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How Green is my Energy

by Geoffrey Luck
June 24, 2011

Take a big deep breath, Bob Brown – savour the 78 parts of nitrogen, 21
of oxygen, and the smidgen of carbon dioxide – and contemplate the folly
of your alternative energy ideas. Renewables are not green. That’s the
view of one of the pioneers of climate science politics. Jesse Ausubel,
Senior Research Associate in The Rockefeller University’s Program for the
Human Environment, helped organise the first UN World Climate Conference
in Geneva in 1979. He is an avowed ‘deep green’ scientist who believes the
essence of being green, and therefore his mantra, is no-new-structures.
For years he has been arguing heretical views on energy. In the wake of
the Productivity Commission’s scathing comments on renewables, now is the
time to listen to him.

Ausubel has a list of heresies that might horrify the true believers in
wind and solar power, electric cars and distorting government
subsidies:

Renewables are not green.

The idea of resource exhaustion is irrelevant.

Hydrocarbons are not the stored energy of the sun.

Little more than 50% of energy will ever be electrified.

Nuclear is green, but nuclear plants must make hydrogen as well as
electricity.

Most surprising of all - decarbonisation has been going on for
almost two centuries – without a policy for it.

(more…)

June 29th, 2011 | Categories:
Greens, Alternate Energy |

The New Dark (Green) Age

Last week while driving, I happened to hear part of the farewell speech
of Senator Nick Minchin. We will sorely miss people like this stalwart
senator. It struck me that this one sad event was like the bell tolling
for the new Dark Age to come. In the next few weeks, unless a miracle
occurs, and for the first time ever, dark greens and their fellow
travellers will gain control of the both houses of parliament in
Australia.

No doubt we have won the battle for the minds of the Australian people
– every poll shows a strong majority is opposed to the tax on carbon
dioxide. And there is growing scepticism for the claim that man causes
climate change. But the green elite, who have never won majority support
in their own right, are determined to pursue their destructive goals.

Their long-term agenda is to destroy human industry and reduce human
population. Thus they are opposed to farming, mining, fishing, forestry,
exploration and cheap power.

Their preferred strategy is to divide and conquer. Their tactics are to
grab any real concern and magnify and divert it into another reason to
destroy or hobble the industries they hate – cattle, sheep, mining, oil
and gas, uranium, farming, forestry, fishing and land developers. Their
greatest success is achieved when they harness and inflame one industry
and use it to ram another – use farmers to destroy the gas industry, use
animal lovers and meat workers to destroy live exports, use small business
to attack big business, make all industries compete against one another
for a dwindling supply of emission permits, get farmers to fight food
retailers, cry crocodile tears about the loss of fertile land, and then
lock up grazing land in trees, heritage areas and other sterilised ground.
And all the time they use their domination of the government media and
education empires to spread their half-truths.

More, including:

BRICS or PIGS?

Australian Tour by Christopher Monckton

What is really going on with the climate?

U.S. Supreme Court kicks out global warming

The Galileo Movement

Camel Cull Creates Consternation

in the PDF here: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/new-dark-age.pdf
[PDF, 73 KB]

June 26th, 2011 | Categories:
Greens, Carbon tax, Meetings/Events, Newsletters |

BRICS vs PIGS - the Myth that Green Energy will promote
Prosperity

We are told that we must embrace “green” renewable energy and impose a
carbon tax if we are not to be left behind in the world. Exactly why or
how this tax will promote economic growth is a mystery that Garnaut and
the Australian government are having difficulty articulating.

But the real world provides some clues to one secret of economic
strength.

Looking around the world today it appears there is a direct
relationship between the economic decline of those embracing climate
alarmism and green technologies and the economic rise of those who do not
– the PIGS are failing and the BRICS are rising.

Full article: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/brics-vs-pigs.pdf
[PDF, 269 KB]

June 20th, 2011 | Categories:
Carbon tax |

Volcanic Carbon Dioxide

Volcanoes emit enormous volumes of the two main “greenhouse gases” -
water vapour and carbon dioxide.

Erupting volcanoes are big news these days. There are over 1500 active
volcanoes which are above sea level and many of these show signs of
current activity including explosions, lava flows, gaseous emissions and
tremors. On average, there are about five eruptions per year that are
above sea level.

However, few people realise that there are more than 200,000 known
submarine volcanoes, many of which are active. It is reasonable to
estimate that there could be a total of 3 million submarine volcanoes.

Carbon dioxide and methane are abundant gases in the earth’s mantle and
they are being continually released to the atmosphere. Volcanic carbon
dioxide cannot be distinguished from the carbon dioxide produced by
burning carbon fuels like coal.

There are very large deposits of methane calthrate on the continental
shelf and lakes of frozen carbon dioxide in the deep ocean. Just one new
eruption or earthquake can mobilise these into the atmosphere.

We are continually told about the rising levels of carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere, but almost all of the world’s carbon dioxide recording
stations are beside active volcanoes such as Mauna Loa, Kilauea and Raoul
Island. Is the rise merely nature’s breath?

All of this says, we have no idea how much carbon dioxide nature is
adding to the atmosphere. The models used to justify the war on carbon
start with dream-time forecasts of world economic activity. These figures
drive forecasts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are linked to
assumptions and complex formula in a big black box that spits out
forecasts of global temperature for a century ahead. No one but an
Australian Climate Commissioner could take any notice of these
forecasts.

Timothy Casey, an experienced geologist, has produced a well reasoned
article entitled Volcanic Carbon Dioxide. It is worth reading at:
http://carbon-budget.geologist-1011.net/

June 15th, 2011 | Categories:
Volcanoes, CO2 Greenhouse Science |

The Global Warming Delusion

The truth about greenhouse gases and the dubious science of
the climate crusaders.

By William Happer

Will Happer is a physicist at Princeton University. This article
appeared in the internet magazine First Things under the title
The Truth About Greenhouse Gases.

“The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the
most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been
excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how
easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious
men are, even in their infatuations and crimes,” wrote Charles Mackay in
the preface to the first edition of his Extraordinary Popular
Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. I want to discuss a contemporary
moral epidemic: the notion that increasing atmospheric concentrations of
greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide, will have disastrous
consequences for mankind and for the planet. The “climate crusade” is one
characterized by true believers, opportunists, cynics, money-hungry
governments, manipulators of various types—even children’s crusades—all
based on contested science and dubious claims.

I am a strong supporter of a clean environment. We need to be vigilant
to keep our land, air, and waters free of real pollution, particulates,
heavy metals, and pathogens, but carbon dioxide (CO2 ) is not one of these
pollutants. Carbon is the stuff of life. Our bodies are made of carbon. A
normal human exhales around 1 kg of CO2 (the simplest chemically stable
molecule of carbon in the earth’s atmosphere) per day. Before the
industrial period, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was 270 ppm.
At the present time, the concentration is about 390 ppm, 0.039 percent of
all atmospheric molecules and less than 1 percent of that in our breath.
About fifty million years ago, a brief moment in the long history of life
on earth, geological evidence indicates, CO2 levels were several thousand
ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.

To read the rest of this article, click: http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/05/the-truth-about-greenhouse-gases.

June 15th, 2011 | Categories:
CO2 Greenhouse Science, Pollution |

How to Create Carbon Credits - Kill a Camel

The people who brought us pink bats and cash-for-clunkers have a new
scheme - we can earn carbon credits by shooting wild camels, humanely of
course.

Surely it would be far easier to shoot tame cattle? There are big mobs
near all of our northern ports going nowhere.

And if greens have their way and stop all live exports, we can earn
heaps more by shooting millions of sheep and goats, humanely of
course.

What about those mobs of kangaroos? They burn carbon fuel and emit
dreaded carbon dioxide. Why should they be spared when the future of the
planet is at stake?

One small problem - what do we do with all those carcasses? Left alone
they will release all the carbon sequestered within their bodies within a
couple of weeks, thus incurring massive carbon debits.

And who counts the dead camels? To prevent carbon cull fraud the
economy will boom with jobs for regulators, inspectors, auditors and
prosecutors.

And of course, we must not burn diesel, av-gas or gun powder to do the
slaughter, so the hunting must be done from horses using bows and
arrows.

And if killing camels earns carbon credits, why can’t cattle, sheep and
goat abattoirs also earn them?

More: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/camel-cull-credits.pdf
[PDF: 414 KB]

For lots of comments on this post, and to add your own comments
see:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/11/craziest-carbon-credit-scheme-yet-shooting-camels-in-australia/

June 11th, 2011 | Categories:
Carbon tax |

The Repairman: I’m here to fix your climate

(The Repairman)

(SCENE: Front door of BRYAN’s home. Door
bell rings. BRYAN answers door. It is JOHN.)

John: G’day. I’m here about
the climate.

Bryan: What climate?

John: Your climate. Our
climate. THE climate. I’m here to fix it.

Bryan: What’s wrong with it?

John: It’s buggered.
Absolutely buggered.

Bryan: No it isn’t. I was using it this
morning.

John: What for?

Bryan: For drying the washing out the
back.

(more…)

June 9th, 2011 | Categories:
Humour |

Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, Washington,
DC

Heartland Institute is sponsoring the Sixth International Conference on
Climate Change (ICCC-6) to take place in Washington, DC from breakfast
Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1, at the Marriott Wardman Park
Hotel. This event will be more modest than in the past, yet as informative
and, perhaps, even more challenging to the orthodoxy. The principal
speakers are S. Fred Singer, Craig Idso, and Bob Carter – all major
contributors to the NIPCC reports. Of course, SEPP is a co-sponsor. See:
http://climateconference.heartland.org/

June 9th, 2011 | Categories:
Meetings/Events |

The Cost of Using Wind Power to Reduce the Production of
CO2

Peter Lang
21 May 2011

This paper presents a simple analysis to estimate the amount of CO2
emissions avoided by wind generation and the cost per tonne avoided as
wind penetration increases from 0% to 20%. The carbon price implications
are discussed.

For wind power to be viable in Australia the price for electricity
would need to be about $120/MWh. The current average wholesale price of
electricity is about $30/MWhi. So wind energy must be subsidised by about
$90/MWh. If we have a carbon price of $25/MWh then the Renewable Energy
Certificates (RECs) need to reach $65/MWh to make wind viable. (That means
the consumer must subsidise wind by $90/MWh, or three times the current
wholesale price of electricity.)

The paper concludes that as wind energy penetration increases from 1%
to 20% the CO2 avoidance cost increases from $100 to $2,500 per tonne of
CO2 production avoided.

Wind energy is a high cost way to avoid CO2 emissions.

For a print-friendly copy of the full article see: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lang-wind-and-emissions.pdf
[PDF, 49 KB]

June 9th, 2011 | Categories:
Carbon tax, Wind Power, Alternate Energy |

Volcanoes, the Environment and Weather Extremes

Volcanoes emit huge quantities of the main greenhouse gases – water
vapour and carbon dioxide. They also affect wind patterns and put large
amounts of other gases like sulphur dioxide and particles of ash, smoke
and dust.

All of these have a dramatic effect on the weather events and the
biosphere.

For an article on this subject by Wyss Yim of the University of Hong
Kong, see: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/yim-volcanoes-water-vapour.pdf
[PDF, 418 KB]

June 6th, 2011 | Categories:
CO2 Greenhouse Science, The Evidence |

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