by frog
The Dom Post this morning:
The beer fridge is under threat from energy experts extolling ways people can conserve dwindling power reserves to avoid blackouts.
The poor old beer fridge. I’m all in favour of power saving, power crisis or not. It’s one of those many sensible pragmatic solutions to climate change that doesn’t hurt anyone. Luckily putting your beer fridge into hibernation might benefit the equally threatened long finned eels of the Mokihinui.
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Tue, June 10th, 2008
Tags: beer fridge, climate change, electricity, energy, Long finned eel, Mokihinui, power crisis
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
One simple thing is to air out the house in the late afternoon (get rid of any moisture which makes heating more difficult) before heating it in the evening.
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The beer fridge is a heat pump. Far better to concentrate on replacing our hot water cylinders with heat pump water heaters, better than solar in most situations and will do more to reduce the base load on the grid.
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But the world is cooling according even to NASA, one of the fundametalist warming organisations. No nett warming for 5 plus yers now. Lets worry about keeping our standard of living instead of lowering it as you will do with the implimentation of ‘Green’ policy.
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NASA are hardly a fundamentalist warming organisation given that they have been instructed by the Bush administration to downplay AGW and last year cut several of their research programs designed to monitor climate change.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/01/MNG2LQ5NMM1.DTL
And I would also disagree that NASA are saying that the world is cooling. Recent news from them seems to be that 2007 was the equal warmest year ever and that human-caused climate change has already made an impact on a wide range of Earth’s natural systems. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/
Yes there was a single low temp datapoint in January this year that was seised upon by denialists who don’t understand variable data sources and thus the need for the calculation of trends and means and rolling averages. Cooler temperatures in the northern hemisphere this winter have been attributed to this being a la Nina year.
And yes there was a recent computer model study released recently that predicted a forthcoming cooler period due to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) cycle but that is just a 10 year effect and that study was done by German University scientists, not NASA.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7376301.stm
oh, and of course, there are no Green policies that will lower our standard of living, our policies are designed to facilitate households and businesses save money, to be replacement taxes not extra taxes, and to keep the economy healthy in the long term rather than running up huge trade deficits and seeing profits go overseas.
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