Category: Climate Cult

How well do large hail and large solar arrays mix?

Climate Cult 17 Comments

So I just posted this on Facebook. I wonder what sort of response I’ll get?

So that purple area is right over the Turning Sun solar array under construction southwest of Estevan. This is at 11:50 p.m. on Friday. I feel bad for the farmers, for sure, as that purple is likely hail. The question is, how will the array fare? I’m not nearby this weekend, so if anyone notices any damage, please let me know.
This is what Environment Canada says: “At 11:46 PM CST, a line of severe thunderstorms is located from about Oungre to Estevan then to 25 km south of North Portal. These severe thunderstorms are moving northeast at 35 km/h. Damaging wind gusts, up to quarter size hail and heavy rain are possible.”

A big question I’ve been asking for years is this: Show me one place in Saskatchewan where you can guarantee it will not be hit by toonie sized hail over the next 25 years? I asked SARM’s board this. They all laughed, because they have a hail insurance company for that exact reason. My own place has been hit by toonie to baseball sized hail twice in 18 years. My dad’s farm was wiped out by the white combine around 1987. So how will hundreds of millions of dollars of solar panels hold up when the inevitable happens? This array is supposed to pivot vertically to reduce damage, something fixed arrays can’t do. Maybe that’ll help. This particular area in the image has hit hard several years ago by hail. I hope it’s just rain, for the farmers’ sake. If you know what happens, please comment below or let me know.

New Boss, Same As The Old Boss

#Brexit Climate Cult Gradually Then Suddenly Great Moments In Socialism It's Probably Nothing 12 Comments

The new guy doesn’t sound a whole lot different than Starmer. Good luck with your voting choices, Britain. You’ll soon be back to the dreary 70’s at this rate.

He said that greater public control over water, energy and transportation can drive economic growth and ease households’ financial burden, though it’s unclear to what extent he plans to reverse decades of privatization of key pillars of the economy.

Betting the wind will always blow, when it doesn’t.

Climate Cult 14 Comments

NDP release Pembina Institute paper on costs of coal refurbishment, but the paper leaves out a lot of context. The report puts a lot of faith in wind and solar, but real world examples over the last two weeks bring that faith into doubt. Using the scenarios the Pembina Institute outlines in the report quoted by the NDP, on Aug. 12, Saskatchewan would have run out of batteries six times in 24 hours.

And just after I finished writing this at 2 a.m., I got an email alert that Alberta wind generation fell to less than 1 per cent output, again. But they have no use for baseload power. Good grief.

 

Y2Kyoto: Other Than That, Mrs Lincoln…

Climate Cult Y2Kyoto 9 Comments

WUWT;

In their Goss et al (2020) paper Climate Change Is Increasing the Likelihood of Extreme Autumn Wildfire Conditions Across California, those alarmist scientists clearly stated their intention was to make climate change the culprit by presenting an investigation that “only considers changes in climatic contributions to wildfire risk, irrespective of changes in fire ignitions, vegetation, land use or management strategies.”

Missing The Big Picture

Climate Cult nannystate New Governor 21 Comments

Here’s an idea: tell water and sewer utilities to levy sufficient charges to cover the cost of capital improvements and replacement of infrastructure. Then the federal and provincial governments can put their money into real infrastructure projects such as twinning the trans-Canada highway in northern Ontario and BC. We ought to be ashamed of the fact that Mexico has more sensible highway systems than we do.

Ontario and Ottawa are announcing up to $1 billion to help municipalities in the province build infrastructure for more homes.

The money will go to municipalities that do not collect development charges for things like roads, bridges and water systems.

Red Tory Playbook

Climate Cult CPC Leadership New Governor You Might Be A Liberal 43 Comments

What’s the point of such half-measures? Do the Tories think that voters would reject the idea of permanent tax relief? Why does the idea of strongly differentiating themselves from the Liberals seem to fill them with dread? In fact, why not openly call for the elimination of the industrial carbon tax and lower gas prices by taking that route?

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the federal government should give Canadians at least another 10 months of relief at the pumps.

Awash With Idiocy

Canada’s Bolsheviks Climate Cult Media nannystate Science Y2Kyoto 23 Comments

Faced with widespread backpedaling on the most useless aspects of  the climate science cult, hacks like Gwynne Dyer just double down: since we can’t jettison fossil fuels fast enough, let’s just embark on an attempt to do nothing less than geoengineer the weather as if the earth were connected to a house thermostat. What could possibly go wrong?

Cutting our carbon dioxide and methane emissions, while it is still vital, cannot act fast enough….

What can act fast enough is Solar Radiation Management (SRM for short). That includes any technique that reflects some incoming sunlight back into space and cools the planet, but the most promising one involves putting some reflective substance into the stratosphere.

Manitoba Grifters

Canada’s Bolsheviks Climate Cult Insufferable Twits We Are All Treaty People 25 Comments

What’s the phrase “I’m willing to entertain…” supposed to mean anyway? That he’s going to hold the project ransom at some point? It would be nice to hear “I enthusiastically endorse…” instead, but that would probably land him in hot water with the greenies.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says he’s open to a west-east pipeline being pitched by his counterparts in Alberta and Ontario.

But he says major projects like pipelines need to be built the right way, by addressing environmental concerns and bringing Indigenous governments on board.

Energy Thought Experiment

Baiting The Left Climate Cult 21 Comments

Earlier this week, I made the two day drive from Maryland to Tennessee. Throughout much of West Virginia and East Kentucky, I saw a lot of signs of coal production, past & present. This prompted me to do some research:

So, my question to SDA’s resident energy expert, Brian Zinchuk, and everyone else, is this: Why is there so much hand wringing from the usual suspects over oil running out, when this coal will extend liquid fuel usage for many years to come?

Canadian Exceptionalism

Canada’s Bolsheviks Climate Cult 24 Comments

If opposition to concrete buildings full of computers is this intense, that leads me to believe that a pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia is never going to happen. It beggars belief that Wab Kinew would kill the idea of a data center in Manitoba, yet propose a pipeline to Churchill. The bad economics of that aside, does he think that the greenies will sign off on a pipeline crossing the tundra?

Olds residents have been rallying against a proposal for a 10-building campus with a total of 1.4 gigawatts of gas-fired power generation. In June, opponents held a protest in Vancouver to demonstrate against the opening of AI data centres. In Hamilton, a proposal to put a data centre campus on the harbourfront has sparked fierce pushback.

 

Y2Kyoto: The Great Backpeddling

Climate Cult Y2Kyoto 39 Comments

Roger Pielke Jr;

Back in April, THB broke the news to the world that the only three official reference scenarios used for the past 15 years in much of climate research, assessment and policy had been retired. The CMIP71 conclusion that RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5, and SSP3-7.0 were “implausible” was huge news.

Today, I share more big news about how official climate scenarios continue to evolve.

CMIP7 has just published the final versions of its new scenarios as they have emerged from integrated assessment models (IAMs), updating the placeholders that accompanied their April announcement. The final versions — once again — dramatically reduces the cumulative carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels from the April placeholders.

The table below shows just how large these changes are in gigatons (Gt) of carbon dioxide emitted from the burning of fossil fuels to 2100 — both in terms of the highest cumulative emissions across the scenario set (in the first bullet below) and in terms of the scenarios designated as reference or current policy […]

Do read the whole thing, including the conclusions at the end: The massive scale-back of projected future carbon dioxide emissions means, all else equal, less future changes in climate; As a consequence, there will surely be enormous political pressures placed on the climate science community to create projections with greater changes in climate, based on factors other than carbon dioxide emissions

Related: How Much Disinformation Can A Person Pack Into A Talk About Disinformation?

We Demand That Atlas Shrugs!

Climate Cult Democrats nannystate Y2Kyoto 16 Comments

It seems that New York is taking a cue from Manitoba: let’s make up phony reasons to reject private sector investment. God forbid that industrial infrastructure should use energy….

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday imposing the country’s first statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers, which house thousands of computer servers and require massive amounts of energy and a steady supply of water to keep cool.

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