Wind could meet world power demand by 2013, say Stanford researchers | JunkScience.com

More Pie in the Sky from Stanford. It seems the headline went a little astray and the actual date in the paper is 2030. This “research” was paid for by the US taxpayer, via The National Science Foundation, EPA and NASA

Sierra Club Energy: Beyond Affordable — MasterResource

The Sierra Club’s war on coal, since joined by its war on gas, is really a conflict against industrial progress. Reliable, affordable energy is a ‘commanding heights’ of the economy, and the enemy has wanted to take it ever since Paul Ehrlich et al. got going in the 1960s and 1970s.

The irony is that an honest Sierra Club executive back in the 1980s gave windpower its most infamous nickname, the Cuisinarts of the Air. Sierra Club members have resigned over the organization’s pro-wind policy, and grassroot environmentalists have tasted wind only to spit it out (here and here). And the Old Mare refuses to address devastating criticism about industrial wind, such as from Jon Boone here at MasterResource.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds warming reduces monsoon intensity

A paper published today in Global and Planetary Change finds the intensity of the winter monsoon in the South China Sea has markedly decreased "over the last 24 years (1977–2000) [to] approximately 20% of the average over the last 183 years (1918–2000)." The paper finds the strongest wind velocities took place in the 1830s (during the Little Ice Age) and the weakest in the 1940's period of global warming. The paper adds to many others which show, contrary to the claims of alarmists, that warming results in reduced extreme weather.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper shows solar activity at end of 20th century was the highest in 1200 years

A paper published in Living Reviews of Solar Physics finds from 2 cosmogenic isotope proxies that solar activity at the end of the 20th century was at the highest levels of the past 1200 years. Many other papers also confirm that solar activity reached a Grand Solar Maximum at the end of the 20th century. However, according to the IPCC, this has nothing to do with 0.7C of global warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850.