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To: Bill who wrote (1258)	11/17/2014 1:19:14 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1400

Yep. In 2012. That's modern leftwing "science."

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	11/18/2014 12:27:55 PM
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World's Largest Solar Plant Failing ......................................................... Huge solar plant lags in early production By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press Nov 17, 2:014 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WORLDS_LARGEST_SOLAR_PLANT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-17-14-33-47 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The largest solar power plant of its type in the world - once promoted as a turning point in green energy - isn't producing as much energy as planned. One of the reasons is as basic as it gets: The sun isn't shining as much as expected. Sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal desert near the California-Nevada border, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System opened in February, with operators saying it would produce enough electricity to power a city of 140,000 homes. So far, however, the plant is producing about half of its expected annual output for 2014, according to calculations by the California Energy Commission. It had been projected to produce its full capacity for 8 hours a day, on average. "Factors such as clouds, jet contrails and weather have had a greater impact on the plant than the owners anticipated," the agency said in a statement. It could take until 2018 for the plant backed by $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees to hit its annual peak target, said NRG Energy Inc., which operates the plant and co-owns it with Google Inc. and BrightSource Energy. "During startup we have experienced ... equipment challenges, typical with any new technology, combined with irregular weather patterns," NRG spokesman Jeff Holland said in a statement. "We are confident that Ivanpah's long-term generation projections will meet expectations." The technology used at Ivanpah is different than the familiar photovoltaic panels commonly used for rooftop solar installations. The plant's solar-thermal system - sometimes called concentrated-solar thermal - relies on nearly 350,000 computer-controlled mirrors at the site, each the size of a garage door. The mirrors reflect sunlight to boilers atop 459-foot towers - each taller than the Statue of Liberty. The resulting steam drives turbines to create electricity. When the $2.2 billion complex opened, Energy Department Secretary Ernest Moniz called it a "symbol of the exciting progress" in renewable energy. While the agency still says the project remains in good standing, Kaitlin Meese, an analyst at research firm Bentek Energy, said its early production figures "do not paint a strong picture for solar-thermal technology development." The operation of such plants is highly dependent on weather conditions, and predicting when and how strongly the sun will shine is not a perfect science. A little bit of inefficiency with mirrors can translate into a loss of power output ranging from small to significant, said Dr. Neil Fromer, executive director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Technology. Problems could include getting the thousands of mirrors pointed in precisely the right direction, especially in the cool early morning, or keeping them clean in the dusty Mojave Desert. Operators initially expected to need steam from gas-powered boilers for an hour a day during startup. After operations began, they found they needed to keep boilers running more than four times longer - an average of 4 1/2 hours a day. State energy regulators in August approved the plant's request to increase the natural gas it is allowed to burn by 60 percent. Additional natural gas could also be needed to operate boilers when clouds thicken or to maintain output at the end of the day and extend the capability for power production, the company said. "Because the plant requires sunlight to heat water and turn it to steam, anything that reduces the sunlight will affect steam conditions, which could damage equipment and potentially cause unsafe conditions," said the commission, which approved the request for increased gas use. Fromer said it was surprising that so much additional gas is needed, adding that it "signals to me they have some very large problems that they are going to need to sort out." Plants owners said they are learning on the fly to some extent. "For some aspects of operation, the only way to fully understand how the systems work has been through the experience of operating," plant owners wrote in the request to increase gas use. Holland said the company always expected a ramp-up period of four years to reach maximum output. That extended period was not publicly disclosed, however. Holland said it is outlined in confidential agreements with two California utilities buying the power, Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Brightsource said on its website that the weather has generally been substantially worse than historical averages - in other words, cloudy - resulting in reduced output in certain months. "We remain confident that over time the sun at Ivanpah will be more than sufficient for the plant to meet its expected performance targets," the statement said.

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	11/25/2014 10:57:03 AM
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Great Lakes ice cover develops; Earliest in over 40 years...

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	12/3/2014 9:48:46 AM
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Hudson Bay to freeze over 2 wks earlier than normal this year ................................................................ Another Alarmist Icon Bites The Dust December 3, 2014 by stevengoddard One of the favorite global warming scams was the “Hudson Bay freezes over later than it used to, threatening Polar Bears” scam. The Hudson Bay will be frozen over about two weeks earlier than normal this year.

To: Bill who wrote (1258)

12/3/2014 9:49:39 AM

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Mastodons Killed By Climate Change: They Froze To Death Filed under: Cold Kills, Mockery, Morons — sunshinehours1 @ 8:52 PM Tags: Cold Kills, Mockery, morons “Despite popular belief that North American mastodons were hunted to extinction by Ice Age humans, a new Canadian-led study is claiming that the prehistoric beasts simply froze to death. “To think of scattered populations of Ice Age people with primitive technology driving huge animals to extinction, to me is almost silly,” said Grant Zazula, chief paleontologist for the Yukon Territory and the study’s lead author. What the research found was that mastodons died out in the Yukon and Alaska long before humans were even on the scene. Not only that, but northern mastodons died out a full 65,000 years before their cousins in warmer climes to the south.” http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/12/01/mastodons-werent-hunted-to-extinction-by-ice-age-humans-they-simply-froze-to-death-new-study-finds/

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To: Bill who wrote (1258)	12/11/2014 8:49:48 AM
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Gore speaks to half full room at UN climate summit... Polite applause.. the scam is over, next scam mr. gruber

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	12/15/2014 11:13:04 AM
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UN Climate Talks Once Again Break Down Over ‘Climate Reparations’ ............................................................................................................................................ dailycaller.com ^ \| 12/13/2014 \| Michael Bastasch “We are disappointed,” Prakash Javadekar a UN delegate from India, told The Guardian. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	12/23/2014 2:15:52 PM
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One of China's largest waterfalls freezes over in 'incredibly cold weather'...

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	12/26/2014 12:38:53 PM
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Al Jazeera's attempt at climate alarmism in Queensland .............................................................................................. : americanthinker.com

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	1/5/2015 7:12:42 PM
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Ski Resorts Close Because Too Cold... Wind Chills 50 Below... Minnesotans Warned Frostbite In Minutes... Postal Service asks for help... CHILL MAP...

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	1/7/2015 8:25:57 PM
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CHICAGO COLD; NEAR RECORD... 87% OF NATION TO DIP BELOW FREEZING... CHILL MAP... 3 Dead, 30 Injured After Snow Squall Causes 17-Car Pileup On PA Highway... Heavy snowfall, strong winter storm hits Middle East...

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	1/22/2015 6:08:35 AM
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MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a ‘Cult’ ................................................................................................. Breitbart's Big Government ^ \| January 21, 2015 \| Howie Carr

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/3/2015 11:59:15 AM
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Moonbat Sierra Club: Saudi Arabia Is Our Most “Potent Ally” In Fight Against Keystone XL… Via Truth Revolt: In the latest issue of Sierra magazine, The Sierra Club argues that an “even more potent ally” than President Obama in their fight against the Keystone XL pipeline is the House of Saud, the largest exporter of petroleum liquids in the world. “Environmentalists are depending on President Barack Obama’s veto pen to block the project–at least until the State Department issues its final ruling in the matter,” writes Sierra’s Paul Rauber. “But we have another, even more potent ally in the fight: the House of Saud.” This new-found ally—which owns 16% of the world’s oil reserves and has the world’s largest crude oil production capability—Rauber explains, is helping to thwart the progress of the pipeline deal: Rather than cutting back production in order to stabilize oil prices, the world’s largest oil producer is keeping its petroleum taps wide open, hoping to drown upstart competitors in Canada, North Dakota, and Russia in a sea of cheap oil. ............. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/sierra-club-our-most-potent-ally-against-keystone-xl-house-saud

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/12/2015 11:46:40 AM
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Global Warming Hysteria Has Problem: It Doesn't Fit With Facts

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/12/2015 4:23:10 PM
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*Ice breaker rushes to free stranded vessel stuck in Antarctic ice...* Boston's Record-Setting Snowfall Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor... Northeast ski resorts revel in best year... Bitter Blast For Valentine's Day... CHILL MAP...

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/15/2015 9:59:37 AM
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U.N. Official Admits Goal of Global Warming Scare is to Destroy Capitalism

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/16/2015 5:52:46 AM
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Taxpayers in 3 counties could be on hook for millions after solar project fizzles ................................................................... NJ.com ^ \| February 15, 2015

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/19/2015 10:02:24 AM
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Embarrassing Predictions Plague the Global-Warming Industry 2/19/2015, angelfire.com

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/19/2015 1:25:59 PM
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BLAST: Coldest Temps Since Late-1800s in East... 'Life-threatening' Freeze Hits South... RIDICULOUS: DC FEELS LIKE -20º CHICAGO SMASHES RECORD...

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/20/2015 1:23:08 PM
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Networks Silent about ‘Green’ Nature of Kitzhaber Corruption Scandal ................................................................................... NewsBusters.org ^ \| 02/20/2015 \| Julia A. Seymour

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/22/2015 2:37:25 AM
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United States Deep Freeze Viewed From Space ................................................................... SpaceRef ^ \| 02/21/2015 \| Keith Cowing

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/22/2015 10:27:15 AM
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NYT Smears Scientist Willie Soon for Telling the Truth About ‘Global Warming’ ...................................................................................... americanthinker.com ^ \| 2/21/2015 \| James Delingpole

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	2/25/2015 12:57:12 PM
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Environmentalism is the religion of choice for urban atheists.

To: Bill who wrote (1258)

2/25/2015 12:57:55 PM

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<Flashback: Michael Crichton: ‘One of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists>

climatedepot.com

<Outgoing UN IPCC Chief reveals global warming ‘is my religion and my dharma’

IPCC Chair Pachauri forced out at UN climate panel after sexual harassment complaint

Pachauri's resignation letter on religion: 'For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.'

UN IPCC critic Journalist Donna Laframboise responds: 'Yes, the IPCC – which we’re told to take seriously because it is a scientific body producing scientific reports – has, in fact, been led by an environmentalist on a mission. By someone for whom protecting the planet is a religious calling.'

By: Marc Morano - Climate Depot

February 24, 2015 10:16 AM with 713 comments

Pachauri’s full resignation letter here.

Climate Depot’s Morano statement on Pachauri’s resignation: ‘The IPCC is quietly popping champagne corks today. Pachauri gone can only be good news for the UN IPCC’ – Marc Morano: ‘If Pachauri had any decency, he would have resigned in the wake of the Climategate scandal which broke in 2009. Climategate implicated the upper echelon of UN IPCC scientists in attempting to collude and craft a narrative on global warming while allowing no dissent. Or Pachauri could have resigned when he wished skeptics would rub asbestos on their faces or conceded that the IPCC was at the ‘beck and call’ of governments. There were so many opportunities to to the right thing and fade away. But it took the proceedings of the Indian court system over the allegations of sexual harassment to finally bring Pachauri down. Things can only be looking up for the UN IPCC now that it has ridded itself of this political and ethical cancer.’

Many climate change activists are motivated by religious conviction. See: Climate Depot round up of climate religion. Actor Harrison Ford’s Green Religion: ‘I needed something outside of myself to believe in and I found in nature a kind of God’

Flashback: Michael Crichton: ‘One of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.’

Related Links:

UN Scientists Who Have Turned on the UN IPCC & Man-Made Climate Fears — A Climate Depot Flashback Report

Flashback 2010: UN IPCC’s Pachauri a Climate Creep?! The Dr. of Climate Deceit Transforms to Dr. of Love?— ‘Smutty’ novel written by the UN climate chief Pachauri: Excerpt: ‘She removed her gown, slipped off her nightie and slid under the quilt…He was overcome by a lust…and began to feel Sajni’s body, caressing her voluptuous breasts’

Pachauri critic: Evidence ‘suggest strongly that Pachauri is a longtime sexual predator’ – Donna Laframboise: ‘What’s missing from this (Pachauri’s resignation) letter is any suggestion of remorse. When a scandal-plagued leader resigns because his alleged misdeeds are nuking his organization’s reputation, that is a mark of failure. He has let everyone down. Where are his words of apology to the thousands of IPCC-linked scientists whose honour is now eternally tarnished by their association with him?’ Pachauri’s letter talks about his “greatest joy,” and his “sublime satisfaction.”>

Rajendra Pachauri’s Resignation Letter: ‘A two-page love letter to himself’

Flashback 2010: Greenpeace calls for UN climate chief Pachauri to step down in wake of Climategate

Say What?! After Wishing Skeptics Would Rub Asbestos on their Faces, UN IPCC’s Pachauri Now Declares he is ‘not deaf’ to skeptics; Says IPCC ‘should welcome vigorous debate!’ – Pachauri also recently smeared skeptics as akin to ‘flat-earthers’ and the promoters of ‘voodoo’ science

Flashback 2006: Morano Debates Pachauri at UN Conference in Kenya — Calls UN an ‘echo chamber’ where ‘dissent was being suppressed and demonized’

Flashback Dec. 2014: Watch: Morano interviews Pachauri in Peru – Asks about IPCC being at ‘beck and call’ of governments – Morano to Pachauri: ‘You once said the IPCC was at the ‘beck and call’ of governments. How does that affect the science. Is science altered to suit politics?’ – (Pachauri dodges the questions.)

Pre-Determined ‘Science’: Round Up of New UN IPCC Report: Human Extinction? IPCC at ‘beck and call’ of Govts – UN Officials Predicted Alarming Report Years Ago

UN IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri admits purpose of UN IPCC report it to make the case that ‘action is needed on climate change’

UN IPCC chair Pachauri: ‘If the governments decide we should do things differently and come up with a vastly different set of products we would be at their beck and call.’

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	3/7/2015 4:28:03 PM
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Obama EPA Chief Can’t Say Whether Climate Models Were False Or Not (but she want BILLIONS anyway) ................................................................... YouTube ^ \| March 2, 2015 \| YouTube

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	3/14/2015 7:14:02 PM
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VINDICATED: Researcher punished for exposing climate fraud beats UCLA ........................................................................... The College Fix ^ \| March 12, 2015 \| Matt Lamb

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	3/14/2015 7:15:46 PM
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Climate change is a farce and the Obamas just proved it ......................................................................... Flopping Aces ^ \| 03-14-15 \| DrJohn

To: Bill who wrote (1258)	3/16/2015 1:56:23 AM
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Boston breaks 20-year snowfall record ........................................................................ 3/15/2015, wcvb.com ^