The biggest cause of rising atmospheric CO2 has been the burning of coal to make electricity. Our love affair with Electricity goes back to the late 1800’s. Wikipedia tells us the world’s first public electricity supply was provided in late 1881, when the streets of the Surrey town of Godalming in the UK were lit with electric …
Climate is what you want; Weather is what you get! – oft attributed to Mark Twain (‘though its apparently doubtful he said it). Weather is always a local event; climate is global – it’s an average. The problem is that people remember the weather extremes they experience – not averages. Extremes, even those experienced by other people, …
I previously demonstrated that the NT Power Utility (Power & Water Corporation) puts about $698 of margin on the cost of the energy content of every 100L of fuel that they turn into electricity (albeit not overly efficiently). This assumes they pay similar fuel prices to us. However, given how much they buy, I’d imagine …