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A physicist who has been a highly vocal climate change denier has done a massive study on climate change, and his work validates the Mann hockey stick and all the other work of climatologists...climate change gets yet another validity confirmation...
Here is another link reporting on the same new study which vindicates the research data of climate scientists at the centre of the climategate scandal.
This passage summarizes it nicely,
The new research from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project indicates that land surface temperature has risen about 0.9°C in the last 50 years, which is consistent with the findings of the major climate data centers in the U.S. and the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU), the group at the center of the "Climategate" story.
The study was set up by physicist Richard Muller to investigate criticisms of the prevailing global temperature records by using a different methodology and more raw data. Writing about his results, which have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, Muller said:
When we began our study, we felt that skeptics had raised legitimate issues, and we didn't know what we'd find. Our results turned out to be close to those published by prior groups. We think that means that those groups had truly been very careful in their work, despite their inability to convince some skeptics of that. They managed to avoid bias in their data selection, homogenization and other corrections.
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
A physicist who has been a highly vocal climate change denier has done a massive study on climate change, and his work validates the Mann hockey stick and all the other work of climatologists...climate change gets yet another validity confirmation...
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
Electricity and gas rates aren't as big a factor as you might think. Last I heard about half or more the home owners are locked into multi year contracts for their natural gas. They buy at the door from retailers. Some are probably still locked into 5 year contracts at around 40 cents a cubic meter. I think the local utility is charging around 13 cents a cubic meter so you can see the difference. I think the way it works is the utilities are regulated and have to apply to raise the rates. Then it's basically a pass through of their cost. They make their money on the transportation of the commodity. At least one utility was buying about one third of their gas long term, one third medium term and one third short term. The cost of the gas does not cover the cost of transmission and other charges which everyone pays.
With electricity it works the same way. You can buy a fixed rate contract for 3 or 5 years. But you still pay all the other fees the utility bills the way I understand it. I don't know what percentage of people in the GTA have these contracts which they sell door to door.
I've never bought fixed rate contracts.
People on these contracts don't really care about the floating rates or the smart meters. Their cost is set at whatever price they agreed to pay.
I think some businesses are also buying futures contracts for their energy.
It's the reason that part of the platform didn't get as much traction as some might think.
I'd think the government could last 4 years. There must be a MPP who will cross the floor in exchange for a cabinet seat. Even then there is no way of knowing how much of a lead is big enough the PC's can't blow it.
We are under no obligation to be a have province and support the other provinces.
And neither are they under any obligation to support us and our government's self-destructive policies.
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