Climate Alarm vs. Expensive Electricity

Friday, 25 November 2011 00:00

Written by Nonoy Oplas

There is an on-going UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) global meeting in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9, to ask governments around the world to have a post-Kyoto Protocol agreement which will expire by end-2012. Their goal is to "limit man-made global warming" via global ecological central planning.

This global plan includes, among others: (a) move away from hydro-carbon based power to renewable power, so we should get wind and solar power technologies from the west and other countries, (b) we should swallow more carbon taxes and various environmental fees, (c) pay more subsidies to solar and wind farms, (d) have more climate bureaucracies, (e) have more UN global climate meetings, (f) have more climate and energy loans with the WB and ADB,

The Philippines now has the most expensive industrial power rates in the whole of Asia, more expensive than power rates in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, S. Korea and and other expensive countries in the continent. See the data here (thanks to Dr. Josef Yap of PIDS for sharing this data with me).

And we have the Renewable Energy (RE) law that mandates certain schemes like the feed-in-tariff (FIT) to make already expensive power rates here become even more expensive. Estimates of projected FIT is something like P9 to P10 billion per year (about US$209 M a year) of FIT subsidies to RE power plants for the next 20 years This will be another big money transfer from the public to the super rich.

And this is one reason why many big corporations and banks are riding this climate racket because they will receive big amount of tax money and energy subsidies as energy consumers will endure higher electricity bills.

Unfortunately for this movement, it is suffering downhill in credibility. The world is experiencing more global cooling, not warming. More heavy rains and flooding, not more drought; more brutal winter, not less snow, have been the experience for many countries in all continents in recent years. See three graphs here.

Latest SST anomaly for Pacific Ocean Nino region 3.4, as of November 27, 2011 (this data is updated weekly), data from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology. This colder than normal sea surface temperature in the world’s biggest ocean has been with us for one and a half years now (since May 2010) and the trend is towards even colder than normal temperature.

Here’s the consensus forecast for the next few months for Nino 3.4 region. Data from WUWT’s ENSO Page.

The re-emerging La Nina is projected to extend possibly by another year, or even longer, making the 2010-2012 global cooling worse and longer than the 2007-2008 global cooling. Based on the IPCC-Al Gore causality and projections of “more CO2 emission = more warming”, this should not be happening.

Another graph showing global data for sea + land surface temperature anomaly, from Hadley-CRU data. The trend over the past 10 years is downward, or at least flat, but never rising. Again, a repudiation of “more CO2, more warming” proposition.

If we are to pay even higher energy prices, we pay even more environmental taxes and fees, because of this highly questionable “science” from the UN IPCC, Al Gore, World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace and other big warming network, we are fooled and plundered. The climate racket insistence that "more cooling and more rains are proof of global warming” is simply wrong and idiotic.

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