Beware Windpower’s "Homes Served" Claims — MasterResource

Claims of “homes served” should always be challenged
Any use of the “homes served” assertion in connection with a “wind farm” should be challenged, whether the assertion is from a wind industry lobbyist, other wind energy advocate, political leader, other government official, or reporter. They should be required to explain each of their assumptions and calculations, and admit that industrial scale wind turbines are useless unless reliable generating units are immediately available to supply electricity when wind is not strong enough to produce significant electricity. Almost certainly, their assertions will be false.

Newflash: What I did during the Superbowl. | The Blackboard

Let us focus on this: Gavin’s this prompt and valiant action likely prevented thousands of climate scientists from downloading Harry data, feeding it into some sort of statistical package, writing up manuscripts discussing the implications of the Harry data, subjecting the manuscripts to internal peer review at some National Lab, and submitting the article to Nature during the wee hours between the Superbowl game and Monday.

If the globe warms, northern European storms seen lessening: Scientific American

"The bad news is that as the sea ice retreats you open up a lot of new areas to this kind of extreme weather," said Erik Kolstad of the Bjerknes Center for Climate Change in Norway who wrote the study with a British Antarctic Survey researcher.
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The report was based on data collected in the European Arctic and focused on Arctic change. It also suggested that more populated regions further south in Europe might benefit if storms tended northwards.

"This may prove to be good news for people along the coastlines of Norway, Iceland, the British Isles and Northern Europe in general," a statement said.