Aussie Green Energy Shock: Snowy Hydro Cost and Completion Time Blowout
As coal power operators respond to the new carbon tax by accelerating plant closures, Australia’s big battery, the Snowy 2 pumped hydro project, has just announced more cost and delivery time blowouts.…
European Green War on Agriculture: Farmers Banned for Life if they Want Compensation
A new chapter in the horror being inflicted on Dutch farmers, in the name of climate action and fertiliser use reduction.…
The Big Chill Will Save California from the Big Melt
But it now appears that the weather gods have decided to be kind, and meteorological salvation is now in California’s future.…
The Practical Impossibility of Large-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage
From MasterResource By Steve Goreham — May 2, 2023 “CCS has been slow to take off due to the cost of capture and the limited salability of carbon dioxide as……
The New Pause Lengthens by Two Months To 8 Years 11 Months
We are no longer in la Niña conditions. They ended in March 2023, when the temperature of the Niño-3.4 region of the equatorial eastern Pacific rose above –0.5 K:…
30 Years of Measuring and Analysing Sea Levels using Satellites
The release of the Sea Level Data up to Jan 2023 marks 30 years of satellite measurements using the quartet of satellites Topex and Jason 1, 2 and 3. It also marks 5 years of my interest in sea level rises, not as a climate scientist, but as a chartered engineer with nearly 40 years’ experience in engineering analysis.…