climatedepot--2020-04-24--Eco-manslaughter: Financiers of misery

Eco-manslaughter: Financiers of misery

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization , anti-development banks , the Agency for International Development ( USAID ) , NGO ( non-government organization ) pressure groups and other eco-imperialists are properly condemned for using their money .
Additionally their power , and control over trade and lending to keep millions of African , Asian and Latin American families from having access to reliable , affordable energy , pesticides and spatial insect repellants to prevent disease , and modern agricultural technologies .
Those outfits perpetuate poverty , disease , malnutrition and death .
Yet the eco-manslaughter continues .
Too many US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been captured by neo-colonialist elements in their leadership and ranks , and among the politicians who set their budgets and programs .
The NGOs enjoy tax-exempt status and global prestige , because the human and environmental costs of their policies rarely receive more than superficial scrutiny by media , human rights or other “ watchdogs.
” Yet the fact is , few NGOs would even exist without the wealthy foundations that finance them .
Indeed , “ philanthropic ” foundation support for radical environmentalist groups and campaigns is one of the best kept @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s time to spotlight some of them and call them to account .
Wealthy foundations , ( often created with profits and fortunes made in industry and technology ) directly and indirectly support some of the most radical anti-energy , anti-technology , agro-ecology activism in America , Europe and the world .
Their wealth , direct and indirect aid mechanisms , and inter-locking global network of funders , managers and advisors make them a powerful , callous , oppressive force .
They use direct donations and a growing number of clever non-transparent pass-through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foundations of foundations ) to consolidate money from multiple donors and direct “ charitable giving ” to organizations and projects that support their ideologies and causes .
The system also helps insulate the foundations – and their patrons and managers – from direct association with the most questionable , controversial , and often thuggish and lethal organizations and activists .
The funding , in turn , enables the organizations and activists to paint themselves as legitimate , benevolent and popular voices worthy of attention in global and domestic debates over laws , policies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effective in blocking the use of modern , innovative farm technologies like improved pesticides , GM crops ( genetically modified , engineered through biotechnology ) –even fertilizers , tractors and hybrid seeds – under the auspices of what they cleverly call “ agro-ecology.
” A big part of the problem is that the World Bank , EU agencies and Euro foundations demand and support primitive subsistence farming .
They block food imports from countries that permit biotech farming .
The World Bank ’ s Global Environment Facility and various European donors support groups @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kenya Organic Agriculture Network , Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya , and Resources Oriented Development Initiatives of Kenya .
In fact , virtually every African country is beset by their “ benevolence , ” as are India and other countries in Asia and Latin America .
All of them promote the supposed benefits of organic farming that bans the use of “ dangerous , poisonous ” manmade pesticides – but permits the use in “ organic ” farming of “ natural ” pesticides and other chemicals that are also toxic and dangerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beneficial insects .
They stridently oppose all biotech crops – including life-saving Golden Rice – and have been pressuring Kenyan and other African governments to ban more than 200 pesticides that have been approved as safe in many other countries .
Many of the groups even oppose mechanized equipment like tractors .
Among the EU funders are BioVision , the Danish Agency for International Development Cooperation , the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation , and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation .
They even support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is often little more than another NGO that runs and supports anti-technology campaigns and seeks donations from readers and major funding from foundations in exchange for stories .
Self-proclaimed “ philanthropic , charitable ” US foundations are just as guilty .
They probably provide far more significant than EU funding , but their secretive networks make that hard to ascertain .
Foundation support for the agro-ecology Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa helps illustrate how all this works .
AFSA is a pan-African alliance of organizations committed to “ resisting ” the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It claims the use of modern agricultural technologies like pesticides for crop protection , chemical fertilizers , and genetically modified crops for drought and insect resistance and higher yields will result in “ massive land grabs , destruction of indigenous biodiversity and ecosystems , displacement of indigenous peoples … and the destruction of their livelihoods and cultures.
” AFSA ’ s core members include activist pressure groups that espouse an even broader variety of anti-capitalist , anti-technology , radical environmentalist goals and philosophies .
Among the more notable and notorious ones are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Biodiversity , GroundSwell International , Friends of the Earth ( FOE ) , and La Via Campensina Africa .
These organizations work together to plan and support pro-organic , anti-biotech campaigns , and provide financial management and expertise in furthering AFSA principles .
Letting them retain tax-exempt status is a travesty .
Core member La Via Campensina Africa ( The Peasant Way – Africa ) , for example , is a radical , proponent of anti-technology agro-ecology .
It rejects modern farming technologies : crop protection pesticides and herbicides , fertilizers for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for bananas , cassava and other crops that have been all but destroyed by viruses and diseases .
It also advocates an anti-free market program of peasant-centric subsistence agriculture that largely limits farmers to backbreaking organic agricultural farming methods , and selling to local markets .
Agro-ecology farmers are largely limited to those local markets , in part because they can not raise enough crops for export to wider markets like Europe – while other produce is blocked because many EU nations ban the import of crops that are so much as tainted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The US-based AgroEcology Fund ( AEF ) helped to launch and continues to support the AFSA .
It acts as a pass-through fund of funds to hide sources , and helps to coordinate , direct and manage giving to outfits like AFSA .
The AEF also partners with AFSA and other organizations such as the Center for Food Safety ( CFS ) , to battle “ the industrial model ” and promote organic farming .
The AgroEcology Fund directly gave the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa in 2015 $ 200,000 and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( and possibly more via clandestine means ) .
That may not sound like much , but such funds pay for 10-100 times more hourly wages and activism in Africa than they would in USA .
In 2017 , the AEF and AFSA worked together on a campaign to prevent biotech seed patent protections laws from being enforced in Africa .
The AEF was created by three wealthy American foundations , the Christensen Fund , the New Fields Foundation , the Swift Foundation and a donor who remains unknown .
AEF programs and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which was created to help “ philanthropists ” better direct funds to projects and programs in line with their neo-colonialist goals ; the NVF is managed by Arabella Advisors .
Ironically and perversely , the foundations that funded AEF ’ s creation are rooted in money generated in innovation , industry and technology .
Now AEF and its foundation backers battle agricultural innovation and keep African farmers mired in farming practices that can feed few people , and can successfully battle few crop-devouring insect pests , much less protect crops against recurrent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries have abundant food – traditional , modern and organic .
Meanwhile , poor countries are saddled with barely enough food , no safety net for all those times when droughts or insects destroy crops , and diktats from ultra-wealthy foundations and pressure groups that tell farmers they should be happy to engage in dawn-to-dusk subsistence farming , ox-drawn plowing , stoop labor , banging on metal pans to drive the locust hordes away , and living on the verge of starvation .


climatedepot--2020-04-24--Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: Fossil fuel industry shutdown contradicts alarmist agenda

Three reasons for this .
1 ) We can see how much misery there is with a shutdown economy .
The relationship between the economy and energy is synergistic .
The economy does not go without energy .
If the economy tanks there is no demand for energy and with it a large portion of jobs .
What is so great about that future ?
2 ) The idea that you can take out the entire fossil fuel industry means many jobs will be lost .
Look at all the things that are made that require the use of fossil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turbines or have a solar panel fields without some way to get the materials , which had to be made with energy , to the site .
3 ) The shut down is currently proving Man is not driving the bulk of the CO2 input into the atmosphere but instead its the cyclical warming of the CO2 rich oceans which outsource it to the air .
You can open a can of soda and understand that .
Carbonated drinks tend to lose their fizz at higher temperatures because the loss of carbon dioxide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is raised .
This can be explained by the fact that when carbonated liquids are exposed to high temperatures , the solubility of gases in them is decreased .
Consequently , gas that has not dissolved can easily be lost .
The increase in SSTs can be seen by comparing now to 30 years ago ( on the left ) .
That has to outsource much of the co2 .
So with the world ’ s economies tanking the last 3 months , and remember the US contributes only 15 % of man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seasonal rise of CO2 not diminished ?
In addition , the jagged rise of CO2 is further proof that the way to counter it ’ s increase is through planting billions of trees .
If their agenda was truly concerned about it , then why not use a classic GREEN solution ?
But look at the step-up function on a yearly basis ( From CDAC Berkeley Lab ) The COVID-19 outbreak right now , with no slowdown in the seasonal rise , is exposing that the oceans have still not reached a satisfactory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mechanism .
That the climate agenda is pushing the idea that this is what we can do without fossil fuels , relies on people not looking beyond what they are being told .
Even with the economies opening , if Man was contributing the lions share of the co2 , then there should be a response .
Yet right now there is no response .
The seasonal downturn is coming and it should be more than average if this is mainly man-made .
As always this will be attacked as anti-environment when nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me lay my cards on the table .
I am an all of the above energy guy .
I am a fan of wind and solar because they need forecasts every day , in fact , every hour .
Additionally , what I do for a living is forecast where wind and cloud cover are huge variables .
So there is plenty of reason for me to want wind and solar involved .
They need the same longer range forecasts as fossil fuel companies and the extra daily forecasts .
Besides what ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ free source of energy , except in its current state it ’ s neither compared to another source and can not be stored efficiently .
In any case , I am not a fan of forcing things down people ’ s throat with painful measures .
In addition , not only is there a greener solution but why are we still being held hostage by the “ China Syndrome ” ?
This is America in 2020 .
We can build safe carbon-neutral nuclear plants .
Until such a time that wind and solar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ improves , they are not the solution but just a part of it .
I am not for stopping their advancement in the least .
Great forecasts can cheapen costs !
It defies common sense the left is cooing over a CO2 free input from man when right in their face the data is showing that it is still increasing .
So how is it Man ?
If there is lag then there has to be some response down the road to a greater than average fall in the summer months .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ natural hysteria over any hurricane or any event out of the ordinary , the climate will become a huge issue in this election .
I think the Trump administration should address the widespread perception among a large block of voters that they won ’ t even listen .
For starters advance a global green agenda , take the issue away from them .
PLANT MORE TREES , not shut down the economy with a Green New Deal .
You can call it a Real Green Deal .
That is not my idea , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Tucker Carlson which put the idea in my head .
2 ) Push Nuclear power , use it as an infrastructure matter .
By addressing this issue and showing you are for freedom you can attract people more than trying to counter it with facts since most of them won ’ t look or listen .
This issue is not about climate .
That is a smokescreen for a political agenda .
So you have to fight on the POLITICAL battlefield in front of you , which is this large voting bloc @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nerds like me arguing over climate but will listen to something that can capture their imagination .
That assures them they have a future .
A future that many of them are convinced will not exist , given what has been forced upon them .
You don ’ t retreat , you re-route .
This would get rid of all the nonsense that is attached to this issue , the cottage industry that has turned into a roaring factory known as ‘ climate science ’ which would not be so bad except if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the people pushing it are leftist .
So go above them .
Appeal to a true green plan .
Use technology .
Don ’ t demonize any one contributor ; solar wind , fossil fuels , etc .
The big thing I want is to take the issue out of their hands .
Because it matters so much , people have become obsessed with it and want it out of the common sense arena , into the complex .
By causing confusion from complexity , you force reliance on those in control and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this .
A tepid US economy and a lack of freedom of choice run counter to what made this country what it is .
Any economic ideas have to be based on free-market ideas and not forced on people or diminish their chance to have life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness .
But make no mistake about it there are simply too many people concerned about this to ignore them .
Yet in the terrible time we find ourselves now , in a way , this may be showing us that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the entire trend is small indeed .
We will know better at the end of the year , but if true , it exposes much of their missive as being a political agenda .
One that only used climate and weather as a vehicle to push their points .

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climatedepot--2020-04-24--Virginia raises energy costs – Will impose ‘clean’ energy mandates on the state’s residents

Kermit the Frog of Sesame Street fame got it wrong .
Being environmentally green means you can promise “ clean ” energy in the future , make it sound simple and seamless , and ignore the higher costs and impracticality of it all .
Politicians in the Commonwealth of Virginia are the latest example of promising “ carbon free , ” renewable energy and “ green jobs ” decades from now , while they begin the disassembling of the fossil fuel industry and its related jobs .
Talk is cheap and promises of nirvana are easy .
When the higher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ businesses to bring about this brave green world , it will be far enough into the future .
Self-congratulating politicians of today risk nothing by imposing energy mandates , price hikes and jobs losses on tomorrow .
Governor Ralph Northam announced on Easter Sunday that he signed two bills passed by the General Assembly to impose “ clean ” energy mandates on the state ’ s residents and businesses over the next three decades .
He said this will “ propel Virginia to leadership among the states in fighting climate change.
” Gov @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last year made a national splash when it was revealed that his personal page in his college yearbook included a racist photo of two students , one in blackface and the other wearing a Klansman hood .
The governor initially admitted he was one of the students , but never said which .
After apologizing , he changed his initial admission to deny he was either person in the photo ( did he photograph two of his buddies ? )
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It was quite the scandal .
The governor refused to resign , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Governor , who would take over , had his own simultaneous scandal engulfing him .
The Northam administration lives on , and has since embraced full-blown climate alarmism and the reordering of energy development in the Commonwealth .
Green groups are pleased .
The new “ Virginia Clean Economy Act ” narrowly passed the General Assembly , which reflected sharp division rather than consensus for such radical change .
The law will close fossil fuel plants and require electricity be generated entirely from solar , wind and whatever other renewable sources exist by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ close in just four years .
When the sun doesn ’ t shine and the wind doesn ’ t blow , how will the lights stay on ?
Governor Northam did not say .
That is a future governor ’ s problem , along with the citizens of the Commonwealth .
The Virginia State Corporations Commission ( SCC ) , which regulates the state ’ s electric utilities , acknowledged that if the planned electric generating capacity from wind and solar falls short , “ all the risk is on the ratepayer.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an increase of nearly $ 300 per year ( nearly $ 25 per month ) in their electric bills by 2027 .
However , costs may be higher if the electric utilities have to purchase power from the out-of-state wholesale market or construct gas-fired back-up generation facilities .
Furthermore , the law mandates energy companies “ must pay penalties for not meeting their ( renewable energy ) targets.
” That means ratepayers – individuals and business owners – will “ pay penalties ” since the energy companies would simply pass through such added @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acknowledges that energy costs will increase by its inclusion of “ energy efficiency pilot programs ” to purportedly reduce the burden on those who will be hardest hit – people in low-income households .
Two state agencies are directed to “ develop recommendations to implement ” the programs .
Translation : bureaucrats will figure out later how to keep the poor from being slammed with higher energy costs when “ fighting climate change.
” Higher costs notwithstanding , “ fighting climate change ” makes it all worth it , according to “ fighters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who said , “ the cost of doing nothing is staggering.
” As is so typical , her claim is purely abstract , not quantifiable and therefore meaningless .
That is why “ fighting climate change ” is another cheap and easy posture from Virginia politicians in support of this law since it provides no specifics and dares not promise—much less define—victory .
It can not .
The Commonwealth of Virginia is a lovely place , but it is a comparative speck on the planet , as is every other state .
Forcing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purchase more expensive , impractical energy from unreliable wind and solar sources will not dent climate change , much less alter it .
The world is too large , and the climate is affected by too many other factors beyond our control since time began .


climatedepot--2020-04-24--‘Demonizing CO2’: False belief that CO2 molecules ‘are malignant, cancerous, and toxic’

To obtain perspective on how minuscule a component of the atmosphere CO2 actually is , imagine that a slice of the Earth ’ s atmosphere containing 10,000 molecules of air were placed in a medium-sized basketball stadium , consisting of 10,000 seats .
The total number of CO2 fans sitting in that stadium – encompassing all known sources , – would be just four .
That ’ s it .
Four out of 10,000 .
And of those four CO2 fans , the number of them which were created by the burning of fossil fuels would be less than one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of that one , single fossil fuel CO2 molecule by the year 2050 – a single “ magjc malignant molecule ” – will be responsible for bringing about catastrophic warming of the planet .
One single fan , sitting in a stadium of 10,0000 people , will dictate the tragic outcome of the climate and the ruination of the Earth .
Many educated , rational people – overwhelmed by massive amounts of propaganda and misinformation regarding the purported evils of CO2 – now believe in this kind of thinking , even though it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ record , sound science , and the most basic common sense .
Several months ago , the Yale Alumni Association of Washington DC sponsored a lecture called “ Climate Change : What You Need to Know.
” I attended with about 100 fellow alumni ( ae ) of all ages , almost all of whom appeared to be fervent believers of the current climate orthodoxy .
At the end of the lecture , I posed the “ CO2 in the basketball court “ scenario to the lecturer , and asked why we should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power of CO2 .
His response meandered around the notions of “ scientific consensus ” , “ peer reviewed literature ” , “ precautionary principle ” , and other familiar talking points often offered by proponents of man-made global warming ( AGW ) .
In other words , he couldn ’ t answer the question .
After the lecture ended , several people from the audience rapidly approached me to explain what they ” knew ” to be the obvious answer to the question .
They explained that a single molecule of CO2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was like a cancer cell , a poison pill , or a cyanide capsule buried in the human body , even a tiny portion of which would cause the host to die .
There it was : the demonization of CO2 – the sincere belief by a group of well educated , rational people that man-made CO2 molecules produced by burning fossil fuels are malignant , cancerous , and toxic .
I was somewhat surprised , but perhaps shouldn ’ t have been .
For years the mainstream media , the academic/consultant industrial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been spreading , supporting , and promulgating the fiction that CO2 molecules derived from the combustion of fossil fuels are an evil , toxic material that must be removed , or at least radically reduced , from the face of the Earth if the planet hopes to survive.The finding by the Obama Environmental Protection Agency that CO2 is a “ pollutant ” is Exhibit A of this irrational group think .
Once again , how could such a spectacular fantasy consume the thinking of otherwise rational people ?
Sadly , history tells @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invidious group-think has happened before in our country .
It was called Prohibition , and the demonized substance was ethyl alcohol .
The Prohibition movement was so powerful and compelling that it succeeded in causing the 18th Amendment to the Constitution to be ratified in 1920 by 46 of the 48 States .
Fully 68 % of the House of Representatives , and 76 % of the US Senate voted in favor of the Amendment .
It was a masterpiece of Progressive social engineering .
First demonize the substance , then criminalize it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the country , with many woeful consequences – crime , corruption , and the destruction of many legitimate businesses .
It took almost a generation before reason came to bear and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1933 , effectively abolishing Prohibition .
Why is the bogus theory of man-made global warming , like Prohibition , so appealing ?
For one , it gives the social moralist the opportunity to exhibit personal virtue , as well as intellectual superioty .
During Prohibition , virtue signaling was embodied by the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and adherence to this fashionable orthodoxy .
The AGW believer buys an electric car , eschews plastic straws , loudly denounces fossil fuels , and applauds industrial strength solar and wind farms .
The more opportunistic ones ride the great green gravy train of cash which fuels the Climate Alarmist movement .
Alarmism is also catnip for politicians of all stripes .
But what really engages modern day social moralists , and the crown jewel of virtue signaling , is the figment that they are “ saving the planet.
” What a noble @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to save the planet ?
It is a grand and fatuous exercise in self deception .


climatedepot--2020-04-24--Checklist of Green Deal cost elements

Checklist of Green Deal cost elements

Green Deal proposals are springing up around the world .
The core concept is zero CO2 emissions via decarbonization .
The proponents of these Green Deals deliberately avoid cost estimates because the costs are horrendous .
To help force these huge costs out into the open I have developed the following simple checklist of Green Deal cost elements .
Any comprehensive cost estimate needs to address all of these elements , most of which are unbelievably expensive .
I have included some comments on the cost drivers as well .
Note that social elements like those in the Green New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . )
are not included .
My list is just about the cost of decarbonization .
4 .
In-building or facility distribution ( behind the meter ) Most existing buildings may need rewired for EVs .
Note : Electrification of transportation and other fossil fuel uses will dramatically increase the amount of electricity required to be generated , transmitted and distributed .
Use of biofuels and offsets , and their cost , are major unknowns .
Can not be electrified , except for short flights .
Can not be electrified , except for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mowers and portable generators .
May be redundant with zero emission generation .
Redundant if cars are zero emission .


climatedepot--2020-04-24--Michael Moore Is Now the Green New Deal’s Worst Enemy – New Film exposes con of ‘green energy’

We visit a “ solar powered ” music festival where we discover that behind the scenes it is largely powered by diesel generators .
We visit an ethanol plant — whose wood has to be harvested using fossil-fuel powered equipment and depends for its operational effectiveness on coal .
We visit a lovely old wood beloved by hikers and nature lovers in rural Vermont being trashed to build a wind farm .
We see 500-year old yuccas in the Mojave desert being torn up and shredded by diggers to make way for a “ clean ” energy solar plant .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ head explode , ” Gibbs confesses at one point .
“ Green energy is not going to save us.
” ... Gibbs follows the money trail and discovers — quelle surprise !
— that the people and organizations most assiduously stoking the war on fossil fuels and most aggressively promoting “ renewables ” as an alternative are invariably the ones who stand to benefit most financially .
Among the Hall of Shame : Canadian activist Bill McKibben ; Al Gore ; Van Jones ; Robert F Kennedy Jr ; Jeremy Grantham ; Michael @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revealed to have an unhealthily cozy relationship with green NGOs like the Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy , which mouth the usual environmental pieties while yet quietly promoting energy which is every bit as environmentally destructive as fossil fuels .
Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is promoting a new documentary he executive produced about the environment — Planet of the Humans — and many of his usual supporters are going nuts .
What can the veteran left-wing activist possibly have done to earn such disapproval ?
Simple .
Moore has backed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ documentary of his career .
It ’ s also by far his bravest because it not only confronts the modern left ’ s greatest shibboleth — “ clean ” energy — but it does indeed offer a great deal of succour to Moore ’ s avowed enemy President Donald Trump .
It might even help Trump clinch the next presidential election for it undermines the entire basis of the Green New Deal being pushed in one form or another by his opponents .
Renewable energy , the documentary makes abundantly clear , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but an even bigger problem than the one it is supposedly solving .
The documentary was directed by Jeff Gibbs , who , like Moore , is very much a man of the left .
Gibbs was a producer and composer on Moore ’ s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine .
In his youth , he was the kind of committed , long-haired eco activist who sabotages diggers by putting sugar in their gas tanks .
And it ’ s this left-wing , activist background of Gibbs and Moore which makes the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ compelling .
Renewable energy , it tells us , is not clean energy but dirty energy because it does tremendous damage to the environment .
The people who make money out of it are the worst kind of crony-capitalists .
Anyone who claims to believe otherwise is either an idiotic dupe or a wicked liar .
Though I ’ ve written about this myself in countless Breitbart columns , I ’ m a conservative writer largely preaching to the choir .
Coming from two ardent leftists , on the other hand , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leftist audience , the message of Planet of the Humans is dynamite .
“ I ’ m in a strange position , ” the soft-spoken Gibbs tells us at the beginning of the movie .
“ I ’ m against our addiction to fossil fuels and have long been a fan of green energy .
But everywhere I encountered green energy , it wasn ’ t what it seemed.
” And so we watch the scales begin to fall from Gibbs ’ s eyes .
We visit a zoo — powered , according @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ renewable ” elephant dung — which turns out on inspection not even to produce enough elephant dung power to heat the elephant barn .
We visit a “ solar powered ” music festival where we discover that behind the scenes it is largely powered by diesel generators .
We visit an ethanol plant — whose wood has to be harvested using fossil-fuel powered equipment and depends for its operational effectiveness on coal .
We visit a lovely old wood beloved by hikers and nature lovers in rural Vermont being trashed to build @ @ @ @ @ @ @ old yuccas in the Mojave desert being torn up and shredded by diggers to make way for a “ clean ” energy solar plant .
“ It was enough to make my head explode , ” Gibbs confesses at one point .
“ Green energy is not going to save us.
” No indeed .
But it ’ s going to make a few ugly and cynical crony capitalists very , very rich .
Gibbs follows the money trail and discovers — quelle surprise !
— that the people and organizations most assiduously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most aggressively promoting “ renewables ” as an alternative are invariably the ones who stand to benefit most financially .
Among the Hall of Shame : Canadian activist Bill McKibben ; Al Gore ; Van Jones ; Robert F Kennedy Jr ; Jeremy Grantham ; Michael Bloomberg ; Richard Branson .
These are revealed to have an unhealthily cozy relationship with green NGOs like the Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy , which mouth the usual environmental pieties while yet quietly promoting energy which is every bit as environmentally destructive as fossil fuels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ documentary suggests , are biofuels and biomass .
We visit one biomass plant on the shores of Lake Superior — awarded a $ 11.5 million government grant because it qualifies as “ renewable ” energy — which encourages its green wood chips to burn with the help of tire fragments and creosote ( causing the snow to turn black ) .
Time and again — because Gibbs hangs out among his own kind : liberal-leaning environmental activists ; lefty academics ; etc — we witness the shock in these people ’ s eyes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; they want desperately to save the planet ; yet here are these monstrosities being erected across the U.S. in the name of the environment which wipe out native forests , pollute the air , and ravage the landscape with wind towers and solar panels which are left to rot once their useful life ( less than 20 years , often ) is over .
This is maybe the most important thing of all about this very important movie : it will drive a wedge into the heart of the green movement and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Will they choose to go with the evidence : which clearly shows that renewable energy is damaging to the landscape and to wildlife and does NOT reduce the use of fossil fuels ( which must be kept as back up for when the wind doesn ’ t blow and the sun doesn ’ t shine ) ?
Or will they continue to promote the fake news narrative that renewables are an eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuels ?
Renewable energy may well be the biggest scam in the gross , corrupt and , mendacious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s a scam so far-reaching that even the U.S. Navy has been persuaded to power its fleet in part with renewables .
It ’ s a scam so brazen that an environmental fund — Green Century Funds — promoted by Bill McKibben ’ s 350.org turns out on examination to have less than 1 percent of its holdings in the solar and wind industry ; the other 99 percent comprises oil and gas infrastructure ( including tar sands ) ; biofuels ; logging companies , and banks .
It ’ s a scam @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Earth Day festival was sponsored by companies including car manufacturer Toyota and Caterpillar .
“ How can men destroy what ’ s left of nature to enrich themselves ?
” Gibbs asks of the crony-capitalist renewables industry which has made a fortune for rent-seekers like Al Gore .
He answers : “ That ’ s why they ’ re billionaires and you ’ re not.
” Though I can ’ t say I share many of Michael Moore ’ s and Jeff Gibbs ’ s political assumptions — certainly not the Malthusian belief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our planet — I ’ m full of gratitude and admiration that they should have made this bold , brave documentary .
What has always motivated me above all in my climate scepticism is my utter horror at what is being done to the planet in the name of saving it .
Renewable energy is – and always has been – a monstrous , dirty , ugly scam , orchestrated by a cynical few at the expense of the many .
It ’ s a horror against which we should all unite , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Michael Moore would stand up on a stage and say that , maybe at President Trump ’ s next campaign rally…


climatedepot--2020-04-25--CEI Report: EPA Using Flawed Models as Basis for Regulating Carbon Dioxide – EPA should withdraw fro

CEI Report: EPA Using Flawed Models as Basis for Regulating Carbon Dioxide – EPA should withdraw from 2009 Endangerment Finding

The Competitive Enterprise Institute ( CEI ) today released a new report demonstrating that the EPA ’ s 2009 Endangerment Finding , which allows the agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions , is marred by poor scientific practice and based on computer models that are systematically flawed .
Co-authored by CEI Senior Fellow Patrick J. Michaels and Heritage Principal Statistician , Data Scientist , and Research Fellow Kevin Dayaratna , “ The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA ’ s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding ” argues that while carbon dioxide is the principal contributor to human-induced climate change , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should lead the agency to reopen and withdraw the Endangerment Finding .
“ The EPA did not follow best scientific practices in determining either the trajectory of the climate in the future or the cost of current or future carbon dioxide emissions , ” said Michaels , the former state climatologist for Virginia who served as research professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia for 30 years .
“ Both the Endangerment Finding and the support document on which it was established are based on systematically flawed models .
EPA should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ultimate # NeverNeeded regulation.
” “ The social cost of carbon estimates vary wildly depending on what assumptions are used to calculate it , and , in the past , lawmakers have deliberately beefed up these assumptions to justify heavy-handed policies that increase energy prices and impose unneeded government restrictions , ” said Dayaratna .
Under the previous administration , the EPA further justified its interventionist policies by using exaggerated figures known as the Social Cost of Carbon ( SCC ) .
SCC is a monetary estimate of the damages supposedly caused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( CO2 ) , emitted in a given year .
The report shows the SCC is highly dependent on a series of assumptions , which the Obama administration manipulated in order to generate dire estimates .
Using more realistic assumptions , Michaels and Dayaratna calculate SCC to be negative – meaning a net benefit – far into this century .
“ New research compares observations to what is forecast and finds that warming in this century will be modest – near the lowest extreme of the range given by the United Nations , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the 2009 Endangerment Finding would help our energy sector bounce back immediately.
” > Read the full report , The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA ’ s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding • CEI Invokes New Data Quality Guidelines in Challenge to EPA ’ s 2009 Endangerment Finding


climatedepot--2020-04-24--UPDATE: Film Distributor backs down from censorship after blowback! ‘We don’t want to give the film

UPDATE: Film Distributor backs down from censorship after blowback! ‘We don’t want to give the film extra publicity’ – Michael Moore’s film exposing ‘green’ energy con faced BANNING! Distributor was set to take ‘the film down’

Film For Action announces reversal : “ We put the film back up on the site precisely because of logic like that .
We don ’ t want to give the film extra publicity and mystique for getting taken down.
” Michael Moore Is Now the Green New Deal ’ s Worst Enemy – New Film exposes con of ‘ green energy ’ We visit a “ solar powered ” music festival where we discover that behind the scenes it is largely powered by diesel generators .
We visit an ethanol plant — whose wood has to be harvested using @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operational effectiveness on coal .
We visit a lovely old wood beloved by hikers and nature lovers in rural Vermont being trashed to build a wind farm .
We see 500-year old yuccas in the Mojave desert being torn up and shredded by diggers to make way for a “ clean ” energy solar plant .
“ It was enough to make my head explode , ” Gibbs confesses at one point .
“ Green energy is not going to save us.
” … Gibbs follows the money trail and discovers — quelle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ organizations most assiduously stoking the war on fossil fuels and most aggressively promoting “ renewables ” as an alternative are invariably the ones who stand to benefit most financially .
Among the Hall of Shame : Canadian activist Bill McKibben ; Al Gore ; Van Jones ; Robert F Kennedy Jr ; Jeremy Grantham ; Michael Bloomberg ; Richard Branson .
These are revealed to have an unhealthily cozy relationship with green NGOs like the Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy , which mouth the usual environmental pieties while yet quietly promoting energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as fossil fuels .
Michael Moore Film May Splinter Green Movement , Calls Green Energies ‘ A Delusion ’ , Billionaire Bonanza – Gore , McKibben & Sierra Club ‘ come across as swindling villains ’ Directed by environmentalist Jeff Gibbs , the film examines the crony capitalism , corruption and outright deceit and fraud being perpetrated by green energy billionaires , politicians and their spokespeople , like Bill McKibben who is prominently featured .
… The film presents so many examples of green energy fraud and folly : e.g .
the insanely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corporate green washing , more fossil fuels being burned to prop up green energy systems , false promises of green energy being free and free and clean , all the toxic waste they produce , the mass destruction on precious biotopes , the solar panels are made of sand , biomass is clean and sustainable , to name a few .
… Renowned figures like Al Gore and Bill McKibben and Sierra Club – once revered as environmental heroes – suddenly now come across as swindling villains .
In Lansing Michigan , tonnes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support a football-field size solar panel system that can supply energy for whole 10 homes for a year .
In 20 years it ’ ll be a field of litter , a monument among many of the Gore ’ s green energy folly .
… Also in Vermont hectares of mountain forest were removed as the entire Lowell Mountain ridge was blasted to make way for thousands of tonnes of steel and concrete and 21 monster wind turbines which show up for work only one day a week on average .
Gibbs says @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but painfully had to admit : “ Everywhere I encountered green energy , it wasn ’ t what it seemed.
” The many green energy examples he presents in fact can not operate without traditional energy sources .
“ Green energies are not even replacing fossil fuels.
” Michael Moore stumbles upon the truth about so-called ‘ green ’ energy Michael Moore Unveils ‘ Planet of the Humans ’ : ‘ How Would They Know When It ’ s Their Time to Go ?
’ “ The reason we ’ re not talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that would be bad for business – especially , the that rules the world , now HIDING UNDER A COVER OF GREEN.
” ( Gore , Sierra Club , Bloomberg , etc . )
“ We must take control of our environmental movement and our future from billionaires and their permanent war on Planet Earth .
They are not our friends.
” Ultimately , it ’ s NOT CARBON , but “ EVERYTHING WE HUMANS ARE DOING ” that is bringing about the “ human-caused apocalypse , ” the film concludes .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if a single species took over an entire planet ?
” “ Maybe , they ’ re cute .
Maybe , they ’ re clever – but , lack a certain , shall we say , self-restraint .
What if they go too far ?
What if they go way , way , way , way , way too far ?
How would they know when it ’ s THEIR TIME TO GO ?
”


climatedepot--2020-04-25--George Gilder on Covid-19: ‘This crisis is over’ – Warns ‘not to shut down the economy again for the

George Gilder on Covid-19: ‘This crisis is over’ – Warns ‘not to shut down the economy again for the totally bogus’ crisis’ of climate change’

Flattening the curve was always a fool ’ s errand that widened the damage… .
President Trump had better take notice .
He will soon own this gigantic botch of policy and leadership .
The latest figures on overall death rates from all causes show no increase at all .
Deaths are lower than in 2019 , 2018 , 2017 and 2015 , slightly higher than in 2016 .
Statistician William Briggs calls “ the most colossal and costly blown forecast of all time.
” … Briggs concludes : “ Since pneumonia deaths are up , yet all deaths are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being recorded as dying from other things at smaller rates than usual.
” Deaths from other causes are simply being ascribed to the coronavirus .
We now know that the crisis was a comedy of errors .
No evidence indicates that this flu was exceptionally dangerous .
Crammed together in subways and tenements , the New Yorkers registered a brief blip of extreme cases .
Intubations and ventilators turned out not to help ( 80 percent died ) .
“ the case for extreme measures collapses like a house of cards.
” So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policies have been rational and need to be phased out , as if they once had a purpose .
They should be reversed summarily and acknowledged to be a mistake , perpetrated by statisticians with erroneous computer models .
Perhaps then we can learn from this experience with the flaws of expertise not to shut down the economy again for the totally bogus “ crisis ” of climate change .


climatedepot--2020-04-25--We’re Saved! ‘The Drowning Font’  – UN introduces new climate font with flooding letters ‘that visua

We’re Saved! ‘The Drowning Font’  – UN introduces new climate font with flooding letters ‘that visually reflects the risk of global warming’

The United Nations has taken time out during the coronavirus pandemic to introduce its `` the drowning font '' to @ @ @ @ @ warming . ''
The UNFCC ( United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ) explained @ @ @ @ @ In the fight against # ClimateChange , science is our common language .
German designer @ @ @ @ @ font that visually reflects the risk of global warming . ''
The UN released an @ @ @ @ @ the alphabet being flooded with rising blue waters under the heading `` Garamond Warming .
@ @ @ @ @ having none of this : `` How about a font that goes brown due to @ @ @ @ @ to climate communism ? ''
Another wrote to the UN : `` I can still @ @ @ @ @ now with itty bitty wavelets . ''


climatedepot--2020-04-25--Warmist Bill Gates Quietly Buys $43M Oceanfront Home in Midst of Pandemic – He must not ‘truly belie

Warmist Bill Gates Quietly Buys $43M Oceanfront Home in Midst of Pandemic – He must not ‘truly believe the oceans will flood the coasts’

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been exposed as the ultimate climate-denier with the purchase of a $ 43 million oceanfront home .
If you truly believe in Climate Change , or whatever-these-proven-frauds-are-calling-it-now is a real and imminent crisis , that means you believe the oceans are destined to rise and flood the coasts and that this will happen in your lifetime… So why would anyone who professes to believe such a thing — as Gates regularly does — invest $ 43 million in oceanfront real estate ?
They wouldn ’ t — unless they are a madman or a liar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the rest of the climate phonies , my money is always on the latter .
If you judge Gates by his meaningless words , he is not a climate denier .
But where it matters… In his actions , his behavior , his multi-million dollar investments , Gates is one of the biggest climate deniers in the history of climate denying .
No one — not even if you ’ re worth billions — pisses away $ 43 million .
Which proves that just like CNN and Barack Obama , Bill Gates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s all a hoax ( and trust me , it is ) because no one who truly believes the oceans will flood the coasts would invest 43 million goddamned dollars on a doomed house that sits right on the ocean .
“ The six-bedroom home spans about 5,800 square feet , according to the listing , the Journal reported .
It has a 10-person Jacuzzi overlooking a fire pit , a long oceanfront deck , limestone flooring and a swimming pool , ” reports the New York Post , but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t even care anymore .
The entire Global Cooling , Global Warming , Climate Change , or whatever-these-proven-frauds-are-calling-it-now movement is now so insulated , so corrupted , and so zealously protected by their pals in the corporate media , that a Bill Gates can plunk down $ 43 million proving he knows it ’ s all a hoax , and no one blinks .
Let me see if I can come up with a comparison that accurately and vividly lays out just how much this proves Bill Gates knows Global Cooling , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whatever-these-proven-frauds-are-calling-it-now is a hoax… Okay , imagine me telling you that you can not go swimming because there ’ s no water in the pool while I risk becoming a paraplegic by diving headfirst into the pool .
You ’ re pretty much going to know I was lying about there being no water in the pool , aren ’ t you ?
Imagine me telling you that you should not drive a car , use air conditioning , or zealously guard all your individual liberties because if you do the oceans will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I invest $ 43 million in oceanfront property .
See how this works ?
And Gates and Obama and CNN all get away with it .
Over and over and over again their behavior betrays what they truly believe , but the racket is so rigged , they can brazenly live a life proving they are lying to the rest of us about this hoax , and no one cares — there ’ s no price to pay .
The Cooling , Global Warming , Climate Change , or whatever-these-proven-frauds-are-calling-it-now racket is so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even have to care how much his actions expose the truth of what he believes .
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climatedepot--2020-04-25--Michael Moore’s new film skewers green energy

He explains why wind and solar power , electric vehicles , ethanol , biomass and biofuels can not exist without fossil fuel energy and are environmentally destructive .
Wind turbines eat up arable land , level mountain top forests , require massive amounts of concrete , steel , fibreglass and balsam to construct , fall apart after 20 years and have to be backed up by fossil fuel energy because they only provide intermittent power to the electricity grid .
Ditto solar power , where panels are made by mining quartz and coal and fusing them , requiring the use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has to be backed up by fossil fuel-powered electricity plants , making those plants operate less efficiently .
Electric cars , wind turbines and solar panels require the mining of rare earth metals , involving some of “ the most toxic and industrial processes that we ’ ve ever created.
” Planet of the Humans also accuses the environmental movement of selling out to corporate and Wall St. interests , by shilling for these so-called renewable technologies .
The film premiered at the Traverse City Film Festival in July , but Moore released @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on Wednesday .
It ’ s produced , directed and narrated by Jeff Gibbs , a long-time collaborator with Moore , who is the film ’ s executive producer .
“ Everywhere I encountered green energy it wasn ’ t what it seemed , ” Gibbs says early in the film .
He explains why wind and solar power , electric vehicles , ethanol , biomass and biofuels can not exist without fossil fuel energy and are environmentally destructive .
Wind turbines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ top forests , require massive amounts of concrete , steel , fibreglass and balsam to construct , fall apart after 20 years and have to be backed up by fossil fuel energy because they only provide intermittent power to the electricity grid .
Ditto solar power , where panels are made by mining quartz and coal and fusing them , requiring the use of fossil fuel energy , which then has to be backed up by fossil fuel-powered electricity plants , making those plants operate less efficiently .
Electric cars , wind turbines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rare earth metals , involving some of “ the most toxic and industrial processes that we ’ ve ever created.
” The production of ethanol , promoted as a clean alternative to gasoline , relies on “ a giant , fossil fuel-based industrial agricultural system to produce corn ” and the massive harvesting of sugarcane in Brazil , destroying rainforests , wetlands and expelling indigenous populations .
Biomass and biofuels clear-cut forests to provide the raw material they need — trees , euphemistically described by environmentalists as “ wood chips.
” Gibbs argues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fossil fuels , they ’ re just another form of energy production that creates its own environmental problems .
As Ozzie Zehner , author of Green Illusions : The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism , tells Gibbs , “ one of the most dangerous things right now is the illusion that alternative technologies like wind and solar are somehow different from fossil fuels.
” Gibbs argues the corporate and financial interests promoting them — often with the blessings of environmentalists and environmental groups — are profiteers , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the environmental movement have become cheerleaders for these destructive technologies , profiting from them while happily accepting donations from the corporations that finance them .
“ The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete , ” Gibbs says .
“ Environmentalists are no longer resisting those with the profit motive , but collaborating with them .
“ The only reason we ’ ve been force fed the story climate change plus renewables equals ‘ we ’ re saved ’ is because billionaires , bankers and corporations profit from it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ talking about overpopulation , consumption and the suicide of economic growth , is that would be bad for business , especially the cancerous form of capitalism that rules the world , now hiding under a cover of green.
” While Gibbs ’ skewering of environmental hypocrisy is devastating , the one weakness of his film is that he doesn ’ t offer a realistic alternative .
How , for example , would he address over-population , convince people living in the First World to lower their standard of living and people in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ join the First ?


climatedepot--2020-04-27--The Left has ‘has attacked’ Michael Moore’ for his ‘Planet Human’ documentary

The Left has levelled a “ furious attack ” on Michael Moore after the filmmaker released a documentary on Youtube castigating “ the green energy scam ” , according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt .
Mr Moore released the documentary “ Planet of the Humans , ” free to charge this week to mark Earth Day .
The documentary casts doubt over the efficacy of renewables , in particular solar and wind energy .
The documentary filmmakers argue some green energy is hindering , rather than helping , the fight against dangerous climate change .
Mr Bolt said he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ documentary ’ s content , but the filmmakers “ do make some great points.
” “ This is why their film has come as a shock to so many , ” Mr Bolt said .
“ Green groups are actually trying to get ‘ Planet of the Humans ’ banned .
“ Isn ’ t that a sign of the times ?
If you don ’ t like the message , just try and ban it.
” The Left has ‘ has attacked ’ Michael Moore ’ for his ‘ Planet Human ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ furious attack ” on Michael Moore after the filmmaker released a documentary on Youtube castigating “ the green energy scam ” , according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt .
Mr Moore released the documentary “ Planet of the Humans , ” free to charge this week to mark Earth Day .
The documentary casts doubt over the efficacy of renewables , in particular solar and wind energy .
The documentary filmmakers argue some green energy is hindering , rather than helping , the fight against dangerous climate change .
Mr Bolt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the documentary ’ s content , but the filmmakers “ do make some great points.
” “ This is why their film has come as a shock to so many , ” Mr Bolt said .
“ Green groups are actually trying to get ‘ Planet of the Humans ’ banned .
“ Isn ’ t that a sign of the times ?
If you don ’ t like the message , just try and ban it .
”


climatedepot--2020-04-27--CNN Reporter Pens Insane Climate Letter to Newborn Son

Leave it to a CNN correspondent to exploit his own son ’ s birth to push his eco-freakish politics in a cringe letter published on CNN ’ s website .
CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir ’ s piece , headlined “ To my son , born in the time of coronavirus and climate change , ” dripped with propaganda bashing the Bible and promoting climate extremist Greta Thunberg .
It was filled with content liberal outlets have used to promote the virus to push environmentalist drivel .
Weir also did a climate video for his son hammering environmentalist points @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also posted on CNN.com .
Weir wrote to his newborn son William : “ Against all odds you were conceived in a lighthouse , born during a pandemic and will taste just enough of Life as We Knew It to resent us when it ’ s gone .
I ’ m sorry .
I ’ m sorry we broke your sea and your sky and shortened the wings of the nightingale.
” [ Emphasis added . ]
Oh but he wasn ’ t done .
Weir continued to groan to his son how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warmed by dirty , ancient fuels and as a result , you will learn to walk on a planet that has never been this hot for humans.
” [ Emphasis added . ]
Uh , okay ?
Like a really bad infomercial , Weir droned on .
He told his son that “ scientists told us that if we weren ’ t careful , humans would unleash an invisible enemy out of the jungle and into our lungs .
But that was a story few wanted to believe.
” Weir even took the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ spell ” of the Bible .
Apparently for Weir , The Scriptures reinforced humanity ’ s itch to cut “ down jungles — and prairies and mangroves and the last few the places where the wild things are — to pave and plow , develop and devour everything inside.
” “ As you get older , this will be hard to understand .
But we were under the spell of Genesis 1:28 : to take dominion over every living thing .
We had the strange urge to carve straight lines out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the spell of a uniquely human force called ‘ profit motive , ’ ” Weir said .
[ Emphasis added . ]
Weir was sure to inform his son of the difference between doing “ nothing ” on climate change and following “ the warnings of science and [ doing ] everything possible to spare your generation maximum pain.
” Stranger still , Weir managed to find the nuttiest of segues to tell his son later , “ I hope you carry the same superpower ” as climate activist Thunberg : The day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time , I went from the ultrasound to a climate march led by Greta Thunberg .
You ’ ll be able to read volumes on how she was both canonized and demonized but back then she was just a girl the age of your sister , painfully shy when we met with that hand-painted Swedish protest sign tucked under one thin arm .
But she was curious enough to digest those warnings from the scientists and honest enough to call out the arrogant ignorance and ignorant arrogance of all the grown-ups in charge @


climatedepot--2020-04-27--CNN’s climate correspondent Bill Weir offers wacko insight into the left’s dystopian worldview – ‘I’

CNN’s climate correspondent Bill Weir offers wacko insight into the left’s dystopian worldview – ‘I’m sorry we broke your sea and your sky and shortened the wings of the nightingale’

Bill Weir on the Covid-19 : “ Humans would unleash an invisible enemy out of the jungle and into our lungs ” Below , in italics , are my summaries of many of Weir ’ s pronouncements , followed by countervailing information .
Humans looking for habitat and wealth are destroying the Amazon .
Deforestation is lessening ; the Amazon isn ’ t responsible for keeping the world oxygenated ; and parts of it were once more densely populated than today .
Climate change will drown the expensive waterfront neighborhood in which Weir lives .
Weir doesn ’ t believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wouldn ’ t have bought waterfront property .
The Obamas wouldn ’ t have either .
Climate change results because the baby ’ s milk bottle “ was warmed by dirty , ancient fuels.
” Before we used fossil fuel , the baby ’ s bottle would have been a sea of bacteria .
Clean bottles come from petroleum and are disinfected by petroleum-generated heat .
Fossil fuels mean our streets are not ankle-deep in a slushy mass of animal feces and urine .
Today , people least at risk from COVID-19 are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on public transportation .
Scientists warned people that there were diseases out there , but people didn ’ t listen and instead continued to move into the animals ’ territory ( jungles , prairies , mangroves , etc. )
.
COVID-19 didn ’ t happen because we moved onto animal territory .
It happened either because of China ’ s disgusting exotic wet markets or because of China ’ s carelessness in biolabs .
Humans stupidly followed the Bible ’ s admonition in Genesis 1:28 to be fruitful and multiply and take dominion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forms .
The Bible makes humans the earth ’ s stewards or caretakers .
That ’ s the opposite of environmental abuse .
The reason the baby ’ s mom had a mask was because Weir still had one from the fires that climate change caused in California .
California has had drought cycles for centuries .
The bad fires resulted from environmentalists making it impossible to limit flammable areas .
Humans are the newest life form on the planet , but we ’ ve destroyed it all with the Industrial Revolution .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Native Americans used to drive whole herds of cliffs to kill a handful of buffalo .
Prehistoric people hunted the mammoth to extinction and may have done the same to the saber tooth tiger .
In 1856 , Eunice Newton Foote put carbon dioxide in glass cylinders and discovered that those cylinders got hotter than the ones holding only air , but no one listened because she was a woman .
No one listened because it was a meaningless observation .
Our dynamic climate reflects the sun , wind , and clouds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They ’ re static and wrong .
The COVID-19 models prove that reliance on models is fatal .
Since 1961 , a lot of ice on earth has vanished .
On July 4 , 2019 , Anchorage was hotter than Key West .
Anchorage was also hot in 1943 and 1953 .
Like other places , Anchorage has heat waves .
Greta Thunberg is earth ’ s Joan of Arc .
Greta Thunberg is a mentally disturbed , minimally informed teenager whose leftist parents use her as a political pawn .
Aside from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we live in an age of wonders and miracles .
Modern farming techniques mean that famine would be a thing of the past but for corrupt governance in third world countries .
Our medicine is so advanced we replace people ’ s hearts , help the blind see , and make the deaf hear .
We ’ ve wiped out epidemic diseases that killed by the millions and will soon do the same with COVID-19 .
Most children born into Weir ’ s hated West will live to a ripe old age .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ died before their fifth birthday .
Weir is a tragic figure because he has eyes but can not see .
The real tragedy , though , is that people like Weir , through the power of the media , drive too much of America ’ s political agenda .


climatedepot--2020-04-28--RIP: Retired NASA Scientist Hal Doiron, a climate skeptic & a member of the team that developed the

RIP: Retired NASA Scientist Hal Doiron, a climate skeptic & a member of the team that developed the Apollo Lunar Module landing software

Note : Doiron is featured in the upcoming film Climate Hustle 2 coming soon .
Doiron : 'Houston we do not have a ( climate ) problem . '
Hal Doiron in 2015 : `` Using the same scientific method that put the man on the moon , ’ NASA scientists have concluded there is not climate ‘ problem.
’ Doiron noted that the slogan at NASA : was ‘ In God we trust , all others bring data.
’ ‘ I am here to report today : Houston we do not have a problem .
It is impossible to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ especially when you look at the benefits of adding Co2 to the atmosphere .
We are convinced that we don ’ t have a problem with fossil fuels .
There is no problem . ''
Friend & colleague Meteroloigst Tom Wysmuller remembers Hal : `` Virtually all astronauts that ever flew , owe their lives to Hal Doiron ’ s work . ''
`` He led a life of stunning achievement and engineering brilliance , devoted to NASA and the United States that he loved ! ''
Via Heartland Institute : Hal Doiron @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Doiron was the retired vice president for engineering of InDyne , Inc. As a young physicist , he joined NASA-Houston in 1963 and developed the Apollo Lunar Module landing dynamics software used to guide landing gear design for toppling stability and energy absorption performance , to develop landing techniques , and to support landing site selection .
He performed docking dynamics studies for the Skylab Program and led the Space Shuttle team that successfully eliminated unstable vibration coupling of the shuttle structural dynamics and rocket engine thrust oscillations .
After his 16-year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at Reed Tool Co. developing advanced energy exploration drilling technology as manager of technical services , manager of systems engineering , and director of the Diamond Products Division .
While a senior manager at McDonnell Douglas Space Systems , his team computed the onorbit vibration response of the International Space Station to dynamic events such as spacecraft docking , berthing , re-boost , and rocket plume impingement to define design limit loads and structural strength requirements .
In retirement , Doiron was a consultant to NASA and commercial rocket developers .
2015 : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of ‘ Unholy Alliance ’ With UN Climate Agenda Retired NASA Scientist Hal Doiron , a member of the team that developed the Apollo Lunar Module landing software : Doiron noted that “ using the same scientific method that put the man on the moon , ’ NASA scientists have concluded there is not climate ‘ problem.
’ Doiron noted that the slogan at NASA : was ‘ In God we trust , all others bring data.
’ ‘ I am here to report today : Houston we do not have a problem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warming will cause any problem especially when you look at the benefits of adding Co2 to the atmosphere .
We are convinced that we don ’ t have a problem with fossil fuels .
There is no problem.
” 2017 : Climate Change Alarmism Is ‘ Garbage In , Garbage Out , ’ Retired NASA Physicist Says HOUSTON—Unvalidated climate models that don ’ t correspond with physical data and the requirements of the scientific method contribute to unfounded climate alarmism , a retired NASA physicist said at the Heartland Institute ’ s recent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s national security depends in part on energy security , unsubstantiated claims about global warming that prevent policymakers from making “ rational decisions ” with regard to the development of U.S. energy resources have become a national security threat , said Hal Doiron , a 16-year NASA veteran .
The “ propaganda ” underpinning climate alarmism is “ causing tremendous political bottlenecks ” that prevent government officials from “ doing the right thing ” on energy , he said .
Doiron , who helped develop the Apollo Lunar Module ’ s landing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ missions , also expressed concern that the U.S. military has been directly affected by climate alarmist claims separated from sound science .
He criticized the U.S. Navy for “ preparing for something that is unreasonable and would cost too much money ” in the form of “ extreme sea-level rise , ” which has not been borne out by rigorous scientific study .
Doiron defines unvalidated climate models as those that do not agree with physical data .
Public policy and military planning should be based only on models validated by physical data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we have a policy : You can ’ t make a design decision on a spacecraft or rocket that is not validated , ” he said .
“ You don ’ t make critical decisions based on ‘ garbage in , garbage out.
’ Yet our government has been doing that with respect to climate alarm , because too many academics in universities are writing papers , drawing conclusions from models that don ’ t agree with physical data.
” Doiron is part of a group called “ The Right Climate Stuff @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from across generations who have taken part in NASA ’ s most high-profile missions dating back to Apollo .
The group has produced its own “ rigorous , earth surface temperature model using conservation-of-energy principles ” that operates similarly to the way the surface and internal temperature of a spacecraft is analyzed , the Right Climate Stuff team explains on its website .
We started out in high gear , when the Heartland Institute invited us to participate a special 2 1/2 hour long presentation – probably a record for them , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is about 10 to 12 minutes .
We were joined by Apollo Astronauts Walt Cunningham and Jack Schmitt , and hosted by Heartland ’ s James Taylor and adroitly introduced by Leighton Stewart .
Hal helped what would become known as “ The NASA 49 & NASA 41 , ” deliver a Climate Realist message to the Administrator of our former agency .
Hal used the event to introduce the initiation of our NASA TRCS group – we wisely chose him to be our chairman and never looked back .
Hal participated in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and had a tendency to run over his allotted time during presentations , but nobody cared , as the carefully prepared mathematics and physics held the audience spellbound .
But his contributions went far beyond the Heartland presentations .
Back to the dawn of the Apollo program , on computers that were in the digital Stone Age compared to today ’ s machines , Hal developed software that tested and simulated various configurations of landing structure and pods for the yet to be built Lunar Lander .
He then applied his engineering expertise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agency was fearful of the prospects that could have the Lunar Lander either tipping over or sinking into a quicksand-like quagmire that some believed would greet the Apollo astronauts upon their arrival .
His design excellence assured that neither would happen , and as we know , every landing was achieved with perfection .
Perhaps an even greater contribution to NASA missions , was Hal ’ s work on POGO suppression .
This is the engineering that managed the resonance changes between the rocket engines and the fuel delivery system depletion during flight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and was consumed by the engines , resonance phase changes would sometimes cause vibration patterns that would feed upon each other , and in the process , destroy the rocket .
Virtually all astronauts that ever flew , owe their lives to Hal Doiron ’ s work on POGO ; a contribution to NASA ’ s success that is unquestionably enormous !
Hal ’ s wisdom also clearly shone with his choice of Marilyn , his beautiful Elementary School Sweetheart , to become his wife .
They raised four wonderful children : Claire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Mike , who had two beautiful daughters , was lost to sarcoma cancer at age 38 , one week after 9/11 , so the Doiron family experienced a dual tragedy .
They then worked hard for over a decade , through the Doiron Golf Classic , to raise over a quarter million dollars for MD Anderson ’ s Cancer Research .
Henry David Thoreau famously stated in his masterpiece “ Walden , ” that “ …the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
” Not so with Hal , as he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engineering brilliance , devoted to NASA and the United States that he loved !


climatedepot--2020-04-28--Climate Activists Want Michael Moore’s Doc Panning Green Energy Banned, Say It’s Chock Full Of Misin

Climate Activists Want Michael Moore’s Doc Panning Green Energy Banned, Say It’s Chock Full Of Misinformation

Anti-fossil fuel activists unsuccessfully attempted to lobby to remove Michael Moore ’ s documentary panning green energy over claims that it contains pro-oil industry misinformation .
Activist Josh Fox , climate scientist Michael Mann and other environmentalists signed onto a petition Friday asking the producer to take down “ Planet of the Humans , ” saying Moore ’ s film relies on old data to claim solar and wind energy is dependent on fossil fuels .
Films for Action , which claimed credit for the film , said in a statement Saturday that it nixed the film before putting it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meant to engage in debate .
“ We are disheartened and dismayed to report that the film is full of misinformation — so much so that for half a day we removed the film from the site , ” Films for Action noted in a press statement Saturday .
“ Ultimately , we decided to put it back up because we believe media literacy , critique and debate is the best solution to misinformation.
” “ Planet of the Humans , ” for its part , posted a media alert after publication warning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rumble Media , noting also that the film ’ s producers are not affiliated with Films for Action .
Films for Action nevertheless shared some of its thoughts on the film ’ s premise , which was directed by environmentalist Jeff Gibbs and argued human beings are the problem , not energy production .
( RELATED : Michael Moore Rolls Out A Doc Ahead Of Earth Day Destroying A Common Enviro Left Narrative ) “ We still need to transition to 100 % renewable energy .
There is no other option .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the idea that renewables can power our industrial civilization as is , and that these technologies are entirely ‘ green ’ when they are themselves still destructive , ” Films for Action noted in the statement .
Gibbs and Moore lashed into wind , solar and biomass in particular .
“ Green energy is not going to save us , ” Gibbs noted in the film before focusing his ire on environmentalists Bill McKibben , Van Jones , Robert F. Kennedy and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg , all of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ panels , nuclear or wind power to replace oil production .
Fox , who ’ s perhaps best known for producing the anti-fracking film “ Gasland , ” told his Twitter followers Friday that the attempt to take down the film was successful .
He included in the tweet a screenshot of Films for Action ’ s statement , which did not include the section of the post explaining why the producer opted not to take down the film .
“ I just received notice that the distributor of Michael Moore ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to misinformation in the film , ” Fox wrote before criticizing Moore .
“ My hero has fallen .
I have watched @ MMFlint PUNCH UP at authority and hypocrisy with glee for his whole career .
He has deeply inspired me and taught me .
But now he ’ s the Goliath in the room , PUNCHING DOWN at us.
” Neither Fox , Mann nor “ Planet of the Humans ” have replied to the Daily Caller News Foundation ’ s request for comment .
Mann , a Pennsylvania State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recent years for embellishing his credentials .
Environmentalists wrote reviews of the film after it was posted for free on YouTube claiming that the movie relies on old , outdated information .
Fox is a proponent of the Green New Deal , a policy idea meant to aggressively transition the United States away from the oil industry .
EDITOR ’ S NOTE : “ Planet of the Humans ” posted a media advisory on its website noting that the film is distributed through Rumble Media and that the film is not affiliated with @ @ @ @


climatedepot--2020-04-28--Corona Crisis: Federation Of German Industry Calls On EU To Review Unilateral 2030 Climate Goals

8 ) John Constable : Low Electricity Demand and System Balancing Problems during The UK ’ s Coronavirus Lockdown Dr John Constable , GWPF Energy Editor , 25 April 2020 9 ) Simon Abundance Index Confirms Julian Simon : Basic Commodities Much More Abundant Than 40 Years Ago Human Progress , 22 April 2020 1 ) Corona Crisis : Federation Of German Industry Calls On EU To Review Unilateral 2030 Climate Goals Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V.
, 27 April 2020 In a statement , Holger Lösch , deputy general manager of the Federation of German Industries ( BDI ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dialogue : “ It is right and important that the Petersberg Climate Dialogue deals extensively with the topic of climate finance .
The restart of the global economy after the Corona crisis needs globally comparable ambitions in climate protection .
The political tendencies against cooperative and multilateral action must not increase any further .
German industry is sticking to the EU ’ s 2050 goal of climate neutrality .
The interim climate goals for 2030 urgently need to be put to the test due to the changed economic situation .
State budgets , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have considerably less scope for investments of all kinds in the future .
Therefore , the EU Green Deal must become a Smart Deal , in which growth , employment and ambitious climate protection goals are linked as efficiently as possible through an intelligent investment and relief package .
Building renovation , digitalization , energy efficiency , circular economy and , in particular , hydrogen and CO2-neutral fuels could be fields in which there is a good chance of sustainable growth with the intelligent use of the remaining capital .
“ see also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Save Economy ( Bloomberg ) — Europe ’ s hopes that green power will soon beat out fossil-fuels on costs will fade unless governments implement shrewd policies to support renewable after the coronavirus crisis .
Propped up over decades by hundreds of billions of euros of government subsidies , power from wind and solar was slated to undercut coal , and even natural gas as soon as a year .
But those estimates were made before the health crisis gutted energy demand and sent oil prices below zero for the first time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BloombergNEF .
In a worst-case scenario where coal and gas prices plummet and environmental subsidies slip down the agenda , renewable energy ’ s competitive edge over fossil fuels could be delayed to as late as 2025 , they said .
Before the pandemic , the outlook for clean power reflected expectations of ever-improving technology , falling costs , and generous government subsidies at a time when it became less profitable to burn coal .
Renewable energy ’ s move to becoming consistently cheaper than coal or gas was expected from around 2021 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mounts that the world is headed for a prolonged recession from the devastating effects of the coronavirus , policymakers may be tempted to back away from renewable energy subsidies , focusing instead on rebuilding their economies , BNEF analysts Dario Traum and Andreas Gandolfo said in the report .
TOKYO — Global capacity for renewable energy ended 17 years of growth in 2019 , as Asian governments scaled back expensive subsidies designed to make their power grids greener .
The trend could continue in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak forces factory shutdowns for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ future green power projects and slowing the international shift away from fossil fuels .
Roughly 176 gigawatts of renewable generating capacity was added worldwide last year , according to the International Renewable Energy Agency , 2 % less than in 2018 .
New solar power capacity totaled 97.68 GW , or 2.5 % less than in 2018 .
Asia was a major contributor to the slowdown , with the continent adding 12 % less renewable power capacity than in 2018 .
China and Japan logged declines of 15 % and 40 % , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continuously since 2003 , as governments introduced feed-in tariffs and other incentives to promote green energy .
But these efforts carry an upfront expense .
Japan ’ s feed-in tariffs have cost the public more than 2 trillion yen ( $ 18.6 billion ) so far .
The country plans a switch to a feed-in premium system , where renewable energy producers receive a premium on top of market rates .
China has reduced government subsidies for renewables .
“ Even if we want to build new renewable plants , we have no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an industry insider said .
The pandemic has upended the supply chain for renewable energy equipment .
Denmark ’ s Vestas , the world ’ s leading producer of wind turbines , suspended production at two Spanish plants due to the virus outbreak .
Rival Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy halted work at six of its 10 Spanish factories .
In China , factory utilization rates for solar panel producers fell to about 60 % in February .
The figure has since rebounded , but many worry about the long-term effects of disruptions in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the world ’ s solar panels .
4 ) Mann Vs Moore : Climate Extremists Want Michael Moore ’ s Documentary Banned , Say It ’ s Chock Full Of Misinformation The Daily Caller , 26 April 2020 Anti-fossil fuel activists unsuccessfully attempted to lobby to remove Michael Moore ’ s documentary panning green energy over claims that it contains pro-oil industry misinformation .
Activist Josh Fox , climate scientist Michael Mann and other environmentalists signed onto a petition Friday asking the producer to take down “ Planet of the Humans , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on old data to claim solar and wind energy is dependent on fossil fuels .
Films for Action , which claimed credit for the film , said in a statement Saturday that it nixed the film before putting it back online , saying the move was meant to engage in debate .
“ We are disheartened and dismayed to report that the film is full of misinformation — so much so that for half a day we removed the film from the site , ” Films for Action noted in a press statement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to put it back up because we believe media literacy , critique and debate is the best solution to misinformation.
” 5 ) Civil War On The Left : Michael Moore Against The Greens Steven Hayward , PowerLine , 27 April 2020 Moore ’ s film not only exposes the green energy frauds , but reveals all too plainly the greens ’ latent misanthropy .
As John has already noted , the environmental left ( aka , “ the left ” ) is losing its lunch about the new Michael Moore-produced documentary “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seen the the whole thing , and you might want to take it in , too , if you have 90 minutes to spare .
If not , I have prepared a 10-minute highlight reel below that has a few ( but only a very few ! )
of the best bits bashing “ green energy.
” In any case , I wouldn ’ t be surprised to see the film removed from YouTube and suppressed completely within the next few days , just as the ABC docudrama “ The Path to 9/11 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clintons look bad .
The beauty of the film is that it makes a devastating case against so-called “ renewable energy ” entirely with left-wing observers , and does not feature any of the long-time critics from our camp .
Overall , however , the film is a red-hot mess , because its central point is the old fashioned , undisguised Malthusianism that there are too many humans on the planet , and that we have to give up growth and shrink our material existence .
The greens these days are frantially trying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ degrowth , ” but it ’ s the same old recycled doom and gloom and plea for green authoritarianism .
How this “ degrowth ” should be done the film does not say , and perhaps its real sin from the point of view of the environmentalists is that Moore ’ s film not only exposes their green energy frauds , but reveals all too plainly their latent misanthropy .
And given that we ’ re all going through a sample of what “ degrowth ” means right now , this film @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way , I think the greens have only begun to exploit the virus crisis , but have no idea what a disaster it is for them .
Harry Wilkinson is Head of Policy at the Global Warming Policy Forum President Macron had a cunning plan .
Riled by the gilets jaunes , he desperately needed to shift responsibility for the controversial and expensive climate policies that had driven the French people to the streets .
And so he turned to La Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat ( citizens assembly on climate ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the public , hoping that they could provide a veneer of democratic legitimacy for his ambitious emissions targets .
How naïve that strategy has turned out to be .
We have just been given a first look at the assembly ’ s disastrous plan .
Dictated by green activists , the assembly ’ s proposals bear all the hallmarks of the anti-technology , anti-population mindset that has come to characterise the green movement .
This is a luddite ’ s charter for the 21st century .
Grimly predictable .
Utterly unworkable , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ awkward balancing act of trying to appease the green mob while protecting the economy , only now with a global recession to deal with too .
At the root of this delusion is a fundamental failure to appreciate the benefits of specialisation and the prosperity that it gives rise to .
The plan is extensive , and will only grow in scope .
So far , only 50 out of an eventual 150 proposals have been published , but they reveal a backward-looking attempt to apply the principles of organic farming to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indeed food production are all affected .
Out-of-town hypermarkets will be closed to encourage shopping locally , and the 5G network is to be abandoned because it uses more electricity than the existing infrastructure .
50 % of agricultural land will be made to adhere to ‘ agro-ecology ’ practices by 2040 .
The panel also intends to ban cars that emit more than 110g of CO2 per kilometre by 2025 .
This is far below the level permitted by most existing vehicles , and leaves little time for people to purchase new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ driving becomes a luxury enjoyed only by a tiny minority .
Advertising hoardings too will be banned , to deter people buying products that the assembly deem ‘ they do not need ’ .
Television , radio , internet and press advertisements for products generating high levels of CO2 are all to be banned , and those that are authorised will have to carry the sinister warning : “ Do you really need this ?
Overconsumption harms the planet.
” The luddite resistance to the division of labour is being neatly mirrored by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ specialised global supply chains .
With le bon sauvage in mind , they invoke the fantasy of returning to an imagined sustainable past in which the profit motive does not exist , everything is produced locally , and people only consume what they ‘ need ’ .
This is economic illiteracy .
In practice , the mere attempt to reach this supposed utopia would condemn the poor to higher prices and intolerable levels of coercion .
At the root of this delusion is a fundamental failure to appreciate the benefits of specialisation and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
That specialisation also allows for the more efficient production of all goods , to the extent that in many developed countries resource use is now falling .
The forced localisation of production would have the opposite effect , leading to greater land use and greater resource consumption .
It is no surprise that the Convention Citoyenne came to such conclusions , for it has been carefully engineered to deliver a particular outcome .
At its heart is the governance committee , which has been conveniently co-chaired by the CEO of the European @ @ @ @ @ @ @ green lobby group , and the CEO of Terra Nova , a left wing think tank .
With control of the agenda , they have been allowed to shape the discussions and invite experts of their choosing .
If you thought this sort of thing could not happen in Britain , think again .
The European Climate Foundation is also playing a significant role in Britain ’ s own version of this charade : Climate Assembly UK .
It is not only providing a significant share of the funding , but also has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speakers and participating organisations .
We can expect that body to come up with similarly absurd suggestions .
Make no mistake , climate assemblies are not balanced forums for open debate , but an elaborate ploy by politicians desperate to shift responsibility for policies they know will be costly and damaging .
Radical green groups have quickly capitalised on this opportunity to give a false democratic legitimacy to their backward-looking neo-luddite agenda .
Genuine environmental progress does not need to come with perpetual green austerity .
It ’ s time to stop this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 7 ) Mark Mills : Our Love Of The Cloud Is Making A Green Energy Future Impossible Tech Crunch , 25 April 2020 Regardless of the issues and debates around the technologies used to make electricity , the priority for operators of the information infrastructure will increasingly , and necessarily , shift to its availability .
That ’ s because the cloud is rapidly becoming even more inextricably linked to our economic health , as well as our mental and physical health .
An epic number of citizens are video-conferencing to work in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trade in a gas-burning commute for digital connectivity , their personal energy use for each two hours of video is greater than the share of fuel they would have consumed on a four-mile train ride .
Add to this , millions of students ‘ driving ’ to class on the internet instead of walking .
Meanwhile in other corners of the digital universe , scientists furiously deploy algorithms to accelerate research .
Yet , the pattern-learning phase for a single artificial intelligence application can consume more compute energy than 10,000 cars do in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ in shifting societal energy use is visible , at least indirectly , in one high-level fact set .
By the first week of April , U.S. gasoline use had collapsed by 30 percent , but overall electric demand was down less than seven percent .
That dynamic is in fact indicative of an underlying trend for the future .
While transportation fuel use will eventually rebound , real economic growth is tied to our electrically fueled digital future .
The COVID-19 crisis highlights just how much more sophisticated and robust the 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as 2008 when the economy last collapsed , an internet ‘ century ’ ago .
If a national lockdown had occurred back then , most of the tens of millions who now telecommute would have joined the nearly 20 million who got laid off .
Nor would it have been nearly as practical for universities and schools to have tens of millions of students learning from home .
Analysts have widely documented massive increases in internet traffic from all manner of stay-at-home activities .
Digital traffic measures have spiked for everything from online @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So far , the system has ably handled it all , and the cloud has been continuously available , minus the occasional hiccup .
There ’ s more to the cloud ’ s role during the COVID-19 crisis than one-click teleconferencing and video chatting .
Telemedicine has finally been unleashed .
And we ’ ve seen , for example , apps quickly emerge to help self-evaluate symptoms and AI tools put to work to enhance X-ray diagnoses and to help with contact tracing .
The cloud has also allowed researchers to rapidly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ information to fuel the astronomical capacities of today ’ s supercomputers deployed in pursuit of therapeutics and vaccines .
The future of AI and the cloud will bring us a lot more of the above , along with practical home diagnostics and useful VR-based telemedicine , not to mention hyper-accelerated clinical trials for new therapies .
And this says nothing about what the cloud will yet enable in the 80 percent of the economy that ’ s not part of healthcare .
For all of the excitement that these new capabilities offer us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that cloud computing will remain consistent — and consistently increasing — demand for energy .
Far from saving energy , our AI-enabled workplace future uses more energy than ever before , a challenge the tech industry rapidly needs to assess and consider in the years ahead .
[ … ] Which brings us to a related question : Will cloud companies in the post-coronavirus era continue to focus spending on energy indulgences or on availability ?
By indulgences , I mean those corporate investments made in wind/solar generation somewhere else ( including overseas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s own facility .
Those remote investments are ‘ credited ’ to a local facility to claim it is green powered , even though it doesn ’ t actually power the facility .
Nothing prevents any green-seeking firm from physically disconnecting from the conventional grid and building their own local wind/solar generation – except that to do so and ensure 24/7 availability would result in a roughly 400 percent increase in that facility ’ s electricity costs .
As it stands today regarding the prospects for purchased indulgences , it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infrastructure already consumes more electricity than is produced by all of the world ’ s solar and wind farms combined .
Thus there isn ’ t enough wind/solar power on the planet for tech companies — much less anyone else — to buy as ‘ credits ’ to offset all digital energy use .
The handful of researchers who are studying digital energy trends expect that cloud fuel use could rise at least 300 percent in the coming decade , and that was before our global pandemic .
Meanwhile , the International Energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in global renewable electricity over that timeframe .
That forecast was also made in the pre-coronavirus economy .
The IEA now worries that the recession will drain fiscal enthusiasm for expensive green plans .
Regardless of the issues and debates around the technologies used to make electricity , the priority for operators of the information infrastructure will increasingly , and necessarily , shift to its availability .
That ’ s because the cloud is rapidly becoming even more inextricably linked to our economic health , as well as our mental and physical health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about what comes on the other side of the recovery from the pandemic and unprecedented shutdown of our economy .
Credit Microsoft , in its pre-COVID 19 energy manifesto , for observing that “ advances in human prosperity … are inextricably tied to the use of energy.
” Our cloud centric 21st century infrastructure will be no different .
And that will turn out to be a good thing .
9 ) Simon Abundance Index Confirms Julian Simon : Basic Commodities Much More Abundant Than 40 Years Ago Human Progress , 22 April @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abundant in 2019 than it was in 1980 Introduction : Last year saw the mainstreaming of a Voluntary Human Extinction Movement ( Vhemt ) .
According to its American founder who goes by Les U. Knight , “ I ’ ve seen more and more articles about people choosing to remain child-free or to not add more to their existing family than ever.
” He is right .
In recent years , articles embracing the benefits of human extinction included The New Yorker magazine ’ s “ The Case for Not Being Born @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proves kids are bad for Earth .
Morality suggests we stop having them ” and The New York Times polemic “ Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy ?
” A CNN report on the United Nations ’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services findings noted that “ we must act now , consuming less , polluting less , having fewer children.
” But are people really that bad for the planet ?
In 2018 , we co-authored a study titled , The Simon Abundance Index : A New Way to Measure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we looked at the prices of 50 basic commodities between 1980 and 2017 .
Counterintuitively , we found that resources have become more , not less , abundant .
Our calculations confirmed the insights of the University of Maryland economist Julian Simon who observed in his 1981 book The Ultimate Resource that humans are intelligent beings , capable of innovating their way out of shortages through greater efficiency , increased supply and the development of substitutes .
To arrive at our conclusions , we came up with four new concepts : Time Price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abundance multiplier , percentage change in abundance , compound annual growth rate in abundance and years to double abundance ) , Price Elasticity of Population , Simon Abundance Framework and Simon Abundance Index .
[ … ] Conclusion : Julian Simon ’ s revolutionary insights with regard to the mutually beneficial interaction between population growth and availability of natural resources , which our research confirms , may be counterintuitive , but they are real .
The world ’ s resources are finite in the same way that the number of piano keys is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notes , but those can be played in an infinite variety of ways .
The same applies to our planet .
The Earth ’ s atoms may be fixed , but the possible combinations of those atoms are infinite .
What matters , then , is not the physical limits of our planet , but human freedom to experiment and reimagine the use of resources that we have .
To learn more , please visit www.humanprogress.org/simonproject .


climatedepot--2020-04-28--Watch: Morano on Ezra Levant TV on Michael Moore’s surprising film exposing the green energy con

Michael Moore sees the green energy scam for exactly what it is : Marc Morano of joins Ezra Levant to @ @ @ @ @ ‘ Planet of the Humans ’ .
On last night ’ s episode of The @ @ @ @ @ here to subscribe ! )
, Marc Morano of Climate Depot called in to talk @ @ @ @ @ so successful at uncovering the major players in the green energy scam .
You can @ @ @ @ @ by clicking here .


climatedepot--2020-04-28--Polar Ice Surprises! Svalbard Well Over Average, Arctic Ice Remains Steady, Antarctic Ice Growing

Polar ice showing longer term stability .
No basis for behind claims of a rapid melt .
We keep hearing how the ice at the poles is supposedly disappearing rapidly , yet a look at the latest data show this is not the case .
Polar ice has remained steady for the last decades .
Antarctic ice has in fact trended upwards since satellite measurement began 40 years ago .
A brand new article here describes how “ Antarctica is not rapidly melting.
” Die kalte Sonne site writes that something unexpected has happened in the Atlantic Ocean around Svalbard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is far greater than the long-term average , as the following graph from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute shows : What ’ s going on in the North Atlantic ?
How does all this ice fit with the earlier warnings that the sea ice is getting less and less ?
German meteorologist Klaus Paetzold shows on his website many more interesting observations of ice and snow in the northern hemisphere .
Though climate alarmists often claim Canada is warming twice as fast as the globe , the real , untampered data show that 5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which the JMA has near complete data – have had no warming trend in the month of March since 1986 .
Additionally , only one station shows a warming trend since 1998 .
Spring seems to be taking more time to arrive in Canada .
Summarizing : nothing dramatic is really happening at the earth ’ s poles .


climatedepot--2020-04-28--Michael Moore: Coronavirus ‘Should Act as a Warning from Mother Nature’ that ‘our behavior is not ap

Michael Moore: Coronavirus ‘Should Act as a Warning from Mother Nature’ that ‘our behavior is not appreciated’

Documentary filmmaker and left-wing activist Michael Moore is the latest entertainment figure to use the Chinese coronavirus pandemic to hold forth on the environment , claiming that the outbreak is Mother Nature ’ s way of saying that she doesn ’ t like the way we have treated the planet .
Michael Moore claimed in a recent interview to promote the new environmental documentary Planet of the Humans that the global pandemic is nature ’ s “ warning ” that “ our behavior is not appreciated.
” He also claimed that the species that have given us viruses are often @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are in dangerous , dangerous shape here , and this pandemic should act as a warning from Mother Nature that … our behavior is not appreciated , ” the Oscar-winning documentarian told USA Today .
“ And the fact that we have treated the species on this planet – species that often times give us these viruses .
It ’ s a failure of us – all of us who call ourselves environmentalists.
” The Roger & Me and Farenheit 9/11 director said that the environmental movement is in serious need of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worse shape , and we have to do something different .
We have to get off the road we ’ ve been on , ” Moore said .
“ We need a new environmental movement , we need young people to essentially take over .
It ’ s their future.
” Moore also told USA Today that corporations and parts of Wall Street have been trying to “ take over the green energy movement because they see profit in it.
” “ They try to buy off certain people and organizations within the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Humans presents a critical view of the environmental movement , arguing that solar energy and electric cars aren ’ t helping the Earth .
The documentary has provoked condemnation from some environmentalists , who are demanding that it be taken down from YouTube due to alleged inaccuracies .
As of Monday afternoon , the documentary was still on YouTube and has been viewed more than 3 million times .
Michael Moore joins fellow entertainment personalities Cher and Idris Elba to find an environmental angle on the coronavirus outbreak .