Re: 1GW (sic) Battery Energy Storage Systems

On 27/11/2024 02:43, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 27/11/2024 10:34 am, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:42:54 +0000, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

On 26/11/2024 03:15, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:55:35 +0000, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

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Milder winters due to global warming have helped a bit. It was 10
degrees above the monthly average here not long ago.

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One swallow does not a spring make.

 Despite Cursitor Doom's delusions, anthropogenic global warming is a very reliable trend.
 When people get sensible enough not to vote for goofs like Donald Trump and Boris Johnson the trend may go into reverse.

I am no fan of Boris Johnson but to be fair to him he *was* convinced by the scientific data in much the same way as Margaret Thatcher was decades earlier (although she really wanted to close coal mines for other reasons than climate change - to shaft Scargill and the miners).
Boris who was a climate sceptic back when he worked for the Telegraph became convinced climate change was real around 2021 and as UK PM made quite a reasonable fist of COP26 see for example:
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/boris-johnson-climate-change-cop26-b1946935.html
An unlikely endorsement of his climate change stance from a newspaper that like me views him as a lazy self entitled buffoon and populist demagogue.

Look at the Manua Loa data.
 https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
 If we melt enough of the Greenland ice sheet to kill off the Gulf stream for a thousand years or so - a replay of the Younger Dryas - the UK will have a problem.

Spectacular "100 year" floods twice a decade seem to be one of the more interesting consequences of global warming in the UK right now. One just took out a chunk of Wales earlier in the week. Some riparian properties are now basically uninsurable (and yet they keep building on floodplains).
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Martin Brown