Electricity

IEA: Air Conditioning Use Will Lead to a Warmer World

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By Kendra Pierre-Louis – Re-Blogged From http://www.WattsUpWithThat.com

NYT: ‘The World Wants Air-Conditioning. That Could Warm the World’

More than crickets and fireflies, more than baseball and cookouts, perhaps nothing signals the arrival of summer in the United States like the soft familiar whir of air-conditioning.

But there is growing concern that as other countries adopt America’s love of air-conditioners, the electricity used to power them will overburden electrical grids and increase planet-warming emissions.

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Looming Catastrophe: Power Grid Collapse Now In Sight in New York

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By John Droz Jr. – Re-Blogged From http://www.WattsUpWithThat.com

Indian Point Nuclear Power Station in New York. It sits on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 36 miles north of Midtown Manhattan, plans to shut down both of its operating reactors by April 2021.

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Fund Managers Predict the Decline of Oil, But We’ve Heard This Before

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By Steve Goreham – Re-Blogged From Washington Examiner

World fund managers predict a fall in the value of oil companies. According to a survey published last month in the United Kingdom, climate change risks will force a lower valuation of oil company stock prices within the next five years. But despite many predictions of demise over the last 50 years, global consumption of hydrocarbon energy continues to grow.
The sun begins to rise behind a pump jack and oil storage tanks near Williston, N.D.
The sun begins to rise behind a pump jack and oil storage tanks near Williston, N.D.
(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #314

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By Ken Haapala, President. Science and Environmental Policy Project

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Behaving Like Bureaucrats? Last week’s TWTW discussed four significant issues regarding the climate science proclaimed by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and its followers, such as the US Global Change Research Program. (USGCRP). In recent months, independent scientists have found four areas in which IPCC science is deficient. Deficiency in any one of the areas is sufficient to show that the IPCC science significantly over estimates the influence of carbon dioxide (CO2) on the globe’s temperatures.

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How Environmentalism Destroys Hope for the Poorest

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By Anthony Watts – Re-Blogged From http://www.WattsUpWithThat.com

There is a new white-paper out from The GWPF that illustrates the damage being done to people in poorer countries by environmentalists’ obsession with decarbonization in their imaginary quest to stave off global warming. As Dr. John Christy once said:

“Without energy, life is brutal and short”

How Solar And Wind Are Causing Electricity Prices To Skyrocket

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By Michael Schellenberger – Re-Blogged From http://www.WattsUpWithThat.com

Over the last year, the media have published story after story after story about the declining price of solar panels and wind turbines.

People who read these stories are understandably left with the impression that the more solar and wind energy we produce, the lower electricity prices will become.

And yet that’s not what’s happening. In fact, it’s the opposite.

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Interesting Charts

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By Bob Shapiro

Here are two charts, both relating to Climate, that I find very interesting.

NOAA collects US temperature data from over 1000 stations across the country. They’ve been doing this every day (mostly) for years and years. They go through the data as it comes in to correct mistakes – the usual QA process. But in recent years, they have started historical adjustments – 5 major adjustments over a recent 6 year period.

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