climatedepot--2020-10-28--Youth-led climate lawsuit over government’s ‘inaction’ dismissed by Federal Court in Canada

A Federal Court judge ruled Tuesday that the Canadian government won ’ t be going on trial for contributions to climate change — striking down a lawsuit brought by 15 young Canadians who argued the government was violating their charter rights .
Federal Court Justice Michael Manson rejected a lawsuit initiated by the youths aged 10 to 19 years old .
Their case called on the court to compel Ottawa to develop a science-based climate recovery plan .
But Manson ruled the claims don ’ t have a reasonable cause of action or prospect of success , so the case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lawsuit filed in 2019 says Canada ’ s failure to protect against climate change is a violation of the youths ’ charter rights .
On Tuesday , Manson ruled the network of government actions that contribute to climate change is too broad for the court to grapple with , and the court has no role in reviewing the country ’ s overall approach to climate change .
Plaintiff Haana Edenshaw , 17 , of the Haida Nation , says despite her disappointment , she is refusing to get discouraged and plans to keep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after seeing the effects of climate change in her village of Masset on Haida Gwaii off B.C.
’ s North Coast .
She said poverty rates and the location of communities leave Indigenous people at higher risk to the negative effects of climate change .
“ Indigenous youth in Canada are often the first hit and the hardest hit , ” she said .
Another plaintiff named Sophia said that it is “ a big wake-up call for all Canadian and Indigenous youth .
Canada has tried to silence our voice in court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We won ’ t be dissuaded.
” In September , government lawyers argued the lawsuit should be thrown out , as it was far too broad to be heard in court .
In Tuesday ’ s ruling , Manson agreed the terms were too broad .
Joe Arvay , the lead lawyer on the case , says it ’ s a disappointment , but he plans to push forward and appeal the case to the Supreme Court of Canada .
The case , La Rose et al .
v. Her Majesty the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 25 , 2019 .
The lawsuit argued that the plaintiffs — 15 children and teens from across Canada — had their rights to life , liberty and security and equality violated by a government that had failed to do enough to protect against climate change .
In the government ’ s defence submission , federal lawyer Joseph Cheng said the drivers of climate changes are a global problem , and Canada can ’ t act alone to solve the issue .
He also argued that the case fell beyond what courts can meaningfully @ @ @ @ @ @ @ filed the day teen climate activist Greta Thunberg visited Vancouver and led a climate strike rally attended by thousands .
It says that “ despite knowing for decades ” that carbon emissions “ cause climate change and disproportionately harm children , ” the government continued to allow emissions to increase at a level “ incompatible with a stable climate capable of sustaining human life and liberties.
” But there ’ s no explicit environmental right in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .
And , in his decision , the justice disagreed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the case .
“ Of course it ’ s disappointing , but the journey is far from over , ” said Brendan Glauser of the Suzuki Foundation .
Glauser said the ruling acknowledged the negative impact of climate change as something that ’ s significant and pointed out the justice also said the “ public trust ” doctrine is a legal question that the court can resolve — which , he said , offers legal ground with which the group can attempt to move forward .
“ We are proud of our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we only have a decade to turn things around , and so far , we are not on track , ” said Glauser .


climatedepot--2020-10-29--Top NOAA scientist is removed from his position after he asked new Trump-appointed staff to adhere t

Top NOAA scientist is removed from his position after he asked new Trump-appointed staff to adhere to the agency’s integrity policy that bans changing research data to fit political agenda

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration ’ s top scientist has been fired after he asked new Trump-appointed staff to acknowledge the agency ’ s scientific integrity policy , according to a new report .
Craig McLean , the agency ’ s acting chief scientist , was dismissed from his role last month shortly after sending an email to the new political appointees , including former White House adviser Erik Noble , the New York Times reported .
McLean had reportedly asked them to respect the NOAA ’ s scientific integrity policy which prohibits fabrication , falsification and manipulation of research @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The message however did not sit well with Noble , a former Trump campaign data analyst who was recently appointed NOAA chief of staff .
‘ Respectfully , by what authority are you sending this to me ?
’ Noble replied , according to the report .
McLean responded that he was ensuring the agency ’ s rules were being followed – which was his responsibility as the acting chief scientist for NOAA .
The next morning McLean received an email from Noble informing him : ‘ You no longer serve as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the NYT said .
He told McLean the agency had already found his replacement while adding : ‘ Thank you for your service.
’ A spokesperson for the NOAA told DailyMail.com McLean remains director of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research branch , which he ran while serving as acting chief scientist .
The NOAA later appointed research meteorologist Dr Ryan Maue , a climate change critic and former researcher for the Cato Institute , a libertarian think tank .
Maue is a well-known climate change skeptic who in 2018 wrote an op-ed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NASA scientists 30 years prior .
He has also challenged connections between climate change and extreme weather events and most recently criticized Democrats for blaming the devastating California wildfires ‘ solely on climate change.
’ Maue joined fellow Trump-pick David Legates , who assumed the new role of NOAA deputy assistant secretary last month .
Legates , a former geography professor at the University of Delaware , is also known to be a climate change contrarian , having questioned the notion that human activity is behind global warming .
The new political appointees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change the direction of the NOAA , which has mostly remained independent , and could undermine scientific research .
Trump has clashed with climate experts over the last four years and has even imposed stricter controls on communications at the NOAA – which is within the Department of Commerce run by Wilbur Ross .
In 2019 , the president was widely criticized by weather agencies after he tweeted false predictions about the path of a Hurricane Dorian .
Trump claimed Alabama would be among US states that would ‘ most likely be hit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the hurricane , then one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record .
Within minutes , the National Weather Service ( NWS ) office in Birmingham , Alabama , responded by saying that Alabama would not see any impacts from Dorian .
The controversy became known as ‘ Sharpiegate , ’ after Trump displayed a modified NOAA map , which had been drawn on to depict the storm threatening Alabama .
The New York Times reported last year that Ross threatened to fire top employees after the Birmingham office contradicted Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of staff Mick Mulvaney had directed Ross to order the NOAA to disavow the NWS tweet .

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climatedepot--2020-10-30--CBS Greenlights Climate Change Drama ‘Antarctica’

CBS is developing a climate change drama following America ’ s effort to colonize Antarctica in response to global warming “ reshaping the globe.
” The show is being developed by writer Paul Grellong ( Amazon Studios ’ The Boys ) and producer Josh Berman , according to Deadline .
The series , to be titled Antarctica , will reportedly follow the posting of a troubled FBI agent to the Antarctic as the United States begins colonizing the region ahead of its acceptance as the 51st state .
The drama will center upon how climate change is “ reshaping the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The CBS global warming series is not the only such series in development .
The Office star Rainn Wilson recently hosted a documentary series with teenaged environmental activist Greta Thunberg to help teach all you “ idiots ” about climate change .
“ Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will be among Wilson ’ s guests as he embarks on a life-changing journey from an every day , well-intentioned but uninformed liberal to strident climate activist , ” Deadline reported in July .
Combining his wry , self-deprecating humor with genuine interest , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to learn what we need to do to protect our planet.
” Hollywood also pushed several climate change-themed shows late last year before the coronavirus shut down the entertainment industry .
Some of the most prominent projects included HBO ’ s Years and Years , starring Emma Thompson , and Apple ’ s Losing Earth , the latter of which was based on a New York Times Magazine article about climate change .


climatedepot--2020-10-29--‘It’s the Right Thing to Do’: Walmart CEO Doug McMillon Supports ‘Great Reset’ –  ‘It’s Time to Rein

‘It’s the Right Thing to Do’: Walmart CEO Doug McMillon Supports ‘Great Reset’ –  ‘It’s Time to Reinvent Capitalism Post-Coronavirus’

CEO explains how he has positioned Walmart during the pandemic to make sure the $ 500 billion-plus company thrives in the new landscape that emerges going forward ... '' I think the growing interest in stakeholder capitalism stems from companies genuinely invested in doing good for our world , because it ’ s the right thing to do and because businesses who take this approach are stronger .
We simply won ’ t be here if we don ’ t take care of the very things that allow us to exist : our associates , customers , suppliers and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for debate . ''
‘ Great Reset ’ – World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab in Time Mag : ‘ We Need to Reimagine Capitalism ’ – Seeks ‘ virtuous capitalist system ’ that prioritizes reducing greenhouse gases , hiring from ‘ diverse backgrounds ’ & closing ‘ gender pay gap ’ The ‘ Great Reset ’ : Rule by Unelected ‘ Experts ’ – COVID-Climate Technocracy has arrived – ‘ The danger of letting lab coats run the world ’ – Special Report Excerpt : Is there a correlation between the growing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the decline in the ability of governments to solve big problems ?
Big problems don ’ t rest on the shoulders of government or corporations alone .
I think the growing interest in stakeholder capitalism stems from companies genuinely invested in doing good for our world , because it ’ s the right thing to do and because businesses who take this approach are stronger .
We simply won ’ t be here if we don ’ t take care of the very things that allow us to exist : our associates , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That ’ s not up for debate .
What is your reaction to people coming into your stores , not wearing masks and confronting your associates ?
We understand some people can ’ t wear masks for health reasons .
Where I get concerned is that it ’ s become a political issue .
Our teams continue to handle these situations with great care and reinforce the importance of wearing a mask .
Millions of customers pass through our stores each week , and we don ’ t think it ’ s too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mask when it comes to protecting one another .
Yes .
And I appreciate our associates doing it and doing it for so long .
We believe it has contributed to their safety and the safety of our customers .


climatedepot--2020-10-29--‘Great Reset’ – World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab in Time Mag: ‘We Need to Reimagine Capital

‘Great Reset’ – World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab in Time Mag: ‘We Need to Reimagine Capitalism’ – Seeks ‘virtuous capitalist system’ that prioritizes reducing greenhouse gases, hiring from ‘diverse backgrounds’ & closing ‘gender pay gap’

WEF 's Klaus Schwab : In September , my belief that a more virtuous capitalist system is possible was reaffirmed by an initiative of the forum ’ s International Business Council led by Brian Moynihan of Bank of America .
They released the Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics : nonfinancial metrics and disclosures that will be added ( on a voluntary basis ) to companies ’ annual reporting in the next two to three years , making it possible to measure their progress over time .
...
Doing so requires answering questions such as : What is the gender pay gap in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted ?
What progress has the company made toward reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions ?
How much did the company pay in taxes globally and per jurisdiction ?
Also see : The ‘ Great Reset ’ : Rule by Unelected ‘ Experts ’ – COVID-Climate Technocracy has arrived – ‘ The danger of letting lab coats run the world ’ – Special Report ‘ Great Reset ’ – World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab in Time Mag : ‘ We Need to Reimagine Capitalism ’ – Seeks ‘ virtuous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gases , hiring from ‘ diverse backgrounds ’ & closing ‘ gender pay gap ’ A Better Economy Is Possible .
But We Need to Reimagine Capitalism to Do It The only immediate upside , perhaps , was the drop in greenhouse-gas emissions , which brought slight , temporary relief to the planet ’ s atmosphere .
… Indeed , the bad news related to COVID-19 came on top of the enormous economic , environmental , social and political challenges we were already facing before the pandemic .
With every passing year , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experienced directly , seem to get worse , not better .
… The same economic system that created so much prosperity in the golden age of American capitalism in the 1950s and 1960s is now creating inequality and climate change .
And the same political system that enabled our global progress and democracy after World War II now contributes to societal discord and discontent .
Each was well intended but had unintended negative consequences .
… Yet there are reasons to believe that a better economic system is possible—and that it could be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ initial shock of the COVID crisis receded , we saw a glimpse of what is possible , when stakeholders act for the public good and the well-being of all , instead of just a few .
In September , my belief that a more virtuous capitalist system is possible was reaffirmed by an initiative of the forum ’ s International Business Council led by Brian Moynihan of Bank of America .
They released the Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics : nonfinancial metrics and disclosures that will be added ( on a voluntary basis ) to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two to three years , making it possible to measure their progress over time .
Doing so requires answering questions such as : What is the gender pay gap in company X ?
How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted ?
What progress has the company made toward reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions ?
How much did the company pay in taxes globally and per jurisdiction ?
And what did the company do to hire and train employees ?
The initial idea that companies should try and optimize for more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a handful of business leaders who wanted the private sector to play a role in achieving the U.N .
Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) .
Individuals such as Moynihan , Frans van Houten of Philips and Indra Nooyi , then at PepsiCo , enlisted many of their peers in this commitment .
In the following years , pressure from social- and climate-justice movements such as Fridays for Future ( inspired by Greta Thunberg ) , # MeToo and Black Lives Matter added to the sense of urgency .
Business needed to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pledge .


climatedepot--2020-10-30--3 More New Studies Show Modern Arctic Sea Ice Extent Is Greater Than Nearly Any Time In The Last 10,

3 More New Studies Show Modern Arctic Sea Ice Extent Is Greater Than Nearly Any Time In The Last 10,000 YearsNoTricksZone : Not here to worship what i… / by Kenneth Richard / 1d For years scientists have been using biomarker evidence ( IP , PIP ) to reconstruct the Arctic ’ s sea ice history .
The evidence shows modern ( 20th-21st century ) Arctic sea ice is at its greatest extent since the Holocene began .
Scientists ( Wu et al.
, 2020 ) have determined that from about 14,000 to 8,000 years ago , when CO2 lingered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Arctic ) was “ nearly ice free throughout the year ” ( < 0.2 PIP ) and ~4°C warmer than today in winter .
With CO2 at ~400 ppm , this region is 70-100 % ice-covered ( > 0.8 PIP ) for all but 1-2 summer months in the modern ( 1988-2007 ) era .
Interestingly , another study of this same Beaufort Sea region ( Durantou et al.
, 2012 ) revealed the late 1800s to 1930s were up to 3°C warmer than the late 20th and early 21st century averages @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fewer months per year during these earlier periods .
Another new study ( Allaart et al.
, 2020 ) concludes that from around 10,000 to 5,000 years ago , Arctic Svalbard ( Wijdefjorden ) glaciers had retreated many km further back than their modern positions .
And the smaller ice caps had “ disappeared ” from the region .
In contrast , during the last 500 to 700 years Svalbard sea ice has expanded to its highest extent of the Holocene ( 11,700 years ago to present ) .
The Holocene ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ times , as the authors note there has been an “ increase in IP concentrations after c. 0.7±0.2 cal .
ka BP , with a maximum in the modern sediments.
” A study site northeast of Svalbard ( Brice et al.
, 2020 ) reveals today ’ s sea surface temperatures of “ < 0°C ” are at least 4°C colder than they were just a few thousand years ago , when the Arctic was sea ice free for all but “ a couple of months ” every year .
Notice the graphics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ monthly duration ( ~11 months per year ) and summer sea surface temperatures ( zero degrees Celsius ) are among the highest and lowest ( respectively ) of the Holocene .


climatedepot--2020-10-30--EPA Asks DOJ Whether Green Groups Should Register As Foreign Agents

EPA Asks DOJ Whether Green Groups Should Register As Foreign AgentsClimate Change Dispatch / 2d Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said Monday he would ask the Justice Department to look into whether environmental advocacy groups receiving overseas funding should register as foreign agents .
His letter on enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act ( FARA ) came in response to a request from Rep. Lance Gooden , Texas Republican , who raised concerns this month about overseas entities seeking to increase U.S. reliance on renewable energy by funding the environmental movement .
“ Given heightened concern that foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are potentially funding U.S.-based ‘ green ’ groups to undermine American energy independence and to help maintain the integrity of EPA ’ s decision-making , EPA will refer this matter to the DOJ FARA Unit , ” Mr. Wheeler said in his letter .
“ The DOJ can then determine what appropriate steps to take , if any , including whether those entities should register as a foreign agent , ” Mr. Wheeler said .
It is legal for U.S. nonprofit groups to accept foreign contributions , but “ foreign influence should not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Mr. Gooden , who had raised the issue of “ covert foreign influence on our political process ” in an Oct. 8 letter to Mr. Wheeler , praised the administrator ’ s decision .
“ The Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) stands to profit heavily from a Biden administration which would make us reliant on Made-in-China renewable energy , ” Mr. Gooden said in a Monday statement .
“ We have reason to believe they are funneling money to certain ‘ green groups ’ to influence American foreign policy and our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was “ considerable evidence ” that environmental groups actively lobbying for clean-energy policies are being funded by foreign entities that would benefit from a U.S. shift away from oil , natural gas , and coal .
Mr. Gooden said that environmental nonprofit groups , which are not required to disclose their donors , are receiving “ large sums of money ” from the Sea Change Foundation , “ a proven front group for foreign financing , funded by off-shore hedge funds in Bermuda.
” “ While it is not illegal for tax-exempt 501 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to receive funding from foreign countries , the Foreign Agent Registration Act ( FARA ) stipulates that any foreign-funded organization engaged in political activity must register as a foreign agent , ” Mr. Gooden said .
“ Environmental groups that receive money from Sea Change or other foreign-funded organizations , who then use those funds to target American energy interests , should disclose the source of their funding and potentially register as foreign agents.
” He added that such green groups “ are clearly engaging in politics at best , and operating at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” The Sea Change Foundation , formerly Klein Ltd. , released a statement in July 2018 saying that it had contributed $ 500 million since 2011 to climate and clean-energy initiatives but received no outside funding .
“ I wish to clarify that press reports speculating that Klein has received funding from outside sources are factually incorrect and have no basis , ” foundation director Nat Simons told Inside Philanthropy .
“ Neither Klein nor Sea Change Foundation has ever solicited or accepted contributions from non-family related sources.
” China has positioned itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of about 60 % of global solar-panel production and 90 % of rare-earth metals used in electric vehicles , wind turbines , and solar panels , as reported by ChinaPower .
During the Trump administration , the U.S. became a net exporter of crude oil and natural gas , thanks in large part to the energy boom driven by hydraulic fracturing .
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climatedepot--2020-10-30--Fracking: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris & Mainstream Media Are Lying To You; Here’s Proof

Fracking : Joe Biden , Kamala Harris & Mainstream Media Are Lying To You ; Here ’ s ProofThe Daily Wire / by Ian Haworth / With only days remaining until Americans head to the polls in arguably the most consequential election in a generation , politicians are scrambling to highlight their opponents flaws , hoping to push the needle in their favor .
One such subject was handed to Donald Trump on a platter by Joe Biden during the final presidential debate , with Biden delivering a two-course warning to Americans across the country .
The first involved Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ever opposed fracking , saying , “ I have never said I oppose fracking.
” When fact-checked by Trump in real time , Biden requested that Trump “ play the tape.
” Trump ’ s campaign obliged the next day .
The second part provided conservatives with yet another opportunity to “ pounce , ” with Joe Biden saying that he will “ transition from the oil industry ” because “ the oil industry pollutes , significantly.
” Biden has a lengthy record of making false claims and has spent his decades-long @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The subject of fossil fuels , and specifically fracking , is no different .
Here is a recent timeline of Biden ’ s multiple and contradictory statements regarding fracking and fossil fuels .
I guarantee you , we are going to end fossil fuel .
( September 2019 ) During a campaign event , Biden took the hand of a young woman , called her “ kiddo , ” and said “ I want you to look at my eyes .
I guarantee you , I guarantee you .
We ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Democratic presidential primary debate , moderator Tim Alberta posed the following question : “ Three consecutive American presidents have enjoyed stints of explosive economic growth due to a boom in oil and natural gas production .
As president , would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth , even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands , maybe hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy ?
” In response , Biden said “ The answer is yes .
The answer is yes.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Biden agreed to stopping both fracking and pipeline infrastructure .
Voter : “ But like , what about , say , stopping fracking ?
” We are going to get rid of fossil fuels .
( February 2020 ) During a rally , Biden told a cheering audience that “ we are going to get rid of fossil fuels.
” Responding to the reaction of protestors , Biden then followed up with : “ That ’ s okay , these guys are okay , they want to do the same thing that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to phase out fossil fuels and we ’ re going to phase out fossil fuels.
” During a Democratic primary debate in March , Biden and Bernie Sanders sparred on the subject of climate change and the fossil fuel industry , with Biden saying , “ no more , no new fracking.
” Following a familiar pattern , Biden ’ s campaign “ later clarified that Biden was re-stating his existing platform about policy on federal lands , not endorsing Sanders ’ call for a nationwide ban.
” No ability for the oil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
( March 2020 ) During that same primary debate , Biden stated , “ No more drilling on federal lands .
No more drilling , including offshore .
No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill , period.
” We would make sure it ’ s eliminated .
( July 2020 ) During another Democratic primary debate , CNN ’ s Dana Bash asked “ Would there be any place for fossil fuels , including coal and fracking , in a Biden administration ?
” Biden responded with “ No @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out .
We would make sure it ’ s eliminated , and no more subsidies for either one of those.
” Speaking in Pittsburgh , Biden said “ I am not banning fracking .
Let me say that again : I am not banning fracking .
No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.
” Speaking to a handful of journalists , Biden said “ I ’ m not shutting down oil fields .
I ’ m not eliminating fracking.
” In the past year alone , Biden has held two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fuel industry .
What makes matters worse is that his running mate , Kamala Harris , is also equally inconsistent with her language .
Speaking at a presidential town hall , Kamala Harris announced that “ There ’ s no question I ’ m in favor of banning fracking.
” Joe Biden is not going to ban fracking .
( October 2020 ) After stepping out from her ( fossil fuel powered ) plane , Kamala Harris defended Biden ’ s comments , saying “ Let ’ s be really clear about this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about this .
Joe Biden is not going to ban fracking .
He is going to deal with the oil subsidies , but that ’ s not , you know , the president likes to put everything out of context , but let ’ s be clear .
What Joe was talking about was banning subsidies , but he will not end fracking in America.
” We will not ban fracking .
( October 2020 ) Appearing on The View , Kamala Harris promised that “ We will not ban fracking.
” Of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for reality would be possible without the aiding and abetting of the mainstream media and their partners in the world of “ fact-checking.
” While “ fact-checking ” the final presidential debate , The LA Times declared that “ No , Biden wouldn ’ t end fracking ” in response to Trump ’ s statement , “ He was against fracking .
He said it.
” The supposed fact-check justified this conclusion by saying that “ Biden ’ s comments about fracking have varied some , ” and attempting to retrospectively add context @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fracking .
The fact-checking organization also backfilled Biden ’ s meaning in order to rate Trump ’ s claim that “ Joe Biden confirmed his plan to abolish the entire U.S. oil industry .
That means no fracking jobs and no energy for Pennsylvania ” as false .
Their justification was that “ Biden has said repeatedly that he won ’ t ban fracking , ” ignoring the obvious point that Biden has also said repeatedly that we wants to end fossil fuel .
When it came to the subject of oil , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ words as he tried to explain his position , ” as if an inarticulate presentation of a position allows others to fill in the gaps as needed .
NBC News decided to respond to Trump ’ s claim that Biden ’ s position on fracking varies depending on which state he visits .
NBC News then used the fact that “ Biden has repeatedly said he will not ban fracking ” as evidence that Biden would not ban fracking .
Taking to Twitter , Trump summarized Biden ’ s monumental statements regarding fossil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mainstream media are looking Americans dead in the face and asking them not to believe their own eyes and ears .
Biden has expressed a clear desire to end both fracking and fossil fuel more broadly , as has his running mate Kamala Harris .
The fact that his campaign has rushed to do damage control and parrot Biden ’ s “ official ” position is irrelevant .
Biden opposes fossil fuels , except when he doesn ’ t .
Ian Haworth is host of The Ian Haworth Show and The Truth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Twitter at @ ighaworth .
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author ’ s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire .
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climatedepot--2020-10-30--Rupert Darwall: Suckered by Big Wind in the UK – The claim of ‘cheap’ cost is the biggest wind con o

Rupert Darwall: Suckered by Big Wind in the UK – The claim of ‘cheap’ cost is the biggest wind con of all

Rupert Darwall : Suckered by Big Wind in the UKThe Global Warming Policy Forum ( GWPF ) / by bennypeiser / 1d The claim of ‘ cheap ’ cost is the biggest wind con of all .
Earlier this month , British prime minister Boris Johnson pledged that offshore wind – cheaper than goal and gas , he claimed – would power every home in Britain by 2030 .
“ Your kettle , your washing machine , your cooker , your heating , your plug-in electric vehicle – the whole lot of them will get their juice cleanly and without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these islands , ” he said .
Cheaper than gas ?
Boris got suckered .
At a meeting with a green energy supplier , the prime minister asked what the right proportion of renewables would be for the energy system .
The answer : 100 % .
This is the patter of a snake oil salesman .
As everyone knows , wind and solar are intermittent power sources .
Grid-scale storage will not be remotely economical for the foreseeable future .
Adding more wind and solar also makes the power grid more fragile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 2016 , a storm triggered a state-wide power outage in South Australia , a state that prides itself on its reliance on green energy .
Last year , a swathe of southern England experienced a short blackout after a lightning strike triggered a cascade of disconnections within less than a second , cutting off power to four hospitals and disrupting hundreds of train services .
Taking coal- and gas-fired power stations off the grid reduces what grid engineers call the short circuit level ( SCL ) – that is , the amount @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when there ’ s a fault .
SCL helps the grid operator maintain system voltage and recover from lightning strikes and equipment failure .
Large coal and gas power stations create five times more fault current compared to wind and solar .
A higher proportion of renewable generation means that there is less SCL on the system , which can create “ operability challenges , ” National Grid , the British grid operator , says .
The inflexibility of wind and solar can be seen with the impact of Covid and lower energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ renewable deployment in Britain , National Grid ’ s charges for grid-balancing services amounted to £367m ( $ 481m ) .
This year , they were forecast to be £1,478m ( $ 1,933m ) before Covid struck .
Reduced electricity demand now sees these balancing costs soaring to £2bn ( $ 2.6bn ) .
With renewables , the less you use , the more it costs .
And cost is the biggest wind con of all .
In August , the British government published a report on generator costs .
The renewables lobby @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cheaper than new-build gas , a claim that Johnson swallowed whole .
To make their case , the advocates ignored balancing and other system costs .
When these are included together with the system benefits of gas , new-build gas comes out as the most economic source , when used efficiently .
Government-run auctions for the right to build offshore wind farms create the misleading impression that costs are falling .
Far from falling , costs have been rising for the last two decades , as analysis of the audited accounts of wind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hughes reveals .
Although new-generation turbines are larger and initially have better load factors , their performance degrades more rapidly .
Compared to the government estimate of £2.16m ( $ 2.83m ) per megawatt hour for offshore wind , the actual cost came out to £3.99m ( $ 5.22m ) , and that excludes an enormously expensive floating wind farm project – “ we will build windmills that float on the sea , ” Johnson says – which pushes the average to £4.49m ( $ 5.88m ) per megawatt hour .
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climatedepot--2020-10-30--No matter who wins, the US exits the Paris climate accord the day after the election

No matter who wins , the US exits the Paris climate accord the day after the electionTallbloke ’ s Talkshop / by oldbrew / 1d Pro-alarmist journals ( see below ) hate this of course , but hope to get their desired but unworkable climate agenda back on course shortly afterwards .
Standby for another volley of ‘ climate experts say ’ — their assertions have a tendency to prove false when tested by reality .
– – – If victorious , Democrat Joe Biden has promised to swiftly rejoin , says Inside Climate News .
But the process would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moving train .
Regardless of the outcome of the presidential election , the United States will officially be out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement on Nov. 4 , marking a disappointing milestone in the international effort to stop global warming .
Climate experts say that , if the world ’ s biggest historic greenhouse gas polluter won ’ t slash emissions , there ’ s little hope of meeting the Paris target of averting catastrophic global warming .
But the U.S. could rejoin the global climate pact quickly , and Democratic presidential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do that early in his presidency .
After sending a letter to the United Nations Secretary General , the United States would once again become a party to the Paris Agreement 30 days later , said Michael Burger , executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University .
Around the same time , the U.S. would also need to submit a new national emissions reduction pledge , he added .


climatedepot--2020-10-30--CFACT activists distribute fact sheets to dispel election propaganda

These educational flyers explain how the Green New Deal would be disastrous for America ’ s families and environment , @ @ @ @ @ bad forest management – not climate , how Leftist climate policies would do absolutely nothing @ @ @ @ @ and more .
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climatedepot--2020-10-30--Book Excerpt – Chapter 3: ‘Pulled from Thin Air’: Debunking the 97% ‘Consensus’  – ‘The Politically

Book Excerpt – Chapter 3: ‘Pulled from Thin Air’: Debunking the 97% ‘Consensus’  – ‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change’

Editor ’ s Note : The following is an excerpt from author Marc Morano ’ s new 2018 best-selling book , The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change .
The section below deals with the alleged 97 % consensus on climate change .
★★★★★ A Harvard Consensus In 2017 Princeton Professor Emeritus of Physics William Happer drew parallels to today ’ s man-made climate change claims .
“ I don ’ t see a whole lot of difference between the consensus on climate change and the consensus on witches .
At the witch trials in Salem , the judges were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 100 % science .
The one or two people who said there were no witches were immediately hung .
Not much has changed , ” Happer quipped .
Economists versus Climatologists “ You take 400 economists and put them in the room and give them exactly the same data and you will get 400 different answers as to what is going to happen in the economic future .
I find that refreshing because it tells me that these guys don ’ t have an agenda .
But if you take 400 climatologists and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ give them some data about a system which they understand very imperfectly , you are going to get a lot of agreement and that disturbs me .
I think that ’ s arguing with an agenda.
” —geologist Robert Giegengack of the University of Pennsylvania .
The alleged “ consensus ” in climate science does not hold up to scrutiny .
But what about the specific claim that 97 percent of scientists agree ?
MIT ’ s Richard Lindzen has explained the “ psychological need ” for the 97 percent claims .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ non-expert that he or she has no need to understand the science .
Mere agreement with the 97 percent will indicate that one is a supporter of science and superior to anyone denying disaster .
This actually satisfies a psychological need for many people , ” Lindzen said in 2017 .
But what is the basis for this specific number , and what exactly is this overwhelming majority of scientists supposed to be agreeing on ?
In 2014 , UN lead author Richard Tol explained his devastating research into the 97 percent claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the claim was a study by Australian researcher John Cook , who analyzed the abstracts of 11,944 peer-reviewed papers on climate change published between 1991 and 2011.35 Cook and his team evaluated what positions the papers took on mankind ’ s influence on the climate and claimed “ among abstracts expressing a position on AGW , 97.1 % endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.
” The 97 percent number took off .
This 97 percent claim was despite the fact that 66.4 percent of the studies ’ abstracts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at all .
“ The 97 % estimate is bandied about by basically everybody .
I had a close look at what this study really did .
As far as I can see , this estimate just crumbles when you touch it .
None of the statements in the papers are supported by the data that is actually in the paper , ” Tol said .
“ But this 97 % is essentially pulled from thin air , it is not based on any credible research whatsoever.
” Tol ’ s research found @ @ @ @ @ @ @ twelve thousand actually supported the alleged “ consensus.
” Tol published his research debunking the 97 percent claim in the journal Energy Policy .
Meteorologist Anthony Watts summed up Tol ’ s research debunking Cook ’ s claims .
The “ 97 % consensus among scientists is not just impossible to reproduce ( since Cook is withholding data ) but a veritable statistical train wreck rife with bias , classification errors , poor data quality , and inconsistency in the ratings process , ” Watts wrote .
Andrew Montford of the Global Warming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cook ’ s claim the previous year .
“ The consensus as described by the survey is virtually meaningless and tells us nothing about the current state of scientific opinion beyond the trivial observation that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that human activities have warmed the planet to some unspecified extent , ” Montford found .
“ The survey methodology therefore fails to address the key points that are in dispute in the global warming debate.
” Climatologist Roy Spencer and Heartland Institute ’ s Joe Bast noted that even if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man-made global warming , that paper may not even study how CO2 impacts temperatures : The methodology is “ flawed , ” noted Spencer , adding , “ a study published earlier this year in Nature noted that abstracts of academic papers often contain claims that aren ’ t substantiated in the papers.
” In 2015 , former Margaret Thatcher advisor Christopher Monckton also examined the 97 percent claim .
Monckton ’ s analysis found that “ only 41 papers—0.3 % of all 11,944 abstracts or 1.0 % of the 4014 expressing an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had actually endorsed the claim that “ more than half of recent global warming was anthropogenic.
” As Monckton explained , “ They had themselves only marked 64 out of 11,944 of the papers as representing that view of the consensus , and that is not 97.1 % that ’ s 0.5 % … .
There is no consensus.
” The 97 percent claim is “ fiction .
‘ 97 percent ’ was a figure that was arrived at many years ago by the people who ’ ve pushed this ‘ agenda , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then realized that they needed some sort of support for it , so they did a couple of very dopey papers.
” In 2013 , climatologist David Legates from the University of Delaware and his team of researchers had also challenged Cook ’ s 97 percent claims .
“ The entire exercise was a clever sleight-of-hand trick , ” Legates explained .
“ What is the real figure ?
We may never know .
Scientists who disagree with the supposed consensus—that climate change is man-made and dangerous— find themselves under constant attack.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientists agreed was based not on thousands of scientists or even hundreds of scientists …or even ninety-seven scientists , but only seventy-seven .
And of those seventy-seven scientists , seventy-five formed the mythical 97 percent consensus .
In other words , in this instance the 97 percent of scientists wasn ’ t even ninety-seven scientists .
This was a 2009 study published in Eos , Transactions American Geophysical Union by Maggie Kendall Zimmerman , a student at the University of Illinois , and her master ’ s thesis advisor Peter Doran .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , The number stems from a 2009 online survey of 10,257 earth scientists , conducted by two researchers at the University of Illinois .
The survey results must have deeply disappointed the researchers—in the end , they chose to highlight the views of a subgroup of just 77 scientists , 75 of whom thought humans contributed to climate change .
The ratio 75/77 produces the 97 % figure that pundits now tout .
The two researchers started by altogether excluding from their survey the thousands of scientists most likely to think that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have something to do with climate on Earth—out were the solar scientists , space scientists , cosmologists , physicists , meteorologists and astronomers .
That left the 10,257 scientists in disciplines like geology , oceanography , paleontology , and geochemistry that were somehow deemed more worthy of being included in the consensus .
This was “ a quickie survey that would take less than two minutes to complete , and would be done online.
” And still less than a third of those surveyed even sent in an answer !
The questions , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ non-questions ” : 1 .
When compared with pre-1800s levels , do you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen , fallen , or remained relatively constant ?
2 .
Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures ?
As Solomon explained , those two points do not give a complete picture of what ’ s at issue .
They don ’ t even mention carbon dioxide—which , as we ’ ll explore at length in the next chapter , is the heart of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discussions with literally hundreds of skeptical scientists over the past few years , I know of none who claims that the planet hasn ’ t warmed since the 1700s , and almost none who think that humans haven ’ t contributed in some way to the recent warming—quite apart from carbon dioxide emissions , few would doubt that the creation of cities and the clearing of forests for agricultural lands have affected the climate , ” Solomon pointed out .


climatedepot--2020-10-30--‘The Green New Deal has at its core an impossibility in physics’ – USA to swap energy independence f

‘The Green New Deal has at its core an impossibility in physics’ – USA to swap energy independence for dependence on China & Russia

MARK P. MILLS : `` The staggering quantity of stuff that needs to be mined in order to build all the green machines ... the invisible elephant in the room with a Green New Deal , whether implemented by federal or state governments , is the staggering quantity of stuff that needs to be mined in order to build all the green machines , and where that mining and processing happens ...
The monetary , environmental and geopolitical costs of energy technologies all derive from nature ’ s constraints .
And the physics of all energy sources , whether wind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ share the same core features .
All exist in nature , for free .
But that ’ s irrelevant .
One has to pay landowners ( private or governmental ) to access locations where useful resources are located .
Then one purchases machines , built from materials extracted from the earth , in order to convert any resource into a form that can be delivered to people .
Since all machines wear out , there is nothing truly “ renewable ” about any of them . ''
`` The one million electric vehicles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( courtesy of billions of dollars in subsidies ) account for just 0.5 % of America ’ s cars but contain , for example , more cobalt than one billion smartphones .
In general , fabricating a single EV battery , each of which weighs about 1,000 pounds , requires digging up roughly 500,000 pounds of materials .
That ’ s more than a 10-fold increase in the cumulative quantity of materials ( liquids ) used by a standard car over its entire operating life ...
The world is literally about to embark @ @ @ @ @ @ @ metal mining in history . ''
`` But America has long been a hostile place to try and open new mines .
Consequently , the U.S. is 100 % dependent on imports for some 17 key minerals and imports over half its needs for another 28 ...
The net effect of a Green New Deal distills to replacing domestic energy production ( and exports ) of hydrocarbons with an unprecedented level of energy mineral imports . ''
`` China , for example , supplies about 90 % of rare-earths for the world .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ also quietly gained control over more than 90 % of the battery industry ’ s cobalt refining , without which the raw ore is useless .
Russia is a massive nickel producer ... You don ’ t have to ban fracking to kill the industry ; mandating the use of the alternatives has the same effect ...
If all that weren ’ t enough , there ’ s also the roughly 20 to 100-fold increase in land use that comes with using green machines to replace hydrocarbons .
And , of course , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ milk of a Green New Deal , the trillions of dollars in subsidies , necessarily funded by increased costs and taxes for all consumers . ''
The Green New Deal Can ’ t Break The Laws Of Physics Elections , as everyone now says , have consequences .
But they can ’ t change the laws of physics .
That matters , even in this hypertrophied political season , because one of the policy choices in play this election is whether or not to embrace a Green New Deal or one of its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has at its core an impossibility in physics : the idea of “ free ” and “ renewable ” energy .
The monetary , environmental and geopolitical costs of energy technologies all derive from nature ’ s constraints .
And the physics of all energy sources , whether wind and sun or oil and gas , share the same core features .
All exist in nature , for free .
But that ’ s irrelevant .
One has to pay landowners ( private or governmental ) to access locations where useful resources are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ built from materials extracted from the earth , in order to convert any resource into a form that can be delivered to people .
Since all machines wear out , there is nothing truly “ renewable ” about any of them .
Thus , the invisible elephant in the room with a Green New Deal , whether implemented by federal or state governments , is the staggering quantity of stuff that needs to be mined in order to build all the green machines , and where that mining and processing happens .
( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Media Ignores Awesomeness ) Consider the ever-popular electric car .
In a recent report for the Manhattan Institute , I took a look at the physical realities of these increasingly popular vehicles and found they weren ’ t as eco-friendly as they purported to be .
The one million electric vehicles ( EVs ) now on U.S. roads ( courtesy of billions of dollars in subsidies ) account for just 0.5 % of America ’ s cars but contain , for example , more cobalt than one billion smartphones .
In general , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of which weighs about 1,000 pounds , requires digging up roughly 500,000 pounds of materials .
That ’ s more than a 10-fold increase in the cumulative quantity of materials ( liquids ) used by a standard car over its entire operating life .
Some EV materials are the rare-earth elements , such as neodymium , that are now in the news .
Many other , more familiar elements are also needed , in particular copper and nickel .
EVs use twice as much copper as conventional cars , and global demand for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rise 1,500 % in the coming decades .
Overall , the global push for EVs will drive a 200 % to 8,000 % increase in demand for an entire suite of “ critical ” energy minerals .
All of this will be in service of reducing—not eliminating—oil demand .
In fact , two decades from now , barely 10 % of the world ’ s petroleum use will be eliminated if the optimistic forecasts ( some already enshrined in government mandates ) are realized and there are 500 million EVs on the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of minerals used in EVs will be dwarfed by the push for grid-scale batteries to make wind and solar usefully reliable .
Those solar panels and wind turbines also entail using an average of 10 times more primary materials to produce the same energy output compared to hydrocarbon machines .
The world is literally about to embark on the biggest increase in mineral and metal mining in history .
But America has long been a hostile place to try and open new mines .
Consequently , the U.S. is 100 % dependent on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ imports over half its needs for another 28 .
The net effect of a Green New Deal distills to replacing domestic energy production ( and exports ) of hydrocarbons with an unprecedented level of energy mineral imports .
You won ’ t find environmental organizations and Green New Deal proponents calling for expanding domestic mining .
But the mineral realities have economic and geopolitical implications .
China , for example , supplies about 90 % of rare-earths for the world .
On the cobalt front , China has also quietly gained control over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ industry ’ s cobalt refining , without which the raw ore is useless .
Russia is a massive nickel producer .
The list of dependencies is long , and it rarely includes American sources .
In early October , the Chinese government advanced legislation to be enacted in 2021 that will “ allow ” banning exports of “ strategic minerals ” to companies and nations that China considers a national security threat .
( RELATED : China Claims Economy Grew Almost 5 % In The Third Quarter Of 2020 Despite Pandemic ) Then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inherent with green mineral supply chains .
Australia ’ s Institute for Sustainable Futures cautions that a global gold rush for energy minerals will take miners into “ some remote wilderness areas [ that ] have maintained high biodiversity because they haven ’ t yet been disturbed.
” Add to this the widely reportedly cases of abuse related to child labor in mines in the Congo , for example , where 70 % of the world ’ s raw cobalt originates .
Last year , Tesla , Apple , Google , Dell , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( filed in a U.S. federal court ) of exploiting child labor in the Congo .
Similar connections have been made to labor abuses associated with copper , nickel and other “ critical ” mines around the world .
The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 included requirements to report trade in “ conflict minerals ” and indeed most companies have pledged “ ethical sourcing.
” Unfortunately , history shows there isn ’ t much of a correlation between pledges and the frequency of abuse in many foreign mines .
There is nothing new about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the prospect of an astronomical increase in demand for energy minerals .
Meanwhile , America doesn ’ t need to source foreign minerals right now since imports account for 90 % of U.S. solar panels and 80 % of the key power components of wind turbines .
Asian companies utterly dominate global battery production .
In timeframes that are meaningful , say over the coming decade , radically increasing the use of Green New Deal machines will have the effect of exporting jobs , exporting environmental challenges ( not to mention exacerbating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trade deficit to soar by hundreds of billions of dollars , and of course eliminating domestic hydrocarbon jobs which contribute hundreds of billions of dollars to the GDP .
You don ’ t have to ban fracking to kill the industry ; mandating the use of the alternatives has the same effect .
This won ’ t end well .
( RELATED : Joe Biden Denies Ever Saying He Opposed Fracking But Promises To Eliminate Oil Industry ) If all that weren ’ t enough , there ’ s also the roughly 20 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comes with using green machines to replace hydrocarbons .
And , of course , there ’ s the mother ’ s milk of a Green New Deal , the trillions of dollars in subsidies , necessarily funded by increased costs and taxes for all consumers .
The latter is no longer in dispute ; instead those costs now seem to be a feature not a bug in Green New Deal proposals .
By the way , if green machines were in fact cheaper than conventional ones , as many media outlets now assert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wind , solar or batteries , markets would rapidly adopt them without subsidies and mandates .
Perceptive readers will note that nothing has been said about climate change thus far .
That ’ s because the physics of energy , of what ’ s possible , isn ’ t dictated by either the political climate or the planet ’ s climate .
But it does bear noting that the radical expansion of green machines won ’ t spell the end of oil and gas .
Consider the latest forecast from the International Energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ booster for Green New Deals in all their forms .
The IEA predicts solar and wind—which today supply less than three percent of the world ’ s energy—will dominate the growth in energy supply .
That will require , the IEA notes , that every nation follow through on “ announced [ green ] policy intentions and targets.
” Many of those “ intentions ” are already remarkably aggressive , including the outright banning of conventional cars and power plants .
We ’ ll see if they in fact happen .
Meanwhile , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forecasts the world ’ s use of both natural gas and petroleum will return to the pre-COVID peak within a couple of years and then even creep higher for nearly two decades .
That same IEA report has just one sentence on the subject of energy minerals , noting the need to consider that “ reliable supplies of the critical minerals and metals … are vital ” for reaching green goals .
History may see that as the understatement of the decade .
Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report Mines , Minerals , and “ Green ” Energy : A Reality Check .
The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation .


climatedepot--2020-11-01--CBS News: ‘According to a leading climate scientist, four more years of a Trump Administration is ‘g

CBS News: ‘According to a leading climate scientist, four more years of a Trump Administration is ‘game over’ for the climate’

CBS News : “ According to a leading climate scientist , four more years of a Trump Administration is “ game over ” for the climate .
And it ’ s the younger generations who will have to deal with the consequences.
” Analysis : Trump KO ’ s ’ 60 Minutes ’ on ‘ climate change ’ – Trump ’ s skeptical remarks were ‘ scientifically , politically and economically accurate ’ Michael Mann : ‘ A second Trump term is game over for the climate – really !
’ Mann : “ A second Trump term is game @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” – “ If we are going to avert ever more catastrophic climate change impacts , we need to limit warming below a degree and a half Celsius , a little less than three degrees Fahrenheit , ” Mann said .
“ Another four years of what we ’ ve seen under Trump , which is to outsource environmental and energy policy to the polluters and dismantle protections put in place by the previous administration … would make that essentially impossible.
” “ The future of this planet is now in the hands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ It ’ s up to us .
The way we end this national and global nightmare is by coming out and voting for optimism over pessimism , for hope and justice and progress over fear and malice and superstition .
This is a Tolkienesque battle between good and evil , and Sauron needs to be defeated on election day here in the United States .
”


climatedepot--2020-11-01--Watch: 40 min. UK interview w/ Morano: ‘Donald Trump is the great orange hope to repel the great whi

Watch: 40 min. UK interview w/ Morano: ‘Donald Trump is the great orange hope to repel the great white lab coat unelected bureaucracy ruling over us’ – Explains why Trump should be re-elected

The ‘ Great Reset ’ : Rule by Unelected ‘ Experts ’ – COVID-Climate Technocracy has arrived – ‘ The danger of letting lab coats run the world ’ – Special Report Professor Michael Levitt , who won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 2013 , was due to be the keynote speaker in December at a virtual conference on his areas of special expertise – computational biology and biodesign .
But the First International Biodesign Research Conference withdrew his invitation – according to Levitt because they had received ‘ too many calls ’ from other speakers ‘ threatening to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese coronavirus .
He has long maintained that the threat is overblown and that ‘ we ’ re going to be fine.
’ Morano comment : “ Climate change skeptics have seen this type of crushing of dissent for decades when it comes to ‘ climate change.
’ Whether you support COVID lockdowns equates to whether you support the UN Paris Pact or Green New Deal in the climate world .
If you oppose mandatory masks , that is like not believing in the alleged ‘ 97 % consensus ’ on climate .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus equates to can government ‘ control ’ the climate .
The COVID/Climate connection runs deep.
” See : Read : Bonus chapter : Intimidating the ‘ Deniers ’ to Enforce the ‘ Consensus ’ – Climate ‘ deniers ’ threatened with being ‘ thrown in jail ’ – ‘ The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change ’ NO DISSENT ALLOWED : Polar bear expert Mitch Taylor barred from conference in 2009 over ‘ extremely unhelpful ’ skeptical global warming view– Attendance voted down by members because of his views on global warming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are higher than they were 30 years ago ’ OUTRAGEOUS : A Large Danish Study on Mask Wearing Is Being Delayed by Publishers of Major Medical Journals – Therefore Preventing the Results from Being Made Public Question : “ But one thing that despite all these things that many people would agree with you on many people would disagree with you on on climate change um due to the fact that um many you know what is it 98 of scientists ?
Morano : Yes that ’ s what they say 97 but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say 97 when you can say 99. why do so many scientists believe in climate change okay i ’ ll give you i ’ ll give you a roundabout answer right now we ’ re actually having a debate you said people would agree with me on covid come back in ten years how many people are going to agree on covid probably less here ’ s why we see Stanford nobel prize-winning chemists epidemiologists who are now being censored on social media are now being attacked by their colleagues are being disinvited @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-lockdown views about covid okay so start with that prestigious accepted scientists immediately smeared silenced threatened younger scientists and i ’ m talking about epidemiology now are looking at this saying well there ’ s no i ’ m not coming out the dutch scientist has a huge biggest study on mass and covet no journal will touch it what journal editor is going to publish a study that says mass don ’ t work in the age of covert they see the handwriting so suddenly as this goes on just fast forward @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agree that lockdowns are the greatest thing ever where are the scientists that don ’ t agree we ’ re watching them be destroyed right now in the debate on covid there is no debate allowed that ’ s what i ’ m telling you so i wrote a book the politically incorrect guide to climate change i have a movie climate hustle one and two we go through and profile the scientists who went through exactly what is happening in the covet debate now so that people could make up numbers i @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it but number is like 97 percent in the book i devote a whole chapter to that 97 percent is pulled from thin air according to a top u.n scientist it was one of the studies was based on 77 anonymous scientists where they asked a survey that answered two questions that most skeptical scientists would have answered and they came up with the 97 consensus it ’ s a number designed to stop debate why don ’ t they want debate because debate is messy that ’ s why we have social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ won ’ t publish stuff that ’ s against the narrative the best thing to think about and covet and compare it to climate is every mass study every single one but almost the consensus of mass studies going back to 1970s so they don ’ t work even in hospital settings against viruses and and any kind of mandated public wearing them is absurd because people touch it they they don ’ t do other things like socially distance um and the other things that would matter in terms of keeping distance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your mouth and your because you ’ re constantly touching they don ’ t change it but you look at the science before anyone cared what the answer was and that ’ s the thing if you look at mass studies pre-covered it ’ s overwhelming that mass don ’ t work and they would never recommend it that ’ s why they never recommended it but if you look at mass studies postcovid not only have the editors of the new england journal of medicine had come out with a study saying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make people feel safer there ’ s no evidence that outside of settings that anyone should be wearing a mask the authors of that and i actually predicted this on twitter i said watch the authors who said this are going to have to recant this statement because they ’ re not going to be able to work or have a career sure as they came out and came out and said we actually favor mandatory match we didn ’ t really mean what we said in the in our study so then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ modeling studies and they come out with a bunch of studies that say look we put a mass mandate on and death ’ s drop most the mass mandates went on long after the deaths had stopped so this is science in the age of covid that ’ s what exactly what we went through in the age of climate so i would implore you before you ever say a 97 figure understand that any scientist who descends isn ’ t allowed to get funding be published have an opinion be invited to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you that in the climate world and then i can show you that right now it ’ s happening in the covet world so that within a year or two 97 of all coveted scientists say lockdowns and mass mandates have always worked that ’ s the we ’ re being imposed under the public health flu detox or rule by uh white lab coats which is what we ’ re under and everyone ’ s suffering under and donald trump is the great orange hope to repel the great uh white lab @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .


climatedepot--2020-11-01--Watch: Morano on TV with Ezra Levant: Biden campaign ‘terrified’ Joe will look like AOC or Bernie Sa

Watch: Morano on TV with Ezra Levant: Biden campaign ‘terrified’ Joe will look like AOC or Bernie Sanders

“ The last debate , I thought , was very good and focused everything .
And you can see from the debate , that this is a very clear choice .
“ Biden 's campaign is terrified at the moment , because you have Ohio , Pennsylvania , all these energy producers , West Virginia , Wisconsin , Michigan — all these states that rely on the energy economy ... the campaign is terrified he 'll be painted as an AOC squad member [ like ] Bernie Sanders.
” On a recent episode of The Ezra Levant Show , Marc @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. presidential election in terms of climate change and the oil and gas industry .
Here ’ s a bit of what Marc had to say : “ The last debate , I thought , was very good and focused everything .
And you can see from the debate , that this is a very clear choice .
“ Biden ’ s campaign is terrified at the moment , because you have Ohio , Pennsylvania , all these energy producers , West Virginia , Wisconsin , Michigan — all these states that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is terrified he ’ ll be painted as an AOC squad member [ like ] Bernie Sanders.
” This is just a clip from the full Ezra Levant Show .


climatedepot--2020-11-01--Degrowth: Economic growth is bad for the climate, Europe’s Science Academies claim — Seek replacing

Degrowth: Economic growth is bad for the climate, Europe’s Science Academies claim — Seek replacing with ‘indicators of human well-being’

1 ) Economic growth is bad for the climate , Europe ’ s Science Academies claim GWPF , 30 October 2020 2 ) Focus on GDP and economic growth is unhelpful for the climate , European group says The Daily Telegraph , 29 October 2020 1 ) Economic growth is bad for the climate , Europe ’ s Science Academies claim GWPF , 30 October 2020 Europe faces a catastrophic economic crisis and tens of millions of redundancies as a result of the political measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic .
As a result , there is growing tension among @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economic growth or saving Europe ’ s costly climate agenda .
In her speech to the United Nations last year , the eco-socialist activist Greta Thunberg denounced world leaders for their main focus on what she called “ the fairy tale of eternal economic growth.
” Her anti-growth attack didn ’ t come as a surprise .
After all , critical observers have always known that this kind of radical climate activism is driven by an anti-capitalist agenda .
Now Europe ’ s main scientific body , the European Academies Science Advisory Council @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Science of EU Member States , plus Norway , Switzerland and UK ) , has followed in Greta ’ s footsteps , hitting out against policy makers and governments who prioritise economic growth .
“ Generation Greta gets it .
Our focus should be on well-being and welfare , but our economic system puts all focus on growth and GDP which adds fuel to the climate and biodiversity crises.
” That ’ s how the European Academies Science Advisory Council press release highlights the main take of its report that calls for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ necessary if policy-makers and their public ( sic ) are to support the conclusions of the advocates of change.
” The capture of Europe ’ s scientific institutions and organisations by degrowth ideologues is a tragic reflection on the state of green ideology which is bringing institutional science ever more into disrepute .
2 ) Focus on GDP and economic growth is unhelpful for the climate , European group says The Daily Telegraph , 29 October 2020 Focus on GDP and economic growth is unhelpful for the climate , European group says Tracking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate change , a group of European scientists has said .
The report by the European Academies ’ Science Advisory Council , chaired by British chemist and former civil servant Dr Michael Norton , argues that measuring GDP has led to rampant consumption and financial growth which is destroying the planet and not making us happier .
They therefore suggest replacing the widely-used wealth measure with “ indicators of human well-being ” .
Co-author Anders Wijkman , a former politician and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , said focus on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the climate and biodiversity crises ” .
Current “ incremental ” measures are not enough to head off “ dangerous ” climate change and more fundamental shifts are needed , the report argues , criticising political leaders for caving to business interests in a quest to maintain growth .
Instead policymakers should recognise that current consumption levels are unsustainable if environmental damage is to be mitigated , the group said .
The call is at odds with the stance of European countries including the UK , with ministers insisting that continued economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fossil fuels , through investment in new industries including renewable energy .
The group said their conclusions “ challenge the social and political paradigm of at least the past 70 years where leaders have campaigned on the basis of continuing improvement in the traditional economy , with science and technology expected to allow economic growth to be indefinitely sustained .
”


climatedepot--2020-11-02--Joe Biden’s energy plan is ‘sheer insanity,’ says Dr. Jay Lehr

This seven minute video was created using ( with permission ) the audio of a 7-minute radio interview conducted with @ @ @ @ @ Larsen Show broadcast on 77 radio stations across America .


climatedepot--2020-11-02--Delingpole: Only Donald Trump Can Save Us from the Great Reset

There ’ s an excellent , longer-read summary of the key issues by Marc Morano at Climate Depot .
Morano recognizes that the Great Reset is actually just a repackaged version of the Green New Deal , only with Covid-19 now being used as the big excuse for wholesale Socialistic transformation , rather than ‘ climate change.
’ He quotes healthcare journalist Peter Barry Chowka , who calls it ‘ A flu d ’ état ' : Health care journalist Peter Barry Chowka was blunt , calling the COVID/Climate “ solution ” linkage “ a flu d ’ état.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political process by unelected & unaccountable administrative state medical bureaucrats , ” Chowka warned , noting that all of the COVID solutions were virtually the same as the Green New Deal “ solutions ” to the purported climate “ crisis.
” “ Overnight , our society is doing what radical leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( D-NY ) and her fellow Green New Deal fanatics have demanded : An almost total end to air travel ; personal automobile travel down to a trickle ; promises of free health care for all quickly becoming the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of people to sit at home without working and receive a paycheck from the government .
The Democrats want that to continue indefinitely , ” Chowka wrote .
Build Back Better .
This is the slogan of the New World Order – aka the Great Reset .
You hear it often these days intoned — in the manner of dutiful Stepford Wives — by everyone from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Prince of Wales to Canadian blackface artiste Justin Trudeau and , inevitably , Joe Biden who has adopted it as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leader you won ’ t hear using it is Donald Trump because he recognises its true significance .
Build Back Better is the code phrase for one of the most terrifying and dangerous , globally co-ordinated assaults on liberty and prosperity in the history of mankind .
If the plan succeeds , the world you inhabit will be unrecognisable , your children will have no prospects and your life will barely be worth living .
Build Back Better means totalitarian rule by a global , technocratic elite – as constrictive and immiserating as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hideous New World Order is the Great Reset .
It sounds like a conspiracy theory but the people behind it are perfectly open about it .
Why else would they dedicate a special issue of Time magazine to outlining their masterplan ?
One essay – titled ‘ It ’ s 2023 .
Here ’ s How We Fixed the Global Economy ’ – imagines a world where things all started getting better with the ousting of Donald Trump .
So how do Biden and his Great Reset pals fix the global economy in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Big Government takes care of everything , only not on a national scale this time , but a global one .
It will be managed by a technocratic elite over whom you will have no democratic control .
Jobs and high minimum wages will be guaranteed ; shale gas will be replaced by solar ; businesses — in return for massive bailouts from the government — will agree to be run more like communist worker co-operatives ; car lanes on freeways will be replaced by cycle lanes ; companies are no longer driven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and goals like sustainability .
Oh — and you needn ’ t worry about your mortgage repayments any more — because private property will be abolished .
What ’ s unusual about this global communist takeover plan is that it originates not from some meeting of hair-shirt sociology students at Berkeley but from the World Economic Forum , which hosts the annual meeting at Davos where billionaires lecture millionaires on how ordinary people live .
The founder of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab has written a book — several books in fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , called Covid-19 : The Great Reset , makes no bones about the fact that the chaos of the Coronavirus pandemic represents the perfect opportunity to accelerate the entire world towards a ‘ new normal ’ .
Got that ?
As far as your new globalist overlords are concerned , you are NEVER going to get your old life back , however much you might wish it .
Also , be clear : this is being done for your own good because your old way of life was based on a ‘ broken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s conviction that the new normal is what we need and should want , he scarcely bothers to pretend that Chinese coronavirus is anything other than a handy pretext .
Schwab is clear in his book that coronavirus is not so much a crisis as an opportunity to be exploited – a chance to accelerate the birth of the New World Order he calls The Fourth Industrial Revolution .
This might all seem pie in the sky — the demented ravings of a German so sinister-looking and sounding that he would have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ movies — were it not for one major problem : lots of world leaders , billionaire businessmen and other masters of the universe are totally onboard with the project .
This includes , if we ’ re very unlucky , possible future President Joe Biden .
Because it all sounds like something out of a dystopian novel in the manner of Nineteen Eighty-Four , many people are under the illusion that the Great Reset is a conspiracy theory they can safely ignore .
But as a commenter at Lockdown Sceptics puts it : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when they tell you what they are doing.
’ Slowly people are waking up .
One of them is Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò , formal Apostolic Nuncio to the United States , who has written an open letter to President Trump warning him of the threat posed by the Great Reset .
A global plan called the Great Reset is underway .
Its architect is a global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity , imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approved and financed ; in others it is still in an early stage .
Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project , there are unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event 201 , promoting their agenda .
The purpose of the Great Reset is the imposition of a health dictatorship aiming at the imposition of liberticidal measures , hidden behind tempting promises of ensuring a universal income and cancelling individual debt .
The price of these concessions from the International Monetary Fund will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adherence to a program of vaccination against Covid-19 and Covid-21 promoted by Bill Gates with the collaboration of the main pharmaceutical groups .
Beyond the enormous economic interests that motivate the promoters of the Great Reset , the imposition of the vaccination will be accompanied by the requirement of a health passport and a digital ID , with the consequent contact tracing of the population of the entire world .
Those who do not accept these measures will be confined in detention camps or placed under house arrest , and all their assets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right to be concerned .
This is not a drill .
The Great Reset is an imminent , deadly threat of which everyone who cares about freedom , prosperity and national sovereignty should be aware .
It still has had remarkably little coverage in the media .
One of the few MSM outlets to address it has been Sky News Australia , whose Rowan Dean described the Great Reset as ‘ an anti-democratic enterprise designed to destroy your job , steal your prosperity and rob your kids of a future.
’ You can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – also at Sky News Australia .
There ’ s an excellent , longer-read summary of the key issues by Marc Morano at Climate Depot .
Morano recognises that the Great Reset is actually just a repackaged version of the Green New Deal , only with Covid-19 now being used as the big excuse for wholesale Socialistic transformation , rather than ‘ climate change.
’ He quotes healthcare journalist Peter Barry Chowka , who calls it ‘ A flu d ’ état ” Also definitely worth a view — if you don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this explainer from Dave Cullen ( aka Computing Forever ) , who says : ‘ You ’ ll own nothing and you ’ ll be happy…Sounds an awful lot like global communism.
’ I also recommend this account by James Corbett on the Corbett Report , who pulls together all the WEF ’ s own statements — including interviews given by Klaus Schwab — to construct a damning and frightening case as to the horrors that await us if this thing progresses any further .
# WhyAreTheyDoingThis has become a popular hashtag on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concerned at the extraordinarily draconian and often scientifically inexplicable policies being adopted by governments the world over to deal with Coronavirus .
The Great Reset may be the answer .
And if it is the answer — and so if so many world leaders are on board — then my view is that there is only one man in the world who can save us from it .
It ’ s why , in my view , this presidential election is probably the most important political event anyone alive will live through .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ our prosperity , our civilisation .


climatedepot--2020-11-02--Over the past 7 Days, the United States broke 3,782 Low Temperature Records vs just the 518 Max

Between Oct 20 and Oct 26 , the United States set 3,434 new DAILY low temp records ( vs the 517 max ) , 234 new MONTHLY low temp records ( vs just the 1 max ) , as well as 114 ALL-TIME low temp records ( vs the big fat 0 max ) .
For decades it has been hammered into us that extreme cold events and severe snowstorms will be “ a thing of the past ” , that a steadily warming world will see the back of recording breaking lows and all time heavy snows .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arctic outbreaks over recent years , some members of the AGW party have felt the need to “ tweak ” the narrative .
In an affront to all logic and reasoned thinking , a catastrophically warming world now also means regular outbreaks of severe polar cold .
The climate scare industry has achieved such a level of absurdity that , on February 1 , journalist Andrew Revkin reported in a National Geographic article that , “ Many stories in recent days highlighted studies concluding that global warming is boosting the odds of cold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alarm statements attributing recent cold spells to man-made global warming came from University of Michigan professor emeritus of environment and sustainability Donald Scavia , who said : “ In the past there was a very strong gradient of cold air at the poles and warmer air south of the poles .
That gradient kept the cold where it is .
As the poles are warming faster than the rest of the planet , that gradient weakens , allowing the cold air currents to dip south.
” Dr. Tim Ball , an environmental consultant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Winnipeg in Manitoba , said that Scavia ’ s statement “ is utter rubbish , ” adding : “ It ’ s wrong in every aspect , from the basic assumption to the interpretation .
In fact , a gradient makes things move .
It doesn ’ t ‘ keep the cold where it is.
” It ’ s also a mistake to think that , if human-produced CO is actually causing global warming , the poles will warm first and faster : “ There is no evidence of that ; they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case , ” Dr. Ball emphasized .
If the poles were warming faster , continued Ball , the reduced temperature difference between the poles and lower latitude regions would lead to a reduction of extreme weather events , not an intensification of them , as climate campaigners claim .
After all , weather and extreme weather events are driven by the temperature gradient between latitudes , and if the difference between temperatures at the poles and the lower latitudes were actually narrowing , then intense cold outbreaks should be reducing — but this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re seeing : climate alarmists have their science backwards .
Because while the evidence does indeed suggest that the Arctic is warming , 1 ) this phenomenon is entirely predicted by a Grand Solar Minimum , and 2 ) the evidence also suggests that the lower latitudes are cooling , a setup that is actually increasing the temperature difference between itself and the pole .
Ball concluded that the real cause of the severe cold outbreaks in the United States is a wavy Jet Stream .
This is the cause we ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ increasingly meridional flow ( in line with historically low solar activity ) is diverting Arctic air anomalously-far south , and more often .
These numbers will increase over the coming days , as data from this month ’ s historic Arctic outbreak continue to roll in — but as it stands , from Oct 20 to Oct 26 the Unites States set a total of 3,782 new LOW temperature records vs just the 518 max .
This feat is even more impressive when you consider that the data is coming from NOAA , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warm-mongering past to say the least , and one that routinely ignores the key component propping up what ’ s left of the global warming theory : the Urban Heat Island ( UHI ) effect .
Over the past 7 days , a whopping 3,434 new DAILY low temp records were set ( vs the 517 max ) , 234 new MONTHLY low temp records fell ( vs just the 1 max ) , and a staggering 114 ALL-TIME low temp records were toppled ( vs 0 for max ) .
Moreover , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ broken ” , they ’ ve been utterly obliterated .
As NWS meteorologist Corby Dickerson said recently : “ It ’ s not normal to set this many records in this short of a time – and monumental records … It ’ s truly remarkable .
There ’ s no other way to describe it.
” Don ’ t fall for bogus political ideologies and agendas : climate is cyclic , never linear ; and the COLD TIMES are returning , the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jet stream flow .
Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree , if you read between the lines , with NOAA saying we ’ re entering a ‘ full-blown ’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s , and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle ( 25 ) as “ the weakest of the past 200 years ” , with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here .
Furthermore , we can ’ t ignore the slew of new scientific papers stating the immense impact The Beaufort Gyre @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and therefore the climate overall .
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climatedepot--2020-11-02--Why the next financial crisis could be green – ‘Banks & big business have gone all in on ‘sustainabl

Why the next financial crisis could be green – ‘Banks & big business have gone all in on ‘sustainable’ funny money’

James Woudhuysen : Why the next financial crisis could be green Spiked Online , 2 November 2020 States , banks and big business have gone all in on ‘ sustainable ’ funny money .
Green finance .
Climate finance .
Sustainable finance .
These phrases no doubt fill most people with a kind of existential dread , but I fear we will all have to learn a lot more about green finance in the years to come .
For one reason why , take a look at Elon Musk ’ s electric-car venture , Tesla .
In just the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a whopping $ 1.2 billion in regulatory credits – from California and other states in America , from the US federal government and even from the European Union .
That ’ s $ 1.2 billion without making a single extra car – just for making cars that aren ’ t based on fossil fuels .
Mr Musk sells his credits to Honda , General Motors and Fiat Chrysler ( FCA ) – car giants that haven ’ t got out of gasoline and into electric fast enough , as far as the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ October earnings call to Wall Street analysts , Tesla ’ s chief financial officer , Zachary Kirkhorn , conceded that much of the company ’ s success was due to its regulatory credits business being ‘ stronger than expectations ’ and ‘ tracking to more than double this year compared to last ’ .
In 2019 , Tesla ’ s credits business was only worth 2.4 per cent of its revenues .
But , more vitally , between 2018 and 2020 , regulatory credits added between two and five percentage points to Tesla @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the US business editor of The Times observed after Kirkhorn had made his call , although Tesla had been profitable for five consecutive quarters , ‘ it would have lost money in the last four had it not sold hundreds of millions of dollars ’ worth of “ green ” credits to other car manufacturers ’ .
If elected president , Joe Biden plans to raise federal penalties on conventional carmakers .
But with or without this policy , it will still take a very long time to really displace the internal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means that old Elon will go on enjoying state subsidies for his cars – which are sold for a whopping $ 38,000 to $ 200,000 each – for years and years to come .
Meanwhile , the US state gives buyers of many other , rival electric cars a $ 7,500 tax credit for each that they purchase .
Green finance is conquering all before it .
At the start of this year , I noted that ‘ the woke war on fossil fuels ’ had ‘ reached central banks and financial regulators @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months that Musk got his payoff for not using gasoline , things have gone much further than that .
As spiked contributor and financial journalist Daniel Ben-Ami tells me , green finance is ‘ no longer a niche proposition ’ .
‘ Finance is redefining itself as a key institution with which corporations and governments can pursue the agenda of ESG ’ ( environmental , social and corporate governance policies ) , the successors to our old friend , corporate social responsibility .
These ESG policies have been adopted by the car industry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the World Economic Forum .
They are tracked by ratings agencies , institutional investors , asset managers , financial institutions and other stakeholders , as well as by Bloomberg , Thomson Reuters and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index .
There are also special ESG funds and portfolios offered by BlackRock , BNY Mellon , Fidelity , JP Morgan , Prudential and others .
Their structures and their language are impenetrable , but these big names confirm that green finance is no longer the tail wagging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the dog .
What these big banks really know about the tugging , durability , insurance and disposal of offshore wind turbines , for instance , is anybody ’ s guess .
But it ’ s the same with all the global great and the good .
The EU now seems to consider sustainable finance on a par with consumer finance , while at the prestigious OECD , the Centre on Green Finance and Investment boasts countless green-finance initiatives .
From green bonds to feed-in tariffs for consumers , from capping , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – you name it , green bean-counters will want a percentage of it .
Green finance is also running amok with dubious financial instruments such as derivatives – remember those from the 2008 crash ?
There are even specialist ESG-friendly derivatives .
Green finance is also ‘ making tracks into the wonky world of foreign-exchange markets , highlighting the lengths Wall Street will go to broadcast an environmental angle on investments ’ , writes the Wall Street Journal .
Just as with the rest of the City of London , green finance comes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The European Union ’ s €14 billion Emission Trading Scheme ( ETS ) , which the EU Parliament now wants to extend , has lost at least €5 billion through fraud .


climatedepot--2020-11-02--Ancient society adapted & flourished in face of climate change, archaeologists discover

An examination of two documented periods of climate change in the greater Middle East , between approximately 4,500 and 3,000 years ago , reveals local evidence of resilience and even of a flourishing ancient society despite the changes in climate seen in the larger region .
A new study – led by archaeologists from Cornell and from the University of Toronto , working at Tell Tayinat in southeastern Turkey – demonstrates that human responses to climate change are variable and must be examined using extensive and precise data gathered at the local level .
“ The absolute dating of these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ debate for many years , and this study contributes a significant new dataset that helps address many of the questions , ” said Sturt Manning , the Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences , and lead author of the study , which published Oct. 29 in PLoS ONE .
The report highlights how challenge and collapse in some areas were matched by resilience and opportunities elsewhere .
The findings are welcome contributions to discussions about human responses to climate change that broaden an otherwise sparse chronological @ @ @ @ @ @ @ region known historically as the Levant , which stretches the length of the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea .
“ The study shows the end of the Early Bronze Age occupation at Tayinat was a long and drawn out affair that , while it appears to coincide with the onset of a megadrought 4,200 years ago , was actually the culmination of processes that began much earlier , ” said Tim Harrison , professor and chair of the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto .
Harrison @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The archaeological evidence does not point towards significant local effects of the climate episode , ” he said , “ as there is no evidence of drought stress in crops .
Instead , these changes were more likely the result of local political and spatial reconfiguration .
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climatedepot--2020-11-02--After nearly a decade away, La Niña weather system is back

According to the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) , La Niña is back in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean , after nearly a decade ’ s absence .
This is expected to result in sea surface temperatures between two and three degrees Celsius cooler than average , said Dr. Maxx Dilley , Deputy Director in charge of Climate Services Department at WMO .
“ These coolings of these large ocean areas have a significant effect on the circulation of the atmosphere that ’ s flowing over them .
And the changes in the atmosphere in turn affect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ likely results of La Niña vary around the globe , but indications are that the Horn of Africa will see below average rainfall , as will Central Asia .
Elsewhere , WMO ’ s weather models forecast above-average rainfall for Southeast Asia , some Pacific Islands and the northern region of South America .
The UN agency also warned that East Africa is forecast to see drier than usual conditions , which together with the existing impacts of the desert locust invasion , may add to regional food insecurity .
WMO says that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures remaining at La Niña levels for the remainder of the year , and a 55 per cent chance that this will continue through March next year .
This is important because La Niña contributes to temperatures , rainfall and storm patterns in many parts of the world .


climatedepot--2020-11-02--First Dutch climate refugees fleeing wind turbines: “The noise is unbearable”

AMSTERDAM – The first Dutch climate refugees are a fact .
Not because of wet feet , but because citizens can not cope with the noise of wind farms .
Residents close to biomass power stations also complain bitterly .
Are health and the environment in the Netherlands subordinate to our climate goals ?
“ I do see a similarity with the Groningen gas and the Limburg mines : energy interests outweigh other interests.
” Every time he sent his Connexxion public transport bus across the Haringvliet Bridge , Claus aan de Wiel looked to the northwest with concern .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ten kilometers away , near Piershil .
“ How ’ s the wind ?
Isn ’ t it too windy ?
What will it be like when I get home ?
” Will it be another evening where the turbine noise rumbles like a rolling , roaring surf above the TV ?
“ I never slept a wink .
Sometimes I got back on the bus after only three and a half hours of sleep.
” Windfear .
The bus driver and his partner Ine van den Dool suffered from it after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ five hundred meters from their house .
The initiator still boasted about the Rolls-Royce among the windturbines – so quiet .
“ But we were shocked .
The noise was unbearable .
The house was built by my parents , I grew up there and thought I would only leave between six planks , but we could not stand it ” , says Aan de Wiel .
Sound waves banged on the facades from three sides .
Even the moles disappeared from their garden .
Van den Dool loved the greenery and space @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a heavenly , healing place .
Where we sat in the garden with friends until late .
The wind farm has distroyed that .
It was as if a jet plane kept circling overhead .
I developed severe asthma and could not stop coughing at night .
As if my body was screaming : this is not safe , you have to get out of here .
” And so the pair left .
As a climate refugee in their own country .
It is the compression of air when a wick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ typical turbine noise .
“ Our noise standards for wind turbines are much more flexible than in neighboring countries , ” says Fred Jansen from Schagen .
Ten years ago , as chairman of the National Critical Platform for Wind Energy , he already opposed the cabinet ’ s new noise standards .
According to Jansen , they only work in favor of wind farm builders .
“ Local residents are the victims.
” The World Health Organization recommends that the wind turbine noise for local residents be kept below an average of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
Louder noise “ is associated with adverse health effects , ” according to the 2018 report “ Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region ” .
However , Dutch law allows an average of 47 decibels during the day , and peaks well above 50 decibels .
Since every three decibels means a doubling , that saves a sip on a drink , Janssen believes .
Sound expert Marcel Blankvoort confirms the Dutch exceptional position .
Our country works with averages , where other Western European countries , apart from Norway @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the facade .
“ And we don ’ t include background noise .
Elsewhere , a turbine in an industrial estate is allowed to make more noise than in the countryside , because there is more noise there anyway .
Here , the same standard applies everywhere .
That is why wind turbines in a previously quiet polder are more likely to be perceived as a deterioration in the living environment .
” In the ‘ Nijpelsian landscape ’ ( named after the architect of the Dutch climate agreement ) , full of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more and more citizens .
It is not only wind energy that the government is helping , on paper , to halve CO2 emissions by 2030 .
Subsidizing the burning of woody biomass also helps the accountants in The Hague to comply with the Paris Agreement .
Billions of euros in subsidies have already been promised for hundreds of biomass plants .
But the nuisance for local residents has caused a fierce social debate about wood burning .
“ Recently our bedroom was full of smoke again , ” says Rini Ruitenschild from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at a distance of one hundred and eighty meters from one of the local biomass plants , which does not burn gas but wood for district heating .
“ It is not the first time .
My wife has a lung problem .
If your whole house is full of dirty air again , then you will become unruly .
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