Matt Ridley has written an excellent article on this in the Telegraph (4th July) He points out that the Met Office make alarmist predictions based on an impossible scenario called RCP 8.5 which assumes we burn ten times as much coal in 2100 as we did in 2000 and that the world's population grows to 12 billion - way more than any demographer thinks is likely. Also there is no improvement in technology to make us more efficient - completely mad! In 2020 the BBC admitted that this scenario was very unlikely. And yet the Met Office will not see sense.
Matt thinks they are using this deliberately in order to scare people by grabbing headlines. They believe their reputation is such that they are untouchable, but they may have miss-judged this and over-reached themselves. More and more people are beginning to look more closely at this taxpayer funded organisation and wondering exactly what are they up to other than weather forecasting.
What a strange thing, they didn't want to scare people about wind droughts, lulls and Dunkelflautes so they kept quiet and the wind farmers carried on with the benefit of subsidies and mandates to wreck the grid with intermittent energy.
ReplyDeleteTrillions of dollars have been spent around the world rolling out unreliable energy generators and in return we have got more expensive and less reliable power with catastrophic environmental impacts.
The elephant in the net zero room is the wind droughts or dunkelflautes that Australian investigators documented over a decade ago.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts
Dirt farmers are alert to the threat of rain droughts, but the wind farmers never checked the reliability of the wind supply to become aware of wind droughts, wind lulls, known as Dunkelflautes in Europe.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
Wind droughts become an existential threat to thousands or tens of thousands of people when the wind drought trap closes on a windless night during extreme weather conditions coinciding with outages of conventional power.
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/escaping-the-wind-drought-trap
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/list-of-briefing-notes
You raise a very important point. The problem is that our government isn't willing to listen to any points which are detrimental to their preferred policy, and we will all pay for it.
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