"Using the IPCC warming rate for our demonstration, we projected the rate successively over a period analogous to that envisaged in their scenario of exponential CO2 growth—the years 1851 to 1975. The errors from the projections were more than seven times greater than the errors from the benchmark method. Relative errors were larger for longer forecast horizons."
Read today's press release from the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, "Global warming legislation would fail", that references this paper and includes quotes from the authors.
"Ontario's pursuit of wind power has driven up electricity prices, is killing jobs and might even lead to more smog, a new Fraser Institute report says.
"Ross McKitrick, author of Environmental and Economic Consequences of Ontario's Green Energy Act (GEA), says the Ontario government's electricity plan is now 10 times more costly than installing pollution-control equipment on existing coal plants -- an option he argues would have produced similar improvements in air quality.
"His analysis of the GEA concludes the province is well on its way to having some of the highest electricity prices in North America."
Read whole piece. Click on video above to watch interview with economist Dr. Ross McKitrick.
ENERGY COMPANIES MUST HANG TOGETHER TO FIGHT BIG GREEN MACHINE, OR HANG SEPARATELY
May 20, 2013: "Lighting Big Green's match to burn King Coal - Energy suppliers must quit collaborating with renewable-power enemies", by Tom Harris and Dr. Tim Ball, published in the Washington Times, Washington DC, U.S.A.
"a kind of civil war rages within the energy industry where large power companies in oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear and hydro often work to discredit their competitors in an attempt to gain an advantage for short term profit. All the while, their real enemy, and indeed the enemy of us all—aggressive environmentalism—continues its long campaign to dismantle the western world’s primary energy sources."
"Last month I witnessed something shocking. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was giving a talk at the University of NSW. The talk was accompanied by a slide presentation, and the most important graph showed average global temperatures. For the past decade it represented temperatures climbing sharply. As this was shown on the screen, Pachauri told his large audience: "We're at a stage where warming is taking place at a much faster rate [than before]". Now, this is completely wrong."
