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Email 3989 covers a consultancy tender by CRU staff. The tender is for AEA, an environmental consultancy.

We learn that the day rates are as follows:

>> Phil: £750
>> Tim, Rachel, Anthony, Aldina, William, Clare: £550
>> Maureen: £450

Heidi Cullen Uses Brian Williams Memory Of His Childhood As The Basis Of Her Climate Research | Real Science

I’m not sure what Brian Williams or Heidi Cullen​ were smoking back then, but they apparently weren’t watching the news much. Like the day in April, 1974 when 148 tornadoes hit the US.

Guardian : We Are All Soviet Pravda Now | Real Science

The aren’t interested in the malfeasance being exposed in the E-mails, only in punishing the whistle blower.

Twitter / @hipsterproblems: it just dawned on me: i am ...

it just dawned on me: i am the only one at this family dinner who believes in global warming. #hipsterproblems #OnlyHipsterAtThanksgiving

Twitter / @BillyHallowell: RT @BuckSexton those who s ...

RT @BuckSexton those who still think climate change is a global threat are the real 'flat-earthers' of the 21st century forbes.com/sites/jamestay…

Green Energy Management Buffoons Put “First-Ever Wind-Hybrid Plant” Online – Reach Whopping 19% Efficiency!

Now let’s return to reality. It only takes a freshman engineering student to explain the utter folly of this system. Breaking it down in steps we have: wind > wind turbine rotor > wind generator > AC electricity > DC electricity > electrolysis > hydrogen > pump/storage vessel > gas turbine > generator  > AC electricity > transmission lines > consumer. That’s a long chain of energy transformation steps. Unfortunately though, each step involves LOSSES.

Of course, none of the media, politcians or greens even bothered to calculate the efficiency and cost of this system. But thankfully Keil has, and reached a grand efficiency of 19%, meaning 81% of the energy is lost as heat into the atmosphere. According to Keil with such a system electricity will end up costing the consumer over $1.00 per kwh.