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Why invest in the national grid? : Comments
By Mike Pope, published 8/7/2013In most Australian states the cost of electricity has been rising dramatically and continuously, not because of the carbon tax but, ostensibly, to fund maintenance and upgrade of the national grid.
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"Ongoing global warming is causing an increase in severe weather events."
Rubbish:
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1253&context=usdeptcommercepub&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com.au%2Fscholar_url%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.unl.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1253%252
The lead author of The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project, the most comprehensive analysis of "extreme" weather concludes:
As it happens, the project’s initial findings, published last month, show no evidence of an intensifying weather trend. “In the climate models, the extremes get more extreme as we move into a doubled CO2 world in 100 years,” atmospheric scientist Gilbert Compo, one of the researchers on the project, tells me from his office at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “So we were surprised that none of the three major indices of climate variability that we used show a trend of increased circulation going back to 1871."
As for cost of electricity being due to grid updates; that is also rubbish, the bulk of electricity increases is entirely to do with green and renewable energy which doesn't work:
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13995&page=0