Myles Allen on understanding climate change"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment

He does not have a good grasp of honesty and integrity, but, he is an expert on Climate Science.

https://climateaudit.org/2012/05/26/myles-allen-and-hide-the-decline/

"Myles Allen and a New Trick to Hide-the-Decline
Myles Allen has written here blaming Bishop Hill for “keeping the public focussed on irrelevancies” like the Hockey Stick:

" My fear is that by keeping the public focussed on irrelevancies, you are excluding them from the discussion of what we should do about climate change"

"But it’s not Bishop Hill that Myles Allen should be criticizing; it’s John Houghton who more or less made the Hockey Stick the logo of the IPCC. Mann was told that IPCC higher-ups wanted a visual that didn’t “dilute the message” and they got one: they deleted the last part of the Briffa reconstruction – Hide the Decline. If, as Allen now says, it’s an “irrelevancy”, then Houghton and IPCC should not have used it so prominently. And they should not have encouraged or condoned sharp practice like Hide the Decline."

Most climate disasters have been caused by global cooling and the loss of the Saharan savannah was diectly caused by the end of the African monsoon. It's proof that we've not returned to Holocene Optimum temperatures.

"Myles Allen on understanding climate change"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment

"Professor Myles Allen has spent thirty years studying global climate change, trying to working out what we can and can't predict. He was one of the first scientists to quantify the extent to which human actions are responsible for global warming. As a lead author on the 3rd Assessment by the International Panel on Climate Change in 2001, he concluded that ‘most of the observed global warming was due to human influence’. More recently, (having established that calculating a safe concentration of greenhouse gases was very difficult indeed), he worked out instead how many tonnes of carbon would be acceptable, a shift in emphasis that paved the way for the current Net Zero carbon emissions policy. Myles tells Jim Al-Khalili how our ability to predict climate change has evolved from the early days when scientists had to rely on the combined computing power of hundreds of thousands of personal computers. He sheds light on how the IPCC works and explains why, he believes, fossil fuel industries must be forced to take back the carbon dioxide that they emit. If carbon capture and storage technologies makes their products more expensive, so be it. Producer: Anna Buckley"

"Australia weather: 'We’ve gone from hell to high water'"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-51499687/australia-weather-we-ve-gone-from-hell-to-high-water

"Australia's bushfire crisis drew worldwide attention, but it wasn’t the only extreme weather event to plague the nation in recent months.

Drought, dust storms, fires and floods are normal during an Australian summer. But the severity and duration of these events made this season one of the worst people can remember.

People around the country told the BBC what it was like to live through these events, and how they feel about this becoming their "new normal"."

"Is your pension contributing to climate change?"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment

"Sustainable finance experts Nina Seega and Steve Waygood explore the connection between your investments and the health of the planet."

"Protesters to oppose coal mine extension"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment

"Climate activists are expected to stage a protest in County Durham later against plans to expand an opencast coal mine.

The owners of the Bradley site near Dipton, Banks Mining, want to extend the site to extract more coal.

Extinction Rebellion members are set to gather outside Durham's County Hall. A decision about the plans will be made by councillors later this year."

"The ‘Greenies’ did not start Australia’s bushfires. But lies are often more powerful than the truth
Adrian Chiles"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/19/greenies-australia-bushfires-lies-more-powerful-truth-adrian-chiles

"smelled something terrible earlier this month, shortly after flying into Sydney.....".

How green of you! By the way, is this sort of paid journalism for the Guardian compatible with the independence he's supposed to demonstrate as a BBC employee (or worker, in case he's avoiding tax by being self-employed)?

"Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought'
Study indicates human fossil methane emissions have been underestimated by up to 40%"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/19/oil-gas-industry-far-worse-climate-impact-than-thought-fossil-fuels-methane

"The oil and gas industry has had a far worse impact on the climate than previously believed, according to a study indicating that human emissions of fossil methane have been underestimated by up to 40%.

Although the research will add to pressure on fossil fuel companies, scientists said there was cause for hope because it showed a big extra benefit could come from tighter regulation of the industry and a faster shift towards renewable energy.

Methane has a greenhouse effect that is about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and is responsible for at least 25% of global heating, according to the UN Environment Programme."

It's always worse than thought, isn't it?

"Ancient fish dinners chart Sahara’s shift from savannah to desert
Bones of fish eaten by humans thousands of years ago offer clue to region’s ancient climate"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/19/ancient-fish-meals-chart-sahara-climate-shift-savannah-desert

"The Sahara’s shift from savannah with abundant lakes to a largely arid expanse has been traced in the remains of fish eaten thousands of years ago.

Researchers analysing material found in a rock shelter in the Acacus mountains in south-west Libya say they have found more than 17,500 animal remains dating from between 10,200 and 4,650 years ago, 80% of which are fish. About two-thirds of the fish were catfish and the rest were tilapia. The team say telltale marks on the bones reveal the fish were eaten by humans who used the shelter.

It is not the first time fish remains have been found in what are now dry regions of the desert, but the team say it is the first time the ancient climate of the region has been traced through animal remains....

...The findings chime with previous evidence from the Sahara, including from sediments and geological features, that have highlighted a shift in the climate from a wetter environment with vegetation and abundant lakes more than 10,000 years ago, to a period of fluctuating dry and wet conditions until about 5,500 years ago the region became increasingly arid, resulting in the landscape seen today.

“[As it became drier] it is possible [there] was more distance that had to be covered to exploit these fish, and that is why we have a decrease,” said Van Neer. “People are opportunistic – if it is easy to get they take it.”

Dr Clayton Magill of Heriot-Watt University, who was not part of the research team but previously explored climate change in the African savannah, said the shift to desert conditions in the Sahara region was one of the most remarkable ecological transitions in the Earth’s recent past."

Our fault, I suppose....

"'Coal workers are orphans': the children and slaves mining Pakistan's coal"

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/19/coal-workers-are-orphans-the-children-and-slaves-mining-pakistans-coal

"Inside Australia's climate emergency: the air we breathe
For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. The long-term impact could be devastating "

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2020/feb/20/the-toxic-air-we-breathe-the-health-crisis-from-australias-bushfires

"Red-state Utah embraces plan to tackle climate crisis in surprising shift
Utah aims to reduce emissions over air quality concerns as other red states are also starting to tackle global heating"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/19/utah-republicans-climate-crisis-plan

Before someone picks me up on it Ampere-hours are at a specified voltage.

Sorry but I could not resist it: I know Grannies and Eggs come immediately to mind.

P.s or KWh or Units of electriciey (1 Unit = 3.6exp6 joule)

To quote battery storage capacity in Watts is meaning less. Energy should be in Joule or Ampere-Hours.