More record temps

[skookerasbil]

LOL...........still the 8 year olds are winning!!!




Alternate energy sources still a far-off dream

By Jock Finlayson, Vancouver Sun March 21, 2012

The annual global energy outlook released by the Paris-based Inter-national Energy Agency (IEA) is a timely, if sobering, reminder of the enduring place of fossil fuels in the over-all energy mix.

Energy demand and supply pat-terns change only slowly, and despite the earnest wishes of politicians and environmentalists, shifting away from existing carbon-intensive energy systems will take generations, not years.

The main fossil fuel-based energy sources that largely satisfy the consumption needs of the world's population have a bright future.

Blame it all on economic growth According to the IEA, even if governments around the globe fully deliver on the commitments they have made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and phase out fossil fuel subsidies - a very big "if" - world primary energy demand is still projected to rise by 36 per cent between 2008 and 2035, almost wholly due to economic growth and rising incomes in emerging markets.

Fossil fuels account for more than half of the increase in energy use to 2035, with oil remaining the dominant individual source of energy (albeit its share diminishes over time). World oil demand is expected to increase by 15 million barrels to reach 99 million barrels per day by 2035, with virtually all of the incremental demand coming from emerging economies.

Among the advanced economies that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), demand for oil drops by six million barrels per day over the same period. According to the IEA's projections, coal-fired electricity generation continues to expand on a global basis

The IEA also shines a spotlight on the growing importance of natural gas in the energy equation. While consumption fell in 2009 as the global economic downturn took its toll on demand, use of natural gas is poised to climb by 44 per cent by 2035, out-pacing growth in demand for all other fossil fuels.

Natural gas is a low-cost energy source, it is the least carbon-intensive fossil fuel, and gas-fired power plants can be built in proximity to population centres in a relatively short period of time. Natural gas consumption is projected by the IEA to grow the fastest in China, but the fuel is also becoming more popular in many other markets, including in North America.

What about the various renewable, carbon-free energy sources touted by environmentalists and supported by many governments? With "new policies" in place, the IEA hopes that renewables can supply one-third of the world's electricity needs by 2035, up from one-fifth today. Hydro-power and wind are the chief beneficiaries of this increase, although solar, geothermal and bio-mass will also play bigger roles as sources of electricity in the future.

All of this underscores the immense challenges involved in shifting energy systems away from existing fuel sources and infrastructure, a point long emphasized by Canadian scholar Vaclav Smil. As Professor Smil noted in an article on trends in U.S. energy consumption published in 2009: "It took 45 years for the U.S. to raise its crude oil use to 20 per cent of the total energy supply; natural gas needed 65 years to do the same. As for electricity generation, coal produced 66 per cent of the total in 1950 and still 49 per cent in 2007 - wind-driven generation now produces 1.5 per cent and solar photovoltaic a fraction of that. Whatever the eventual solution, whether it is converting the country's filling stations to natural gas or hydrogen, or building new long-distance transmission lines to carry Arizona's solar electricity to New York and North Dakota's wind power to California, the new requisite infrastructures are unlikely to be completed in the next few years."

It's hard to see how carbon-free energy can be expanded on the scale necessary to make a significant difference to the global energy supply mix in the next decade. The reality is that the world's energy system in 2020 is apt to look very similar to the one that exists today.

Jock Finlayson is executive vice-president of the Business Council of British Columbia.


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http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2012/03/20/Poll-Alternative-energy-loses-support/UPI-21181332217270/

 

[Roudy]

So using the manipulated data, someone came to the same conclusion. No surprise there. Seriously, what a lame retort.

Your denier cult myths are really stupid and have no foundation in reality. There was no "manipulated data", just good data, competent analysis and sound science, repeated and confirmed by thousand of scientists all around the planet. You're just too retarded and brainwashed by your rightwing puppet masters stooging for the fossil fuel industry to know up from down. You are a pathetic idiot.

This case in particular showed scientists falsifying data, and presenting intentionally skewed or misleading conclusions that would support a false global warming theory. Why else would they do such a thing if the data and conclusions supported their hypothesis anyhow? What you're saying makes no sense. Plus there are many other scientists (as qualified if not more) including data from NASA do not agree with a Global Warming theory, especially one that is influenced by man.

 

[daveman]

Worldwide, Gallup surveys in 111 countries found that the percentage of people who view global warming as a serious threat rose from 41% in 2007 to 42% in 2010.

A thousand years ago, most people thought the world was flat.

Did that make it true?

When you lie to poor countries, its just that much worse. Bad Faithers.

Leftists have never had a problem with lying in service of their agenda.

 

[daveman]

Worldwide, Gallup surveys in 111 countries found that the percentage of people who view global warming as a serious threat rose from 41% in 2007 to 42% in 2010.

A thousand years ago, most people thought the world was flat.

Did that make it true?

Myth of the Flat Earth
Oh davedumb, you just never manage to be right about anything. That's sad. Completely to be expected though, given how extremely retarded you are.

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A few misguided fools now believe, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that mankind has nothing to do with the current abrupt warming trend the Earth is experiencing.

Does that make it true?

So, you disagree that lots of people believing things makes them true.

I trust you'll stop with your "consensus" horseshit, then.

But of course you won't.

 

[saveliberty]

I think I enjoy reading Faither sources the most. Finding those overlooked major flaws and contradictory data or footnotes. lol

 

[Chris]

According to the agency’s data, 41 records have fallen or been tied in the past seven days, and the same number in the past 30 days. Over the past 365 days, 233 all-time records have fallen.

The numbers are equally impressive when it comes to just daily records. On Wednesday, 196 daily high temperature records were topped, increasing the past seven days’ worth of records to 1,133. When looking at the past 30 days, the number of broken daily records climbs to 2,359 and -- like mercury breaking through the top of a thermometer -- hits 34,294 over the past 365 days.

According to Crouch, the records have been falling for months, especially because March was an especially warm month.

Heat wave rolls through the U.S., toppling records - latimes.com

 

[Chris]

Temperatures soared across the Midwest on Thursday, reaching a blistering 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) in St. Louis, and possibly causing two deaths in KansasCity, Missouri, as a massive heat wave pressed eastward from the Rockies.

Farther to the east, it was 102 (39 C)in Cincinnati and 103 (39 C) in Nashville, Tennessee.

"It's when you stop sweating and you get goose bumps that you worry," said Sean Lachendro, one of a trio installing fiber-optic line for T-Mobile along a south Nashville roadside.

In Chicago, the high temperature reached 100 degrees (38 C) for the first time in seven years. Summer school was closed Thursday for 10 Chicago public schools without air conditioning.

US heat wave: Three-digit temperatures recorded across Midwest - CSMonitor.com

 

[Old Rocks]

Now Chris, you know that is all doctored data. And there are only a few little brushfires in Colorado and the Mountain West. A fire in New Mexico this year that broke the record for square miles burned, the record that was set last year. Naw, just 'Librul' pinko reporters exagerating.

And we are still in a neutral ENSO situation. An El Nino is inevitable, and if its a big one, Katie bar the door.

 

[daveman]

It's called "weather", people. It's not climate.

Even if you really really really want it to be.

 

[Chris]

By midafternoon Friday, temperatures had climbed to 100 degrees in Indianapolis; 101 in Richmond, Virginia; and 102 degrees in St. Louis, where highs were forecast to stay above 100 through Thursday, the National Weather Service said.

And it felt even hotter in some places, with the heat index topping out around 115 degrees.

In Memphis, Tennessee, where highs hit 105 degrees Friday, firefighters went door to door, checking on residents to make sure they're bearing the weather well. Churches and faith-based institutions were also urged to reach out to people and to ask people to check on their neighbors and relatives.

Intense heat bakes tens of millions in U.S., spawns potent storms - CNN.com

 

[Peach]

Over 100 in Ohio two days i a row,from a cousin of mine. The St. Mary's river broke the prior record for highest crest, due the deluge of TWO TS making landfall in one three weeks span, IN NORTH FLORIDA. Seems like a lot of interesting weather in the last few years; we here are looking a 100 tomorrow, rare for the end of June.

 

[Chris]

A late-June heat wave continues to rewrite the record books across a large swath of the country. Friday brought several all-time record highs, including 109 degrees at both Nashville, Tenn., and Columbia, S.C. In addition, a slew of June monthly records were tied or broken from the Ohio Valley to the Carolinas.

The previous day, Ft. Wayne, Ind. tied its all-time record high from 1988 and the "Dust Bowl" years of 1936 and 1934! Monthly records were tied or broken from Ohio to Arkansas. It was the hottest single day in Indianapolis since 1954, and was the sixth straight day of 110-plus degree heat in Hill City, Kan.

Will Your City Hit 100 Degrees? - weather.com

 

[Chris]

The map at this link is beyond belief.....

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-forecast/will-you-hit-100-degrees-20120626?pageno=2

From 113 in Phoenix to 106 in Charlotte.

 

[Mr. H.]

I sort of like this guy's approach- deal with it.

Exxon CEO calls climate change engineering problem | Reuters

 

[skookerasbil]

Thanks for the info s0n..........lovin' this hot weather in New York!!! Looking forward to heading to the ocean later this am............

 

[waltky]

It's so hot, the raccoons is takin' up residence in our a/c ducts...

Extreme heat wave is taking its toll across the nation
30 June`12 - This week's scorching heat wave has already killed several people across the USA, and will probably cause emergency room visits to spike this weekend, health officials say.

Local media and state health officials reported multiple heat-related deaths. In North Carolina, a 2-year-old child in Burke County died after being left in a car. In Kansas, heat is suspected in the deaths of a 60-year-old man and a child. Three heat related deaths occurred in Virginia. And in Queens, N.Y., an 81-year-old man died from heat exposure. Oven-like temperatures topping 100 will blast much of the Mississippi Valley, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, setting daily and some all-time heat records through Sunday, says Meteorologist Brian Korte of the National Weather Service. Columbia, S.C., reached 109 Friday, beating an all-time record of 107 last reached in August 2007. By mid-week, the eastern portion of the country will cool a bit, but extreme heat will return to the Great Plains, Korte said.

In Indiana, where temperatures topped 100 this week, state health officials logged 46 heat-related complaints in one day, Thursday. The state averages 62 heat-related hospital visits per week in late June and early July, says Indiana State Health Commissioner Gregory Larkin. "We encourage people who don't have air conditioning to retreat to public areas, libraries, shopping malls, swimming pools or other areas that are cool to allow them to protect themselves," Larkin says. In Jackson, Miss., where temperatures reached 100 Friday, doctors have treated about twice the normal number of patients for heat-related symptoms so far this month, says Richard Summers, chairman of emergency medicine for the University of Mississippi Medical Center. One patient arrived at the emergency room with excessive blood pressure of 296 over 180 — normal is 120 over 80 — and was treated with intravenous cooling fluids. "This is a hotter June than usual," Summers says. Even though people in the Deep South are accustomed to the heat, "We have seen numbers trending up."

People already ill with diabetes, heart disease and hypertension suffer more because the heat increases the severity of their conditions "and really makes it more likely that they will have trouble," he says. The heat can reduce bodily fluid levels in people with such conditions, and cause their emergency room visits to triple or quadruple during a heat wave compared to 10 years ago, Summers says. The increase is probably related to an aging population that in Mississippi leads the nation in obesity and poverty, and often lacks access to air conditioning, he says. While heat waves caused 70,000 excess deaths in France in 2003 and 50,000 excess deaths in Russia in 2010, longterm trends of heat related illness in the USA seem to be decreasing, says George Luber, a health scientist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health.

The decline is probably due to more people having access to air conditioning, and more communities are taking action to protect people from the heat, Luber says. Some cities, such as Philadelphia, St. Louis and Chicago, have deputized block captains to identify elderly and house-bound people who are vulnerable, and bring them to cooling shelters. Others, like New York City, have air-conditioning giveaway programs, Luber says. "It's much cheaper to give away a $400 air-conditioning unit rather than have a $10,000 emergency room visit or deal with the long-term cost of a stroke or heart attack," he says.

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[uscitizen]

34,000 record highs in the past year

The quality of Pot has gone up.

 

[bobgnote]

I sort of like this guy's approach- deal with it.

Exxon CEO calls climate change engineering problem | Reuters

Mr.Exxon notes people who aren't burning fossil fuels already would benefit, from getting busy, to burn fossil fuels.

Hillary Clinton notes governments cannot address climate change, alone. So Exxon is going to help reduce carbon emissions, former Goldwater Girl?

Exxon wll help us challenge the P/T Extinction, 251 m.y.a., for the number one killer extinction event, of all time! Ho-ho-ho-Hilarious.

Mr.Hole must have an ace, hidden away, somewhere. Whip it out, Hole.

 

[Big Fitz]

Thanks for the info s0n..........lovin' this hot weather in New York!!! Looking forward to heading to the ocean later this am............

The ecofascisti are going to go crazier using the inverse statement we do when it's a cold winter. OMG IT'S SO HOT! IT'S GLOWBULL WURMING AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT EBIL CONSERVITIVES!!!!!

Except.... they're serious... not mocking.

 

[bobgnote]

Pig Shitz doesn't realize, Monsanto scientists are moving from genetic engineering, of controversial, funky corn, to designing smart plants, which kill or disable idiot-wingpunk-fucktard-climate-change-denying ZOMBIES, like Pig Shitz and his rambling, brain-eating horde.

Then we will re-green, or eat shit, and die, in Mass Extinction Event 6, which will challenge the P/T Extinction, for the number one position, of all global extinction events, in geologic time.

251 m.y.a., most oceanic species and 7 of 10 land species died out, and all species suffered die-offs, while methane oozed out, like CH4 is out-gassing, today. All we need is volcanism, to catch up to all the symptoms, of the P/T. Want to pee tardy, at global climate change, Pig Shitz? What will your Tea Party think, when ice tea isn't around, anymore? Eat shit, you porky zombie.

You sure are porky, shitty, and stupid as shit, all at once, you fucking idiot zombie.