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Environmental Engineering Newsletter 1 Dec. 2014 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER 1 DEC. 2014 This week's edition includes: If you need older URLs contact George at [email protected]. Please Note: This newsletter contains articles that offer differing points of view regarding climate change, energy and other environmental issues. Any opinions expressed in this publication are the responses of the editor alone and do not represent the positions of the Environmental Engineering Division or the ASME. George Holliday This week's edition includes: ENVIRONMENT: A. ALL 50 STATES HAVE BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES Meteorologist Tim Buckley of WFMY-TV writes on Facebook: All 50 states have low temperatures BELOW freezing tonight. (Monday night) Yes, even Hawaii. Tall mountain peaks there regularly get below freezing, and even get snow. This typically happens a few times during winter, but is very rare this early in the season. Pretty neat! The low… http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/18/all-50-states-have-below-freezing-temperatures/ B. IF 97% OF SCIENTISTS SAY GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL, 100% SAY IT HAS NEARLY STOPPED John Cook’s methodology proves that there is a “pause consensus”. Guest essay by Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute. The central premise of “global warming” is that human greenhouse-gas emissions will lead to a rise in the earth’s average surface temperature, and that as emissions… http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/18/if-97-of-scientists-say-global-warming-is-real-100-say-it- has-nearly-stopped/ C. CARBON DIOXIDE / MODELING Who needs an Orbiting Carbon Observatory to track it when you can model Carbon Dioxide movement? Video follows. I had at first thought that this press release from NASA Goddard was telling me that they had taken the data from their new Orbiting Carbon Observatory and put it into a model that used wind data so that distribution and mixing could be tracked. Seems sensible, right? But no, they’ve created a… http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/18/who-needs-an-orbiting-carbon-observatory-when-you- can-model-of-carbon-dioxide/ D. LARGEST SOLAR PROJECT FAILS TO MEET PROMISED ELECTRICITY GENERATION- REQUESTS GOVERNMENT GRANT Below is a link covering the problem that the largest solar plant is generating half the promised energy. Interestingly the green energy plant has to fire boilers with fossil fuels (natural gas) to make up for the shortage of solar electricity production. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which is owned by Google, NRG Energy and BrightSource Energy, uses nearly 175,000 mirrors, called heliostats, and sprawls 3,500 acres in California. AP article conveniently fails to mention the request for a government bailout to pay the loans. They are requesting a $539 million dollar grant to pay the government loan. http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/09/google‐owned‐solar‐company‐requests‐540‐million‐bailout‐to‐help‐ pay‐1‐6‐billion‐loan/ Why should the taxpayers bail out Google et. al. Here is the AP article. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WORLDS_LARGEST_SOLAR_PLANT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HO ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014‐11‐17‐14‐33‐47 Don Shaw E. AXEL TIMMERMANN AND KEVIN TRENBERTH HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL VARIABILITY IN GLOBAL WARMING… Guest Post by Bob Tisdale …and their recent interviews provided fodder for a blog post that should be educational for many people. There were numerous oddities in a recent interview with Axel Timmerman and Kevin Trenberth. Those are the primary topics of this post. Let’s see what we can learn. Then, looking at the subsurface temperature… http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/19/axel-timmermann-and-kevin-trenberth-highlight-the- importance-of-natural-variability-in-global-warming/ SAFETY: A. 1 DEAD, 3 INJURED IN GULF DRILLING PLATFORM EXPLOSION By Jonathan Bullington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on November 20, 2014 at 8:56 PM, updated November 21, 2014 at 1:45 AM One person is dead and three others injured following an explosion on a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. The explosion on Echo Platform, located about 12 miles off the coast of Louisiana, was reported shortly before 3 p.m., according to a BSEE release. The three injured are being treated at "an onshore medical facility," the release states. The platform, operated by Houston-based Fieldwood Energy, was not in production at the time, the release states. The explosion damaged the platform, the release states, but resulted in no pollution to the surrounding area. The BSEE is investigating the cause of the explosion. Fieldwood issued a statement Thursday night saying, in part, that a contractor employee was killed and another contractor employee "seriously injured." "We have accounted for all other personnel who were working at the facility," the statement reads. "This was an isolated incident that has been fully contained. The facility was not damaged and there was no pollution that resulted from the incident." The Fieldwood statement says the company is "working hand-in-hand with emergency response personnel and will provide further updates once we learn additional information. In the interim, our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the deceased and injured contractor employees." Thursday's explosion comes about two months after a contractor was killed and two others hurt during maintenance work in September on a Chevron natural gas pipeline, also off the Louisiana coast. The cause remains under investigation. The Associated Press contributed to this report. http://www.nola.com/traffic/index.ssf/2014/11/1_dead_3_injured_following_gul.html Rodger Zygmunt COMMENTS: A. THE WEEK THAT WAS: 2014-11-22 (NOV. 22, 2014) (By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Science Adviser: Recently, the once obscure position of official science adviser has garnered the attention in the popular press. John Holdren, President Obama’s chief science adviser, has been active in the US National Climate Assessment, which is little more than the alarmist version of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR-5) of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Summary for Policymakers, with the global climate models adjusted for the United States. The certainty of the science expressed in the reports is not borne out by observations from nature; the climate models on which the Assessment is based have been shown to greatly overestimate 21st century temperature trends. In a January 8, 2014 video, Holdren attributed the extreme cold the US was experiencing at the time to global warming causing changes to the circumpolar vortex, thereby bringing Arctic cold to the US. For this video, he was soundly criticized. Large variations (meanders) in the circumpolar vortex, known as atmospheric Rossby waves, were first identified by Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby in 1939 –long before the fear of global warming and major human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the purported cause of global warming. The circumpolar vortex has probably existed since the earth rotated on its axis and had an atmosphere. The November 15 TWTW linked to reports stating that the European Commission’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Anne Glover, was forced out and her position abolished apparently in response to demands by Greenpeace. Glover, a professor of molecular biology, supported genetically modified crops. Apparently, the radical green organizations prefer corn (maize) that has not been genetically modified and requires extensive processing to be consumed by humans. Given this latest development, it is refreshing to read the first Annual Report of the [UK] Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Sir Mark Walport: Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It. The report recognizes innovation is not a linear process that starts in the laboratory and ends up in the clinic, the environment or the marketplace. Innovation is essential for economic growth, health, wellbeing, security and resilience. It describes how many of the greatest periods of economic growth in the past have been driven by innovation. The need to innovate is a fundamental requirement for social and economic progress. Innovative economies are more competitive, respond better to change, see higher returns on investment and create increased living standards. Innovative businesses are more productive and grow faster than businesses that fail to innovate. And it is not only businesses that must innovate: governments and social organizations need to innovate, to adapt, respond to and shape the evolution of society. Governments have an essential role in shaping the legal frameworks, institutions and policies that in turn shape the risks and incentives faced by others. It is this balance of risks and incentives that determine what choices innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, inventors, bureaucrats and citizens will make. As importantly, the report recognizes innovation is not an unalloyed good —almost all innovations can cause both benefit and harm. Because of this, discussion of innovation has become almost inseparable from discussion of risk. Paradoxically, this discussion has become more prominent precisely because the innovations of previous generations have made our lives much safer and free of risk. People living in advanced economies have become more risk adverse compared to previous generations. A common denominator of innovation in every generation is that it solves problems, creates wealth and new employment, while at the same time potentially disrupting the status quo of existing wealth and employment, and creating new problems and challenges. What are needed are systems of regulations that are based on rigorous evidence and well- informed public debate to balance the need for innovation with the possible harms from it. One of the biggest challenges to accomplishing such systems is the need to distinguish between hazard, exposure, risk and vulnerability. These may vary according to region and culture, making it difficult to adopt a single plan for Western Europe –or for the world.
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