Climate News May 2016
/After a very high recorded temperature in March, the el nino effect is now subsiding but Roy Spencer thinks the 2016 average temperature could still end up a record warm year in the post 1989 satellite data. ..... READ MORE
Climate News
Climate News is a regular review of and commentary on topical matters concerning the science, economics, and governance associated with climate change developments.
Alan Moran, who is a Director of AEF, prepares and distributes Climate News each month on behalf of the Foundation.
Climate News | April 8
/February, having been billed as the hottest month on record, was followed by a cooler March as the el nino effect subsides. If temperatures have been rising since the eighteenth/early nineteenth century’s Little Ice Age, the data for the lower troposphere, uncontaminated by urban heat islands and the surface temperature casts doubt on the extent of the trend over recent years.
Read MoreClimate News | November 30
/UK government is suddenly beginning to realise that wind is costly and unreliable and is now focussing on gas, which by replacing coal says Minister Amber Rudd is "One of the greatest and most cost-effective contributions we can make to emission reductions in electricity”. But the government is also reviewing its coal plants’ reliability and will doubtless see a role for them once the Parisian carbon maelstrom passes. In any event carbon capture and storage plans in the UK have been abandoned in recognition that this is a very expensive way to sacrifice carbon to the greenhouse gods.
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