SR,

We should celebrate wind and solar becoming so cheap by removing all subsidies.

Aidan,

No figures no story. I gave mine.

MORE HOT AIR AND HYSTERIA

‘The Australian’ recently ran a scare-mongering, let's-get-the-masses-hysterical type of article we have come to expect from the MSM trumpeting that 2018 was the 3rd. hottest year on record; a temperature of 49.3 at Marble Bar was announced in support of the claim.

No mention of the 50.7 degrees at Oodnadatta in 1960.

Before the 'highest ever’ temperature of 49.3 at Marble Bar, other temps at that very hot locality were: 49.2 in 1905; 49.2 in in 1922. 0.1 of a degree cooler. No AGW hysteria then.

And, let's not forget the 50.7 at Oodnadatta in 1960 - no AGW hysteria then, either.

Yes it's hot, but it's all happened before, & with no SUVs to cause it.

In January 1896 a savage blast “like a furnace” stretched across Australia from east to west and lasted for weeks. The death toll reached 437 people in the eastern states. Newspaper reports showed that in Bourke the heat approached 120°F (48.9°C) on three days (1)(2)(3). The maximumun at or above 102 degrees F (38.9°C) for 24 days straight.

By Tuesday Jan 14, people were reported falling dead in the streets. Unable to sleep, people in Brewarrina walked the streets at night for hours, the thermometer recording 109F at midnight. Overnight, the temperature did not fall below 103°F. On Jan 18 in Wilcannia, five deaths were recorded in one day, the hospitals were overcrowded and reports said that “more deaths are hourly expected”. By January 24, in Bourke, many businesses had shut down (almost everything bar the hotels). Panic stricken Australians were fleeing to the hills in climate refugee trains. As reported at the time, the government felt the situation was so serious that to save lives and ease the suffering of its citizens they added cheaper train services:

In the end avoiding the thread would be the wise thing to do
Right now humanity has never been more divided
And it seems that is the plan
Our division is fertile ground for the *freedom* of a world Dictatorship
Promises of fixing every thing , will indeed look better to far too many
In this one issue a country with a human rights record not unlike Hitlers Germany, both uses renewable s and, if this thread is true, if, rejects it
30 Years ago using China, to support anything, not bad, would have been unthinkable
As the world roasts and freezes, as promised by climate change
As poster snear at? honest reports about *what has and is taking place*?
Smug contented THEY are fools I am right, posts resemble a cat playing with a ball of wool left there so they will not notice the dog is behind them

Dear Hasbeen,

This will warm the cockles of your little heart.

While China indeed looks like exceeding its self imposed cap on coal generation capacity according to the link I sent you;

Support for new coal power capacity has been cut with the 13th five-year plan setting a ceiling for total coal capacity at 1100GW. But as reported by CoalSwarm and chinadialogue, the current coal capacity is 993GW and more than 250GW is under construction.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnparnell/2018/12/30/new-chinese-solar-plant-undercuts-cost-of-coal-power/#158aed611182

At least the US under Trump is pulling its weight.

“More U.S. coal-fired power plants were shut in President Donald Trump’s first two years than were retired in the whole of Barack Obama’s first term”

“In total, more than 23,400 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired generation were shut in 2017-2018 versus 14,900 MW in 2009-2012, according to data from Reuters and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).”

“Generators said they plan to shut around 8,422 MW of coal-fired power and 1,500 MW of nuclear in 2019, while adding 10,900 MW of wind, 8,200 MW of solar and 7,500 MW of gas, according to Reuters and EIA data.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-coal/president-trump-cant-stop-u-s-coal-plants-from-retiring-idUSKCN1P80BY

This is a country which has dropped from the Paris Accords, stripped the regulatory powers of the EPA and promised to subsidise coal mining operations.