Abhors??
Fixed, thanks.
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Like terrorists on every corner
This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation."
â Christiana Figueres
â National Liberation Party
Communist to the core, bent on destroying capitalism.
Taxes and environmental regulations are parts of all modern capitalist economies.
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Christiana Figueres is hardly a communist. She has socialist views in many areas and has been a leading World figure for many years. Her Country, Costa Rica is also hardly a hotbed of the far-left, and her political party is mostly centre or centre left in its policy.
There is no doubt capitalism is broken, and the gap between rich and poor ever widens. The capitalists disregard for the environment and the pursuit of profit art any cost is a good reason for change.
Christiana is really worth listening to.
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Well, really you couldnât expect the previous tens of thousands of years o the history of mankind to be doing anything relevant to âchange the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years,â Unless you think they had some time machine back in the day.
But this really is âthe first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task ofâ fixing the damage that has been made by humans to avoid catastrophic global warming.
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No point is your point, head of the debating team at school were you?
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Somewhere, goalposts just shifted fast enough to cause a sonic boomâŚ
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The Green blob at present sucks $1.5 trillion out of the world economy, money in 2 years that could provide every person in the world with clean drinking water, money that could be spent on medical research .Gore wants $17 trillion of your money, Hansen wants $535 trillion of your money, Figueres wants to reorganise the worlds economy by stripping the 20 largest enomies and giving it to the third world and she is not a communist?
You have been shown over and over again by the people running the scam what they are up to.
It is all about money.
Sattelite data from the UAH, the worlds temperature has been constantly dropping for 10 months and is now at the same level as 1988.
Doubt if I will be around much longer ans as a parting gift I give you this.
It is easier to scam somebody than convince them they have been scammed.
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You just donât hear enough about the work the University of Alabama doesâŚ
Nah, UAH is a reasonably well-known climate dataset. Itâs just a laugh to see it compared to 1988 though - cos 1988 was, at the time, the hottest year in recorded history. Ooh, I also remember when the mantra was all âno warming since 1998!!!â which all went pretty quiet over the past few years when basically every year has been setting temperature records. Seriously, now youâre hanging your hat on 10 months, as if that is anything more than a statistical blip even if it happened at all? More than a bit pathetic.
Even then, i have trouble taking @sorfedâs word for it, considering both his well-known bias against scientific reality and the fact that according to the NASA GIS stats, 2017 had both the second warmest May and April on record.
sorfed, hereâs a tip. Stop using Roy Spencer (or his various acolytes like that Watts guy) as a source. Anyone who encourages people to use a dataset he KNOWS is incorrect because it produces less warming than other datasets is probably not someone whose numbers you want to be taking as gospelâŚ
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Huh.
Yeah, but NASA says one thing and spurious claims by some guy say something else. Itâs all a crazy guessing game so we may as well not worry about it and build some coal plants.
They have a pretty good SEC football team
I was.
And you still donât see that I never made a point for you to miss, ⌠thatâs the point.
It was Alberts point you missed. You point missing numptybus.
Do you get the bluddy point now?
Lol !
If you think that making the top twenty world economies pay for the environmental damage they have done to the whole world is communism then you are not that clever.
And seriously sorfed, I can also troll the www and find quotes or memes to suit my agenda.
Maybe you should just call it what it is ? Denial of climate change.
Today I am flying to Cairns for a week in warmer weather. Perhaps I can give you a report on a dying Barrier Reef, or perhaps not as you will deny it has had any changes.
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Hi thanks for your posts and I hope what you are saying about your health is pessimistic and things are better than that.
Solar thermal power plant announced for Port Augusta âbiggest of its kind in the worldâ
Updated yesterday at 6:51pm
A 150-megawatt solar thermal power plant has been secured for Port Augusta in South Australia, State Premier Jay Weatherill has announced.
Construction of the $650 million plant will start in 2018.
Mr Weatherill said the Aurora Solar Energy Project would be ready to go in 2020 and would supply 100 per cent of the State Governmentâs needs.
The Government will pay a maximum of $78 per megawatt hour.
Mr Weatherill said the solar thermal plant was âthe biggest of its kind in the worldâ.
âImportantly, this project will deliver more than 700 jobs, with requirements for local workers,â he said.
In September 2016, the Government launched a tender process to procure 75 per cent of its long-term power supply.
It said it wanted to attract a new competitor onto the market and put downward pressure on electricity prices.
The Government contract with United States operator Solar Reserve will last for 20 years, and was the âlowest cost optionâ of shortlisted bids for the project.
The maximum Government load is 125MW, meaning the plant will be able to supply other customers.
âThis, in addition to our state-owned gas plant, and the worldâs largest lithium ion battery, will help to make our energy grid more secure,â Mr Weatherill said.
Project built on $110 million federal loan
Solar Reserve chief executive officer Kevin Smith toured the region in September last year, and said at the time it would need at least $100 million in federal grants or loans to proceed.
Earlier this year, the Federal Government confirmed it would grant $110 million in a concessional equity loan to support a solar thermal project at Port Augusta.
The loan â first flagged in the lead-up to the federal election â was guaranteed in a deal struck between the Government and independent senator Nick Xenophon to get his support for company tax cuts legislation.
Senator Xenophon said the project would transform the energy market in SA and be a âflagship project for the entire nationâ.
âThis will make a difference in the South Australia energy market. It will secure the grid and mean more baseload power than intermittent power,â he said.
He said it would lead to more stable energy in the market, which would lead to lower power prices.
Port Augusta City Council Mayor Sam Johnson said the announcement left him with âa little tear in the eyeâ.
Mirrors to direct sunlight onto tower
Solar thermal uses heliostats, or mirrors, to concentrate sunlight onto a tower that heats molten salt.
The heat created is then used to generate steam.
Solar Reserve said the plant will be able to provide between eight and 10 hours of storage and had no requirement for gas or oil generated electricity as a backup.
It is expected to employ 50 full-time workers on an ongoing basis once it is operational.
The company said the power station will operate in a similar fashion to a coal or gas station, meaning many of the jobs would ârequire the same skill setsâ.
Mr Smith said he looked forward to supporting âfederal and state renewable energy targetsâ.
Aurora facts:
150-megawatt solar thermal power with eight hours of storage
Plant will deliver 495 gigawatt hours of power annually, or 5 per cent of SAâs energy needs
Equivalent to powering more than 90,000 homes
Located 30 kilometres north of Port Augusta
Company says it is âcompletely emission freeâ
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Iâm not a fan of those mirror arrays. These are the ones that cook anything in its path.
Much prefer PV cells.