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A YEARS worth of rain in a day in Oman

 

Weather tracker: Flash flooding in Oman and record temperatures in Western Australia | Environment | The Guardian

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Four people died after heavy rain in the Middle Eastern country, which is one of the driest in the world

 

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UK eventually quits treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over climate policies

.. after France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands have left

and on the run-up to a GE of course

Well, the Tories dont want the bad press of the UK taxpayer being sued for billions just before a GE by energy companies already making vast excess profits at UK taxpayer expense and Tory collusion - especially over headlines and 'policies' the Torys will only release for good press and have no intentions of delivering on ...

 

UK quits treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over climate policies | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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Britain joins France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands in withdrawing from charter it says ‘penalises’ shift to net zero

 

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Something you will likely be hearing more and more about in the next few years - Northern shift of the jetstream

God knows what overall effects that will have, but increasing hard dry spells for us is very likely - and NOT in a nice way.

The jet stream has started an unprecedented shift north, which could wreak havoc on weather in the US and Europe

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Research shows the northern hemisphere's jet stream is migrating toward the Arctic, which may cause more droughts in Europe and warming in the US.

 

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and something a little more down to earth to feed nightmares

Zombie deer disease is spreading and scientists are concerned that it could jump to humans

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Chronic wasting disease has a similar cause to mad cow disease, a fatal disease in humans.

 

 

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Well the price cap is coming down a tidge .. while

Gas has been trading at €23 a megawatt hour, the lowest since May 2021 – and down from highs of €319/MWh in August 2022.

 

Gas’s future looks cloudy as demand and prices tumble | Gas | The Guardian

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A conference this week will discuss a market being transformed by green energy, LNG and milder winters

 

ah well - more excess profiteering tax for a new labour guv.

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Thames Water is lobbying for higher bills and lower fines to avoid bailout

 

Thames Water is lobbying for higher bills and lower fines to avoid bailout, report claims – business live | Business | The Guardian

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Britain’s largest water company is trying to avoid a potential multibillion-pound taxpayer bailout

 

despite giving out large dividends to shareholders and large bonuses to senior management

UK water company dividends jump to £1.4bn despite criticism over sewage outflows

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Payments include internal transfers between complex web of holding companies

 

In charts: how privatisation drained Thames Water’s coffers | Utilities | The Guardian

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Decades of underinvestment and bumper dividends have left the firm debt-laden and under investigation

 

‘The whole thing stinks’: water firms to pay £15bn to shareholders as customers foot sewage bill | Water bills | The Guardian

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With cost of cleanup to be passed on to bill payers, analysis shows they will also pay £624 more by 2030 to fund investor payouts

 

 

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Yep apparently 40% increase in bills they are lobbying for

- should be frozen or reduced

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How much of your water bill is swallowed up by company debt? – interactive

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Analysis shows that 28% of Thames’ customer bills were spent servicing debt, as the company lobbies for more

 

 

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more that they are seeing it as a GE vote issue they need to pretend to be noticing I'm quite sure

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Tories criminally and spitefully breaking the bank for their VIPals before they are evicted

Cant see any other reason

Labour should stand up now and say they will recharge this back at the Rat

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England and Wales had their respective warmest February's on record

according to provisional Met Office statistics in what was a mild and wet month for many

 

The average temperature in England for February 2024 was 7.5°C, topping the previous record of 7.0°C set in 1990. Wales saw an average mean temperature at 6.9°C for the month, marginally ahead of 1998’s record of 6.8°C. 

The UK (as a whole) experienced its second warmest February, averaging 6.3°C, but not surpassing February 1998’s figure of 6.8°C.

The UK’s 10 warmest Februarys on record  since 1884 now include 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2019. 

 

It was also a wetter than average month, with the south of England experiencing its wettest February since the series began in 1836. Many parts of southern England recorded well over twice the average rainfall.  

 

Warmest February on record for England and Wales

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England and Wales had their respective warmest Februarys on record according to provisional Met Office statistics in what was a mild and wet...

 

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18 hours ago, honeybee13 said:

Why?

UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant | Plastics | The Guardian

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Campaigners say Ineos project in Antwerp will turbocharge plastic production on a scale not seen before in Europe

 

 

perhaps explains the ongoing failure to implement the plastic recycling scheme  - pals profits first eh?:

Cash for plastic scheme delayed until 2028... decade after Government unveiled it

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Work on a flagship Government recycling scheme has 'halted', according to industry sources

 

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and Thames Water has discharged raw sewage into the River Mole and its tributaries for more than 4,700 hours in the first two months of this year, according to campaigners.

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Solar maximum may already be upon us, expert warns — but we won't know for sure until the sun's explosive peak is over | Live Science

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A solar physicist who accurately predicted that the sun's explosive peak would arrive sooner — and be more powerful — than originally forecast tells...

 

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On 04/01/2020 at 20:03, tobyjugg2 said:

Record breaking temperatures ..

Yet we are currently at the solar minimum of a long stretch of solar minimums - fact

We should be experiencing abnormally cold weather - yet records on temperatures are being broken - and we are at the cold part of an extended cold cycle

We should be skating on canals and rivers but instead tehre are record breaking temperatures across the world.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/06/19/sun-entering-deep-solar-minimum-may-be-the-weakest-cycle-in-200-years/

 

Sun entering ‘deep solar minimum’ – ‘May be the weakest cycle in 200 years’

Read the Full Article

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NASA – Next Solar Cycle will be Weakest in 200 Years

September 8, 2019Russ Steele

 

September 5, 2019 by Robert at Ice Age Now

NASA dropped this bombshell announcement in a little-heralded news release coyly entitled “Solar Activity Forecast for Next Decade Favorable for Exploration.” In other words, NASA tried to make it sound like good news.

In the release, dated 12 June 2019, NASA described the upcoming decline in solar activity as a window of opportunity for space exploration instead of acknowledging the disastrous consequences such a decline could wreak on civilization.

Here are some direct quotes from the news release:

The Sun’s activity rises and falls in an 11-year cycle. The forecast for the next solar cycle says it will be the weakest of the last 200 years. (Emphasis added) The maximum of this next cycle – measured in terms of sunspot number, a standard measure of solar activity level – could be 30 to 50% lower than the most recent one. The results show that the next cycle will start in 2020 and reach its maximum in 2025.

Sunspots are regions on the Sun with magnetic fields thousands of times stronger than the Earth’s. Fewer of them at the point of maximum solar activity means fewer dangerous blasts of radiation.

The new research was led by Irina Kitiashvili, a researcher with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center, in California’s Silicon Valley. It combined observations from two NASA space missions – the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory and the Solar Dynamics Observatory – with data collected since 1976 from the ground-based National Solar Observatory.

In admitting that solar activity during sunspot-cycle 25 could be the weakest in 200 years, NASA was effectively forecasting a return to Dalton Minimum (1790-1830) conditions. But the release gives no mention of the ferocious cold, no mention of the disastrous crop losses, no mention of the ensuing starvation and famine, no mention of the wars over food, no mention of the powerful earthquakes, no mention of the catastrophic volcanic eruptions during the Dalton Minimum.

NASA Paper is HERE

Some people consider the low solar activity a trigger for other catastrophic events such as the 1811-1812 New Madrid Fault Earth Quakes and 1815 eruption of Mount Tamboura.  As you can see from this chart global cooling produced some strong eruption.

 

 

https://nextgrandminimum.com/2019/09/08/nasa-next-solar-cycle-will-be-weakest-in-200-years/

 

 

On 05/01/2020 at 21:19, tobyjugg2 said:

Now some of you may recall I said that there are going to be accelerated effects going into the current solar maximum expected to be around 2023.

I'm sticking to that despite the latest NASA projections saying that the upcoming solar maximum is going to be as low or perhaps even lower energetically than the last one - which was already low - with only around half the expected high energy sunspots.

God help us if the Sun flips back to its 1950 levels rather than its existing exceptionally low levels, and really does add to the global warming - enhanced by the greenhouse effects of the current levels of Co2, Nox, methane and water vapour.

A little reminder from 4 years ago here ..

Possible the peak likely occurred 04-09 2033 rather than the generally projected 2025 despite current levels being massively above expected - lets hope so.

Edited March 5 by tobyjugg2

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Solar Cycle Progression | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

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More on the effects of the wandering jet stream and massive dumps of the arctic cold into our latitudes

The arctic is warming at many times that of the rest of the world

These events will become FAR more common

 

Met Office weather warning over ‘once in 250-year’ event taking place over UK

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Temperatures are set to plummet due to an exceptionally rare phenomenon of Sudden Stratospheric Warming

 

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More sewage from the poop companies enabled by the poopulists - and in these cases not just the extreemist poop-cons

 

Devon beauty spot suffers sewage outflow for over 12 hours

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The seaside town of Sidmouth, on the Jurassic Coast, is known for its royal connections as Queen Victoria visited as a baby

 

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No - so says the Guardian quoting NASA ... and 97%+ of all climate scientists (or scientists in related fields)

compared to barmy bridgen and his 0.97% but noisy supporters - who seem to treat climate science denial as  a faith to be held on to based on nothing more than rhetoric that flies in the face of reality from people paid to promote nonsense

 

Edited March 12 by tobyjugg2

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The world just experienced the hottest February on record

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February was the ninth month in a row to set a global heat record, with global average temperatures 1.77°C above the pre-industrial average...

Europe saw particularly anomalous heat in February, with average temperatures rising 3.3°C above the monthly average for (even just) 1991 to 2020.

High temperatures and dry weather also drove fires in North and South America, including the deadliest wildfire in Chile’s history

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On 26/10/2023 at 13:16, tobyjugg2 said:

Collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet is 'unavoidable,' study finds | Live Science

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British Antarctic Survey researchers have found that the rate at which ice is melting and contributing to sea level rise will accelerate in the next century...

Its just how quickly, and how much the sea level will rise is at question.

Look at worst case scenarios for a real world median - which may well end up being conservative.

 

On 11/12/2023 at 10:25, tobyjugg2 said:

26 facts that bring home the reality of climate change | National Geographic

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...and four that offer hope.

 

 

On 21/12/2023 at 14:47, tobyjugg2 said:

Perhaps drill and capture it - before the ice melts - rather than giving licenses to drill in the North Sea for 2 weeks worth of gas?

 

Sea of methane sealed beneath Arctic permafrost could trigger climate feedback loop if it escapes | Live Science

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A sea of migrating methane discovered below the permafrost in Svalbard may eventually escape its icy prison if the permafrost...

 

 

On 10/01/2024 at 20:13, tobyjugg2 said:

Absolutely misleading (as lying ***** wouldn't be allowed)

Ignore the 'science sceptic 'blog and take heed to the REAL science

 

NASA

""Summer ice extent in and around the Arctic Ocean has declined significantly since satellites began measuring it consistently in 1978. The past 16 years (2007 to 2022) have been the lowest 16 minimum extents, with 2022 tying 2017 and 2018 for 10th-lowest in 44 years of observations."

 

and Nature:

Abstract of Abstract

 Here we show that the Arctic sea ice regime shifted in 2007 from thicker and deformed to thinner and more uniform ice cover. Continuous sea ice monitoring in the Fram Strait over the last three decades revealed the shift. After the shift, the fraction of thick and deformed ice dropped by half and has not recovered to date.

The timing of the shift was preceded by a two-step reduction in residence time of sea ice in the Arctic Basin, initiated first in 2005 and followed by 2007. We demonstrate that a simple model describing the stochastic process of dynamic sea ice thickening explains the observed ice thickness changes as a result of the reduced residence time. Our study highlights the long-lasting impact of climate change on the Arctic sea ice through reduced residence time and its connection to the coupled ocean–sea ice processes in the adjacent marginal seas and shelves of the Arctic Ocean.

 

and Scientific American report (among many many other REPUTABLE sources)

"The year 2023 shattered the record for the warmest summer in the Arctic, and people and ecosystems across the region felt the impact.

Wildfires forced evacuations across Canada. Greenland was so warm that a research station at the ice sheet summit recorded melting in late June, only its fifth melting event on record. Sea surface temperatures in the Barents, Kara, Laptev and Beaufort seas were 9 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit (5 to 7 degrees Celsius) above normal in August."

 

 

 

 

Regime shift in Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness

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A simple model describes the stochastic process of dynamic sea ice thickening, shows how reduced residence time affects changes in ice...

 

 

2022 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Tied for 10th-Lowest on Record - NASA

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According to satellite observations, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 18, 2022. The ice cover shrank to an area of 4.67...

 

Thickness/actual quantity of ice has shrunk dramatically (thinner ice and shorter periods of thickening) - which will likely lead to a VERY short final collapse period

"Summer ice extent in and around the Arctic Ocean has declined significantly since satellites began measuring it consistently in 1978. The past 16 years (2007 to 2022) have been the lowest 16 minimum extents, with 2022 tying 2017 and 2018 for 10th-lowest in 44 years of observations."

 

From Wildfires to Melting Sea Ice, The Warmest Summer on Record Has Had Cascading Effects Across the Arctic

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Climate change is already disrupting lives in the Arctic, and the warmest summer on record will certainly have an enormous impact on the people...

So the amount of Ice IS shrinking - and significantly

 

On 17/01/2024 at 20:20, honeybee13 said:

This is scary.

Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals | Ice | The Guardian

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Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents

 

 

On 20/01/2024 at 17:40, honeybee13 said:

Here's an interesting time lapse film from NASA on sea ice. It talks about an overall decline, as I read it.

World of Change: Arctic Sea Ice

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Several record-setting summer lows, combined with poor wintertime recoveries, have fueled a persistent decline over the past few...

 

 

On 06/02/2024 at 21:19, tobyjugg2 said:

JCB signs green hydrogen deal worth billions

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JCB will take 10% of the green hydrogen made by Australian mining company Fortescue Future Industries.

Arch brexiter Bamfords'JCB and a firm called Ryze Hydrogen would then distribute it in the UK.

Lord Anthony Bamford, chairman of JCB, said the deal would help to make green hydrogen a viable solution, telling the BBC it was "the right thing to do".

"Lord Bamford's son and entrepreneur Jo Bamford also owns Wrightbus, which built the world's first hydrogen double decker"

 

For what little its worth - arch Trussite fwee trade chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has also said "low carbon hydrogen has a critical role to play in the UK's transition to net zero" "its production, and use, would have to rapidly increase for the government's ambitions to be achieved"

 

 

 

as

Entire ski resort left snowless as future of sport under threat

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Temperatures too high even for fake snow

 

 

On 09/02/2024 at 10:01, tobyjugg2 said:

 

So, @theoldrouge

In what real world is 20-25% LESS ice growth in the ice's main growth period

compared to the 30 year average 1981 to 2010

let alone compared to the last century's average ice coverage

anything other than 'collapse of ice sheets?

 

 

Reality (in the ice packs main growth season)

The year 2024 began with an average January Arctic sea ice extent of 13.92 million square kilometers (5.37 million square miles), the twentieth lowest in the 45-year satellite record (Figure 1a).

During the month, extent increased by 1.09 million square kilometers (421,000 square miles), which was (20-25%) slower than the 1981 to 2010 average increase of 1.33 million square kilometers (514,000 square miles) (Figure 1b).

Extent actually declined for a few days at the end of the month. (in ice growth season)

- and that isnt

even comparing it to the much higher pre-industrial average

 

- national snow and ice data center

 

Nothing Swift about January’s Arctic sea ice

Nothing Swift about January’s Arctic sea ice | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

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and compare @theoldrougeseptic bog to the real skeptic blog

Skeptic » Reading Room » How We Know Global Warming is Real

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Dr. Tapio Schneider discusses the science behind human-induced climate change. He is a climate scientist and Professor of Environmental Science...

 

 

On 12/02/2024 at 17:50, tobyjugg2 said:

?

 

So, @theoldrouge

In what real world is 20-25% LESS ice growth in the ice's main growth period

compared to the 30 year average 1981 to 2010

let alone compared to the last century's average ice coverage

anything other than 'collapse of ice sheets?

 

So, @theoldrouge, yet again

In what real world is 20-25% LESS ice growth in the ice's main growth period

compared to the 30 year average 1981 to 2010

let alone compared to the last century's average ice coverage

anything other than 'collapse of ice sheets?

Edited March 12 by tobyjugg2

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perhaps this goes some way to answer your question HB?

Operation Timber

 

Come clean on secret taxpayer rescue plans for Thames Water, MP demands | Thames Water | The Guardian

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Exclusive: Sarah Olney to press in parliament for details of scheme being drawn up in event of supplier’s collapse

 

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and of course this where they appear t have lied about how much their debt costs not 3p in the £ - but 28p in the £

 

Thames Water accused of ‘misleading’ customers over level of debt payments | Thames Water | The Guardian

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Britain’s biggest water company said just 3p in every pound that appeared on bills went to its lenders

and lets be clear, labour are just as much to blame as the Tories

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I've an idea that what this is is clearing out stock of old tech panels as there have been signs of major breakthroughs in solar tech - inc what is effectively solar paint

 

reuters.com

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So much for the Torys and Brexit protecting the UKs waters and fish

“Industrial fishing is designed to kill marine life as efficiently as possible,” said Hugo Tagholm, the executive director of Oceana UK. "Everything from sharks to starfish are hoovered up by bottom trawling, which can destroy whole ecosystems and empty our seas of life. This also threatens communities seeking to make a sustainable living from our seas.

“How can we call them ‘protected’ if we have such highly extractive industries in them?

 

 

‘Hoovered’ up from the deep: 33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters | Marine life | The Guardian

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Analysis shows alarming prevalence of harmful fishing methods thought to ‘destroy whole ecosystems’

 

Edited March 20 by tobyjugg2

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More indications that we are passing through the solar maximum - or our Suns activity has increased a significant tick

Lets hope its the former

 

Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms | World news | The Guardian

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Spectacular aurora borealis caused by geomagnetic storms on sun’s surface may be visible in North America as far south as the midwest