  At the same time, 14km away from Elk Island Park, our thermometer in our backyard in Bruderheim showed -28.5°C.

The winds were slight, about 1-2 kmh.

It will stay cold for some time. It will also most likely snow a bit within the next few days.

There will not be much wind, which is a bad thing for those who have the illusion that wind power is a good thing and that it will be available when they need it most.

(Click on image to see source.  That web page is being updated every two minutes.)

That means that, although of the total Alberta generating capacity a full 5.8% is supposed to be derived from wind turbines, at 11:20 am only 0.022%  or 2.2 hundredth of one percent were being generated from wind power.

The reality of wind power is that a lot of power stations right now are working all-out to produce the increased power required due to the extremely cold weather and are being fueled by natural gas at peak prices, probably at a cost of about $0.07kWh, which means that the cost to consumers will be in the order of about $0.20 to $0.70kWh right now.  Yes, regardless of what rate you pay for what you use right now, the cost of a kWh is around $0.20 to $0.70 right at this moment, and that cost needs to be paid.

So how cold is it in all honesty where you live?  You still have to look up the thermometer in your back yard to get the correct answer for that.  Our thermometer says it is -28.5°C right now (at 9 a.m.) in Bruderheim, not -38°C, and that is a reading that is taken at some distance from the walls of our house, as those readings would be a bit “warmer” yet. as they would reflect more heat radiated by the house.

Many people watch the news to catch up on the weather forecast, or they check the Weather Channel on TV.  Few people take advantage of another feature that is available on the Internet, which feature will tell you everything you wish to know about the weather, without having to have it read to you by someone whose job it is to read it to you so that they can use that as a means to show you a bunch of commercials.

If you are happy with knowing the forecast trend (and historical weather trends many years into the past) at a level of accuracy that the pilots using the Edmonton Municipal Airport rely on, then here is a link to weather information at a glance, without commercials, a link you want to bookmark:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+forecast+Edmonton

The source of the information upon which the information at that link is based is the Edmonton Municipal Airport.

And by the way, is it getting warmer, as Al Gore and David Suzuki are threatening?  Not on your life:

In the mean-time, the makers of wind turbines, such as General Electric, Siemens and anyone else who is reaping copious profits from the climate craze are laughing all the way to the bank — and we pay.

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February 16, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

This is from a source that is not necessarily impartial:

Using a gasifier instead of a coker will allow the upgrader [the North West upgrader, across the highway, west from Agrium, south of Redwater, Alberta, that will commence production in 2014] to capture 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, shipping the liquefied gas through a pipeline to central Alberta, where it will be used to recover more oil from depleted conventional oilfields.

And when that much CO2 is taken out of the upgrading process, Alberta diesel from North West will be the greenest in the world, even better than Saudi medium crude, North West chairman Ian MacGregor told the Heartland Association last month.

(Read more at Deal gives go-ahead to upgrader, Edmonton Journal, 2011 02 15, pp. D1 and D6)

Outgoing premier Ed Stelmach, a source whom many consider reliable but who is not necessarily impartial either, concurs:

Alberta takes ‘bold step’ into oilsands upgrading

Evoking the spirit of pioneers, outgoing Premier Ed Stelmach said Albertans know success comes from having the courage to take risks, and the $5-billion North West upgrader/refinery announced Wednesday is just the latest “bold step” in that direction….

“I have always said, shipping bitumen out of the province is comparable to selling the topsoil on a farm. This is fulfilling a commitment I made in 2006 to the province during the leadership (race),” he said at the ceremony.

Stelmach added he is keen on ensuring Alberta is a world leader in carbon dioxide reduction, which is why the government announced a $2-billion program two years ago, and has agreed to fund four innovative projects.

“So today we take another bold step in the area of value added with this historic agreement with North West and Canadian Natural for a project that will use carbon-capture technology from Day 1.”….(Full Story)

That enthusiasm at the taxpayers expense will not colour Alberta’s diesel green, unless “green diesel” is tinted by the colour of money.

Alberta diesel will not be the greenest in the world.  Given that Ed Stelmach has thrown $2 billion dollars at “four innovative projects” for oil production (of which Shell’s Quest CCS Project, is one of the “innovative projects”, with a contribution of $780 million, due to Ed Stelmach’s generosity funded by Alberta’s taxpayers obligations) that will do exactly zilch for addressing local or the world’s climate trends. Alberta diesel will not be the greenest but will without a doubt be the most expensive to produce in the world.

Mind you, one must consider the veracity of the source.  Amongst many other illogical panaceas, Ed Stelmach tried to initiate a program for switching the driving- and passing-lanes on Alberta’s highways to postpone the need for road maintenance work (a move that was fortunately stalled and eventually defeated through massive public opposition) and he also asserted that, with respect to the hurtful impact of rapidly rising utility costs in the wake of Ralph Klein’s program for the deregulation of the utilities,

We will continue to monitor energy supplies and pricing and take appropriate action when necessary in the best interest of all Albertans.
The Alberta Government is committed to putting more money back into the pockets of Albertans.

Ed Stelmach (PC), Alberta Minister of Transportation,
MLA Vegreville-Viking, 2002 04 19,
in his response to an open letter on utility pricing policies.

That is a little confusing, isn’t it?  That tug in your pockets, is that from the increased weight of the money that the Alberta Government is committed to putting back into the pockets of Albertans, or is that from Ed Stelmach’s hands pulling out more money “required” to increase the price of motor fuel in order to make it the “greenest” or rather the most expensive in the world?

If increased levels of atmospheric CO2 cause global warming, should we not by now see some increasing warming in the Edmonton temperature trends?

The Edmonton weather or temperature trends are not representative of  global temperature trends, you say.  Yes, that is correct, but what about the global trends?

Take a look at global CO2 and its dispersion over time.  Can you by any chance detect Alberta’s role in that?  Not very likely, but it is quite obvious that if CO2 could accumulate in the atmosphere due to mankind, there would not be such very large seasonal fluctuations.

Other than that, given that the North West upgrader will capture and sequester 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 a year and that man-made global CO2 emissions are being generated at the rate of 957 tonnes of CO2 a second, the carbon capture and storage scheme associated with the North West upgrader will compensate for 21 minutes of man-made global CO2 emissions a year.  Do you think that is worth spending about $500 million on?  That is just what Ed Stelmach wants to devote of our tax revenues to the cause, for no other good effect than to be favorably mentioned in the history books.  Annual operating costs, and initial contributions by North West and from federal sources are not included in that. What will history have to say about that 30 years from now?

However, in order to determine whether it is truly necessary to increase the price of Alberta diesel or of any fuel anywhere, we really need to know whether rising CO2, globally, causes rising global temperatures.

First take a look at temperature trends over time:

Hockey Stick over Time - Narrated

Here is another view of global atmospheric CO2 versus temperature.

CO2, Temperatures, and Ice Ages
Posted on January 30, 2009 by Anthony Watts

Guest post by Frank Lansner, civil engineer, biotechnology.

It is generally accepted that CO2 is lagging temperature in Antarctic graphs. To dig further into this subject therefore might seem a waste of time. But the reality is, that these graphs are still widely used as an argument for the global warming hypothesis. But can the CO2-hypothesis be supported in any way using the data of Antarctic ice cores?

At first glance, the CO2 lagging temperature would mean that it’s the temperature that controls CO2 and not vice versa.

(See Graph, Full Story)

Carbon capture and storage, what a scam!  Just think of what could be done with $2 billion dollars to fix, say, the Alberta Health-Care system; but Ed Stelmach had to cut back on that, to save enough for carbon capture and sequestration.

The nine most-feared words in the English language: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” (Ronald Reagan)

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January 7, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to Climate Realists:

Canada Free Press
2011 01 06

Blinds on the greenhouse window create cooling. Clouds are nature’s blinds

Greenhouse Effect; Everybody Talks About It But Few Know What It Is

By Dr. Tim Ball

It is amazing how people have very strong opinions about ideas and terms they don’t understand. Greenhouse effect is one of these and lack of understanding about it is exploited to dictate global energy and economic policies at great and unnecessary expense.

They claim the Earth’s atmosphere is like a greenhouse. It isn’t. Most don’t know how ‘official’ greenhouse science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claim it works. Some think it’s the same as global warming because they associate greenhouses, which some call hothouses, with high temperature….(Full Story)

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Dr. Tim Ball’s explanation of the “greenhouse effect” illustrates that fears of it are overblown, based on superstitions, that the”science” of global warming is a misrepresentation and at best not settled.  The conclusion is unavoidable that projects like Shell’s CCS Project near Bruderheim serve no practical purpose other than that they are expensive appeasements of climate-alarmism cultists designed to defraud the taxpayers for the sake of political expediency.

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January 7, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to Climate Realists:

Right Side News
2011 01 06

It’s Time to Bow to the Flying Global Warming Monster

By Daniel Greenfield

…Global Warming is not science, it’s six-tenths greed and four-tenths ideological fanaticism angled against the unlimited potential of humanity. Some will grow rich off it. Most will be impoverished. Like most cults only a privileged few are allowed at the top….

(Full Story)

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December 22, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

eureferendum.blogspot.com

Total eclipse of the Moonbat

Posted by Richard Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The foolish Moonbat, along with his colleagues is plumbing new depths of stupidity, insisting in the loathsome Guardian that the “unusually cold winters” are caused by global warming….(More….)

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November 30, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

The Telegraph
2010 11 29

By Louise Gray

Cancun climate change summit: scientists call for rationing in developed world

Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions.

In a series of papers published by the Royal Society, physicists and chemists from some of world’s most respected scientific institutions, including Oxford University and the Met Office, agreed that current plans to tackle global warming are not enough….[preceding link by folc.ca]

….the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years….

…politicians should consider a rationing system similar to the one introduced during the last “time of crisis” in the 1930s and 40s….(Full Story)

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