Posted on 02/16/2021 5:17:06 PM PST by karpov
Nine times Dallas has recorded daily snowfalls of 4 inches or more since 1940, but this week’s may be the first to be attributed to man-made climate change.
You ask, How do we know climate change is responsible? Answer: Shut up, denier.
Likewise because the weather inflicted painful blackouts on millions of voters, politicians hinted that market manipulation by energy traders may play a role. These manipulators will never be found. But shut up about that too.
Folks in the Northeast accustomed to weeklong outages may be surprised when Texans mostly have their power back in hours. Hundreds of downed power lines aren’t the problem as they are elsewhere. Texas winter blackouts come wholesale when generating plants trip offline due to conditions that will quickly be remedied when temperatures return to the 50s and 60s this weekend.
In fact, Texas has plenty of generation to keep its system from cracking even under summer air-conditioning demand, and more than enough in principle for a winter cold snap. Texas’ grid operator pledged to get to the bottom of why 34,000 megawatts nevertheless dropped offline, but we already know the answer because the same thing happened in 2011 and 1989.
Wind-power blades aren’t protected against icing. Coal, nuclear and gas-fired power plants in Texas are designed to shed heat rather than to protect against rare episodes of extreme cold. Winterization is the term for the investments politicians, operators and ratepayers have been reluctant to make because they are seldom needed.
Like much of the country, Texas has also increased its reliance on natural gas, in short supply when households suddenly crank up heating demand. Thanks to the Clean Air Act, pipeline compressors run on electricity now rather than natural gas.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
T Boone Pickens and his hedge fund sold green snake oil to then Governor Rick Perry and his AG at the time, Abbott. Here’s his commercials.They pushed to end coal plants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bOug1d20c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_3RV5SLS-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ30c8IZQR8
It’s full of predictions that we cannot escape foreign oil. Trump proved all these idiots wrong.
“...Like much of the country, Texas has also increased its reliance on natural gas, in short supply when households suddenly crank up heating demand. Thanks to the Clean Air Act, pipeline compressors run on electricity now rather than natural gas....”
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Wow, I didn’t know about that requirement.
“How do we know climate change is responsible? Answer: Shut up, denier.”
I don’t have a problem with climate change being blamed, what I object to is the “man made” part. Even if it is man made, is that necessarily bad?
Furthermore, has this type climate happened before? If so, than how do we know the current climate is “man made”?
One morning during the early 1970s, the low temperature in Corpus Christi was 18 degrees, Fahrenheit.
This green lunacy has spread too far. It has literally killed people this weekend who made mistakes trying not to freeze to death because Texas cannot make electricity!
Windmills damage the environment and look hideous. You make electricity with COAL. You power cars with oil. Gas has a myriad of wonderful uses in the home. We have a thousand years of coal in America. But we had to stop using that because of the climate scam.
So the coal trains stopped running. The mandarins gave him the right to transport oil instead. So now you have to kill the pipelines.
Meanwhile California is dark half the year anymore.
This green scam is costing us money, ruining our landscape, making food expensive, and rippling all through the economy two and three layers down and more.
And grifters like Pickens, Perry, Abbott, etc are cashing in on the green rather than fighting it.
People in DFW & Houston areas were irate that skyscraper lighting was going full blast and the residences were blacked out.
I reckon those big places have generators.
But you’d have a hard time reasoning with folks sitting around in sub-40º rooms
Did the Bush Dynastyhave even a hiccup in their service?
“Video: White House Can’t Answer Why Biden Removed EO To Keep China Out of US Power Grid”
>>Like much of the country, Texas has also increased its reliance on natural gas, in short supply when households suddenly crank up heating demand.<<
Natural gas in short supply? Perhaps the transmission of natural gas from point A to point B, but there is no shortage.
Last report I read, the nation has over 2 trillion cu.ft. of natural gas and discovered yet another 1 trillion cu.ft. off the coast of LA. a couple of years back.
In either case...We need the state of Texas to construct another natural gas generation station.
“ It has literally killed people this weekend ”
As Gov. A Cornuto (D-NY) said, “So what?”
Lots of buildings use lighting as part of their heating strategy. The downside is when people see lights on, they equate it to waste.
And now our satellite photos at night more closely resemble North Korea
And now our satellite photos at night more closely resemble North Korea
Bad optics plus desperate masses equals one ugly scenario.
At Best
A few short years ago, Corpus Christi had a white Christmas.
I doubt they would intentionally turn off power to downtown high rise buildings because of elevators and safety systems. They could ask or demand that they shut down some lighting or other systems to reduce the load.
WHEN CLAIMS OF MAN MADE COLD RAIN AND SNOW COME UP BLAME THE SUN .
EARTH TO COOL DOWN WARNS GEO SCIENTIST
Scientific reports from Canada and Greenland has indicated that the the shrinking arctic ice sheets have begun to replace themselves rapidly. Strongly suggesting the earth instead of warming, is beginning to cool down. It is still not known (or proven) if this is the result because of the reduced rate of sun spot activity.
Canadian geo scientist Professor R. Timothy Patterson of Carelton University is urging a go-slow on the rush for governments to “Play God” with global warming legislative blaming this on CO2 (carbon dioxide) discharges. Legislating corrections attempting to control a natural cyclic occurrence caused by; sun spots, the magnetic solar wind, and cyclic earth magnetic polarity reversal, among other natural occurrences including volcanism, meteors etc. Probably plays a very significant role in climate change. Yet ignorantly blaming man made CO2 emissions for climatic change. which is becoming a rapidly discredited and minuscule cause of global warming in his article published by Canada’s Financial Post. 6/20/07
Patterson was selected by the Canadian government to study the fluctuations in certain types of fish populations.
While doing so the Canadian Geo-Scientist found a correlation when certain species of fish had high population and then drastic drop offs. He discovered these fluctuations corresponded with sun spot activity and solar radiation vs cosmic activity. When earth cooling occurred.
Studying deep fjords along the Western Canadian coast where deep pools of low oxidation water exist. The Patterson study reached deep into the earths recent past of 4000 years of undisturbed sediments. Patterson found that when aquatic activity was highest and lowest in those collected sediments having high aquatic content had matched known solar protection when the magnetic wind was highest, and dropped off when earth magnetic fields activities were lowest.Thus causing cosmic radiation to intensify.
Then because the earth became unprotected by its magnetic fields from galactic cosmic activity. Patterson cites several accepted theories which concludes this then created cloud activity during such periods which increased drastically. Thus cooling earth and bringing in its ice ages.
In his presentation here is a professor urging more scientific study (like Pope Benedict)is needed. That politicians including Al Gore, of The Earth Is Flat Society, don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. Strongly suggesting that the global warming may be caused by exhaling politicos rather than serious scientific examination.
Patterson seems to be saying before Canadians start investing in palm trees they should be considering better parkas because what goes up must come down and the Mexicans better move over for a reverse population flow. The 2007story was featured in The Drudge Report, and World Net Daily, which were linked in The US Mat’s last page. But lost due to source link changes .
Earth Axis tilts slightly away from sun
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3877075/posts
Earth Enters Unknown as Magnetic North Pole Continues Push Toward Russia, Crosses Greenwich Meridian
Sputniknews.com ^ | 15:08 13.12.2019 (updated 15:42 13.12.2019) | Staff
posted in the Free Republic Aggregate conservative news site
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3800727/posts
Posted on 12/13/2019, 4:22:18 PM by Red Badger
Earlier this year, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the British Geological Survey (BGS) were forced to update the World Magnetic Model a year ahead of schedule due to the speed with which the magnetic north pole is shifting out of the Canadian Arctic and toward Russia’s Siberia.
Deep solar minimum on the verge of an historic milestone
wattsupwiththat.com ^ | December 12, 2019 | by Paul Dorian
Posted on 12/13/2019, 3:17:04 PM by Red Badger Posted in the Free Republic aggregate news site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3800719/posts
Solar minimum is a normal part of the 11-year sunspot cycle, but the last one and the current one have been far deeper than most. One of the consequences of a solar minimum is a reduction of solar storms and another is the intensification of cosmic rays. The just ended solar cycle 24 turned out to be one of the weakest in more than a century – continuing a weakening trend that began in the 1980’s – and, if the latest forecasts are correct, the next solar cycle will be the weakest in more than 200 years.
One of the natural impacts of decreasing solar activity is the weakening of the ambient solar wind and its magnetic field which, in turn, allows more and more cosmic rays to penetrate the solar system. Galactic cosmic rays are high-energy particles originating from outside the solar system that can impact the Earth’s atmosphere. Our first line of defense from cosmic rays comes from the sun as its magnetic field and the solar wind combine to create a ‘shield’ that fends off cosmic rays attempting to enter the solar system. The shielding action of the sun is strongest during solar maximum and weakest during solar minimum with the weakening magnetic field and solar wind. The intensity of cosmic rays varies globally by about 15% over a solar cycle because of changes in the strength of the solar wind, which carries a weak magnetic field into the heliosphere, partially shielding Earth from low-energy galactic charged particles.
NEWLY PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC PAPER TEARS GLOBAL WARMING AND THE IPCC TO SHREDS
Electro verse.net ^ | Dec 11, 2019
Posted on 12/17/2019, 4:54:46 PM by 11th_VA
http://www.freerepublic/com/focus/f-news/3801618/posts
A scientific paper entitled “An Overview of Scientific Debate of Global Warming and Climate Change” has recently come out of the University of Karachi, Pakistan. The paper’s author, Prof. Shamshad Akhtar delves into earth’s natural temperature variations of the past 1000 years, and concludes that any modern warming trend has been hijacked by political & environmental agendas, and that the science (tackled below) has been long-ignored and at times deliberately manipulated.
... Pro human induced global warming scientists exaggerate the contribution of carbon dioxide as a major greenhouse gas in absorbing long wave earth’s radiation. The fact is water vapor is the single largest atmospheric greenhouse gas (2% by volume), Carbon dioxide is second (0.0385% by volume).
Water vapor contributes 95% to the greenhouse effect, all other greenhouse gases combined contribute only 5%. Furthermore, the man-made portion of carbon dioxide contributes only 0.117% to the greenhouse effect.
The IPCC does not consider water vapor a greenhouse gas in its reports.
In addition, water vapor absorbs in a much wider band of long wave radiation (4-8 micrometer and 12-70 micrometer bands), whereas Carbon dioxide absorbs in narrow bands (13-16 micrometer) and ozone absorbs in a much smaller narrow band (9-10 micrometer). Thus, water vapor absorbs in a much wider wave length band, it has the single largest greenhouse effect among all the greenhouse gases.
For the answer to that question, I’m guessing we must Circle Back (TM) to Xi and Hunter.
We can expect more of this.
As the earth's climate gets warmer, there will be more and more cold weather.
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