It couldn’t have anything to do with California making it difficult for reliable energy to operate and instead be dependent on so much alternative energy which is unreliable, could it?
Temperatures shot up over 110 degrees in Southern California on Friday, obliterating all kinds of long-standing heat records, and the lights went out for tens of thousands of customers. Californians were powerless, without air conditioning, in the hottest weather many had ever experienced.
Climate scientists have known this was coming, and it may only be the beginning.
“We studied this a long time ago . . . now our projections are becoming reality,â€Â tweeted Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University.
In 2006, Hayhoe and colleagues published the study “Climate, Extreme Heat, and Electricity Demand in California†in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
“Over the twenty-first century, the frequency of extreme-heat events for major cities in heavily air-conditioned California is projected to increase rapidly,†the study said. It warned that as temperatures soared, electricity demand would exceed supply.
In reality, this is nothing unusual. When weather events occur, people can use more energy, and this can cause brownouts and blackouts. In this case, I guess we’re supposed to blame the vast numbers of fossil fueled vehicles that drive around California.
If projections are correct, heat waves will become worse in the coming decades, further taxing California’s energy supply. Hayhoe’s 2006 study concluded a “potential for electricity deficits as high as 17 percent†later this century.
Of course, the Catch-22 is that if cities increase electricity capacity to adapt to a changing climate using fossil-fuel-based energy sources, greenhouse-gas emissions increase, which warm the climate even more.
Well, if every Warmist would give up their air conditioning, fossil fueled vehicles, and pay taxes, we could definitely solve this, right?
“If projections are correct…â€. They haven’t been, and probably won’t be.
The scientists said it would warm, and it’s warming. Record highs. People dying in Montreal from heat waves!
You’ll admit the truth sooner or later, or be the last person on Earth denying that it’s warming.
People are dying because they’re old and left alone by their families who expect the Socialists who push this warming nonsense to look in on them.
Air conditioners make cold air for inside and hot humid air for outside. Which makes outside hotter and more humid.
It is all part of the Urban Heat Island.
“Projections of future climate suggest increases in extreme temperatures particularly in mid latitudes. In addition, the effect of heat waves, which are becoming a major “summer killerâ€, is exacerbated in urban areas owing to the heat island effect. Air conditioning (A/C) is a key parameter for health problems in case of heat waves since, on one hand, it reduces mortality but, on the other hand, depending on the heat management, it can increase street temperature therefore increasing the air cooling demand.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261912001092
Interesting abstract.
Too bad it’s hidden behind a paywall.
Here’s is what is troubling:
Models coupled to models including a simplified model and simulations based on realistic spatial cartography?
Come on, dude.
They made it up.
They also used thermal imaging.
UHI up to 8C in Paris
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/505253main_dousset.pdf
“August afternoons in Paris: small and large parks were
respectively 2°C – 3°C and 4°- 5°C cooler than their built
environment”
The word asphalt ring a bell?
You don’t live on the East coast, do you?
We had this back in the 50s when almost nobody had AC.
California power companies have a state controlled mechanism that controls prices and supply, but doesn’t control demand. The inescapable consequence is blackouts. Just like every other third world country with state controlled supply. I remember seeing this in the news the last time California has plenty of supply, but the price was exorbitant. That’s because the state board bought energy on long term contracts at high prices from out of state because they wrongly predicted the prices would go higher still. So they locked in a stupidly high price. Since then, they passed more stupid laws about demanding percentages of energy from “renewable” sources (I.e. more expensive sources, and fictional sources). Thus… more blackouts.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the state lines, other states manage their grids by letting power companies build more generation to accommodate increases in demand.
Things suck in California because things ALWAYS suck when the people running your government think they have unlimited power of the people.
Take comfort in the fact that some state employee somewhere is going to get a huge bonus this year because his part of the state is going to meet his fictional carbon limit.
“They said it would warm, and it’s warming.†Whoa-that’s a tough one. Like saying “somebody will win the game, and look, somebody did.†Plus, as far as hot days and records, more of that occurred earlier last century
Not exactly. It’s more like saying the Cardinals will beat the Cubs, and look, they did.
Svante Arrhenius said it can warm, cool or stay the same, but predicted it would warm if we added significant CO2 to the atmosphere. Maybe he made a lucky guess over a century ago. But he was right. And others have been right, as well.
Who’s consistently wrong? The so-called skeptics.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/76/93/457693d44e84d917df19f59be20daf04.jpg
Right, that’s why your trollmasters have to keep feeding you this nonsense.
You do know CO2 makes more plants grow more.
Photosynthesis. Look it up.
Plants DO use the energy from sunlight and CO2 as a building block to construct simple and complex carbohydrates, and thank Allah for that. But the CO2 increase is also causing the Earth to warm.
Are you saying CO2 is not causing the Earth to warm?
The rolling brownouts and blackouts in 2000 and 2001 were largely caused by energy market manipulations to drive up wholesale prices (remember Enron?).
And in 2016:
And now:
Just shows that California has done very little to upgrade and boost their energy infrastructure over the years.
The state still imports over 30 percent of its electricity from the surrounding states.
Boo-fvcking-hoo!
Oh, yeah, it’s those greedy robber barons and their Wall Street lackeys.
My God, put down the Daily Worker and find a girl friend.
“Arrhenius said it would warm…†Wow- tough call there, seeing as we were in an interglacial period. It was warming before then, and it warmed before higher levels of CO2. Arrhenius also predicted “Siberia would become the greatest farming area in the worldâ€. I’m sure you just forgot the spectacularly wrong predictions by your friend…
Meanwhile, the country that left the useless Paris Accord is reducing emissions, while the idiots still in it are not. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-08/co2-emissions-hit-67-year-low-trumps-america-rest-world-rises