And your qualifications are?I've read their reports. Their predictions, based on actual results, are rubbish. I could be better guesses from a psychic.
And your qualifications are?I've read their reports. Their predictions, based on actual results, are rubbish. I could be better guesses from a psychic.
That is your view but it is disagreed with by many including many experts in the field. The economics here are also highly subjective. As for comments such as "destroying the world's economy and standard of living", please enough with the hyperbole.
My view on energy is that the only viable solution to eliminating CO2, if that's what you want to do, is nuclear. Nothing else is going to work without destroying the world's economy and standard of living. Solar and wind are intermittent generators and do nothing but get in the way and destabilize the grid while grossly increasing the cost of electricity. They are worthless and should be dumped in favor of more nuclear.
Oh, the old Appeal to Authority ploy. Doesn't matter. Their predictions have been rubbish.And your qualifications are?I've read their reports. Their predictions, based on actual results, are rubbish. I could be better guesses from a psychic.
Yea, experts... I judge experts on results, not credentials.That is your view but it is disagreed with by many including many experts in the field. The economics here are also highly subjective. As for comments such as "destroying the world's economy and standard of living", please enough with the hyperbole.
My view on energy is that the only viable solution to eliminating CO2, if that's what you want to do, is nuclear. Nothing else is going to work without destroying the world's economy and standard of living. Solar and wind are intermittent generators and do nothing but get in the way and destabilize the grid while grossly increasing the cost of electricity. They are worthless and should be dumped in favor of more nuclear.
That is not the case. It is quite reasonable to ask for qualifications so as to allow readers to have full context and thus to make judgements as to the appropriate weight to place on the opposing views. For instance, one would normally allocate more weight to an opinion that is backed by many years of study, research and someone who has made a particular subject part of their entire their career verses someone with just an opinion.Oh, the old Appeal to Authority ploy. Doesn't matter. Their predictions have been rubbish.
A more charitable view (if we be minded to be charitable) is that the level of education informs best how one might describe the matter.That is not the case. It is quite reasonable to ask for qualifications so as to allow readers to have full context and thus to make judgements as to the appropriate weight to place on the opposing views. For instance, one would normally allocate more weight to an opinion that is backed by many years of study, research and someone who has made a particular subject part of their entire their career verses someone with just an opinion.Oh, the old Appeal to Authority ploy. Doesn't matter. Their predictions have been rubbish.
In some circles, the Dutch have a reputation of being penny-pinching misers.I've read their reports. Their predictions, based on actual results, are rubbish. I could be better guesses from a psychic.Some light reading from the IPCC on climate change:This assumes that you accept Gorebal Warming as presented by mostly the Left.
The IPCC carries some weight in the meteorological community.Reports — IPCC
www.ipcc.ch
Don't worry about sea ice melting , worry about ice on land melting.UK's post-glacial isostasis hinge-line runs WSW/ENE through my location. We have neither Scotland's benefit of 'primary' up-lift nor S/SE/SW UK's worry about sinking due 'secondary' effects. Uh, how many metres are London's 'Roman Stuff' now below current bench-mark ??
FWIW, my location close to hinge line means a lot of local strata are 'mildly' fractured, enough to provide umpteen mild quakes when lubricated by hapless gas-fracking attempts. Same fractures previously put an end to local collieries....
Fortunately, we do not face wide-spread subsidence due to water or gas extraction. Some areas have collapsing coal or salt mines, but they're 'localised'....
So, here is not affected by isostasis, we just have to worry about sea level rising.
As we already have BIG tides (4m Neap ~~ 10m Spring) plus Atlantic gales driving BIG waves with lonnng 'fetch' and serious 'surge', plus a lot of soft coasts that are little more than glacial moraine, we're a tad sensitive about thermal expansion and those melting ice-caps...
IIRC, Australia's BIG 'pumped storage' scheme is running several years behind schedule.
Covid, Covid, Covid, then TBM nosed into 'very bad ground', the foul fill of of a big, unsuspected sink-hole.