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Proof That Climate Change is Much Older than the Industrial Age!

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Receding Swiss Glaciers Reveal 4000 Year Old Forests

– Warmists Try To Suppress Findings

JUNE 21, 2014
 By Paul Homewood

 

As many sources, including HH Lamb, have pointed out, back in the Bronze Age around 2000BC, the climate in the Alps was much warmer than now.

It is therefore no surprise to find direct evidence of this from geologist Dr. Christian Schlüchter, Professor emeritus at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Larry Bell at Newsmax has the story:

 

Dr. Christian Schlüchter’s discovery of 4,000-year-old chunks of wood at the leading edge of a Swiss glacier was clearly not cheered by many members of the global warming doom-and-gloom science orthodoxy.

This finding indicated that the Alps were pretty nearly glacier-free at that time, disproving accepted theories that they only began retreating after the end of the little ice age in the mid-19th century. As he concluded, the region had once been much warmer than today, with “a wild landscape and wide flowing river.”

Dr. Schlüchter’s report might have been more conveniently dismissed by the entrenched global warming establishment were it not for his distinguished reputation as a giant in the field of geology and paleoclimatology who has authored/coauthored more than 250 papers and is a professor emeritus at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Then he made himself even more unpopular thanks to a recent interview titled “Our Society is Fundamentally Dishonest” which appeared in the Swiss publication Der Bund where he criticized the U.N.-dominated institutional climate science hierarchy for extreme tunnel vision and political contamination.

Following the ancient forest evidence discovery Schlüchter became a target of scorn. As he observes in the interview, “I wasn’t supposed to find that chunk of wood because I didn’t belong to the close-knit circle of Holocene and climate researchers. My findings thus caught many experts off guard: Now an ‘amateur’ had found something that the [more recent time-focused] Holocene and climate experts should have found.”

Other evidence exists that there is really nothing new about dramatic glacier advances and retreats. In fact the Alps were nearly glacier-free again about 2,000 years ago. Schlüchter points out that “the forest line was much higher than it is today; there were hardly any glaciers. Nowhere in the detailed travel accounts from Roman times are glaciers mentioned.”

Schlüchter criticizes his critics for focusing on a time period which is “indeed too short.” His studies and analyses of a Rhone glacier area reveal that “the rock surface had [previously] been ice-free 5,800 of the last 10,000 years.”

Such changes can occur very rapidly. His research team was stunned to find trunks of huge trees near the edge of Mont Miné Glacier which had all died in just a single year. They determined that time to be 8,200 years ago based upon oxygen isotopes in the Greenland ice which showed marked cooling.

Casting serious doubt upon alarmist U.N.-IPCC projections that the Alps will be nearly glacier-free by 2100, Schlüchter poses several challenging questions: “Why did the glaciers retreat in the middle of the 19th century, although the large CO2 increase in the atmosphere came later? Why did the Earth ‘tip’ in such a short time into a warming phase? Why did glaciers again advance in the 1880s, 1920s, and 1980s? . . . Sooner or later climate science will have to answer the question why the retreat of the glacier at the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850 was so rapid.”

Although we witness ongoing IPCC attempts to blame such developments upon evil fossil-fueled CO2 emissions, that notion fails to answer these questions. Instead, Schlüchter believes that the sun is the principal long-term driver of climate change, with tectonics and volcanoes acting as significant contributors.

Regarding IPCC integrity with strong suspicion, Schlüchter recounts a meeting in England that he was “accidentally” invited to which was led by “someone of the East Anglia Climate Center who had come under fire in the wake of the Climategate e-mails.”

As he describes it: “The leader of the meeting spoke like some kind of Father. He was seated at a table in front of those gathered and he took messages. He commented on them either benevolently or dismissively.”

Schlüchter’s view of the proceeding took a final nosedive towards the end of the discussion. As he noted: “Lastly it was about tips on research funding proposals and where to submit them best. For me it was impressive to see how the leader of the meeting collected and selected information.”

As a number of other prominent climate scientists I know will attest, there’s one broadly recognized universal tip for those seeking government funding. All proposals with any real prospects for success should somehow link climate change with human activities rather than to natural causes. Even better, those human influences should intone dangerous consequences.

Schlüchter warns that the reputation of science is becoming more and more damaged as politics and money gain influence. He concludes, “For me it also gets down to the credibility of science . . . Today many natural scientists are helping hands of politicians, and are no longer scientists who occupy themselves with new knowledge and data. And that worries me.”

Yes. That should worry everyone.

 

 

 

 The only real surprise in this story is why the so-called “experts”, that he was up against, were so surprised by his findings. There is ample evidence from HH Lamb and others that temperatures in this part of the world were higher then than now. Apart from anything else, there is the body of Oetzi the iceman, which was discovered a few years ago in a glacier, high up in the Alps, near the Austro-Italian border, at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. Oetzi had attempted to cross the Alps about 5000 years ago.

 

 

 

 

Anyone, with the slightest knowledge of the Alps, would know that nobody these days would attempt to cross a glacier at this height with the sort of clothing and equipment available to Oetzi.

In 2008, the BBC offered a fuller explanation.

 

Melting alpine glaciers are revealing fascinating clues to Neolithic life in the high mountains.

And, as a conference of archaeologists and climatologists meeting in the Swiss capital Berne has been discussing, the finds are also providing key indicators to climate change.

Everyone knows the story of Oetzi the Ice Man, found in a glacier on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991. Oetzi was discovered at an altitude of over 3,000m.

He lived in about 3,300 BC, leading to speculation that the Alps may have had more human habitation than previously suspected.

Now, more dramatic findings from the 2,756m Schnidejoch glacier in Switzerland have confirmed the theory.

It all started at the end of the long hot summer of 2003, when a Swiss couple, hiking across a melting Schnidejoch, came across a piece of wood that aroused their curiosity.

They took it down with them, and gave it to canton Berne’s archaeological department, where careful examination and carbon dating revealed the piece of wood to be an arrow quiver made of birch bark, dating from about 3000 BC.

Unique findings

“Finds in the Alps are very rare anyway,” explains Albert Hafner, chief archaeologist with the canton of Berne. “But this is unique; we don’t know of a quiver like this anywhere else in the world.”

At first, the news of the find was kept quiet; historians feared treasure hunters on the Schnidejoch as the ice melted. But teams of archaeologists went up, and more and more artefacts were discovered.

Leather (University of Berne)

The ice has protected the leather for thousands of years

“We now have the complete bow equipment, quiver and arrows,” says Mr Hafner “And we have, surprisingly, a lot of organic material like leather, parts of shoes and a trouser leg, that we wouldn’t normally find.”

And the finds are not confined to 3000 BC. Some of the leather found, and a fragment of a wooden bowl, date from 4500 BC, older even than Oetzi, making them the oldest objects ever found in the Alps.

And from later periods, a Bronze Age pin has been discovered, as well as Roman coins and a fibula, and items dating from the early Middle Ages.

Key to climate change

What fascinates scientists about the age of the finds is that they correspond to times when climate specialists have already calculated the Earth was going through an especially warm period, caused by fluctuations in the orbital pattern of the Earth in relation to the Sun.

At these times, historians now speculate, the high mountain regions became accessible to humans.

 

The Roman coins found on the Schnidejoch are being seen as proof that the Romans used this route to cross the Alps from Italy to their territories in northern Europe. Interestingly, one of the Earth’s chillier periods coincides with the decline of the Roman empire.

 

 

As the Earth cooled and the glaciers grew again, the Schnidejoch and other passes like it would have been blocked by ice. So did fluctuations in the Earth’s climate contribute to the fall of the Roman empire?

“Well that may be stretching things a bit,” laughs Martin Grosjean. “But what we do know is that the climate has fluctuated throughout history; in the past the driving force for the changes was the Earth’s orbital pattern, now the driving force is green house gas emissions.”

Global patterns

For Martin Grosjean, the leather items found on the Schnidejoch, dated at over 5,000 years old, are proof, if any more were needed, that the Earth is now warming up.

“The leather is the jewel among the finds,” he says. “If leather is exposed to the weather, to sun, wind and rain, it disintegrates almost immediately.

Tool reconstruction (University of Berne)

Bit by bit, the Neolithic way of life is being revealed

“The fact that we still find these 5,000-year-old pieces of leather tells us they were protected by the ice all this time, and that the glaciers have never been smaller than in the year 2003 and the years following.”

Scientists and archaeologists from all over the world attended the conference in Berne to hear about the Schnidejoch findings, and present research of their own.

Patterns have begun to emerge: researchers in Canada’s Yukon region have found evidence of Neolithic farming and domesticated animals at high altitudes.

Again, they correspond with the calculations climatologists have made about the Earth’s warmer periods.

Unexpected history

In Norway, Atle Nesje has been analysing glaciers for the past 25 years. His calculations for the Norwegian icefields show a similar shrinkage and growth pattern to the alpine glaciers.

“Now these archaeological findings seem to fit quite nicely with our glacier reconstructions,” he says. “This is very important in the debate about climate change in the past, the present, and also in the future.”

Shoe reconstruction (BBC)

A reconstruction of the shoes these mountain people used to wear

For historians however, the Schnidejoch is unexpected evidence that early man was far more at home in the high Alps than had been previously thought.

“In 1991, we were completely surprised by Oetzi,” remembers Albert Hafner. “Up to then, we had always thought the Alps were not used, that people never went there.

“Now with Schnidejoch we know they were rather keen on mountaineering. It was a big challenge for them; look at the shoes, no Goretex for them. But we know they went up regularly.”

 

 

 

 

The reality is straightforward. The Alps, and regions elsewhere, were much warmer than now around 5000 years ago, and, indeed, for most of the time before that going back to the end of the Ice Age. There is absolutely no evidence at all that suggests current temperatures are, in any way, unusual.

Enviro-wackos Just Want to Scare People. It Doesn’t Have to be True!

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Moore’s Law: CO2 Good; Climate Change Bunk; Greens Follow Religious Fundamentalism

Posted on June 21, 2014 by 

 

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“Climate change” is a theory for which there is “no scientific proof at all” says the co-founder of Greenpeace. And the green movement has become a “combination of extreme political ideology and religious fundamentalism rolled into one.” 

Patrick Moore, a Canadian environmentalist who helped found Greenpeace in the Seventies but subsequently left in protest at its increasingly extreme, anti-scientific, anti-capitalist stance, argues that the green position on climate change fails the most basic principles of the scientific method.

“The certainty among many scientists that humans are the main cause of climate change, including global warming, is not based on the replication of observable events. It is based on just two things, the theoretical effect of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, predominantly carbon dioxide, and the predictions of computer models using those theoretical calculations. There is no scientific “proof” at all.”

Moore goes on to list some key facts about “climate change” which are ignored by true believers.

1. The concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere is lower today, even including human emissions, than it has been during most of the existence of life on Earth.

2. The global climate has been much warmer than it is today during most of the existence of life on Earth. Today we are in an interglacial period of the Pleistocene Ice Age that began 2.5 million years ago and has not ended.

Wind Turbines will NEVER Be Ready for Prime Time!

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THE HOCKEY SCHTICK

If you can’t explain the ‘pause’, you can’t explain the cause…

 

Friday, June 20, 2014

 

Study finds wind power increases costs of electricity production and CO2 emissions

A study from EIKE, the European Institute of Climate & Energy, finds based upon the experience in Germany and the fundamental statistical principles that intermittent and unpredictable wind power cannot serve as a baseline power source, wind power peaks are often wasted and have no correlation with power demand, there is no available means of storing wasted wind power peaks, and thus, the costs of electricity production and CO2 emissions [from firing up the fossil fuel baseline power required] will greatly increase, not decrease, due to wind power.

Google translation, not edited:

Correlation of the feed-in from wind turbines makes base load capacity in Germany impossible

by Dr. – Ing Detlef Ahlborn

When it comes to studies, to develop strategies to secure electricity supply of so-called renewable energies, one finds invariably only vague statements. In this paper it is shown why a strategy for achieving a secure electricity supply from wind turbines can not be developed, and in a country the size of Germany is not developable. Each of these strategies will fail to physical laws and fundamental principles of mathematical statistics. Below is this to be justified in a clear way.

 

Base load, medium load, peak load. Image. Amprion

With the current expansion are all wind and solar energy plants in Germany together not baseload. A corresponding popular scientific study was published by the author on the Internet at http://www.vernunftkraft.de/statistik/. There, the statement was made that “the secured capacity of all wind turbines is to be recognized in Germany together with zero.” This case has now occurred, as the entire wind power on March 13, 2014, to 34 MW (which is one-thousandth of installed capacity or rated output of 34.000MW) has fallen. The practical total failure of wind power is therefore now occurred in Germany.

At this consensus among engineers and scientists can not be shaken, and finally the Einspeisekurven of all wind turbines in Germany are publicly available.

It is therefore not surprising that there is only “vague statements” in relevant studies here. To this fact, the lobby pushes gathered around with their subordinate institutions with semi-specific generalities.

Performs an expansion of wind power for smoothing the supply?

In the evaluation of the further expansion to an equalization of the supply, the estimates vary widely among scientists. The sense after about IWES in Kassel considers that a further expansion for smoothing and thus to equalize the supply leads. So it says in the verfertigten in Kassel on IWES “Agora short study of the development of wind energy in Germany” for example: “A large-scale distribution of plants consequently leads to a smoothing of supply.”

Anyone who has ever dealt with mathematical statistics, sees “at first sight” that this thesis is mathematically unsustainable. The dispersion or variability of a random size, such as the number thrown eyes of a sequence of 50 tosses of a cube is “measured” in mathematics by the so-called variance. If one performs this cube experiment with 2 dice (and thus the expansion of wind power includes in this experiment, because the dice are rolled with more cubes) and forms the sum of the spots numbers and consider the scattering of this sum, it is found that the scattering ( and increases the variance!) the sum and does not sink. This statement is evident, because the numbers fluctuate in a cube 1-6, with two litters 2-12. Underlying this is the addition theorem for the variance of mathematical statistics.He says that the variance of a sum of random numbers as the sum of the variances of the individual random numbers.With each summand the variance and thus the scattering and, ultimately, the variability increases.

The conclusion at this point is beyond doubt:

An expansion of wind power increases the dispersion of the feed. The team fielded by IWES scientists claim for smoothing is in clear contradiction with unique sets of mathematical statistics. The claim is simply wrong!

If the infeed is perpetuated by the expansion of wind power?

Looking at the issue of complementarity of wind turbines to a “stabilization” of the feed, should be brought to see more detail. However, the deeper connections of mathematical statistics are “somewhat tricky” (new German: more sophisticated): The described dice experiment, we now want to carry with 3, 4, 5, and finally with a very large number of dice and the sum of the reflected eyes Numbers consider it. This sum we want to make in thought, because the feeds of all individual wind turbines are added in our grid completely analogous in every moment. If the following statements we perform this experiment with 50 cubes immediately clear:

  • As the sum of the number is very rarely 50 or 300 shown because it is very unlikely that 50 times the number of eyes will fall 1 or 6,
  • The number 175 is frequent, because there are many combinations of eyes figures that lead to the sum of 175.
Figure SEQ Figure \ * ARABIC 1 Total number of eyes at 50 cubes

If one evaluates the frequency distribution of this sum from, it can be seen that this sum is distributed approximately according to the known normal distribution Gaussian. This

Knowledge is the statement of a fundamental theorem of mathematical statistics, known as the “Central Limit Theorem”. He states the following: If one forms the sum of a large number of random numbers, then this sum follows a normal distribution, the more accurate the larger the number of summands. In the described experiment cube ie the sum of the figures eyes to the value of 175 will vary, the minimum value can be 50, the maximum value may be 300. If one were to interpret the sum of the eyes numbers than the sum formed from 50 individual feeds the feed services, you can initially set the statement can be made that this imaginary random “performance” is baseload, because she never falls practically to zero and varies about a mean value. The course of 50 litters in succession formed the sum is shown in Figure 1. It can be seen that the sums eye number varies around a mean value, and practically never drops to small values.

Figure SEQ Figure \ * ARABIC 2 The actual supply of wind turbines in Germany

Now the electric grid in Germany is the sum of the feeds from 24,000 wind turbines. The number of these summands so statistically exceeds the number being used here of 50 cubes by orders of magnitude. Due to the aforementioned dice experiment is therefore to be expected that the sum of the sources leads to a smooth curve, which would resemble the one in Figure 1, at least.

This is without a doubt not the case: The course of the feed shows the known fluctuation behavior with the extreme fluctuations of injected power. In addition, the total supply of all wind turbines Germany does not follow the normal distribution Gaussian (Figure 3). Thus the course of the actual feed-in is initially very evidently contrary to the statements that would be expected of the central limit theorem of mathematical statistics for the fed wind power

The transfer of the results for the simple cube experiment on the total supply of the wind turbines is obviously unjustified.

Now what is the problem?

First, the injected power of a single windmill is distributed differently than the eyes number of dice. The latter is uniformly distributed, ie each eye number is equally likely = 1/6, corresponding to a probability of 16.67%. In a small wind turbine performance are much more likely than large ones. However, this is not the reason for the deviation of the curves, finally you can generalize the “central limit theorem” of statistics on any kind of distribution. [1]

The difference between the test cubes with 50 dice and adding the feeds from 24000 (!) Wind turbines is that the reflected eyes of each number cube “has nothing to do” with that of another cube. The values ​​of all dices are thrown independently in the statistical sense. This statement does not apply to supplies, the individual wind turbines because the wind speed at various wind turbine locations are similar in virtually any weather conditions in large areas, ie the individual feeds are not statistically independent. When the wind blows strongly in the north of Hesse, which is virtually always in the south of Hesse the case. This statement is also obvious in the usual size of low pressure areas and apply mutatis mutandis to each state. This simple fact causes high as well as low feeds at the same time virtually always occur in large areas. It is said that the feeds are correlated with one another, ie, in large-scale environment of a randomly chosen reference system can be traced back the feeds of all plants in this a reference plant. If you know the power fed a reference system, so you can determine the capacities of all stations in the large-scale environment of the performance of the reference system with high probability. This fact, the content of the statistical correlation. For the entire area of ​​Germany corresponds each reference system in a statistical sense just a cube from the cube experiment in which the question is asked, by how many reference systems shown feeding into Germany can be so understood. This number measures the intensity of the correlation. If this number is small, the correlation is strong, this number is large, the correlation is fairly weak. The cube experiment has shown: the larger the number, the better the feeds can be offset with each other. If this number is small, however, a mutual compensation of the feeds is possible in principle, benefits may but fall again and again to very small values, because it frequently occurs in less than 5 independent reference systems that supply all systems decreases to very small values. In this case, the total supply is in principle not baseload. In this context, wind turbines have another problem: low performance are very common, and are therefore very likely high performances are rare, and are therefore unlikely. This fact is then reflected in the frequency distribution of the total feed, which is shown in Figure 3.

Figure SEQ Figure \ * ARABIC 4 Frequency of actual and calculated from three reference plants feed

This distribution is not normally distributed without any doubt according to Gauss, from which it can be immediately concluded that their analysis to a small enough number of independent reference systems.

It can be shown that this “small number” is only at 3, ie the total sum feed in Germany can be traced back to only three reference plants. This relationship is shown in Figure 4. The feeds all plants are therefore among themselves highly correlated. Thus, although these three reference systems are not mutually correlated, all 23997 remaining plants can be traced back to these three reference systems. Published in the named Agora study on page 13 knowledge, “that plants can complement each other in different locations” is certainly correct, however it does not follow that the complementarity of the different feeds to a base load. As they say in mathematics, the condition of statistical independence of two power supplies for the base load capacity is necessary but not sufficient.

It does not matter whether individual plants can complement each other in different locations (that are statistically independent from each other), but how large is the number of facilities that are statistically independent from each other in different locations. If the total supply of all equipment can currently be traced back to only 3 statistically independent reference plants in Germany, can not reasonably be expected that the number of reference plants and thus statistically independent feeds will grow significantly due to the construction of facilities.

An expansion of wind power due to the proven strong dependence of the feeds themselves not help to stabilize the performance. The prepared by IWES on behalf of Agora claim would be desirable, but turns out to be incorrect and contrary to the central limit theorem, a fundamental theorem of mathematical statistics, which was proved in 1922 by the mathematician Lindenberg.

Conclusion:

1 Because of the fundamental principles of mathematical statistics the summary feed-in from wind turbines in the area of ​​Germany is in principle not baseload. The development of wind power in our country can not and will not change anything essential.

  • 2 The power peaks will increase due to the expansion of wind power further and further exacerbate the known problems of overproduction of non-recyclable stream of evils such as the so-called negative prices in the stock market.
  • 3 There are no large technically available memory efficient technology for the use of the rising power peaks, so that the power supply without power plants in the background can not be operated. It does not matter whether they are operated with gas, lignite or hard coal. The exit from the nuclear power plants will force an expansion of conventional power plants. The costs associated with electricity production and carbon dioxide emissions will increase and not decrease.

 

[1] Those skilled in the art: In the mathematical literature, this message is known as a Lyapunov condition.

An Innocent Life is Gone….Another Victim of the Wind Scam!!!

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Dear Ontario Government, how “serious and irreversible” is a death?

Posted on 06/20/2014by 

I saw this story early this morning. I hesitate to use the word ‘story’ – it’s not a news story, it’s a life gone way too early, and family that will suffer and hope that their son will recover, while having already lost their daughter. Two weeks ago, before I moved out of province,  I lived my whole life about a kilometre from the crash that killed this young local woman, and critically injured her brother. Extremely tragic, so hard to imagine. Some may think it was another unavoidable death on our roads. That it was not.

The car left Napperton Dr., (North of Kerwood) rolled and hit a hydro pole. That hydro pole… wasn’t there 6 months ago. That hydro pole had no reason being there, except that a wind developer, WPD, struck a deal with Hydro One to relocate the poles, that had been safely in a farmers field for decades, far from the road, on to the County road Right of Way (ROW), where they could colocate their lines on it. You may recall some of the photos earlier this year of this very stretch of road as the lines were going up. The turbines for these poles have not been installed, yet, but have full approval and will probably go in this summer.

[Here are some pictures of WPD’s Napier Wind project poles being installed – you can see the former poles safely out in the farmers field.]

 

And they aren’t the only new poles in the area. Anyone who has driven down Kerwood Rd lately knows that this is just the new norm, for dozens of kilometres. Those lines on Kerwood and Elginfield Rd would be NextEra and Suncor’s. I’m infuriated that these companies have been allowed to compromise our community’s safety.

[Pictures from along Kerwood Rd. of NextEra/Suncor poles]

 

It’s not that we didn’t try to stop these poles from being installed so close to our roads. A presentation was made to Middlesex County as well as taking our concerns to the OEB. And protests. All of this fell on deaf ears. Those who allowed these poles understood the risks. The county eventually hammered out a road user agreement that was used for all the wind turbine infrastructure on their ROW. Including the poles that killed this woman last night.

It measures 168” (4.27m) from edge of roadway to the face of the pole – this is less than 5m which would be the minimum for a road with a design speed of 80 – 90 km/h and according to the Middlesex County submissions to the OEB last year, it should be at least 5m – but realistically, even that is too close. These poles aren’t in compliance, which leads me to wonder… is the OPP taking this into account in their investigations?

The same situation exists south of Kerwood where the poles are actually in the road shoulder – that’s unacceptable for a road with a design speed of 110km/h. But who’s checking anyways?

My anger then surfaces in these questions, maybe to the ERT, maybe to the MOE, the wind developers, or even to the Premier herself:

How “serious and irreversible” is this woman’s death?

Did the infrastructure in this project cause her death?

If those poles were not there, would she have stood a chance of survival?

And how the hell is one supposed to predict and prove without a doubt that
a) the wind company won’t comply with the setbacks and
b) that this particular accident was going to happen?

Are we supposed to just let these accidents happen FIRST and then act (or not)? This is my worst nightmare, watching this unfold in the community I was born and raised.

This is why I couldn’t stay – and still this hurts too much, even watching from afar. I knew it would be just one casualty after another, and not a damn thing I could do about it when the government has stacked every thing it has against protecting your communities health and safety. Rest in peace Michelle Day.

School Head Warns of Dangers from Close Proximity to Wind Turbines!

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School head raises concerns over proximity of turbines.

Published date: 17 June 2014 | 

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A HEADTEACHER has written to parents alerting them to a wind turbine proposed for a site less than two miles from the school.
Lakelands Academy headteacher Ian Sanders wrote to parents to raise awareness of the 99.7-metre turbine application for land off Ellesmere Road near Tetchill.
He wrote that the application is “a concerning planning development which is being proposed very close to the site of the academy.
“Quite apart from the aesthetic impact on the countryside, there has been concern raised by communities, in areas where such turbines have been sited, over the potential health issues associated with the subsonic sound that turbines of this magnitude generate. On a practical note, the generation of subsonic sound may also disturb the concentration of students in lessons and during public examinations,” he added.
Applicant Angela Williams, who runs agricultural business Seven Sisters along with her husband, Robert, said she does not believe the turbine will have adverse effects on health.
She said: “In terms of health implications I haven’t heard anything about turbines to suggest that it will be detrimental to health.
“It is a very quiet machine and the manufacturers have done a lot of research into the aesthetic and other effects of the turbine,” she added.
Nicol Perryman, from Intech Clean Energy UK added: “I believe the school is around 1.2km away from the site. When we were looking at the site of the turbine we looked at impacts to do with health and noise and shadow flicker were taken into account.
“The school is well outside the affected area. There can be impacts if people live close to turbines but all properties are outside that area of impact.”

CCSAGE Will Have Their Day In Appeals Court! Awesome!

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Court of appeal to hear Prince Edward County turtle case

JUN 20

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Court of Appeal to Hear Prince Edward County Turtle Case

The Ontario Court of Appeal has granted leave and will hear the case involving the threatened Blanding’s turtles of Ostrander Point. In July of 2013, the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal revoked the approval issued by the Ministry of the Environment to Ostrander Point GP. to operate nine wind turbines, citing “serious and irreversible harm” to the turtle population. In February 2014, the Divisional Court reversed that ruling.

Today, the Court of Appeal indicated that it will hear the appeal of this decision. “This is an important step forward in the public’s efforts to protect one of the Province’s most ecologically sensitive habitats” said Myrna Wood, representing the Appellant Prince Edward County Field Naturalists (PECFN). In March 2014, the Court of Appeal also halted further construction at the site. The granting of leave to appeal today will continue that stay.

“It normally takes at least a few months for an appeal to be heard. Everyone is looking forward to moving ahead” said Eric Gillespie, legal counsel for PECFN.

Global Warming Alarmists Willing to Lie, to Push Their Agenda!

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June 19, 2014 by Ron Arnold

President Obama wants to stake his legacy on fighting global warming even if he has to fake it, which he does.

whitfieldThat inconvenient truth will get a hearing Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and it won’t be pretty. The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, led by Rep. Ed Whitfield  (R-KY), will convene the “Standing up for Jobs and Affordable Energy” hearing, an appropriate nickname for the expected slice-and-dice of “EPA’s Proposed carbon dioxide regulations for power plants.”

In early June President Obama’s heavy-handed Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a radical plan to destroy existing U.S. coal-fired power plants by imposing a deliberately impossible carbon dioxide emission limit — reduction of 30% by 2030.

Upon examination, the rule offers no real benefit to anyone — beyond EPA’s armed enforcers — but costs everyone, which prompted the subcommittee hearing.

Whitfield set the hearing’s tone in a news release: “Under the guise of regulating power plants, President Obama’s agency is seeking to expand its regulatory reach over the entire electricity sector.  Committee members are concerned over EPA’s unprecedented reach, and the potential of this plan to increase electricity prices, eliminate U.S. jobs, and threaten grid reliability, with no meaningful effect on future climate patterns.”

The panel will examine only one witness: Janet McCabe, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation.

Whitfield is deeply committed to oversight of this rule. In an email exchange, he told me, “This is a very important hearing, as it will be the first timemccabe President Obama’s radical EPA comes to the Hill to defend the agency’s latest proposed rule designed to shut-down coal-fired power plants — a rule the Administration is pushing through without Congress’ direction or approval, despite its potential to completely disrupt our energy sector and cripple our economy.”

I asked about some of the highly controversial legal and policy issues surrounding this proposal. Whitfield said, “We have questions for Ms. McCabe about her agency’s authority and overreach in writing this proposed rule and how EPA’s actions will impact Americans and their jobs and pocketbooks.”

The record of EPA’s testimony before Congress invites cynicism, for it is without honor or conscience, not to mention the absence of facts. McCabe, as did her predecessor Gina McCarthy – now EPA boss – will predictably deflect tough questions because the truth would outrage most Americans and deny Obama his nightmare legacy. We can expect mischaracterization, obfuscation, and flat-out lies.

Whitfield appears unlikely to put up with that.  He said, “As I have promised repeatedly, Obama’s assault on affordable electricity will not go unchecked.”

McCabe faces a tough sell with this proposed rule: Everything EPA has said about its benefits has been ignominiously debunked, some from unlikely quarters. For example, the EPA’s claim that the rule will create $30 billion in climate benefits by 2030 has been deflated by the liberal Brookings Institution.  In a report, “Determining the Proper Scope of Climate Change Benefits,” Brookings fellow Ted Gayer and Vanderbilt University economist Kip Viscusi revealed that the EPA cleverly selected an “apples and oranges” methodology that overstates the benefits so the regulation looks more attractive.

The “apples” are $30 billion in benefits worldwide and the “oranges” are the American taxpayers who pay the whole world’s bill.

It’s something like asking New York City to pay the water bill for every toilet flush in China – and pleading America’s public health and welfare to convince New Yorkers to pay up.

We can thank the Obama Administration’s shameful Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon for developing those “worldwide guidelines” in 2010 to deliberately swindle the American people. Even Democratic President Bill Clinton wouldn’t allow that, issuing Executive Order 12866 in 1993 that requires regulations to benefit the U.S. citizenry only, not the world.

To see through Obama’s slimy stratagem, the Brookings scholars did an “apples and apples” comparison on his proposed anti-coal rule, and found the domestic benefit amount is only about $2.1 billion at the lowest, ranging up to an optimistic $6.9 billion at the top. But the estimated compliance cost is $7.3 billion.

Get it? In the best of all possible Obama worlds, American taxpayers are down nearly half a billion bucks and missing 40% of their electricity.

The Brookings report concluded that estimated climate benefits are “largely conjecture and certainly overstated.” And we’re expecting McCabe to tell the truth about that under oath?

I hope Whitfield gets around to asking McCabe about how much the once-respected-but-now-turned-shill American Lung Association loves the EPA. The ALA ought to love the Obama administration a lot: ALA’s 591 federal grants amount to $43,016,875, according to USASpending.gov. As a cogent post on JunkScience.com said, “EPA owns the American Lung Association.”

ala2But not entirely: Big Green foundations own a substantial chunk too: The Foundation Search database posts 2,806 grants to ALA totaling more than $76 million, with millions coming from Environmental Grantmakers Association members, tagged with purpose statements like pushing the EPA to hit coal-fired power plants, do media advocacy and grassroots organizing.

Come to the American Lung Association for all your propaganda needs.

Thursday’s McCabe testimony comes on the heels of collapsed UN negotiations to repair failing global carbon markets, the International Monetary Fund‘s slashed forecast of U.S. economic growth to a shocking 2%, and the headline-grabbing opposition of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australian leader Tony Abbott to “climate measures that would destroy their economies,” which our Climate Cultist in Chief Obama seems insanely eager to embrace.

Memo to McCabe: the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

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– See more at: http://www.cfact.org/2014/06/19/house-panel-hopes-to-air-inconvenient-truths-about-epas-war-on-coal/#sthash.jN0vDBqI.dpuf

More Proof, that Green/Greed Energy, is All About the Money!

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Failure of the primary mission at the VA – vets died while

VA bureaucrats obsessed over green energy installation

Posted on June 20, 2014 by 

VA-Phoenix solar panels

Green energy gets the green light while people that served our country with honor have to wait in line, dying while waiting.

For example, does anyone other than Eco-zealots give a flying f about having solar car ports at the VA?

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at its Phoenix Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, plans to install a 3.003-megawatt (MW) DC solar electric system. This project will expand a 630-kW carport system currently under construction by SunWize Systems at the site.

It seems to me that the VA has failed their primary mission, and in a spectacularly bad way. Nobody other than eco-zealots gives a rats-ass if your office is sustainable – but they DO want you to adhere to your primary mission take care of veterans.  The word “shameful” doesn’t begin to describe the FUBAR at the VA. – Anthony

From the Washington Times Opinion Section: 

The administrators at the Veterans Administration have apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing hand.

The department early on set up an Office of Green Management Programs designed to “help VA facilities nationwide recognize opportunities to green VA, and to reward innovative ‘green’ practices and efforts by individual facilities and staff within the VA.” This sometimes means paying more attention to greening the department and saving the polar ice caps than to health care.

In the department’s words, it adopted a far more important mission to “become more energy efficient and sustainable, focusing primarily on renewable energy, energy and water efficiency, [carbon-dioxide] emissions reduction, and sustainable buildings.”

Washington Post Dares to Tell the Truth about the “Warming Hiatus”? Wow!!!

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The Washington Post verifies ‘the pause’ in global warming

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Jason Samenow sends word of a new article in WaPo that does some of the same sort ofsurface temperature analyses we see right here on WUWT. Seeing what a good job Matt Rogers did in his defense against claims of cherry picking, statistical significance woes, and Trenberthian masking, it made me wonder; “How long before he gets called into the chief editors office at WaPo and reassigned to be the correspondent covering Botswana?”

Global warming of the Earth’s surface has decelerated – Matt Rogers, Capital Weather Gang

The recently-released National Climate Assessment (NCA) from the U.S. government offers considerable cause for concern for climate calamity, but downplays the decelerating trend in global surface temperature in the 2000s, which I document here.

 

Many climate scientists are currently working to figure out what is causing the slowdown, because if it continues, it would call into question the legitimacy of many climate model projections (and inversely offer some good news for our planet).

An article in Nature earlier this year discusses some of the possible causes for what some have to referred to as the global warming “pause” or “hiatus”.  Explanations include the quietest solar cycle in over a hundred years, increases in Asian pollution, more effective oceanic heat absorption, and even volcanic activity. Indeed, a peer-reviewed paper published in February estimates that about 15 percent of the pause can be attributed to increased volcanism. But some have questioned whether the pause or deceleration is even occurring at all.

 Verifying the pause

You can see the pause (or deceleration in warming) yourself by simply grabbing the freely available data from NASA and NOAA. For the chart below, I took the annual global temperature difference from average (or anomaly) and calculated the change from the prior year. So the very first data point is the change from 2000 to 2001 and so on. One sign of data validation is that the trends are the same on both datasets.  Both of these government sources show a slight downward slope since 2000:

(Matt Rogers)

You can see some of the spikes associated with El Niño events (when heat was released into the atmosphere from warmer than normal ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific) that occurred in 2004-05 and 2009-10. But the warm changes have generally been decreasing while cool changes have grown.

Wind Pushers Don’t Feel Obligated, to “Obey Laws”!

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Turbines spin without approval in West Lincoln

Ministry says company is ‘operating out of compliance’

Turbines spin without approval in West Lincoln

Turbines spin without approval in West Lincoln

Grimsby Lincoln News

By  Amanda Moore

WEST LINCOLN — They’ve only been running a few days and already residents living near wind turbines say they are feeling the effects.

“I don’t hear the refrigerator or anything anymore,” said Zlata Zoretic, seated at neighbour Wendy Veldman’s kitchen table Tuesday afternoon. “Just this low hum.”

Zoretic said she has felt pressure in her ears since the turbines in the HAF Wind Energy Project were turned on June 12. Her bedroom window gives her an uninterrupted view of the turbine that is just 640 metres from her home.

“Is it in my head? I don’t know,” she said. “It’s driving me crazy.”

The turbines were switched on without warning last week for a 24-hour and have not stopped turning since.

Project proponents,  Vineland Power Inc. and Rankin Wind Energy, notified the Ministry of Environment last week that they intended to turn the turbines on for a 24-hour test period. The company had also indicated at the time that it was considering starting up operations, said a ministry spokesperson.

“The ministry has told the company not to operate while the amendment application is under review,” said Kim Groombridge, MOE district supervisor for Niagara. “They are operating out of compliance.”

The project was delayed after it was discovered that several of the turbines were built closer than the 95-metre property line setback. The West Lincoln Glanbrook Wind Action Group used a rangefinder to measure the distances between the towering turbines and neighbouring property lines. It found four of the five turbines infract the minimum setback — the height of the tower from base to hub, which in this case is 95 metres.

Property owner Anne Meinen said the location of the turbine impedes on her ability to farm her land — something she has been doing for more than 40 years. She said the location limits her aerial abilities for seeding and spraying her land as well as prohibits the use of new technology she has been looking into.

“I am very concerned that the presence of this turbine so close will not enable me to utilize these production tools and will therefore limit my ability to operate my farming business,” she wrote to the ministry. “I believe that begging for forgiveness rather than asking for permission is a poor way to do business that should not be rewarded.”

Of the women in the room, Carole Kaufhold lives closest to the wind turbines. Her Sixteen Road home is just 553 metres from turbine No. 3 — just three metres over the provincial limit of 550.

Kaufhold has had a severe case of anxiety since the turbines went into operation.

“I became very anxious and irritated,” she said of returning home from work to find the blades swooping through the air. “My heart has been pounding, it’s hard to concentrate.”

Kaufhold said she feels nauseous every time she looks at the turbines.

All claim the turbines are much louder than the low hum — like that of a refrigerator — they were told about.

Anne Fairfield said she heard a low-pitched whine coming from the machine nearest her home around 3 a.m. on Sunday. Her partner, Ed Engel, can feel the vibrations in his bedroom which faces the turbine.

Fairfield and Engel along with Kaufhold and her husband participated in a pre-commissioning sleep study being conducted by a graduate student at the University of Waterloo. Though it was uncomfortable and awkward to sleep hooked up to a bunch of machines, all agree there is value in participating in a study which could show the impacts of industrial wind turbines on sleep. A total of 22 people are involved in the study and a second round of testing will be completed now that the turbines are in operation.

The residents hope the results prove that turbines do impact human health — a claim they have been making since they learned of the project in 2010.

“I’ve had PTSD — pre-turbine stress disorder — since Aug. 25, 2010,” said Fairfield, mentioning the date of the first public meeting held on the project. “It’s very stressful. All I do is worry and wonder.”

Fairfield is most concerned about a gas well near her home that is only five metres from a collector line for the project.

Though the turbines are now spinning near her country home, Veldman isn’t done fighting.

“I’m not going to stop calling until they take them down,” she said. “I’m not going to listen to the squealing and girding of the turbines. I’m used to agricultural noise, this isn’t agriculture. This is industrial noise.

“It has to stop,” she said. “I don’t want to see anymore.”

The ministry’s investigations and enforcement branch is investigating the matter, said Groombridge as the project is still under review by the ministry and has not been approved for operation.

The turbines were shut down as of 5 p.m. June 18.