climatedepot--2020-06-17--The Green-Energy Threat To Your Pension Pot

‘ AMAZON , Facebook , and Microsoft have all been criticized for expanding their data centers without securing additional supply of clean energy .
Investors in these technology companies will , therefore , need to encourage a faster move to cleaner energy sources in order to avoid adverse environmental impacts.
’ The words , surprisingly , are not the work of the fevered mind of some environmental activist but come from a blog post by two senior figures from the investment giant Aberdeen Standard Investments ( ASI ) : Jeremy Lawson , its chief economist , and Amanda Young , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
To see the problem with what they are saying , you need to understand that ‘ cleaner energy sources ’ , which in this country mostly means offshore wind power , is much more expensive than electricity generated from gas-fired power stations .
There has been more than a decade of disinformation from Greens and their supporters about the cost of wind power .
First , we were assured that wind power costs were falling rapidly , and then that it had achieved ‘ grid parity ’ .
Unfortunately for these charlatans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fool all of the people all of the time , and we now have hard data from audited financial accounts for the majority of the UK ’ s offshore wind farms .
A paper in the journal Energy Policy reported that costs remain about 2-3 times those of gas and are falling only slowly , if at all .
Add the cost of dealing with the intermittent supply from wind farms , and the ratio may well be 4 to 1 .
And before you start trying to tell me about the much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ horizon – as ( allegedly ) revealed by recent bids into the government ’ s Contracts for Difference auctions – please note that these are not what they seem .
It is far more likely that they are an attempt to ward off competition and keep the subsidies flowing than a reflection of a fundamental change in costs .
So returning to the blog post with which we began , Mr. Lawson and Ms. Young appear to be calling on these tech giants to move to sources of electricity that are much more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ASI does in fact have investments in the companies it is pressuring , it ’ s hard to see how this will help their bottom lines .
If Microsoft , say , gets power directly from a wind farm , it can only reduce returns .
If it buys it from the grid , the direct effect will be less , since it will be a mixture of power from many sources , but the tendency will still be to push electricity prices up for everyone , including all the myriad UK companies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consumers too .
It ’ s fair to say that this is going to be hugely damaging to an economy already on its knees in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic .
I am surprised that ASI ( and to be fair , dozens of other investment firms too ) are able to do this .
Millions of ordinary people entrust the firm with their pension funds , and it has a fiduciary duty to maximize returns .
One would have thought that pensioners would be less than amused to find that ASI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ size of their retirement pots .
It ’ s startling that one of our largest financial institutions should be seeking to damage the economy in this way .
Worryingly , though , it seems keen to expand its efforts .
In the same blog post , Mr. Lawson and Ms. Young say that the recession ‘ represents an enormous opportunity to accelerate policy change ’ and , extraordinarily , worry about the government prioritizing ‘ short-term growth over long-term sustainability ’ .
They really say that .
As businesses go bust all around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ growth !


climatedepot--2020-06-17--Time To Stop Pretending Politicians ‘Follow The Science’

It is instructive that across Canada the pandemic measures were suspended , or disregarded , or superseded in order to facilitate mass protests against racism .
Instructive and welcome , independent of any judgment on the value of the pandemic protocols or the protests , but because it illustrates the problems with the refrain , ubiquitously heard these last years , to “ follow the science , ” or pursue “ evidence-based ” policy .
Perhaps the pandemic , which has amply demonstrated how false that admonition is , will lead to its retirement .
[ … ] So when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a jam-packed demonstration on Parliament Hill , he was not following the science .
After all , the science of public health told us that it was so dangerous for a person to take two knees in an empty cathedral that all the churches were closed .
[ … ] “ Following the science ” is an emission from the climate-change debate .
But a scientific finding does not mandate a course of action .
That ’ s a matter for policy , for weighing competing interests against a scale of values .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ than it is in Asia , but climate policy is much different in Brussels than in Beijing .
Does the Chinese regime not “ follow the science , ” or does it come to different conclusions based on its values ?
The massive economic pain caused by the pandemic has been marvelous in terms of lower carbon emissions .
That ’ s the science , but no one is advocating the economy be kept closed in the light of that evidence .
Other factors , trade-offs , and values come into play .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ will tell us — indisputably !
— that the safest anti-virus mode of transport is the single-use car .
Science tells us — indisputably !
— that it is safer to use disposable coffee cups rather than germ-ridden reusable ones , to use single-use plastic grocery bags than to bring our own from home , safer to wrap as many things in as much plastic as possible .
So should the nation ’ s entire carbon and plastic policy be consigned to the landfill because it no longer follows the evidence ?
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safety is not the only concern and not the only scientific issue .
And the pandemic has taught us that even when the issue is narrow , there are a variety of policy responses .
Indeed , Canada went from a national policy of “ flattening the curve ” in order to enable the health-care system to cope with the spreading virus to a quite different , and more costly , policy of “ stopping the spread.
” The science didn ’ t change but the policy did .
Science can only inform @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The pandemic has also shattered the myth of a class of neutral sages — the scientists — who bestow upon a grateful population “ the science.
” The World Health Organization ( WHO ) , a repository of leading members of this new clerisy , turned out to have made judgments according to their own political values , namely appeasing the regime in Beijing , which , entirely coincidentally , just dropped $ 2 billion into WHO coffers .
I was trained as an economist , not a scientist , so perhaps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suspect that sometimes scientists follow the money rather than science .
That ’ s not being unkind to scientists .
It is simply to consider them human , as well .
We need science and scientists , but we do not live by science alone .
We never have .
For demonstrating that , the prime minister ought to take a bow , after taking a knee .

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climatedepot--2020-06-17--A Few More Thoughts On The Very Stupid Oil-As-Nuisance Litigations

It occurs to me to address the question of exactly what about the “ oil-as-nuisance ” litigations is stupid , and what is not as stupid .
The matters that I refer to include the cases , discussed in the last post , of the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against five of the largest oil companies , recently reinstated by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and sent to be heard in the California state courts .
The matters in question also include numerous other very similar cases ( often with page after page of the complaints copied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many other California cities and counties , as well as by various other jurisdictions around the country , not the least of them being my own New York City .
To begin with the “ stupid ” category , there is the fundamental mangling of the whole concept of a legally actionable nuisance .
The classic examples of actionable nuisance involve the polluting next door neighbor , whose sewage or coal ash inundate your property ; or the extremely noisy bar downstairs that makes your apartment uninhabitable .
But here , we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it our light and heat and transportation .
As I wrote in a post in June 2018 ( reporting on the then-recent trial court dismissal of the Oakland and San Francisco cases ) : Although the named plaintiffs are just a few cities , and the defendants are just a few oil companies , the underlying theory is that everyone who uses fossil fuels is harming everyone who lives on the planet .
We ’ re all potential plaintiffs , and we ’ re all potential defendants !
And we ’ ll fix @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s a particularly absurd instance of the usual touching faith of progressives in the efficacy of our flawed institutions to fix all human problems by issuing some kinds of orders from on high .
So let ’ s move over to the “ not as stupid ” category .
In that category , we have the environmental lawyers who cook these things up .
As I understand it , the lead guy devising the national strategy on this is named Matthew Pawa , a lawyer who practices out of Newton , Massachusetts .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ York City complaint , and you will find his name , along those of many colleagues at his own firm and other firms that regularly work with him .
Pawa and his colleagues pose as environmental crusaders , people who are going to use the tools of the law to save the planet and bring about environmental justice .
Are they really ?
The whole idea is preposterous .
Even if you firmly believe that use of petroleum and products derived from it is destroying the planet and must be stopped , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about by these lawsuits is zero .
What does nothave a zero chance — indeed , what has a very substantial chance of occurring — is that these lawsuits will make Mr. Pawa and his colleagues very , very rich .
Now consider the position of the defendants , the oil “ majors ” Exxon , Chevron , ConocoPhillips , Royal Dutch Shell and BP .
At least until the very recent sharp drop in the price of oil occasioned by the Coronavirus pandemic , these companies were making very good money producing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and with high likelihood the profitability of the oil business will return shortly to normal levels .
As noted in Thursday ’ s post , these companies have excellent defenses on the merits of these cases .
The “ nuisance ” legal theory is nonsensical .
And nothing about “ science ” supports the idea that increased emissions of CO2 over time will swamp the plaintiff cities with rising seas , let alone subject them to other speculative horribles like more hurricanes , floods , tornadoes , locusts , or whatever .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and decreasing piece of the world emissions picture , which is increasingly coming to be dominated by production from new sources and by generation of electricity in the third world ( China , India , Africa , South Asia ) , mostly from coal .
As noted on Thursday , Christopher Monckton was urging the defendants to emphasize science as a defense , where they have far the better case .
I joined Monckton in that urging .
But unfortunately , that urging does not comport with the usual psychology of major corporate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dollars might be at stake .
Here ’ s the usual psychology of the corporate executives : never let your company go to a trial where there is even a small possibility that the judgment could be monetary damages so large as to threaten the corporate franchise .
It doesn ’ t matter how strong your case is .
The judge may be crazy .
Or you could get a jury that goes crazy .
Or ( as here ) the plaintiffs could set you up so that you need to defend your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fifty judges and/or juries , any one of which could go crazy even after you have won the first ten or twenty cases .
Which brings me to the model of the great tobacco settlement back in 1998 .
Without the slightest doubt , this is the holy grail that Mr. Pawa and his colleagues are seeking .
The tobacco companies agreed to provide a large and continuing stream of revenue to all the states and municipalities that had brought litigation .
Of course , that agreement had the effect of driving up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ products .
So the states agreed to restrict entry into the market for selling cigarettes only to companies that were participating in the settlement .
That way , the defendants could safely raise their prices without facing additional competition .
( Were you aware of that piece of the tobacco settlement ? )
You could look at the tobacco settlement and say , that doesn ’ t make a lot of sense .
After all , the states could have just imposed higher taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products , which would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raising prices of the cigarettes , getting money for the states , and applying equally to new entrants to the market .
Yes , but here are the differences : ( 1 ) the politicians didn ’ t have to actually pass a tax in the legislature , ( 2 ) the politicians could claim to be somehow punishing “ big tobacco , ” even as the costs of course got passed right on to their citizens , and ( 3 ) the plaintiff lawyers raked off multiple billions of dollars .
Meanwhile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ usage , but the amount of that that is attributable to the higher prices from the settlement is dubious .
Certainly , there never was any possibility that a settlement in this form was going to eliminate tobacco usage , or even put a big dent in it .
And indeed , once the settlement was in place , the states became effective partners of the tobacco companies , dependent on them for important ongoing revenues .
The oil companies are all of course very well aware of this history .
Indeed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the oil-as-nuisance cases , was at the center of the tobacco settlement 22 years ago .
The oil majors really won ’ t even mind forking over a few annual tens of billions of dollars each into a master national settlement fund , as long as they can increase their prices sufficiently to cover the outlay .
And that can be accomplished by the settling states passing laws that no other oil company is allowed to sell into their states unless it joins the master settlement and makes payments based on its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ win win !
The politicians claim credit for punishing the evil oil companies , and raise billions of dollars for pet projects that never need to be justified to taxpayers .
The oil companies get permanent protection from the tide of lawsuits , at a cost of marginal decline in volume of sales .
But after all , their growth markets are in the third world anyway .
The plaintiffs ’ lawyers walk away with billions .
What ’ s not to like ?
This is where we get back to the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American ( or at least those in the settling states ) gets hit with higher prices for gasoline , maybe by 10 % or even 20 % or 30 % .
Everyone is poorer by that much .
The poor get hit the hardest .
And what about the effect on the environment ?
At best we might be talking about a decline of 5 % or so in the use of petroleum-derived fuels in the U.S .
Even if you believe the most alarmist climate models , the effect on world temperatures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ degree — not even within the measurement accuracy of any known instrumentation .
But then , “ saving the planet ” was never really the point .
That was just the cover story .


climatedepot--2020-06-17--German Power Prices Climb 116% Since Year 2000 …Government Levies, Taxes Tripled!

German online site Stromreport writes that since the year 2000 the average electricity price for private households has risen from 13.94 to 30.43 euro cents per kilowatt hour ( 2019 ) .
German electricity prices for households are among the highest worldwide .
The price increase has little to do with demand or markets , but almost everything to do with government interference .
According to Stromreport , “ Taxes , charges and levies have tripled since 2000 [ from 5.19 to 16 cents ] .
In total , German government charges now account for more than half of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Annually hundreds of thousands of German households see their power cut off due to unpaid power bills .
For example in 2018 , the Tagesspiegel here reported : “ In the past year , almost 344,000 households in Germany had their electricity turned off .
This is according to the monitoring report of the Federal Network Agency on the electricity market.
” Of course the high prices hit the poor the hardest .
And things are not going to improve for Germany ’ s overburdened power consumers in 2020 .
Stromreport writes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prices by an average of 5.3 % this year already , bringing the price to a whopping 30.43 cents per kilowatt-hour .
“ A 3-person household currently pays almost 89 euros for its electricity .
That is 27 % more than 10 years ago [ 69.09 euros ] .
” Now comes the CO2 charge The price in 2020 is expected to reach 31.47 cents per kilowatt-hour .
Also the wholesale prices for electricity are expected to rise in 2020 , due to “ rising CO2 prices ” … ” which will make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the electricity exchange , ” says Stromreport .
Another major component of the German power price are the green energy feed-in tariffs for power coming from , for example , wind and sun .
German consumers pay 6.756 cents for kilowatt-hour .


climatedepot--2020-06-17--No early breakup for W Hudson Bay sea ice again this year: polar bears still on the ice

No early breakup of Hudson Bay sea ice again this year : there is still extensive thick first year ice over most of Hudson Bay and all female polar bears fitted with tracking collars in Western Hudson Bay are still on the ice : Breakup of Hudson Bay sea ice as it relates to polar bear movement to land has been about the same since 1999 ( about 2 weeks earlier than in the 1980s ) and this year is shaping up to be no different : there is still no declining trend in date of sea ice breakup in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ imminent doom .
An especially ‘ early ’ breakup year would have bears ashore before 15 June .
Last year ( 2019 ) the first WH bear onshore was caught on film 5 July and problem bears were not recorded onshore in Churchill until the 2nd week of July .
Sea ice by stage of development ( week of 8 June 2020 ) : Last year at this time ( week of 10 June 2019 ) : And in 2018 ( week of 11 June 2018 ) : At 12 June 2020 ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the entire Arctic looked like this :


climatedepot--2020-06-17--No, Coal Power Plants Did Not Cause Extinctions 250 Million Years Ago

Among the top results this afternoon for a Google News search of “ climate change ” is an article claiming ancient coal-burning caused a mega-extinction event 250 million years ago .
In reality , massive volcanic eruptions that continued for 2 million years caused the extinction , not prehistoric power plants of human or natural creation .
The “ science ” website Phys.org published an article today titled , “ Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years ago.
” The article references a study by researchers at Arizona State University examining geological features and residue in Siberia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ features and residue confirmed what scientists have long , known : that massive , persistent volcanic eruptions that lasted for 2 million years caused the extinction event long ago .
Even Phys.org acknowledges the causal role of the volcanic eruptions .
“ The massive eruptive event that formed the traps [ the Siberian Traps , a region of volcanic rock in Russia ] is one of the largest known volcanic events in the last 500 million years .
The eruptions continued for roughly two million years and spanned the Permian-Triassic boundary ” that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quite straightforward .
Volcanic eruptions of nearly unimaginable intensity and duration caused the punishing assaults on the earth and dramatic changes that led to a large extinction event .
Heck , volcanic eruptions of nearly unimaginable intensity and duration should cause dramatic assaults on the earth and changes that lead to a large extinction event .
However , the researchers who wrote up their study noted that when the volcanoes incinerated so many plants , animals , etc.
, the volcanoes burned some coal that was laying around , also .
“ Our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into and incorporated coal and organic material , ” said one of the study ’ s authors , according to Phys.org .
“ That gives us direct evidence that the magmas also combusted large quantities of coal and organic matter during eruption.
” The author claimed dramatic similarities between the 2 million years of intense volcanic eruptions and current fossil fuel use .
“ Seeing these similarities gives us extra impetus to take action now , and also to further understand how the Earth responds to changes like these in the longer term @ @ @ @ @ @ @ piled on .
“ And the changes at the end-Permian extinction bear remarkable parallels to what is happening on Earth today , including burning hydrocarbons and coal , ” claimed Phys.org .
No , 2 million years of intense volcanic eruptions is not the same – or even remotely similar – to human utilizing fossil fuels today .
It ’ s not in the same ballpark .
It ’ s not even the same planet , unless we eradicate 250 million years of time and try to survive 2 million years of intense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was some of the material burned in the cataclysmic volcano events does not mean that coal caused the extinction event .
Headlines like “ Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years ago ” are absurdly misleading .
Such ridiculous headlines and claims are also the reason – rather than fictitious money spent by evil people in a grand conspiracy theory – why so many Americans remain justifiably skeptical of the alarmists ’ Climate Delusion .
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climatedepot--2020-06-17--It’s All Over For The UK Green Blob’s Climate Billions Office

Boris Johnson ’ s historic decision to abolish the standalone Department for International Development ( Dfid ) and roll its functions into the Foreign Office is long overdue .
Ever since David Cameron expanded Britain ’ s aid budget to 0.7 per cent of GDP , scandal after scandal has emerged about millions of pounds of hard-pressed UK taxpayers ’ money being shovelled into dubious projects to meet this arbitrary target .
The budget for this bloated department has reached an astonishing £14.6billion this year .
Incredibly , Dfid now has 3,700 employees , and cost £326m to operate last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ d expect money to be spent on vital projects truly improving the lives of desperate people in the world ’ s poorest countries .
Sadly not .
Here are a few examples of how taxpayers ’ money was frittered away by this unlamented department : China is the world ’ s secondlargest economy , now funding – on a commercial basis Hinkley C nuclear power plant plus other infrastructure projects here .
Yet Dfid has spent hundreds of millions on 57 aid projects in China .
As much as £99m was allocated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is £95,000 ( enough for three NHS nurses ) being spent on helping China come up with ‘ climate risk assessment ’ – in a country building coal-fired power stations .
We are also spending an undisclosed sum tackling salt consumption among Chinese children and their families , plus almost £60,000 on offshore wind turbines to support China ’ s ‘ transition to a low-carbon economy ’ .
£300m in free money for people in Pakistan Seemingly having run out of ideas for grand aid projects to fund , the UK Government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thousands of Pakistani families .
Three years ago , photos emerged of people in Peshawar queuing at a cashpoint to withdraw money on cards loaded with funds from UK taxpayers .
Costs ballooned from £53m in 2005 to £219m between 2011-2015 .
One MP said it was akin to ‘ exporting the dole.
’ Palm oil plantations have been widely condemned for their terrible environmental damage , but it hasn ’ t stopped Dfid sending millions to subsidise Congolese agribusiness Feronia , which runs a palm oil farming and processing business in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hasn ’ t disclosed exactly how much it has spent but the subsidy takes up a share of the £63m of UK taxpayer money that was sent to the DRC this year .
UK taxpayers shelled out an astonishing £25m on a project that included persuading Kenya ’ s meteorologists to work with Nganyi ‘ rainmakers ’ — who claim to be able to forecast rain by watching ants and listening to the call of certain birds and the croaks of toads , but were said to be ‘ flummoxed by climate change @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up with a ‘ consensus ’ weather forecast .
‘ At the beginning of the project , the interactions between the meteorologists and rainmakers was characterised by mutual scepticism , ’ Dfid admitted , perhaps not surprisingly about the project , two years after it began in 2009 .
‘ The two groups .
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successfully made joint seasonal weather forecasts.
’ Thank goodness for that .
As residents along the Rivers Wye and Severn found in February , the Government may not have much of a plan on how to protect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is nice to know £29m of taxpayers ’ money has been allocated to ‘ building urban resilience to climate change ’ in Tanzania .
Since 2017 , India has spent £100m launching a probe that got to the Moon last year — and even has its own foreign aid programme , which spent £620m in 2018 .
Despite this , British taxpayers have given £95m over two years in aid to the country , including £26,000 on promoting the employment of women in India ’ s energy sector .
Share of £12m for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Government planned to hand out £11.8m between 2015 and 2018 to an organisation called Girl Effect , which promoted empowerment of women in the developing world .
It included funding a girl band called Yegna , often dubbed the ‘ Ethiopian Spice Girls ’ .
The project was stopped after a review by Priti Patel , now Home Secretary , when she was International Development Secretary in 2017 .
The UK ’ s taxpayers fund 50 projects in Nigeria , among them a project to install £11.3m of solar panels to promote green @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to promote Nigeria ’ s oil industry .
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climatedepot--2020-06-17--Model Failures: Inflated Pandemic Estimates Weaken Climate Forecasts

It ’ s remarkable we put so much faith in expert models , given their history of failure .
Tony Abbott ’ s suspicion that climate change modelling was “ absolute crap ” soon will resonate more broadly — so spectacularly bad was expert modelling of the spread and lethality of the coronavirus , faith in all modelling must surely suffer .
Why trust the experts to forecast the climate decades into the future when they were so wrong about a disease related to the common cold ?
Official coronavirus and climate change modelling share catastrophic predictions .
Unfortunately for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sooner and it has delivered an F for fail .
The pandemic has damaged the credibility of “ experts ” and highlighted the limits of “ the science ” and the misplaced hubris of the political class .
On whatever measure you choose — deaths , infections , rate of transmission — the epidemiological models that convinced governments to take a sledgehammer to their economies , now mired in unrest , have proved scandalously pessimistic and out by orders of magnitude .
We were told the virus ’ s spread would be “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; transmission was falling before mandatory lockdowns scared the daylights out of people .
The infection fatality rate , we were told , would be about 1 per cent ; it ’ s closer to 0.2 per cent , akin to a severe flu .
Apparently , lifting lockdowns early would see cases surge ; they haven ’ t .
And we were all vulnerable — but most weren ’ t ; the median age of death is well over 80 .
Driving is more dangerous .
At least half of deaths globally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were already locked down .
We understood you could catch COVID-19 again — also wrong .
We closed schools and wore masks , but the evidence we needed to do so is scant .
The raw numbers speak for themselves .
The death toll globally is on track to be smaller than the flu pandemics of the 1950s and 60s , when the world ’ s population was less than half that today .
Indeed , if you put the number of global deaths last year , this year , and next year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on a simple column chart you ’ ll struggle to see the impact of COVID-19 .
Future historians will be shocked at the disproportionate response .
At least they will chuckle at SAGE , the acronym for the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies , the expert panel advising the British government , which has presided over the worst performance of any country .
But it wasn ’ t only the British .
Experts in Sweden warned 100,000 would die by June if it didn ’ t lock down as the rest of Europe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lost .
Experts said 420,000 might die in Japan without a hard lockdown .
Fewer than 950 did .
Our own experts at the Doherty Institute said 5000 intensive care unit beds would be required , even with strict isolation and social distancing ; fewer than 50 were needed .
For anyone here who is worried about a second wave of COVID-19 , we ’ re still waiting on the first one .
Climate modelling was struggling even before the pandemic , given the planet has warmed about half as much as forecast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Change report in back 1990 .
It ’ s remarkable we put so much faith in expert models , given their history of failure .
The Club of Rome in 1972 notoriously forecast that growth would collapse as the world ’ s resources ran out , ignoring human ingenuity and the shale revolution .
Financial models failed to account for — indeed they probably facilitated — the global financial crisis .
And as almost every utterance by a central bank governor since has reminded us , economists struggle to know what happened last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a policy change tomorrow .
In the last 15 years parts of the Great Barrier reef have bleached on only three occasions .
It ’ s remarkable we put so much faith in climate modelling , given it is a far more complex task .
“ Climate sensitivity ” — the size and speed of the response of global temperatures to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — is harder to predict than a spreading virus .
Even if we knew it , drawing implications about future economic growth is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Failures : Inflated Pandemic Estimates Weaken Climate Forecastsappeared first on The Global Warming Policy Forum ( GWPF ) .


climatedepot--2020-06-17--No, Google, Climate Change Is Not Killing Americans, It Is Saving Them

At the top of Google News searches this morning for “ climate change ” is an article titled , “ Climate Change Is Killing Americans .
Health Departments Aren ’ t Equipped to Respond.
” The article , published by Columbia Journalism Investigations and the far-left British tabloid The Guardian , claims “ a rise in dangerous heat in the United States ” is causing a dramatic rise in climate-related deaths .
However , just the opposite is the case , as objective evidence proves warmer temperatures are reducing deaths in America and around the world .
The Columbia article @ @ @ @ @ @ @ viral pandemic , like the one caused by the novel coronavirus , this [ the asserted rise in heatwaves ] is a quiet , insidious threat with no end point.
” The article provides , as an illustrative example , the story of an Arizona man who lived alone , in isolation , in his rural desert home .
When people hadn ’ t heard from him for three weeks , police checked on his home and found his dead body .
His air conditioner had broken down and it was 99 degrees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” as his cause of death .
The premise of the Columbia article is that global warming caused the high summer temperatures in the Arizona desert that caused the man to die .
As if Arizona was a cool , temperate , refreshing summer oasis prior to global warming causing the Arizona desert to begin getting hot in the summer just 50 years ago .
People with common sense know better .
If you don ’ t trust your common sense , we can look at objective evidence .
As shown in Climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there has been no warming in the United States since at least 2005 , which is when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration implemented its most precise-ever temperature network throughout the United States .
It seems rather odd that Columbia would publish an article claiming “ Climate Change Is Killing Americans ” by virtue of higher temperatures when there has been no increase in American temperatures for at least the past 15 years .
Also , scientists report cold temperatures cause more deaths than warm temperatures .
In a peer-reviewed study published @ @ @ @ @ @ @ researchers found that colder-than-ideal temperatures kill 20 times more people globally than warmer-than-ideal temperatures .
That includes the United States , where the U.S. Centers for Disease Control report far more Americans die each day during the cold winter months than during the warm summer months .
Therefore , even if temperatures were warming in the United States , any such climate change would save the lives of far more people than would die because of the warmer temperatures .
It is a shame that Google doesn ’ t “ fact check ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ articles as top results for climate change “ news.
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climatedepot--2020-06-17--Congrats! US, Sweden, Australia have more climate ‘deniers’ than anywhere

There are more skeptics in the USA than anywhere , followed by Sweden , Australia , Norway , Netherlands , Canada , Finland , and Germany .
And in the same large report , we find that Australian “ trust ” in the media has fallen yet again from 44 % last year to 38 % this year .
As well as those listed dismissively as “ deniers ” ( see the graph below ) another 10 % say climate change is “ not very serious ” .
So about 1 in 5 people , are outspoken skeptics — which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Four out of five news consumers say they consider climate change to be either somewhat , very or extremely serious ( 79 % ) .
” They had to rule out those who aren ’ t “ news consumers ” to get the figure up to 79 % .
It also doesn ’ t fit with many past surveys that show that half the people in Australia , and the UK and the US are skeptics .
( See “ Polls “ ) They don ’ t say how many people were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that data ?
From this report we can see why censorship is the main tool of the climate believers .
People exposed to both sides of the story [ … ]


climatedepot--2020-06-17--China Adds New Wave Of Coal Plants After Lifting Curbs

A wave of new coal power plants are under construction or in development after the country lifted curbs on new @ @ @ @ @ study published Tuesday by Greenpeace .
About 46 gigawatts worth of new plants were under @ @ @ @ @ the study said .
Another 48 gigawatts were under various stages of development , Greenpeace @ @ @ @ @ of new coal power capacity was added last year , making a total of about @ @ @ @ @ China Electricity Council data .
China remains coal ’ s stronghold even as consumption of @ @ @ @ @ elsewhere in the world .
The nation mines and burns about half the world ’ @ @ @ @ @ as an important source of cheap power and mass employment .
A spate of coal @ @ @ @ @ part of the decade led to overcapacity , and by 2016 the National Energy Administration @ @ @ @ @ ’ s 33 regional governments to suspend or delay new plants .
Those restrictions have @ @ @ @ @ , with only six regions expected to have excessive capacity by 2023 .


climatedepot--2020-06-17--Folly: Germany Plans To Convert Coal Power Plant To Burn 100-Year Old Trees In Minutes!

NoTricksZone : Not here to worship what i… Folly : Germany Plans To Convert Coal Power Plant To Burn 100-Year Old Trees In Minutes !
NoTricksZone : Not here to worship what i… / by P Gosselin / 1d German Coal Power Plants To Be Converted : To Burn Trees ￼ Millions of trees to be shipped from around the world to Europe to be burned as “ green coal ” .
Image cropped from “ Planet of the Humans ” By Die kalte Sonne ( Translated/edited by P. Gosselin ) On May 2 , 2020 , we reported on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the focus is on biomass .
However , they do not ferment fast-growing plants into gas as is the case in Europe , rather they cut down trees and burn them in power plants – often together with other things like car tires or soaked railway ties .
The issue is controversial because it is about pure ideology .
Climate organisations such as 350.org , which in the USA is like Fridays For Future ( FFF ) in Europe , have given their blessing to this type of power generation .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Moore also denounces this .
Converting CO2 sinks instantly into atmospheric CO2 And so the USA is losing valuable carbon sinks and biotopes , destroying its environment and lying to itself about sustainability and the climate .
A tree that takes 50 – 100 years to become big and stately , but then is burned up in a few minutes , can never have a favorable climate balance , no matter how you calculate it .
Trees are the new coal , it seems .
But anyone who thinks that this is only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forests and thus carbon sinks are destroyed , is mistaken .
“ Madness ” : German coal plant to be converted to burn trees The online daily Weserkurier reports on a coal-fired power station in Wilhelmshaven ( North Germany ) that is to be converted to burn wood .
This made Germany ’ s most famous forester , Peter Wohlleben ( book “ The Secret Life of Trees “ ) flash with anger on Twitter .
The madness continues : although hundreds of scientists are warning against burning wood as a climate killer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ backing forest destruction and want to convert coal-fired power plants.
” What Wohlleben means by madness could be the statements of Social Democrat Party member of parliament Siemtje Möller .
Her slogan on her own website : “ Think about the climate too !
” “ Green coal ” Siemtje Möller is already thinking ahead .
After all , the Wilhelmshaven site could eventually also produce hydrogen with the green coal .
The stimulus for the technology , worth billions of euros , which has just been ratified , should also come to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a fair share here , ” says the Siemtje Möller about the budget .
In general , she sees the hydrogen initiative , the coal phase-out law and the structural transformation law as “ a huge opportunity for the Northwest to enter the future ” .
She calls trees “ green coal ” in all seriousness and then wants to use the energy from burnt trees to produce hydrogen .
Does the federal hydrogen initiative mean something like that ?
Probably not .
Destroying carbon sinks can not possibly be a huge opportunity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Möller take her own slogan so little seriously ?


climatedepot--2020-06-17--Warmists new study finds even ‘climate progressive’ nations far short of adopting UN Paris climate p

Warmists new study finds even ‘climate progressive’ nations far short of adopting UN Paris climate pact goals

`` In our new paper in Climate Policy , we analyse two self-proclaimed climate ‘ progressive ’ nations , the UK and Sweden , and demonstrate just how far removed current policy frameworks are from meeting the commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement . ''
Laments no central planning ambition that extends to 2100 !
`` Neither have a clearly defined carbon budget to the end of the century . ''
Kevin Anderson is a professor of energy and climate change , working between the Universities of Manchester , Uppsala and Bergen .
Excerpt : Away from the eloquent rhetoric @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solutions , today ’ s climate strategies implicitly reject Paris in favour of placating business-as–usual .
As our paper concludes , delivering mitigation rates aligned with “ well below 2°C ” is now incompatible with the dominant economic model .
Whilst a revolutionary shift to zero carbon technologies is a prerequisite of Paris , it is far from sufficient .
Only if accompanied by policies informed by equity , within and between nations , and a reframing of what constitutes value , progress and good lives , is a timely transformation to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is any silver lining to the Covid tragedy , it is that we have seen that rapid and progressive change for the collective good is possible .


climatedepot--2020-06-17--Flashback: What Michael Crichton Taught Us About Scientific Fraud

He invented the genre we now call the techno-thriller whereby it is hard to discern whether it is fact or fiction you were reading .
The reason for that was because he wove his plots around well-researched facts .
One of the best examples is State of Fear .
If you are a student of the climate change furor , it is a must-read , chock full of intelligent insight into the twisted pseudoscience driving the environmental movement .
Below is a key short extract in which Crichton deftly summarizes the reality of nature and man through the character , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s remember where we live , Kenner was saying .
We live on the third planet from a medium sized sun .
Our planet is five billion years old , and it has been changing constantly all during that time .
The Earth is now on its third atmosphere .
The first atmosphere was helium and hydrogen .
It dissipated early on because the planet was so hot .
Then as the planet cooled , volcanic eruptions produced a second atmosphere of steam and carbon dioxide .
Later the water vapor condensed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the planet .
Then , around three billion years ago , some bacteria evolved to consume carbon dioxide and excrete a highly toxic gas , oxygen .
Other bacteria released nitrogen .
The atmospheric concentration of these gases slowly increased .
Organisms that could not adapt died out .
Meanwhile , the planet ’ s land masses , floating on huge tectonic plates , eventually came together in a configuration that interfered with the circulation of ocean currents .
It began to get cold for the first time .
The first ice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the last seven hundred thousand years the planet has been in a geological ice age , characterized by advancing and retreating glacial ice .
No one is entirely sure why , but ice now covers the planet every hundred thousand years , with smaller advances every twenty thousand or so .
The last advance was twenty thousand years ago , so we ’ re due for the next one .
And even today , after five billion years , our planet remains amazingly active .
We have five hundred volcanoes , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are continuous : a million and a half a year , a moderate Richter 5 quake every six hours , a big earthquake every ten days .
Tsunamis race across the Pacific Ocean every three months .
Our atmosphere is as violent as the land beneath it .
At any moment there are one thousand five hundred electrical storms across the planet .
Eleven lighting bolts strike the earth every second .
A tornado tears across the surface every six hours .
And every four days a giant cyclonic storm , hundreds of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ocean and wreaks havoc on the land .
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide .
For these same apes to imagine they can stabilize this atmosphere is arrogant beyond belief .
They can ’ t control the climate .
The reality is , they run from the storms .
What may we interpret from this ?
The world is not going to end and neither is civilization going to end .
Cold , not heat , is to be feared .
Life has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is termed as extreme weather events have always existed .
The graph above demonstrates we are getting better every day in understanding our environment , working with it , and adapting to its harsher realities .
State of Fear is still in print and is an important guide for future decisions in life .
Another gem from this insightful writer I found apropos to the above .
It ought to make us all think about the debacle that has been the pandemic ‘ lockdown.
’ From Crichton ’ s 2006 novel , ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Scientific Fraud Fraud in science is not rare and not limited to fringe players .
The most respected researchers and institutions have been caught with fake data .
So , keep in mind this brilliant author ’ s warning :


climatedepot--2020-06-17--Sweden: Calls to replace King Charles XII with statue of Greta Thunberg

After statues having been vandalized across the world by far-left extremists , there are now calls for statues to be removed in Sweden as well .
Statues of Thomas Jefferson , Winston Churchill and Christopher Columbus have all been vandalized in recent protests around the world .
In a opinion piece for Aftonbladet , former Mayor of Umeå municipality Jan Björinge , says that we shouldn ’ t have memorials for “ oppressors ” .
He goes on to suggest that we should use technology to create interactive experiences where removed statues once stood .
For example using QR codes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that previously stood there .
The former Mayor says that this is not a revision of history , saying that statues are symbols of ideologies , not objective history .
“ Remove the autocrat Karl XII and replace him with the climate activist Greta Thunberg ” he writes .
King Charles XII ( or Carolus Rex ) is one of Sweden ’ s most famous Kings .
He is known for being a warrior King , leading the Swedish Empire to victory in defensive wars in the Great Northern war in the 1700s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Denmark-Norway , Saxony-Poland-Lithuania and Russia launched a threefold attack on the Swedish Empire .
However King Charles XII only 18 years old , led the Swedish army through multiple victories despite the Swedish army usually being outnumbered .
By 1706 , Charles at only 24 years old had forced his enemies into submission .
But by 1709 , Charles XII was defeated at the Battle of Poltova .
Later on in the war , Great Britain , Hanover and Brandenburg-Prussia joined the alliance against the Swedish Empire .
The Great Northern War @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Swedish Empire .
The Swedish King is not the only statue that the far-left wants to remove .
Now a petition has been started to remove statue of the Swedish botanist , zoologist and physician Carl Von Linné because of racism .
He is known as the father of modern taxonomy , inventing the modern system of naming organisms .
He wrote the famous Systema Naturae .


climatedepot--2020-06-16--Lund University academic: ‘To Halt Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Leninism’ – ‘State power sh

Lund University academic: ‘To Halt Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Leninism’ – ‘State power should definitely be used’ to ban SUVs & private jets

Andreas Malm is in the human ecology division at Lund University : `` The whole strategic direction of Lenin after 1914 was to turn World War I into a fatal blow against capitalism .
This is precisely the same strategic orientation we must embrace today — and this is what I mean by ecological Leninism .
We must find a way of turning the environmental crisis into a crisis for fossil capital itself . ''
... '' There was a moment in March 2020 when many of us in the climate justice movement felt a degree of surprise to find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prepared to basically shut down their entire economies in an effort to contain the pandemic .
This is striking , given that the same states had never contemplated undertaking any kind of intervention in the economy for the sake of the climate crisis . ''
COVID 'is an opportunity '' : `` This is an opportunity in the sense that it has brought about a temporary cessation of many of the most environmentally damaging activities , mass aviation has been suspended , carbon emissions have declined , fossil fuels are remaining in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a moment where we can say to governments : “ If you were able to intervene to protect us from the virus , you can intervene to protect us from the climate crisis as well , the implications of which are much worse.
” The current juncture therefore provides us with an opportunity to oppose the return to business as usual , to push for the transformation of the global economy and the launch of something like a Green New Deal. ''
... `` State power should definitely be used to prevent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ private jets should be banned outright , as should SUVs and other vehicles that consume completely indefensible amounts of fuel .
This is low-hanging fruit for the climate justice movement , as these sources of emissions are among the least socially necessary . ''
... '' Some forms of consumption will indeed have to be limited or abolished outright — this can not be done through markets or appeals to ethical consumption , but only through state regulation . ''
... '' While it may seem utopian at this stage , it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down institutions designed to survey and control populations and repurpose them to attack capital , closing down the sources of global warming and zoonotic transmission .
In the book , for example , I propose that we abolish border agencies and turn them into institutions for cracking down on the wildlife trade . ''


climatedepot--2020-06-18--Fumento: ‘Erosion of trust’: 10 things public health establishment got wrong about coronavirus

They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching # Coronavirus , but if healthcare providers can ’ t @ @ @ @ @ sick patients , it puts them and our communities at risk !
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climatedepot--2020-06-18--Claim: Surgical General Anesthetic is Contributing to Climate Change

Switching from general to regional anaesthetics may help cut greenhouse emissions and ultimately help reduce global warming , a new study claims .
While regional anaesthetics numb a certain part of the body , general anaesthetics make patients totally unconscious for what tend to be more serious procedures .
But unlike regional anaesthetics , generals use volatile and environmentally-unfriendly halogenated agents , such as desflurane , or nitrous oxide .
... ‘ Green-gional ’ anesthesia : the non-polluting benefits of regional anesthesia to decrease greenhouse gases and attenuate climate change The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York is apparently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for hip and knee replacement surgery , to minimise the impact of surgical procedures on global warming .
Gases used to knock patients out before they go under the knife are ‘ fuelling climate change ’ and should be replaced with ‘ regional ’ anaesthetics , scientists claim Switching from general to regional anaesthetics may help cut greenhouse emissions and ultimately help reduce global warming , a new study claims .
While regional anaesthetics numb a certain part of the body , general anaesthetics make patients totally unconscious for what tend to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anaesthetics , generals use volatile and environmentally-unfriendly halogenated agents , such as desflurane , or nitrous oxide .
‘ Following general anesthetics , volatile halogenated agents and nitrous oxide are exhaled by the patient and are also often scavenged from the operating room and released into the atmosphere , ’ the research team say in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine .
‘ Very little – less than 5 per cent – of the volatile halogenated gases used during general anesthesia is metabolised by the patient .
‘ The remainder is eventually vented into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gas used in anesthesia does differ in its global warming potential , all have some contribution to climate change .
The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York therefore opted to carry out as many hip and knee replacements as possible using regional anaesthesia in 2019 .
The abstract of the study ; ‘ Green-gional ’ anesthesia : the non-polluting benefits of regional anesthesia to decrease greenhouse gases and attenuate climate change Volatile halogenated gases and nitrous oxide used as part of a balanced general anesthetic may contribute to global warming .
By @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anesthesia may reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help prevent global warming .
We present a theoretical calculation of the potential benefits and a real-life example of how much regional anesthesia may reduce greenhouse gas emissions .
I ’ m a bit uncomfortable with the idea of climate change being used as a criterion for patient care decisions .
Doctors should focus on what is best for the patient , not on what they think the weather will be like a hundred years from now .


climatedepot--2020-06-18--New Studies Suggests Sea Levels Are Lower Today Than They Were Even During The Little Ice Age

Coastal history analyses increasingly suggest sea levels are lower today than at any time in the last 7000 years – even lower than the 1600s to 1800s .
Recently we compared cartology from the 17th to 19th centuries to direct aerial images of coastal positions today .
Rather surprisingly , there seemed to be more land area below sea level a few hundred years ago .
For example , an 1802 nautical map of New York City and Long Island shows there may have been more open waters in this region during the Little Ice Age than in 2019 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ coasts were further inland during the 1600s than they are today ( Mörner , 2017 ) .
In another new study , the borehole sea level history for the Italian port city of Salerno reveals the coast was hundreds of meters further inland compared to today ’ s 7000 years ago .
Even 300 years ago the coast was still much further inland ( Amato et al.
, 2020 ) .
Citing previous studies , another new paper has today ’ s sea levels about 2 to 3 meters lower than they were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coasts of Brazil ( Martins et al.
, 2020 ) .
And , again , today ’ s relative sea levels seem to be the lowest of the record – lower than the Little Ice Age .


climatedepot--2020-06-18--Virginia’s latest folly — offshore wind power

As reported in an earlier article , Virginia ’ s green electric power plan calls for 5,000 MW of offshore wind generating capacity to be built in the next decade or so .
This is a huge amount given that the worldwide total is just around 15,000 MW .
We are talking about something like 800 giant windmills , embedded in the ocean floor and sticking hundreds of feet into the air above the water .
They will be on the order of one and a half times taller than the Washington Monument , which is really tall .
Two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ folly — too little wind and too much wind .
Let ’ s look at too little wind first .
The proposed site is around 30 miles offshore of the giant Norfolk naval complex .
Sites are usually much closer in than this , but maybe the Navy told them to keep their distance .
Or perhaps they are out beyond the very busy shipping lanes .
Every ship from Central and South America , or the southeast U.S. , headed for ports from Baltimore north to Canada , passes through this area @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but not one we are looking at now .
The problem is that this area frequently gets periods of a week or more when the wind is too low to generate any power .
These are winds of 10 mph or less .
Normal wind turbines require sustained wind of 33 mph or more to generate full power .
Some new models with giant blades can do full power at just 23 mph .
But neither generates much of anything at 10 mph .
It is not a matter of no wind ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Norfolk show just such an event last year , with the low wind period being August 17-23 .
The wind never measured over 10 mph for the entire 7 days .
To make matters worse , when these low wind periods occur in summer they often include very high temperatures .
In the event cited above the high temperatures were in the upper 80 ’ s and low 90 ’ s .
Away from the ocean , temperatures were even higher .
Both Richmond and Washington DC saw high temperatures in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most of this week long period .
These high temperatures create the greatest need for electricity , called peak demand .
Combining peak demand with no wind power means this huge , expensive wind facility does nothing when electricity is most needed .
Some other form of power generation will have to be standing by to do what the 5,000 MW of useless offshore wind power can not do .
There is no provision for this duplication of generating capacity in the Virginia plan .
If it is not there when needed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ option .
Week long periods of no generation low wind occur fairly often in the Norfolk area , perhaps once every few years .
In a hot summer they may occur more than once .
But there are also many shorter periods of low wind , with a high need for electricity , that occur more frequently .
Then too there are no doubt longer periods of low wind that occur less frequently .
At the one in fifty year frequency we might get a month or more of low wind .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been addressed in the Virginia plan .
On the high wind side we have hurricanes .
This area could be called hurricane alley because many storms turn north in the Caribbean and run up the American coast .
Southern Virginia and northern North Carolina actually stick out into this flow .
That is where these tall towers will be .
Category five hurricanes have sustained winds over 156 mph with gusts that can exceed 200 mph .
To date no offshore wind towers have been designed to withstand these sorts of winds .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ hurricanes do not occur .
The force of the wind is a function of the square of the wind speed , so a 160 mph wind is four times as destructive as an 80 mph wind .
In fact the US Energy Department recently announced a new research program to look into whether a hurricane proof design is even possible .
Here ’ s how DOE puts it : “ Although hurricanes and the damage they can cause remain difficult to predict , with current R & D , the Energy Department is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offshore wind systems that will eventually be deployed in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic regions.
“ DOE puts a positive spin on it but it seems clear that we are in no position to build massive hurricane proof offshore wind facilities today .
DOE says “ eventually ” and even that may be wishful thinking .
One thing certain is that if Virginia goes ahead , in effect playing chicken with cat 5 storms , these hundreds of towers will have to be far stronger than standard European designs .
Stronger means more expensive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1.5 million per MW , which would be $ 7.5 billion in Virginia ’ s case .
If hurricane proofing doubles the cost that puts a monstrous $ 15 billion at risk of destruction .
Conclusion : The Virginia plan is calling for a massive and incredibly expensive offshore wind generating facility , at high risk of failure , that will produce no power whatever when it is needed most .


climatedepot--2020-06-18--Media keeps churning identity politics: NYT: ‘Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Blac

Media keeps churning identity politics: NYT: ‘Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most’

WASHINGTON — Pregnant women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have children who are premature , underweight or stillborn , and African-American mothers and babies are harmed at a much higher rate than the population at large , according to sweeping new research examining more than 32 million births in the United States .
The research adds to a growing body of evidence that minorities bear a disproportionate share of the danger from pollution and global warming .
Not only are minority communities in the United States far more likely to be hotter than the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the “ heat island ” effect , but they are also more likely to be located near polluting industries .
“ We already know that these pregnancy outcomes are worse for black women , ” said Rupa Basu , one of the paper ’ s authors and the chief of the air and climate epidemiological section for the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in California .
“ It ’ s even more exacerbated by these exposures.
” The research , published Thursday in JAMA Network Open , part of the Journal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the most sweeping evidence so far linking aspects of climate change with harm to newborn children .
The project looked at 57 studies published since 2007 that found a relationship between heat or air pollution and birth outcomes in the United States .


climatedepot--2020-06-18--See the Skeptical Climate Slide Show AOC Tried, & Failed, to Censor by Dr. Caleb Rossiter

This is the slide show and 20-minute talk that Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chellie Pingree tried to censor at the LibertyCon 2020 conference in Washington , D.C. After Dr. Rossiter gave a climate talk at LibertyCon 2019 , they wrote to sponsors of the event , such as Google and Facebook , and asked them not to fund any event with an appearance by “ climate deniers ” from the CO2 Coalition .
See http : //co2coalition.org/2019/01/30/representatives-ocasio-cortez-and-pingree-and-climate-change-debate/ LibertyCon indeed lost some sponsorship , but because of its commitment to the free exchange of ideas still invited Dr. Rossiter back to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ talk he had prepared , before the coronavirus crisis forced the cancellation of the conference .
As background to this topic , we suggest that you watch the CO2 Coalition ’ s “ CO2-Minute ” video , “ Carbon Dioxide : Part of a Greener Future , ” at https : //co2coalition.org/studies-resources/video-and-media/ .
Now , on to the talk !
( You can also download and distribute the slides themselves in a PowerPoint file at : http : //co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/LibertyCon-Rossiter-Presentation-final_6-16-20.pptx ) I ’ m Caleb Rossiter , executive director of the CO2 Coalition of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ professor .
Welcome to Climate Statistics 101 , which shows how to test hypotheses about the impact of emissions of greenhouse gases like CO .
Statistics uses logic and probability to test for causation , for whether one thing affects another .
We take nothing on faith , everything on proof .
Only in the law school do they teach ad homimen arguments – attacking or praising the messengers .
Scholars just analyze their message .
This is life !
It ’ s called the Normal Distribution or Bell Curve .
It shows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physical and statistical things are .
Things like people ’ s heights or the number of hurricanes in a decade .
We use the Normal Distribution to test the null hypothesis , the claim that there is no “ statistically significant ” difference between the average and what we actually observe .
Most of the time , 68 percent of the time , observations are close to the average , within one standard deviation – the average distance of the data from the average itself .
As you move farther from the average @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is you are counting .
There are a lot more six-foot guys than seven-foot guys .
This formula , derived from our mathematics and amazingly confirmed in nature , determines the height of the Normal curve at every point .
It tells us just how often what we observe will be , simply by chance , a certain number of standard deviations away from the average .
This “ Z-table ” tells you exactly , to the third decimal place , how likely it is that an observation happened by chance .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reject the null hypothesis , and say there is a statistically significant correlation , if the outcome would happened anyway one time out of 20 , or five percent of the time .
That makes us 95 percent sure that the two variables are correlated , or move together .
Now , correlation is not necessarily causation .
Life is not bivariate – based on just the two things you are measuring .
Unless you can randomly assign subjects , life is multivariate , with other variables causing changes too .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In Latin it ’ s called post hoc ergo propter hoc : this thing happened after that thing , so it was caused by it .
Here ’ s an example .


climatedepot--2020-06-18--Warmist claim: ‘Climate change, COVID19 and race are inter-related’ When ‘pandemics or climate crise

Warmist claim: ‘Climate change, COVID19 and race are inter-related’ When ‘pandemics or climate crises…encounter racist systems, they produce racist results’

Warmist Craig S. Altemose : `` Covid-19 is teaching us is that while natural threats — be they pandemics or climate crises — are not racist , when these threats encounter racist systems , they produce racist results . ''
... `` So what is the lesson here for the climate movement ?
All parts of our work , from fossil fuel pollution to the clean energy economy to preparing for climate impacts , all of these things exist and will continue to exist in a racist society .
So when we apply a race-neutral lens to a racist society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outcomes . ''
By CRAIG S ALTEMOSE ( Craig S. Altemose is the executive director of Better Future Project , the home of 350 Massachusetts , Divest Ed , and Communities Responding to Extreme Weather ( CREW ) .
Two key lessons are immediately apparent .
First , we ignore expert guidance at our peril .
For decades , public health experts had been warning about society ’ s potential exposure to a pandemic , and the need to build in appropriate safeguards , procedures , and supply chains .
The second major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while natural threats — be they pandemics or climate crises — are not racist , when these threats encounter racist systems , they produce racist results .
This has been proven tragically , though not surprisingly to anyone paying attention to racial dynamics in society , as African-Americans , indigenous groups , and other traditionally marginalized groups continue to disproportionately bear the brunt of Covid-19 impacts .
Nationally , Navajo Nation has surpassed New York as the most directly affected ( per-capita ) state/territory in the nation .
In Boston , for instance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percent of the population , but as of late April they accounted for 42 percent of Boston ’ s COVID-19 cases .
Again , the virus is not racist , but when African-Americans live in a racist society , their risks of exposure are much greater .
The jobs that have been easiest to transition to working remotely during the pandemic are professional , or “ white collar ” professions ; they could just as easily be categorized by the color of the skins as the color of the collars of the majority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what is the lesson here for the climate movement ?
All parts of our work , from fossil fuel pollution to the clean energy economy to preparing for climate impacts , all of these things exist and will continue to exist in a racist society .
So when we apply a race-neutral lens to a racist society , we will continue to produce racist outcomes .
In short , we need to reduce pollution much more quickly than most care to admit , and we must do it in with a strong , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experiences , and needs of black , indigenous , Latinx , and other traditionally marginalized groups .
This will not be easy .
In fact , it will be incredibly hard .
But climate change , like the coronavirus , does not care for the difficulty of the task before us .
It simply asks the question : will we rise to the occasion , and be our best selves ?
Or will we ignore experts , dither and delay , and then express surprise and remorse when disaster strikes and hits black @ @ @ @ @ @ @


climatedepot--2020-06-18--Environmentalists lament: ‘It’s almost as if the lockdowns never happened’ – Greens in mourning as l

Environmentalists lament: ‘It’s almost as if the lockdowns never happened’ – Greens in mourning as lockdowns ease

Grist Mag : `` According to a recent update of a study originally published in Nature Climate Change , fossil fuel pollution has bounced back rapidly as lockdowns have started to lift around the world .
In early April , when billions of people were sheltering in place , global daily carbon dioxide emissions were 17 percent lower than they were in 2019 ; now , it ’ s almost as if the lockdowns never happened . ''
... `` Fear of the coronavirus is also pushing people to get in their cars , instead of taking public transit .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Control and Prevention released guidelines encouraging people to drive to work solo , instead of taking the bus or the subway ... Last Monday , 800,000 people rode the New York City subway , the highest number since March — but that ’ s still only 15 percent of normal . ''
... `` The researchers still expect emissions for the whole of 2020 to be down 4 to 7 percent compared with last year , depending on the pace of reopening .
But that ’ s not even close to enough to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warming below dangerous levels would require a 7.5 percent drop in emissions every year . ''
Moment of Clarity : “ People want to move on with their lives , ” Jackson said .
“ We can ’ t reduce emissions just by locking people at home.
” Flashback : ‘ Fantastic ’ for the climate : Activists See Coronavirus Lockdowns As Dress Rehearsal for ‘ Climate Emergency ’ – Special Report What lockdown ?
Traffic returns , and so do carbon emissions It turns out even a global pandemic can ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the atmosphere .
The COVID-19 outbreak is far from over , but countries around the world are reopening anyway — and triggering a global surge in carbon emissions .
The main reason ?
People are taking refuge from the coronavirus in their cars .
According to a recent update of a study originally published in Nature Climate Change , fossil fuel pollution has bounced back rapidly as lockdowns have started to lift around the world .
In early April , when billions of people were sheltering in place , global daily carbon dioxide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were in 2019 ; now , it ’ s almost as if the lockdowns never happened .
“ We ’ ve already come pretty close to where we would have been last year , ” said Rob Jackson , chair of the Global Carbon Project and one of the co-authors of the study .
He said daily global emissions are now just 5 percent less than the daily average in 2019 — and will likely continue to climb .
It ’ s all because of traffic , Jackson said .
The dip in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transportation , as people stopped driving to work and taking flights .
( Other emissions , like those from electricity , heat , and industry , continued apace . )
But as the world slowly returns to something resembling “ normal , ” traffic is on the rise .
In the U.S. , passenger vehicle travel dropped by almost 50 percent in early April ; now it ’ s back to 90 percent of February levels .
Fear of the coronavirus is also pushing people to get in their cars , instead of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidelines encouraging people to drive to work solo , instead of taking the bus or the subway .
( They quietly revised those guidelines two weeks later to also encourage biking or walking . )
Last Monday , 800,000 people rode the New York City subway , the highest number since March — but that ’ s still only 15 percent of normal .
The researchers still expect emissions for the whole of 2020 to be down 4 to 7 percent compared with last year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But that ’ s not even close to enough to slow down climate change .
Keeping global warming below dangerous levels would require a 7.5 percent drop in emissions every year .
Jackson said he hopes that there will be some lingering positive effects from the shutdown , like cities making streets more pedestrian-friendly or workplaces incorporating more telecommuting .
But , he said , scientists always knew the drop in emissions wouldn ’ t last .
“ People want to move on with their lives , ” Jackson said .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by locking people at home.
” Flashback : ‘ Fantastic ’ for the climate : Activists See Coronavirus Lockdowns As Dress Rehearsal for ‘ Climate Emergency ’ – Special Report Watch : Tony Robbins interviews 7 COVID skeptical experts in ‘ Unmasking the Science You Aren ’ t Hearing on TV ’ Fumento : ‘ Erosion of trust ’ : 10 things public health establishment got wrong about coronavirus Collapsology : The Rise Of A New Doomsday Cult & The Return Of The Dark Ages – Growing belief ‘ civilization is heading towards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Have Been Deadlier than the Disease – Police shoot , rape lockdown violators as dire poverty worsens In Uganda , police have shot lockdown breakers , five policemen were arrested in Rwanda on suspicion of beating up local men and raping their wives , and in Kenya , police shot dead a 13-year-old boy for playing on his balcony a few minutes after the beginning of the curfew .
… Despite many Western media outlets showering the South African government with praise for its supposed “ ruthlessly efficient ” response to the coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rubber bullets on crowds , and the government ’ s own police complaints agency is currently investigating an incidence of a man who was beaten to death with a hammer for leaving his home to buy some beer .
The police brutality that has come along with enforced lockdowns has already claimed more lives than COVID-19 .
…In Kenya , after going into labor during the curfew , one pregnant woman recently died along with her unborn baby because the midwife was too afraid to come to her home , and neighbors were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospital .
These fears weren ’ t unfounded—the same week as the pregnant woman died , a Kenyan motorcycle taxi driver was allegedly beaten to death by police after he broke curfew to take a laboring woman to the hospital… A slew of countries including Zimbabwe ( despite being in the middle of a food crisis ) , the Republic of Congo , Uganda , and Botswana have all extended their lockdowns .
The great green reset is at odds with economic and energy reality Climate campaigners want to make the shutdown permanent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media/public health bureaucrats claim of spiking COVID cases : ‘ Overall hospitalizations are rising because people are returning to hospitals for elective surgeries that were postponed ’ Swiss Doctors issue report ‘ Facts about Covid-19 ’ – ‘ Even in global ‘ hotspots ’ , risk of death for general population of school & working age is in range of a daily car ride to work ’


climatedepot--2020-06-18--Watch: Tony Robbins interviews 7 COVID skeptical experts in ‘Unmasking the Science You Aren’t Hearin

Watch: Tony Robbins interviews 7 COVID skeptical experts in ‘Unmasking the Science You Aren’t Hearing on TV’

`` Robbins interviews seven skeptical experts , including our friend Professor Michael Levitt , joint winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry .
Levitt says he thinks the total excess deaths in 2020 will be about one-and-a-half times the total in the seasonal flu season of 2017-18 , i.e .
about half as many again .
Not exactly the apocalypse predicted by the WHO . ''
Yesterday we welcomed William Hague to the skeptical fold ; today , it ’ s the turn of Tony Robbins .
The American motivational speaker , with over 900,000 YouTube subscribers , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ video called “ Unmasking the Science You Aren ’ t Hearing on TV “ , he interviews seven skeptical experts , including our friend Professor Michael Levitt , joint winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry .
Levitt says he thinks the total excess deaths in 2020 will be about one-and-a-half times the total in the seasonal flu season of 2017-18 , i.e .
about half as many again .
Not exactly the apocalypse predicted by the WHO .
Remember , Michael Levitt predicted in February that the total number of confirmed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around 80,000 , something health officials and public health scientists at the time thought was hopelessly naive .
In fact , according to Worldometers , the total number of cases in China to date is 83,265 .
Almost bang on .


climatedepot--2020-06-19--Study Finds Warming in West Antarctica Is Due to ‘Natural’ Climate Variability – Not Humans – Media

Study Finds Warming in West Antarctica Is Due to ‘Natural’ Climate Variability – Not Humans – Media Ignores Study

Ten days ago the journal Science issued an embargoed press release about a forthcoming paper that suggested the warming observed in West Antarctica was due to natural climatic variability .
West Antarctica has always been looked on by alarmists as being the southern example of polar temperature amplification – a phenomenon predicted by most climate change models .
The Arctic temperature amplification is very apparent so there must be an Antarctic equivalent , and there it is .
But while scientists have been well aware that Antarctica is warming asymmetrically , with West Antarctica experiencing more than East Antarctica and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ underlying causes of this phenomenon have been poorly understood , and the suggestion that West Antarctica may be experiencing natural warming has been suggested before though not taken up very enthusiastically , if at all .
This new paper , “ The internal origin of the west-east asymmetry of Antarctic climate change ” , expresses the dilemma well .
In explaining the asymmetry , it suggests factors such as atmosphere-ocean feedbacks along the coast of West Antarctica and the shape of the Antarctic terrain combine to create a pattern of upper troposphere circulation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opposite to the Earth ’ s rotation .
Fig .
2 Two leading modes of the annual-mean Antarctic surface temperature and their characteristics during 1958 to 2012 in the CMIP5 historical simulations .
Source : Sang-Yoon Jun et al.
, 2020 They add that the consistent pattern of warmer sea surface temperatures over the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Antarctic seas suggests that regional sea surface temperature anomalies around Antarctica are a driving factor behind the continent ’ s asymmetrical warming .
Paleoclimate datasets revealed variability in surface air temperatures spanning multiple decades , suggesting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the El Niño Southern Oscillation , may also contribute to the discrepancies in warming rates between both subcontinents .
Overall , it ’ s a fascinating paper especially given the concern about the region ’ s ice decline leading to present and future sea level change .
But unless you look at two or three specialised outlets you won ’ t have heard about it .
The embargoed information from Sciencejournal is normally released four days before the embargo is lifted on Thursday evening UK time .
Thousands of journalists around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nature are the world ’ s leading science journals .
So why is it that no mainstream news media covered this important story ?
It ’ s not as though there were any other pressing environment stories to eclipse it .
What it demonstrates is the asymmetry in environment and science reporting .
If the story confirms the dire news that anthropogenic climate change affects everything and is visible anywhere it ’ s much more likely to be trumpeted by the mainstream media than if it explains some of the climatic changes we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Not every change we see is attributable to human influence .
We still have to deal with the consequences .
Accurate knowledge is the first step because if we don ’ t understand the cause of particular climatic changes we will waste a lot of time and effort combatting things we never caused and have no power to influence .
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appeared first on The Global Warming Policy Forum ( GWPF ) .


climatedepot--2020-06-19--NY Times Debunked: Climate Change NOT Tied to Pregnancy Risks

The New York Times published a sensationalist June 18 article claiming a new study shows climate change is causing premature , underweight , and stillborn babies .
Google News posted the Times article , titled “ Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks , Affecting Black Mothers Most , ” as Google ’ s top story June 18 under the search term “ climate change.
” A objective review of the study shows the New York Times is telling an alarmist lie , and there has likely been either no climate-change impact or a beneficial climate-change impact regarding pregnancy and childbirth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is worth considering who wrote the “ study ” cited by the Times .
The lead author of the study is Bruce Bekkar , who serves on the Board of Directors for the climate activist group Climate Action Campaign .
The Climate Action Campaign is a sock puppet of the renewable power industry , listing Sullivan Solar Power and Calpine Energy Solutions as its two “ Juggernaut Members.
” The name of the first Juggernaut Member , “ Sullivan Solar Power , ” speaks for itself .
Regarding the second Juggernaut Member @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ Renewables and environment , Incorporating Sensible Sustainability Into Your Organization ’ s Energy Portfolio.
” The Climate Action Campaign ’ s funding is not the only part of the organization that lacks objectivity regarding climate issues .
The Climate Action Campaign ’ s mission statement reads , “ Climate Action Campaign has a simple mission : STOP THE CLIMATE CRISIS.
” It is , of course , possible that a board member of a climate activist group that receives its primary funding from the solar and renewable power industry can produce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , given the financial self-interest of Bekkar ’ s primary donors and Bekkar ’ s unashamed activism on the climate change topic , one would imagine an objective news outlet would give the claims made in Bekkar ’ s study a little extra scrutiny .
The Times , however , gave the study ’ s methodology and claims no critical scrutiny at all .
Let ’ s start with the methodology .
Bekkar did not conduct any primary medical or scientific research .
Bekkar simply looked at a group of other studies , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and then claimed to tease out some data regarding climate change and pregnancy .
Given Bekkar ’ s financial and ideological self-interest in finding data that would suggest climate change harm , Bekkar ’ s methodology is quite suspect .
For example , did Bekkar select some studies to review , and leave out others , based on how alarmist they were ?
We don ’ t know , but it certainly seems possible .
After all , it is quite possible that such an agenda-driven author would only be looking for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data that exists in the worst possible light , and ignore or bury countervailing data that exculpates or provides proper context to Bekkar ’ s predetermined agenda .
Now let ’ s look at Bekkar ’ s asserted findings .
Bekkar ’ s study makes two primary climate assertions .
Bekkar ’ s first assertion is that the risk of premature birth rises by 11.6 % for every 5.6 degrees Celsius increase in temperature .
Any medical scientist will tell you that an 11 % variance is generally indistinguishable from random background noise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Earth ’ s temperature has risen approximately 1 degree Celsius during the past 140 years , not 5.6 degrees Celsius .
Assuming for the sake of argument that NASA ’ s temperature numbers are inflated , we still have had only about one-sixth of the warming that would cause the minimal 11 % increase in premature births .
Prorating that out , Bekkar would be claiming that he has teased out from his self-selected studies a 2 % increase in premature births due to climate change .
Given such a tiny number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the studies that he teased the number from , and given Bekkar ’ s financial and ideological self-interest in finding the highest number possible under whatever methodology he could utilize , Bekkar ’ s own study shows literally or essentially no global warming impact on premature births .
Bekkar ’ s second assertion is that his analysis shows every temperature increase of 1 degree Celsius during the summer monthscorresponds with a 6 % increase in the likelihood of stillbirth .
For the same reasons explained in the prior paragraph , Bekkar ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ increase is indistinguishable from background noise , even if we assume Bekkar has objectively collected , analyzed , and presented his numbers .
Just as importantly , Bekkar completely ignores the flip-side of the coin .
If exceptionally hot temperatures during the summer cause an arguable increase in stillbirths , do exceptionally cold temperatures during the winter cause a similar – or perhaps even greater – increase in stillbirths ?
If so , then climate change has had no net impact – or perhaps a beneficial impact – on the number of stillbirths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that climate change has caused – and will continue to cause – a reduction in extreme-cold events ( see pgs 135-136 of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2018 report ) .
Bekkar doesn ’ t address this very important question of winter cold and stillbirths .
Given his financial and ideological self-interest in making alarmist climate claims , we are left to wonder whether Bekkar simply failed to analyze a seemingly vital question related to his stillbirth claims , or whether he did analyze the question and didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – the less-than-alarming results .
Given that Bekkar ignored the question , we can look to other sources for guidance .
The prestigious , peer-reviewed medical journal Lancet reports that cold temperatures kill 20 times more people globally than warm or hot temperatures .
One would imagine that stillbirths are included in , or similar to , that equation .
If so , for every 1 stillbirth that Bekkar claims is caused by climate change and warming temperatures , another 20stillbirths are being prevented by climate change and fewer cold temperature events .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Control reports the same is true for Americans – more people die in the United States from cold temperatures than hot temperatures .
Now let ’ s get back to the Times ’ coverage of Bekkar ’ s study .
The Times quotes multiple climate activists , like a “ senior climate justice and health scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists ” and “ a field organizer in Houston for Moms Clean Air Force , ” fawning over the study ’ s findings .
The Timesdoes not quote , and apparently failed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the study from a more skeptical , or at least neutral , viewpoint .
That seems quite amazing considering the red flags regarding the lead author ’ s financial and ideological self-interest .
Ultimately , a climate activist produced a very dubious “ study ” in which he claims to have teased out from self-selected data a very small increase in premature births and stillbirths .
His methodology is suspect and he ignored very important questions and data that likely refute his assertion .
Moreover , existing objective mortality data and peer-reviewed studies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heat .
The New York Times chose to completely ignore all these red flags and title its article , “ Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks , Affecting Black Mothers Most.
” No wonder people increasingly distrust the establishment media .
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climatedepot--2020-06-19--Al Gore once again links slavery, racism, & police brutality to the ‘climate crisis’ – ‘There can be

Al Gore once again links slavery, racism, & police brutality to the ‘climate crisis’ – ‘There can be no climate justice without racial justice’

Today , we commemorate the end of slavery & celebrate Black freedom .
Yet , the fight for equality and justice continues in the face of systemic racism , police brutality , ecological devastation and the climate crisis .
There can be no climate justice without racial justice .
1/2 Please use this weekend to stand up for what is needed in our country right now : moral revival & transformative change .
Follow @ unitethepoor & @ Mvmnt4BlkLives .
2/2 Earlier this month , Gore went full woke on climate .
See : Gore Goes Woke : Links ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ – Gore ’ s training will have a ‘ sustained emphasis on nexus between racism ’ & ‘ climate ’ Gore decries ‘ the nexus between the climate crisis and racism ’ Gore : “ These issues are inextricably braided together…The one stupid trick that white supremacists have used for 150 years is to accentuate racial division in order to build support among lower-income , majority-white voters for a corporate agenda that actually hurts them .
It does this by increasing the amount of pollution in their communities… ” “ The training @ @ @ @ @ @ @ simply learning the facts and figures and narratives that make up the slideshow .
It will have a deep and sustained emphasis on the nexus between racism and diversity and the climate challenge… ” “ I ’ m optimistic that joining together the climate movement and the racial equality movement will give us strength in numbers that will ultimately lead to success .
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climatedepot--2020-06-19--Claim: ‘U.S. military is biggest polluter on planet so decreasing our military spending will go a lo

Claim: ‘U.S. military is biggest polluter on planet so decreasing our military spending will go a long way toward saving the planet’

A New York Primary Challenger Shows Why the Green New Deal Has to Take on the Military – By Dharna Noor Excerpt : “ A primary challenger running for Congress in New York ’ s District 16 is connecting the dots between the world ’ s remaining carbon budget and the U.S. military budget .
Jamaal Bowman is a political newcomer and former middle school principal backed by the Democratic Socialists of America and climate justice organizations like the Sunrise Movement .
He ’ s looking to unseat Eliot Engel , the 73-year-old Democratic chair of the House Foreign Affairs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Energy who ’ s known for his hawkish approach to foreign policy .
In his bid for Engel ’ s seat , Bowman is distinguishing himself by running on an unabashedly progressive agenda , including both plans to overhaul U.S. climate policy and foreign affairs .
And by highlighting the connections between the two , his platform shows how the Green New Deal could spur environmental justice not only domestically , but also abroad .
“ The U.S. military is the biggest polluter on the planet so decreasing our military spending will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planet , ” Bowman says on his website .
“ I believe the climate crisis is an opportunity to finally discard our weapons and fear of each other to come together and save the planet .
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