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."
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.
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.
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!"
Jun 29, 2024 ~ 'Feedback Taken: Tractor Supply Company Ends All “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” Programs' After getting an earful from its customers impacting its bottom line to the tune of $2 billion, Tractor Supply eliminated all of its DIE, Climate Change or LGBT efforts and spending.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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."
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."
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."
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."
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.
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.”
Jun 6, 2024 ~ "California ‘clean energy’ company set to bulldoze more than 3,500 Joshua trees, so coastal homes can go ‘carbon neutral’" The insanity continues. So called 'clean energy' is often very bad for the environment.
Jun 3, 2024 ~ "Buttigieg fails to explain why government only has a handful of charging stations to show for $7.5 billion ‘investment’ and CBS journo can’t help but laugh in his face" The govt spent $7.5 billion since 2021 and only produced 8 chargers. Corrupt waste.
Jun 3, 2024 ~ "Those 'All Electric' Fire Trucks are a Sad Joke" They are 50% more money because you can't rely on electric to last the entire fire or transport so they have to be diesel as well.
May 25, 2024 ~ "Climate Change ‘Solutions’ Are Harming the Environment" One of many crazy examples, Scotland cut down 16 million trees (natural carbon sinks) to make room for wind turbines!!" The insanity of of that is beyond belief.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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'
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.
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."
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."
Mar 25, 2024 ~ 'Climate The Movie' Informative and infuriating at the same time. Yes, the so called climate 'emergency' or 'chaos' or whatever they're calling it today is a scam. But its not going away because its HUGE business for more and more people.
Mar 6, 2024 ~ 'Polar bears and coral reefs are doing just fine' The #FakeNews alarmism about both have been totally wrong. They said polar bears were going extinct and their population is 3X. They said it would take 100 years for the Coral Castles Reef to recover from the 1988 El Nino but it was thriving just a few years later. The Great Barrier Reef is doing fine as well despite the #FakeNews about it.
Mar 6, 2024 ~ John Stossel, 'The Renewable Scam' California is showing how unfeasible this is. Due to the mandates, they pay 3X for electricty as the rest of the country and have more outages. It make housing far more expensive too. And harms the environment rather than helping it. "Just to produce one turbine, we have to extract 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete, and 45 tons of non-renewable plastic. Then we've got to transport that and burn fuel, getting it all carried across the world. None of these things that go into a turbine are renewable." These huge turbines create huge landfills of non-recyclable waste.
Mar 2, 2024 ~ Bjorn Lomborg, "Despite breathless climate reporting about ever more fire The US burned area last year was the lowest this century It was less than 7% of the 1930s." Square that with how the #FakeNews reports that every modern fire is caused by 'climate change.' Its absurd as there is only a small fraction today compared to before so called 'climate change.'
Mar 2, 2024 ~ .@BjornLomborg calls out the @washingtonpost for ONCE AGAIN spreading #FakeNews about climate change. "The front page of Washington Post claims: 'disasters worsen for 85% of world' No, study shows no such thing." Article links increase heart disease deaths to increased heat but "Study finds exactly the opposite: cold kills."
Feb 25, 2024 ~ Jack Hellner, 'MSM recycling the threatened polar bears story despite it being viciously debunked' Like most of the #FakeNews narratives, this one is the opposite of the truth. The polar bear population is 5-6X what it was in the 1950s.
Feb 20, 2024 ~ 'Britain’s Disastrous Path to Net Zero Is a Warning to the U.S.' Another cautionary tale that Biden is ignoring. The UK seems to be following Germany over the green energy cliff. As a result, Brits pay almost 2X for energy vs. the US. Less reliable and does not reduce 'worldwide' emissions a bit - it just shifts them around.
Feb 20, 2024 ~ "There's an 'Office of Climate Change and Health Equity'?" Another government bureaucracy created by Biden whose purpose is to dole out money to favored groups and left wing organizations. Its based on total BS like "Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical and mental health of black communities."
Feb 13, 2024 ~ Jo Nova, 'Mark Steyn ordered to pay $1 million to deter climate deniers from criticizing sacred scientists' "Michael Mann’s hockeystick graph was wildly different from hundreds of studies of other studies and instantly became the pet graph of the IPCC. It used the wrong proxy, the wrong tree, and the wrong type of averaging. Whole books were written on how bad it was. But when Mark Steyn called it fraudulent Mann sued."
Feb 11, 2024 ~ A DC court orders Mark Steyn to pay Michael Mann $1 Million in Mann's defamation case. Extremely chilling decision. The climate cult is a religion with high priests who can't be questioned. The litigious Michael Mann vows to go after National Review again after losing his first case against them. "Michael Mann Vows to Target NR Yet Again: 'They're Next'" Mann, who is an excellent researcher who has never faked his data and does not behave like a cartoon super villain, threatens to ruin the lives of anyone who suggests otherwise.
Jan 22, 2024 ~ Nick Pope, 'Germany Went All In On The Green Transition. Now, Its Economy Is Crumbling'. Merkel closing all of Germany's nuclear plants was one of the dumbest things a politician has ever done. They go all in on green energy. The first thing that happens is Germany becomes dependent on Russian natural gas. Then they have to RESTART old coal plants to keep the lights and heat on. Energy prices soar almost 50% killing consumers and forcing businesses to close or move out of the country. "It is not [even] reducing emissions, because manufacturing is being shifted to other nations, like China and India, that use dirtier energy. The German economy is going down, and their people do not have the jobs and economic opportunities that they used to."
Jan 22, 2024 ~ Swiss banker Hubert Keller says at the World Economic Forum: "The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee... Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere." Literally everything people do is a 'problem.' FO
Dec 11, 2023 ~ #FakeNews @CNN claims "Climate change poses a huge threat to the coffee business and to farmers" because "rising temperatures will reduce the area suitable for growing coffee by up to 50%." In reality, increased CO2 has had the opposite effect, considerably benefiting plants.
Dec 9, 2023 ~ David Strom, 'Washington State Economist Refused to Lie, So They Forced Him Out' Economist Scott Smith was forced to resign for correctly saying that cap and trade would increase gas prices. Opposing the narrative, no matter how absurd, has consequences.
Dec 9, 2023 ~ "As reported by EPA, only 19% of all weather stations report an increase in the number of hot days since 1948!" "A total of 863 stations, or 81%, reported either a decrease or no change in the number of hot days!"
Dec 3, 2023 ~ 'EPA: Few Stations Show Increase in Hot Days' "As reported by EPA, only 19% of all weather stations report an increase in the number of hot days since 1948!" "A total of 863 stations, or 81%, reported either a decrease or no change in the number of hot days!"
Dec 2, 2023 ~ Linnea Lueken, 'Climate Change Is Not Threatening Human Health' Debunks a lot of nonsense. Its fashionable to blame everything on climate change [allergies, malaria, climate anxiety, etc.] but the data does not support the claims.
Nov 9, 2023 ~ Olivia Murray, "Harvard study: deforestation for solar panels major cause of ‘emissions’" "Since 2010, over 5,000 acres of natural and working lands have been destroyed for solar development in Massachusetts, resulting in the emission of over half a million metric tons of CO₂ - more than the annual emissions of 100,000 passenger cars." "When these panels reach the end of their lifespan, they become piles of toxic waste, as they contain high amounts of heavy metals." "By 2050, the disposal of worn-out solar panels will constitute over double the tonnage of all of today’s global plastic waste."
Nov 4, 2023 ~ Brianna Lyman, "It Takes Trucker Two Minutes To Pick Apart The EV Narrative: ‘You Would Need To Pack 50,000 Pounds Of Batteries’" Fantastic article exposing the absurdity of the net-zero idea. The numbers do not even remotely add up.
Oct 29, 2023 ~ John Kerry is pushing for a “climate losses and damages fund” funded mostly by the US of course with the world's biggest emitter of CO2, China exempt. These transfer payments will have no effect on climate. "These climate reparations are nothing more than a global shakedown orchestrated by those who live under the fallacy that money changes weather."
Oct 13, 2023 ~ Australia is about to bulldoze old-growth forests that contain endangered koala bear habitats to put up wind turbines. They are harming a beloved endangered species and clearing old-growth forest land in service to a cult that does more environmental harm than good.
Oct 13, 2023 ~ Ha ha, @ClimateDefiance ran Pete Buttigeig out on a rail for not being able to end all fossil fuels in transportation. "We just chased Secretary Pete Buttigieg off the stage at the Meyerhoff Symphony," the idiots brag. He tried to debate them but leftists don't debate.
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