Mild autumn weather [ and not enough storage capacity to take advantage ] has sent European gas prices plummeting.
90% full in the UK means about a week's worth of gas. In Germany it's about 2.5 months.
Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting
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Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting
#32> enjoyed the warmest October I abhor this kind of language that news sites use. It takes away from the seriousness of the underlying cause (and its effects), and associates hot/warm weather with "good". Public apathy towards climate change starts here.
Ok, since you started, let me challenge that head on: so far climate change is good. Cold-related deaths decreased something like 1-2 orders of magnitude more than a paltry increase in heat deaths.
You're trying to make me fill guilty for enjoying nice weather? Really? Well, how do you feel about advocating for literally more dead people in the foreseeable future?
And before you try bringing doomsday scenarios into that, no official prediction I've read supports a Venus-like scenario. On the other hand, simply by following current trends in 50 years we'll have massively increased resources and tech: great batteries, probably fusion, AI, efficient carbon capture and the cheap power to do it etc. So by pushing against climate change now, when we're still relatively poor and primitive, you just divert resources from growth and end up killing more people than needed.
Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting
#33Joke being Russian flagrant disregard for climate change contributed to warmer winter.
Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting
#34Mild autumn weather [ and not enough storage capacity to take advantage ] has sent European gas prices plummeting. 90% full in the UK means about a week's worth of gas. In Germany it's about 2.5 months.
Short term not to bad for the UK, you can now sign contracts for delivery in one to two weeks at significantly lower prices.
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#35I'm surprised I haven't come across conspiracy theories that use this as confirmation that "they" control the weather...
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Whether or not Germany's nuclear energy policies are sensible or not surely has nothing to do with how the weather turns out this year. Maybe one can take global warming into account for future energy needs but 2 degrees Celsius more on average won't change the fact that Germany occasionally has harsh winters and needs the infrastructure to cope with that.
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#37I'm surprised I haven't come across conspiracy theories that use this as confirmation that "they" control the weather...
I'll admit it has passed my mind several times. I never said it out loud (until now), but the coincidence that the very year EU loses its main gas supply we get sunny winter without snow at all... I know it's probably a coincidence, but my mind doesn't like coincidences. There's always this "what if" voice inside my head.
Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting
#38> enjoyed the warmest October I abhor this kind of language that news sites use. It takes away from the seriousness of the underlying cause (and its effects), and associates hot/warm weather with "good". Public apathy towards climate change starts here.
Ok, since you started, let me challenge that head on: so far climate change is good . Cold-related deaths decreased something like 1-2 orders of magnitude more than a paltry increase in heat deaths. You're trying to make me fill guilty for enjoying nice weather? Really? Well, how do you feel about advocating for literally more dead people in the foreseeable future? And before you try bringing doomsday scenarios into…
You're counting chickens a bit early.
Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting
#39Looking at this chart [1] they're still 6 or 7 times more expensive compared to two years ago and further back, i.e. ~15 EUR/Mwh compared to the present ~100 EUR/Mwh. No energy-intensive industry can sustain a 6 or 7 times price increase of its core input.
Re: Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting
#40I'm surprised I haven't come across conspiracy theories that use this as confirmation that "they" control the weather...
I'll admit it has passed my mind several times. I never said it out loud (until now), but the coincidence that the very year EU loses its main gas supply we get sunny winter without snow at all... I know it's probably a coincidence, but my mind doesn't like coincidences. There's always this "what if" voice inside my head.
The mind boggles