Africa’s Hydropower Future
http://www.hydroworld.com/articles/print/volume-22/issue-1/regional-profile/africa-s-hydropower-future.html
Will ‘world’s biggest’ hydro power project light up Africa?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/business/biggest-hydropower-grand-inga-congo/
Jim D | November 29, 2015 at 1:44 pm |
“I look at the science itself.”
Really?
You could have fooled me.
It’s a shame you very clearly don’t understand the first thing about it, isn’t it?
Yea, be careful where you shed light on the fabric of culture Jim unless you have plenty of mothballs
Let them burn plutonium, like the Iranians.
Jim, I did a double take on the excerpts you posted. I found a direct link to the thoughts expressed here: https://hauntingthelibrary.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/ipcc-green-doctor-prescribes-end-to-democracy-to-solve-global-warming/
I recently posted the genesis of the environmental movement that evolved in Germany prior to WWII, but which evolved into a religion under National Socialism. To hear a contemporary academic, especially one involved directly with the IPCC advocate for an end of democracy and a call for authoritarianism sent chills down my spine.
From the blog post: …”we argue that authoritarianism is the natural state of humanity’. They propose the formation of an ‘elite warrior leadership’ to ‘battle for the future of the earth” [p.xvi].
Oh yeah, I forgot the (0,0) condition. Thanks for pointing that out.
With respect to optimal temperature, the parabolic fit in Tol 2015 suggests optimal is roughly pre-industrial temperatures.
Although the studies used for Tol’s metastudy may have biases.
The following paper also concludes that the paradigm is wrong.
I am not able to understand this paper – maybe you are. I just wonder – does it make any sense to you?
http://atlatszo.hu/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/article.pdf
Unfortunately all too true.
No doubt the African Union efforts will be patterned on the EU’s
Emission impossible as EU fails to police main anti-pollution scheme
Attempts to stamp out endemic fraud in the EU’s flagship Emissions Trading Scheme are “not adequate”, say auditors
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/12022964/Emission-impossible-as-EU-fails-to-police-main-anti-pollution-scheme.html
I should have also pointed out that all costs are in Australian dollars and for Australia’s conditions and economy – I said that in my comment and it is obvious from the paper and the sources given in the paper, if you’d bothered to read any of it before diving into a pile of nonsense).
I also gave you the link to the Australian Government’s most recent figures for all the technologies.
All analyses have to be done with properly comparable figures. As I said in my original comment and in my comment above I gave you this paper to show you how to do analyses. My impressions is you are not capable of doing such analyses nor of commenting on it. Every comment you make reinforces that.
Furthermore you refer to junk, renewable energy advocacy sites like RenewEconomy. What a joke. Why didn’t you refer to the AETA report? Why didn’t you request the model and run your own analyses? Why didn’t you do some simple analyses using the CSIRO calculators?
Even the P J Morgans report, which grossly understates the true cost of renewables, shows that nuclear is the least cost option and by far the least CO2 abatement cost.
The confirmation bias is trying to bend the past at all. Clearly warming and higher CO2 concentrations have been beneficial so far. Why won’t that trend continue? After all, we know life thrives when the planet is warmer than now and richer in CO2 – that’s been demonstrated by half a billion years of thriving life in times much warmer than now. I suggest the for the bend in the graph at current time is confirmation bias to align with the consensus of alarmists. Looking at it rationally, it strains credulity to believe that warming will suddenly become net detrimental just at the time we happen to be living. It’s cult beliefs, not science.
Jane Jacobs in ‘Cities and The Wealth of Nations ‘
describes a funeral in Pickens Co. Georgia, illustrating
the circumstances of a passive economic region. In
comparison to city developments like Venice, Tokyo,
or Singapore, despite available resources it makes
nothing:
‘The grave was dug through solid marble, but the marble
headstone came from Vermont. It was in a pine wilderness
but the pine coffin came from Cincinnati. An iron mountain over-shadowed it but the coffin nails and the screws and
the shovel came from Pittsburgh. With hard wood and
metal abounding, the corpse was hauled on a wagon from
South Bend, Indiana. A hickory grove grew near by, but
the pick and shovel handles came from New York. The
cotton shirt on the dead man came from Cincinnati, the
coat and breeches from Chicago, the shoes from Boston;
the folded hands were encased in white gloves from New
York… That country, so rich in undeveloped resources,
furnished nothing for the funeral except the corpse and
the hole in the ground and would probably have imported
both of those if it could have done so. ‘ ( Ch 2.)
Knute, I am not your answer man,
Don’t you know the difference between local and global?
Let’s wait for the next meta-study, and we can do a meta-meta-study.
Persactly.
Sorry, that should have been prexactly. Or excisely. I’m confused.
Not the Big Oil funded vast right-wing conspiracy that you imagined, huh yimmy. About a dozen geriatric white dudes sitting on folding chairs in a little room, murmuring. And no security to keep out the greenie left-loon faux journalists.
But you desperate greenie clowns think that a dirty dozen of chatty grandpas is responsible for blocking your hair-brained mitigation schemes. This little intel coup by your sly greenie operatives indicates that a little introspection is in order for your crowd. Who you all gonna blame for the failure of Paree, yimmee?
Article: Funding row ‘threatens Paris climate deal’, India and China warn
Of course, they can’t wait to get their hands on that money!
You are entitled to your little bogus opinion, unmensch. Come back when you have more time. Just try to stop silly stalking Judith. It’s foolish, unseemly and counterproductive for your cause.
I have to correct little Horse Grabber, on this one. The Ayatollahs are not burning plutonium. They are squirreling it away for a special occasion.
