Showing posts with label Department of State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Department of State. Show all posts

Apr 13, 2010

Weather

According to the US Department of State -
"Energy use for heating and cooling is directly responsive to weather variation. The AEO forecast of CO 2 emissions assumes 30-year average values for population-weighted heating and cooling degree-days. Unlike other sources of uncertainty, for which deviations between assumed and actual trends may follow a persistent course over time, the effect of weather on energy use and emissions in any particular year is largely independent from year to year."   I get it, the weather will either be the same or different and that is certainly not an uncertainty.