100m Turbine collapse: Not bolts this time – weld failure in the main tower


There are just way to many harmonics caused by the uneven blade loading same problem they had with the gear boxes!

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De Bilt reports on yet another serious turbine failure. This time the 100m structure folded at a weld line some 30m off the ground. This is of great concern. Whereas most catastrophic failures are due to installation errors at the base bolts, this is a problem with the specification or execution of the construction of the monocoque structure – the main tower.

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There’s a fundamental problem here. When steel is welded, the structure of the material either side of the joint, and the weld itself is different to the rolled steel sheet. This inevitably creates a location where stress gets concentrated more as the structure ages.

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No Records Highs Possible In The Satellite Temperature Datasets in 2014 (Now Includes November Data Except For HADCRUT4)


The only real question is do we have Accuracy and precision and I think the answer is no — so beating small differences are meaningless to my way of thinking.

Peter Morecambe: Institutional Climate Science, Prospects for Independent Researchers and Some Results


Anyone who reads this post would like the Post I just put on my blog under Climate Research. no one has believed the model I have despite it being dead on since it was finalized in 2009.

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Guest post from Peter Morecambe aka ‘Galloping Camel’

CLIMATE SCIENCE

The Kyoto Protocol

Elites around the world tend to believe that rising levels of CO2 in our atmosphere will cause catastrophic climate changes. Collectively they wield enough power to shape energy policies in many nations according to commitments laid down in the “Kyoto Protocol” and subsequent accords. It is interesting to compare the fate of the Kyoto Protocol based on the work of “Climate Scientists” such as Michael Mann with that of the Montreal Protocol based on the work of people like McElroy.

The Montreal Protocol essentially banned the production of Freon and similar compounds based on the prediction that this would reduce the size of the polar “Ozone Holes”. After the ban went into effect the size of the ozone holes diminished. This may mean that the science presented by McElroy and his cohorts was “Robust” or it may…

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The 2-Deg Global-Warming Limit


The entire 2 degree C limit was made up and based on nothing!

Bob Tisdale's avatarBob Tisdale - Climate Observations

UPDATE:  At the end of the post, I’ve added  the graph being used as the Feature Image at WUWT.

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Politicians from around the globe gather annually in the UNFCCC meetings so they can propose and fail to come to worthwhile agreements on how to limit global warming and its impacts.  Year in, year out, same thing.  For the results of the most recent failed gathering, see the WattsUpWithThat post GWPF Welcomes Non-Binding And Toothless UN Climate Deal.  One of the primary factors that drive the politicians is an attempt to limit global warming to 2-deg C above preindustrial values, where preindustrial is considered the mid-to-late 1800s.

But where did that 2 deg C limit come from?

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November 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update


Still no warming and the longer this goes on the worse the IPCC will look. My work indicated a slight downward trend leveling off between 2030 and 2035. I’ll be posting my monthly report this morning.

The New And Improved GISS US Cheating Animation


This is exactly what they are doing, making the past colder to make the present warmer!

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

Flashes between GISS 1999, and GISS 2014

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NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country

– James Hansen, 1999

If the present refuses to get warmer, the past must become cooler, and government scientists must ramp up the cheating.

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Oh Dear! Oh Dear Oh Dear! Oh Dear Oh Dear Oh Dear!!!!


All this event was, was a bunch of nobodies looking for handouts!

Greenland Breaks Record For One Day Ice Mass Gain


More is less , its the new math from common core!

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

The Greenland ice sheet has gained record amounts of ice this season (300 billion tons) with a record one day accumulation of 12 billion tons in mid-September.

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Experts say that Greenland is melting down, and is going to drown us all.

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Sea Ice Extent – Day 347 – Global Sea Ice 5th Highest For Day


This has to be wrong, only a few years ago all the settled science stated that there would be no ice by now?

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Sea Level Plummeting At Fastest Rising Location On Earth


Down is up, cold is warm and pigs can fly when you are feeling mellow!

Tony Heller's avatarReal Climate Science

According to experts at the University of Colorado, sea level east of the Philippines is rising at about 15 mm/year. However, their own data shows sea level at that location falling 36 mm/year since late 2010.

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