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So does building houses in a forest (fire zone). No different than building a house in a flood zone.
It's a tad different, in that warm and dry houses are more likely to catch fire than houses which are under water.
Indeed. And the natural characteristics of the northern boreal forest are changing: on average it's getting warmer and drier, earlier.
We are in trouble FC. This appears to be near the tipping point. Expecting an furious hurricane and typhoon season. That ocean energy store has to go somewhere.
2016 to be hottest year yet as April smashes records
(CNN)Another month, another climate worry.
This year the Earth experienced the warmest April on record, keeping 2016 on track to be the hottest year yetand by the biggest margin ever.
Climate change: Stop ruining the future
New data released by NASA put this April's land and sea temperatures at 1.11 degrees Celsius warmer than average April temperatures between 1951 to 1980, which NASA uses as a reference point to study recent climate change.
It was the seventh month in a row to rise by at least 1 degree Celsius above the 1951-80 reference averages...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/world/climate-change-april-hottest-month/index.html
2016 to be hottest year yet as April smashes records
(CNN)Another month, another climate worry.
This year the Earth experienced the warmest April on record, keeping 2016 on track to be the hottest year yetand by the biggest margin ever.
Climate change: Stop ruining the future
New data released by NASA put this April's land and sea temperatures at 1.11 degrees Celsius warmer than average April temperatures between 1951 to 1980, which NASA uses as a reference point to study recent climate change.
It was the seventh month in a row to rise by at least 1 degree Celsius above the 1951-80 reference averages...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/world/climate-change-april-hottest-month/index.html
Keep in mind that hurricanes require warm and moist air to form. Droughts suppress them.
Goooo Germany!
Germany Just Got Almost All of Its Power From Renewable Energy
Clean power supplied almost all of Germany’s power demand for the first time on Sunday, marking a milestone for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “Energiewende” policy to boost renewables while phasing out nuclear and fossil fuels.
Solar and wind power peaked at 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, allowing renewables to supply 45.5 gigawatts as demand was 45.8 gigawatts, according to provisional data by Agora Energiewende, a research institute in Berlin. Power prices turned negative during several 15-minute periods yesterday, dropping as low as minus 50 euros ($57) a megawatt-hour, according to data from Epex Spot.
Countries around Europe are building increasing amounts of renewable capacity in order to reduce their carbon emissions and boost supply security. Last year Denmark’s wind farms supplied 140 percent of demand, while the U.K. had no coal-fired power stations meeting electricity demand for about four hours on May 10 as a result of plant breakdowns.
“Events like this highlight that eventually we may need to start curtailing because of market-wide oversupply,” said Monne Depraetere, an analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “In the long-run, that may provide a case to build technologies that can manage this oversupply -- for example more interconnectors or energy storage.”
Renewables were only able to meet demand because of Germany’s strong export capability, the analyst said. Even when solar and wind peaked, conventional power plants were still supplying 7.7 gigawatts...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...almost-all-of-its-power-from-renewable-energy
Germany Just Got Almost All of Its Power From Renewable Energy
- Wind, solar, biomass and hydro met demand on Sunday afternoon
- Angela Merkel’s Energiewende is squeezing coal and gas margins
Clean power supplied almost all of Germany’s power demand for the first time on Sunday, marking a milestone for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “Energiewende” policy to boost renewables while phasing out nuclear and fossil fuels.
Solar and wind power peaked at 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, allowing renewables to supply 45.5 gigawatts as demand was 45.8 gigawatts, according to provisional data by Agora Energiewende, a research institute in Berlin. Power prices turned negative during several 15-minute periods yesterday, dropping as low as minus 50 euros ($57) a megawatt-hour, according to data from Epex Spot.
Countries around Europe are building increasing amounts of renewable capacity in order to reduce their carbon emissions and boost supply security. Last year Denmark’s wind farms supplied 140 percent of demand, while the U.K. had no coal-fired power stations meeting electricity demand for about four hours on May 10 as a result of plant breakdowns.
“Events like this highlight that eventually we may need to start curtailing because of market-wide oversupply,” said Monne Depraetere, an analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “In the long-run, that may provide a case to build technologies that can manage this oversupply -- for example more interconnectors or energy storage.”
Renewables were only able to meet demand because of Germany’s strong export capability, the analyst said. Even when solar and wind peaked, conventional power plants were still supplying 7.7 gigawatts...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...almost-all-of-its-power-from-renewable-energy
The odds are very low that the total numbers of hurricanes and typhoons will set an all time for the period over which we have reliable records. The likelihood is that the number will be near the average for the past few years.