Category Archives: Science

Global Temperature update

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Clive Best

The latest HadSST4 data release allows me to calculate global temperatures up to March 2022 based on spherical triangulation. HadSST4 results in higher temperatures compared to HadSST3 relative to the baseline of 1961-1990. I combine this with GHCN-V4C station data. … Continue reading →

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Wind Lulls

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Clive Best

The installed capacity of  UK Wind farms is currently 25GW.  The business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng proposes to at least double that number, but there is a basic problem which seemingly everyone overlooks – Wind Lulls. Sometimes high pressure sits over … Continue reading →

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Steven Koonin v Andrew Desler

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Clive Best

I have just read the book “Unsettled” by Steven Koonin a Caltech Physicist who has a long academic, industrial and political career. Of course he agrees that CO2 emissions have a warming effect, but he argues that many of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, climate science, nuclear, renewables, wind farms | 30 Comments