Mad Miliband: The Dunkelflaute Ate My Clean Energy!
A Europe-wide Dunkelflaute is upon us. The first of the season. Methinks it’s going to be a long winter. There’s hardly a breath of wind, and not even the sun is shining through a thick cloud layer. ‘Renewables’ are consequently generating next to nothing and the slack is having to be taken up by gas, ‘sustainable’ wood pellets, nuclear and electricity imports. Mad Ed wants to build more wind turbines and cover thousands upon thousands of acres of prime farmland with solar panels which will also generate next to nothing at times like this. But . . . . battery storage! Pumped hydro storage! Green hydrogen storage! Even if grid scale batteries or Green hydrogen were economically and technically feasible (they aren’t), they would not be sufficient to meet electricity demand by 2030, when Mad Ed plans to have a Net Zero grid in operation. Pumped hydro? Better get started yesterday then on work to flood the Highland lochs at astronomical cost and huge damage to the Scottish wilderness.
Here’s your Met Office surface pressure chart for today:
Tomorrow:
Wednesday:
It should be fairly obvious that not only are we generating very little ‘clean’ energy, but renewables in north west Europe too are not going to be generating anywhere near capacity; thus, any electricity which we do import via interconnectors is not going to be very ‘clean’ and it’s going to cost us an arm and a leg too, assuming the Europeans have any to spare.
As Paul Homewood points out, the Met Office are predicting calm weather for the next week or two:
Blackout parties anyone? Bring candles!
I’ve been drafting a post to publish as a “we told you so” when the country gets paralyzed by dunkelflaute power cuts in cold, dark, windless midwinter. The following extract on the skulduggeries of the climate-industrial complex may be of interest.
It compares Gavin Schmidt’s NASA graph of surface temperatures https://bsky.app/profile/climateofgavin.bsky.social/post/3l74a2hbkrq2x with the UAH graph of tropospheric temperatures https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_September_2024_v6_20x9-scaled.jpg.
Schmidt has mendaciously claimed [Independent, Earth is likely to have its hottest year on record - again] that “The long-term [temperature] trends are entirely due to our impact on climate”. To debunk this, look from the 26-years ago 1998 El Nino warming spike to the present time to compare and contrast the undoctored UAH graph with the NASA graph with its inherent Urban Heat Island warming bias and its obviously cheating retrospective adjustments.
The UAH graph shows the well-documented "pause" in global warming https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/cause_of_pause_in_global_warming.html which lasted until about 2014 but this has now been airbrushed out of the doctored NASA graph. Both graphs show the 2016 and 2020 natural El Nino warming spikes but the NASA graph shows them starting and ending much higher above the pause temperature level than the UAH graph. This has the effect of showing the current Hunga Tonga warming spike which started in 2023 to be only about 0.3°C in the doctored NASA graph versus a stonking 1°C in the undoctored UAH graph.
Schmidt and his colleagues pretend that this warming spike is nothing to do with the Hunga Tonga eruption yet its amplitude and longevity in the UAH graph show it to be completely different from any prior El Nino (e.g. 1998 or 2016) and it can’t possibly be due to man-made CO2 because of its sudden onset. Their denial of Hunga Tonga is proof of their mendacity.
The undoctored UAH temperature graph shows clearly that if transient natural events (El Nino/La Nina and Hunga Tonga) are disregarded, global temperatures have flat-lined or even fallen slightly since 1998. The doctored NASA graph shows a rise of about 0.3°C, hardly a cause for hysterics even if it was genuinely “man-made” rather than from just fiddling the figures. What this 26-year trend shows is emphatically not a man-made climate emergency!
A decisive fall in global temperatures from the current spike is sure to occur when the Hunga Tonga water vapour eventually dissipates, maybe in a couple of years, nobody knows for sure. How will the professional liars of the climate-industrial complex explain that? Easy, I predict they’ll say it’s due to a very strong La Nina. These liars have no option now but to double down and continue their desperate lying, especially as they know that the cold phase (as in the 1960s and 70s) of the cyclical AMO will soon be upon us. Thankfully, more and more of the general public are now seeing through their lies.
There's no such thing as "clean" or "green" energy. How on earth do people think those vast monolithic turbines are produced? How do they get here from China and where do they go when their 25 yr lifespan is up? Hmm?