climatedepot--2020-08-06--New Study: Rising CO2 Drives Post-1980s Greening…Which Cools The Earth And Offsets 29% Of Human Emis

New Study: Rising CO2 Drives Post-1980s Greening…Which Cools The Earth And Offsets 29% Of Human Emissions

About 70 % of the Earth ’ s post-1980s vegetative greening trend has been driven by CO2 fertilization .
More greening has offset or reversed 29 % of recent anthropogenic CO2 emissions .
Greening also has a net cooling effect on surface temperatures .
Earlier this year we highlighted a study ( Haverd et al.
, 2020 ) asserting rising CO2 and warming are the dominiant drivers of Earth ’ s strong post-1980s greening trend .
This greening expands Earth ’ s carbon sink so profoundly that by 2100 the greening of the Earth will offset 17 years ( equivalent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 17 % offset over 80 years , or net CO2 emissions reversal , would easily supplant the effectiveness of Paris climate accord CO2 mitigation policies .
Now another new study ( Piaoet et al.
, 2020 ) expands upon these same principles , further suggesting the net effect of more CO2-driven greening is more cooling and carbon sink expansion .
Since the 1980s , 29 % of human CO2 emissions were cancelled out by the CO2-induced greening of the Earth .
The post-2000 vegetative greening expansion has been so massive ( 5.4 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equivalent to a region the size of the Amazon rainforest .
“ Vegetation models suggest that CO2 fertilization is the main driver of greening on the global scale , with other factors being notable at the regional scale .
Modelling indicates that greening could mitigate global warming by increasing the carbon sink on land and altering biogeophysical processes , mainly evaporative cooling .
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climatedepot--2020-08-06--Kamala Harris, Ocasio-Cortez Push ‘Climate Equity Act’ To Be Scored Based On How Much They Impact Bl

Kamala Harris, Ocasio-Cortez Push ‘Climate Equity Act’ To Be Scored Based On How Much They Impact Black People

Sen. Kamala Harris of California and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York are teaming up on a proposal requiring lawmakers who introduce climate bills to consider the impact such legislation will have on black people and poor communities .
The two Democrats introduced the Climate Equity Act Thursday that would , if passed , require Congress to score future climate bills based on how much they may negatively impact poor and minority communities , The Washington Post reported .
The two Democrats initially unveiled a draft of the bill in 2019 , when Harris began her unsuccessful run for president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ score would be similar to the economic scores the Congressional Budget Office applies to other legislation , WaPo reported .
The Climate Equity Act would also apply to regulations the Trump administration proposes in the future .
( RELATED : Harris , Sanders , Warren Stay Mum On Fracking Ban Proposals After Attack Sends Oil Markets Soaring ) “ COVID-19 has laid bare the realities of systemic racial , health , economic , and environmental injustices that persist in our country , ” Harris said in a statement to the Post .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be disentangled from the rest of our lives.
” The bill comes as reports indicate former Vice President Joe Biden , the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee , is considering Harris to be his running mate .
Biden pledged early during the presidential campaign to pick a female running mate .
The bill “ is a really big deal , ” Kerene Tayloe , director of federal legislative affairs at WE ACT for Environmental Justice , told the Post , referring to the scoring system .
“ Nothing like that has ever existed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ environmental group helped Ocasio-Cortez and Harris craft the legislation .
Harris backed the Green New Deal in 2019 , which sought to aggressively cut carbon emissions over the next decade .
The resolution , crafted by Ocasio-Cortez , called for “ 10-year national mobilizations ” toward addressing climate change .
A fact sheet published alongside the proposal said the plan would “ mobilize every aspect of American society on a scale not seen since World War 2.
” Ocasio-Cortez ’ s GND would reportedly phase out fossil fuel usage within 12 years .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a hefty price .
Americans could be forced to pay up to $ 93 trillion to implement the Green New Deal over a decade , the conservative-leaning American Action Forum ( AAF ) noted in a study in February 2019 .
Republicans in the Senate torpedoed the legislation in March 2019 , while Democratic lawmakers called the vote a dog-and-pony show .
The GOP defeated the proposal 57-0 , with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calling the bill a socialistic ploy designed to kill the economy .
“ There ’ s no question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fracking , ” Harris said during a September 2019 CNN town hall , although she did not embrace a fracking ban in her climate plan .
Biden has similarly declined to endorse an outright ban on fracking , though he did promise during a CNN debate in March that he would stop new fracking projects .

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climatedepot--2020-08-06--Bill Gates: ‘Climate Change’ Deaths Will Match COVID-19’s In 40 Years – Claims COVID’s ‘misery’ will

Bill Gates: ‘Climate Change’ Deaths Will Match COVID-19’s In 40 Years – Claims COVID’s ‘misery’ will ‘happen regularly’ if climate change is not stopped

`` If you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict , look at COVID-19 and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time , '' the Microsoft co-founder wrote on his blog Tuesday .
`` The loss of life and economic misery caused by this pandemic are on par with what will happen regularly if we do not eliminate the world ’ s carbon emissions . ''
Flashback : Add ‘ climate change ’ to death certificates – New study demands ‘ climate change ’ be added as ‘ pre-existing condition ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
- `` Climate change is a killer , but we do n't acknowledge it on death certificates , '' co-author Dr Arnagretta Hunter , from The Australian National University ( ANU ) Medical School , said .
`` There is second component on a death certificate which allows for pre-existing conditions and other factors .
Bill Gates claims pandemic ’ s ‘ misery ’ will ‘ happen regularly ’ if climate change is not stopped Microsoft co-founder says climate change death toll will match that of COVID-19 in 40 years .
Billionaire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treat climate change with the “ same sense of urgency ” with which it has responded to COVID-19 , arguing that the impacts of the former will be much worse without corrective action .
“ If you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict , look at COVID-19 and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time , ” the Microsoft co-founder wrote on his blog Tuesday .
“ The loss of life and economic misery caused by this pandemic are on par with what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eliminate the world ’ s carbon emissions.
” Gates estimated that the death toll from climate change would match that of the pandemic by 2060 , and exceed it fivefold by 2100 .
The economic impact of climate change over the next two decades , he added , could be “ as bad as having a COVID-sized pandemic every ten years.
” Early in the pandemic , some drew comparisons between the virus and climate change , and credited economic shutdowns with reducing carbon emissions .
Gates acknowledged this effect , but said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enough to address rising emissions .
“ What ’ s remarkable is not how much emissions will go down because of the pandemic , but how little , ” he said , pointing to a July report estimating the cost of emissions reductions .
“ Has closing off major parts of the economy avoided emissions at anything close to $ 100 per ton ?
” Gates asked .
“ No .
In the United States , according to data from the Rhodium Group , it comes to between $ 3,200 and $ 5,400 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it ’ s roughly the same amount .
In other words , the shutdown is reducing emissions at a cost between 32 and 54 times the $ 100 per ton that economists consider a reasonable price.
” At the end of his blog post , Gates called for drastic change and noted that flying or driving less wasn ’ t going to cut it .
“ So just as we need new tests , treatments , and vaccines for the novel coronavirus , we need new tools for fighting climate change : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things , grow food , keep our buildings cool and warm , and move people and goods around the world , ” he said .
“ And we need new seeds and other innovations to help the world ’ s poorest people — many of whom are smallholder farmers — adapt to a less predictable climate.
” Meanwhile , a Duke University professor told lawmakers Wednesday that the U.S. could prevent 4.5 million premature deaths if it worked towards to keep temperature increases below two degrees Celsius .
Conservatives have generally argued that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predictions from prior decades .
The cost of implementing large-scale reform , they claim , would be unsustainable and inflict massive losses on the U.S. economy .
The Green New Deal ( GND ) , which Gates did not mention , has become the latest touchstone of the environmental movement in the U.S. , and been championed by leading Democrats .
The right-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute , which is funded by companies in the energy , automotive and technology sectors , recently found that even a portion of the GND ’ s mandates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ per year .


climatedepot--2020-08-06--How the Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Forces Average Americans To Subsidize Rich Californians

A 2019 watchdog report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration showed the electric vehicle tax credit is rife with fraud and abuse , and electric vehicle incentives disproportionately benefit the wealthy .
To add insult to injury , a recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency ’ s Scientific Advisory Board refutes the common perception that electric vehicles are good for the environment .
Congress in 2008 passed the Qualified Plug-In Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit to make electric vehicles more affordable , thereby encouraging their use .
Yet , a 2019 watchdog report from the Treasury Inspector @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vehicle tax credit is rife with fraud and abuse , and electric vehicle incentives disproportionately benefit the wealthy .
To add insult to injury , a recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency ’ s Scientific Advisory Board refutes the common perception that electric vehicles are good for the environment .
Perhaps unsurprisingly , the IRS has done little to stop the fraud and abuse , claiming the agency does “ not have effective processes to identify and prevent erroneous claims for the Plug-In Credit.
” That means we taxpayers live with millions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ineligible claims for hybrids , such as the Toyota Prius Prime , to the tune of up to $ 7,500 in tax breaks each .
After the release of the Treasury inspector general ’ s report , Sen. Ron Johnson , R-Wis. , asked the IRS to share more about the tax credit .
The IRS ’ response is exactly what you would expect from an entrenched government agency .
Officials claimed that something called “ correctible error authority ” —bureaucrat-speak for expanding the power of the IRS—would be necessary to address the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans would be much better off eliminating the tax credit than granting more authority to the IRS .
The electric vehicle tax credit is little more than a wealth transfer from working Americans to wealthy Californians .
Twenty percent of all claims were made by Californians with adjusted gross incomes of more than $ 200,000 , even though that group comprises only about 1 % of total income-tax returns filed in 2017 .
Out of the $ 486 million in credits claimed , $ 191 million—39 percent—went to California .
Data released in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report illustrated the overall poor-to-rich transfer .
More than 3 out of 4 claimants in 2017—77 percent—had adjusted gross incomes of more than $ 100,000 , even though only 19 % of all tax filers made that much money .
Moreover , 45 % of claimants earned more than $ 200,000 , versus only 5 % of taxpayers at large .
Geographically , the credit is a California story .
A full 40 % of 2017 tax credit claimants resided there , even though Californians made up only 10 % of tax returns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Texans filed with the IRS ( just over 8 % of total returns filed ) , but represented only 4 % of total electric vehicle tax credit claims .
The state with the second-highest claims was Washington , which brought in $ 22.7 million , paltry when compared with California ’ s nearly $ 200 million in claims .
Nearly 60 percent of the United States—29 states—had fewer than 1,000 tax-credit claims , and eight had fewer than 100 .
It ’ s indisputable : The majority of the country is subsidizing these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few states .
That ’ s also ironic , since this tax credit was created to make electric cars more attractive to the average American .
What about the environment ?
Electric vehicles do little to improve the environment .
The EPA ’ s Scientific Advisory Board recently wrote that “ [ electric vehicles ] do not appear to be more fuel efficient than modern internal combustion engine vehicles that are similarly equipped.
” In fact , the board goes further , concluding that the increased electricity usage associated with electric vehicles may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a policy that is designed to do the opposite , the electric vehicle tax credit is ineffective to a staggering degree , possibly even harmful .
The electric vehicle tax credit fails on every level : It fails to affect buying behavior ; it almost exclusively benefits wealthy Americans in a handful of states ; and the product it subsidizes does not achieve the stated purpose of reducing fuel consumption or greenhouse gas emissions .
It ’ s time to hit the brakes on the electric vehicle tax credit .


climatedepot--2020-08-06--‘Going Green’ further slaughters the economy: ‘A blizzard of added regulations are the recipe for ec

‘Going Green’ further slaughters the economy: ‘A blizzard of added regulations are the recipe for economic downturn’

Massive increases in government spending , subsidies and further economic control with a blizzard of added regulations are the recipe for economic downturn .
History shows this time and again .
History also shows the opposite is true ; restraining government spending growth and reducing regulations and taxes on the private sector spurs economic growth and job creation .
The “ Green ” agenda invariably comprises major new government mandates , subsidies and regulations that will harm the country ’ s economy and citizenry , whether one believes fully in human-caused climate change or not .
The Green cure is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of how many studies authored by climate alarmists claim otherwise .
There are plenty of studies ( using that term loosely ) that claim Green policies for energy transformation will “ stimulate ” the economy .
But they always come back to massive new government spending , debt and private sector mandates to subsidize the efforts and label it economic stimulus .
Whichever multi-trillion dollar version of the Green New Deal is examined , including the recent unveiling by presidential candidate Joe Biden , the essence is the same : vast new government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , transportation and pretty much every other industry .
Energy is the lifeblood of our national and global economy .
Affecting its supply and price impacts far and wide .
Abundant energy supplies enable the economy to grow .
Restricting energy—namely , fossil fuels and nuclear—in the hopes of forcing its replacement with “ renewables ” will lead to economic contraction .
Proponents of a Green New Deal would reorder of energy policy to phase our use of coal , natural gas and oil and nuclear to replace them with electricity and so-called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and solar .
While I am a strong believer in technological progress , no one can plausibly explain how renewable energy can replace fossil fuels in the coming decades , if ever .
Many states and cities already have passed energy plans that mandate greater use of renewable energy and less fossil fuel .
If this piecemeal effort becomes widespread , America as a whole , like California , will soon suffer higher energy costs , power outages , deforestation , landscape blight , harm to wildlife , and more .
These outcomes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Green New Deal advocates are defending the new costs and control in two primary ways .
First , they believe the planet itself is at greater risk by doing nothing ; and the jobs lost in the energy industry are promised to be replaced with “ Green ” jobs .
First , the planet is not “ at risk ” if the global average temperature increases by 1.5 degrees by 2050 ; though no one can claim with certainty that it will .
Nor will reducing carbon emissions in the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ additional factors influence climate .
Other industrialized nations like China and Russia will avoid such masochistic economic policy while they happily watch their U.S. adversary relinquish its fossil fuel production and harm its economic and military capacity in the process .
Second , the promise of “ Green Jobs ” is as vacuous as any from politicians attempting to reassure the public .
Nonetheless , they are itching to undertake a borrowing a spending binge to “ create ” jobs to produce solar panels , batteries and other components to foist them on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demand and gross inefficiency .
That is why every Green New Deal is priced at trillions of taxpayer dollars and constitutes a wasteful “ spoon-ready ” approach to creating jobs , as the late economist Milton Friedman would sardonically describe .
The Obama administration ’ s boondoggle taxpayer guarantees for the Solyndra company to produce solar panels , which cost at least $ 500 million , is emblematic of the problem .
So also is the example of California ’ s mandate for solar panels on all new homes .
More such Green @ @ @ @ @ @ @ folly .
A further problem comes from the current federal spending spree on the coronavirus , with $ 2.5 trillion added to the national debt and another trillion dollars on deck .
America is that much closer to economic risk , including runaway inflation from printing money electronically to finance this unprecedented spending .
From a financial standpoint , the Covid pandemic makes the unaffordable Green New Deal much more so .
Government has a role in spearheading research and development in many areas of the economy , including in energy .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on its own will make the investment , assume the risk , and profit accordingly from Green energy .
Done foolishly , as proposed by the climate alarmists pushing Green New Deals , trillions of dollars will be printed and wasted , and jobs and livelihoods will be squandered .


climatedepot--2020-08-06--Biden Touts Electric Corvettes While Firing Up Traditional Car

Presidential candidate Joe Biden ( D ) released a video on Wednesday featuring himself revving a hunter green Corvette Stingray — an American classic — while promising to move the country to electric vehicles .
“ I like to drive .
I used to think I was a pretty good driver , ” Biden said in the video showing the presidential hopeful revving up the engine with a mask on .
“ I didn ’ t get a chance to flat-shift into second .
I was afraid I ’ d go through those guys , ” he said , laughing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the hood of the car and reminiscing over his “ incredible memories ” associated with the vehicle .
“ Nothing but incredible memories .
Every time I get in , I think of my dad and Beau , ” he said , marveling over the setup of the American classic .
“ This is just boom , ” he continued .
“ This is an iconic industry .
How can American-made vehicles no longer be out there ?
” he asked .
“ I believe we can own the 21st-century market again by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the way , they tell me — and I ’ m looking forward if it ’ s true to driving one — that they ’ re making an electric Corvette that can go 200 mph , ” Biden said .
“ You think I ’ m kidding .
I ’ m not kidding , ” he said , chuckling .
“ So , I ’ m excited about it ” : Biden ’ s $ 2 trillion climate change proposal , which bears some of the markings of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , promises to move the U.S. economy to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2035 , five years after the New York lawmaker ’ s original goal .
Such a move would effectively put the fossil fuel industry out of business , as Breitbart News detailed .
Notably , Biden ’ s plan “ would also create subsidized replacement schemes for electric cars to wean Americans away from gasoline , ” according to Forbes .
There are now one million electric vehicles on the road in the United States .
But a key @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reducing vehicles is the lack of charging stations and coordination across all levels of government .
As President , Biden will work with our nation ’ s governors and mayors to support the deployment of more than 500,000 new public charging outlets by the end of 2030 .
In addition , Biden will restore the full electric vehicle tax credit to incentivize the purchase of these vehicles .
He will ensure the tax credit is designed to targeted middle class consumers and , to the greatest extent possible , to prioritize the purchase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plan adds that Biden will “ develop a new fuel economy standard that goes beyond what the Obama-Biden Administration put in place .
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climatedepot--2020-08-06--50% Of The EU’s ‘Climate Budget’ Will be Given To Farmers, Critics Warn

50 % of the spending that the EU counts under its climate umbrella isn ’ t actually to be spent on reducing CO2 emissions : instead , it is funding the EU ’ s Common Agriculture Policy .
When then-defence minister for Germany Ursula von der Leyen ran for the European Union ’ s top job last year , she pitched herself as a climate enthusiast .
“ We must go further .
We must strive for more , ” she said during her candidate speech at the European Parliament .
“ I want Europe to become the first climate-neutral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ She got the job , and has been serving as European Commission president since December .
Under her leadership , the commission — though the initial proposal pre-dates her presidency — suggested spending 25 % of the European Union ’ s seven-year budget and the coronavirus recovery package on “ climate targets.
” The EU governments pushed for even more , and committed to spending 30 % of the EU ’ s budget on climate — a 10 % jump from the 2014-20 budget .
With a total package of 1.8tn euros ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comes in at 600bn euros .
But while that might sound good on paper , environmentalists remain sceptical .
“ The problem is right now it ’ s turned into massive greenwashing , ” said Berenice Dupeux , senior policy officer for agriculture at the European Environmental Bureau , a network of various environmental groups .
She said most of the spending that the EU counted under its climate umbrella — about 50 % — isn ’ t actually to be spent on the environment : instead , they went to the union @ @ @ @ @ @ @ setting additional climate criteria .
And a large chunk of that money was paid out as direct payment to farmers to support their income , she said .
Yet , as the commission expects farmers to respect environmental regulations the EU had put in place , it automatically counts 20 % of direct payments as going towards the climate target .
But as standards were simply the bare minimum , Dupeux said , and no one checked what the farmers use the money for , the percentage didn ’ t reflect reality .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which she said lacked scientific evidence , stemmed from political pressure .
The commission is often dependent on the approval of the 27 governments in the bloc , so its rules aimed at striking a balance between the different interests .
The national agricultural ministers , in turn , wouldn ’ t agree on cutting funding from direct farmers and financing pure climate activities instead , she said .
“ Politically , they will not survive if they do that .
They don ’ t want to touch the pot of money @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shift it to climate , ” she said .
The European Commission rejected the allegation .
“ This is the biggest green investment package the world has ever seen , ” a commission spokesperson said .
“ The ambitions for a greener , more digital and more resilient Europe will remain guiding principles of the Next Generation EU and the next long-term budget.
” The spokesperson said that it followed a “ clear and well-established ” methodology to measure progress , namely the so-called Rio markers .
The Rio markers measure whether reducing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of an activity , a secondary but significant objective , or if it does not target climate change at all .
Depending on that assessment , it attributes how many per cent of a spending activity went to climate .
For Dupeux , the EU ’ s use of this method failed to produce any tangible results as it didn ’ t look into the actual effects a project had on climate .


climatedepot--2020-08-06--Wind Power failure: on average every 3 days, there is a 500MW fail

On average , every 3 days , wind farms generating as much as one coal fired unit , fail on the Australian grid TonyfromOz exposes a failure rate so common it ’ s hidden in plain view .
Wind “ Farm ” intermittency is even worse than we thought .
On average , every three days within a one hour period there ’ s a sudden failure of 500 MW of wind generation — equal to one industrial coal turbine .
That ’ s four full wind farms or about 250 spinning turbines that stopped spinning .
Every time a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s reported as a problem of relying on our “ old coal fleet ” .
But when the same power output fails from wind , it ’ s the new clean green future at work ( ! )
, and a sign we need to spend another $ 20 billion to “ upgrade the grid ” with interconnectors we don ’ t need , and Hydro schemes we don ’ t want .
A few wind farms are bad for the grid .
More windfarms are worse .
TonyfromOz ( Anton Lang ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of failure .
The largest and longest outages are when wind farms are becalmed .
But there are many more short sharp and very sudden failures in high wind conditions where wind farms cut out .
The sharpest power cuts are happening in between the high pressure cells .
As the wind picks up , production maximizes , only to crash as turbines hit their safety cut off points and drop out of production suddenly .
About 50 times a year generation across the entire Australian wind farm grid falls by 500MW or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ On the other hand , when large cell weather patterns traverse Australia whole windfarm regions are becalmed , and rendered useless within hours .
This sort of failure can be as large as 2 to 4 GW of power disappearing in less than nine hours .
This is like a whole coal power plant or even two ( with 8 different units ) producing virtually nothing .
It never happens with coal but it happens about twenty times a year with wind power .
Those long term losses are happening with every High @ @ @ @ @ @ @ West to East , and they last around one a week .
Some pass more quickly than others and some hang around for up to a couple of days .
Building more towers in the same area makes the intermittency worse –not better .
Baseload generation must sit idling ready-to-go to pick up the slack .
Or the giant Snowy Hydro scheme must sit in reserve , assuming it has enough water to release .
In either case , great capital infrastructure is being used inefficiently as a bandaid for a fickle unreliable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why electricity costs have risen inexorably ?
Wind Power Generation Intermittency – It ’ s Worse Than You Think It Is – Part One Intermittency on every scale is a large problem , and constructing more of those wind plants is making the problem worse .
For four years I have been collecting data on wind power generation in Australia .
After looking at this data on a daily basis for so long , I could see many variations , but I was not seeing the long term trends of the scale of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , how suddenly generation would fall , how sustained the losses could be , and the quite large sizes of the falls .
Over the last three months , I went back over more than 730 days of data , and collated all the falls for wind generation .
Strikingly , there were a lot of sudden falls , and there were a lot of sustained falls .
To assess the frequency of the falls I needed to set some parameters .
For generation losses I selected 500MW because it is around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fired turbine ( or “ Unit ” ) .
Australia has 16 coal fired power plants , and there are 48 separate Units in toto at all of those plants .
The total Nameplate is 23,000MW , so the average size of those Units is 480MW .
So , the loss of 500MW of power in a short space of time is equivalent of one of those large scale coal fired Units going off line , something that renewable power supporters tell us is proof somehow that coal fired power is unreliable .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ more wind plants or “ farms ” of turbines as they are known .
The total Nameplate for wind power is currently 7,728MW and there are 64 wind plants , so the average is 120MW and a 500MW fall in power is similar to four wind plants stopping .
Those power losses are significant — not just a few towers here and there — a 500MW loss is like 250 to 270 of those individual wind towers stopping .
I divided the sudden losses into five different time frames .
I assessed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the range of the power losses that occurred .
All these separate failures occurred in the last two years and two months or 800 days .
As each of the time frames increased , I looked for larger power losses which would challenge the system .
There were also many smaller sub 500MW incidents over the longer period which I did not include .
Keep in mind here that there were 265 occasions in the last 800 days where the power loss exceeded 500MW .
As often as I look at all this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see earlier has became more obvious – nearly all of those losses in the short time frames were when power generation was already quite high , and again , this is a further reason I have split all of this into those two areas , the three short time frame ones , and the two long time frame ones .
The longer and large losses are due to large High Pressure cells sitting over the Eastern states I was already aware that when it comes to those long time frame power losses , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the weather .
Every time one of those large High pressure weather systems came into an area in the South of the Country , then wind generation would fall away by a large amount .
An example of that is shown in the image at the right , and here , you can see that power generation fell away from the high of 4500MW just after Midnight to that indicated low around 850MW , a loss of 3650MW across that time frame of 20 hours .
So , what we have here is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data that I was recording was coming from that same area where those High pressure systems would pass over .
This was the South Eastern area of South Australia , and the Central West area of Victoria .
Now , that particular area is where the largest number of those wind plants are located .
Australia has ( now ) got a total Nameplate for wind power of 7728MW .
However , in that area I have mentioned here there is now a total Nameplate of 4916MW , and that is 64 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Country , two thirds of it all , just in those two States alone .
The shorter sharp losses are due to high wind cut offs The short time frame power losses are related to the weather as well .
We have been told often enough that these wind towers only operate between specific wind ranges .
When the wind gets too high , then the wind towers automatically turn off , and the same happens when the wind is too low , they also turn off automatically .
So , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time frame power losses is that between the occurrence of those large High pressure weather systems over that area , moving as they do from West to East , the isobars are closer together , and because of that , the wind is high , and so , there is high wind power generation .
However if the wind gets too high , then the turbines turn off .
An example of this is shown in the image at right , where power was already relatively high at the indicated high of 3558MW @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 45 minutes .
On that same image , you can also see that this happened earlier in the day twice , just after 2AM , and again just before 6AM , where , both times , it fell by more than 400MW , and then fell around 1500MW in a sustained period of more than seven hours .
A 500 MW fall shows that in a short space of time , a large number of towers turn off in high wind situations .
Yet again , the problem we have with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them , has in this case , also been made worse , as now there are more wind towers in that area , as more plants are constructed in that area , and now they are more susceptible to large scale losses in shorter time frames when the wind gets too high .
When this survey started back in May 2018 the total Nameplate for Wind Power was below 5000MW .
In the 26 Months since then , the Nameplate for wind power has increased by almost 3000MW .
This represents probably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a lot of which has been in South Australia and Victoria .
This data I have collected here shows that the intermittency problem is getting worse , as there are more occurrences of power losses , and those losses in power generation are becoming larger .
In the next two Posts I will detail those losses , show you the tables of the scale of those losses , and explain them with respect to using three images for each time frame period across the 800 days of this data gathering task .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ TonyfromOz , and he writes at this site , PA Pundits International on topics related to electrical power generation , from all sources , concentrating mainly on Renewable Power , and how the two most favoured methods of renewable power generation , Wind Power and all versions of Solar Power , fail comprehensively to deliver levels of power required to replace traditional power generation .
His Bio is at this link .


climatedepot--2020-08-07--Gallup Poll: Americans Once Again Rank ‘Climate Change’ Dead Last As Least Important ‘Problem’ at 1%

The Gallup poll , taken July 1-23 , among U.S. 1,007 adults , asked respondents , “ What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today ?
” A plurality , or 30 percent , chose “ coronavirus/diseases ” as the most important problem , followed by “ the government/poor leadership ” ( 23 percent ) , race relations/racism ( 16 percent ) , “ unifying the country ” ( six percent ) , and “ crime/violence ” ( five percent ) .
Notably , “ climate change/environment/pollution ” — green issues central to the progressive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came at the very bottom of the list , garnering just one percent support .
Elections/election reform , poverty/hunger/homelessness , national security , education , and immigration also garnered just one percent support each .
A plurality of Americans considers the Chinese coronavirus the most important problem facing the country , while climate change — an issue central to the Democrat Party ’ s agenda — remains among the lowest in importance , garnering just one percent , a Gallup survey released this week found .
The Gallup poll , taken July 1-23 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ respondents , “ What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today ?
” A plurality , or 30 percent , chose “ coronavirus/diseases ” as the most important problem , followed by “ the government/poor leadership ” ( 23 percent ) , race relations/racism ( 16 percent ) , “ unifying the country ” ( six percent ) , and “ crime/violence ” ( five percent ) .
Nine percent of respondents chose economic problems , which included the economy “ in general , ” unemployment , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate change/environment/pollution ” — green issues central to the progressive agenda and embraced by Joe Biden — came at the very bottom of the list , garnering just one percent support .
Elections/election reform , poverty/hunger/homelessness , national security , education , and immigration also garnered just one percent support each .
While a plurality consider the novel virus as the most important problem facing the nation , it represents a 15-point drop from the 45 percent who identified it as the central issue in April .
However , just 20 percent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus as the nation ’ s main issue , with concerns over the government and poor leadership edging the virus out by one percentage point .
Race relations/racism followed closely behind , garnering 19 percent .
Flashback May 2020 Gallup Poll : Only 2 % Of Americans Believe ‘ Climate Change ’ Is The Most Important Problem Facing The U.S Climate Depot Note : “ Climate Change ” dropped from Gallup ’ s pre coronavirus peak in February of only 5 % to its current 2 % .
“ Climate change ” would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gallup had separated the term from the terms “ Environment & Pollution ” in their Gallup poll question .
Previous Gallup polls have consistently shown that ‘ climate change ’ scored the lowest concern amount all ENVIRONMENTAL issues .
See : Flashback 2015 : Gallup Poll : Americans Worry Least About Global Warming – Concern over AGW lowest among all ENVIRONMENTAL issues


climatedepot--2020-08-07--EU’s ‘Climate Funding’ Con Revealed

EU’s ‘Climate Funding’ Con Revealed

1 ) Half Of The EU ’ s ‘ Climate Budget ’ Will Be Handouts To Farmers , Critics Warn Deutsche Press Agentur , 6 August 2020 Half of all spending that the EU counts under its climate umbrella isn ’ t actually to be spent on reducing CO2 emissions : instead , it is funding the EU ’ s Common Agriculture Policy .
When then-defence minister for Germany Ursula von der Leyen ran for the European Union ’ s top job last year , she pitched herself as a climate enthusiast .
“ We must go further .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said during her candidate speech at the European Parliament .
“ I want Europe to become the first climate-neutral continent in the world by 2050.
” She got the job , and has been serving as European Commission president since December .
Under her leadership , the commission — though the initial proposal pre-dates her presidency — suggested spending 25 % of the European Union ’ s seven-year budget and the coronavirus recovery package on “ climate targets.
” The EU governments pushed for even more , and committed to spending 30 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate — a 10 % jump from the 2014-20 budget .
With a total package of 1.8tn euros ( $ 2.1tn ) , the climate tag comes in at 600bn euros .
But while that might sound good on paper , environmentalists remain sceptical .
“ The problem is right now it ’ s turned into massive greenwashing , ” said Berenice Dupeux , senior policy officer for agriculture at the European Environmental Bureau , a network of various environmental groups .
She said most of the spending that the EU counted under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — isn ’ t actually to be spent on the environment : instead , they went to the union ’ s Common Agriculture Policy , without setting additional climate criteria .
And a large chunk of that money was paid out as direct payment to farmers to support their income , she said .
Yet , as the commission expects farmers to respect environmental regulations the EU had put in place , it automatically counts 20 % of direct payments as going towards the climate target .
But as standards were simply the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no one checked what the farmers use the money for , the percentage didn ’ t reflect reality .
Dupreux alleged that much of this approach , which she said lacked scientific evidence , stemmed from political pressure .
The commission is often dependent on the approval of the 27 governments in the bloc , so its rules aimed at striking a balance between the different interests .
The national agricultural ministers , in turn , wouldn ’ t agree on cutting funding from direct farmers and financing pure climate activities instead , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will not survive if they do that .
They don ’ t want to touch the pot of money that is spent for social issues and shift it to climate , ” she said .
see also : EU leaders slash climate budgets by tens of billions to cover coronavirus recovery package 2 ) Excellent News : British Government Delays Net Zero Homes Until 2050 To Boost Housebuilding The Independent , 6 August 2020 New homes will not need to be carbon neutral until 2050 The government ’ s proposed reforms of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fight against climate change and resign nature to “ isolated fragments of land ” , environmentalists have warned .
Countryside charities said plans to make new homes carbon neutral by as late as 2050 – beyond what scientists say will be a tipping point for climate change – as “ pitiful ” and dramatically less ambitious than previous ambitions scrapped by ministers .
The government says the framework spelled out in its new planning white paper would “ cut red tape ” and create a “ major boost ” for construction firms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plans , unveiled by housing secretary Robert Jenrick , land would be categorised as either suitable for development , a “ renewal ” area , or protected .
On the first two categories , building projects could be fast-tracked without going through the current planning permission process if they meet certain standards .
[ … ] The plans include a pledge to make only new homes carbon neutral by 2050 , when the UK ’ s entire economy is already supposed to be carbon neutral , according to the government ’ s own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into law .
A previous Code for Sustainable Homes , introduced by the last government in 2006 , would have imposed similar strict climate change and environmental requirements from 2016 onwards , but it was scraped by the government in 2015 before it came into full effect .
3 ) Gallup Poll : Most Americans Rank Climate Change As Least Important Issue Climate Change Dispatch , 7 August 2020 A plurality of Americans considers the coronavirus the most important problem facing the country , while climate change — an issue central to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among the lowest in importance , garnering just one percent , a Gallup survey released this week found .
The Gallup poll , taken July 1-23 , among U.S. 1,007 adults , asked respondents , “ What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today ?
” A plurality , or 30 percent , chose “ coronavirus/diseases ” as the most important problem , followed by “ the government/poor leadership ” ( 23 percent ) , race relations/racism ( 16 percent ) , “ unifying the country ” ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ( five percent ) .
Nine percent of respondents chose economic problems , which included the economy “ in general , ” unemployment , and the wealth gap .
Notably , “ climate change/environment/pollution ” — green issues central to the progressive agenda and embraced by Joe Biden — came at the very bottom of the list , garnering just one percent support .
4 ) Australia ’ s Universities Face Sweeping Review Of Free Speech Code The Australian , 6 August 2020 Universities will face a sweeping review into whether they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speech in the face of several censorship controversies engulfing higher education .
Former Deakin University vice-chancellor Sally Walker will be tasked with investigating whether universities are in alignment with the free speech code devised by former High Court chief justice Robert French .
The review will assess whether there are gaps in their responses to freedom-of-speech issues , and if more action is required to make sure university leaders protect academic freedoms .
Education Minister Dan Tehan commissioned Mr French to create the free speech code for universities and argued a second review @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its core principles .
“ What this review is about is ensuring that all Australians understand the importance of freedom of speech and academic inquiry — and that our universities understand that , ” Mr Tehan said .
“ We are seeing challenges to free speech and academic inquiry across the globe .
I want , and the government wants , these freedoms to be the pillars of our universities … Robert French did an outstanding job and we want to ensure that code is lived up to by our universities.
” All @ @ @ @ @ @ @ code by the end of the year , but there are concerns in both government and academia that universities are resistant to reform and the exemptions in some universities ’ free speech codes are too broad .
The University of NSW apologised this week for caving in to Chinese protests and deleting material critical of the mainland crackdown in Hong Kong .
Two Queensland institutions — the University of Queensland and James Cook University — are also being sued in freedom-of-speech cases by a suspended student and a sacked professor respectively .
UNSW @ @ @ @ @ @ @ controversy on Thursday when it was revealed that the reason for deleting a tweet from the university ’ s official Twitter account , which vice-chancellor Ian Jacobs later said was unnecessary , was presented differently to Chinese students .
The tweet , which publicised the call from a UNSW adjunct law lecturer for UN action on human rights violations in Hong Kong , was taken down last Saturday after it offended Chinese law students at the university and was attacked in the Chinese government-owned newspaper Global Times .
Professor Jacobs apologised on Wednesday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the deletion of the tweet was not in line with the university ’ s freedom-of-speech policy that allows staff and students to express any view that can be legally expressed in Australia .
However , two days earlier the university had sent a letter in Mandarin to Chinese students and alumni saying the tweet was deleted because it was misleading .
The letter apologised for the trouble “ the incident ” had caused .
Elaine Pearson , the lecturer whose views on Hong Kong were referred to in the tweet , and also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ website , said on Thursday that “ it seems the university is saying one thing to international students and one thing to ( university ) staff ” .
“ It undermines the sincerity of the apology which went to staff , ” said Ms Pearson , who is also the Australian director of Human Rights Watch .
Mr Tehan said he would not prejudge the findings of Professor Walker ’ s inquiry but he did not rule out making the free speech code mandatory by Christmas .
“ Obviously the terms of reference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” he said .
“ If there is advice we should make any changes , I will move as quickly as possible to implement that.
” Professor Walker — a highly regarded law academic who led Deakin for eight years and whose husband Brendan Murphy is the federal Health Department secretary who has led the national response to COVID-19 — will hand over her findings to the government in November .
Mr French , now chancellor of the University of Western Australia , was commissioned to develop a voluntary code for university @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against gender studies critic Bettina Arndt ’ s campus speaking tour in which she denied there was a rape crisis affecting Australian students .
Since then , 20 universities have implemented the code in some form and 14 are in the process of developing a new free speech policy in line with Mr French ’ s framework .
In the past two months alone , four major universities have faced serious free speech issues .


climatedepot--2020-08-07--Analysis: Why Falling Birth Rates Aren’t Something to Celebrate – ‘Each child born today grows up to

Analysis: Why Falling Birth Rates Aren’t Something to Celebrate – ‘Each child born today grows up to make resources less scarce, on average, by contributing to innovation & the global economy’

`` But new research inspired by the famous wager between economist Julian Simon and biologist Paul Erhlich has found just the opposite .
Consider the amount of time it takes a typical worker to earn enough money to buy commodities — the “ time price ” of those items , so to speak .
The recently published “ Simon Abundance Index ” found that for each 1 percent increase in the world ’ s population , the average time price of 50 commonly used commodities declined by 0.934 percent .
In other words , for each 1 percent increase in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fallen by almost 1 percent .
Each child born today eventually grows up to make resources less scarce , on average , by contributing to innovation and the global economy .
So , worrying about overpopulation makes little sense . ''
Traditionally , Easter is a celebration of new life and fertility , replete with rabbit imagery — a symbol of fecundity .
Both globally and in the United States , birth rates are falling , and there is considerable debate as to whether that is a good or bad thing .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who believe that declining birth rates are a good thing , particularly from an environmental perspective .
They are urging people to have fewer children .
On the other hand , there are those who believe that overpopulation is not an acute problem , because birth rates are already declining .
In fact , they argue , a smaller population could have negative economic consequences .
Let ’ s look at the former first .
Earlier this month , HBO host Bill Maher said , “ I can ’ t think of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out fewer humans to destroy it , ” and he claimed that the world is “ too crowded.
” He is not alone in that belief .
More than a third of U.S. millennials worry about the environmental effect of childbearing , including congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , who recently questioned the ethics of producing more children .
Some anti-natalists even call for government action to make birth rates fall even faster than they already do .
Many prominent environmentalists — from Johns Hopkins University bioethicist Travis Rieder to entertainer Bill Nye “ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or other state-imposed punishments for having “ too many ” children .
Bowdoin College ’ s Sarah Conly wrote a recent book advocating a “ one-child ” policy — like the one that China once had and had to abandon .
This group sees a population decrease as an urgent necessity , primarily because they believe that population growth leads to resource depletion .
But new research inspired by the famous wager between economist Julian Simon and biologist Paul Erhlich has found just the opposite .
Consider the amount of time it takes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to buy commodities — the “ time price ” of those items , so to speak .
The recently published “ Simon Abundance Index ” found that for each 1 percent increase in the world ’ s population , the average time price of 50 commonly used commodities declined by 0.934 percent .
In other words , for each 1 percent increase in population , the cost of commodities has fallen by almost 1 percent .
Each child born today eventually grows up to make resources less scarce , on average , by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So , worrying about overpopulation makes little sense .
Moreover , fertility rates are falling already .
In developing countries , falling fertility rates are driven by fewer infant and childhood deaths , allowing for smaller family sizes .
More women in education and the workforce also result in lower birth rates .
In developed countries , unrealistic social and cultural parenting expectations are making childbearing more burdensome than was the case for previous generations .
Economist Bryan Caplan , for example , has argued that , in the United States , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a successful parent and have fewer children than they otherwise would have as a result of that misconception .
In fact , falling fertility rates could have far-reaching negative economic consequences as countries face aging and the working population shrinks .
With fewer people to innovate , the pace of progress could slow down .
As the authors of the “ Simon Index ” noted , “ In addition to more labor , a growing population produces more ideas .
More ideas lead to more innovations , and more innovations improve productivity .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ standards of living.
” And the more new people in the world engaging in cooperative exchange and putting their minds toward solving problems — including environmental problems — the better off we will all be .
Because , as Julian Simon put it , human beings truly are the ultimate resource .
Whatever problems we face in the future , it is human ingenuity that will need to rise to the occasion .
This first appeared in Newsday , InsideSources and elsewhere .
Chelsea Follett is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute @ @ @ @ @ @


climatedepot--2020-08-07--Lomborg slams NYT for ‘deplorable fact-checking’ of his new book ‘False Alarm’ – ‘A stunningly long

Lomborg slams NYT for ‘deplorable fact-checking’ of his new book ‘False Alarm’ – ‘A stunningly long list of false and deceptive claims from New York Times’

New York Times and Stiglitz claim UN finds cost of unmitigated climate change much higher than what I say The @ @ @ @ @ economist and I say 3.6 % .
UN says 2.6 % .
Even lower .
@ @ @ @ @ FalseClaimsToPreserveAlarmismhttps : //t.co/mHDY7qJFXE pic.twitter.com/vKU9BsLpy1


climatedepot--2020-08-07--Lomborg rips NYT’s latest ‘badly reported’ sea level rise article as ‘absurdly unrealistic’ – ‘253 m

Lomborg rips NYT’s latest ‘badly reported’ sea level rise article as ‘absurdly unrealistic’ – ‘253 million people will *NOT* be at risk in 2100’

Bjorn Lomborg : `` Everyone ran this story , but badly reported .
253 million people will *NOT* be at @ @ @ @ @ study assumes we rip out all coastal defenses — absurdly unrealistic .
With realistic assumptions @ @ @ @ @ lower . ''
Lomborg continued : `` Central quote : Only true if 'no dykes @ @ @ @ @ . '
Great for scary stories , bad for informing policy . ''
`` How @ @ @ @ @ of New York or Jakarta to know what happens if humanity rips out all dikes @ @ @ @ @ he asked .
`` Is this making us well-informed , or just scared ? ''


climatedepot--2020-08-07--Warmist Mag: Climate ‘Realism’ Is the New ‘Climate Denial’ – Rips Naomi Seibt for fighting Greta Thu

Warmist Mag: Climate ‘Realism’ Is the New ‘Climate Denial’ – Rips Naomi Seibt for fighting Greta Thunberg’s alarmism

Going by headlines and poll results , climate change awareness has never been higher .
While social media provides fertile ground for propaganda techniques , smear campaigns , fake experts , and conspiracy theories , the increasingly visible proof of climate disruption , along with movements such as Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion , seem to be persuading more people by the day .
Climate change denial—the multitude of strategies deployed by the fossil fuel industry and its political allies to downplay the threat of global warming and suggest an ongoing debate on the existence of climate change—appears to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ denial has not disappeared .
Instead , it has shifted—its adherents adopting new language and tactics .
The denial machine has a new communications strategy and an “ us versus them ” narrative : not climate deniers versus climate believers but climate “ realists ” versus climate “ alarmists.
” It ’ s a canny approach to discrediting a legitimate scientific warning .
By associating themselves with the term “ realist , ” those employing this rhetoric reiterate a longstanding principle of climate change denial : that those who warn about the catastrophic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of touch with reality , “ alarmists ” who want us to “ panic ” rather than “ think , ” as 19-year-old German YouTuber and prominent climate skeptic Naomi Seibt has put it .
“ Evidence is growing that climate alarmists—those peddling the delusion that human-caused climate change is destroying the Earth—are growing ever more desperate , ” an article at the libertarian and climate denial-promulgating Heartland Institute , which has employed Seibt , declared in January .
These sorts of sentences present climate science as emotional and deniers as grounded and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this new communicative strategy on social media , we recently collected all English-language tweets that contained a set of keywords linked to climate alarmism and realism since the launch of Twitter in 2006 .
That amounted to a total of 66,561 tweets , with a tweet matching the keywords first appearing in December 2007 .
While the use of both expressions on Twitter was negligible until 2016 ( an average of fewer than 200 tweets per year ) , the use of the two terms started increasing in 2016 .
Not until 2019 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and “ alarmism ” become commonplace : Between January 2016 and March 2020 , the use of these terms grew by 900 percent , with the largest yearly increase recorded between 2018 and 2019 .
This obviously wasn ’ t a peer-reviewed statistical study , which would need to investigate how these trends compared to broader trends on Twitter : the growth of tweeting overall , for example .
But we were interested in what these tweets , laid alongside rhetoric shifts from prominent institutions and individuals , suggested about the way this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reaction to individual events .
The jump from 2018 to 2019 , for instance , corresponds to another trend : 2019 represented a watershed year for climate action and public awareness on the climate crisis , so much so that it has been defined on more than one occasion as “ the year the world woke up to climate change .
”


climatedepot--2020-08-07--‘The Office’ Actor Rainn Wilson’s ‘An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change’ Features Greta Thunberg

On The Office , Rainn Wilson ’ s Dwight Schrute lets out his rage about the climate crisis with the alter ego Recyclops… who eventually renounces Earth Day , vows to destroy the planet , and trashes the Dunder Mifflin office .
So it ’ s safe to say that Dwight has a thing or two to learn about saving the planet — and so does Wilson .
( And he ’ s the first to admit it . )
Before the coronavirus pandemic struck , Wilson set out on an international journey through Greenland and Iceland ( which he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ footprint , that he ’ ll be offsetting ) to learn about the climate crisis and how to be an activist .
Wilson documented his travels for a new six-part docuseries called An Idiot ’ s Guide to Climate Change , produced by his content studio SoulPancake .
The series shows Wilson ’ s transition from “ an every-day , well-intentioned , but uninformed , liberal to strident climate activist ” according to press materials sent to Green Matters .
“ My trip to Greenland and Iceland was amazing , ” Wilson tells @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I saw my first glacier and talked to more nerdy scientists than I ever have in my life .
But I also left my trip feeling terribly concerned .
My conversation with Greta Thunberg put things in perspective for me : I need to take action and use my platform to encourage people to learn more about the climate crisis and vote for platforms that support the science , so that ’ s what I ’ m doing.
” As pretty much any show with Rainn Wilson is guaranteed to do , An @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will certainly make viewers laugh — but it also aims to teach viewers what they can do to protect the planet and fight the climate crisis .
In each episode , Wilson sits down with a different climate activist or scientist to learn more about their area of expertise .
His most high-profile meeting is with Greta Thunberg , who teases him by holding up a Get Smart DVD and asking for Steve Carell ’ s autograph .
In the latest episode , premiering Tuesday July 28 , Wilson meets with Sævar Helgi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known as the Bill Nye of Iceland .
Bragason tells Wilson about a few of the devastating things happening to the planet , such as deforestation , wildlife loss , pollution , and more .


climatedepot--2020-08-07--New Documentary Film, ‘Juice,’ Challenges Elitism Of Anti-Growth Environmentalism

Michael Shellenberger : `` It was economic growth that lifted Thunberg ’ s ancestors out of agrarian poverty , raised life expectancy from 40 to 70 years , and liberated women and girls from feudal patriarchy .
Without Sweden ’ s economic growth , and the fossil fuels upon which it depended , the person who is Greta Thunberg would not exist ... in the name of fighting climate change , powerful first-world organizations including Sierra Club and Greenpeace , whose annual revenues nearly total $ 500 million , have forced World Bank and other banks to divert lending from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dams and natural gas power plants to expensive and unreliable ones like solar panels and industrial wind turbines .
And , last year , Thunberg and other student climate activists even sued Brazil , where per capita incomes are just 25 % that of Sweden , for supposedly not doing enough to restrict greenhouse gas emissions ... '' `` Increased wealth from manufacturing is what allows nations to build the roads , power plants , electricity grids , flood control , sanitation , and waste management systems that distinguish poor nations like the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' `` Two years later , an Indian village made worldwide headlines after it rebelled against the solar panel and battery “ micro-grid ” Greenpeace had created as a supposed model of energy leapfrogging for the world ’ s poorest people .
The electricity was unreliable and expensive .
“ We want real electricity , ” chanted villagers at a state politician , “ not fake electricity !
” Children held up signs saying the same thing .
By “ real electricity ” they meant reliable grid electricity , which is mostly produced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thereafter connected to the grid . ''
The root cause of climate change , say many activist leaders , is economic growth .
“ How dare you !
” Greta Thunberg told the United Nations last September “ We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth !
” And yet it was economic growth that lifted Thunberg ’ s ancestors out of agrarian poverty , raised life expectancy from 40 to 70 years , and liberated women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sweden ’ s economic growth , and the fossil fuels upon which it depended , the person who is Greta Thunberg would not exist .
Some climate activists acknowledge the need for poor nations to burn more fossil fuels if they are to achieve decent standards of living .
Thunberg herself suggested as much in her January 2019 TED talk .
But in the name of fighting climate change , powerful first-world organizations including Sierra Club and Greenpeace , whose annual revenues nearly total $ 500 million , have forced World Bank and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and reliable energy sources like hydroelectric dams and natural gas power plants to expensive and unreliable ones like solar panels and industrial wind turbines .
And , last year , Thunberg and other student climate activists even sued Brazil , where per capita incomes are just 25 % that of Sweden , for supposedly not doing enough to restrict greenhouse gas emissions .
As for climate change , it results fundamentally from people wanting to improve the quality of life for themselves and their loved ones , not from “ greed.
” “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use less electricity than what ’ s used by my kitchen refrigerator , ” notes journalist Robert Bryce in “ Juice , ” a humane and moving new documentary on iTunes .
“ Darkness kills human potential while electricity nourishes it.
” Bryce is the Anthony Bourdain of energy .
With the filmmaker Tyson Culver , he travels from Iceland to India to show “ how electricity explains the world.
” The word “ juice ” has been used as a synonym for electricity since at least 1896 .
It connotes “ lively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Bryce himself .
Industrialization powered by electricity is what drives economic development .
For more than 250 years , the combination of manufacturing and industrial agriculture has been the engine of economic growth for nations around the world .
And for the last half of that , industrialization powered by grid electricity has been at the center .
Increased wealth from manufacturing is what allows nations to build the roads , power plants , electricity grids , flood control , sanitation , and waste management systems that distinguish poor nations like the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Electricity makes possible the cities that liberate people from the oppression of farm life .
Women and girls benefit the most .
“ Three billion people today are walking around in clothes that were washed by hand , ” says Culver .
“ And it ’ s women and girls who are not only washing the clothes but also gathering the firewood , cooking over biomass stoves , and missing out on education and other opportunities.
” The industrial revolution wasn ’ t possible with wood .
Britain and other nations required coal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ twice as high as the energy density of wood , while the power density of coal mines is up to twenty-five thousand times greater than forests , notes scholar Vaclav Smil in his 2016 book , Power Density .
Similarly , the environmental and economic benefits of electricity stem from its power density .
Thanks to electricity , Henry Ford ’ s River Rouge Complex factory in Detroit in the 1920s had a power density 50 times higher than that of America ’ s first large , integrated clothing factory 100 years earlier @ @ @ @ @ @ @ density 20 times higher than New York City ’ s outer boroughs , and the wealthy island nation of Singapore has a power density seven times higher than that of the global urban average .
What characterizes big cities are their tall buildings which require electrical-powered elevators .
“ Height is electrical , ” explains Jesse Ausubel , the pioneering energy and environmental scholar .
“ Skyscrapers are concentrated energy.
” It is thus understandable that the word “ juice ” has long been a synonym for wealth .
“ The defining inequality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bryce , “ is the disparity between the electricity-rich and the electricity-poor.
” Over the last 30 years , as climate change became an issue of public concern , environmentalists have promoted solar panels and batteries , LED lighting , and “ micro-grids ” as ways for poor nations to achieve prosperity by “ leap-frogging ” industrialization and fossil fuels .
In 2013 , while in Tanzania to promote “ Power Africa , ” a U.S. government program supporting electrification , President Barack Obama dribbled and headed a modified soccer ball known as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it for thirty minutes , it can power an LED light for three hours .
“ You can imagine this in villages all across the continent , ” Obama enthused .
But with a price tag of $ 99 , the Soccket cost more than a month ’ s wages for the average Congolese .
For only $ 10 , one could buy a superior lantern that doesn ’ t require dribbling .
More to the point , it wasn ’ t exactly the kind of energy that could industrialize Africa .
Two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worldwide headlines after it rebelled against the solar panel and battery “ micro-grid ” Greenpeace had created as a supposed model of energy leapfrogging for the world ’ s poorest people .
The electricity was unreliable and expensive .
“ We want real electricity , ” chanted villagers at a state politician , “ not fake electricity !
” Children held up signs saying the same thing .
By “ real electricity ” they meant reliable grid electricity , which is mostly produced from coal .
The village was shortly thereafter connected to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of “ Juice ” is an economist named Joyashree Roy , who shows Bryce and Culver the heart-breaking poverty of rural India .
As a lead coordinating author of a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chapter on “ Sustainable Development , ” Roy is a powerful critic of climate hypocrisy .
Roy argues movingly that it is inhumane and unethical for Indians to work indoors without air conditioning .
And yet activist environmental journalists in the rich-world routinely condemn air conditioning as a dangerous luxury .
Bryce and Culver believe that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the movie makes a compelling case for why we need more nuclear energy if we are going to slow the growth of CO2 emissions .
Roy rails against efforts by rich world environmentalists and climate activists to push “ fake ” micro-grid electricity on Indian villagers over cheap grid electricity .
“ That we are not allowing others to be modern is a crime !
” she says .
The experience touched Culver .
“ While I would never equate energy poverty with institutional racism , ” he told me , “ a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ privilege , have a hard time seeing what ’ s happening outside of our own precious circle.
” Bryce and Culver say they hope the coronavirus pandemic reminds many people of the importance of cheap and reliable electricity for hospitals , ventilators , and the urban infrastructure upon which they depend .
“ We shouldn ’ t need the world to be flipped on its axis to see what ’ s happening right in front of us , ” said Culver .
And yet it is “ chaos ” in the form of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be grateful for our electricity-dependent prosperity .
One of the most touching scenes in “ Juice ” is of Bryce in parts of Puerto Rico .
Parts of the island were still without electricity seven months after the island was hit by a hurricane .
“ They were American citizens on American soil and they were powerless , ” said Bryce .
“ So they did what they had to do : they ran a small gas generator to run the refrigerator and power the lights at night .
But the noise from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the air pollution.
” Electricity in Sweden , by contrast , is produced with vanishingly little pollution .
Eighty percent of Swedish electricity comes from large hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants , which Thunberg opposes .
Though accused of hypocrisy , Thunberg has not backed away from her blanket condemnations of nuclear power plants , economic growth , and industrialization by poor nations .
“ We have simply moved our factories to different parts of the world , and a significant portion of our emissions overseas , ” she lamented recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States , visiting national parks with her father , she has yet to do what Bryce and Culver did in “ Juice , ” which was to visit poor rural communities in developing nations to better understand what life is like without reliable electricity .
I hope she does so , and soon .
If Thunberg does , she will discover that for the vast majority of women and girls , economic growth is indeed a fairy tale but one to which they aspire , not fear .


climatedepot--2020-08-08--NASA Goes Woke: Bye Bye ‘Eskimo Nebula’ & ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ – NASA will ‘address systemic discr

NASA Goes Woke: Bye Bye ‘Eskimo Nebula’ & ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ – NASA will ‘address systemic discrimination & inequality’  in ‘terminology for cosmic objects’

NASA has dove into identity politics in recent months with two high profile NASA scientists shifting the focus from science to politics .
NASA scientist Dr. Kate Marvel links ‘ climate change ’ to ‘ white supremacy ’ – ‘ We ’ ll never head off climate catastrophe without dismantling white supremacy ’ – Calls for climate & racial ‘ justice ’ & NASA climate scientist Dr. Peter Kalmus : ‘ Race justice & climate justice are one & the same : Oppressive extractive plutocracies that colonize & kill black bodies & colonize & kill our planet are one & @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fields of science are going woke as well .
Ornithologists Call For Allegedly Racist Bird Names To Be Changed – Some names ‘ represent colonialism , racism and inequality ’ Distant cosmic objects such as planets , galaxies , and nebulae are sometimes referred to by the scientific community with unofficial nicknames .
As the scientific community works to identify and address systemic discrimination and inequality in all aspects of the field , it has become clear that certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive , but can be actively harmful .
NASA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for cosmic objects as part of its commitment to diversity , equity , and inclusion .
As an initial step , NASA will no longer refer to planetary nebula NGC 2392 , the glowing remains of a Sun-like star that is blowing off its outer layers at the end of its life , as the “ Eskimo Nebula.
” “ Eskimo ” is widely viewed as a colonial term with a racist history , imposed on the indigenous people of Arctic regions .
Most official documents have moved away from its use .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ term “ Siamese Twins Galaxy ” to refer to NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 , a pair of spiral galaxies found in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster .
Moving forward , NASA will use only the official , International Astronomical Union designations in cases where nicknames are inappropriate .
“ I support our ongoing reevaluation of the names by which we refer to astronomical objects , ” said Thomas Zurbuchen , associate administrator of NASA ’ s Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters , Washington .
“ Our goal is that all names are aligned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and we ’ ll proactively work with the scientific community to help ensure that .
Science is for everyone , and every facet of our work needs to reflect that value.
” … The Agency will be working with diversity , inclusion , and equity experts in the astronomical and physical sciences to provide guidance and recommendations for other nicknames and terms for review .
Many made jokes about NASA ’ s new initiative .
“ Dwarf stars will henceforth be known as volumetrically challenged stars , ” a Twitter critic noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long as Uranus doesn ’ t get changed I ’ ll be able to sleep at night though , ” wrote another on Twitter .
NASA has dove into identity politics in recent months with two high profile NASA scientists shifting the focus from science to politics .
NASA scientist Dr. Kate Marvel links ‘ climate change ’ to ‘ white supremacy ’ – ‘ We ’ ll never head off climate catastrophe without dismantling white supremacy ’ – Calls for climate & racial ‘ justice ’ & NASA climate scientist Dr. Peter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ justice are one & the same : Oppressive extractive plutocracies that colonize & kill black bodies & colonize & kill our planet are one & the same ’ A NASA Jet Propulsion Lab climate scientist has linked race and climate issues during the racial protests sweeping the nation .
NASA ’ s Peter Kalmus wrote : “ Here ’ s why race justice and climate justice are one & the same : The oppressive extractive plutocracies that colonize and kill black bodies and colonize and kill our planet are one and the same.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) was responding to the protests and riots springing up across the country in the wake of allegations of racism in law enforcement .
Kalmus added : “ They ’ d literally rather have a race war than charge even one cop for murdering an innocent black man.
” And NASA ’ s Dr. Kate Marvel declared on June 1 : “ Climate justice and racial justice are the same thing , and we ’ ll never head off climate catastrophe without dismantling white supremacy.
” Marvel is an Associate Research Scientist at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GISS ) in New York City .
In 2018 , Marvel ( [ email protected ] ) replied “ DAMN RIGHT ” when she tweeted out a Newsweek article titled : “ Science Should Be A Feminist Institution.
” According to a 2018 article at Think Progress , “ Marvel said she admires what Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement activists are doing with appeals to support a Green New Deal.
” According to Marvel : “ What I do admire about that is the fact they are using new language .
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sad polar bear , ” Marvel said .
“ This is not talking about climate change like it ’ s this isolated issue .
It ’ s talking about it in the context of all these other things that people care about .
And I think that ’ s absolutely the right way to look at it , ” she said .
Climate Depot Note : Climate activists have tried to link Racism and “ white supremacy ” to climate change for years .
See : Identity politics invades climate change debate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white man ’ s science ” is different from other branches of science ?
See:2019 : ‘ White People ’ blamed for causing Cyclone Idai in Africa – ‘ Even the white man ’ s own science corroborates what we blacks know ’ The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History – Because racism in environmentalism hasn ’ t gone away , and it ’ s holding the movement back .
– By Julian Brave NoiseCat – Indigenous peoples and people of color are disproportionately affected by our global climate crisis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and in the media , they are often forgotten or excluded .
This is Tipping Point , a new VICE series that covers environmental justice stories about and , where possible , written by people in the communities experiencing the stark reality of our changing planet .
Why I Quit Being a Climate Activist – “ The climate movement is overwhelmingly white .
So I walked away.
” – By Karin Louise Hermes – But after a while I realized I would only be called upon when climate organizations needed an inspiring story @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contacts for a campaign , or to participate in a workshop for “ fun ” when everyone else on the ( all-white ) project was getting paid .
Whenever I would question the whiteness of these spaces and how strategies didn ’ t take race into account , I would be met with uncomfortable silences .
The last time , at a nationwide movement-building workshop last April , I was asked , “ Well then , why are you even here ?
” So I decided not to be there anymore .
After @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , speeches , workshops , and countless video calls , I started hiding and declining requests .
I was burned out .


climatedepot--2020-08-09--COVID & climate change: Why is the sky always falling on our head?

`` This hysteria is not helped by “ scientists ” who keep comparing this virus with Spanish flu .
But we can counter-check their claims easily with a simple calculation .
According to the CDC , the Spanish flu killed at least 50 million people worldwide when the global population was 1800 million .
Proportionately , a virus as lethal as Spanish flu would have to kill at least 210 million people today , probably a third ( 73 million ) by now .
Instead , 0.71 million have so far died .
But what if there is a second @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ready to imagine scary situations ! )
Our higher brain can calm this fear : There has never been ( nor can we reasonably imagine ) a second wave 300 times bigger than the first .
So even if three times more people die from this pandemic in the end , it will end up 100 times less lethal than Spanish flu .
A really bad virus , but was it worth this huge global hysteria ? ''
... `` Climate change is another area of grossly over-blown fear .
Bjorn Lomborg ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions , Hurts the Poor , and Fails to Fix the Planet notes that our 'singular obsession with climate change means that we are now going from wasting billions of dollars on ineffective policies to wasting trillions .
At the same time , we ’ re ignoring ever more of the world ’ s more urgent and much more tractable challenges .
And we ’ re scaring kids and adults witless , which is not just factually wrong but morally reprehensible ' ” .
We have nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fear seems to have become our bosom friend .
The media drums up headlines each day that the sky is falling down .
Climate change ( the Earth is going to burn down ! )
or the pandemic ( coronavirus is bigger than Spanish flu ! )
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Then there are the Hindutva fanatics who drum up panic on social media about Muslims ( that they ’ re bent on destroying all other religions ! )
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The common man can be forgiven for thinking he is under siege from all sides .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ create scary headlines : these sell better than the boring ones .
We , on the other hand , are perfectly designed by nature to be the receptacles for panicky “ news ” reports .
Fear is deeply etched into our primitive limbic system along with other strong emotions such as euphoria , anger and envy .
Marc Siegel wrote in 2005 that “ humans can be alarmed by events we have only read or heard about , so we may worry about disasters we may never experience… Adding to the problem … @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the level of threat accurately .
We tend to overpersonalize risk and to experience an unrealistic sense of peril when we hear or read of a bad event occurring to someone else ” .
Much of this fear is boosted by our fertile imagination .
As Charles Mackay wrote in his 1841 book , Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds : “ We go out of our course to make ourselves uncomfortable ; … we conjure up hideous things to frighten ourselves at , which would never exist if we did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tend to panic as a herd : “ whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object , and go mad in its pursuit ; millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion , and run after it.
” Media ’ s greed and our biological tendencies together create a heady mix that makes our daily lives into a bigger drama than Mahabharata .
Mackay discussed the fear of witches and haunted houses – fears that linger even today in parts of the world .
More recently , Siegel ’ s 2005 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some recent fears : the anthrax scare and fears about smallpox and gas bioterrorism agents that arose after the September 2001 incident , as well as the SARS epidemic and the mad cow disease .
In each case we managed as a species to blow the threats out of all proportion .
The only way out of this mess through our higher brain , by actively seeking information that gives us a better handle on the true risk .
Unfortunately , “ science ” is not guaranteed to help .
Extremely rare are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are those who add fuel to the fire .
For instance , Siegel shows how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) “ attached itself to the media megaphone and made us afraid to open our mail ” during the anthrax scare .
Likewise , in the ongoing pandemic the WHO has been squarely responsible for fueling hysteria and ignoring its own published October 2019 recommendations on dealing with flu-like pandemics .
The result is that the people have been scared witless .
An opinion poll company , Kekst CNC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ person in the UK , USA , France , Sweden and Germany thinks that 100 to 300 times more people have died from this virus than it has actually killed .
This hysteria is not helped by “ scientists ” who keep comparing this virus with Spanish flu .
But we can counter-check their claims easily with a simple calculation .
According to the CDC , the Spanish flu killed at least 50 million people worldwide when the global population was 1800 million .
Proportionately , a virus as lethal as Spanish flu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million people today , probably a third ( 73 million ) by now .
Instead , 0.71 million have so far died .
But what if there is a second wave ?
( Our brain is always ready to imagine scary situations ! )
Our higher brain can calm this fear : There has never been ( nor can we reasonably imagine ) a second wave 300 times bigger than the first .
So even if three times more people die from this pandemic in the end , it will end up 100 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A really bad virus , but was it worth this huge global hysteria ?
Climate change is another area of grossly over-blown fear .
Bjorn Lomborg ’ s recent book , False Alarm : How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions , Hurts the Poor , and Fails to Fix the Planet notes that our “ singular obsession with climate change means that we are now going from wasting billions of dollars on ineffective policies to wasting trillions .
At the same time , we ’ re ignoring ever more of the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tractable challenges .
And we ’ re scaring kids and adults witless , which is not just factually wrong but morally reprehensible ” .
Last year I wrote many articles on climate change .
I showed that the allegedly uni-directional link between CO2 and temperature has not been established and there are hundreds of other factors involved in determining the climate .
Further , CO2 levels today are one of the lowest in the Earth ’ s history and if CO2 falls excessively , plants itself could disappear .
Lomborg , on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change is real ” and that “ it is caused predominately by carbon emissions from humans burning fossil fuels ” .
Even then , he shows there is simply no reason to panic .
For instance , how many of us know that the IPCC itself has discounted all reasons to panic ?
It said in 2014 that “ For most economic sectors , the impact of climate change will be small relative to the impacts of other drivers [ such as ] changes in population , age , income , technology , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governance , and many other aspects of socioeconomic development ” .
When climate fanatics try to force societies into extreme “ solutions ” they only end up harming the poorest of the world , including the people of India .
Lomborg also notes that “ climate policy threatens to crowd out the much more important issues of health , education , jobs , and nutrition ” .
There are trade-offs in life but fear makes us lose all sense about these trade-offs .
Lomborg ’ s recommended solutions include a low carbon tax @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and water splitting .
Our party would question the need for such solutions since the problem itself has not been established .
However , if we are assured that the costly “ remedies ” promoted by climate fanatics will then be permanently removed from the table , our party could then possibly consider a low carbon tax .


climatedepot--2020-08-09--Warmist Blames India Monsoon On ‘Climate Change’ But Annual rainfall trends debunk

Andrew Dessler is Prof of Atmospheric Sciences & climate scientist at Texas A & M , so we learnt long ago to take what he says with a large pinch of salt !
Meanwhile back in the real world , India ’ s monsoon rainfall has been running just above average this year , but within the normal range ( regarded as 10 % +/- ) : Annual trends do not support Dessler ’ s little theory .
Furthermore it is usually La Nina conditions which determine whether monsoon rainfall is extreme or not : As with most years , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some parts getting extra , and others less than normal .
Those who know about these things call it “ WEATHER ” .
And unfortunately this variability often leads to bad floods somewhere or other in the country , where they are regarded as a fact of life .
And as Reuters reported in July , heavy rain is regarded as a boon , not a disaster , as Dessler in his ivory tower seems to believe : NEW DELHI ( Reuters ) – Monsoon rains in India are expected to be 104 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and September , the weather office said on Friday , indicating bumper harvests and helping to alleviate the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic .
Crop-nourishing monsoon rains are expected to be 97 % of a long-term average in August , the India Meteorological Department ( IMD ) said in a statement .
Dessler is one of that growing breed of politicized climate scientists , who think they have the right to tell us how to live our lives .
As we find so often in these cases , it is the @ @ @ @ @


climatedepot--2020-08-10--Large Increase In Number Of Sunshine Hours Likely Behind Warming, Glacier Retreat In Alps Since 1980

Günther Aigner released a German video with the title “ Die Alpengletscher im Klimawandel : Status quo “ ( The Alps glaciers in climate change : status quo ) .
Today global warming alarmists insist blaming climate change on man-made CO2 emissions .
Yet , everywhere we look it ’ s difficult to find any correlation between CO2 and warming .
Pre-industrial history shows that changes in CO2 in fact followed temperature changes .
Today we look at some climate charts of the European upper Ostalpen to look for hints what may be behind the warming since the late 20th @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been receding over the recent decades .
First is a mean temperature chart of the region for the May to September period going back 133 years : Plotted are data from the Austrian ZAMG and the Swiss MeteoSchwiez , 5-year smoothed ( green ) and the linear trend ( black ) .
Clearly there ’ s been a long-term warming.
, but the vast share of the warming occurred since the late 1970s , after a 30-year period of cooling ( since the early 1940s ) .
What could have happened since the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rose since 1980 , and summer temperatures high in the Ostalpen rose .
But is there something else ?
One thing that could cause summertime temperatures to rise and glaciers to melt is sunshine .
So Aigner plotted the number of sunshine hours for the May-September period for each year and produced the following chart : As the above chart shows , the sun has shined considerably more over the recent decades than it used to in the 1970s , or late 19th century .
Today the region sees about a whopping 200 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
More sunshine would mean more warmth .
The plot of sunshine hours indeed looks awfully similar to the plot depicting mean temperatures .
Aigner in the video then superimposed to two plots going back 50 years .
Here ’ s how they compare : Number of sunshine hours ( orange ) compared to the mean temperature in degrees Celsius ( red ) .
Each curve is 10-year smoothed .
Source : Cropped from video “ Die Alpengletscher im Klimawandel : Status quo “ , by Günther Aigner The region receives over 100 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than it did 40 years ago .
It shouldn ’ t be a surprise that the Alps have warmed and glaciers receded .
The real question is why is the region less cloudy today ?


climatedepot--2020-08-10--New Study: A Southern Ocean Site Has Just Cooled To Ice Age-Era Temperatures – 2°C Colder Than 20,00

New Study: A Southern Ocean Site Has Just Cooled To Ice Age-Era Temperatures – 2°C Colder Than 20,000 Years Ago

A new temperature reconstruction indicates today ’ s sea surface temperatures are colder than all but a few millennia out @ @ @ @ @ .
A Southern Ocean site analyzed in a new study ( Ghadi et al.
, @ @ @ @ @ during glacials and 4°C during interglacials .
Today , with a 410 ppm CO2 concentration @ @ @ @ @ plummeted to glacial/ice age levels ( 2°C ) .
The site was 2°C warmer than @ @ @ @ @ 180 ppm about 20,000 years ago , or during the peak of the last ice @ @ @ @ @ Holocene ( 10,000 to 8,000 years ago ) , summer sea surface temperatures were also @ @ @ @ @ There is no indication that CO2 concentration changes are in any way correlated with temperature @ @ @ @ @ epoch .


climatedepot--2020-08-10--How Media Enables Climate Alarmism To Flourish Unchecked

I have been a news junkie since high school .
Media bias favoring left-of-center public policies and politicians is nothing new , yet this 40-year-plus reality never gets shopworn .
The flagrancy of skewed news coverage to favor one political agenda and oppose another is worse than ever and still surprises .
There is no shortage of examples of media slant and mendacity , including coronavirus reporting , downplaying the riotsin American cities , and peddling the bogus Russia collusion narrative .
The climate change issue is another glaring example that goes beyond mere bias .
Most media coverage portrays @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is , human exhaling and industry are causing the planet to warm to an imminent doomsday .
Typically , no other evidence or viewpoints are acknowledged , much less given credence .
The prevailing media treatment of climate change and other issues exhibits a combination of myopia , laziness , dishonesty , and censorship , which CFACT itself has been a recipient .
It has gotten so bad , two major media outlets recently were exposed by very public resignations and several newsrooms displayed infantile wokeness .
Chief among this journalistic dereliction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a wind-up doll for climate credulity and a former congressional aide .
Todd announced he would give no airtime to skeptics of the prevailing mantra of man-made global warming .
No counterpoint allowed is standard for “ mainstream ” climate reporting .
Time magazine , another substantial media outlet , has long obsessed about the “ Endangered Earth , ” as far back as the late 1980s .
By then , global warming had replaced the coming-ice-age mantra from the 1970s .
Time ’ s annual “ Person of the Year ” was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Year.
” Time has been beating the same drum in the 30-plus years since , even as Earth ’ s environment improved , global poverty declined , and U.S. carbon emissions more recently dropped .
No matter , its 2019 “ Personof the Year ” was the indefatigable and exploited , Greta Thunberg .
Media myopia toward climate change issues is so widespread , some younger reporters themselves may not realize it having grown up in the “ Captain Planet ” generation when Ted Turner ’ s cartoon began the brainwashing process @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for celebrities and politicians who make absurd catastrophic climate assertions .
Reporters surely know how pervasive is lying in politics , yet so many accept climate sound-bites without scrutiny .
Has any reporter ever questioned the many preposterous claims by Sen. Bernie Sandersor Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ?
Has either been asked how cooling the planet by one degree in 30 years would stop icebergsfrom melting in summer , or how wind and solar can “ replace ” fossil fuels when they relyon them so extensively ?
The list goes on .
Now and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when Fox News ’ host Chris Wallace interviewed Al Gore in 2017 and pushed back some .
Yet , even in that instance , Wallace let pass several ludicrous claims by Gore , including supposed rising sea level from global warming that allegedly resulted in ocean fish on Miami streets .
Part of the problem is that while climate change ideology is now unchallenged dogma among Democratic politicians , few Republicans are willing to go on the record with reporters to counter them beyond complaining about the multi-trillion-dollar price tag of the Green @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the calculation is to avoid controversy , rather than offer perspective on–much less rebut–the underlying assumptions of the climate agenda .
Commonplace in climate reporting is when a new global warming “ study ” is released with some outlandish prediction in 12 to 80 years that is accepted at face value by reporters .
Regardless of political leanings or personal bias , every journalist should be a skeptic and report both sides since there are numerous scientists on either side of the climate change issue .
Last spring , for example , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ study that claimed half the world ’ s beaches would disappear by the year 2100 due to climate change .
Every media outlet I found that reported on the study parroted its findings , with nary a perfunctory critic to round out the story .
More impactful media negligence has been its reporting on findings of the International Panel on Climate Change .
Michael Shellenberger , in his new book , Apocalypse Never , documents how this sensationalist reporting is regularly at variance with the actual IPCC research .
The cumulative effect of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warming trope has contributed to the growth and political power of the climate change industry .
If not countered , it will further lead to a misinformed public , and gullible politicians imposing more destructive and wasteful climate policies on the populace in America and worldwide .