climatechangedispatch--2020-09-08--What Really Led To California’s Incessant Blackouts: A Timeline

Written by Chuck DeVore on .
Posted in Latest news Journalist H. L. Mencken described the unintended consequences of governance like this : “ Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want , and deserve to get it good and hard.
” In energy and environmental policy , California ’ s gotten it “ good and hard ” in recent years .
Record wildfires .
Rolling blackouts .
Politicians like Democrat Gov .
Gavin Newsom blame global warming and President Donald Trump for California ’ s woes .
Yet Newsom has cautiously moved to mitigate some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ missteps by increasing efforts to clear forests of fuel and allowing some natural gas power plants to remain open for a few more years to reduce the threat of blackouts caused by an overreliance on unreliable wind and solar power .
Giving policymakers the benefit of the doubt—that they didn ’ t intend to promote policies that resulted in burned towns , scores of deaths , and widespread power outages—how did they arrive at this point ?
A brief timeline of key events illuminates how policy is made and how it can go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s climate , shaped by cool Pacific currents and mountains , is Mediterranean , with generally low humidity and an average annual rainfall of 18 inches ( falling mostly in the winter ) , leaving much of the state very dry by the late fall .
Mountains and cool ocean waters combine to create inversion layers in many of the state ’ s basins , trapping smoke and dust .
Before the 1840s : Spanish explorers and then Mexican migrants totaling fewer than 10,000 people settle around a string of 21 Catholic missions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just north of San Francisco .
Imperial Russia establishes Fort Ross in 1812 , about 80 miles up the coast from San Francisco .
Most of California ’ s interior remains the domain of Native American tribes who frequently burn the pine forests to create grassland , which produces more food and game animals .
1849 to 1970 : With the discovery of gold in 1849 , Americans—and others as far away as Europe and China—rush into California , rapidly increasing the population by 300,000 .
The fires Native Americans purposefully set are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and destroy valuable timber .
Fire suppression and timber harvesting gradually become more organized .
Through 1990 , approximately as much timber is harvested as grows naturally every year .
1959 : California ’ s first air quality law is passed as growing postwar urbanization , combined with persistent inversion layers primarily in the Los Angeles basin , causes frequent smog .
1968 : The first major high-voltage line connects California to the Pacific Northwest ’ s abundant hydroelectric resources .
California imports power from the Northwest during the summer and exports power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ California will become the nation ’ s largest importer of electricity , partly driven by air-quality regulations that discourage the construction of new fossil-fueled power plants in the state .
1976 : California enacts a ban on the construction of “ new nuclear fission power plants until the California Energy Commission ( CEC ) has determined that technologies exist for the reprocessing of nuclear fuel rods and the disposal of high-level nuclear waste.
” 1994 : Due to concerns over the Northern Spotted Owl population , whose habitat ranges from Northern California to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Clinton ’ s Northwest Forest Plan will stand , dealing a blow to the Western timber industry , from which it never recovers .
Forests begin accumulating more fuel than is harvested or burned .
1996 : California partially deregulates its electric market , allowing consumer choice and wholesale competition , but regulating retail prices .
2001 : California ’ s partial electric deregulation builds to a crisis with widespread blackouts caused by capped retail prices , delays in the construction of new power plants , and market manipulation by suppliers and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its Renewable Portfolio Standard Program , requiring the state to increase its use of renewable generation for electricity to 20 percent by 2017 .
2003 : The electric crisis and tax increases needed to address a large budget shortfall led to the recall of Democratic Gov .
Gray Davis in November 2003 .
2005 : California Republican Gov .
Arnold Schwarzenegger supports five government reform ballot measures during a November special election .
Labor unions and other interests spend more than $ 150 million to defeat the measures , often deploying harsh personal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are defeated .
Political pundits widely assume that Schwarzenegger ’ s improbable political career will end in defeat after the 2006 election .
2006 : Moving to the left , Schwarzenegger signs a series of environmental energy bills : SB 1 , the Million Solar Roofs Initiative , to incentivize mostly upper-class homeowners to install 3,000 megawatts of rooftop solar panels ; AB 32 , the California Global Warming Solutions Act , which aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and then reduce them by another 30 percent—leading to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work by 2010 ; SB 107 , accelerating the Renewable Portfolio Standard by at least 1 percent of retail sales annually to reach 20 percent by 2010 ( the Great Recession allowed the target to be met by greatly reducing electrical demand ) ; and SB 1368 , banning the renewal of electricity contracts from mostly out-of-state coal power plants .
One argument used in urging the shift away from natural gas power was that North America was running out of natural gas , with the expectation that nine large liquified natural gas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ along the West Coast from Canada to Mexico to meet demand .
Wellhead natural gas prices in California had moved from $ 1.50 per thousand cubic feet in 1994 to $ 7.45 in 2005 , a 397 percent increase .
Modern hydraulic fracturing ( fracking ) techniques soon upended those projections , reducing the cost of natural gas by 70 percent and unexpectedly reducing the cost to California consumers of the transition to renewable energy .
2006 : On July 24 , California hits its largest peak demand for electricity , 50,270 megawatts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by this article ’ s author ) to lift California ’ s ban on new nuclear power plants to meet the state ’ s ambitious greenhouse gas reduction law fails in committee .
2008 : Schwarzenegger signs Executive Order S-14-08 , increasing California ’ s Renewable Portfolio Standard to 33 percent by 2020 and further accelerating the renewable goal from 20 percent by 2017 to 20 percent by 2010 .
Meanwhile , the deep recession reduces electrical demand , allowing politicians to claim credit for the increased percentage of renewable power even as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ declined .
2012 : San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station closes , removing 20 percent of Southern California ’ s power supply and leaving one remaining nuclear-generating station in California—Diablo Canyon Power Plant ( pictured ) , which provides about 8 percent of the in-state generation and is due to close in 2024-25 .
2012 : PG & E , California ’ s largest electric utility , requests a $ 4.84 billion rate increase for powerline safety upgrades and maintenance .
The request is denied as environmental groups fret that the higher energy costs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The decision leads to the deaths of 85 people six years later in a preventable wildfire .
2015 : SB 350 , by state Sen. Kevin de León , the leader of the California Senate , passes .
The law further increases California ’ s renewable electricity procurement goal from 33 percent by 2020 to 50 percent by 2030 .
De León uses the bill in his unsuccessful campaign to unseat California Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2018 , even winning the endorsement of the California Democratic Party .
2018 : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with SB 100 , hiking them to 60 percent by 2030 and 100 percent zero-carbon by 2045 .
2018 : In November , the powerline-sparked Camp Fire becomes California ’ s deadliest wildfire , killing 85 people .
Politicians widely blame climate change and PG & E for the conflagration .
But years of not harvesting and cleaning the forests have led to a dangerous fuel build-up while PG & E , ordered to heavily invest in renewables by politicians and regulators , had little money for powerline safety upgrades .
2019 : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ swaths of its Northern California service area to prevent aging powerlines from sparking fires during a high-wind event .
2019 : The Navajo Generating Station in Northern Arizona near Page , the West ’ s largest coal-fired power plant , goes offline in November after reliably providing 2,250 MW of electricity for more than 40 years .
Originally intended to be part of a larger system of hydroelectric power plants on the Colorado River , environmentalists briefly pressured for a nuclear power plant to be built instead—the coal plant was a compromise .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the nearby Navajo Nation , the two sites provided about 1,000 high-paying jobs , mostly to Native Americans .
Before its decommissioning as a result of California ’ s policies ( cheap solar ) , the Obama administration ’ s war on coal , and inexpensive natural gas due to fracking , it provided almost two percent of the entire Western Interconnection ’ s power .
2020 : California experiences rolling blackouts due to insufficient electricity supplies for the first time since 2001 .
Newsom suggests that four aging natural gas powerplants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to prevent blackouts , saying , “ We can not sacrifice reliability as we move forward in this transition… We failed to predict and plan [ for ] these shortages… ” Some of us have been predicting these electrical shortages for some time now .
Unfortunately for California ’ s electric ratepayers , something must give .
Physics and economics—not policy and good intentions—dictate that some combination of three things will happen : more blackouts ; far higher electric rates to build $ 300 billion in battery farms and billions more for upgraded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by 2030 renewable goal ; or the acceptance that reliable power from fossil fuels and nuclear must be in the mix .
Read more at The Federalist

Written by Chuck DeVore on Sep 8, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Journalist H. L. Mencken described the unintended consequences of governance like this: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
In energy and environmental policy, California’s gotten it “good and hard” in recent years. Record wildfires. Rolling blackouts.
Politicians like Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom blame global warming and President Donald Trump for California’s woes.
Yet Newsom has cautiously moved to mitigate some of his state’s past policy missteps by increasing efforts to clear forests of fuel and allowing some natural gas power plants to remain open for a few more years to reduce the threat of blackouts caused by an overreliance on unreliable wind and solar power.
Giving policymakers the benefit of the doubt—that they didn’t intend to promote policies that resulted in burned towns, scores of deaths, and widespread power outages—how did they arrive at this point?
A brief timeline of key events illuminates how policy is made and how it can go terribly wrong.
The History of California’s Energy Mismanagement
Prehistoric: California’s climate, shaped by cool Pacific currents and mountains, is Mediterranean, with generally low humidity and an average annual rainfall of 18 inches (falling mostly in the winter), leaving much of the state very dry by the late fall. Mountains and cool ocean waters combine to create inversion layers in many of the state’s basins, trapping smoke and dust.
Before the 1840s: Spanish explorers and then Mexican migrants totaling fewer than 10,000 people settle around a string of 21 Catholic missions along the coast from San Diego to just north of San Francisco. Imperial Russia establishes Fort Ross in 1812, about 80 miles up the coast from San Francisco.
Most of California’s interior remains the domain of Native American tribes who frequently burn the pine forests to create grassland, which produces more food and game animals.
1849 to 1970: With the discovery of gold in 1849, Americans—and others as far away as Europe and China—rush into California, rapidly increasing the population by 300,000.
The fires Native Americans purposefully set are discouraged, as they threaten permanent structures and destroy valuable timber. Fire suppression and timber harvesting gradually become more organized. Through 1990, approximately as much timber is harvested as grows naturally every year.
1959: California’s first air quality law is passed as growing postwar urbanization, combined with persistent inversion layers primarily in the Los Angeles basin, causes frequent smog.
1968: The first major high-voltage line connects California to the Pacific Northwest’s abundant hydroelectric resources. California imports power from the Northwest during the summer and exports power during the winter.
In time, California will become the nation’s largest importer of electricity, partly driven by air-quality regulations that discourage the construction of new fossil-fueled power plants in the state.
1976: California enacts a ban on the construction of “new nuclear fission power plants until the California Energy Commission (CEC) has determined that technologies exist for the reprocessing of nuclear fuel rods and the disposal of high-level nuclear waste.”
1994: Due to concerns over the Northern Spotted Owl population, whose habitat ranges from Northern California to Washington, a federal judge ruled that President Clinton’s Northwest Forest Plan will stand, dealing a blow to the Western timber industry, from which it never recovers. Forests begin accumulating more fuel than is harvested or burned.
1996: California partially deregulates its electric market, allowing consumer choice and wholesale competition, but regulating retail prices.
2001: California’s partial electric deregulation builds to a crisis with widespread blackouts caused by capped retail prices, delays in the construction of new power plants, and market manipulation by suppliers and energy traders.
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the state’s largest utility, declares bankruptcy, a fate narrowly avoided by Southern California Edison.
2002: California adopts its Renewable Portfolio Standard Program, requiring the state to increase its use of renewable generation for electricity to 20 percent by 2017.
2003: The electric crisis and tax increases needed to address a large budget shortfall led to the recall of Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in November 2003.
2005: California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger supports five government reform ballot measures during a November special election. Labor unions and other interests spend more than $150 million to defeat the measures, often deploying harsh personal attacks on the governor.
All five are defeated. Political pundits widely assume that Schwarzenegger’s improbable political career will end in defeat after the 2006 election.
2006: Moving to the left, Schwarzenegger signs a series of environmental energy bills: SB 1, the Million Solar Roofs Initiative, to incentivize mostly upper-class homeowners to install 3,000 megawatts of rooftop solar panels; AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, which aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and then reduce them by another 30 percent—leading to 10,000 megawatts of renewable power generation in work by 2010; SB 107, accelerating the Renewable Portfolio Standard by at least 1 percent of retail sales annually to reach 20 percent by 2010 (the Great Recession allowed the target to be met by greatly reducing electrical demand); and SB 1368, banning the renewal of electricity contracts from mostly out-of-state coal power plants.
One argument used in urging the shift away from natural gas power was that North America was running out of natural gas, with the expectation that nine large liquified natural gas import terminals would have to be built along the West Coast from Canada to Mexico to meet demand.
Wellhead natural gas prices in California had moved from $1.50 per thousand cubic feet in 1994 to $7.45 in 2005, a 397 percent increase. Modern hydraulic fracturing (fracking) techniques soon upended those projections, reducing the cost of natural gas by 70 percent and unexpectedly reducing the cost to California consumers of the transition to renewable energy.
2006: On July 24, California hits its largest peak demand for electricity, 50,270 megawatts.
Unnecessarily Pitting Energy Against the Environment
2007: A bill (sponsored by this article’s author) to lift California’s ban on new nuclear power plants to meet the state’s ambitious greenhouse gas reduction law fails in committee.
2008: Schwarzenegger signs Executive Order S-14-08, increasing California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard to 33 percent by 2020 and further accelerating the renewable goal from 20 percent by 2017 to 20 percent by 2010.
Meanwhile, the deep recession reduces electrical demand, allowing politicians to claim credit for the increased percentage of renewable power even as the total amount of renewable power produced declined.
2012: San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station closes, removing 20 percent of Southern California’s power supply and leaving one remaining nuclear-generating station in California—Diablo Canyon Power Plant (pictured), which provides about 8 percent of the in-state generation and is due to close in 2024-25.
2012: PG&E, California’s largest electric utility, requests a $4.84 billion rate increase for powerline safety upgrades and maintenance. The request is denied as environmental groups fret that the higher energy costs would undermine public support for renewable energy. The decision leads to the deaths of 85 people six years later in a preventable wildfire.
2015: SB 350, by state Sen. Kevin de León, the leader of the California Senate, passes. The law further increases California’s renewable electricity procurement goal from 33 percent by 2020 to 50 percent by 2030.
De León uses the bill in his unsuccessful campaign to unseat California Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2018, even winning the endorsement of the California Democratic Party.
2018: California again increases its renewable electricity goals with SB 100, hiking them to 60 percent by 2030 and 100 percent zero-carbon by 2045.
2018: In November, the powerline-sparked Camp Fire becomes California’s deadliest wildfire, killing 85 people. Politicians widely blame climate change and PG&E for the conflagration.
But years of not harvesting and cleaning the forests have led to a dangerous fuel build-up while PG&E, ordered to heavily invest in renewables by politicians and regulators, had little money for powerline safety upgrades.
2019: PG&E cuts power to wide swaths of its Northern California service area to prevent aging powerlines from sparking fires during a high-wind event.
2019: The Navajo Generating Station in Northern Arizona near Page, the West’s largest coal-fired power plant, goes offline in November after reliably providing 2,250 MW of electricity for more than 40 years.
Originally intended to be part of a larger system of hydroelectric power plants on the Colorado River, environmentalists briefly pressured for a nuclear power plant to be built instead—the coal plant was a compromise.
With a large source of cleaner-burning coal on the nearby Navajo Nation, the two sites provided about 1,000 high-paying jobs, mostly to Native Americans.
Before its decommissioning as a result of California’s policies (cheap solar), the Obama administration’s war on coal, and inexpensive natural gas due to fracking, it provided almost two percent of the entire Western Interconnection’s power.
2020: California experiences rolling blackouts due to insufficient electricity supplies for the first time since 2001.
Newsom suggests that four aging natural gas powerplants will have to stay operational beyond 2020 to prevent blackouts, saying, “We cannot sacrifice reliability as we move forward in this transition… We failed to predict and plan [for] these shortages…”
Some of us have been predicting these electrical shortages for some time now. Unfortunately for California’s electric ratepayers, something must give.
Physics and economics—not policy and good intentions—dictate that some combination of three things will happen: more blackouts; far higher electric rates to build $300 billion in battery farms and billions more for upgraded power lines to meet the 60 percent by 2030 renewable goal; or the acceptance that reliable power from fossil fuels and nuclear must be in the mix.
Read more at The Federalist
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climatechangedispatch--2020-09-08--Britain’s Net-Zero Utopia Is A ‘Futile’ Exercise

Written by Dr. Benny Peiser , GWPF , guest post on .
Posted in Latest news The objective of unilateral decarbonizing the UK economy ( Net Zero ) , promoted by all major UK political parties , is a futile exercise , according to a new report published today .
The new report shows that there is no realistic chance that the developing world will be following this costly approach in the next 20 years or so .
“ China is , in some way , the largest emitter of greenhouse gases ” , says the report ’ s author @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are still growing .
Yet all we hear in the newspapers is that the Chinese are spearheading a drive for renewables ” In reality , Livermore explains , much of the fast-growing continents of Asia and Africa will continue to expand their use of fossil fuels as they attempt to boost their economies and relieve the grinding poverty of hundreds of millions of people .
And that means that Britain ’ s Net-Zero policy is completely futile as global CO2 emissions continue to rise : “ We are a tiny fraction of global @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rest of the world is going to go on burning fossil fuels .
All we are doing is to weaken the competitiveness of our economy while achieving no reductions in global CO2 emissions.
” Martin Livermore ’ s report , entitled Greenhouse Gas Emissions : The Global Picture is published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation .
It can be downloaded here .

Written by Dr. Benny Peiser, GWPF, guest post on Sep 8, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
The objective of unilateral decarbonizing the UK economy (Net Zero), promoted by all major UK political parties, is a futile exercise, according to a new report published today.
The new report shows that there is no realistic chance that the developing world will be following this costly approach in the next 20 years or so.
“China is, in some way, the largest emitter of greenhouse gases”, says the report’s author Martin Livermore, “and its emissions are still growing. Yet all we hear in the newspapers is that the Chinese are spearheading a drive for renewables”
In reality, Livermore explains, much of the fast-growing continents of Asia and Africa will continue to expand their use of fossil fuels as they attempt to boost their economies and relieve the grinding poverty of hundreds of millions of people.
And that means that Britain’s Net-Zero policy is completely futile as global CO2 emissions continue to rise:
“We are a tiny fraction of global carbon dioxide emissions and most of the rest of the world is going to go on burning fossil fuels. All we are doing is to weaken the competitiveness of our economy while achieving no reductions in global CO2 emissions.”
Martin Livermore’s report, entitled Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Global Picture is published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. It can be downloaded here.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-09-09--Amid Blackouts, Kamala Harris Links California’s Green Schemes To Biden’s

Written by Penny Starr on .
Posted in Latest news Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is using past praise on social media for California ’ s climate change policies to connect followers to former Vice President Joe Biden ’ s 2020 environmental campaign platform .
The move comes as California energy infrastructure has descended into crisis and recently required help from the Trump administration .
“ CA ensures that 1/3 of electricity is from renewable sources , ” Harris first tweeted in February 2016 .
“ Here ’ s how we can make it a model nationwide : ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ directs to a page on Biden ’ s official campaign site describing his environmental plan .
Biden ’ s plan focuses on climate change and environmental justice includes the creation of an “ Office of Climate Change and Health Equity at HHS ” and launching an “ infectious disease defense initiative.
” IT would also use federal taxpayer funding for “ clean energy ” by “ targeting investments made through programs related to clean energy and energy efficiency deployment ; clean transit and transportation ; affordable and sustainable housing ; training and workforce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pollution ; and development of critical clean water infrastructure.
” The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the disastrous situation in California on Tuesday : Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said up to 172,000 customers across 22 counties will have their power cut beginning late Monday to reduce the risk of an electrical line or another piece of equipment sparking life-threatening blazes amid high winds that raise the risk of fires .
Power is restored in stages , location by location .
During shut-offs last year , PG & E said workers might need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but most homes and businesses were back up and running in two days .
The company must inspect all lines for damage before restoring power .
PG & E envisions restoring power for the current round of shut-offs by Wednesday evening .
PG & E instituted the precautionary outages to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires in October 2018 , a year after some of its power lines were blamed for the devastating Wine Country wildfires .
Bill Johnson , then the company ’ s CEO , told state regulators last year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forced power shut-offs unnecessary , but the goal could take a decade to accomplish .
The report also warns that solar panels in California are connected to the power grid and will therefore be shut down too .
The newspaper told readers how they will shoulder the burden of bad energy policies : • Keep phones and other electronics charged while also having backup charging methods available .
• Build or replenish emergency kits that include flashlights , spare batteries , a first-aid kit , emergency food and water , and cash .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ garage door .
• Unplug electrical appliances to avoid overloading circuits and preventing fire hazards when power is restored .
• Store drinking water — 2 gallons per day per person and more for pets , as water delivery services could be affected by a shutdown .

Written by Penny Starr on Sep 9, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is using past praise on social media for California’s climate change policies to connect followers to former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 environmental campaign platform.
The move comes as California energy infrastructure has descended into crisis and recently required help from the Trump administration.
“CA ensures that 1/3 of electricity is from renewable sources,” Harris first tweeted in February 2016. “Here’s how we can make it a model nationwide:”
CA ensures that 1/3 of electricity is from renewable sources. Here’s how we can make it a model nationwide: https://t.co/NuQSwI0QkR — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 9, 2016
The link in the 2016 tweet now directs to a page on Biden’s official campaign site describing his environmental plan.
Biden’s plan focuses on climate change and environmental justice includes the creation of an “Office of Climate Change and Health Equity at HHS” and launching an “infectious disease defense initiative.”
IT would also use federal taxpayer funding for “clean energy” by “targeting investments made through programs related to clean energy and energy efficiency deployment; clean transit and transportation; affordable and sustainable housing; training and workforce development; remediation and reduction of legacy pollution; and development of critical clean water infrastructure.”
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the disastrous situation in California on Tuesday:
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said up to 172,000 customers across 22 counties will have their power cut beginning late Monday to reduce the risk of an electrical line or another piece of equipment sparking life-threatening blazes amid high winds that raise the risk of fires. Power is restored in stages, location by location. During shut-offs last year, PG&E said workers might need up to five days to restore power, but most homes and businesses were back up and running in two days. The company must inspect all lines for damage before restoring power. PG&E envisions restoring power for the current round of shut-offs by Wednesday evening. PG&E instituted the precautionary outages to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires in October 2018, a year after some of its power lines were blamed for the devastating Wine Country wildfires. Bill Johnson, then the company’s CEO, told state regulators last year that his company is working to make forced power shut-offs unnecessary, but the goal could take a decade to accomplish.
The report also warns that solar panels in California are connected to the power grid and will therefore be shut down too.
The people of #California are paying for the failed energy policy of their government. Tonight the Trump Administration took action and authorized immediate federal intervention to assist with this crisis. https://t.co/N9O5tVZbwu — Shaylyn Hynes (@ShayHynes) September 6, 2020
The newspaper told readers how they will shoulder the burden of bad energy policies:
Keep phones and other electronics charged while also having backup charging methods available.
Build or replenish emergency kits that include flashlights, spare batteries, a first-aid kit, emergency food and water, and cash.
Learn how to manually open your garage door.
Unplug electrical appliances to avoid overloading circuits and preventing fire hazards when power is restored.
Store drinking water — 2 gallons per day per person and more for pets, as water delivery services could be affected by a shutdown.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-09-09--As Green Energy Flounders, Environmentalists Embrace Nuclear

Written by Michael Shellenberger on .
Posted in Latest news Environmentalists have long promoted renewable energy sources as better for nature .
But a new study suggests that the expansion of mining for the materials to make solar panels and wind turbines may pose a greater threat than climate change to endangered species .
“ Most mining areas ( 82 % ) target materials needed for renewable energy production , ” note the authors in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications .
And , they add , “ these new threats to biodiversity may surpass those averted by climate change mitigation.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ when the expansion of solar and wind energy is increasing local opposition , raising electricity prices , and contributing to electricity shortages .
Recent electricity outages in California forced the state ’ s governor to acknowledge the dangers posed by attempting to rely on unreliable sources of renewable energy .
“ We can not sacrifice reliability , ” Gov .
Gavin Newsom said on August 17 .
“ We have to sober up to the reality that… we ’ re going to have to do more , and be much more mindful , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ backup and insurance.
” The problem with relying on solar panels is that the sun sets during peak demand , which is between 5 pm and 10 pm , requiring a massive ramping up of natural gas power plants .
And the same lack of wind behind the heatwaves has also meant a lack of electricity from industrial wind turbines .
Meanwhile , environmental resistance is blocking and slowing the expansion of industrial wind and solar energy projects .
In Britain , Greenpeace has opposed a massive new solar farm , “ arguing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on agricultural land ” are not “ the best way to go solar.
’ ” New York environmentalists , meanwhile , “ say large-scale solar installations will spoil beautiful farmland , ” reported Financial Times .
As renewables have faltered , pro-nuclear environmentalists have become increasingly vocal , even in Germany , the world ’ s most anti-nuclear nation .
Last Saturday pro-nuclear activists organized by the German pro-nuclear organization Nuklearia dropped a banner in front of Greenpeace ’ s Germany headquarters .
It read , “ Climate Crisis ?
Nuclear energy !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Greenpeace ’ s Paris headquarters in late June , denouncing the NGO ’ s role in replacing nuclear plants with fossil fuels .
“ Several dozen protesters — wearing face masks — carried banners in front of the Greenpeace headquarters in Paris , with slogans such as ‘ Less nuclear means more coal , ’ ” reported Reuters .
“ In the following weeks , there will be similar rallies , ” reported the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ ) last week , “ where the five other German nuclear power plants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ licenses will soon expire.
” Over the next six weeks , there will be over forty pro-nuclear demonstrations around the world organized by the Nuclear Pride Coalition .
( My nonprofit organization , Environmental Progress , is a member of the coalition , but did not organize the demonstrations in Germany , France , or other nations . )
The chairman of Nuklearia is Rainer Klute , a computer scientist and eco-modernist .
That ’ s someone who , according to FAZ , ” wants to save the world by relying on modern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” FAZ noted that Klute is finding allies “ among those who oppose wind turbines out of concern for noise and the landscape.
” It wasn ’ t the first pro-nuclear demonstration in Germany .
In December 2019 , 120 people from Germany , Poland , Switzerland , Austria , the Netherlands , and the Czech Republic rallied near the Philippsburg nuclear power plant , forty-five minutes from the French border , which the German government had forced to close prematurely .
While Klute emphasizes the need for nuclear to combat climate change @ @ @ @ @ @ @ energy to avoid over-dependence on imported natural gas from Russia .
Concerns about over-dependence on Russian natural gas are growing in Germany .
Earlier this year , the Russian parliament effectively gave President Vladimir Putin the power to govern for life .
And late last month , Russia ’ s top opposition political leader was nearly assassinated in a nerve gas attack .
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the attempted murder raises “ very serious questions that only the Russian government can answer — and must answer.
” But she has so far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Russian government to account .
A similar dynamic has played out before .
Merkel publicly declared former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder ’ s decision to work for Russia ’ s natural gas company “ not acceptable.
” But she did , in the end , accept it .
Merkel used similarly strong language after the Russian government intervened in Ukraine .
“ Merkel issues rebuke to Russia , ” a New York Times NYT +2.2 % headline blared in 2014 , “ setting caution aside.
” But in the six years since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dependence on imported Russian gas .
Klute and Peters note that if Germany kept its nuclear plants open , and even expanded them , the nation could be as free both of coal and of Russian gas , as France is .
That nation ’ s nuclear-heavy electricity supply produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions per unit of electricity as Germany ’ s , for little over one-half the price .
Klute acknowledges that he is a long way from winning over a majority of support from his fellow Germans , but stresses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ factor nations must consider when deciding what kind of energy to use .
And Klute notes that the times are changing .
“ When Angela Merkel is no longer Federal Chancellor , ” he notes , “ politicians will also dare to take our side.
” Merkel will leave office next year .
In the end , it may take a more serious rattling of the global order , such as the withdrawal of the United States from NATO , to persuade a nation like Germany to hang on to its nuclear plants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become more apparent , journalists have started covering pro-nuclear demonstrations more fairly and respectfully than they had in the recent past .
Der Spiegel , the largest newsweekly in Germany , covered last December ’ s pro-nuclear protest with undisguised anti-nuclear hostility .
But in June , France ’ s anti-nuclear Le Monde covered the pro-nuclear protest of Greenpeace in Paris far more fairly .
“ We are here to denounce the untruths of Greenpeace on nuclear power , ” pro-nuclear leader Myrto Tripathi is quoted as saying .
German media , too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mid-July , Die Zeit , a major newspaper , published an article by Klute ’ s colleagues titled , “ Stop the Nuclear Phase-Out !
” And in mid-August , Der Spiegel published a long debate that gave equal space to pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear activists .
“ Public opinion towards nuclear energy is changing , ” said Bjorn Peters , who helped organize the December 2019 demonstration at Philippsburg nuclear plant .
But the biggest change to nuclear ’ s reception and perception can be seen on social media .
As recently as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Twitter obviously false claims , such as that nuclear energy isn ’ t low-carbon energy .
Such claims have largely disappeared from view .
And , in the rare instance they are still made , I find others debunking them before I have a chance to .
And there have been some recent surprises .
Over the last few weeks , Isabelle Boemke , a 29-year-old Brazilian model with a large social media following , has released a series of videos about the environmental benefits of nuclear .
“ One uranium pellet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bear , has as much energy as 2,000 pounds of coal , ” she notes in a September 6 Tik Tok video that has been viewed a half-million times .
“ This means we can create an insane amount of energy in smaller spaces , which means it requires less land , which is great news for the environment , ” she explained .
Financial Times columnist Jonathan Ford made a similar point in his recent article about Greenpeace ’ s opposition to the proposed solar farm .
“ It all goes to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ renewables , ” wrote Ford , “ and one that is often buried beneath impressive statistics showing the declining cost of solar panels and wind turbines .
Their relatively low ‘ power density ’ makes them more consumptive of resources.
” The low power density of renewables is behind rising conflicts in New York over efforts to spread solar and wind projects over the landscape .
Solar and wind projects require , on average , 300 – 400 times more land than a nuclear or natural gas plant .
“ One [ New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the [ wind energy ] project found a dead rabbit in the mailbox , ” reported The Financial Times .
“ This project is tearing our previously peaceful community apart , ” he says .
And it ’ s their low power density that scientists say may make renewables a greater threat than climate change to endangered species .
Michael Shellenberger was Time Magazine ’ s “ Hero of the Environment , ” Green Book Award Winner , and president of Environmental Progress , a research and policy organization .
He is also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his latest being Apocalypse Never .

Written by Michael Shellenberger on Sep 9, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Environmentalists have long promoted renewable energy sources as better for nature.
But a new study suggests that the expansion of mining for the materials to make solar panels and wind turbines may pose a greater threat than climate change to endangered species.
“Most mining areas (82%) target materials needed for renewable energy production,” note the authors in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications. And, they add, “these new threats to biodiversity may surpass those averted by climate change mitigation.”
The study comes at a moment when the expansion of solar and wind energy is increasing local opposition, raising electricity prices, and contributing to electricity shortages.
Recent electricity outages in California forced the state’s governor to acknowledge the dangers posed by attempting to rely on unreliable sources of renewable energy.
“We cannot sacrifice reliability,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said on August 17. “We have to sober up to the reality that… we’re going to have to do more, and be much more mindful, in terms of our capacity to provide backup and insurance.”
The problem with relying on solar panels is that the sun sets during peak demand, which is between 5 pm and 10 pm, requiring a massive ramping up of natural gas power plants. And the same lack of wind behind the heatwaves has also meant a lack of electricity from industrial wind turbines.
Meanwhile, environmental resistance is blocking and slowing the expansion of industrial wind and solar energy projects.
In Britain, Greenpeace has opposed a massive new solar farm, “arguing that ‘vast continuous fields of panels on agricultural land” are not “the best way to go solar.’” New York environmentalists, meanwhile, “say large-scale solar installations will spoil beautiful farmland,” reported Financial Times.
As renewables have faltered, pro-nuclear environmentalists have become increasingly vocal, even in Germany, the world’s most anti-nuclear nation.
Europeans Protest Greenpeace
Last Saturday pro-nuclear activists organized by the German pro-nuclear organization Nuklearia dropped a banner in front of Greenpeace’s Germany headquarters. It read, “Climate Crisis? Nuclear energy!”
Pro-nuclear activists similarly protested in front of Greenpeace’s Paris headquarters in late June, denouncing the NGO’s role in replacing nuclear plants with fossil fuels.
“Several dozen protesters — wearing face masks — carried banners in front of the Greenpeace headquarters in Paris, with slogans such as ‘Less nuclear means more coal,’” reported Reuters.
“In the following weeks, there will be similar rallies,” reported the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) last week, “where the five other German nuclear power plants that are still running but whose operating licenses will soon expire.”
Over the next six weeks, there will be over forty pro-nuclear demonstrations around the world organized by the Nuclear Pride Coalition. (My nonprofit organization, Environmental Progress, is a member of the coalition, but did not organize the demonstrations in Germany, France, or other nations.)
The chairman of Nuklearia is Rainer Klute, a computer scientist and eco-modernist. That’s someone who, according to FAZ, ”wants to save the world by relying on modern technology, not on using jute bags.” FAZ noted that Klute is finding allies “among those who oppose wind turbines out of concern for noise and the landscape.”
It wasn’t the first pro-nuclear demonstration in Germany. In December 2019, 120 people from Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic rallied near the Philippsburg nuclear power plant, forty-five minutes from the French border, which the German government had forced to close prematurely.
While Klute emphasizes the need for nuclear to combat climate change, Peters stresses the need for nuclear energy to avoid over-dependence on imported natural gas from Russia.
Concerns about over-dependence on Russian natural gas are growing in Germany. Earlier this year, the Russian parliament effectively gave President Vladimir Putin the power to govern for life. And late last month, Russia’s top opposition political leader was nearly assassinated in a nerve gas attack.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the attempted murder raises “very serious questions that only the Russian government can answer — and must answer.” But she has so far not taken any practical action to hold the Russian government to account.
A similar dynamic has played out before. Merkel publicly declared former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s decision to work for Russia’s natural gas company “not acceptable.” But she did, in the end, accept it.
Merkel used similarly strong language after the Russian government intervened in Ukraine. “Merkel issues rebuke to Russia,” a New York Times NYT +2.2% headline blared in 2014, “setting caution aside.” But in the six years since, Merkel has deepened Germany’s dependence on imported Russian gas.
Klute and Peters note that if Germany kept its nuclear plants open, and even expanded them, the nation could be as free both of coal and of Russian gas, as France is.
That nation’s nuclear-heavy electricity supply produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions per unit of electricity as Germany’s, for little over one-half the price.
Klute acknowledges that he is a long way from winning over a majority of support from his fellow Germans, but stresses that popularity isn’t the only factor nations must consider when deciding what kind of energy to use.
And Klute notes that the times are changing. “When Angela Merkel is no longer Federal Chancellor,” he notes, “politicians will also dare to take our side.” Merkel will leave office next year.
In the end, it may take a more serious rattling of the global order, such as the withdrawal of the United States from NATO, to persuade a nation like Germany to hang on to its nuclear plants.
Generation Nuclear
As the failings of renewables have become more apparent, journalists have started covering pro-nuclear demonstrations more fairly and respectfully than they had in the recent past.
Der Spiegel, the largest newsweekly in Germany, covered last December’s pro-nuclear protest with undisguised anti-nuclear hostility.
But in June, France’s anti-nuclear Le Monde covered the pro-nuclear protest of Greenpeace in Paris far more fairly. “We are here to denounce the untruths of Greenpeace on nuclear power,” pro-nuclear leader Myrto Tripathi is quoted as saying.
German media, too, appear to be changing. In mid-July, Die Zeit, a major newspaper, published an article by Klute’s colleagues titled, “Stop the Nuclear Phase-Out!”
And in mid-August, Der Spiegel published a long debate that gave equal space to pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear activists.
“Public opinion towards nuclear energy is changing,” said Bjorn Peters, who helped organize the December 2019 demonstration at Philippsburg nuclear plant.
But the biggest change to nuclear’s reception and perception can be seen on social media.
As recently as 2016, I had to routinely refute on Twitter obviously false claims, such as that nuclear energy isn’t low-carbon energy.
Such claims have largely disappeared from view. And, in the rare instance they are still made, I find others debunking them before I have a chance to.
And there have been some recent surprises. Over the last few weeks, Isabelle Boemke, a 29-year-old Brazilian model with a large social media following, has released a series of videos about the environmental benefits of nuclear.
“One uranium pellet, about the size of a gummy bear, has as much energy as 2,000 pounds of coal,” she notes in a September 6 Tik Tok video that has been viewed a half-million times.
“This means we can create an insane amount of energy in smaller spaces, which means it requires less land, which is great news for the environment,” she explained.
Financial Times columnist Jonathan Ford made a similar point in his recent article about Greenpeace’s opposition to the proposed solar farm.
“It all goes to illustrate one of the awkward truths about renewables,” wrote Ford, “and one that is often buried beneath impressive statistics showing the declining cost of solar panels and wind turbines. Their relatively low ‘power density’ makes them more consumptive of resources.”
The low power density of renewables is behind rising conflicts in New York over efforts to spread solar and wind projects over the landscape. Solar and wind projects require, on average, 300 – 400 times more land than a nuclear or natural gas plant.
“One [New York] resident handing out flyers opposing the [wind energy] project found a dead rabbit in the mailbox,” reported The Financial Times. “This project is tearing our previously peaceful community apart,” he says.
And it’s their low power density that scientists say may make renewables a greater threat than climate change to endangered species.
Michael Shellenberger was Time Magazine’s “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award Winner, and president of Environmental Progress, a research and policy organization. He is also the author of several bestselling books., his latest being Apocalypse Never.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-09-09--What California Can Learn From Texas On Fixing Rolling Blackouts

Written by Mark Whittington on .
Posted in Latest news The news that people living in California are being subjected to rolling blackouts has the rest of the country shaking its collective heads .
That a state once known as the center of technological innovation can not provide enough power for its citizens when the weather gets too warm seems incredible .
How did this happen ?
And , more importantly , how can it be fixed ?
By all accounts , California has embarked on its own version of the Green New Deal , the scheme cooked up by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy , such as solar and wind power .
As a result , many fossil-fuel-fired power plants have been taken offline , as the CO2 they emit is considered to cause climate change .
The fossil fuel plants are being replaced by solar and wind power since these forms of electricity production do not emit CO2 and therefore do not cause climate change .
However , it looks like California has little extra power supply , which means that if a heatwave happens , those in charge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the electricity for homes and businesses .
The blackouts are causing hardships for people who rely on air conditioning to keep cool .
They are a threat to people who rely on medical devices , such as respirators , to keep alive .
How , then , can the power blackout problem in California be fixed and at the same time allow its political class to continue to fight climate change ?
One idea is to start building nuclear power plants .
Nuclear does not cause any amount of greenhouse gasses .
Modern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ones that melted down at Three Mile Island more than 40 years ago .
It would therefore seem that building some nuclear power plants , away from California ’ s geological fault lines , would be a solution to the problem of power blackouts .
However , the task of getting California ’ s political class to approve of nuclear power may be something akin to establishing peace in the Middle East .
Opposition to nuclear power has become a religion to the people who now rule California .
Building plants outfitted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power to California while avoiding greenhouse gas emissions .
Instead of spewing CO2 into the atmosphere , these power plants capture the greenhouse gas and store it .
The CO2 can then be sold to businesses as raw material for carbon fiber tubes , concrete , biofuel , and even food .
A company called Net Power is testing such a power plant in La Porte , Texas , with considerable success .
Net Power is planning to build utility-scale carbon capture power plants by 2022 .
The company would surely be pleased @ @ @ @ @ @ @ providers all the electrical power plants they can buy .
But then we run into another tenet of the environmentally woke who run California .
If nuclear power is bad , the oil and gas companies are far worse .
The officeholders in Sacramento would view dealing with oil and gas companies in the same way that a devout Christian might feel about dealing with Satan and his demonic minions .
The self-destructive attitude exhibited in California is puzzling , especially from Texas .
Despite the image of the Lone Star State as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it has not ignored renewable energy .
Texas , not California , is the biggest generator of wind power .
Wind farms dot the plains of northern and western Texas , providing energy to the cities of Dallas and San Antonio to the east .
Texas utility companies have started to dabble in solar energy .
The difference is that the people in charge of providing electricity to Texas residents are not environmental zealots .
They are hardheaded businesspeople who know that the way to avoid rolling blackouts is not to admonish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Texas avoids rolling backouts by having enough power , even on hot , summer days , by and large from plants burning relatively clean natural gas as well as renewables .
Texas gets hot in the summer , yet its citizens enjoy adequate power to keep the lights and air conditioners on .
California could learn a thing or two from Texas .

Written by Mark Whittington on Sep 9, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
The news that people living in California are being subjected to rolling blackouts has the rest of the country shaking its collective heads.
That a state once known as the center of technological innovation cannot provide enough power for its citizens when the weather gets too warm seems incredible. How did this happen? And, more importantly, how can it be fixed?
By all accounts, California has embarked on its own version of the Green New Deal, the scheme cooked up by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that seeks to eliminate fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy, such as solar and wind power.
As a result, many fossil-fuel-fired power plants have been taken offline, as the CO2 they emit is considered to cause climate change.
The fossil fuel plants are being replaced by solar and wind power since these forms of electricity production do not emit CO2 and therefore do not cause climate change.
However, it looks like California has little extra power supply, which means that if a heatwave happens, those in charge of the power grid must turn off the electricity for homes and businesses.
The blackouts are causing hardships for people who rely on air conditioning to keep cool. They are a threat to people who rely on medical devices, such as respirators, to keep alive.
How, then, can the power blackout problem in California be fixed and at the same time allow its political class to continue to fight climate change?
One idea is to start building nuclear power plants. Nuclear does not cause any amount of greenhouse gasses. Modern nuclear power plants are far safer than the ones that melted down at Three Mile Island more than 40 years ago.
It would therefore seem that building some nuclear power plants, away from California’s geological fault lines, would be a solution to the problem of power blackouts.
However, the task of getting California’s political class to approve of nuclear power may be something akin to establishing peace in the Middle East. Opposition to nuclear power has become a religion to the people who now rule California.
Building plants outfitted with carbon capture technology could provide more power to California while avoiding greenhouse gas emissions.
Instead of spewing CO2 into the atmosphere, these power plants capture the greenhouse gas and store it. The CO2 can then be sold to businesses as raw material for carbon fiber tubes, concrete, biofuel, and even food.
A company called Net Power is testing such a power plant in La Porte, Texas, with considerable success. Net Power is planning to build utility-scale carbon capture power plants by 2022.
The company would surely be pleased to sell to California’s power providers all the electrical power plants they can buy.
But then we run into another tenet of the environmentally woke who run California. If nuclear power is bad, the oil and gas companies are far worse.
The officeholders in Sacramento would view dealing with oil and gas companies in the same way that a devout Christian might feel about dealing with Satan and his demonic minions.
The self-destructive attitude exhibited in California is puzzling, especially from Texas. Despite the image of the Lone Star State as the center of the fossil fuel industry, it has not ignored renewable energy.
Texas, not California, is the biggest generator of wind power. Wind farms dot the plains of northern and western Texas, providing energy to the cities of Dallas and San Antonio to the east. Texas utility companies have started to dabble in solar energy.
The difference is that the people in charge of providing electricity to Texas residents are not environmental zealots. They are hardheaded businesspeople who know that the way to avoid rolling blackouts is not to admonish people to turn up their thermostats.
Texas avoids rolling backouts by having enough power, even on hot, summer days, by and large from plants burning relatively clean natural gas as well as renewables.
Texas gets hot in the summer, yet its citizens enjoy adequate power to keep the lights and air conditioners on. California could learn a thing or two from Texas.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-09-09--Boston’s Phony Sea-Level Scare Debunked – Again

Written by James Taylor on .
Posted in Latest news Yesterday on Climate Realism , we debunked a fake sea-level scare promoted by Boston ’ s National Public Radio affiliate , WBUR .
WBUR claims global warming has caused 28 trillion tons of ice to disappear since 1994 , which WBUR claims is a worst-case scenario for global sea level , and especially for Boston .
In addition to the scientific evidence we presented yesterday , let ’ s add another piece of scientific evidence today .
Actual sea level data show no acceleration in Boston ’ s sea level @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Boston sea-level scare .
Above is sea-level data for Boston , reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .
Where is the cataclysmic rise in sea level since 1994 ?
It simply isn ’ t there .
The reason it isn ’ t there is that ice has been slowly and steadily melting – and sea level has been slowly and steadily rising – in Boston and throughout much of the world since at least the mid-1800s .
The ice melt since 1994 is nothing unusual or extraordinary .
Utilizing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adapted to rising sea levels without much problem .
It is odd that climate alarmists claim that with all the advantages of 21st-century technologies , humans suddenly won ’ t be able to adapt to modest sea-level rise .

Written by James Taylor on Sep 9, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Yesterday on Climate Realism, we debunked a fake sea-level scare promoted by Boston’s National Public Radio affiliate, WBUR.
WBUR claims global warming has caused 28 trillion tons of ice to disappear since 1994, which WBUR claims is a worst-case scenario for global sea level, and especially for Boston.
In addition to the scientific evidence we presented yesterday, let’s add another piece of scientific evidence today. Actual sea level data show no acceleration in Boston’s sea level since 1994.
So much for WBUR’s Boston sea-level scare.
Above is sea-level data for Boston, reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Where is the cataclysmic rise in sea level since 1994? It simply isn’t there.
The reason it isn’t there is that ice has been slowly and steadily melting – and sea level has been slowly and steadily rising – in Boston and throughout much of the world since at least the mid-1800s.
The ice melt since 1994 is nothing unusual or extraordinary.
Utilizing 19th- and 20th-century technologies, humans have adapted to rising sea levels without much problem.
It is odd that climate alarmists claim that with all the advantages of 21st-century technologies, humans suddenly won’t be able to adapt to modest sea-level rise.
Boston’s post-1994 ice melt has not created a sea-level emergency.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-09-09--Traffic ‘Not A Key Contributor To Air Pollution’, Study Finds

Written by Rob Hull on .
Posted in Latest news The significant reduction in vehicle journeys at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown – which saw traffic levels fall by as much as 80 percent – did not reduce the level of toxic ‘ fine ’ particles in Scotland ’ s air , according to experts at the University of Stirling .
A new report published today shows that harmful particulate matter emissions , also known as PM2.5 , remained consistent during the first month of lockdown , despite a 65 percent decline in the number of vehicles on Scotland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ‘ traffic is not a key contributor to outdoor air pollution ’ – and went on to warn that people ‘ may be at greater risk from air pollution in their own homes ’ .
The university study analyzed data from 70 roadside monitoring stations around Scotland from March 24 – the day after the lockdown was introduced in the UK – to April 23 .
The team of experts then compared the data to comparative 31-day periods in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019 .
They found that , across Scotland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was 6.6 micrograms per cubic meter of air ( µg/m3 ) in the observed period in 2020 – similar to the levels in 2017 ( 6.7 µg/m3 ) and 2018 ( 7.4 µg/m3 ) .
The 2020 figure was substantially lower than the markedly high concentrations observed in 2019 ( 12.8 µg/m3 ) , however , the authors pointed out this was an ‘ outlier ’ likely caused by a meteorological event that caused fine particulate dust from the Saharan desert to impact on UK air quality in April of that year .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 2019 analysis reduces the mean value to ( 7.8 µg/m3 ) .
The team did , however , note a reduction in nitrogen dioxide ( NO2 ) due to the lower traffic levels during the opening month of the pandemic .
Measurements of NO2 emissions , which are specifically associated with vehicle exhaust emissions and closely linked to thousands of premature deaths a year globally – were noticeably lower in 2020 compared to the other three years .
Dr. Ruaraidh Dobson , who led the study , said : ‘ It has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ road might have led to a decline in the level of air pollution outdoors and , in turn , reduce the number of cases of ill health linked to this pollution .
‘ However , our study – contrary to research from places such as Wuhan in China , and Milan – found no evidence of fine particulate air pollution declining in Scotland because of lockdown.
’ While it has widely been believed that vehicles are a major contributor to these types of pollutants being in the air , the University of Stirling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Dr. Dobson said the results of his findings ‘ suggest that vehicles aren ’ t an important cause of this very harmful type of air pollution in Scotland.
’ He said people may be at greater risk of exposure in their own homes , ‘ especially where cooking and smoking is taking place in enclosed and poorly ventilated spaces ’ , he explained .
The university ’ s results have conflicted with other research that has claimed there have been vast improvements in outdoor air quality in some areas as a result @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Some studies have claimed that this may result in positive health effects .
Dr. Dobson and colleague Dr. Sean Semple said that exposure to ‘ potentially harmful air ’ could have actually increased during the lockdown , due to people spending more time at home .

Written by Rob Hull on Sep 9, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
The significant reduction in vehicle journeys at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown – which saw traffic levels fall by as much as 80 percent – did not reduce the level of toxic ‘fine’ particles in Scotland’s air, according to experts at the University of Stirling.
A new report published today shows that harmful particulate matter emissions, also known as PM2.5, remained consistent during the first month of lockdown, despite a 65 percent decline in the number of vehicles on Scotland’s roads.
The study concluded that ‘traffic is not a key contributor to outdoor air pollution’ – and went on to warn that people ‘may be at greater risk from air pollution in their own homes’.
The university study analyzed data from 70 roadside monitoring stations around Scotland from March 24 – the day after the lockdown was introduced in the UK – to April 23.
The team of experts then compared the data to comparative 31-day periods in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
They found that, across Scotland, the geometric mean concentration of PM2.5 was 6.6 micrograms per cubic meter of air (µg/m3) in the observed period in 2020 – similar to the levels in 2017 (6.7 µg/m3) and 2018 (7.4 µg/m3).
The 2020 figure was substantially lower than the markedly high concentrations observed in 2019 (12.8 µg/m3), however, the authors pointed out this was an ‘outlier’ likely caused by a meteorological event that caused fine particulate dust from the Saharan desert to impact on UK air quality in April of that year.
Significantly, removing the affected period from the 2019 analysis reduces the mean value to (7.8 µg/m3).
The team did, however, note a reduction in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) due to the lower traffic levels during the opening month of the pandemic.
Measurements of NO2 emissions, which are specifically associated with vehicle exhaust emissions and closely linked to thousands of premature deaths a year globally – were noticeably lower in 2020 compared to the other three years.
Dr. Ruaraidh Dobson, who led the study, said: ‘It has been assumed that fewer cars on the road might have led to a decline in the level of air pollution outdoors and, in turn, reduce the number of cases of ill health linked to this pollution.
‘However, our study – contrary to research from places such as Wuhan in China, and Milan – found no evidence of fine particulate air pollution declining in Scotland because of lockdown.’
While it has widely been believed that vehicles are a major contributor to these types of pollutants being in the air, the University of Stirling claimed otherwise having looked into their results.
Dr. Dobson said the results of his findings ‘suggest that vehicles aren’t an important cause of this very harmful type of air pollution in Scotland.’
He said people may be at greater risk of exposure in their own homes, ‘especially where cooking and smoking is taking place in enclosed and poorly ventilated spaces’, he explained.
The university’s results have conflicted with other research that has claimed there have been vast improvements in outdoor air quality in some areas as a result of fewer people driving during the lockdown.
Some studies have claimed that this may result in positive health effects.
Dr. Dobson and colleague Dr. Sean Semple said that exposure to ‘potentially harmful air’ could have actually increased during the lockdown, due to people spending more time at home.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-09-09--Al Gore Uses Heatwaves, Wildfires To Fuel Global Warming Angst

Written by Valerie Richardson on .
Posted in Latest news A burst of wild September weather brought a “ climate crisis ” warning Tuesday from Al Gore as Californians struggled with heat and wildfires , Atlantic storm trackers raced through the alphabet and Coloradans traded their flip-flops for snow boots .
California firefighters fought to contain 23 active fires that charred a record 2.3 million acres as the state headed into the peak of its fire season fueled by a heatwave .
On Sunday , the Los Angeles County town of Woodland Hills set a record at 121 degrees .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 121 degrees F in LA county over the weekend , ” Mr. Gore tweeted Tuesday .
“ Extreme heat is fueling a longer , more intense , and more destructive wildfire season in CA .
This is what an unabated climate crisis looks like.
” Not so fast , said James Taylor , president of the free-market Heartland Institute .
He pointed to National Interagency Fire Center data showing that the U.S. acreage burned by wildfires was four times higher in the early 1930s .
“ There ’ s a reason why this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there ’ s a reason why this is called hurricane season because these are events that have always occurred , ” Mr. Taylor said .
“ Before there were coal-fired plants and SUVs , we had wildfires.
” More than 14,000 firefighters were battling 23 active blazes Tuesday , including three of the four largest fires in state history .
All were in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area : the SCU Lightning Complex , the LNU Lightning Complex , and the August Complex , each of which had charred more than 350,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said about 118,000 acres had been burned by this time last year compared with 2.3 million acres this year .
“ CLIMATE .
CHANGE .
IS .
REAL , ” he proclaimed on Twitter .
As for skeptics , Mr. Newsom said at a press conference that “ I quite literally have no patience for climate change deniers.
” He said that perspective was “ completely inconsistent , that point of view , with the reality on the ground.
” IntelliWeather meteorologist Anthony Watts said the heat was a result of “ compression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” also known as the Santa Ana winds .
John Lindsey , the chief meteorologist for Pacific Gas & Electric , also pointed to compression heating .
“ I didn ’ t think it was possible in San Luis Obispo , ” he said .
“ While this weather event has created a crisis for heat and fire hazard , it has absolutely nothing to do with climate , and Al Gore is simply scaremongering for the benefit of his climate crusade , ” said Mr. Watts , who runs the skeptical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wildfires , even in California , are not historically high , and cherry-picking one city ’ s record high temperature is not scientific , ” said Mr. Morano , whose “ Climate Hustle 2 ” film is scheduled for release Sept. 24 .
The 2019 California wildfire season consumed 4.2 million acres .
So far this year , fires have burned 4.7 million acres according to National Interagency Fire Center figures .
Critics attribute the state ’ s devastating recent wildfires to poor forest management , driven by hands-off environmental policies and lawsuits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , said two weeks ago at the Lake Tahoe Summit that the “ mega-fires that have consumed millions of acres in the Sierra over the last decade are shouting a warning at us here in Tahoe today.
” “ A generation ago , we actively managed our forests to make sure tree density matched the ability of the land to support it .
Every year , U.S. Forest Service foresters marked off excess timber and then sold it to the timber companies , who removed it , ” Mr. McClintock said in an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well-intentioned environmental laws passed in the 1970s make that process endlessly time-consuming and ultimately cost-prohibitive.
” Meanwhile , climate activists , after months of having global warming take a back seat to the coronavirus crisis , were quick to connect the wildfires to rising greenhouse gas emissions .
“ California has already set a new record for wildfire this year , and September and October are usually the worst months , ” said 350.org founder Bill McKibben .
“ This is what a climate crisis looks like.
” Many of the California wildfires @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg blamed on climate change .
“ Heatwaves .
Fires .
Lightning storms .
Hurricanes , ” Mr. Bloomberg tweeted Tuesday .
“ Climate change isn ’ t knocking on our door .
It ’ s knocking the door down.
” Autumn has increasingly become climate change season for the global warming movement , thanks to the confluence of wildfires in the West and the Atlantic storms on the Eastern and Southeast coasts .
Meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association predicted last month an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Atlantic Basin .
So far , the forecast has been on the mark .
The formation Monday of Tropical Storm Rene means 17 of the 21 named storms have been taken , leaving only Sally , Teddy , Vicky , and Wilfred .
If all of the names are taken before the season ends , then the storms will be given the names of Greek letters starting with Alpha , which happened in 2005 .
[ Many of the named tropical storms never developed into hurricanes or blew out to sea .
–CCD @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thing happened : a hurricane drought .
No hurricanes of Category 3 or larger made U.S. landfall for 12 years , 142 days .
The record was broken in August 2017 when Hurricane Harvey hit Corpus Christi , Texas .
Despite that , Democrats blamed climate change when Hurricane Laura made landfall Aug. 27 near Cameron , Louisiana , as a Category 4 , tying the 1856 Last Island hurricane as the strongest to hit the state .
Sen. Kamala D. Harris , California Democrat and vice presidential nominee , tweeted on Aug. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hurricanes .
Extreme storms .
Historic heatwaves .
Climate change is here — and we must act .
Our future depends on it.
” Even with Hurricane Laura , “ we find that there has been no long-term increase in either the number of hurricanes or their intensity since 1851 ” in Louisiana , said Roy Spencer , a climate scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville .
Why the increase in the number ?
Mr. Taylor cited random variability and advances in satellite technology , which allow meteorologists to detect and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ maximum sustained surface winds before petering out in the Atlantic Ocean .
“ The fact that we have advanced satellite instruments that can detect when a storm in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean barely becomes a tropical storm and can be named and then dissipates is no cause of alarm , ” Mr. Taylor said .
“ We can expect to have more named storms than there were 30 to 40 years ago because we can detect them better.
” Denver had a dramatic weather change from nearly 100 degrees Monday to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 55 to 60 degrees .
The record of a 66-degree one-day decline was set in January 1872 .
In a warming climate , temperatures become more stable , not less , because the differences between the poles and the equator become smaller , Mr. Taylor said .
“ Assuming for the sake of argument that a large temperature swing is a crisis like climate alarmists assert , global warming will make such temperature swings less likely and severe , ” he said .
“ So this is happening despite our recent modest warming @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Written by Valerie Richardson on Sep 9, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
A burst of wild September weather brought a “climate crisis” warning Tuesday from Al Gore as Californians struggled with heat and wildfires, Atlantic storm trackers raced through the alphabet and Coloradans traded their flip-flops for snow boots.
California firefighters fought to contain 23 active fires that charred a record 2.3 million acres as the state headed into the peak of its fire season fueled by a heatwave. On Sunday, the Los Angeles County town of Woodland Hills set a record at 121 degrees.
“It reached a record high of 121 degrees F in LA county over the weekend,” Mr. Gore tweeted Tuesday. “Extreme heat is fueling a longer, more intense, and more destructive wildfire season in CA. This is what an unabated climate crisis looks like.”
It reached a record high of 121 degrees F in LA county over the weekend. Extreme heat is fueling a longer, more intense, and more destructive wildfire season in CA. This is what an unabated climate crisis looks like. https://t.co/eiTDDl1lGa — Al Gore (@algore) September 8, 2020
Not so fast, said James Taylor, president of the free-market Heartland Institute. He pointed to National Interagency Fire Center data showing that the U.S. acreage burned by wildfires was four times higher in the early 1930s.
“There’s a reason why this is called wildfire season, just as there’s a reason why this is called hurricane season because these are events that have always occurred,” Mr. Taylor said. “Before there were coal-fired plants and SUVs, we had wildfires.”
More than 14,000 firefighters were battling 23 active blazes Tuesday, including three of the four largest fires in state history.
All were in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area: the SCU Lightning Complex, the LNU Lightning Complex, and the August Complex, each of which had charred more than 350,000 acres.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said about 118,000 acres had been burned by this time last year compared with 2.3 million acres this year. “CLIMATE. CHANGE. IS. REAL,” he proclaimed on Twitter.
As for skeptics, Mr. Newsom said at a press conference that “I quite literally have no patience for climate change deniers.” He said that perspective was “completely inconsistent, that point of view, with the reality on the ground.”
IntelliWeather meteorologist Anthony Watts said the heat was a result of “compression heating of downslope winds called Foehn winds,” also known as the Santa Ana winds.
John Lindsey, the chief meteorologist for Pacific Gas & Electric, also pointed to compression heating. “I didn’t think it was possible in San Luis Obispo,” he said.
“While this weather event has created a crisis for heat and fire hazard, it has absolutely nothing to do with climate, and Al Gore is simply scaremongering for the benefit of his climate crusade,” said Mr. Watts, who runs the skeptical Watts Up With That website.
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano accused Mr. Gore of “unabated climate ambulance chasing.”
“Wildfires, even in California, are not historically high, and cherry-picking one city’s record high temperature is not scientific,” said Mr. Morano, whose “Climate Hustle 2” film is scheduled for release Sept. 24.
The 2019 California wildfire season consumed 4.2 million acres. So far this year, fires have burned 4.7 million acres according to National Interagency Fire Center figures.
Critics attribute the state’s devastating recent wildfires to poor forest management, driven by hands-off environmental policies and lawsuits.
Rep. Tom McClintock, California Republican, said two weeks ago at the Lake Tahoe Summit that the “mega-fires that have consumed millions of acres in the Sierra over the last decade are shouting a warning at us here in Tahoe today.”
“A generation ago, we actively managed our forests to make sure tree density matched the ability of the land to support it. Every year, U.S. Forest Service foresters marked off excess timber and then sold it to the timber companies, who removed it,” Mr. McClintock said in an Aug. 25 video.
“Today, well-intentioned environmental laws passed in the 1970s make that process endlessly time-consuming and ultimately cost-prohibitive.”
Meanwhile, climate activists, after months of having global warming take a back seat to the coronavirus crisis, were quick to connect the wildfires to rising greenhouse gas emissions.
“California has already set a new record for wildfire this year, and September and October are usually the worst months,” said 350.org founder Bill McKibben. “This is what a climate crisis looks like.”
Many of the California wildfires were sparked by lightning strikes, which former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg blamed on climate change.
“Heatwaves. Fires. Lightning storms. Hurricanes,” Mr. Bloomberg tweeted Tuesday. “Climate change isn’t knocking on our door. It’s knocking the door down.”
Hurricane ups and downs
Autumn has increasingly become climate change season for the global warming movement, thanks to the confluence of wildfires in the West and the Atlantic storms on the Eastern and Southeast coasts.
Meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association predicted last month an “extremely active” season in the Atlantic Basin. So far, the forecast has been on the mark.
The formation Monday of Tropical Storm Rene means 17 of the 21 named storms have been taken, leaving only Sally, Teddy, Vicky, and Wilfred.
If all of the names are taken before the season ends, then the storms will be given the names of Greek letters starting with Alpha, which happened in 2005. [Many of the named tropical storms never developed into hurricanes or blew out to sea. –CCD Editor]
After that, an unexpected thing happened: a hurricane drought. No hurricanes of Category 3 or larger made U.S. landfall for 12 years, 142 days. The record was broken in August 2017 when Hurricane Harvey hit Corpus Christi, Texas.
Despite that, Democrats blamed climate change when Hurricane Laura made landfall Aug. 27 near Cameron, Louisiana, as a Category 4, tying the 1856 Last Island hurricane as the strongest to hit the state.
Sen. Kamala D. Harris, California Democrat and vice presidential nominee, tweeted on Aug. 29: “Raging wildfires. Stronger hurricanes. Extreme storms. Historic heatwaves. Climate change is here — and we must act. Our future depends on it.”
Even with Hurricane Laura, “we find that there has been no long-term increase in either the number of hurricanes or their intensity since 1851” in Louisiana, said Roy Spencer, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville.
Why the increase in the number? Mr. Taylor cited random variability and advances in satellite technology, which allow meteorologists to detect and name storms that briefly hit 39 mph maximum sustained surface winds before petering out in the Atlantic Ocean.
“The fact that we have advanced satellite instruments that can detect when a storm in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean barely becomes a tropical storm and can be named and then dissipates is no cause of alarm,” Mr. Taylor said. “We can expect to have more named storms than there were 30 to 40 years ago because we can detect them better.”
Denver had a dramatic weather change from nearly 100 degrees Monday to snowfall Tuesday, with a plunge of 55 to 60 degrees. The record of a 66-degree one-day decline was set in January 1872.
In a warming climate, temperatures become more stable, not less, because the differences between the poles and the equator become smaller, Mr. Taylor said.
“Assuming for the sake of argument that a large temperature swing is a crisis like climate alarmists assert, global warming will make such temperature swings less likely and severe,” he said. “So this is happening despite our recent modest warming, not because of it.”
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climatechangedispatch--2020-09-09--WEF Creates Fake Drought Crisis, Refutes UN Climate Science

Written by James Taylor on .
Posted in Latest news The World Economic Forum ( WEF ) – a globalist organization comprised of the world ’ s leading political figures , billionaires , and international corporations – published an article today claiming a global drought crisis that is explicitly refuted by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) .
If Twitter , Facebook , and other tech media giants apply their cancel culture rules with any consistency , the tech media giants would quickly erase any mentions of the WEF ’ s fake claims on their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is titled , “ Water wars : How conflicts over resources are set to rise amid climate change.
” The very first sentence of the article reads , “ From erratic rainfall to severe droughts , global warming is increasing competition for water around the world.
” The WEF , however , provides no scientific sources for its claim .
So , let ’ s check what the United Nations IPCC reports regarding rainfall and severe droughts .
As reported in Climate at a Glance : Drought , the U.N. IPCC reports with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ increased over mid-latitude land areas of the Northern Hemisphere ( including the United States ) during the past 70 years .
Also , the IPCC reports “ low confidence ” about any negative trends globally .
There you have it , in black and white .
The IPCC , the asserted “ gold standard ” for climate science , states explicitly : “ There is high confidence that mean precipitation over the mid-latitude land areas of the Northern Hemisphere has increased since 1951 ( Hartmann et al.
, 2013 ) .
For other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ negative trends have low confidence ….
” The rest of the WEF article claims all sorts of worldwide water sob stories , all dependent on the false assertion of less global rainfall and more severe global drought .
The WEF is ramping up the telling of climate lies to justify a January meeting in which they intend to devise a “ Great Reset of global capitalism.
” The plan is to promote global wealth equality by a massive redistribution of wealth from Western democracies to the rest of the world , where a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and misery .
The WEF plans to implement this by transforming the world ’ s economies to a socialist New World Order , centered on climate justice .
Telling false climate tales appears to be WEF ’ s main strategy for making this happen .
Regardless of the World Economic Forum ’ s nefarious Great Reset plans , its claim that climate change is causing less rainfall and more drought is explicitly refuted by the UN IPCC .
Spread the word and the truth…

Written by James Taylor on Sep 9, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
The World Economic Forum (WEF) – a globalist organization comprised of the world’s leading political figures, billionaires, and international corporations – published an article today claiming a global drought crisis that is explicitly refuted by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
If Twitter, Facebook, and other tech media giants apply their cancel culture rules with any consistency, the tech media giants would quickly erase any mentions of the WEF’s fake claims on their platforms.
Today’s WEF article is titled, “Water wars: How conflicts over resources are set to rise amid climate change.”
The very first sentence of the article reads, “From erratic rainfall to severe droughts, global warming is increasing competition for water around the world.” The WEF, however, provides no scientific sources for its claim.
So, let’s check what the United Nations IPCC reports regarding rainfall and severe droughts.
As reported in Climate at a Glance: Drought, the U.N. IPCC reports with “high confidence” that precipitation has increased over mid-latitude land areas of the Northern Hemisphere (including the United States) during the past 70 years. Also, the IPCC reports “low confidence” about any negative trends globally.
There you have it, in black and white. The IPCC, the asserted “gold standard” for climate science, states explicitly:
“There is high confidence that mean precipitation over the mid-latitude land areas of the Northern Hemisphere has increased since 1951 (Hartmann et al., 2013). For other latitudinal zones, area-averaged long-term positive or negative trends have low confidence ….”
The rest of the WEF article claims all sorts of worldwide water sob stories, all dependent on the false assertion of less global rainfall and more severe global drought.
The WEF is ramping up the telling of climate lies to justify a January meeting in which they intend to devise a “Great Reset of global capitalism.”
The plan is to promote global wealth equality by a massive redistribution of wealth from Western democracies to the rest of the world, where a stifling of economic freedom has brought poverty and misery.
The WEF plans to implement this by transforming the world’s economies to a socialist New World Order, centered on climate justice. Telling false climate tales appears to be WEF’s main strategy for making this happen.
Regardless of the World Economic Forum’s nefarious Great Reset plans, its claim that climate change is causing less rainfall and more drought is explicitly refuted by the UN IPCC.
Spread the word and the truth…
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climatechangedispatch--2020-09-10--‘Climate Hustle 2: Rise Of The Climate Monarchy’ Streaming Sept. 24

Written by Craig Rucker on .
Posted in Latest news The film that blows away the tricks , lies , and hidden agendas of the global warming campaign like nothing before is coming to you — September 24th at 8 PM — in every time zone on Earth !
In 2016 , CFACT showed Climate Hustle , our first-ever feature film , in over 400 theaters from coast to coast .
For one glorious night , our movie was the number one film per screen in the entire United States .
CH did so well that our partner Fathom Events @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Plans to show this important film had grown to over 800 theaters from coast to coast .
I don ’ t need to tell you what happened .
Much of America shut down to try and arrest the spread of the coronavirus .
Movie theaters topped the list .
Climate Hustle 2 had to be postponed .
Fathom asked us to wait until next year and go even bigger .
Boy were we tempted , but this timely film is too hot to wait that long .
That ’ s why we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rise of the Climate Monarchy in a special streaming event .
( Buy tickets here ) “ CH2 ” looks and sounds great and is loads of fun to watch .
In addition to laying out a thorough scientific debunking of the distortions , tricks , and outright lies global warming campaigners disseminate through an all-too-willing media every day , CH2 exposes their real agendas .
Can you say money , power , and ideology ?
Get ready — Lies will be smashed .
Names will be named .
Hypocrites unmasked .
Grifters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Climate Hustle 2 is narrated by TV ’ s Hercules , Kevin Sorbo .
I can ’ t wait for you to see how good Sorbo is in CH2 .
There ’ s a whole lot more to this demigod than muscle .
He ’ s dynamite .
Kevin Sorbo joins CFACT ’ s own Marc Morano , of Climate Depot fame , who returns to the screen to lay out the facts about global warming as only he can .
Don ’ t forget , Marc Morano was singled out by a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ done by the Left ! )
as the world ’ s most effective climate communicator .
Marc Morano is the number one person the warming-Left want ’ s blacklisted and banned from public discourse .
Preorder your tickets for Climate Hustle 2 today and let ’ s have a watch party .
Me in my home , you in yours , separate — yet making a difference together .
This is going to be tremendous fun for us , but not for the climate hustlers .

Written by Craig Rucker on Sep 10, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
The film that blows away the tricks, lies, and hidden agendas of the global warming campaign like nothing before is coming to you — September 24th at 8 PM — in every time zone on Earth!
In 2016, CFACT showed Climate Hustle, our first-ever feature film, in over 400 theaters from coast to coast.
“CH” was a smash!
For one glorious night, our movie was the number one film per screen in the entire United States. CH did so well that our partner Fathom Events wanted to go much bigger this time. Plans to show this important film had grown to over 800 theaters from coast to coast.
I don’t need to tell you what happened. Much of America shut down to try and arrest the spread of the coronavirus.
Movie theaters topped the list. Climate Hustle 2 had to be postponed.
Fathom asked us to wait until next year and go even bigger. Boy were we tempted, but this timely film is too hot to wait that long.
That’s why we are bringing you Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy in a special streaming event. (Buy tickets here)
“CH2” looks and sounds great and is loads of fun to watch. In addition to laying out a thorough scientific debunking of the distortions, tricks, and outright lies global warming campaigners disseminate through an all-too-willing media every day, CH2 exposes their real agendas.
Can you say money, power, and ideology?
Get ready — Lies will be smashed. Names will be named. Hypocrites unmasked. Grifters defrocked. Would-be tyrants brought low.
Climate Hustle 2 is narrated by TV’s Hercules, Kevin Sorbo. I can’t wait for you to see how good Sorbo is in CH2. There’s a whole lot more to this demigod than muscle. He’s dynamite.
Kevin Sorbo joins CFACT’s own Marc Morano, of Climate Depot fame, who returns to the screen to lay out the facts about global warming as only he can.
Don’t forget, Marc Morano was singled out by a study in the Journal Nature Communications (done by the Left!) as the world’s most effective climate communicator. Marc Morano is the number one person the warming-Left want’s blacklisted and banned from public discourse.
Facts are powerful things.
Preorder your tickets for Climate Hustle 2 today and let’s have a watch party. Me in my home, you in yours, separate — yet making a difference together.
This is going to be tremendous fun for us, but not for the climate hustlers.
via CFACT
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