Monday, February 27, 2023

151: Lateral thoughts #7 - the problems with wind power

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Fig. 151.1: Wind turbines. There are many claims that are made about wind power, not least that it is cheap. It isn't. In fact it costs ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

150: Malta - temperature trends STABLE before 1980

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The difficulty in determining the extent of climate change in Malta is the lack of data. According to Berkeley Earth (BE) there are only tw...
Friday, December 30, 2022

149: Portugal, Spain and France - a comparison

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In Post 138 I compared the temperature trends of the Scandinavian countries to see it there were any similarities. There were. In fact ther...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

148: Italy - temperature trends STABLE before 1980

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Whereas France only has four long stations with over 1200 months of data, Italy has at least twelve long stations, most with data stretchin...
Monday, December 26, 2022

147: France - temperature trends STABLE before 1980

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What is surprising about France is the poor quality of its temperature data. Its data is worse than for Spain , Italy, Germany , the UK , No...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

146: Spain - temperature trends COOLING before 1980

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The analysis of temperature data for Portugal in the previous post appeared to indicate that the local climate had warmed continuously since...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

145: Portugal - temperature trends WARMING

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The biggest problem in quantifying the extent of climate change in mainland Portugal is the lack of data before 1960. There are only two lon...