The highest monthly surface temperature ever recorded was in July and was probably the hottest the planet has been in 100,000 years.
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Acapulco lost power as the eye of the hurricane approached, so communications are sketchy, but it looks pretty bad from what has been documented. This wasn’t on anyone’s radar, and the ferocity and speed of how this escalated has taken everyone by surprise. I guess that warmer oceans are going to have meteorologists re-evaluating their models now. One thing’s for sure, we are living on a different planet.
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You’d be diving off the cliff and getting blown back up.
And the wind doesn’t always blow ( and those windmills are sooo expensive) . Modular nuclear a better option.
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Scientists are linking increased rapid intensification with climate change. A study published on October 19 in the journal Scientific Reports found that Atlantic hurricanes today are twice as likely to experience rapid intensification as Atlantic hurricanes in the 1990s.
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Barely mentioned on Australian news sites.
If it was on the other side of the border however …
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Yes. Acapulco has basically been destroyed, and you would have to look pretty hard to find anything about it in our media.
The tourists will go home, but for about a million Mexicans, the road ahead is going to be very tough. Devastating for them.
The video in this tweet is insane:
https://twitter.com/zakkumec/status/1717386214364401720?t=2Pwd2AEkomRLB6iv1Y9PpQ&s=19
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I think it will get a bit more press once there’s something to report, at this stage nobody knows how bad it was / casualties / etc because it’s all black from a comms perspective. Frightening for Aussie towns in cyclone areas that something can hit that quickly.
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Australian MSM news - fireman rescues cat in tree in Ohio covered with visual commentary.
Meanwhile in rest of world 10,000 die in a disaster. MSM media coverage here zero.
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The Mexico hurricane seems to have happened with record acceleration between a tropical storm forecast and a class 5 hurricane. There was likely people who didn’t get the warning in time it happened so quickly. Hit the limits of modern meteorology.
Media reporting here on the competition for the race between amateur solar powered vehicles
- Belgians win race
Media reporting in Belgium
- Flemish media: Vlaamse win international race downunder
- French language media- Walloons win international race in Australia, major contribution to Climate Change progress
(May not be true)
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South Australia grid operates at 99.8 per cent wind and solar over past seven days
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Iberdrola’s Lake Bonney wind farm.
South Australia has an ambition to reach “net 100 per cent renewables” by 2030, but the reality is that it will get there several years before that, perhaps as early as 2026 when the new transmission link to NSW is fully commissioned.
But the state already has a glimpse of what a “net 100 per cent renewables” grid might look like, and particularly in the past week when it averaged 99.8 per cent renewables (as a share of its local demand) up to 9.30 am (grid time, of AEST) on Friday.
There are a couple of things to observe about this. First, it is “net” renewables because South Australia is connected to another grid (Victoria), so it can export some of its surplus power when needed, and import some too.
Secondly, South Australia is unique in that its share of renewables – 71.5 per cent of the past 12 months, 86.6 per cent in the last 30 days, and 99.8 per cent in the last seven days – comes from wind and solar only: The state has no hydro, and no geothermal, and no biomass power to speak of.
Thirdly, although South Australia has previously reached higher levels of renewables over a week-long period, this is the first time since new protocols were introduced that allows synchronous condensers to provide the bulk of system strength and allows gas fired power stations to be dialled back to minimum levels.
Source: OpenNEM. Please click to expand.
This is what that looks like. Vast amounts of solar in the daytime hours, wind dominating when it is dark, and a thin orange line illustrating the small role that gas is now playing – apart from the times when low wind output obliged the state to switch on more gas plants and import from Victoria.
Wind dominated and met 56.1 per cent of local demand throughout the 148 hour period, with rooftop solar providing a further 23.4 per cent, and dominating during the day-time hours.
Utility scale solar contributed just 4.2 per cent, but that’s because the bulk of its 450MW of installed large scale solar capacity in the state was curtailed most of the time by negative prices.
So the “potential” renewables was significantly higher than “net” 100 per cent renewables, underlining the case for more storage, the 250MW of hydrogen electrolysers that are being funded by the state government, the new transmission link, and demand shifting.
(The “potential” renewables actually hit a new peak of 264 per cent of state demand last Saturday).
Overall, however, South Australia exported more than three times more electricity than it imported (35 GWh verses 10 GWh), and battery storage also played a growing role, particularly with the addition of the newly commissioned 250MW Torrens Island battery.
It contributed nearly as much at peak times as the peaking gas generators, even though the big batteries in the state have, at most, two hours storage and most only one hour or 1.5 hours.
The Torrens Island battery is likely to be expanded to four hours storage as the market evolves further and more of the gas generators originally built to back up the coal fired power stations now closed are phased out of the systems).
Source: OpenNEM
As a side note, the share of renewables across the entire National Electricity Market over the same period was 47.4 per cent, with wind and solar alone providing 41.2 per cent. Over the past year, the share of renewables has grown to 38.6 per cent, still well short of the federal government target of 82 per cent by 2030.
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Is this accurate?
Story on ABC News radio this morning that focused on the looting.
Its not a 2 billion dollar mistake, its a 8 billion dollar mistake. Once again try hard Greenies fark it up & hard working tax payers are lumped with the bill for the next generation AND of course the union membership are cashing in for all its worth just like the metro tunnel in VIC. This is exactly what do gooders do:
Greenies said it was a ■■■■■■■ dumb idea. Greenies said ‘stop subsidizing ■■■■■■■ fossil fuel and let the market build what the market wants’.
This is another stupid liberal party intervention into the energy market.
Just like the Liddell intervention.
Just like selling Vales for $1m to a mate.
Let the free market do what the free market wants to do, which is getting out of coal.
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Like that French company which bought a Latrobe operation for a song, not so long after walked away from it. While government money is outlaid for structural adjustment in the Valley ( where better air quality leads to more options for structural adjustment)
Yemen was even more ignored than Acapulco.
The Guardian: 432mm (17in) of rainfall – the equivalent of more than five years’ worth of rain for the region – in 24 hours
https://floodlist.com/asia/yemen-floods-cyclone-tej-october-2023
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Andrew Glikson, who teaches at Australian National University in Canberra and advises the IPCC, has written about the coming era of mass human death, what he calls the Plutocene, the natural successor to the Anthropocene. Global governments, he charges, are “criminals” for ushering in the Plutocene in pursuit of short-term political and economic gain. I first reached out to him during the black summer of bushfires that raged across Australia in 2020. Glikson’s mood was foul then, and it has not gotten better since.
“The governing classes have given up on the survival of numerous species and future generations,” he told me, “and their inaction constitutes the ultimate crime against life on Earth.” Part of the reason for inaction is the false cheer that Nordhaus has spread with his math-genius, climate-idiot models.
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