Dec 1, 2024 ~ Fraud 'climatologist' Michael Mann never stops making a fool of himself. Mann predicted 33 named storms and the #FakeNews gleefully reported and warned, "the highest count ever predicted!!" There were only 18, about half. The clowns keep clowning and the #FakeNews keeps faking. [Climate Change, Fake News]
Dec 1, 2024 ~ Climate scientist Chris Martz explains, "Two years ago, The Guardian reported that Spain and Portugal were becoming too dry thanks to climate change. Now, The Guardian says that Spain is too wet because of climate change. The narrative changes with the weather. No matter what the weather does, it is always your fault and the only solution is to expand the government’s power. [Climate Change, Fake News]
Nov 5, 2024 ~ A lot of focus on some recent floods in Spain. The #FakeNews blames 'climate change' even though similar floods in these areas have happened in the recent past. But another huge factor is that "Spain destroyed more than 256 dams between 2021 and 2022, "to restore the natural course of rivers", in order to comply with UN Agenda 2030." Source: Wide Awake America[Climate Change, Fake News]
Nov 1, 2024 ~ Climate alarmists aided by the #FakeNews have declared the floods in Valencia, Spain to be due to 'climate change.' As always they falsely claim it is 'unprecedented' as they got 14 inches of rain. But in 1957: 20 inches fell in 2 days. Valencia is known for flooding. 75 floods from 1321 to 1897. That's 7 floods a year! [Climate Change, Fake News]
Oct 26, 2024 ~ 'Globalist Misinformation: No, the Earth is Not Warming' Fantastic reference material showing historical data in context rather than short term cherry picked data. We are near a minimum on historical CO2 and no correlation between CO2 and temperature. [Climate Change]
Oct 18, 2024 ~ 'The real cause of weather-related deaths' "Despite fear-mongering about climate change supercharging natural disasters, weather-related deaths have declined dramatically." "According to the Emergency Event Database, the total global deaths per decade from climate-related disasters has fallen by more than 96% since the 1920s. Data show that between 1960 and 2020, there was an unprecedented decrease in climate-related deaths compared to the period between 1920 and 1959. This decline is even more impressive considering that the global population has more than quadrupled during this period, from about 2 billion in 1920 to nearly 8 billion by 2020." "In 1970, Cyclone Bhola killed an estimated 300,000–500,000 people. In contrast, Cyclone Amphan in 2020, though causing significant damage, resulted in fewer than 100 deaths in Bangladesh. [Climate Change]
Oct 14, 2024 ~ Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University, Dr. William Happer: "There isn't any [climate] crisis. There is no thing that needs to be solved. People who are proposing these solutions, they're not solutions at all. It's simply a waste of money. It's a power grab, it's grandstanding, it's virtue signalling." "None of it helps the average person. So be very wary of these people and vote them out of office if you possibly can." "Use your common sense... Don't let it be beaten out of you by propaganda that you get in school and over the media. Many people have an innate understanding of what's true and what's nonsense. Listen to your instincts and do a little reading yourself." [Climate Change]
Oct 13, 2024 ~ 'DeSantis Shuts Down Reporter For Tying Tornadoes, Hurricanes To Global Warming' DeSantis has to explain history to the born yesterday #FakeNews who claim hurricanes are getting worse. “If you go back to 1851, there’s probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric, so the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those, 17 occurred I think prior to 1960.”
“The most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s in the state of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day Hurricane, barometric pressure on that was 892 millibars. It totally wiped out the Keys. We’ve never seen anything like it, and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane that we’ve ever had in the state of Florida.”
He noted that the deadliest hurricane the state has ever faced was the Okeechobee hurricane in 1928, which killed more than 4,000 people. [Anti-Science, Climate Change, Fake News]
Oct 4, 2024 ~ 'Plain truth: Carbon credits are worhtless' "9 month joint investigation by journalists from The Guardian, Die Welt and SourceMaterial has shown that 90% of the REDD+ carbon credits from the world’s largest offsetting standard actually have no positive impact on the climate." And neither do the other 10%. Its a total scam where rich people buy absolution from con men. [Climate Change]
Sep 8, 2024 ~ Former climate alarmist Tom Harris is director of The International Climate Science Coalition. "There is no climate crisis... [There is] no consistent correlation between CO2 and Earth's temperature—at times CO2 was 1300% of today, and we were stuck in very cold conditions." ""There is no foundation to the climate scare—it's all based on models that don't work." [Climate Change, Fake News]
Sep 7, 2024 ~ 'A Dam Good Argument' Environmentalists claim they want us to transition to 'renewable' energy but then they destroy dams, like Snake River Dam providing the best kind: hydropower. They claim its killing salmon but that problem was solved 50 years ago. "Between 96% and 98% of the salmon successfully pass each dam." Why are they lying? [Climate Change, Environment, Fake News, John Stossel]
Sep 7, 2024 ~ "Net Zero: 'Totally Crazy Weather Roulette'" Germany plans to charge more for electricity on cloudy days to help compensate for getting less electricity on cloudy days. This cannot be the future anyone wants. Business already say this won't fly. [Climate Change, Economy]
Sep 2, 2024 ~ This paper by three of the world’s leading scientists, Richard Lindzen, William Happer and W. A. van Wijngaarden, of MIT, Princeton and York University calculates how much it would help if we actually could achieve net 0 by 2050 (an impossible task with an impossible price tag). The result was that it wouldn't help by a significant amount.
"if the United States (U.S.) eliminated net CO2 emissions by the year 2050, this would avert a warming of 0.0084◦C (0.015 ◦F), which is below our ability to accurately measure. If the entire world forced net zero CO2 emissions by the year 2050, a warming of only 0.070 ◦C (0.13 ◦F) would be averted. If one assumes that the warming is a factor of 4 larger because of positive feedbacks, as asserted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the warming averted by a net zero U.S. policy would still be very small, 0.034◦C (0.061 ◦F). For worldwide net zero emissions by 2050 and the 4-times larger IPCC climate sensitivity, the averted warming would be 0.28 ◦C (0.50 ◦F)." [Climate Change]
Aug 10, 2024 ~ 'Little Debbie' Hurricane Debbie is the latest storm touted by the alarmists as proof of climate change as every storm is. But it was another CAT 1 dud and so quickly forgotten. NOAA always predicts an 'above average' season but is rarely correct. [Climate Change, Fake News]
Aug 3, 2024 ~ Bjorn Lomborg explains: WHO misinforms on European heat deaths: 1) WHO claims extreme heat kills 175,000/year Untrue: The correct number is 49,000/year, rest is moderate heat 2) WHO claims rates are soaring Untrue: in 2024 study, age-standardized heat death rate down 10.27% per decade (table S11)) WHO misinforms by neglecting to say that 4-in-5 temperature deaths in Europe are from cold, with 50,000/year dying from extreme cold Does WHO leave you well-informed? [Climate Change, Fake News]
Aug 1, 2024 ~ "Aussie Swimming Star Slams 'Ridiculous' Woke Olympics Village Schemes, 'Cost Her a Record'" France has been a disgracefully bad host. Besides the insulting opening ceremonies, they didn't provide AC for the athletes, an unhealthy vegan diet, cardboard beds. Athletes were getting poor sleep and poor nutrition. Ariarne Titmus said conditions were so bad, it likely cost her a record. Teams were scrambling to bring in portable ACs and real food for their athletes but not all could afford to do that. France should never be allowed to host another Olympics.[Climate Change, CRT DIE Wokeness, Loathsome Left]
Jul 29, 2024 ~ 'Yellen: By the Way, We're Going to Need Another $3 Trillion per Year for Climate Change' These people cannot bankrupt the United States fast enough. We're running trillion dollar deficits and these fools want triple our insolvency. Complete maniacs. She absurdly tries to sell this massively unaffordable waste of money as a "big economic opportunity." "Of course, it really is a massive economic opportunity if you happen to own or have stock in one of the many 'green energy' companies that have been cropping up. It's also a wonderful opportunity for China and any other nations that are sitting on the largest stockpiles of rare-earth metals needed to build all of the batteries required to drive all of this nonsense. But for everyone else, it's a massive, pointless money sink." [Anti-Science, Climate Change, Debt, Deficit, Economics, Regulations]
Jul 28, 2024 ~ Climate activist Stuart Parker explains how the left will literally try to destroy your life if you disagree with any of their dogma and how the world would be so much better if everyone behaved like conservatives when they disagree. They are very vindictive and intolerant. Many in the comments say the same thing - they feel much safer around conservatives and know its safe to disagree. "In my 36 years as a climate activist, no conservative who has disagreed with me on climate has ever tried to destroy my career, my home, my relationship, my friendships, my social media accounts, my radio shows, my podcasts or my recreational activities. People working in the fossil fuel industry who feel my efforts are destroying their employment prospects, people who think climate change is a hoax, a fraud I am helping to perpetrate, people who falsely believe I receive money from shadowy European interests: none of these people have felt entitled to go after my ability to earn a living or have a romantic partner. In my 3 years of opposing genderwang, dozens, likely hundreds of progressives, many of whom I considered comrades or friends, have felt it totally appropriate to engage in unapologetic concerted public efforts to destroy these things, to even come after my fortnightly tabletop Runequest games and try to stop those. In a social partition of contemporary North America, I would rather be in a conservative society, even if it were significantly more on fire, because I wouldn't feel unsafe disagreeing with my neighbours." [Cancel Culture, Climate Change, Loathsome Left, Violent Left]
Jul 9, 2024 ~ Bjorn Lomborg is out with another peer reviewed article: "Your risk of dying from climate-related disasters dropped 99% since 1920. This is because richer societies are much more resilient to disasters." [Climate Change]
Jul 8, 2024 ~ After being blamed on 'climate change' (as ALL storms today ridiculously are), hurricane Beryl hit Texas as a mere CAT 1. @RyanMaue explains that hurricanes are beneficial and necessary to the entire US (not just coastal states), recharging aquifers and even the Great Lakes. [Climate Change, Environment, Fake News]
Jul 3, 2024 ~ Climatologist and hurricane expert Dr. Judith Curry says there are not more hurricanes now than in the past, nor are they more powerful on average. How much cognitive dissonance is required to hear that and still believe that EVERY SINGLE HURRICANE is now due to climate change. [Climate Change, Fake News]
Jun 30, 2024 ~ 'Mining the Planet for Renewable Energy'
"In reality, a transition to an all-electric economy with no fossil fuels means millions of acres of America’s wild, scenic, and agricultural lands would be covered with wind turbines, solar panels, transmission lines, and warehouses filled with batteries that can spontaneously erupt in flames.
In reality, we don’t know whether there are enough accessible metal and mineral deposits on Planet Earth to extract all the raw materials required to manufacture the turbines, panels, batteries, transmission lines, electric vehicles, transformers, and other equipment the energy transformation would require – just for the United States, much less for the entire world.
We don’t know how many billions of tons of rock would have to be mined, processed, and disposed of; how many millions of acres would be impacted; how many millions of tons of toxic air and water pollution would be emitted; what human rights would be violated to get those metals and minerals.
One of the most basic and vital metals for the energy transformation is copper. Average worldwide ore concentrations (0.04%) mean miners would have to remove some 40,000,000 tons of overlying rock and extract, crush, and process nearly 25,000,000 tons of ore to get 110,000 tons of copper – enough for just the first 30,000 megawatts of President Biden’s offshore wind plan."
"The biggest wind energy project in the USA will soon blanket 1,600 square miles (1.25 times Delaware) of New Mexico, to generate 3,500 MW about 30% of the year. The Palo Verde nuclear plant in Arizona generates 4,200 MW from 6 square miles almost 24/7/365.
A Bloomberg research team says the world will need at least $200 trillion to stop global warming by 2050. Others estimate $275 trillion!" [Climate Change, Energy]
Jun 24, 2024 ~ 'Hurricane godfather puts record-breaking forecast into perspective' Dr. Neil Frank, former director of the National Hurricane Center, says current hurricane seasons are well within historical norms when you account for the multi-decade cycles. Another factor is that with modern technology, "We are now naming storms we would have never named before." [Climate Change]
Jun 20, 2024 ~ 'EV-maker Fisker is insolvent' There have been at least 7 EV company financial disasters in the last year. Fisker bankrupt, Lordstown bankrupt, Cruise going bankrupt even with $1B injected by GM, Hertz, Ford, GM, electric bus company Proterra. [Climate Change, Energy]
Jun 18, 2024 ~ The president of the Chicago Teachers Union Stacy Davis Gates claimed: "Conservatives don’t even want Black children to be able to read," among other equally ridiculous and unhinged smears. Republicans are actually against the union demands because they are unaffordable ($14 Billion) partly due to all kinds of useless climate change expenses including the creation of a 'climate champion' position. Clowns. [Climate Change, Education, Fake Racism, Loathsome Left]
Jun 16, 2024 ~ 'Climate BS from the Wall Street Journal' The article claims climate change is producing shortages of wine, coffee, cocoa, and olive oil. This is complete nonsense. All of the relevant events are well within historical norms, as always with these stories. [Climate Change, Fake News]
Jun 14, 2024 ~ 'You Paid Hundreds of Millions for Solar Power to Wreck the Environment' "Your tax dollars will subsidize a solar company cutting down thousands of protected and rare [centuries old] Joshua trees and destroying habitat for the endangered desert tortoise to make way for a massive energy project in California."
"According to the National Park Service, Joshua trees are a key part of the desert ecosystem, 'providing habitat for numerous birds, mammals, insects, and lizards,' and are on average 150 years old, although many are much older than that."
"Solar power also creates about 300 times more toxic waste per unit of electricity generated than nuclear-power plants do, because solar panels use extremely hazardous materials like sulfuric acid and toxic phosphine gas in their manufacturing." They can also take decades to make up for the CO2 used to create and transport them and its not clear they last that long.
"After 50 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies, loads of regulatory advantages, and political support, solar power generated under 4 percent of America’s electricity in 2023." [Climate Change, Environment]
Jun 9, 2024 ~ "Fact-Checking Wind and Solar Claims: Climate Expert Makes Case for ‘Realism’" When it comes to energy, "nuclear is probably the future and should have been the present," climatologist David Legates says.
"Wind, solar, and electric vehicles aren’t the clean energy accomplishments that many claim, climatologist David Legates says.
'The lithium … all of the rare earth minerals that are necessary for the batteries, that are necessary for the solar panels, that are necessary for the wind turbines … are called rare earths,' Legates explains.
These rare earth minerals are acquired through strip mining, he says, a process that involves putting large chunks of earth into a solution. Once the minerals are extracted, what is left is a toxic sludge lake.'"
"We’re all told it’s clean and green because you see it’s spinning there or you see the panel sitting there, it’s not producing gases. But to get to that stage, there has been an awful lot of disastrous and environmental and social efforts that have gone on behind the scenes."
"If carbon dioxide goes up, will temperature follow? And the answer is yes, slightly.
However, most of the absorption bands that we have with carbon dioxide are already saturated. So what that means is that, essentially, if you had no carbon dioxide or no greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at all, the addition of some makes a big deal. But as you start to add more and more and more, you get less of an impact. And so by the time we are where we are now, more carbon dioxide really doesn’t do a whole lot.
And so if we doubled carbon dioxide now, we get maybe a degree Celsius of warming and that would be it. And certainly it’s not worth the economic impacts that people want it to have." [Climate Change, Environment]
Jun 9, 2024 ~ "The Quest for a ‘Clean Economy’ Collides with Reality" "A typical Tesla Model 3 battery, which contains six kilograms of lithium, eight kilograms of cobalt, eight kilograms of aluminum, 17 kilograms of copper, 42 kilograms of nickel, and 55 kilograms of graphite. All of these materials come from somewhere, and that somewhere is underground — often, far beneath the surface.
As a rule, underground mines make for very uncongenial neighbors. Their sites are dirty and dusty, loud, crowded with vehicular traffic, liable to pollute aquifers and generate toxic waste, and demanding of enormous quantities of water. Underground extraction can also conflict with deeply rooted cultural, historical, and social norms and practices." [Climate Change, Economics, Environment]
Jun 8, 2024 ~ 'California Setting Up It's Next Energy Disaster' Just like CA set itself up for water shortages by not building any reservoirs while population more than doubles, they are setting up an energy disaster by shutting down refineries. "No new refineries have opened since the 1960s. In fact, according to CEC data, more than 60% of the refineries opened in California during the last 100 years are now closed or idle." "Instead of fostering innovation, state policies have actively sought to put refineries out of business." [California, Climate Change, Economics, Energy]
Jun 8, 2024 ~ 'Biden's All-of-Government Vote-Buying Scheme' Biden is handing out $50 million to the 'Climate Justice Alliance' which believes that "the path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine" and all the standard DIE poison. But that is just a drop in the bucket as the ridiculously named 'Inflation Reduction Act' "provides $2.8 billion to the EPA for environmental and climate justice block grants," (Section 60201). That's a license to hand out walking-around money to many political activists, not just the Climate Justice Alliance." Biden and the Democrats hand out billions of your taxpayer dollars or borrowed money to buy votes. [Anti-Semitism, Biden, Climate Change, CRT DIE Wokeness, Politics]
Jun 8, 2024 ~ Governor Glenn Youngkin pulled Virginia out of California's ridiculous phase out of gas powered vehicles. “Once again, Virginia is declaring independence – this time from a misguided electric vehicle mandate imposed by unelected leaders nearly 3,000 miles away from the Commonwealth. The idea that government should tell people what kind of car they can or can’t purchase is fundamentally wrong. Virginians deserve the freedom to choose which vehicles best fit the needs of their families and businesses. The law is clear, and I am proud to announce Virginians will no longer be forced to live under this out-of-touch policy.” [Climate Change, Energy]
May 25, 2024 ~ Here's the Godfather of #FakeNews, Dan Rather and the Grifer in Chief, Al Gore explaining how 25% of Florida is going to end up under water due to burning fossil fuels. That was 42 years ago! How long can they keep up the alarmism? New terms: Climate Emergency, Chaos, Apocalypse. [Climate Change, Fake News]
May 19, 2024 ~ 'The Carbon-Offset Game Is Up' Even thought it was obvious a over decade ago, it apparently can no longer be denied that carbon offsets are a total scam which allows some to profit off of others virtue signalling while having no impact on the climate. [Anti-Science, Climate Change, Economics]
May 2, 2024 ~ Climate adviser for the UN Ayisha Siddiqa (@Ayishas12) says the 'climate crisis' is the fault of white people. "The climate crisis is man made. And its not just man made, its white man made. (big applause from the mooing racists) Years of capitalism, years of colonialism, years of racial oppression... The way that we save our planet is when we protect the most vulnerable communities among us. And this includes black trans women." These people are beyond parody and their movement is not at all serious. Protecting black trans women is the key to saving the planet from the white man's climate crisis. Clap, Clap, Cheer, Cheer. What ridiculous fools... [Climate Change, Fake News, Fake Racism, Racism, Trans]
May 1, 2024 ~ View Host Sonny Hostin thinks eclipses and earthquakes are due to climate change. “We got a solar eclipse. We’ve got earthquakes. … The Rapture is here. Also, I learned that the cicadas are coming. For the first time in a hundred years. This is for the first time in many, many years. … All of those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.” No, she was not joking... [Anti-Science, Climate Change, Fake News]
May 1, 2024 ~ 'Biden Effectively Bans Coal Power . . . Again' "The latest EPA regulations are a whopping 681 pages of unreasonable demands that will kill the American coal industry." Must reduce emissions by 90%. Not possible. Goes around congress and just dictates. [Biden, Climate Change, Energy]
Apr 6, 2024 ~ Just like the left and the #FakeNews has to find and hammer new fake examples of 'racism' every day, they also have to find and hammer new fake examples of climate change every day. The Independent headline: 'How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers' [Climate Change, Fake News]
Apr 6, 2024 ~ If you are on the fence about whether climate change alarmism is a religion or not, consider that people are now blaming earthquakes on climate change. (Its bad enough that EVERY storm is blamed on it even though the frequency and magnitude of those storms are the same as they have ever been.) Senate candidate Christina Khalil said "The climate crisis is real" after an earthquake hit NJ, which is on a fault line. [Anti-Science, Climate Change]
Mar 26, 2024 ~ Will Tanner, "In yet another massive L for 'green' energy boondoggles, a massive swathe of solar panels in Damon, Texas were taken out by a hail storm And not only were the expensive panels rendered useless by the weather, but now they're leaking a toxic compound, cadmium telluride, into the water So not only do Texans get intermittent energy instead of constant energy, not only do they waste thousands of acres of land with solar farms, but now the pointless panels are leaking into the groundwater Nuclear energy and natural gas are the answer. They're cheap, clean, reliable, and won't be shattered by a bit of hail. The other "green" energy is an expensive boondoggle that destroys the natural environment." [Climate Change, Energy]
Mar 25, 2024 ~ 'Electric Vehicles: The EPA’s Fast Track to Fiasco' "All the world’s mines, both currently operating and planned, can supply only a small fraction of the 700% to 4,000% increase in various minerals that will be needed to meet the wildly ambitious EV goals. The IEA [International Energy Agency] estimates that we’ll need hundreds of new mega-mines to feed factories across the “transition” landscape, and that it takes 10 to 16 years to find, plan, and open a new mine." "Mining battery ingredients causes environmental damage. EV batteries weigh about 1,000 pounds and can reach 2,000 pounds. About 100,000 pounds of ore are needed to get the lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and copper to make the batteries function. To get the 100,000 pounds of ore, it’s necessary to move 500,000 pounds of earth. Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is partly performed by children who are sent into the mines to retrieve the minerals…" "50 to 90% of the critical materials required to make EVs are now produced in China." "Consider just copper, the pillar of electrification. EVs use 300% to 400% more copper than conventional cars. Industry data show that the world will need twice as much copper as it will be producing well before aspirational EV goals are reached. Unsurprisingly, one major mining CEO observed that the coming chasm between demand and supply could trigger a ten-fold copper price hike. That alone would add about $15,000 to the cost of building an EV." "The CO2 emissions arising from building an EV before it gets driven revolve around a simple fact: a typical EV battery weighs about 1,000 pounds. That half-ton battery is made from a wide range of minerals, including copper, nickel, aluminum, graphite, and lithium. Accessing those minerals requires digging up and processing some 250 tons of earth per vehicle. All that mining, processing, and refining uses hydrocarbons and emits CO2." [Climate Change, Energy]