The Greatest Scientic Fraud of All Time

[butters]

Tryfail's posting fund might start shrinking.

More bad news for coal: Wind and solar are getting cheaper

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...s/coal-solar-wind-renewable-energy/index.html

The simple laws of economics threaten to doom America's remaining coal power plants.

Wind and solar costs have plunged so rapidly that 74% of the US coal fleet could be phased out for renewable energy -- and still save customers money, according to a report released on Monday by Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan think tank.

That figure of at-risk coal plants in the United States rises to 86% by 2025 as solar and wind costs continue to plunge.

it was clear that the cost of the newer technologies would tumble as soon as they became established. is it not so with justabout ALL new stuff? now when even more of the greener stuff gets implemented, younger generations will look back on the old technology in their history lessons and feel as attached to it as learning about any other ancient 'ages'. what will they call the age of fossil fuels?

 

[von_Bismarck]

I read an article a few years ago that likened hydrocarbon fuel to salt in a bygone era - rare, difficult and costly to refine, but exceptionally important across a number of social and economic dimensions. With changing technology, the cost of salt plummeted while the use cases became fewer. The hope is the same sort of thing will happen with hydrocarbon energy, and is in the process of happening even now.

 

[Kantarii]

The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time

by Francis Menton

...NASA has baked in a good 0.2 deg C or so of "adjustments" just since 1995 to give it a comfortable margin to claim a "record" for 2016. Expect that breathless announcement from NASA within the next couple of weeks. (Prior experience indicates that NASA press releases come out around the 18th to the 20th of the month.)

If you want to make a prediction of the future about as safe as predicting the time of tomorrow's sunrise, you can predict that every mainstream news source in the country will parrot the upcoming NASA press release without mentioning that the new supposed "record" is not supported by the far-more-accurate satellite data. Nor will any mainstream news source ask the obvious question of how it is that global warming is supposed to be caused by CO2 emissions, yet temperature records always and only seem to be associated with El Niños...​

http://manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2017/1/4/the-greatest-scientific-fraud-of-all-time-part-xi


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I was wondering when something was going to dethrone “the gay gene” from the number #1 spot.

 

[trysail]

Dr. Peter Ridd vs. James Cook University- Day 2 In Court

Dr Jennifer Marohasy:

"It is difficult when year-after-year a few of us explain that there is no substance to the many and varied – really endless – claims of imminent demise of The Great Barrier, and we are not believed. It is not that we lack evidence, but mostly our facts are considered too tedious … and our explanations are somehow bothersome because they don’t accord with the overwhelming consensus.

Having never wavered, and it is now going-on twenty-years, I was so pleased today to know that the Federal Circuit Court in Brisbane is taking an interest in the detail: that Judge Salvatore Vasta wants to know about the quality assurance of The Great Barrier Reef research.

So far it appears there is no quality assurance. Zip. Zilch. None.

You might as well just make-it-all up, which is what many Australian scientists have being doing for years...


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[Que]

I read an article a few years ago that likened hydrocarbon fuel to salt in a bygone era - rare, difficult and costly to refine, but exceptionally important across a number of social and economic dimensions. With changing technology, the cost of salt plummeted while the use cases became fewer. The hope is the same sort of thing will happen with hydrocarbon energy, and is in the process of happening even now.

Yeah the replacement is called nuclear power. Why is it that all of you people never suggest it?

How do you get to make your Tupperware using solar energy? We still use salt to make things salty.

 

[von_Bismarck]

Climate change is making the seas rise faster than ever, UN warns

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...-the-seas-rise-faster-than-ever-un-warns/amp/

The last four years were the warmest on record, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at record levels and rising, and a global average sea level rise of 3.7 millimetres in 2018 outstripped the average annual increase over the past three decades.

 

[trysail]

Every time I hear or read some nitwit claim that "Dangerous Anthropogenic Global Warming/Climate Change" is "settled science" I roll my eyes in disgust.

As far as I'm concerned, the lowest level in hell should be reserved for the bastards who deliberately politicize scientific inquiry and method. The slimeballs who have intentionally indoctrinated, frightened and brainwashed children deserve a special place in that hell.


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[von_Bismarck]

Florida utility plans world’s largest battery combined with solar

https://www.energy-storage.news/new...ns-worlds-largest-battery-combined-with-solar

The FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center will be powered by an existing PV plant in Parrish, Manatee County, and capable of distributing 900MWh of electricity. It will start serving customers in 2021, with the batteries being used particularly during peak demand periods, thereby reducing the requirement for electricity from other power plants. It will be able to provide energy the equivalent of 329,000 homes for a period of two hours, saving FPL customers more than US$100 million in the process.

Also, this:

FPL, which serves more than 10 million people, will also soon shut down its only remaining coal plant in Florida by the end of this year. Fuck you, trysail.

 

[TontoedRanger]

Florida utility plans world’s largest battery combined with solar

https://www.energy-storage.news/new...ns-worlds-largest-battery-combined-with-solar

The FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center will be powered by an existing PV plant in Parrish, Manatee County, and capable of distributing 900MWh of electricity. It will start serving customers in 2021, with the batteries being used particularly during peak demand periods, thereby reducing the requirement for electricity from other power plants. It will be able to provide energy the equivalent of 329,000 homes for a period of two hours, saving FPL customers more than US$100 million in the process.

Also, this:

FPL, which serves more than 10 million people, will also soon shut down its only remaining coal plant in Florida by the end of this year. Fuck you, trysail.

If you thought the link was about the Philadelphia Experiment, your wrong.

 

[von_Bismarck]

Plummeting battery prices to make electric cars cheaper than gas cars in 3 years

https://thinkprogress.org/electric-vehicles-cheaper-gasoline-cars-e4c86bd2aebe/

BNEF projected in 2017 that “the crossover point when electric vehicles will be cheaper upfront than a combustion vehicle” would be 2026 (nine years), BNEF energy analyst Nathaniel Bullard tweeted last week.

But things have changed quickly since then and the timeframe has narrowed significantly: in 2018, it was 2024 (six years), and now, in 2019, BNEF projects the crossover point will be 2022 — just three years away.

 

[Que]

Plummeting battery prices to make electric cars cheaper than gas cars in 3 years

https://thinkprogress.org/electric-vehicles-cheaper-gasoline-cars-e4c86bd2aebe/

BNEF projected in 2017 that “the crossover point when electric vehicles will be cheaper upfront than a combustion vehicle” would be 2026 (nine years), BNEF energy analyst Nathaniel Bullard tweeted last week.

But things have changed quickly since then and the timeframe has narrowed significantly: in 2018, it was 2024 (six years), and now, in 2019, BNEF projects the crossover point will be 2022 — just three years away.

That is great news. . .Just think- in less than four years you can start making payments on an Enterprise rental return electric vehicle!

 

[trysail]

I have but one question:

Is that buffoon the most gullible human being in the history of the universe?​

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[von_Bismarck]

I have but one question:

Is that buffoon the most gullible human being in the history of the universe?​

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Moar ad hominem, eh? You just can't help yourself, hypocrite.

 

[trysail]

What Will It Take To End Anti-Greenhouse Gas Insanity?

by Francis Menton

It was nearly six years ago, in one of the very early posts on this blog, that I wrote as to the global warming scam, “[E]ven as the cause becomes more and more ridiculous, the advocates just double down again and again.” At the time, world temperatures had failed to rise in accordance with alarmist predictions for about 15 years running, and I still had the naive idea that the politics of this issue ultimately would follow the scientific method; in other words, that the hypothesis of catastrophic human-caused warming would inevitably be forced to face the test of empirical evidence. Over time, empirical evidence would accumulate. As it became more and more clear that the evidence failed to support the hypothesis, the whole thing would gradually fade away. But up to that point, as I reported in that April 2013 post, what was happening was closer to the opposite. Extremely weak or completely negative empirical evidence for the hypothesis only made the advocates more and more extreme in their demands for immediate transformation of the world economy to “save the planet.”

The intervening six years have seen the ongoing accumulation of considerably more evidence, essentially all of it negative to the catastrophic global warming hypothesis, but my faith that actual evidence could resolve the issue has been almost completely shattered. Massive alterations have been made to the world thermometer temperature records by US and UK bureaucrats — almost entirely to reduce early-year temperatures and thereby create an apparent warming trend far greater than exists in the raw data. I have covered this issue extensively in a now-twenty-two part series “The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time.” Meanwhile, every hurricane, tornado, drought, flood, or other damaging act of nature is presented by the progressive press as evidence of human-caused “climate change” — even as the actual occurrences of such events have been definitively shown to have no increasing trend over time. Actual evidence gets massively altered, buried and/or ignored.

And now here we are in 2019, and the demands of the anti-greenhouse gas activists have only become more shrill and strident. Exhibit A is the so-called Green New Deal, a call to end most or all GHG emissions by 2030 at a cost of maybe 100 trillion dollars or so. And we are treated to claims by seemingly serious elected officials that the world will end in 12 years if we do not follow these prescriptions. If mere adverse empirical evidence cannot end this insanity, what can?...




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[von_Bismarck]

SPINNING UP IN THE US—AT LAST

https://www.wired.com/story/offshore-wind-farms-are-spinning-up-in-the-us-at-last/

ON JUNE 1, the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts will shut down, a victim of rising costs and a technology that is struggling to remain economically viable in the United States. But the electricity generated by the aging nuclear station soon will be replaced by another carbon-free source: a fleet of 84 offshore wind turbines rising nearly 650 feet above the ocean's surface.

The developers of the Vineyard Wind project say their turbines—anchored about 14 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard—will generate 800 megawatts of electricity once they start spinning sometime in 2022. That’s equivalent to the output of a large coal-fired power plant and more than Pilgrim’s 640 megawatts.

“Offshore wind has arrived,” says Erich Stephens, chief development officer for Vineyard Wind, a developer based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, that is backed by Danish and Spanish wind energy firms. He explains that the costs have fallen enough to make developers take it seriously. “Not only is wind power less expensive, but you can place the turbines in deeper water, and do it less expensively than before.”

 

[Hal9000_]

SPINNING UP IN THE US—AT LAST

https://www.wired.com/story/offshore-wind-farms-are-spinning-up-in-the-us-at-last/

ON JUNE 1, the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts will shut down, a victim of rising costs and a technology that is struggling to remain economically viable in the United States. But the electricity generated by the aging nuclear station soon will be replaced by another carbon-free source: a fleet of 84 offshore wind turbines rising nearly 650 feet above the ocean's surface.

The developers of the Vineyard Wind project say their turbines—anchored about 14 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard—will generate 800 megawatts of electricity once they start spinning sometime in 2022. That’s equivalent to the output of a large coal-fired power plant and more than Pilgrim’s 640 megawatts.

“Offshore wind has arrived,” says Erich Stephens, chief development officer for Vineyard Wind, a developer based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, that is backed by Danish and Spanish wind energy firms. He explains that the costs have fallen enough to make developers take it seriously. “Not only is wind power less expensive, but you can place the turbines in deeper water, and do it less expensively than before.”

But... but.. nuclear is green!

In the fucking dark!

 

[von_Bismarck]

But... but.. nuclear is green!

In the fucking dark!

There goes Que's argument for nuclear.

If you had asked me ten years ago, I, too, would have been a proponent of some nuclear capacity. But the points in it's favor keep diminishing, while the points against it remain.

I'm still a proponent of another form of nuclear, though. Fusion.

 

[colddiesel]

Every time I hear or read some nitwit claim that "Dangerous Anthropogenic Global Warming/Climate Change" is "settled science" I roll my eyes in disgust.

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Trysail. I suggest that you read and start quoting Ian T Dunlop, British /Australian, former Shell executive, MD of one of the world's largest coal producers/exporters for many years, Chairman of the Australian Coal Association and the Australian Institute of Directors. Educated as an engineer and scientist at Cambridge University.

Dunlop is everything that you are not, educated, measured, knowledgable, qualified and coherent.

Just Google Ian T Dunlop Climate and learn instead of ranting.

 

[trysail]

Another Attenborough Tragedy Porn Exposé

by "Bishop Hill"

" "Tragedy porn” is now a standard green propaganda technique. You’ve probably been on the receiving end of it, and will recognise it once I describe it. First of all you need a victim. Animals – preferably fluffy ones, and preferably with large eyes – are ideal, but people will do at a pinch. Then you have to film them in the process of dying or otherwise suffering. A presenter or scientist needs to be on hand to describe the events, preferably choking away their tears. Then you blame global warming.

It is often an effective technique, but care is required. Last week, tragedy porn proved to be the undoing of Sir David Attenborough, when a carefully contrived story on Netflix that global warming was driving walruses over cliff tops unravelled over the course of a week, as a series of flaws were discovered in the narrative and in the tales spun by the production team as they attempted to cover up what they had done. Once it emerged that the production team may well have played a role in causing the tragedy, it all started to look a bit problematic.

It’s therefore unfortunate that in Climate Change: the Facts, his latest magnum opus – which aired last week on BBC1 – producers deployed a bit of tragedy porn, and once again it appears that viewers were misled..."



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[von_Bismarck]

Oh, look, another C&P opinion piece that tryfail has no intention of defending.

The anti-science spammer strikes again!

 

[trysail]

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"When in fear or in doubt,
run in circles— scream and shout."​

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[phrodeau]

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"When in fear or in doubt,
run in circles— scream and shout."​

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An increase of 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

[sethp]

What about meteorologists and other's who get their temperature data directly from all the weather stations all over the world and also from Aircraft temperature readings?

That data doesn't go through NASA and is just hanging around for anyone to research.

A lot of scientists use raw data like this in their research.

Most of this data shows that the earth is gradually warming. The Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index shows that we're about 1 degree warmer than we were in 1880...a gradual but steady increase in global average temperature.

Remember also that we can get temperature an climate information from trees and ice core samples and other means that can go back centuries.

Also worth noting...I think Frances Melton is a lawyer and not a scientist. (OPs link) Since when did we start listening to Lawyers about Climate and Science and not actual scientists? LOL

 

[phrodeau]

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Temperatures from University of Alabama-Huntsville (NASA)

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_November_2013_v5.6.png

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_November_2013_v5.6.png

For the scientifically literate, the numerate and the informed, no comment is needed.

For the unscientific, the gullible, the credulous and the uninformed, any comment is a waste of time.



http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_September_2018_v6-550x317.jpg


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From the 11/2013 graph to the 9/2018 graph, the data points from the mid-1980's to the early 2000's all got shifted higher, and after 2002 the data points got lower.

Still waiting for your explanation.

 

[trysail]

Straight from NOAA:
The historic U.S. temperature record has been materially distorted by siting of urban weather stations.






Impacts of Small-Scale Urban Encroachment on Air Temperature Observations

by Ronald D. Leeper, John Kochendorfer, Timothy Henderson, and Michael A. Palecki

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0002.1

Abstract (bold mine)

A field experiment was performed in Oak Ridge, TN, with four instrumented towers placed over grass at increasing distances (4, 30, 50, 124, and 300 m) from a built-up area. Stations were aligned in such a way to simulate the impact of small-scale encroachment on temperature observations. As expected, temperature observations were warmest for the site closest to the built environment with an average temperature difference of 0.31 and 0.24 °C for aspirated and unaspirated sensors respectively. Mean aspirated temperature differences were greater during the evening (0.47 °C) than day (0.16 °C). This was particularly true for evenings following greater daytime solar insolation (20+ MJDay−1) with surface winds from the direction of the built environment where mean differences exceeded 0.80 °C. The impact of the built environment on air temperature diminished with distance with a warm bias only detectable out to tower-B’ located 50 meters away.

The experimental findings were comparable to a known case of urban encroachment at a U. S. Climate Reference Network station in Kingston, RI. The experimental and operational results both lead to reductions in the diurnal temperature range of ~0.39 °C for fan aspirated sensors. Interestingly, the unaspirated sensor had a larger reduction in DTR of 0.48 °C. These results suggest that small-scale urban encroachment within 50 meters of a station can have important impacts on daily temperature extrema (maximum and minimum) with the magnitude of these differences dependent upon prevailing environmental conditions and sensing technology.​

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