Things are Starting to Heat Up Part VI 10

[dik]

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[SwinnyGG]

Is this series of threads actually generating any useful discussion or information

 

[dik]

Yup...

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[madmanx]

For what its worth, if mental gymnastics ever becomes an olympic sport, these threads would be prime scouting grounds

 

[bradrs]

Is this series of threads actually generating any useful discussion or information

Are you asking about how much it's generating per capita thread? Or the sum total?

 

[SuperSalad]

Are you asking about how much it's generating per capita thread? Or the sum total?

Amazingly, the value is the same either way.

- Andrew

 

[SwinnyGG]

0 does, after all, equal zero

 

[Tomfh]

Dik cares about per capita

Only when measuring CO2 emissions, as it makes China look better, and countries like US look worse.

When Dik is comparing renewable energy, he happily uses totals.

 

[dik]

I'm looking at the per capita values; these don't penalize a country for their large populations and are representative of individual usage. China has a population of 5x the US. It's easy to say I'm not going to do anything because they are doing worse... third world countries will suffer because of the excesses of others.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[TugboatEng]

You penalize a country for its leadership which is representative of its population.

 

[dik]

If you look at renewable energy China still isn't doing too bad... if you look at the increase in renewable energy over the last 40 years, they are miles ahead, whether per capita or as a total. They've gone from almost nothing to a huge amount. The US has only doubled theirs.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[rb1957]

who is building more coal power stations ? who is burning more coal (if not now then in the near future) ?

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.

 

[TugboatEng]

Didn't the Chinese build a dam that caused the rotation of the Earth to slow? Talk about climate change.

 

[Tomfh]

Dik, the US is ahead of China on renewable energy per capita.

How about choosing one metric and one time frame to compare countries, rather than chopping and changing, and cherry picking whichever metric and timeframe happens to favour China in each particular instance.

 

[GregLocock]

China is building or has planned 140 W of coal power stations per capita. If you say that's over 10 years that's +14W per capita per year. Australia is closing 8W of coal power stations per capita per year.

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[dik]

Yes they might be, but in the last 40 years, China has inreased their renewable energy by 30x whereas the US has only increased their renewable energy by 2.1x... big difference... even on a per capita basis. They are far ahead of the game.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[TugboatEng]

You were just saying that China had almost no renewable energy a short time ago and now they have 30 times more. That's still zero.

 

[GregLocock]

Hurricanes

The ever reliable NYT claims

Hurricane Ian “rapidly transformed from a relatively weak storm into a strong one, [a] phenomenon that has become more common” due to climate change.

It also said, “Ian embodies several of the major hurricane trends in recent years, as the world copes with the effects of climate change. It’s a strong storm — and strong storms are becoming more common in the Atlantic Ocean, as its surface water has warmed.”

This bloke Neil L. Frank, Ph.D., Meteorology, was the longest-serving Director of the National Hurricane Center (1974–1987) before becoming Chief Meteorologist of KHOU-TV, Houston, TX, until his retirement in 2008, since when he has continued his research on hurricanes independently, disagrees.

What we do know is that hurricanes were at least as frequent and powerful before the current period of global warming as they have been during it — indeed, we know they were actually more frequent and more powerful.

Climate-change activists and the mainstream media are wrong. There has not been an increase in the frequency, intensity, or speed of intensification of Atlantic hurricanes in the past several decades. You might clue your representatives in Congress about that so they won’t be so likely to cater to alarmists.



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[dik]

Energy from coal, in recent years... China produces about half the worlds 'coal power' and seems to be fairly uniform over these years. I could not find anything that shows a long term useage.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[dik]

Hurricane season has been pretty light this year... added info below. I guess there are differing opinions.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-hea...cane-ian-rapid-intensification-climate-change

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik