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U.K. gas supplies 'just six hours away from running out' in March

The bitterly cold winter weather coupled with a faulty import pipeline led to supplies being rapidly used up at the end of March.

Record cold in Pittsburgh

Breaks record set in 1877.

A record cold HIGH temperature of 51 degrees was set at Pittsburgh today.

Snow in the Catskill Mountains

Maintaining The Earth in the 21st Century | Planet3.0

A self-proclaimed “scientists’ consensus” on ”Maintaining Humanity’s Life Support Systems in the 21st Century” has been released.
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A peculiar grab-bag of 500 signatories are appended. I recognized only a few: Jim Hansen, Karl Wunsch, David Karoly, Peter Gleick, Terry Root. (Wunsch rather surprised me.)
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Also I think there's more than a little chutzpah in calling this a "consensus" since there's no sign of a consensus process comparable to IPCC here.

- Bishop Hill blog - Lilley's reply to Anderson

A couple of weeks ago, we discussed Professor Kevin Anderson's rather strange article in which he claimed, somewhat improbably, that Peter Lilley had maligned him. Lilley has now passed on his response to Anderson, which I am reproducing here with his permission.

Anger at windfarm ripoff. Owners name own price for not generating | Tallbloke's Talkshop

CALLS have been made for the UK Government to close an “embarrassing” loophole that allows some wind-farm operators to name their own price as compensation for not operating.The issue has been raised by the regulator Ofgem, but the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) confirmed the loophole exists but will not name the exempted companies.The revelation will intensify criticism of a system that effectively makes consumers pay millions for generators not to generate.