In the realm of the climate scare, the cognitive dissonance has reached almost impossible levels. Just a few days ago I took note of ever increasing focus by environmental NGOs on promoting the climate scare even as the green energy schemes, offered as salvation from the apocalypse, experience soaring costs and pervasive financial collapse. But those are just a couple of pieces of the crazy mess. Everywhere you look, our overlords are doubling down on end-of-days climate propaganda while reality just refuses to cooperate. We have truly reached peak absurdity.
In the category of the overlords doubling down on climate propaganda, you can’t top the new Fifth National Climate Assessment just out (November 14) from from something called the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Have you heard of the USGCRP? It’s some kind of consortium of every U.S. government agency and department that touches on the “climate” issue in any way. Here is a picture of their logo:
It’s the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Interior, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Agency for International Development. Fourteen of them in total. All speaking with one voice.
All to support the greatest and hugest honey pot ever devised to provide essentially infinite funding to grow the bureaucracies in completely futile efforts supposedly to change the weather, but which will never be measurable, never have any real effect, and will have no possibility of accountability.
The text of the Assessment consists of endlessly repeated claims of impending disaster without any scientific backup to enable an intelligent reader to evaluate whether there is anything to this. Here are just a few quotes to give you a sense of what you are dealing with:
The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses.
It’s “preeminent,” so I guess you must obey, peasant.
The effects of human-caused climate change are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States. Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions can limit future warming and associated increases in many risks. . . . [W]ithout deeper cuts in global net greenhouse gas emissions and accelerated adaptation efforts, severe climate risks to the United States will continue to grow. . . . The more the planet warms, the greater the impacts. Without rapid and deep reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, the risks of accelerating sea level rise, intensifying extreme weather, and other harmful climate impacts will continue to grow. Each additional increment of warming is expected to lead to more damage and greater economic losses.
But don’t worry, we can all be saved by following the dictates and mandates of our lords and masters throughout the federal bureaucracies:
[R]apid emissions cuts are expected to have immediate health and economic benefits . . . . At the national scale, the benefits of deep emissions cuts for current and future generations are expected to far outweigh the costs.
And on and on and on.
Back to the real world. From an Indian source called Live Mint, November 13:
New Delhi: The Union coal ministry on Monday announced plans to increase India’s coal production to 1.404 billion tonne by 2027, with an eye to further boost it to 1.577 billion tonne by 2030. Current domestic production hovers around one billion tonne annually. This increase in output aims to ensure ample supply of domestic coal to India’s thermal power plants, which are essential for the country’s growing energy needs.
That would represent about a 60% increase in coal production and consumption over the next seven years. Here is a chart of trends to date and plans through 2030:
Hey, the Indians think that if we can have air conditioning, they should have it too.
And don’t think China is any different. From Foreign Policy, November 12:
In April 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to “strictly control coal-fired power generation projects” in China. Since then, government permits for new coal power plants have soared. According to analysis of Global Energy Monitor data, in the two years before Xi’s pledge, the government approved 127 plants, collectively capable of producing 54 gigawatts of coal power. In the two years after, that number rose to 182 plants, with 131 gigawatts of coal power. In short, China’s new coal power capacity has more than doubled.
Is it possible for the cognitive dissonance to get any greater? I don’t see how. But then, I also thought that before this latest round of craziness.
I remember hearing on one of the Hillsdale College online courses (Dr. Larry Arnn?) that there are something on the order of 2,000 plus USA federal agencies/departments/entities. So only having 14 of them as part of your ‘team’ isn’t much of an accomplishment. They can do better. Notice though.
And all states have similar burro-ocracies and all communities. All seeking more funding. All harassing us with ever higher taxes and more paper work. Here in Wokeachusetts, the governor has enlisted EVERY state agency to fight the evil molecule, CO2. It’s all hands on deck. A full court press. All of academia in this academia rich state. And, all of the media. And almost 100% of the politicians. I’m unaware of a single politician who shows any skepticism, though there maybe a few- but they’re hiding of course. Anyone who might want to come here- I’d say, “abandon hope all ye who enter here”.
its a disease that’s everywhere in the Western economies.
CNN Business reported today on Christine Legard, the head of the European Bank:
(CNN Business)
Where is this all going? We sure need the Donald now.
Duck?
Donald Duck would probably do a much better job than Biden
Every administration makes errors.
Where is the Republican Party that is supposed to correct Democratic Party errors?
I sure hope they haven’t all invested in the Green Energy myth.
Whaaa-ha-hah-hah!
Good one!
No liberal shall institute any new policy not previously decided upon, and no conservative shall impede anything already planned.
Because political parties are mere mafia gangs, hired to execute the policy handed to the by those so psychotic, even the criminals running your government is afraid of them.
You vote is much appreciated, it helps maintain the illusion of your participation in the political process.
Just keep Scrooge McDuck away from the federal trough!
Is it criminal to advertise for a criminal?
America just need two new candidates, somebody same for a change would be nice!
I’ve heard the same thing every US election in my life, no exceptions. All “two new candidates” buys is a want for two more new candidates.
https://www.deccanherald.com/environment/asia-leads-global-race-in-renewables-report-2774928
Yeah, that’s a good example of the last ditch efforts of the ministry of truth end-of-days hysterics.
Global warming? Climate Change? Federal Agencies? It’s over now, because the Biden Administration has directed the USA Department of Defense to fight Climate Change. This means, at a very high confidence level, that we are going to nuke the whole globe into a Nuclear Winter.
Make earth frozen again.
The Earth is still in a 2.56 million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation.
Twenty percent of the land is either permafrost or covered by glaciers.
You wrote the same thing twice in this section – and both times it doesn’t really fit – are you a bot?
I’m coming to that conclusion as well, no appropriate remarks, just one or two facts, a link and the posts are repetitive – almost identical, word for word with previous ones. Either an AI or someone with a very limited range of things to say.
Make Armageddon Great Again?
Lysenko lives!
“The text of the Assessment consists of endlessly repeated claims of impending disaster without any scientific backup to enable an intelligent reader to evaluate whether there is anything to this.”
As I’ve noted in previous topics on this site, there is a movement to end large scale solar “farms” in Wokeachusetts. Instead, they think they can reach net zero nirvana with solar on roofs and parking lots.
“Growing Solar, Protecting Nature”.
https://www.massaudubon.org/our-work/publications-resources/growing-solar-protecting-nature
Led by Harvard Forest researchers and MA Audubon (the most powerful enviro group).
In the executive summary you’ll see their view summarized in a few words, “absolute urgency of the climate crisis”.
Not just urgent- but absolute urgency!
I love the image at the top of story- the rising evil- the new Satan. His name is Carbon Pollution! I wouldn’t be surprised if the alarmists start using it. 🙂
“”””…the image at the top of story….
That bird looks to me exactly like a Sparrow Hawk (UK vernacular)
They are insatiable hunters of the small birds, (real) sparrows, wrens, robins, tits and finches.
They will also take on things twice their size, especially pigeons.
If you see one of those shits in your garden and actually care about hearing a ‘dawn chorus’. get a pellet gun and keep it handy with some ammo
oops- I meant the image at the top of this essay- not the image at Audubon’s web site
Why do I get the impression from the Audubon Society, that you linked to, that they want nature on their terms? ‘Nature’ as a series of sanitised wildlife sanctuaries, carefully fenced and signposted, arranged and organised for visiting schoolchildren and families at weekends? But not a natural nature, managed but allowed to grow and develop in its own way, just some sanitised middle-class view of nature as a park or garden.
There was some show on PBS here near Detroit a few days ago, they are talking about tearing down empty, rotting houses in Detroit and putting up solar panels in their place. I suppose they will need federal grants and state money and many subsidies to do it. This is along with using vacant city land as farm land.
Guess better than rotting houses or parking lots.
Better to build new housing and get industry back.
Wrong order.
IF industry returned, THEN workers would be needed. THEN new housing would be needed.
BUT, like your home state, Detroit’s government will never reduce tax rates to encourage industry to return. They are too busy spending all the tax money on their chosen “necessities”.
Whatever- the point being we shouldn’t think tearing down rotting houses and installing solar- scattered all over a large area is a wise idea.
Here, most industry is gone- other than world class hospitals, universities and some high tech like genetic engineering. So we import almost everything- most from China, but the state claims it’s now the most energy efficient state- ignoring that we import all those products produced thanks to ff in China- despite my reminding them. If we’re gonna count carbon- we must count imported products produced with the help of ff. How this is ignored by the MSM escapes me.
Not just produced but also imported with the help of fossil fuels!
MSM skews young, liberal, educated, and lives in better weather because it can.
If industry comes back to urban USA, then the workers will be electronics, metal and plastic. The nineteenth century isn’t coming back.
Humans don’t need to live in Detroit anymore.
and public servants.
“The working class can kiss my ass
I’ve got a Council job at last”.
Not in Detroit maybe, but some industries in America are doing OK, especially auto companies down in Dixie.
They were doing better before they decided to start making EV’s.
Without copper wire to connect the panels? The aluminum mounts for the panels will bring 44 cents a pound too. Scrap value of panels is questionable since they will probably be broken.
Lots of low income people in Detroit and a high crime rate. Then put solar all over the city? Those installations won’t last long.
I should have scanned down before commenting. You’re definitely correct.
Ooh, copper wire. I predict that scrap yards will get some new business.
Does anyone know how much copper is in an industrial wind turbine?
Pushing 5 tons not including transmission lines.
Wow! Thanks.
I think the transmission lines are aluminum. Does anyone use copper overhead any more?
Can’t do that!
Per policies and pronouncements by Pothole Pete, that would be another example of environmental INJUSTICE.
Watch for large investment forms buying abandoned houses in Detroit starting s few years before.
I noted an obvious mistake in the above article’s second paragraph, which I’ve duly identified here by strikethrough and inserted bold text:
“Have you heard of the USGCRP? It’s some kind of consortium of every U.S. government agency and department that
touches onfeeds at the “climate” issue trough in any way.”/sarc
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“Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions can limit future warming and associated increases in many risks. . . . [W]ithout deeper cuts in global net greenhouse gas emissions and accelerated adaptation efforts, severe climate risks to the United States will continue to grow. . . .”
Experts warn Biden’s agreement with China to shut down fossil fuels will harm Americans | Fox News
At the APEC summit in San Francisco, Biden has worked out an agreement with China’s President Xi to phase out U.S. fossil fuels for “green” energy which will unsurprisingly include wind turbines, solar panels and EV car batteries (and probably other EV components) bought from China.
“U.S. energy experts are warning of the economic and national security implications of President Biden’s pact with China this week to move towards shutting down fossil fuel production in favor of green energy.
The State Department announced this week it had struck a deal with its Chinese counterparts pledging to “accelerate the substitution for coal, oil and gas generation” with green energy sources like wind and solar power. The nations, which account for nearly half of global greenhouse gas emissions, also agreed to “deepen policy exchanges” on reducing carbon emissions in various sectors, like power, industry, buildings and transportation, across their economies.”
So, not only is the administration doubling down on climate alarmism with the recent NCA report, but they are also attempting to double down on EV’s, wind and solar while still pledging to draw down fossil fuel production. What will actually come of this agreement remains to be seen.
China is making an even bigger idiot out of the U.S. with [LET’S GO] BRANDON still in the White House. Brandon is becoming a national embarrassment for the U.S.
No wonder Xi was smiling so much after this pow wow- and Chinese social media is overjoyed- saying nice things about America.
I can only conclude from its policies that the Biden Administration is actually malevolent and intends to harm the interests of the United States.
Where is the GOP to contest this?
The GOP barely has control of one half of one of the three branches of government, and that by only about three votes, so it’s difficult to contest things in this kind of situation.
But, considering the circumstances, I think the House GOP is doing a pretty good job. Eliminating the last minute omnibus spending bills is one good job.
Before, Nancy Pelosi would send a bill to be voted on right before Congress adjouns for Christmas, numbering in thousands of pages, which nobody could read in its entirely before the vote is held, so they don’t know what they are voting on and waste Trillions of dollars in the process.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has put a stop to that.
Surprised that its very first ‘policy’ somehow eluded you. (destroying ff production)
The USGCRP (G-crap) was created by law in 1990. They just produce an annual report “Our Changing Planet” touting their members’ accomplishments and the periodic National Scare including this 5th one. The reported combined climate funding of their member agencies runs $2.6 billion a year but there is a lot more hidden away. See https://www.globalchange.gov/
These professional federal alarmists are well funded and deeply entrenched.
‘The USGCRP (G-crap) was created by law in 1990.’
That would be during the reign of Bush the Elder. Doesn’t seem to matter much which wing of the uni-party rules over us.
Of course it doesn’t. It’s not a matter of which party but rather party or no party. If you crave a proper democracy you have to have independents. The more the better.
Most voters think they must vote for the good party because only a party can beat the bad party. That is a mind trap that will give you what you have got. There is only one way out.
I absolutely love this paragraph!
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The effects of human-caused climate change are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States. Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions can limit future warming and associated increases in many risks. . . . [W]ithout deeper cuts in global net greenhouse gas emissions and accelerated adaptation efforts, severe climate risks to the United States will continue to grow. . . . The more the planet warms, the greater the impacts. Without rapid and deep reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, the risks of accelerating sea level rise, intensifying extreme weather, and other harmful climate impacts will continue to grow. Each additional increment of warming is expected to lead to more damage and greater economic losses.
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I believe every sentence to be true!
With statements like that you can justify almost anything.
Replace a few words and you have a statement recommending maximum car speed of 2 miles per hour! Or having corn fields!
I believe you could write it either in favor or against satellites as having them poses some risks as well as not having them!
_I just wonder how much tax money this paragraph in itself cost! It´s truely genius
Oh and of course you can rewrite is to point out that measures based on uncertain science are risky:
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The effects of [human-caused climate change] (the Green Energy agenda) are already far-reaching and [worsening across] (affecting) every region of the United States. [Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions] (Providing affordable and reliable energy) can [limit future warming and associated increases in many risks] (provides economic growth and increases associated health and welfare). . . . [W]ithout [deeper cuts in global net greenhouse gas emissions] (new and better ways to imporve the electricity grid) and accelerated adaptation efforts, severe [climate] (social) risks to the United States will continue to grow. . . . The more the [planet warms] (Americas grid is affected by Green Energy measures), the greater the impacts. Without rapid and deep reductions in [global greenhouse gas emissions] (increased cost and instability) from [human] (USGCRP) activities, the risks of accelerating [sea level rise, intensifying extreme weather] (costs and blackout durations and areas), and other harmful [climate] (energy grid) impacts will continue to grow. Each additional increment of [warming] (Green Energy) is expected to lead to more damage and greater economic losses.
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Replace [..] with (..)
It is true genius boiler plate!
According to Grammarly it´s not even plagiarsm..
The original paragraph:
My version (after all rectangular brackets were replaced and I corrected my two typos:
The long-term climate that the Earth is in is a 2.56 million-year ice age named The Quaternary Glaciation. Twenty percent of the land is either permafrost or covered by glaciers.
Bot.
The name UGHitsCRaP tells you everything you need to know.
I love this part: “All to support the greatest and hugest honey pot ever devised to provide essentially infinite funding to grow the bureaucracies in completely futile efforts supposedly to change the weather, but which will never be measurable, never have any real effect, and will have no possibility of accountability.”
So well said!
Meanwhile back in the UK our government goes full steam ahead to wreck our economy.
While we’ve closed our coal mines and we are closing the last of our coal fired power stations,
India’s increase in coal production by 2030 will be twice the amount we ever produced, which peaked in 1913 at 292 million tonne.
Cognativedissonance is too small a word for it.
There are reasons for people who do not believe CO2 is a negative to dislike coal power.
Coal is just old wood that has been compressed and heated by Mother Nature for easier underground storage.
Re climate scare:
“the cognitive dissonance has reached almost impossible levels.
This is an unfailing symptom and harbinger of the end-of-days for such a meme. Its energy is the frenetic chicken-with-head-chopped-off gymnastics. I remember on geological fieldwork in northern Canada in a dry summer, boiling up tea water taken from a swamp. Swamp bugs usually swim about lazily in their paradise, but as the water was heated over the fire they whizzed around accelerating to dizzying speeds before suddenly stopping. Throwing a handful of tea in the boiling water miraculously cleared the water.
The mess following the collapse of the Communist Anthropo Global Warming trickery won’t be so easy.
“the green energy schemes, offered as salvation from the apocalypse, experience soaring costs and pervasive financial collapse.”
That is as it should be. The climate scare was designed to redistribute wealth, not to do anything useful.
It really is hard to wrap your head around Climate Religion. EV car sales are MIA, big wind projects are DOA and the poor countries are building coal power plants ASAP. Given all these facts, how can people still sing the hymnals of the climate religion? Must be a powerful brainwashing that has happened on a mass scale.
Oh, that’s easy: greed or coercion.
They heard if they climb on the bandwagon they will get big funding. It’s not complicated. I have seen clear examples.
It is often in the form of a quid pro quo. We give you this aid you desperately need if you support this idea in your country or promote condoms or gay rights. Look at the tail end clauses of a USAID emergency food contract.
These deals (or consequences) are real. You may not be aware that there will be no more international finance for Uganda because of their reaction to the gay/trans promotion requirements. There are substantial benefits/harms for going/not going along with these agendas.
Be kind. These are offers they can’t refuse.
“It’s “preeminent,” so I guess you must obey, peasant.”
Probably not far off. In the Catholic Church I think “Your Eminence” is the approved term to use when addressing a Cardinal.
Not that peasants like us are likely to be granted such an audience with the high priests of global boiling.
Well, here’s an example of the thinking of our political leaders advising us on the dangers of warming…
Oh ye of little imagination.
This shows the beginnings of your journey to enlightenment, but you may need a few more decades of experience with politicians and bureaucrats before achieving the “appropriate” level of cynicism.
As Einstein (allegedly) said :
Imagine paying $100k for a climate-related college degree in 2030. That person is now a HS sophomore.
The Grand Solar Minimum that has just started may wake people up.
They need the BS to provide the chief snake oil salesman, “Lurch” Kerry and others to continue their endless sales campaign.
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Been following their budget since 2014 LINK
with some Wayback sleuthing for earlier years:
YEAR BILLIONS
1989 0.134
1990 0.659
1991 0.954
1992 1.11
1993 1.326
1994 1.444
1995 1.76
1996 1.654
1997 1.656
1998 1.677
1999 1.657
2000 1.687
2001 1.728
2002 1.667
2003 1.766
2004 1.975
2005 1.865
2006 1.691
2007 1.825
2008 1.864
2009 2.08
2010 2.122
2011 2.561
2012 2.642
2013 2.379
2014 2.489
2015 2.474
2016 2.599
2017 2.585
2018 2.546
2019 2.451
2020 2.461
2021 3.401
2022 3.754
Total 66.643
Proof that you get what you pay for.
Or that people will do anything for the right money? Every man has his price, and all that.
Essentially every sentence in that statement is a lie.
It contradicts hard data published by some of those very same agencies!
Arrgh!
In the field at the bottom of my garden, a ‘wholesale nurseryman’ is doing his business.
The original notable things were 200,000 baby rose bushes (now all ‘harvested’) and now he’s moved to harvest his modest crop of “Prunus Rotundifolia”
aka Cherry Laurel = an evergreen bush with very green rounded leaves, usually planted as a hedge here in the UK
Benign, soft & gentle, not spiky/prickly but a bit toxic if livestock eat a lot of it.
The rate at which those plants grew over the last 18 months simply blew my mind. They did nothing the first year when they were planted as 6″ twigs with half-a-dozen leaves.
But this year, they just went ballistic and are now 4 and 5ft ft tall and the bed they are in is impenetrable. You cannot see the rows they are planted in nor make out individual plants.
I ‘borrowed’ one off the back of the harvester machine and weighed it -it was about 5 kilograms.
Roots and all and with all the soil shaken off by the harvester itself.
Straight out of the ground and after ‘the weather’ we’ve had here, I would guesstimate that ⅔ of that weight was = water
So = 1.5 kg of lignin and cellulose – take that as 1.5kg of CO₂
At the planting density used in the nursery (20,000 per hectare) and if ⅔ of Australia (2 million square miles) was planted with that, the whole world could forget about rising CO₂ levels
If all of Australia was planted, CO₂ levels would go into decline no matter how much coal China/India digs up and burns.
It is not an invasive plant, not very toxic.
Grow it on a 5 or 6 year rotation, cut it, chop it then bury the entire plant in the soil where it grew and put some new ones back there.
Inside 2 generations, gently re-introduce the ‘rainforest plants’ (don’t harvest them) and Bingo. you’ve undone 100,000 years of wanton burning and destruction.
It’ll put the brakes on Antarctic Cooling if nothing else AND, YMMV on this, completely cancel out ENSO
No more El Nino or La Nana
A guy I don’t know wrote a more detailed version of the same thought in one of my favorite blog posts of all time – e m Smith analyzing bamboo growth in “Musings of Chiefio” blog like 15 years ago.
“(don’t harvest them)” isn’t good enough. Eventually they’ll die. The key is not to let them rot, even below ground. I like dumping them in Antarctic crevices. Also, plant growth rate is not linear over a plant’s life. For the 60 billion patronage money dumped into the organization from WUWT’s article, some team could have become super efficient at dumping cellulose in ice cracks.
I’m glad they didn’t, I’d like Earth to feel a little warmer.
Until you realise that those plants are not necessarily net CO2 sinks. The species matters, the time of year matters, the latitude matters (hours of daylight and night). Plants in equatorial regions may well be CO2 sinks, plants in temperate latitudes probably not, especially in the very cool or very hot times of year when they go dormant.
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https://www.energylivenews.com/2023/11/17/octopus-energy-launches-3bn-offshore-wind-fund-with-tokyo-gas/
Hmmmm – seems to be an oxymoron
You can also launch Tokyo gas with pan fried zucchini.
The climate crisis groupthink enslaving elites, western leaders, eco loons etc etc, is driven by a few things
> greed (globalist elites + renewables developers/owners & shareholders)
> Marxist ideology (lefties + academia)
> ignorance (useful idiots)
The last two are fleeting, part of a bigger left wing purge on capitalism and western values
The first one is the main driver and will last as long as the cash does
Our only hope of a return to energy sanity, is that the cash runs out sooner rather than later
That cash is yours and mine. When it runs out things will get really ugly.
It is the nature of bureaucracies, like all cancers, to metastasize continuously,and, eventually out of control. Without radical treatment (cut the damn thing out) it will kill the host–ie, taxpayers. We need a surgeon rather than the same old politicians to destroy the bureaucratic cancer, and right the ship of state.
The US government is not funded with taxes anymore.
DJT demonstrated clearly that the POTUS can’t control the bureaucracy. If there is a solution it will require Congress.
Yes, it will take a Republican president and a Republican Congress to reign in the federal government bureaucracy.
There’s a chance that could happen.
With millions more people dying from cold weather than hot weather each year, what is the point of trying to keep the Earth cold near Little Ice Age temperatures?
The long-term climate of the Earth is still a 2.58-million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation. That fact is seldom mentioned in “Climate Change” stories and reports.
The Earth is in a warmer but still cold interglacial period that happens about every 100,000 years and lasts about 10,000 years which alternates with a cold glacial period that lasts about 90,000 years. The Earth still has around 200,000 glaciers and 11 percent of the land is permafrost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
The climate “scientists” have had the word “climate” redefined, so that now around 30 years is the so-called “climate”, so it is always changing.
This recent study shows that the cold weather we have every year causes about 4.6 million deaths a year globally mainly through increased strokes and heart attacks, compared with about 500,000 deaths a year from hot weather.
We can’t easily protect our lungs from the cold air in the winter and that causes our blood vessels to constrict causing blood pressure to increase leading to heart attacks and strokes.
‘Global, regional and national burden of mortality associated with nonoptimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
This study from 2015 says that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather and that moderately warm or cool weather kills far more people than extreme weather. Increased strokes and heart attacks from cool weather are the main cause of the weather-related deaths.
‘Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multi-country observational study’ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext
This is proof that the government should never be allowed to be in charge of anything. They are liars and cheats.
What did you expect when you voted for a party that bought your vote? honesty?
Suppose President Biden could somehow convince Premier Modi to reverse India’s energy policy 180 degrees and to begin pursuing a zero carbon transition strategy. (A very iffy assumption, to be sure.)
Here is my rough visual guesstimate as to the project work scope India would need in order to dial back its CO2 emissions to 1970 levels by the year 2070, relative to the project work scope which was needed previously to expand India’s fossil-fueled energy production between 1970 and 2020.
The assumed project work scope 2020-2070 includes the total scope of work needed to be performed in all nations impacted by an Indian decision to pursue a zero emission energy future.
It includes decommissioning and environmental remediation of India’s existing fossil fuel energy infrastructure; extraction of the raw materials needed for the renewable energy systems; manufacture of the renewable energy systems; the siting and construction of new wind, solar, and battery storage facilities inside Indian territory; and the progressive replacement of those new facilites between about 2040 and 2070 as they reach the end of their assumed twenty-year service lives.
Pretty thought-provoking image. Send it to brandon, will you?
Sorry, that should read “send it to obama”…
The fact that the Asia-Pacific region now is accounting for 80% of global coal demand and is building new coal plants so fast that worldwide Net Zero is impossible tells us further that no one is really paying any serious attention to climate alarmism, regardless of the source. Facts like this should tell the environmentalists that they’re on a sinking ship but they just don’t want to admit it.
Worldwide, CO2 emissions will continue to climb at least as quickly as they have been, probably faster.
Any country pretending that Net Zero is any sort of solution to anything, especially a totally FAKE CO2 problem…
… really has the most idiotic and clueless people advising them, and even stupider people in charge of pushing the agenda.
They actually think we are stupid enough to fall for this crap!
I am trying not to get overconfident here, but the renewed frenetic effort is maybe a sign the Climatrons are realising the horrible truth, their Climatism narrative is finding less and less credibility among the population, is facing more and more opposition and challenge from credible sources finding a wide audience thanks to the Web, so they feel they are losing their grip on the greasy pole, so must tighten it and make the most of it whilst they can.
It’s moved beyond the ‘conspiracy theorists’, people in the wider population are feeling the cost, see the list of failed predicted dooms, and the absurdities.
My feeling is, they will begin their slide to ignominy, just a matter of time.
From the article: “In April 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to “strictly control coal-fired power generation projects” in China. Since then, government permits for new coal power plants have soared. According to analysis of Global Energy Monitor data, in the two years before Xi’s pledge, the government approved 127 plants, collectively capable of producing 54 gigawatts of coal power. In the two years after, that number rose to 182 plants, with 131 gigawatts of coal power. In short, China’s new coal power capacity has more than doubled.”
Which just goes to show we can’t trust the Chicoms to honor any deal they make. They are laughing at Western politicians.
Did you really, even for one second, think that the Chinese would honour any deal not overwhelmingly in their favour? Of course they are laughing at Western politicians – because our politicians are a joke and have been for some years now. Our bought and paid for political class trade agreements and deals back and forth amongst themselves while abasing themselves before the international markets and banks, in an obscene toothless parody of international diplomacy that any past statesman would be deeply ashamed of.
The West has become a tired joke – most of the industry and innovation has moved away and we are just service industry countries – tourism and dwindling financial markets. Why on earth shouldn’t the Chinese laugh at us, we deserve it for letting this happen.
“Did you really, even for one second, think that the Chinese would honour any deal not overwhelmingly in their favour?”
No, not me. I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them.
But our radical leftists still think they can make a deal with dictators.
And Joe is hoping XI doesn’t spill the beans on all that money (millions of dollars), the Chicoms gave to the Biden family.
It appears the Biden “Justice” Department is going to let Biden off scott free over his illegal possession of classified documents. Another example of a two-tiered justice system: Democrats get off free and Republicans are prosecuted not only to the full extent of the law, but beyond that into lawlessness.
One possible good thing to come out of this is if the “Justice” Department allows Biden to skate, then that allows the Republican Congress to request to see those clasified documents, since they are no longer entangled in a court case, to see whether the documents were pertinent to the bribes Biden got from bad actors all over the world.
Maybe there is a correlation between the classified documents and the actions Joe Biden took to assist the bad actors.
Joe Biden = The Worst, Most Destructive President Evah!
The damage Biden is doing to our nation is unbelievable.