Well, the rest of the world is on fire. In Virginia, this summer was again, the hottest summer recorded... for like the last 3-4 years consecutively. AC never stops. Going outside for almost two weeks while the temps are 99-100 and "feels-like" temp in the 106-110 range, its unbelievably difficult to do anything outside.The grass all went dormant and brown and killed huge patches of everyone's lawn that doesn't sprinkle. The trees were hurting, wilting. I've lived in Virginia for almost 25 years and there have been huge changes... and they are happening to a point where it is "noticeable" only really in the last 15 years. The last 3-4 years have been the worst so far.
Paris, France was 114.6 degrees!
Washington D.C. felt as hot as Death Valley.
These places are in the northern hemisphere, too.
Which i think is due to huge decline in CO2 emissions from mine smelters.
Gotta call you out on that one.
The only article or reference for that claim is from 4 days ago, it talks about generating electric power from smelting operations using sterling engines. That's all well and dandy to make 400kw in South Africa "for free" - but the same CO2 emissions are there, they simply use the heat from the emissions to power the generators. Is that better than building a new power plant and emitting doubly? Sure.. but the claim that there are LESS emissions
overall from smelters seems, unfounded.
The plant is only one, it is the test plant, a beta; proof of concept. Nobody has these.
(9/13/19 - CREAMER MEDIA'S MINING WEEKLY ?? Hmm. 
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Swedish technology helping smelters lower power use and emissions
In many other articles, on the contrary, they state that yes, the UAE a few other First-World nations are decreasing their emissions - In the absolute best case, the UAE down 15%, others not so much or even increasing.
What I find funny, is if there are decreases in the area of smelting (or other area), they are there most often because those areas/countries RECOGNIZE that Global Warming is a problem; they state they are on their path to sustainability... something of which you generally decry - but now want to use as a point to deny.. it's all very circular logic.
The other side to that story is India and China and and developing countries (usually at their expense, pillaged from the 1st world) - far outweigh any small advances made for existing or new facilities elsewhere, at least at the rate we're going now.
Then, on top of that:
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data
.. of which "smelting" would be a small percent of the 21% Industry, global pie. Even if we gave smelting the benefit of 10% of industry (which it isn't)... even if ALL smelters reduced their emissions by 15%, that would translate into a reduction of roughly 1% globally... well...
Global industrial carbon emissions to reach all-time high in 2018
Latest predictions dash hopes that industrial carbon dioxide emissions have peaked.
Global industrial emissions of carbon dioxide are likely to have risen by 2.7% in 2018 to reach an all-time high, marking a second year of strong growth after a brief period of relatively stable emissions, an international consortium of scientists reports.
Rather, instead of hinging on this ridiculous stuff, the reason you're getting your
weather is because of the jet-stream that is now going wonky due to warming temperatures - the science is in, the deniers were wrong.. a trend emerges:
A strange, wavy jet stream is blasting Europe with heat. Scientists say this could be the 'new normal.'
The jet stream is powered by temperature differences between the cooler polar region to the north and warmer air masses to the south. As it circles the planet, this river of air can become rippled in places. The resulting troughs and ridges can create unusual weather patterns, amplifying cold snaps in one region and intensifying blasts of heat in another, said Jeff Masters, co-founder and director of meteorology for Weather Underground, a commercial weather service headquartered in San Francisco.
When the jet stream dips south, polar air fills in the trough, bringing heavy rains and cooler-than-usual temperatures, as has happened across much of the United States with a record-late arrival of spring and above-average precipitation. When the jet stream bulges northward, warmer air rushes into the ridge, leading to hot, dry conditions, as has happened this week in Europe.
Seasonal variations are normal, but since the early 2000s, as the planet has warmed, the jet stream has been behaving strangely. Jet stream winds, which naturally undulate, have become even more gnarled, and the big wavy patterns sometimes slow to a crawl, or even completely stall.
