Could New York run on renewable energy alone? - Salon.com

Some storage certainly would help

Twitter / ZoeCaron

"You can't think of poverty without thinking of [CO2-induced] climate change. You can't think of climate change without thinking about poverty." #BNEF2013

Wild Green Alarmism Then and Now | Via Meadia

Surely the failure of these early predictions has inspired today’s greens to take a more humble approach to environmental futurology. Surely it tempered their enthusiasm for doom and gloom, and taught them that climate is a complex phenomenon that is hard to understand and harder to predict:

“We didn’t know how fast or how hard this would pinch,” [fraudster] McKibben said of what was predicted for climate change 23 years ago. “The story of the past 20 years and even the last three or four years is that it is pinching much harder and faster than even the most dire predictions” would have indicated.

Okay, maybe not.

Twitter / dbiello: can 1.7 billion people w/o ...

can 1.7 billion people w/o electricity today afford to wait for alts to fossil fuels asks @IFC_org @ #BNEF2013? no http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=solving-energy-poverty-in-africa-and-the-world …

- Bishop Hill blog - Advisers advise politicians to look in the peer-reviewed literature

This is quite interesting. The government calls on the Met Office to provide it with advice on climatological matters and there is a raft of chief scientific advisers on board too. The advice seems to be that the temperature rise witnessed in the last century is statistically significant. But no backing for that view seems to be forthcoming apart from "it's in the peer-reviewed literature".