‘Large percentage’ of Henbury money returns to taxpayers
Some quotes from a botanist near end.
Other posts re Henbury hoped for carbon farm
Given our reliance on imported oil – when is it right for Australia to utilise “coal to liquids” CTL technology?
While reading the David Archibald book – Twilight of Abundance – I got to thinking about coal to liquids technology and when might Australia get serious about being independent from imports for our transport fuels.
David sent me this informative 1999 UK Govt summary “Coal Liquefaction” – Technology Status Report 010 – Cleaner Coal Technology Programme – 14 pages 652KB. There are many processes – there was a trial Australian plant at Morwell using the low grade brown coals there – The Brown Coal Liquefaction Process The BCL process was developed by NEDO of Japan to a 50 tonnes/day pilot-plant scale, constructed at Morwell in Victoria, Australia and was operated over the period 1985-1990.
I wonder if Australia has future plans in some Canberra bunker.
Over at NoTricksZone – A Short History of the Human Race and The Climb Out Of The Ice Age – the last Ice Age that is
Interesting accounts by Ed Caryl of recent geological history, the evolution and migrations of man, placed in context of a warming climate and rising sea levels.
A Short History of the Human Race Part 1, The Late Pleistocene, A Story of Survival By Ed Caryl
and
A Short History of the Human Race Part 2 – The Climb Out Of The Ice Age
By Ed Caryl
RSS satellites Lower Troposphere 35 year trend map shows Australia warming less than surrounding oceans
Bearing in mind the satellite data is collected from a layer just above the surface where the BoM finds such rapid warming. Worth a ponder.
Reading the media – who would have expected this?
Map source – highlight Trend button
Fig 1 shows where the RSS series TLT samples the atmosphere
Geological Society of Australia – “..unable to publish a position statement on climate change..”
The Australian reports – Earth scientists split on climate change statement
[AUSTRALIA’S peak body of earth scientists has declared itself unable to publish a position statement on climate change due to the deep divisions within its membership on the issue.
After more than five years of debate and two false starts, Geological Society of Australia president Laurie Hutton said a statement on climate change was too difficult to achieve.
The backdown, published in the GSA quarterly newsletter, is the culmination of two rejected position statements and years of furious correspondence among members. Some members believe the failure to make a strong statement on climate change is an embarrassment that puts Australian earth scientists at odds with their international peers.
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My take is that a majority of members could agree OK on a basic statement about climatic changes throughout geological history. But this would not be IPCC compliant – hence the decision by the GSA to remain mute.
I heard an attempt was made five years ago to take an IPCC derived position and the resulting membership outcry has taken all this time before the zealots gave up. There are other professional bodies.
Climate Council (Australia) says Autumn 2014 is abnormal
Remember the Climate Council was birthed by ex staffers from the Climate Commission which was disbanded by the Australian LNP Government elected Sept 2013. Climate Council Seasonal Update: Abnormal Autumn – Looks to me as if their cherry picked warm period 8 to 26 May is borrowed from the BoM – Special Climate Statement 49 – an exceptionally prolonged autumn warm spell over much of Australia
Here is a time series chart of Australian Autumn mean temperature anomalies. Not sure what is abnormal. Remember these time series charts are built from ACORN SAT data.
Click to play animation of nine previous warm autumns.
Sydney is the only prominent site I can see that had an all time record warm Autumn. Birdsville qualifies too. Any other candidates?
A fail for Australian Bureau of Meteorology temperature Outlooks for Autumn 2014
Interesting with all the BoM publicity about Autumn and May breaking warm records – the BoM Outlooks for Autumn turned out so dud.
Trying out animations – first maxtemp Outlook plus resulting real world anomaly.
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Example of Australian Bureau of Meteorology trumpeting cherry picked temperature records when monthly data shows no records
We have all heard media blah about the warm May in Sydney such as this today in the SMH – Sydney’s balmy autumn breaks temperature records –
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has just issued – Special Climate Statement 49 – an exceptionally prolonged autumn warm spell over much of Australia –
On page 5 of SCS 49 the BoM make an explicit connection between Australian warming and “…warming….for the globe…”.
Now I have not got a fraction of the computing power or resources, time etc that the BoM has – so I just want to illustrate my point by reference to the records quoted for Giles station 13017 in the BoM Table 2 – Records set at ACORN-SAT locations for the greatest number of consecutive days with minimum temperatures at or above the listed threshold in the period 1 May to 30 June.
Here is the BoM claim for Giles –
But to put May minimum temperatures at Giles in better perspective – here is my table showing Giles May minimums have been warmer several times in the recent past.
So the BoM claims for Giles in their Table 2 do not amount to a cupful of warm spit in terms of global warming – or Australian warming for that matter.
Hoping readers can checkout other examples.
I wonder what this BoM Special Climate Statement 49 cost – what staff hours went into it?
New research in Nature supports the CSIRO’s Dr Gifford who in 1992 said all Australian CO2 emissions could be sequestered in Australian plants and soils
A new paper in Nature Climate Change – Greater ecosystem carbon in the Mojave Desert after ten years exposure to elevated CO2 lends support to Dr Gifford’s 1992 conclusion – “The present modelled rate of net sequestration is of a similar magnitude to CO2 emissions from continental fossil fuel burning and land clearing combined.”
This May 2014 paper in Nature says – […results “provide direct evidence that CO2 fertilization substantially increases ecosystem C storage and that arid ecosystems are significant, previously unrecognized, sinks for atmospheric CO2 that must be accounted for in efforts to constrain terrestrial and global C cycles.”]
In 2013 I commented – An amazing example of collective amnesia at CSIRO –
on a new Australian paper heralded in the Canberra Times with the headline – “Plant life losing battle with emissions”.
Hottest May day prediction for Sydney crashed in a heap – while warmest May on record looks restricted to centre of Sydney
The media have been hyperventilating over the Indian Summer in Sydney – but this story took the cake – Sydney to register hottest May day in 95 years with temps tipped to hit 28C as May ‘heatwave’ lingers –
In fact Wednesday the 27th saw Sydney reach 24°C – a 4 degree fail for the BoM.
OK forecasting is fraught.
SYDNEY (OBSERVATORY HILL) (066062) looks headed for an all time record warm May – the previous record was 1958 – but how widespread is this record warmth.
This table shows that this month Sydney Airport is about equal with May 1958 but at Richmond RAAF this month is well down on May 1958.
Can anybody find another Sydney site which has this month warmer than May 1958? Two sites to check – BoM – AWN