Category Archives: Science

UK Power generation 2018-19

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Clive Best

Peak electricity demand in the UK occurs between 5-30pm to 6pm each weekday evening. I have been monitoring daily power generation on an hourly basis for several years. During 2018 extra wind capacity has been added to the grid and … Continue reading →

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How does temperature depend on CO2?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Clive Best

Robert Rohde has produced a very nice animation of global temperatures as a function of CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Of course it is designed for public relations purposes in order to show increasing CO2 causes warming.  He even uses … Continue reading →

Posted in AGW, Climate Change, climate science | Tagged , | 39 Comments

2018 Temperature Comparisons

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Clive Best

The US Government shutdown delayed the release of the December GHCN station data. This also, perhaps surprisingly, also delayed the the Met Office/CRU results. So just how independent are they one from each other? Here is a comparison of the … Continue reading →

Posted in AGW, Climate Change, climate science, NASA, NOAA, UK Met Office | Tagged | 5 Comments