The real leftist agenda... behind all the lies. Drive the private sector out... force communism on the tax payers. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/...-britain-uninvestable-for-energy/#more-104139 Oh, this canât be good: Britain âUninvestableâ for energy Posted on March 2, 2014 by Anthony Watts Place your bets now on when the lights will go off Deepening Energy Crisis: Britain Has Become âUninvestableâ, Analyst Warns Danny Fortson, The Sunday Times The German owner of Npower is set to write off hundreds of millions of pounds on the value of its British power plants in the latest sign of a deepening crisis among the big six energy suppliers. RWE, one of Europeâs largest power companies, will reveal the British loss as part of an expected £4bn writedown of the value of its fleet of power stations. RWE npowerâs Major Power Plants in the UK (2007) The loss arises from pollution taxes that are forcing the closure of old coal-fired plants. Big subsidies for renewable energy, meanwhile, have made even gas-burning plants, which are much cleaner than coal stations, loss-making. The hit will alarm Whitehall, which is increasingly worried about the lights going out. Companies have stopped building new power stations amid a political and regulatory backlash, sparked last year by Ed Milibandâs pledge to freeze energy prices. RWE, for example, has not commissioned a new plant in Britain since 2009, when it broke ground on a big wind farm and a gas-fired plant in Pembroke. Since then it has sold out of a consortium to build new nuclear plants, closed down plants capable of lighting more than 4m homes, and cancelled a proposed £4bn offshore wind farm. [...] Peter Atherton, analyst at Liberum Capital, said Britain had become uninvestable as political pressure over soaring household bills has intensified. âI can think of a dozen very good reasons not to invest in the UK, and not one good one to invest here this side of the election,â Atherton said. Full story (subscription required)
The scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth's climate system is unequivocally warming, and it is extremely likely (at least 95% probability) that humans are causing most of it through activities that increase concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels. In addition, it is likely that some potential further greenhouse gas warming has been offset by increased aerosols.[1][2][3][4] This scientific consensus is expressed in synthesis reports, by scientific bodies of national or international standing, and by surveys of opinion among climate scientists. Individual scientists, universities, and laboratories contribute to the overall scientific opinion via their peer-reviewed publications, and the areas of collective agreement and relative certainty are summarised in these high level reports and surveys. National and international science academies and scientific societies have assessed current scientific opinion on climate change. These assessments are generally consistent with the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), summarized below: Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as evidenced by increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, the widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.[5] Most of the global warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to human activities.[6] "Benefits and costs of climate change for [human] society will vary widely by location and scale.[7] Some of the effects in temperate and polar regions will be positive and others elsewhere will be negative.[7] Overall, net effects are more likely to be strongly negative with larger or more rapid warming."[7] "[...] the range of published evidence indicates that the net damage costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time"[8] "The resilience of many ecosystems is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change, associated disturbances (e.g. flooding, drought, wildfire, insects, ocean acidification) and other global change drivers (e.g. land-use change, pollution, fragmentation of natural systems, over-exploitation of resources)"[9] No scientific body of national or international standing maintains a formal opinion dissenting from any of these main points; the last was the American Association of Petroleum Geologists,[10] which in 2007[11] updated its 1999 statement rejecting the likelihood of human influence on recent climate with its current non-committal position.[12]
we have already shown you there is no consensus, the junk you cite... is from misrepresented studies and bogus claims by the IPCC... CO2 accumlation and dissipation trails ocean temps.
Counselor, your continued defense of your murderous defendant, even after he has been found guilty, is reason to believe that this case has driven you totally insane.
This guy even LOOKs like an asshole. So of course asshole jerm thinks his shit smells great. I'll go with the 97% of climate scientists and all the world's science orgs instead.
17 .5 years (or more) of no global warming and counting. UAH Global Temperature Anomaly Down by .12C in February Posted on March 5, 2014 by Anthony Watts UAH Global Temperature Update for February 2014: +0.17 deg. C (Note, my original headline number was unintentionally misleading, using a percentage to illustrate the drop rather that the absolute number. While the calculation was correct, it gave an impression of overall magnitude across the entire scale rather than the month to month change. It has been corrected. â Anthony) by Dr, Roy Spencer
Hey asshole, what is 75 out of 77? Yup ...................97%. All the science orgs in the world. None deny it. None...zero. One out of thousands of climate papers. One. To deny AGW is to be an idiot.