This month’s open thread on climate change topics. How are we in November already? And why is it still so warm… ?
Anyway, please stay on topic and avoid insulting other commenters.
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John Pollack says
13 Nov 2024 at 1:37 PM
If I were planning climate resiliency measures for extreme heat in the Sydney Australia region in the face of rising GMST, I would have little concern that temperatures in the western suburbs would reach 60C in the next several decades.
I cannot imagine being any more off the mark with a comment like that.
AS JP said earlier to Geoff – John Pollack: – “Unfortunately, they don’t shed any light on the physical mechanism(s) that would be required to generate a +12C mid latitude increment in extreme summer temperatures from a +4C change in GMST. This is the exaggeration I am referring to.”
The whole thing is about what might happen in western Sydney and other places already experience extreme heatwaves in a +1.2C GMST world later in a hypothetical +4c GMST anomaly world — that is most likely to be at least A CENTURY FROM NOW — what JP is focusing on and talking about has nothing to do with either Geoff or the fairly sensible thoughtful article he quoted and referenced for general consumption.
And to Nigelj says
13 Nov 2024 at 2:34 PM
First you give a quote of mine which was said 3 days before the short quotes you take from JP then claim he was already addressing my concern. Very creative (smile)
Pitman is an expert on the topic and he makes a lot of good logical sense. If people are curious, such as JP, then he should go read what Pitman says on the topic in his commentaries and published papers, and others as well. What Geoff shared was useful and quite interesting information. It included several refs. I looked at them. Then I add some extra information myself. eg about Australia warming X1.5 faster than the rest of the world on average. And today I added some info about the difference made by higher humidity on warming impacts effects. Seems at least tangentially related to Canadian and western Sydney heatwaves in coming decades and a century from now (god help them all when that time arrives).
I have a serious complaint. Can we please stop conflating the word “uncountable” with the word “countless”?
Please accuracy is important. Paul P used the world “uncountable” in his text all those years ago now. These countable errors need to stop.
Commercial Operations Start For World’s ‘Largest’ Offshore Solar PV Project
CHN Energy of China has commissioned a 1 GW floating solar PV project in China as the world’s largest offshore solar power plant
It integrates fish farming with solar PV generation, expected to serve as a model for other large-scale projects of this scale
The company recently also energized a 3 GW solar power plant in a coal mining subsidence area in China
China’s state-owned energy firm China Energy Group (CHN Energy) has grid-connected a 1 GW offshore floating solar power plant in China, calling it the world’s 1st and largest of its kind open-sea offshore solar PV project.
The offshore PV installation has come up 8 km off the eastern coast of Dongying City in China’s Kenli district in Shandong province. CHN Energy has put up 2,934 PV platforms installed using large-scale offshore steel truss platform fixed pile foundations.
On completion, the 1 GW project is expected to generate 1.78 billion kWh annually. It will be equivalent to meeting the annual electricity needs of around 2.67 million urban residents in China.
Recently, the company also energized a 3 GW solar power plant, calling it China’s largest single-capacity PV power plant built in a coal mining subsidence area. It was grid-connected on November 5, 2024. enough to power 2 million households, according to CHN.
https://taiyangnews.info/markets/worlds-largest-offshore-solar-power-plant-in-china
Should I assume the US will sanction this solar energy group entity or maybe even try to blow up the interconnector cable to the mainland lest China be seen as doing something successful again?