biggest decline in U.S. electricity demand in decades.

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Demand for electricity sputters and bills may fall

Sep 5, 3:31 PM (ET)

By MARK WILLIAMS


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Consumers and businesses may finally be seeing some relief from rising utility bills, thanks to the biggest decline in U.S. electricity demand in decades.

Prices on wholesale markets are expected to decline for the rest of 2009, according to the Energy Information Agency. While rates will probably begin edging up again in 2010, it will likely be less than half the 6.2 percent jump recorded last year.

For decades as Americans bought more electronics, more appliances, air conditioners and other gizmos, energy demand has only moved in one direction and prices have followed suit.

The decline in power usage over the past year is a rarity and also an indication of how badly the recession has jolted the economy and changed the way Americans spend.

The shift began last year, when power consumption fell 1.6 percent. Government forecasters see consumption falling another 2.7 percent this year. That would mark the first time since 1949 that the nation has seen energy demand fall in consecutive years.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090905/D9AHBP384.html
 
Energy saving has been a big part of technological updates with electronics for at least the past 15 years. With an increasing use of new vs old electronics an energy saving is easy to see.
 
uscitizen said:
Demand for electricity sputters and bills may fall

Sep 5, 3:31 PM (ET)

By MARK WILLIAMS


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Consumers and businesses may finally be seeing some relief from rising utility bills, thanks to the biggest decline in U.S. electricity demand in decades.

Prices on wholesale markets are expected to decline for the rest of 2009, according to the Energy Information Agency. While rates will probably begin edging up again in 2010, it will likely be less than half the 6.2 percent jump recorded last year.

For decades as Americans bought more electronics, more appliances, air conditioners and other gizmos, energy demand has only moved in one direction and prices have followed suit.

The decline in power usage over the past year is a rarity and also an indication of how badly the recession has jolted the economy and changed the way Americans spend.

The shift began last year, when power consumption fell 1.6 percent. Government forecasters see consumption falling another 2.7 percent this year. That would mark the first time since 1949 that the nation has seen energy demand fall in consecutive years.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090905/D9AHBP384.html
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Global cooling has helped.
 
Exactly...the cooler summer temperatures and milder winter temps over the past few years has cut air conditioning and heating cost substantially....
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHW7KR33IQ"]YouTube - Al Gore sued by over 30.000 Scientists for Global Warming fraud / John Coleman[/ame]

The GW Hoax was exposed long ago...
 
Did I suggest that?

No.

New research says that the Arctic has warmed as a result of climate change, despite the Earth being farther from the sun during summer months. Warming as a result of increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has overwhelmed a millennia-long cycle of natural cooling in the Arctic, raising temperatures in the region to their highest for at least 2,000 years, according to this report:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-warming-reverses-arctic-cooling
 
DNC said:
Did I suggest that?

No.

New research says that the Arctic has warmed as a result of climate change, despite the Earth being farther from the sun during summer months. Warming as a result of increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has overwhelmed a millennia-long cycle of natural cooling in the Arctic, raising temperatures in the region to their highest for at least 2,000 years, according to this report:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-warming-reverses-arctic-cooling
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Since there has been evidence of past global warming, prior to "human involvement", what to YOU attibute it to??
 
Scientists (see below) say "The temperature history of the first millennium C.E. is sparsely documented, especially in the Arctic. We present a synthesis of decadally resolved proxy temperature records from poleward of 60°N covering the past 2000 years, which indicates that a pervasive cooling in progress 2000 years ago continued through the Middle Ages and into the Little Ice Age. A 2000-year transient climate simulation with the Community Climate System Model shows the same temperature sensitivity to changes in insolation as does our proxy reconstruction, supporting the inference that this long-term trend was caused by the steady orbitally driven reduction in summer insolation. The cooling trend was reversed during the 20th century, with four of the five warmest decades of our 2000-year-long reconstruction occurring between 1950 and 2000."


1 School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
2 Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.
3 Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
4 Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
5 Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.
6 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
7 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
DNC said:
Did I suggest that?

No.

New research says that the Arctic has warmed as a result of climate change, despite the Earth being farther from the sun during summer months. Warming as a result of increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has overwhelmed a millennia-long cycle of natural cooling in the Arctic, raising temperatures in the region to their highest for at least 2,000 years, according to this report:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=global-warming-reverses-arctic-cooling
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New research says that the Arctic has warmed as a result of climate change, despite the Earth being farther from the sun during summer months.


Soooooooooooo??
The Arctic doesn't have a summer ???
or
The Arctic has warmed because the sun is further away in summer ??
or
Don't you know the Arctic from the Antarctic...??
or
or
or WTF is your point...???
 
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Let me spell it out for you by quoting from the report:

"Writing in the US journal Science, an international team of researchers describe how thousands of years of natural cooling in the Arctic were followed by a rise in temperatures from 1900 which accelerated briskly after 1950.

The warming of the Arctic is more alarming in view of the natural cooling cycle, which by itself would have seen temperatures 1.4C cooler than they are today, scientists said.

"The accumulation of greenhouse gases is interrupting the natural cycle towards overall cooling," said Professor Darrell Kaufman, a climate scientist at Northern Arizona University and lead author of the study.

"There's no doubt it will lead to melting glacier ice, which will impact on coastal regions around the world. Warming in the region will also cause more permafrost thawing, which will release methane gas into the atmosphere," he added."

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon urged nations to support a comprehensive accord to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

The accord has been drawn up as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

The latest study comes months after scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned that within the next 30 years Arctic sea ice is likely to vanish completely during the summer for the first time.

"This study provides a clear example of how increased greenhouse gases are now changing our climate, ending at least 2,000 years of Arctic cooling," said Caspar Ammann, a climate scientist and co-author of the report at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
 
LOL global warming....

If it is happening we humans will be in denial until it is too late to do anything to offset it.


Umm people have been cutting back on their electric useage because of money and industrial useage must be way down since our industrial output is only 60 some percent of capacity.

Also some conservation measures must be helping. More energy efficient flat screens vs the old tube monster TV's?
 
bravo said:
New research says that the Arctic has warmed as a result of climate change, despite the Earth being farther from the sun during summer months.


Soooooooooooo??
The Arctic doesn't have a summer ???
or
The Arctic has warmed because the sun is further away in summer ??
or
Don't you know the Arctic from the Antarctic...??
or
or
or WTF are you is your point...???
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clearly....you are incapable of reading the link.

not a big surprise.....

they accepted your fake GED back when you joined the Navy, didn't they?
 
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