climatechangedispatch--2020-08-24--California Could Put Out The Fires Or Keep Listening To AOC

Written by James P. Pinkerton on .
Posted in Latest news The news that Palantir , the prominent tech company co-founded by Peter Thiel , is leaving California for Colorado sends a strong signal that the gold is leaving the Golden State .
To be sure , there ’ s still plenty of precious value in California .
Apple , headquartered in the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino , just became the first company in the U.S. to be worth $ 2 trillion , and the state ’ s economy would rate as the fifth-largest “ country ” in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ noted here at Breitbart News , the city of Manaus , Brazil , serves as a cautionary tale for those who think that being rich now means being always rich .
Vastly engorged by the rubber trade in the 19th century , Manaus grew complacent and soon toppled from its lofty place in the global economy , never to recover .
Indeed , these days , when so much of life is virtual , one ’ s physical place matters less—and so the moving , and the unraveling , of jurisdiction can come @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has happened on the other coast , in New York City , where Mayor Bill de Blasio ’ s massive mismanagement is depleting the wealth .
For weeks now , The New York Times , hardly an enemy of leftism , has been publishing ominous articles with headlines such as , “ One-Third of New York ’ s Small Businesses May Be Gone Forever.
” And just on August 13 , business author James Altucher , a lifelong New Yorker , published an essay that went further : “ NYC is Dead Forever—Here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the big variable is Internet bandwidth ; if you have enough of it , you can live anywhere .
And if that ’ s true for New York , it ’ s true for California–and everywhere .
Okay , so if we return to California , we see plenty of reasons to flee .
One concern is electricity , obviously a basic of civilization .
Will California have enough ?
On August 19 , The Wall Street Journal editorial detailed power shortages as another reason to skedaddle .
Under the headline , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” the Journal added , “ Welcome to California ’ s green new normal , a harbinger of a fossil-free world.
” We can observe that humans can ’ t flourish without power .
And so those who want a foretaste of what a Green New Deal might be like for America can see it now in the Golden State .
Indeed , it ’ s interesting that in the midst of this fire season , Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proudly tweeted that her video touting the Green New Deal was nominated for an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Californians are influenced by showbiz , we can assume that Hollywood ’ s bow to AOC will further inspire west coasters to continue supporting Green New Dealish policies .
Such dogmatic “ greenery ” raises an intriguing paradox , because the crown-jewel companies of California are , in fact , energy hogs .
As energy expert Mark P. Mills wrote back in 2013 , the Silicon Valley corporations may claim to be green , and yet they ’ re really not .
“ The enterprise-class data centers—Google , Apple , Facebook , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wal-Mart , ” Mills explained , “ and each consumes quantities of electricity that rival a steel mill.
” To put that another way , every time we post something on Facebook or look up something on Google , we ’ re all contributing to very un-green levels of power usage .
Thus we see the vise squeezing Big Tech : It needs more power , and California is producing less power .
And now , the latest insult to California ’ s quality of life and thus to its business climate : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on August 22 , some of the largest wildfires in state history have forced thousands to flee , destroyed hundreds of homes , and killed five people .
To be sure , the response has been impressive , as more than 12,000 firefighters , aided by helicopters and air tankers , are battling the fires throughout California .
Yet still , according to the California Office of Emergency Management , as of August 22 , some two-dozen fires were burning , and by August 23 , more than one million acres had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ firefighters are brave and tenacious , and yet , even so , using chemicals , hand-held hoses—even mere shovels—to put out fires is not the best we can do .
California , being the citadel of high tech , should be using more brain , and less brawn .
Of course , the greens have their pat answer : Stop climate change .
And yet even if their science is correct , the fact that China is still building hundreds of coal plants is a reminder that carbon emissions aren ’ t going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whatever California and the U.S. do will be overwhelmed by Chinese CO2 emissions , as well as the emissions of other non-green countries .
So we can see : While Californians are waiting for the yearned-for Green Day to arrive—and that might be a very long time—they ’ ll still have to figure out how to put out fires .
And if so , why not think big ?
Specifically , why not use ocean-water desalination ?
You see , there ’ s a large body of saltwater just west of California , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , desalinated , could be used to put out fires .
Back in January 2018 , this author wrote an imaginary scenario in which California uses its brains to quench the fires : After a dry summer , wildfires erupted in many places across California .
Fortunately , the governor was ready ; the chief executive ordered the state ’ s 30 seawater desalination plants , from San Diego in the south to Crescent City in the north , to double their normal output .
Billions of gallons of clean , fresh , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ piped as close as possible to the locations of the fires .
From those points , the water was mostly trucked to the actual firefront , where firefighters quickly put out most of the fires ; they simply inundated the flames in a watery avalanche—there was so much water , it was almost easy .
In addition , other harder-to-reach fires were doused from the air , as airplanes “ bombed ” the flames with endless barrages of desalinated water .
Moreover , helicopters and blimps used a new technique : They skyhooked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lay on the ground and then pointed them back down at the fires , like a child aiming a garden hose .
The result was that all the fires , statewide , were put out within hours .
Damage was minimal .
None of that has ever happened , of course .
And yet as this author also wrote in 2018 , this annual fire-fest , in a state that ’ s controlled by Democrats , could pose an opportunity for Republicans .
That is , the GOP could take the lead in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , interest rates are at record lows , so why not borrow big and invest big ?
Indeed , if California ever could get out from under these fires , one could see a rural renaissance , as people could live safely out in the boonies , where land is cheap and spacious , using the same desalinated water for agricultural , industrial , and recreational purposes .
Of course , this transformation would not come without a fight .
Last year , Breitbart News ’ Joel Pollak published a three-part series on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and NIMBYs have teamed up to throttle the state ’ s water supplies , turning much of the Golden State into the Parched State .
In fact , we shouldn ’ t kid ourselves about the resolve of those who like the status quo to keep it that way .
For hardcore greens , the idea of expanding opportunities for ordinary people to live out in the country is exactly what they do not want to see .
Yet once again , this green-NIMBY axis would give Republicans a worthy target .
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Homestead Act and propose a New Homestead Act , expanding property ownership and thus the conservative middle class .
Surely many Californians , wearying of greens , billionaires , and San Francisco Democrats running everything , would rally to such a proposal .
Yes , one of these days , Californians could desalinate seawater , put out fires , and spur a rural renaissance .
Or , instead , they could keep doing what AOC and the greens want and continue with this perennial burning and suffering .
If California chooses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s job creators , weary of blackouts and wary of burnouts , will go looking elsewhere .
Colorado beckons .

Written by James P. Pinkerton on Aug 24, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
The news that Palantir, the prominent tech company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is leaving California for Colorado sends a strong signal that the gold is leaving the Golden State.
To be sure, there’s still plenty of precious value in California.
Apple, headquartered in the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino, just became the first company in the U.S. to be worth $2 trillion, and the state’s economy would rate as the fifth-largest “country” in the world.
And yet as has been noted here at Breitbart News, the city of Manaus, Brazil, serves as a cautionary tale for those who think that being rich now means being always rich.
Vastly engorged by the rubber trade in the 19th century, Manaus grew complacent and soon toppled from its lofty place in the global economy, never to recover.
Indeed, these days, when so much of life is virtual, one’s physical place matters less—and so the moving, and the unraveling, of jurisdiction can come quickly.
That’s indeed what has happened on the other coast, in New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio’s massive mismanagement is depleting the wealth.
For weeks now, The New York Times, hardly an enemy of leftism, has been publishing ominous articles with headlines such as, “One-Third of New York’s Small Businesses May Be Gone Forever.”
And just on August 13, business author James Altucher, a lifelong New Yorker, published an essay that went further: “NYC is Dead Forever—Here’s Why.”
As Altucher explained, the big variable is Internet bandwidth; if you have enough of it, you can live anywhere. And if that’s true for New York, it’s true for California–and everywhere.
Okay, so if we return to California, we see plenty of reasons to flee. One concern is electricity, obviously a basic of civilization. Will California have enough?
On August 19, The Wall Street Journal editorial detailed power shortages as another reason to skedaddle. Under the headline, “California’s Green Blackouts,” the Journal added, “Welcome to California’s green new normal, a harbinger of a fossil-free world.”
The editorial concluded:
Democrats in Sacramento are so committed to ending fossil fuels that the hoi polloiare simply going to have to make some sacrifices—such as living with blackouts as if the state were a Third World country. So shut up and broil, and wait for the Green New Deal to do this for the rest of America.
We can observe that humans can’t flourish without power. And so those who want a foretaste of what a Green New Deal might be like for America can see it now in the Golden State.
Indeed, it’s interesting that in the midst of this fire season, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proudly tweeted that her video touting the Green New Deal was nominated for an Emmy award.
So… while 2020 is highly unpredictable, I *definitely* did not expect to be nominated for an Emmy Award for our Green New Deal project with @theintercept, @mollycrabapple, @NaomiAKlein & others. Rather shocked & very grateful. Please watch it here:pic.twitter.com/IMCtS86VXG https://t.co/EYvVR3hnen — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 6, 2020
So to the extent that Californians are influenced by showbiz, we can assume that Hollywood’s bow to AOC will further inspire west coasters to continue supporting Green New Dealish policies.
Such dogmatic “greenery” raises an intriguing paradox, because the crown-jewel companies of California are, in fact, energy hogs.
As energy expert Mark P. Mills wrote back in 2013, the Silicon Valley corporations may claim to be green, and yet they’re really not.
“The enterprise-class data centers—Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.—sit in buildings that each dwarf a Wal-Mart,” Mills explained, “and each consumes quantities of electricity that rival a steel mill.”
To put that another way, every time we post something on Facebook or look up something on Google, we’re all contributing to very un-green levels of power usage.
Thus we see the vise squeezing Big Tech: It needs more power, and California is producing less power.
And now, the latest insult to California’s quality of life and thus to its business climate: wildfires.
As the Associated Press reported on August 22, some of the largest wildfires in state history have forced thousands to flee, destroyed hundreds of homes, and killed five people.
To be sure, the response has been impressive, as more than 12,000 firefighters, aided by helicopters and air tankers, are battling the fires throughout California.
Yet still, according to the California Office of Emergency Management, as of August 22, some two-dozen fires were burning, and by August 23, more than one million acres had been burned.
We can observe that the firefighters are brave and tenacious, and yet, even so, using chemicals, hand-held hoses—even mere shovels—to put out fires is not the best we can do. California, being the citadel of high tech, should be using more brain, and less brawn.
Of course, the greens have their pat answer: Stop climate change. And yet even if their science is correct, the fact that China is still building hundreds of coal plants is a reminder that carbon emissions aren’t going anywhere.
Which is to say, whatever California and the U.S. do will be overwhelmed by Chinese CO2 emissions, as well as the emissions of other non-green countries.
So we can see: While Californians are waiting for the yearned-for Green Day to arrive—and that might be a very long time—they’ll still have to figure out how to put out fires.
And if so, why not think big? Specifically, why not use ocean-water desalination? You see, there’s a large body of saltwater just west of California, and the tiniest fraction of its water, desalinated, could be used to put out fires.
Back in January 2018, this author wrote an imaginary scenario in which California uses its brains to quench the fires:
After a dry summer, wildfires erupted in many places across California. Fortunately, the governor was ready; the chief executive ordered the state’s 30 seawater desalination plants, from San Diego in the south to Crescent City in the north, to double their normal output. Billions of gallons of clean, fresh, water from the coastal desalination plants were piped as close as possible to the locations of the fires. From those points, the water was mostly trucked to the actual firefront, where firefighters quickly put out most of the fires; they simply inundated the flames in a watery avalanche—there was so much water, it was almost easy. In addition, other harder-to-reach fires were doused from the air, as airplanes “bombed” the flames with endless barrages of desalinated water. Moreover, helicopters and blimps used a new technique: They skyhooked flexible plastic water pipelines from where they lay on the ground and then pointed them back down at the fires, like a child aiming a garden hose. The result was that all the fires, statewide, were put out within hours. Damage was minimal.
None of that has ever happened, of course.
And yet as this author also wrote in 2018, this annual fire-fest, in a state that’s controlled by Democrats, could pose an opportunity for Republicans.
That is, the GOP could take the lead in advocating visionary desalination infrastructure. After all, interest rates are at record lows, so why not borrow big and invest big?
Indeed, if California ever could get out from under these fires, one could see a rural renaissance, as people could live safely out in the boonies, where land is cheap and spacious, using the same desalinated water for agricultural, industrial, and recreational purposes.
Of course, this transformation would not come without a fight.
Last year, Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak published a three-part series on water in California, detailing how environmentalists and NIMBYs have teamed up to throttle the state’s water supplies, turning much of the Golden State into the Parched State.
In fact, we shouldn’t kid ourselves about the resolve of those who like the status quo to keep it that way.
For hardcore greens, the idea of expanding opportunities for ordinary people to live out in the country is exactly what they do not want to see.
Yet once again, this green-NIMBY axis would give Republicans a worthy target. That is, Republicans could invoke Abraham Lincoln’s Homestead Act and propose a New Homestead Act, expanding property ownership and thus the conservative middle class.
Surely many Californians, wearying of greens, billionaires, and San Francisco Democrats running everything, would rally to such a proposal.
Yes, one of these days, Californians could desalinate seawater, put out fires, and spur a rural renaissance. Or, instead, they could keep doing what AOC and the greens want and continue with this perennial burning and suffering.
If California chooses the latter, then the state’s job creators, weary of blackouts and wary of burnouts, will go looking elsewhere. Colorado beckons.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-08-24--The Guardian Hypes ‘Last Chance’, Joins Long List Of Climate Doomsdays

Written by Anthony Watts on .
Posted in Latest news If we do not heed this latest last chance , I ’ m sure there will be another last chance in the near future , just like all the previous last chances we ’ ve been given in the past 30 years .
The Observer view on the climate catastrophe facing Earth Thirty years ago we were warned .
Now is our last chance to listen Thirty years ago this week , the population of Earth was given official notification that it faced a threat of unprecedented magnitude .
Emissions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , spewed into the atmosphere from factories and vehicles burning fossil fuels , were pinpointed , definitively , as triggers of future climate change .
Melting ice caps , rising sea levels and increasing numbers of extreme weather events would be the norm for the 21st century unless action were taken , warned the authors of the first assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) .
Three decades later , it is clear that we have recklessly ignored that warning .
Fossil fuels still supply 80 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to rise and global temperatures are still increasing .
According to Met Office statistics , there was a 0.14C increase in global temperatures in the decade that followed the publication of the first assessment report .
This was then followed by a 0.2C increase in each of the following two decades .
The world could easily heat by 3C by the end of the century at this rate , warn scientists .
The impact on the world will , by then , be catastrophic .
… In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ last chance ” , here are some previous last chances for your entertainment .
The Grandaddy of Climate Last Chances ?
In 1989 the United Nations gave us 10 years to save the world .
WUWT celebrated the 30th anniversary of this 10-year warning last year .
A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000 .
… A Global Warming Treaty ’ s Last Chance .
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gets some emergency repair work this week as delegates from 180 countries gather in Bonn to work out problems that threaten to scuttle the deal altogether .
In an open letter to delegates at the Montreal environmental summit , beginning today , campaigner Mark Lynas explains why action on climate change can no longer be stalled .
“ I ’ m scared .
For 15 years I ’ ve watched international progress on climate change get slower and slower , even while the pace of global warming seems to get ever more rapid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global climate , your meeting in Montreal represents a last chance for action.
” World leaders will converge on Bali today for the start of negotiations which experts say could be the last chance to save the Earth from catastrophic climate change .
Bali could be the last chance to avoid the worst effect of global warming , said Tony Juniper , executive director of Friends of the Earth .
The world will “ suicide ” if it can not strike a strong climate pact soon , Australian environmental scientist Tim Flannery has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attending a UN climate summit in Poland , expressed dismay at the slow progress .
“ Resistance is a suicidal tactic , ” the former Australian of the year , scientist and author told reporters in Poland .
“ This round of negotiations is likely to be our last chance as a species to deal with the problem.
” Humanity is approaching the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change , according to WWF ’ s analysis of the latest climate science .
The warning comes during UN climate talks in Poznan , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agree to peak and decline global emissions well before 2020 to give people reasonable hope that global warming can still be kept within limits that prevent the worst , ” said Kim Carstensen , leader of WWF ’ s global climate initiative .
WWF , “ Poznan provides last chance to curb climate change ” 5 Dec 2008 Copenhagen 2009 ( the real last chance , we really mean it this time ! )
The world faces a final opportunity to agree on an adequate global response to climate change at a U.N.-led @ @ @ @ @ @ @ European Union ’ s environment chief said on Friday .
It is now 12 years since Kyoto was created .
This makes Copenhagen the world ’ s last chance to stop climate change before it passes the point of no return , European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told a climate conference in Budapest on Friday .
Ban Ki-moon , the United Nations Secretary-General , has warned of “ catastrophic consequences ” unless a new international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions is reached .
Climate change is “ simply the greatest collective challenge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Mr. Ban said in a speech on Monday in Seoul .
He urged international leaders to reach a deal to limit their countries ’ carbon emissions at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December .
“ No one said the road to Copenhagen would be easy .
But the agreement we all hope to reach in Copenhagen next year represents the last chance to bring climate change under control before it is too late .
There is progress , but we need to step up the pace .
With resolve , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conclude an agreement at the end of next year , delivering the ambitious global action that is needed.
” Speech by Stavros Dimas , European Commissioner responsible for environment at a Climate Change Conference , 31 October 2008 , Prague The Copenhagen summit is the world ’ s last chance to save the planet from “ catastrophic ” global warming , according to a major study led by Lord Stern of Brentford , the country ’ s leading authority on climate change .
Without an international agreement to limit global warming , temperatures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5C ) by the end of the century – triggering mass migration , warfare , and world hunger , according to the report .
A sense of foreboding is one of the few points of general agreement among the 15,000 participants congregating for the next two weeks on this long thin strip of land , marooned between a wide lagoon and the Caribbean Sea .
Jairam Ramesh , the Indian environment minister , sees it as the “ last chance ” for climate change talks to succeed ; Connie Hedegaard , the EU @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disappointing outcome would “ put the whole process in danger.
” Rev .
Dr. Olav Fyske Tveit , who leads the World Council of Churches , says the upcoming climate conference in South Africa is mankind ’ s ‘ last opportunity ’ to address climate change .
This week the World Council of Churches general secretary , Reverend Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit , called the United Nations UNFCCC COP 17 meeting a “ last opportunity for the international community to be responsible in addressing climate change ” , and called on the meeting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Durban climate change meeting is “ the last chance ” .
Attended by over 200 countries , this week ’ s major UN conference has been described by many experts as humanity ’ s last chance to avert the disastrous effects of climate change .
Together with around 20 000 delegates from nearly 200 countries , Ferrial Adam , the climate change and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Africa , will be attending the 17th Conference of the Parties ( COP17 ) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change , which gets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weeks , towards negotiating a new climate regime .
Tomorrow : the earth ’ s last chance with climate change ?
Tomorrow , the whole world talks about irreversible global warming as this year ’ s international climate change summit begins .
Participating are 195 countries ( almost all of the United Nations ) .
There are two concurrent meetings : the 8th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol ; and the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 26 , 2012 , to Friday , December 7 , 2012 , at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha , Qatar .
Is the Warsaw Climate Change Conference a last-chance summit ?
The Warsaw Climate Change Conference opened on Monday 11th November .
After the 2012 failure of Doha , this summit could represent a turning point in the fight against global warming .
“ Global greenhouse gas emissions need to peak this decade , and get to zero net emissions by the second half of this century , ” announced Christiana @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a press release dated 8th November .
“ We have the money and technology , the knowledge and the new economic models to get the job done in time , ” she confirmed before describing the next two years as “ a critical period to act faster on climate.
” Last chance : Change needed for climate negotiations in Lima 2014 .
WWF issued the following statement today from Samantha Smith , Leader of WWF ’ s Global Climate and Energy Initiative , as the UN climate talks drew to a conclusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be disastrous , not just for the progress of these negotiations , but more importantly for vulnerable communities everywhere and the natural world on which we all depend…By the time we get to next year ’ s meeting in Lima , we urgently need to have the political will , real commitments , and a clear path to a comprehensive and fair agreement in Paris 2015 , where a new global agreement on climate change has to be signed.
” Scientists are calling on world leaders to sign up to an eight-point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Paris .
The key element is the goal to limit global warming to below 2C by moving to zero carbon emissions by 2050 .
The UN meeting in December is “ the last chance ” to avert dangerous climate change , according to the Earth League .
A new study says that unless nations ramp up their carbon-reduction pledges before 2020 , it will be nearly impossible to keep warming to 2 degrees .
Last chance to curb greenhouse gas emissions and climate change to limit catastrophic effects , international panel says Policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ methods to assess interactions of climate and innovation with economic growth win economics Nobel… There ’ s Still One Last Chance to Avoid Total Climate Catastrophe , Says Study We ’ ve had chances .
Lots of chances .
But humanity has a history of squandering chances , despite everything we know about climate change .
Despite everything riding on us addressing it .
This list was originally published on wattsupwiththat.com in 2015 , and updated to reflect more recent “ last chances ” .

Written by Anthony Watts on Aug 24, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
If we do not heed this latest last chance, I’m sure there will be another last chance in the near future, just like all the previous last chances we’ve been given in the past 30 years.
The Observer view on the climate catastrophe facing Earth
Observer editorial
Thirty years ago we were warned. Now is our last chance to listen
Thirty years ago this week, the population of Earth was given official notification that it faced a threat of unprecedented magnitude. Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, spewed into the atmosphere from factories and vehicles burning fossil fuels, were pinpointed, definitively, as triggers of future climate change. Melting ice caps, rising sea levels and increasing numbers of extreme weather events would be the norm for the 21st century unless action were taken, warned the authors of the first assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
…
Three decades later, it is clear that we have recklessly ignored that warning. Fossil fuels still supply 80% of the world’s energy, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to rise and global temperatures are still increasing. According to Met Office statistics, there was a 0.14C increase in global temperatures in the decade that followed the publication of the first assessment report. This was then followed by a 0.2C increase in each of the following two decades. The world could easily heat by 3C by the end of the century at this rate, warn scientists.
The impact on the world will, by then, be catastrophic. …
In case you think this is really the “last chance”, here are some previous last chances for your entertainment.
New York 1989
The Grandaddy of Climate Last Chances? In 1989 the United Nations gave us 10 years to save the world. WUWT celebrated the 30th anniversary of this 10-year warning last year.
A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. …
Bonn 2001
A Global Warming Treaty’s Last Chance. That teetering edifice that is the Kyoto Protocol gets some emergency repair work this week as delegates from 180 countries gather in Bonn to work out problems that threaten to scuttle the deal altogether.
Time Magazine, 16 Jul 2001
Montreal 2005
In an open letter to delegates at the Montreal environmental summit, beginning today, campaigner Mark Lynas explains why action on climate change can no longer be stalled.
“I’m scared. For 15 years I’ve watched international progress on climate change get slower and slower, even while the pace of global warming seems to get ever more rapid. With time running out for the global climate, your meeting in Montreal represents a last chance for action.”
The Independent, 28 Nov 2005
Bali 2007
World leaders will converge on Bali today for the start of negotiations which experts say could be the last chance to save the Earth from catastrophic climate change. Bali could be the last chance to avoid the worst effect of global warming, said Tony Juniper, executive director of Friends of the Earth.
The New Zealand Herald, 3 Dec 2007
Poznan Poland, 2008
The world will “suicide” if it cannot strike a strong climate pact soon, Australian environmental scientist Tim Flannery has warned. Professor Flannery, who is attending a UN climate summit in Poland, expressed dismay at the slow progress.
“Resistance is a suicidal tactic,” the former Australian of the year, scientist and author told reporters in Poland. “This round of negotiations is likely to be our last chance as a species to deal with the problem.”
The Age, 9 Dec 2008
Humanity is approaching the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change, according to WWF’s analysis of the latest climate science. The warning comes during UN climate talks in Poznan, Poland.
“Governments in Poznan must agree to peak and decline global emissions well before 2020 to give people reasonable hope that global warming can still be kept within limits that prevent the worst,” said Kim Carstensen, leader of WWF’s global climate initiative.
WWF, “Poznan provides last chance to curb climate change” 5 Dec 2008
Copenhagen 2009 (the real last chance, we really mean it this time!)
The world faces a final opportunity to agree on an adequate global response to climate change at a U.N.-led meeting in Copenhagen in December, the European Union’s environment chief said on Friday.
It is now 12 years since Kyoto was created. This makes Copenhagen the world’s last chance to stop climate change before it passes the point of no return, European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told a climate conference in Budapest on Friday.
Reuters, Feb 27, 2009
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, has warned of “catastrophic consequences” unless a new international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions is reached.
Climate change is “simply the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family”, Mr. Ban said in a speech on Monday in Seoul. He urged international leaders to reach a deal to limit their countries’ carbon emissions at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
The Telegraph, 10 Aug 2009
“No one said the road to Copenhagen would be easy. But the agreement we all hope to reach in Copenhagen next year represents the last chance to bring climate change under control before it is too late. There is progress, but we need to step up the pace. With resolve, cooperation, and imagination, we can conclude an agreement at the end of next year, delivering the ambitious global action that is needed.”
Speech by Stavros Dimas, European Commissioner responsible for environment at a Climate Change Conference, 31 October 2008, Prague
…
The Copenhagen summit is the world’s last chance to save the planet from “catastrophic” global warming, according to a major study led by Lord Stern of Brentford, the country’s leading authority on climate change.
Without an international agreement to limit global warming, temperatures are likely to rise by 9F (5C) by the end of the century – triggering mass migration, warfare, and world hunger, according to the report.
The Telegraph, 2 Dec 2009
Cancun 2010
A sense of foreboding is one of the few points of general agreement among the 15,000 participants congregating for the next two weeks on this long thin strip of land, marooned between a wide lagoon and the Caribbean Sea. Jairam Ramesh, the Indian environment minister, sees it as the “last chance” for climate change talks to succeed; Connie Hedegaard, the EU’s climate chief, believes a disappointing outcome would “put the whole process in danger.”
The Telegraph (UK), 29 Nov 2010
Durban 2011
Rev. Dr. Olav Fyske Tveit, who leads the World Council of Churches, says the upcoming climate conference in South Africa is mankind’s ‘last opportunity’ to address climate change. This week the World Council of Churches general secretary, Reverend Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, called the United Nations UNFCCC COP 17 meeting a “last opportunity for the international community to be responsible in addressing climate change”, and called on the meeting to “act now for climate justice.”
Spero News, 27 Nov 2011
…
Durban climate change meeting is “the last chance”. Attended by over 200 countries, this week’s major UN conference has been described by many experts as humanity’s last chance to avert the disastrous effects of climate change.
Together with around 20 000 delegates from nearly 200 countries, Ferrial Adam, the climate change and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Africa, will be attending the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which gets underway in Durban in the next two weeks, towards negotiating a new climate regime.
UCANews, 28 Nov 2011
Doha 2012
Tomorrow: the earth’s last chance with climate change? Tomorrow, the whole world talks about irreversible global warming as this year’s international climate change summit begins. Participating are 195 countries (almost all of the United Nations).
There are two concurrent meetings: the 8th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol; and the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. They will take place from Monday, November 26, 2012, to Friday, December 7, 2012, at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar.
The Examiner, 25 Nov 2012
Warsaw 2013
Is the Warsaw Climate Change Conference a last-chance summit? The Warsaw Climate Change Conference opened on Monday 11th November. After the 2012 failure of Doha, this summit could represent a turning point in the fight against global warming.
“Global greenhouse gas emissions need to peak this decade, and get to zero net emissions by the second half of this century,” announced Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC in a press release dated 8th November. “We have the money and technology, the knowledge and the new economic models to get the job done in time,” she confirmed before describing the next two years as “a critical period to act faster on climate.”
Sustainable Mobility, 14 Nov 2013
Lima 2014
Last chance: Change needed for climate negotiations in Lima 2014. WWF issued the following statement today from Samantha Smith, Leader of WWF’s Global Climate and Energy Initiative, as the UN climate talks drew to a conclusion:
“A repeat performance next year would be disastrous, not just for the progress of these negotiations, but more importantly for vulnerable communities everywhere and the natural world on which we all depend…By the time we get to next year’s meeting in Lima, we urgently need to have the political will, real commitments, and a clear path to a comprehensive and fair agreement in Paris 2015, where a new global agreement on climate change has to be signed.”
WWF Global, 23 Nov 2013
Paris 2015
Scientists are calling on world leaders to sign up to an eight-point plan of action at landmark talks in Paris. The key element is the goal to limit global warming to below 2C by moving to zero carbon emissions by 2050. The UN meeting in December is “the last chance” to avert dangerous climate change, according to the Earth League.
BBC News 22 Apr 2015
United Nations 2016
A new study says that unless nations ramp up their carbon-reduction pledges before 2020, it will be nearly impossible to keep warming to 2 degrees.
‘Last Chance’ to Limit Global Warming to Safe Levels, UN Scientists Warn
United Nations 3 November 2016
South Korea 2018
Last chance to curb greenhouse gas emissions and climate change to limit catastrophic effects, international panel says
Policy responses to be discussed in December, methods to assess interactions of climate and innovation with economic growth win economics Nobel…
South Korea, October 8th, 2018
Leeds 2019
There’s Still One Last Chance to Avoid Total Climate Catastrophe, Says Study
We’ve had chances. Lots of chances. But humanity has a history of squandering chances, despite everything we know about climate change. Despite everything riding on us addressing it.
Science Alert 16 January 2019
This list was originally published on wattsupwiththat.com in 2015, and updated to reflect more recent “last chances”.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-08-24--Australia’s Push For Renewables A ‘Huge Albatross’ Around Its Neck

Written by Sky News on .
Posted in Latest news On average , Australia is spending $ 13 billion trying to get rid of coal and trying to interject renewable energy in the electricity market , according to economist Alan Moran .
The Australian Energy Market Commission puts the cost of environmental policies on the consumer at around $ 90 per year or 6.5 percent of the household electricity bill .
However , Dr. Moran said this estimate only covers around one-sixth of the potential cost .
The effect renewables have on the market , as well as the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , bring the actual cost to the consumer to around $ 536 per year , or 39 percent of the electricity bill , according to Dr. Moran .
He said the total cost to the economy coming just from the consumer – which he said amounts to just under 50 percent of the costs – would climb to $ 6.5 billion .
“ The other half of the costs brings our total to something of the order of $ 13 billion per year , ” Dr. Moran told Sky News .
“ Every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billion in trying to get rid of coal and trying to inject renewable energy in a system which is actually inherently making it much more expensive .
“ Thirteen billion dollars is a huge albatross around the neck of the Australian public and Australian economy .
”

Written by Sky News on Aug 24, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
On average, Australia is spending $13 billion trying to get rid of coal and trying to interject renewable energy in the electricity market, according to economist Alan Moran.
The Australian Energy Market Commission puts the cost of environmental policies on the consumer at around $90 per year or 6.5 percent of the household electricity bill.
However, Dr. Moran said this estimate only covers around one-sixth of the potential cost.
The effect renewables have on the market, as well as the government loans and subsidies, among other costs, bring the actual cost to the consumer to around $536 per year, or 39 percent of the electricity bill, according to Dr. Moran.
He said the total cost to the economy coming just from the consumer – which he said amounts to just under 50 percent of the costs – would climb to $6.5 billion.
“The other half of the costs brings our total to something of the order of $13 billion per year,” Dr. Moran told Sky News.
“Every year we’re spending $13 billion in trying to get rid of coal and trying to inject renewable energy in a system which is actually inherently making it much more expensive.
“Thirteen billion dollars is a huge albatross around the neck of the Australian public and Australian economy.”
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climatechangedispatch--2020-08-24--Eco-Warriors Use COVID As Excuse To Drive Cars Off The Road

Written by David Rose on .
Posted in Latest news Roads narrowed so that pavements can be widened .
Streets reduced from two lanes to one .
Extra cycle lanes .
Town-centre parking spaces suspended .
Major diversions .
Under the guise of protecting us from COVID , councils all across the country have introduced a host of tough restrictions on motorists .
Of course , everything necessary must be done to prevent the spread of coronavirus but many believe this is being done as an excuse to punish drivers as part of a wider campaign against car use .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are killing trade on high streets at a time when the economy is in desperate need of all the help it can get .
Typical is what is happening in Bristol , where van driver Steve Weeks is at his wits ’ end .
He says : ‘ These measures are adding about 20 minutes per hour to every journey .
Which means I ’ m working longer for less .
It ’ s crazy.
’ I spoke to Steve as he sat stuck in traffic at a junction on Lewins Mead , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city .
‘ It was 3 pm on Wednesday when traffic would usually be light , but a tailback snaked behind and ahead of Steve for more than a mile .
‘ On August 3 , the council reduced the space for powered vehicles on Lewins Mead from two lanes to one .
‘ Since then , the nearside lane has become a thoroughfare for bicycles .
Incidentally , while at the junction for 30 minutes , I saw only one cyclist use the bike lane.
’ Narrowing roads to create super-wide bike @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bristol has introduced .
On-street parking has been suspended in several locations , roads have been closed and some key left and right turns are about to be banned .
One result is that cars and vans have effectively been banned from the road into the city center from the main railway station , Temple Meads – forcing drivers to use a long , circuitous alternative .
The impact on businesses has been devastating , but more road closures – another 12 , the city council warns – are imminent .
The Government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across the country , most notably in London , Oxford , Manchester , Birmingham , York , Edinburgh , Nottingham , Derby , and Cardiff .
There has been scant public consultation but everywhere the justification is the same : COVID offers an ideal opportunity to provide a green stimulus to economic recovery , encourage people out of their cars and , in the process , to get fit and lose weight to protect them against the virus .

Written by David Rose on Aug 24, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Roads narrowed so that pavements can be widened. Streets reduced from two lanes to one. Extra cycle lanes.
Town-centre parking spaces suspended. Major diversions. Under the guise of protecting us from COVID, councils all across the country have introduced a host of tough restrictions on motorists.
Of course, everything necessary must be done to prevent the spread of coronavirus but many believe this is being done as an excuse to punish drivers as part of a wider campaign against car use.
What’s more, these measures are killing trade on high streets at a time when the economy is in desperate need of all the help it can get.
Typical is what is happening in Bristol, where van driver Steve Weeks is at his wits’ end.
He says: ‘These measures are adding about 20 minutes per hour to every journey. Which means I’m working longer for less. It’s crazy.’ I spoke to Steve as he sat stuck in traffic at a junction on Lewins Mead, one of the main routes through the city.
‘It was 3 pm on Wednesday when traffic would usually be light, but a tailback snaked behind and ahead of Steve for more than a mile.
‘On August 3, the council reduced the space for powered vehicles on Lewins Mead from two lanes to one.
‘Since then, the nearside lane has become a thoroughfare for bicycles. Incidentally, while at the junction for 30 minutes, I saw only one cyclist use the bike lane.’
Narrowing roads to create super-wide bike lanes isn’t the only measure Bristol has introduced.
On-street parking has been suspended in several locations, roads have been closed and some key left and right turns are about to be banned.
One result is that cars and vans have effectively been banned from the road into the city center from the main railway station, Temple Meads – forcing drivers to use a long, circuitous alternative.
The impact on businesses has been devastating, but more road closures – another 12, the city council warns – are imminent.
The Government is spending £225 million on similar measures across the country, most notably in London, Oxford, Manchester, Birmingham, York, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Derby, and Cardiff.
There has been scant public consultation but everywhere the justification is the same: COVID offers an ideal opportunity to provide a green stimulus to economic recovery, encourage people out of their cars and, in the process, to get fit and lose weight to protect them against the virus.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-08-24--Fake Conservatives Attack Nuclear Power Ahead Of Election

Written by Jazz Shaw on .
Posted in Latest news Now for something completely different from the normal gloom and doom of the news cycle .
There ’ s a story unfolding out in the mountain west that hasn ’ t been drawing much media buzz but could have a significant impact on America ’ s future in terms of energy independence .
There is a plan underway to construct a revolutionary type of nuclear power plant near Idaho Falls that would provide enough energy to power nearly three quarters of a million homes in Idaho and northern Utah .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that would benefit from this resource have already signed on to the deal , planned to begin operations by 2029 .
But one group of activists , claiming to be looking out for the taxpayers in Utah , has launched a campaign to convince Utah communities to drop out of the project before it even begins .
The basis for their objections is a claim that the costs will be too great and the project would eventually drive up consumers ’ energy bills .
The reality appears to be something quite different , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Taxpayer Association ( the group funding this drive ) are probably quite different than what ’ s being stated .
This has the look and feel of more anti-nuclear activists up to their old tricks but flying a different flag .
( deseret.com ) The Utah Taxpayers Association and a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are urging cities that have signed on to a planned nuclear power plant in Idaho to get out while they can before costs become too great .
NuScale ’ s Small Modular Reactor is planned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ near Idaho Falls and would provide 720 megawatts of power , or enough energy for 720,000 homes .
The Carbon Free Power Project is promoted as the next generation design for nuclear power , featuring 12 distinct modules , with the first scheduled to come online in 2029 with the 11 others following the next year .
To start with , any projections about cost overruns , etc .
are suspect right out of the gate .
Most estimates are based on the previous construction of conventional fission power plants .
This project @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generation of Advanced Small Module Reactors ( SMRs ) .
This is a technology that the Department of Energy has been looking into for some time now and it shows a lot of promise .
You can read their summary of it here .
It allows reactors to be built in a series of modules by the manufacturer which are later shipped to the eventual reactor site .
This allows for more rapid construction on a significantly smaller footprint , often in areas where much larger , conventional reactors could never be located @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at a later date if desired by adding more modules .
It ’ s some pretty exciting technology .
As to the “ fiscal conservative ” group trying to get municipalities to pull out of the project , the Utah Taxpayer Association is being fronted by The Hastings Group .
One look at their client list at that link will give you an idea of their general ideological makeup .
The Utah Taxpayer Association has also enlisted anti-nuclear power advocate Peter Bradford as a spokesperson .
The list of their association with green @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But since they ’ re targeting an audience in the very conservative and rural region of northern Utah , a lefty green energy approach probably wouldn ’ t sell very well so they ’ re branding themselves as more conservative , cost-cutting advocates .
The irony here is that the “ Keep It In The Ground ” crowd is supposed to be fighting against fossil fuels , etc .
to cut carbon emissions .
But nuclear energy has zero carbon emissions , and advances in fuel rod technology have drastically cut down on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Nuclear really needs to be part of our overall energy strategy for the next century and this new generation of reactors holds a lot of promise for increasing our nuclear power portfolio in a safer and more cost-effective way .

Written by Jazz Shaw on Aug 24, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Now for something completely different from the normal gloom and doom of the news cycle.
There’s a story unfolding out in the mountain west that hasn’t been drawing much media buzz but could have a significant impact on America’s future in terms of energy independence.
There is a plan underway to construct a revolutionary type of nuclear power plant near Idaho Falls that would provide enough energy to power nearly three quarters of a million homes in Idaho and northern Utah.
Many of the communities in both states that would benefit from this resource have already signed on to the deal, planned to begin operations by 2029.
But one group of activists, claiming to be looking out for the taxpayers in Utah, has launched a campaign to convince Utah communities to drop out of the project before it even begins.
The basis for their objections is a claim that the costs will be too great and the project would eventually drive up consumers’ energy bills.
The reality appears to be something quite different, but the true motives of the Utah Taxpayer Association (the group funding this drive) are probably quite different than what’s being stated.
This has the look and feel of more anti-nuclear activists up to their old tricks but flying a different flag. (deseret.com)
The Utah Taxpayers Association and a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are urging cities that have signed on to a planned nuclear power plant in Idaho to get out while they can before costs become too great. NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor is planned for construction at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls and would provide 720 megawatts of power, or enough energy for 720,000 homes. The Carbon Free Power Project is promoted as the next generation design for nuclear power, featuring 12 distinct modules, with the first scheduled to come online in 2029 with the 11 others following the next year.
To start with, any projections about cost overruns, etc. are suspect right out of the gate. Most estimates are based on the previous construction of conventional fission power plants.
This project is among the first of a new generation of Advanced Small Module Reactors (SMRs). This is a technology that the Department of Energy has been looking into for some time now and it shows a lot of promise. You can read their summary of it here.
It allows reactors to be built in a series of modules by the manufacturer which are later shipped to the eventual reactor site.
This allows for more rapid construction on a significantly smaller footprint, often in areas where much larger, conventional reactors could never be located.
The plant can also be expanded at a later date if desired by adding more modules. It’s some pretty exciting technology.
As to the “fiscal conservative” group trying to get municipalities to pull out of the project, the Utah Taxpayer Association is being fronted by The Hastings Group.
One look at their client list at that link will give you an idea of their general ideological makeup.
They include:
Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists
Green America
National Resources Defense Council
Renewable Nation
Union Of Concerned Scientists
The Utah Taxpayer Association has also enlisted anti-nuclear power advocate Peter Bradford as a spokesperson. The list of their association with green energy and environmentalist groups goes on.
But since they’re targeting an audience in the very conservative and rural region of northern Utah, a lefty green energy approach probably wouldn’t sell very well so they’re branding themselves as more conservative, cost-cutting advocates.
The irony here is that the “Keep It In The Ground” crowd is supposed to be fighting against fossil fuels, etc. to cut carbon emissions.
But nuclear energy has zero carbon emissions, and advances in fuel rod technology have drastically cut down on the amount of nuclear waste they generate.
Nuclear really needs to be part of our overall energy strategy for the next century and this new generation of reactors holds a lot of promise for increasing our nuclear power portfolio in a safer and more cost-effective way.
Don’t fall for the hype, Utah.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-08-24--How Vegan Food Is Actually Worse Than Traditional Eats

Written by Patrick West on .
Posted in Latest news In the popular imagination , veganism and environmentalism go hand-in-hand .
Both are championed – often in one voice – by ultra-progressive types who protest that we should live more ethically and responsibly in order to save the planet .
Both types argue that eating less methane-emitting cattle and consuming more agriculturally-efficient crops is the first step we can all make as individuals into halting climate change .
A report published by the UK Sustainable Food Trust not only implicitly challenges the assumption that veganism and environmentalism work in symbiosis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ movements may be in actual conflict with each other .
It calls upon vegans to stop drinking soy milk in order to save the planet , and that milk from cows – especially cows grazed on grass rather than imported soya beans – is much better for a sustainable planet .
‘ Vegans and others who buy milk substitutes made from soya for their latte and cappuccino , or breakfast cereal , are also harming the planet .
They would do better to switch to milk from cows… if they want to help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the report states .
Global production of soya beans and palm oils has doubled over the past 20 years and continues to rise .
The two account for 90 percent of global vegetable oil production and are used in processed foods , animal feed , and non-food products .
Many of us are attuned to the devastation caused to rainforests by palm oil cultivation , but less well known is comparable ruination caused by soya bean production : and the cultivation of both is having terrible consequences .
Soya milk is only the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Veganism , as practiced today , is mostly the preserve of the cosmopolitan middle-classes , whose diet often include quinoa imported from South America , almonds from California , pomegranates from India , beans from Brazil , goji berries China and soya from south-east Asia – this soya will , in turn , be transformed into processed vegan burgers and vegan sausages .
Most popular plant-based proteins , including chickpeas , lentils , and chia seeds , are also usually flown thousands of miles to reach their consumers in the UK .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , begins life on the monocultural landscape of the almond plains of California , where the almonds are doused in pesticides and fungicides , before being flown thousands of miles to the UK .
( It requires a colossal 130 pints of water to produce just one glass of almond milk ) .
The use of fertilizer , fungicides , pesticides , and herbicides has long been a feature of industrial crops producing maize and grains .
The appetite for voguish vegan food can have a devastating effect on local economies .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such an extent that those growing the grain in the Andes , where it plays a central part in the local diet , could no longer afford it .
Not all conventional fruit and vegetables are environmentally-friendly , either .
The UK imports strawberries and blueberries from continental Europe and the US when they are out of season here , generating their own carbon footprint .
And perhaps the biggest sinner is the asparagus .
Research by Angelina Frankowska at Manchester University recently found that asparagus eaten in the UK has the highest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mostly because it is imported from Peru and because of the vegetable ’ s thirsty nature and demand for land .
Another environmental villain that we take for granted is the avocado , a staple of the hipster vegan diet , and a similarly thirsty fruit .
A single mature avocado tree in California , Chile , or Mexico – areas that face chronic water shortages – needs up to 209 liters every day in the summer , before taking its journey by plane to the consumer .
The processed nature of much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problem .
This February , Graham McAuliffe of the Rothamsted Institute , said that tofu has a worse carbon footprint than chicken , pork , or lamb .
The protein foodstuff has a larger carbon footprint than the meat it ostensibly replaces owing to the fact that it is processed and because it is made from soy milk .
The story is similar with cow-free vegan cheeses made from coconut oil .
These require a warm tropical climate to grow and they are often imported from Pacific regions or Sri Lanka .

Written by Patrick West on Aug 24, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
In the popular imagination, veganism and environmentalism go hand-in-hand.
Both are championed – often in one voice – by ultra-progressive types who protest that we should live more ethically and responsibly in order to save the planet.
Both types argue that eating less methane-emitting cattle and consuming more agriculturally-efficient crops is the first step we can all make as individuals into halting climate change.
A report published by the UK Sustainable Food Trust not only implicitly challenges the assumption that veganism and environmentalism work in symbiosis, it tacitly suggests that the two movements may be in actual conflict with each other.
It calls upon vegans to stop drinking soy milk in order to save the planet, and that milk from cows – especially cows grazed on grass rather than imported soya beans – is much better for a sustainable planet.
‘Vegans and others who buy milk substitutes made from soya for their latte and cappuccino, or breakfast cereal, are also harming the planet. They would do better to switch to milk from cows… if they want to help make a more sustainable planet,’ the report states.
Global production of soya beans and palm oils has doubled over the past 20 years and continues to rise. The two account for 90 percent of global vegetable oil production and are used in processed foods, animal feed, and non-food products.
Many of us are attuned to the devastation caused to rainforests by palm oil cultivation, but less well known is comparable ruination caused by soya bean production: and the cultivation of both is having terrible consequences.
Soya milk is only the most glaring battle-ground between vegans and environmentalism.
Veganism, as practiced today, is mostly the preserve of the cosmopolitan middle-classes, whose diet often include quinoa imported from South America, almonds from California, pomegranates from India, beans from Brazil, goji berries China and soya from south-east Asia – this soya will, in turn, be transformed into processed vegan burgers and vegan sausages.
Most popular plant-based proteins, including chickpeas, lentils, and chia seeds, are also usually flown thousands of miles to reach their consumers in the UK.
Another dairy product substitute, almond milk, begins life on the monocultural landscape of the almond plains of California, where the almonds are doused in pesticides and fungicides, before being flown thousands of miles to the UK. (It requires a colossal 130 pints of water to produce just one glass of almond milk).
The use of fertilizer, fungicides, pesticides, and herbicides has long been a feature of industrial crops producing maize and grains.
The appetite for voguish vegan food can have a devastating effect on local economies. In 2013, prices of quinoa rocketed to such an extent that those growing the grain in the Andes, where it plays a central part in the local diet, could no longer afford it.
Not all conventional fruit and vegetables are environmentally-friendly, either. The UK imports strawberries and blueberries from continental Europe and the US when they are out of season here, generating their own carbon footprint.
And perhaps the biggest sinner is the asparagus. Research by Angelina Frankowska at Manchester University recently found that asparagus eaten in the UK has the highest carbon footprint of any vegetable here, mostly because it is imported from Peru and because of the vegetable’s thirsty nature and demand for land.
Another environmental villain that we take for granted is the avocado, a staple of the hipster vegan diet, and a similarly thirsty fruit.
A single mature avocado tree in California, Chile, or Mexico – areas that face chronic water shortages – needs up to 209 liters every day in the summer, before taking its journey by plane to the consumer.
The processed nature of much ‘vegan food’ is yet another problem. This February, Graham McAuliffe of the Rothamsted Institute, said that tofu has a worse carbon footprint than chicken, pork, or lamb.
The protein foodstuff has a larger carbon footprint than the meat it ostensibly replaces owing to the fact that it is processed and because it is made from soy milk.
The story is similar with cow-free vegan cheeses made from coconut oil. These require a warm tropical climate to grow and they are often imported from Pacific regions or Sri Lanka.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-08-24--Despite Media Claims, Climate Change Isn’t Worsening Natural Disasters

Written by H. Sterling Burnett on .
Posted in Latest news Another day , another search of Google for articles on “ Climate Change.
” It ’ s just more media misleading bait-and-switch claims that climate change is causing more severe , more frequent natural disasters .
This time the offender is CNET which published a story , “ Deadlier fires , hurricanes , floods : Climate change could make natural disasters even worse , ” which opens making a series of claims that are , at worst , patently false or , at best , misleading .
In truth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is disputable , with two the claims being flat out wrong , and one , true but misleading .
The Wildfire season is neither longer nor more destructive than at any time in recorded history , indeed , the number and severity of wildfires have declined sharply over the past century-and-a-half even as the earth has modestly warmed .
As reported in Climate at a Glance : Wildfires , records from the U.S. National Interagency Fire Center ( NIFC ) wildfires have declined in number and severity in recent decades .
The NIFC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ far as 1926 , and it shows the number of acres burned is far less now than it was throughout the early 20th century .
As the Figure below shows , current acres burned run about 1/4th to 1/5th of the record values which occurred in the 1930s .
Globally , the data on wildfires is just as clear .
On page 67 of Bjorn Lomborg ’ s book False Alarm he points to research demonstrating : It is true that even as the amount of acreage burned in wildfires has fallen the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but that is due to ever greater numbers of people moving into , and communities expanding into , areas historically prone to wildfires , and erecting ever more expensive homes , commercial developments , and related infrastructure there .
Climate change is not responsible for rising wildfire costs , but urban development in formerly rural , wildfire-prone areas is .
Concerning Hurricanes , the data is equally clear and unalarming : Hurricanes are neither increasing in number or severity .
Indeed , the actual data show the number of hurricanes and the number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ above ) has both declined over the past 30 years .
Globally , the U.N. ’ s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) observes globally there is , “ only low confidence for the attribution of any detectable changes in tropical cyclone activity to anthropogenic influences.
” And , as Climate at a Glance : Hurricanes details , in the United States hurricane impacts are at an all-time low .
“ The United States recently went more than a decade ( 2005 through 2017 ) without a major hurricane measuring Category @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longest such period in recorded history .
The United States also recently experienced the fewest number of hurricane strikes in any eight-year period ( 2009 through 2017 ) in recorded history , ” notes meteorologist Anthony Watts citing data from the National Hurricane Center .
Those are the facts about wildfires and hurricanes that are indisputable .
Anyone who reads beyond the opening paragraph in the CNET article will find that even the author acknowledges the increase in damage from flood events is difficult to attribute to climate change .
Indeed , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out the IPCC can find no evidence climate change has written it has “ low confidence ” in any climate change impact regarding the frequency or severity of floods , essentially conceding climate change is as likely to be making floods less frequent and less severe as making them worse .
However , as CNET ’ s article notes , more people have been moving into flood plains , which means when flood strike more people , homes , business , and infrastructure are affected .
The latter point is true of rising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
As more and more people move to , and communities and cities expand into , areas that are historically disaster-prone , building ever more expensive homes , retail developments , and infrastructure , when natural disasters strike , due to what Lomborg calls the “ expanding bullseye effect , naturally more people and structures are putting themselves in harm ’ s way .
Thus the higher costs are is not due to climate change but simply because more , more valuable , assets are at risk from demographic shifts in where people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Contrary to the narrative spun out by CNET , however , these costs aren ’ t due , “ simply more people than ever before that need housing , ” but rather because of where they choose to build that housing and live .
There are millions of acres far from coasts ( hurricanes ) , rivers ( floods ) , and forests ( wildfires ) , lands not prone to relatively regular incidences of natural disasters , where people could build housing .
Indeed , real estate markets show , on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to purchase and build upon .
People choose to build in disaster zones , they aren ’ t forced to do so by the need for housing .
Separating truth from fiction about the supposed influence of climate change on the incidence and severity of natural disasters is easy if one looks ; if one relies on readily available data rather than assertions from alarmist climate lobbyists , like the Natural Resources Defense Council , as CNET does , one might even stumble upon the truth .

Written by H. Sterling Burnett on Aug 24, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
Another day, another search of Google for articles on “Climate Change.” It’s just more media misleading bait-and-switch claims that climate change is causing more severe, more frequent natural disasters.
This time the offender is CNET which published a story, “Deadlier fires, hurricanes, floods: Climate change could make natural disasters even worse,” which opens making a series of claims that are, at worst, patently false or, at best, misleading.
“First, the facts: Natural disasters are — statistically speaking — getting both worse and more frequent,” states the first paragraph of the CNET story, continuing, “Wildfire season is longer and more destructive than at any time in recorded history. In the US, flood zones encompass more homes than ever before. And hurricanes are striking with more destructive power than in years past. That much is indisputable.”
In truth, every statement made in that paragraph is disputable, with two the claims being flat out wrong, and one, true but misleading.
The Wildfire season is neither longer nor more destructive than at any time in recorded history, indeed, the number and severity of wildfires have declined sharply over the past century-and-a-half even as the earth has modestly warmed.
As reported in Climate at a Glance: Wildfires, records from the U.S. National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) wildfires have declined in number and severity in recent decades.
The NIFC tracks data on U.S. wildfires back as far as 1926, and it shows the number of acres burned is far less now than it was throughout the early 20th century.
As the Figure below shows, current acres burned run about 1/4th to 1/5th of the record values which occurred in the 1930s.
Globally, the data on wildfires is just as clear. On page 67 of Bjorn Lomborg’s book False Alarm he points to research demonstrating:
“There is plenty of evidence for a reduction in the level of devastation caused by fire, with satellites showing a 25 percent reduction globally in burned area just over the past 18 years … In total, the global amount of area burned as declined by more than 540,000 square miles, from 1.9 million square miles in the early part of the last century to 1.4 million square miles today.”
It is true that even as the amount of acreage burned in wildfires has fallen the economic costs of wildfires has increased, but that is due to ever greater numbers of people moving into, and communities expanding into, areas historically prone to wildfires, and erecting ever more expensive homes, commercial developments, and related infrastructure there.
Climate change is not responsible for rising wildfire costs, but urban development in formerly rural, wildfire-prone areas is.
Concerning Hurricanes, the data is equally clear and unalarming: Hurricanes are neither increasing in number or severity.
Indeed, the actual data show the number of hurricanes and the number of major hurricanes (Class Three and above) has both declined over the past 30 years.
Globally, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) observes globally there is, “only low confidence for the attribution of any detectable changes in tropical cyclone activity to anthropogenic influences.”
And, as Climate at a Glance: Hurricanes details, in the United States hurricane impacts are at an all-time low.
“The United States recently went more than a decade (2005 through 2017) without a major hurricane measuring Category 3 or higher, which is the longest such period in recorded history. The United States also recently experienced the fewest number of hurricane strikes in any eight-year period (2009 through 2017) in recorded history,” notes meteorologist Anthony Watts citing data from the National Hurricane Center.
Those are the facts about wildfires and hurricanes that are indisputable.
Anyone who reads beyond the opening paragraph in the CNET article will find that even the author acknowledges the increase in damage from flood events is difficult to attribute to climate change.
Indeed, as Climate at a Glance: Floods points out the IPCC can find no evidence climate change has written it has “low confidence” in any climate change impact regarding the frequency or severity of floods, essentially conceding climate change is as likely to be making floods less frequent and less severe as making them worse.
However, as CNET’s article notes, more people have been moving into flood plains, which means when flood strike more people, homes, business, and infrastructure are affected.
The latter point is true of rising damages and costs from wildfires and hurricanes.
As more and more people move to, and communities and cities expand into, areas that are historically disaster-prone, building ever more expensive homes, retail developments, and infrastructure, when natural disasters strike, due to what Lomborg calls the “expanding bullseye effect, naturally more people and structures are putting themselves in harm’s way.
Thus the higher costs are is not due to climate change but simply because more, more valuable, assets are at risk from demographic shifts in where people live and the lifestyles they pursue.
Contrary to the narrative spun out by CNET, however, these costs aren’t due, “simply more people than ever before that need housing,” but rather because of where they choose to build that housing and live.
There are millions of acres far from coasts (hurricanes), rivers (floods), and forests (wildfires), lands not prone to relatively regular incidences of natural disasters, where people could build housing.
Indeed, real estate markets show, on the whole, this land is much cheaper to purchase and build upon. People choose to build in disaster zones, they aren’t forced to do so by the need for housing.
Separating truth from fiction about the supposed influence of climate change on the incidence and severity of natural disasters is easy if one looks; if one relies on readily available data rather than assertions from alarmist climate lobbyists, like the Natural Resources Defense Council, as CNET does, one might even stumble upon the truth.
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climatechangedispatch--2020-08-24--From Climate Change To COVID, We’re All Victims Of Deep State Hysteria

Written by James Delingpole on .
Posted in Latest news If you want to know why the world is in such a mess , don ’ t blame the feckless politicians , blame the paranoid , credulous , insidiously leftist Deep State .
This certainly seems to be true where the United Kingdom is concerned , as I ’ ve learned from two damning pieces — one by an anonymous Civil Service insider at Lockdown Sceptics ; the other one in The Critic , titled ‘ The BLM Takeover of Whitehall.
’ Both are simultaneously depressing and illuminating .
No @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ministers are , you realize their doctrinaire leftist Civil Servants are both far more inept and far more dangerous .
But just like U.S. federal administrators in Washington ( according to City Journal ) , the mandarins in Whitehall have become partisans of “ Critical Race Theory ” and its radical tenets about “ systemic racism ” , “ white privilege ” , and “ white fragility ” .
They have adopted this left-wing ideology , promoted it , and are now institutionalizing it throughout the Civil Service , root and branch , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Project Race ” and the “ Race Ambassadors Network ” .
Your taxes have paid for these views : it ’ s about time you saw in the press what you were getting for your money .
And here is what for me is the killer paragraph by the COVID Civil Servant writing at Lockdown Sceptics .
There are few among our political elite and the supporting SCS who have STEM degrees and the consequence of this narrow pool is a failure to understand basic concepts , e.g .
they believe “ the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to climate change , and that they ’ re “ following the science ” regarding Covid-19 .
What they fail to appreciate is that science is rarely settled .
By its nature , it is about investigating and challenging assumptions , collecting and evaluating evidence to test hypotheses , and seeking to avoid bias and misrepresentation of results .
The current narrative regarding testing and ‘ cases ’ is a classic example of this lack of numeracy and statistical knowledge .
If you test more you are likely to find more occurrences and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ positives .
Yes , exactly .
This gels perfectly with a conversation I had recently with ‘ The Skeptical Environmentalist ’ Bjorn Lomborg — in which we agreed that the climate change scare was effectively a dry run for the Chinese coronavirus scare .
Of course , both problems are “ real ” to a degree .
Climate does change , potentially causing disruption .
Covid-19 is potentially fatal .
But neither problem , on the evidence we have now accumulated , has done anywhere near as much damage as the “ solutions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which — as this article by James Bolt at Spiked !
illustrates — has used Chinese coronavirus as a justification for effectively imposing martial law on its citizens : A couple are watching their child play in a playground .
They are fined by the police .
They are further than five kilometers from their home .
A man leaves his home at 9.30 pm to buy some cigarettes .
He too is fined : $ 1,652 .
He has left his house during the city-wide curfew , which comes in at 8 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plan a protest against Victoria ’ s restrictions .
Police execute a search warrant and seize their mobile phones and a computer .
One is charged with incitement because he wanted to organize a protest – public gatherings are limited to two people and only for exercise ( physical , not of our basic rights ) .
This is the situation in Melbourne , Australia ’ s second-largest city , right now .
In a supposedly liberal democracy .
Does this sound a remotely proportionate response to a disease which so far , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killed fewer than 500 people ?
Unless you live somewhere enlightened like Sweden , you ’ ll have had personal experience of this authoritarian lunacy – compulsory masks , extended quarantines , and so on .
To anyone familiar with the nature of the pandemic it seems as if the entire global political and administrative class has lost its head .
But the question is : why ?
Why are politicians and civil servants overreacting in this way ?
And why are so many people actually applauding as more and more of their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroyed in the name of health and safety ?
My view is that the climate change scare has a lot to do with it .
For nearly three decades — it started with the 1992 Rio Earth Summit — the West , especially , has been relentlessly propagandized into believing that the end of the world is imminent and that urgent , expensive , and disruptive action must be taken to prevent it .
As Lomborg says in his latest book False Alarm , “ We live in an age of fear.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ die of climate change any more than all but the tiniest minority of us will die from Covid-19 .
Yet across the world — in Britain , certainly , but I think in most other Western economies too — we are at the mercy of a leftist Deep State quite incapable of reason or objectivity , let alone of subjecting the policies it inflicts on us to a cost-benefit analysis .
I think things are going to get a lot worse before they get better , don ’ t you ?

Written by James Delingpole on Aug 24, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
If you want to know why the world is in such a mess, don’t blame the feckless politicians, blame the paranoid, credulous, insidiously leftist Deep State.
This certainly seems to be true where the United Kingdom is concerned, as I’ve learned from two damning pieces — one by an anonymous Civil Service insider at Lockdown Sceptics; the other one in The Critic, titled ‘The BLM Takeover of Whitehall.’
Both are simultaneously depressing and illuminating. No matter how useless Boris Johnson and his ministers are, you realize their doctrinaire leftist Civil Servants are both far more inept and far more dangerous.
Here’s a flavor of the Black Lives Matter article:
But just like U.S. federal administrators in Washington (according to City Journal), the mandarins in Whitehall have become partisans of “Critical Race Theory” and its radical tenets about “systemic racism”, “white privilege”, and “white fragility”. They have adopted this left-wing ideology, promoted it, and are now institutionalizing it throughout the Civil Service, root and branch, using new internal organizations such as “Project Race” and the “Race Ambassadors Network”. Your taxes have paid for these views: it’s about time you saw in the press what you were getting for your money.
And here is what for me is the killer paragraph by the COVID Civil Servant writing at Lockdown Sceptics.
Lack of numeracy and scientific understanding There are few among our political elite and the supporting SCS who have STEM degrees and the consequence of this narrow pool is a failure to understand basic concepts, e.g. they believe “the science is settled” when it comes to climate change, and that they’re “following the science” regarding Covid-19. What they fail to appreciate is that science is rarely settled. By its nature, it is about investigating and challenging assumptions, collecting and evaluating evidence to test hypotheses, and seeking to avoid bias and misrepresentation of results. The current narrative regarding testing and ‘cases’ is a classic example of this lack of numeracy and statistical knowledge. If you test more you are likely to find more occurrences and they may be actual positives or false positives.
Yes, exactly. This gels perfectly with a conversation I had recently with ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’ Bjorn Lomborg — in which we agreed that the climate change scare was effectively a dry run for the Chinese coronavirus scare.
Of course, both problems are “real” to a degree. Climate does change, potentially causing disruption. Covid-19 is potentially fatal.
But neither problem, on the evidence we have now accumulated, has done anywhere near as much damage as the “solutions”.
Take Victoria, Australia, which — as this article by James Bolt at Spiked! illustrates — has used Chinese coronavirus as a justification for effectively imposing martial law on its citizens:
A couple are watching their child play in a playground. They are fined by the police. They are further than five kilometers from their home. A man leaves his home at 9.30 pm to buy some cigarettes. He too is fined: $1,652. He has left his house during the city-wide curfew, which comes in at 8 pm. On Facebook, two men plan a protest against Victoria’s restrictions. Police execute a search warrant and seize their mobile phones and a computer. One is charged with incitement because he wanted to organize a protest – public gatherings are limited to two people and only for exercise (physical, not of our basic rights). This is the situation in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, right now. In a supposedly liberal democracy.
Does this sound a remotely proportionate response to a disease which so far, in the whole of Australia, has killed fewer than 500 people?
Unless you live somewhere enlightened like Sweden, you’ll have had personal experience of this authoritarian lunacy – compulsory masks, extended quarantines, and so on.
To anyone familiar with the nature of the pandemic it seems as if the entire global political and administrative class has lost its head.
But the question is: why?
Why are politicians and civil servants overreacting in this way? And why are so many people actually applauding as more and more of their freedoms are curtailed and their economies are destroyed in the name of health and safety?
My view is that the climate change scare has a lot to do with it. For nearly three decades — it started with the 1992 Rio Earth Summit — the West, especially, has been relentlessly propagandized into believing that the end of the world is imminent and that urgent, expensive, and disruptive action must be taken to prevent it.
As Lomborg says in his latest book False Alarm, “We live in an age of fear.”
One picture summarizes this age for me. It is of a girl holding a sign saying: You’ll die of old age I’ll die of climate change
But the little girl won’t die of climate change any more than all but the tiniest minority of us will die from Covid-19.
Yet across the world — in Britain, certainly, but I think in most other Western economies too — we are at the mercy of a leftist Deep State quite incapable of reason or objectivity, let alone of subjecting the policies it inflicts on us to a cost-benefit analysis.
I think things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, don’t you?
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climatechangedispatch--2020-08-24--German Daily: Merkel’s Meeting With Greta Confirms ‘Leadership Poverty’

Written by Pierre Gosselin on .
Posted in Latest news On August 20th , German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Greta Thunberg , the post-puberty teenage climate activist who has yet to finish high school , get a college degree , move out of the house – let alone gain any work experience – but believes she is supremely qualified to tell everyone how the planet needs to be run .
It appears this nonsense is beginning to dawn on some German dailies , like the flagship Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ ) .
According to the FAZ , Merkel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a confirmation of leadership poverty ” .
It seems Merkel exploited the opportunity as a photo op .
“ Has Germany reached an agreement with the United States ?
Has Berlin brought China on board ?
No , even better : Greta was with Angela ( Merkel ) , ” the FAZ comments .
“ You can only get people on board if you get photographed with people you know.
” “ What an indictment of democratically elected governments , especially of a ‘ climate chancellor ’ , to pretend that they only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the FAZ added .
“ Elevating the undoubtedly impressive young woman to the rank of Joan of Arc of climate protection snubs countless experts as well as the principle of democracy – but it fits into a time of rather plain street populism.
” Greta meets with Merkel as she and FFF leaders are greeted by an organized but waning group of activists .
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Written by Pierre Gosselin on Aug 24, 2020 . Posted in Latest news
On August 20th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Greta Thunberg, the post-puberty teenage climate activist who has yet to finish high school, get a college degree, move out of the house – let alone gain any work experience – but believes she is supremely qualified to tell everyone how the planet needs to be run.
It appears this nonsense is beginning to dawn on some German dailies, like the flagship Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). According to the FAZ, Merkel’s meeting with Greta is “a confirmation of leadership poverty”.
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne.
It seems Merkel exploited the opportunity as a photo op. “Has Germany reached an agreement with the United States? Has Berlin brought China on board? No, even better: Greta was with Angela (Merkel),” the FAZ comments. “You can only get people on board if you get photographed with people you know.”
Merkel’s “street populism”
“What an indictment of democratically elected governments, especially of a ‘climate chancellor’, to pretend that they only see the light through Greta,” the FAZ added.
“Elevating the undoubtedly impressive young woman to the rank of Joan of Arc of climate protection snubs countless experts as well as the principle of democracy – but it fits into a time of rather plain street populism.”
Greta meets with Merkel as she and FFF leaders are greeted by an organized but waning group of activists.
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