Australia’s emissions policy is being run by media release, not engineering principles and the targets that are being set will not be met, bringing the whole emissions reduction program into question, as well as the expertise of those proposing it.
Tagged: Climate change
Strategic Climate/Energy Policy Issues Paper
The task to make Australia 100% clean-energy is much larger than generally thought requiring approximately 250% more electricity generation than at present.
Australian bushfires on Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera
Last night I was interviewed by TRT - Turkey's answer to Al Jazeera - on a panel moderated by Adnan Azwaz on the Australian fires. My fellow panellists were Professor Mark Howden and Tony Kevin.
September temperature data
The lower tropospheric temperature over Australia, which we are showing here, was hotter than average, but only the 15th hottest in the satellite record.
August temperature data
For all those who struck for the climate, there is no sign of acceleration, although there has been a contraction of the range.
Australian temperature June 2019
The satellite record continues to confirm that temperatures are increasing, although at a lower rate than that claimed for the land-based records.
Australian Temperature May 2019
The UAH record for May shows temperature for Australia to have been just slightly hotter than the May trend, which is the first graph that I have displayed, but there have been plenty of hotter Mays in the past of the record, as far back as the late 80s.
Australian Temperature April 2019
The UAH temperature anomaly for March was 0.59 degrees. This is identical to last year.
Fact Bite #2
Mark Butler made 4 claims about electric vehicles, each of which was incorrect.
Australian temperature March 2019
2019 is not the hottest Australian summer ever, but the second hottest, with 1991, 28 years ago being the hottest.
