climatedepot--2020-11-02--Age of Unreason: How fear and ignorance drives the green doomsday cult

The new ‘ green ’ religion is a world where the naïve and gullible seek salvation through the veneration of wind turbines – as if crucifixes – belief in “ the science ” has supplanted Scripture and ‘ scientists ’ peddling doomsday tales garner rapt attention , like the fire and brimstone preachers , of old .
Those who question “ the science ” are branded “ deniers ” , with all the vehemence that was once reserved for Spanish Inquisitors rooting out heretics .
The new ‘ green ’ religion is a world where the naïve and gullible seek @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – as if crucifixes – belief in “ the science ” has supplanted Scripture and ‘ scientists ’ peddling doomsday tales garner rapt attention , like the fire and brimstone preachers , of old .
Those who question “ the science ” are branded “ deniers ” , with all the vehemence that was once reserved for Spanish Inquisitors rooting out heretics .
What ’ s dressed up as “ progress ” these days seems more and more like a drift back to our Dark Age of misery , poverty and ignorance .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ solar panels equate with mortal salvation , is more than just a little confused .
But that ’ s the very point and purpose of those pushing the so-called inevitable ‘ transition ’ to an all wind and solar powered future .
As in days gone by , the model rests on invent new forms of fear and firmly instilling them .
And then following up with the promise of redemption through sacrifice and worship ; albeit worshipping wind turbines and solar panels , instead of saints and idols .
The faithful readily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – and merrily provide buckets of cash – all for a chance to get up close and personal with one of these whirling wonders ( see above ) and to otherwise signal their supreme virtue , to all and sundry .
Prager University poses the the following : Has environmentalism become more than just a good faith effort to protect the Earth ?
Is it now tantamount to a religion ?
And if it is , is that a good thing or a bad thing ?
PragerU ’ s latest short documentary , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ origins , agenda , and motives of today ’ s environmental movement .
What he finds raises some challenging questions for anyone who sincerely cares about the future of the planet .


climatedepot--2020-11-02--Noam Chomsky: Trump’s denial of climate climate represents worse threat to humanity than Hitler – ‘H

Noam Chomsky: Trump’s denial of climate climate represents worse threat to humanity than Hitler – ‘Hitler was pretty hideous – but he wasn’t trying to destroy organized human society on earth’

UK Independent : `` Trump ’ s denial of climate change represents worse threat to humanity than Hitler , says activist Noam Chomsky '' “ Definitely the worst one I can think of in history , Adolf Hitler was pretty hideous – [ but ] he was n't trying to destroy organised human society on earth , ” he says .
Challenged on this , with the fact that the Nazi Holocaust killed at least 6 million Jewish people , Chomsky , whose parents were Jewish , says Hitler also killed “ 30 million Slavs , but not human civilisation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying Trump , 73 , was worse than Hitler , Chomsky says : “ That ’ s a very outrageous statement .
And every time I say it , I preface it by saying , here 's an outrageous statement , but please ask yourself whether it ’ s true.
” New Yorker interview : Chomsky : Donald Trump is “ the worst criminal in human history ” “ Definitely the worst one I can think of in history , Adolf Hitler was pretty hideous – [ but ] he wasn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earth , ” Chomksy says .
Challenged on this , with the fact that the Nazi Holocaust killed at least 6 million Jewish people , Chomsky , whose parents were Jewish , says Hitler also killed “ 30 million Slavs , but not human civilization ” .
Asked directly if he was saying Trump , 73 , was worse than Hitler , Chomsky says : “ That ’ s a very outrageous statement .
And every time I say it , I preface it by saying , here ’ s an outrageous statement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s true.
” Chomsky , whose book with progressive economist Robert Pollin is entitled Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal , cites the Wannsee Conference , held in a Berlin suburb in January 1942 to lay out the Nazis ’ plan for the extermination of the Jewish people – what they termed the final solution .
He contrasts that dark genocidal moment in history with a 2018 statement by the Republicans ’ National Highway Safety Administration , which concluded no new restrictions were needed for vehicle emissions because it assessed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cent by the end of the century .
As such , the Trump administration concluded there was little point in enforcing new emissions standards , given they were one of several contributors to global warming .
The report ’ s authors wrote that stopping the required rise in greenhouse gas emissions “ would require the economy and the [ US ’ s ] vehicle fleet to substantially move away from the use of fossil fuels , which is not currently technologically feasible or economically practicable ” .
Nevertheless , some will be likely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of reference and the comparison of Trump to Hitler .
A spokesperson for the highly regarded United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC , directed The Independent to a 2015 statement posted to its website it says remains relevant .
It says : “ Nazism represented a singular evil that resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews and the persecution and deaths of millions of others for racial and political reasons .
“ Comparing contemporary situations to Nazism is not only offensive to its victims , but it is also inaccurate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ present.
” It adds : “ The Holocaust should be remembered , studied , and understood so that we can learn its lessons ; it should not be exploited for opportunistic purposes.
” Others were more directly critical .
Deborah Lipstadt , a celebrated US historian specialising in the Holocaust , and whose court battle against Holocaust denier David Irving was featured in the 2015 movie Denial , says Chomsky ’ s comments were counterproductive .
“ Look , I think climate change is a tremendous problem , [ a ] potential catastrophe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We see it repeatedly .
It ’ s not a theory .
It ’ s not an unproven fact .
I know of no serious scientist who denies it , ” says Lipstadt , Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Atlanta ’ s Emory University .
“ But to compare it to an attempt to annihilate a people , from one end of the European continent to the other , and off the European continent , and to annihilate a good proportion of the Roma population of Europe … it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an unnecessary comparison.
” She adds : “ Could this be Chomsky once again saying the outrageous in order possibly to get attention ?
” Aryeh Tuchman , associate director of the centre on extremism at the Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ) perhaps the nation ’ s leading organisation countering hate speech and antisemitism , said “ Hitler ’ s wartime atrocities stemmed from his desire to eliminate Jews and establish Nazi supremacy over Europe , not from his desire to win re-election ” .
He added : “ This comparison between Adolf @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offensive.
” There was no immediate response to Chomsky ’ s claims from the White House .
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climatedepot--2020-11-02--Cheers! The date is coming…Nov. 4, 2020: The USA will ‘become the only country in the world to forma

Cheers! The date is coming…Nov. 4, 2020: The USA will ‘become the only country in the world to formally exit the Paris agreement’

Excerpt : “ An important date is coming up .
On November 4 , the day after the election , the United States will earn a dubious distinction : It will become the only country in the world to formally exit the Paris agreement .
In the historic global climate change deal , struck in 2015 , 189 countries agreed on nonbinding domestic targets to keep global temperatures well below a disastrous 2 degrees Celsius… ” “ Since his 2017 announcement , Trump has been repeating two dangerous lies about US participation in the deal : His first lie was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cost to Americans while other major polluters would contribute nothing ; his second was that the United States has already exited the accord .
“ The Paris Accord , I took us out because we were going to have to spend trillions of dollars and we were treated very unfairly , ” Trump said in the extensive climate section of the debate .
About that : First of all , Trump didn ’ t actually withdraw—rather , the United States will be in the Paris deal until November 4 because of a required @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be easy for a Biden administration to rejoin the Paris deal in January , but they would have much more work to do to repair relationships and trust in American leadership .
And he has even more to do on the domestic front to repair Trump ’ s war on climate science .
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climatedepot--2020-11-02--NY Times Disparages the Scientific Method While Attacking NOAA Scientists

The New York Times ( NYT ) published an October 27 article accusing President Trump of fighting “ against climate science , ” while the NYT itself misrepresents climate science .
In the article titled , “ As Election Nears , Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science , ” the NYT implies the Trump administration is fighting against climate science by appointing research meteorologist Ryan Maue , Ph.D. , as chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) , and appointing David Legates , Ph.D. , former state climatologist for Delaware , as deputy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prediction at NOAA .
Maue ’ s appointment is problematic according to the NYT because he “ has criticized climate scientists for what he has called unnecessarily dire predictions.
” A google scholar search of Maue ’ s publications shows he is well qualified for the position of NOAA chief scientist .
Maue has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles discussing climate change .
Simultaneously , Maue served as a meteorologist at WeatherBELL Analytics , a widely used weather forecasting service .
Much of Maue ’ s research presents real-world data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not causing more powerful and more frequent hurricanes .
A Google Scholar search of Legates ’ name shows he has authored or co-authored 140 peer-reviewed climate-change-related articles .
The topics of Legates ’ papers range from the earth ’ s climate sensitivity as shown by actual measurements , the validity of climate models , drought and flood patterns across the United States , and the impact of warming on polar bear populations .
Once again , the objective record shows Legates is well qualified to direct and inform government research on climate related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first mainstream media outlet to criticize the Maue and Legates appointments .
For example , Climate Realism refuted the ad-hominem charges leveled against Legates by National Public Radio shortly after his appointment to NOAA .
The author of that Climate Realism article wrote , “ The very definition of science , in its most-basic sense from The Enlightenment to 2020 , is ‘ questioning the basic tenets ’ of current assumptions .
[ Legates has ] examined the data for many , many years and has not seen persuasive evidence that humans are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NOAA is charged with assembling the National Climate Assessment every four years .
The report includes input from 13 federal agencies and outside scientists , supposedly to present objective knowledge concerning the causes and consequences of climate change .
Rather than being objective , NOAA ’ s 2018 report referenced the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ’ s ( IPCC ) worst-case scenario to claim climate change poses an imminent and dire threat to the United States .
The IPCC itself has disavowed its worst-case scenario , admitting it has only a three-percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Climate Assessment ignored hundreds of unalarming peer-reviewed articles and books published by dozens of prominent researchers including , for example , physicists Will Happer , Ph.D. , Richard Lindzen , Ph.D. , Willie Soon , Ph.D. , and atmospheric scientists , John Christy , Ph.D. , Pat Michaels , Ph.D. , and Roy Spencer , Ph.D .
These scientists , and many others , have published research showing that the human impact on global temperatures is and will be , at most , minimal .
According to these scholars , natural @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , solar activity , and large-scale ocean circulation patterns are the dominant drivers of climate shifts .
Other studies have concluded , based on measurable data , that the modest climate change the Earth has so far experienced has been beneficial .
Research also indicates a continued modest increase in temperatures is highly unlikely to result in extreme weather changes .
NOAA has also previously ignored findings of the 14 peer-reviewed volumes produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change .
In particular , NIPCC ’ s Climate Change Reconsidered series presents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evidence indicating human influence on climate is minimal and that present climate change is not catastrophic .
NIPCC ’ s reports are written and/or reviewed by hundreds of researchers , yet the past political leadership of NOAA has ignored them and the thousands of peer-reviewed papers they reference .
The appointments of Maue and Legates to NOAA present an opportunity to reinforce the proper use of the scientific method in government research .
The Scientific Method demands that researchers question self-proclaimed consensus science .
In the field of climate research , this means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concerning the causes and consequences of climate change when federal reports are developed .
This would represent a shift from NOAA ’ s previous practice , in which it referenced a narrow body of research to support the politically predetermined conclusion that dangerous human-caused climate change is happening .
It is not surprising that the NYT dismisses the Trump administration ’ s attempts to defend the Scientific Method from doctrinaire views of climate change .
Trump ’ s previous efforts to bring transparency to scientific research and to prevent corruption in the funding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ critiqued by climate alarmists .
Left-leaning mainstream media outlets , academics who ’ ve learned to manipulate the current closed system , and political partisans who use the cloak of “ following the science ” to promote their personal political agendas reject transparency and support self-dealing .
As the peer-reviewed research by Legates , Maue and hundreds of other scientists makes clear , there is an active scientific debate concerning the causes , extent , and consequences of climate change .
Trump ’ s appointments of Legates and Maue may bring justified and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state of climate science .


climatedepot--2020-11-04--Biden’s Electric Car Delusion

Biden’s Electric Car Delusion

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ’ s election promise to vastly increase electric cars in America makes no sense .
It would leave people with unreliable vehicles , huge transportation costs and do nothing to protect the environment .
Besides aiming to ensure “ 100 % of new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be electrified , ” The Biden Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice makes the following commitments : • • Biden will work with our nation ’ s governors and mayors to support the deployment of more than 500,000 new public charging outlets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden will restore the full electric vehicle tax credit to incentivize the purchase of these vehicles .
• Biden will work to develop a new fuel economy standard that goes beyond what the Obama-Biden Administration put in place .
A Canadian engineer recently ran the numbers involved in the switchover to electric vehicles ( EVs ) and concluded that , in order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours , the filling station would require six hundred , 50-watt chargers at an estimated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ station would require a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid which would be enough to power 20,000 homes .
Unlike home recharging stations , these would be operating at peak usage hours where the rates are the highest .
Where would all that power come from ?
As quoted on The Heartland Institute ’ s Web site , Dr. David Wojick , director of the Climate Change Debate Education Project said , “ There is almost no excess generating , distribution , or transmission capacity in the United States , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lot of new , expensive power plants and power lines will be needed if EVs are ever to become popular .
The EV grid simply does not exist.
” This means that , without the construction of vast new multi-billion-dollar electrical grids , Biden ’ s plan is simply a recipe for nationwide brownouts and blackouts and a lot of stranded motorists .
No wonder one of the main worries car owners have with respect to EVs is ‘ range anxiety.
’ You need to plan any EV trip very carefully or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still own gasoline-powered cars to pick you up in the middle of nowhere .
As time goes by more owners will also come to understand the problems in charging and recharging EVs in very cold weather .
All batteries use electrolytes which are liquids such as acids , bases and salts that conduct electricity by the movement of ions .
Hence , battery performance worsens as it gets colder .
A typical electrolyte conducts a fourth as much at minus 5 degrees C as it does at 55 C. Little by little EVs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will experience this problem .
California plans to have over 25 million such vehicles in the not too distant future .
In fact , Gov .
Gavin Newsom ’ s plans to ban sales of new , gas-powered passenger cars and trucks in California by 2035 .
The utility companies have thus far had little to say about the alarming cost projections or the certain increased rates that will be required to charge their customers .
It is not just the total amount of electricity required but the transmission lines and fast charging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ filling stations .
Neither wind nor solar can support any of it , of course .
Biden ’ s idea that they can is just another of his politically-correct illusions .
Also ignored is the direct cost to the consumer of buying EVs .
A new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) Energy Initiative concluded that it will probably be more than a decade before EVs will be price-competitive with fossil fuel-powered cars .
The main reason for this is the lithium-ion batteries used in EVs , which account @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the vehicle , according to the MIT study .
Just do the math : lithium-ion battery packs used in EVs cost anywhere from $ 175 to $ 300 per kilowatt-hour ( KWh ) .
A midrange EV typically has a 60 KWh battery pack .
So , taking , say , a battery at the average cost per KWh ( $ 237.5 per KWh ) , that would cost $ 14,250 just for the car ’ s batteries .
The hope is to get the battery price down to $ 100 per KWh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explains that even meeting that price target by 2030 would require material costs to remain constant for the next 10 years while global demand for these batteries is expected to skyrocket .
How likely is that , Joe ?
And talk about heavy !
Although the modern lithium-ion battery is four times better than the old lead-acid battery , gasoline holds 80 times the energy density .
The lithium-ion battery in your cell phones weighs less than an ounce while the Tesla battery weighs 1,000 pounds .
Biden is apparently also unconcerned that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cobalt needed to produce batteries and they are often produced with child labor and near-slave labor , and with practically no health , safety or environmental safeguards .
But then , the Biden family has been heavily invested in China , so perhaps they have a financial stake in this too .
Joe tells us that he will work to develop a new fuel economy standard that goes beyond what the Obama/Biden administration put in place .
But the fuel economy standards brought on by the Obama led to lighter weight and less @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our April 7th America Out Loud article , “ Trump Administration Overturns Unsafe Obama Automobile Standards : ” “ The Obama administration was effectively in partnership with overzealous environmental groups who never cared about public safety or economics .
The long-term goal was simply to eliminate the use of fossil fuels at all costs.
” And Biden says he will go beyond the dangerous Obama-Biden standard .
And finally , Joe is either naïve or ignorant when it comes to electric vehicle tax credits .
As we explained in our America Out Loud @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A Rough Road Ahead For Electric Cars , ” “ Up until now , the EV tax credit was granted on an honor system with no required affidavits to prove the credit was actually earned .
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration ( TIGTA ) recently reported that of 239,422 EV tax credits claimed between 2014 and 2018 , it identified 16,510 as potentially erroneous .
Some are outright frauds ; others are to second owners who do not qualify or those leasing vehicles who also do not qualify .
Worse yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 80 % of all EV tax credits go to households with incomes exceeding $ 100,000 .
Truly a wealth redistribution in the wrong direction that liberals should not like.
” Note : Dr. Lehr , the senior author of this article , discussed how Joe Biden ’ s energy and climate plan is “ sheer insanity ” on the Lars Larsen Show on October 23 , 2020 .
You can listen to the 7-minute interview here .


climatedepot--2020-11-04--AP Polls reveal climate was near bottom of voter priorities — Below 10% in state-by-state polling –

AP Polls reveal climate was near bottom of voter priorities — Below 10% in state-by-state polling – A wholesale rejection of the Green New Deal even in blue states

Via New York Times : “ The numbers on this page are estimates from A.P .
VoteCast , a survey @ @ @ @ @ by NORC at the University of Chicago .
These surveys were conducted online and by @ @ @ @ @ days before the election .
The estimates shown here reflect the responses of 3,731 likely @ @ @ @ @ adjusted to match the actual vote count .
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climatedepot--2020-11-04--New York Times: “Election Day 2020: “The ‘green wave’ that environmentalists had hoped for failed to

New York Times: “Election Day 2020: “The ‘green wave’ that environmentalists had hoped for failed to materialize”

The United States presidential race is still up in the air , and the battle for control of the Senate appears far from over .
But one thing is clear the day after Election Day 2020 : The “ green wave ” that environmentalists had hoped for failed to materialize .
There were bright spots for the environment .
In the Senate , two Democrats , John Hickenlooper in Colorado and Mark Kelly in Arizona , have defeated incumbent Republicans who have received poor marks from environmental and conservation groups for their voting records .
Mr. Kelly was endorsed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that promotes candidates who promise to take action on climate change .
Mr. Hickenlooper was not .
While he declared during the campaign that action on climate change was urgently needed , his past ties to the oil and gas industry in Colorado made some groups wary .
Mr. Hickenlooper could turn out to be the greenest of green lawmakers , but if Democrats don ’ t win control of the Senate it might make little difference .
While the House looks certain to remain in Democratic hands , in the Senate the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if Joseph R. Biden Jr. wins the presidency , which would allow Kamala Harris to break tie votes ; or three , if President Trump is re-elected .
Even two more Democratic victories seemed less likely on Wednesday than they did before the vote count began .
Climate and the environment were front and center in several state and local elections , and the outcomes appear certain in a few of those .
In a Texas race that was closely watched by environmental groups , a Democrat , Chrysta Castañeda , appears to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Texas Railroad Commission , the state ’ s oil and gas regulator .
The Republican candidate , Jim Wright , led by nearly 10 percentage points , with most of the votes counted , according to Decision Desk HQ .
As my colleague Lisa Friedman wrote recently , Ms. Castañeda ’ s campaign received an infusion of $ 2.5 million from the billionaire Michael Bloomberg in hopes that a Democrat would win a seat on the three-member commission for the first time in the 21st century and prompt more oversight on climate-related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who was supported by the oil and gas industry , was criticized by environmental groups for promoting fringe theories about climate change and renewable energy .


climatedepot--2020-11-04--Covid, Climate Change, and Government Coercion: ‘THE POLITICS OF FEAR THREATEN OUR LIBERTIES’

`` Covid-19 has seen democratic governments exercising coercive powers over their citizens on a scale never imagined .
Their justification : Your freedom is someone else ’ s risk of catching a potentially fatal disease .
Having deployed the instruments of social control , politicians and government bureaucrats won ’ t quietly put them away when the crisis passes – not when other opportunities exist to wield their newfound powers ... `` Your carbon footprint is my climate change ... the common theme between Covid and climate change .
Thanks to the virus , governments now know that they can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The government has discovered the power of public fear to let it get its way , ” Sumption argues .
Net-zero will shrink people ’ s choices and curtail the lives they wish to lead .
Consider Covid a warning of what might yet come . ''
Covid-19 has seen democratic governments exercising coercive powers over their citizens on a scale never imagined .
Their justification : Your freedom is someone else ’ s risk of catching a potentially fatal disease .
Having deployed the instruments of social control , politicians and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them away when the crisis passes – not when other opportunities exist to wield their newfound powers .
Consider , for example , a similar justification for state coercion on environmental protection : Your carbon footprint is my climate change .
The link between Covid control measures and climate change has already been made by the head of Britain ’ s Committee on Climate Change , a body established in 2008 to hold the government accountable for meeting net-zero emissions targets .
( Joe Biden has pledged a similar “ enforcement mechanism ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . )
“ The government has stepped in in a quite extraordinary way to our way of life , ” committee chief executive Chris Stark says .
In a powerful philippic against government-by-Covid-decree , Lord Sumption , a former justice on the British Supreme Court , observed that fear has always been the most potent instrument of the authoritarian state .
“ Fear was deliberately stoked up by the government : the language of impending doom ; the daily press conferences ; the alarmist projections of mathematical modelers ; the manipulative use of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with climate change , complete with alarmist language , in this case pertaining to planetary catastrophe .
There is a difference , though .
With Covid , the death counts are real , the grief and loss genuine , whereas with climate change , abstraction predominates .
Average global temperature is a statistical artifact .
Limiting the increase in average global temperature to 1.5 degrees Centigrade ( 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ) above pre-industrial levels is a far lower priority , for most people , than preventing deaths from a novel infectious disease .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ pre-industrial climate ; most would probably prefer today ’ s warmer temperatures .
Climate scientists can ’ t even be certain about the pre-industrial temperature baseline , chosen by European environment ministers to highlight what they saw as the environmental crime of the Industrial Revolution .
In the 32 years since a climate emergency was first announced in June 1988 , nothing Americans have experienced comes close to the climatic extreme of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s .
The notion of a planetary emergency has a long pedigree .
In July 1965 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidential nominee , spoke of humanity traveling on a little spaceship , dependent on vulnerable reserves of air and soil .
“ We can not maintain it half fortunate , half miserable , half confident , half despairing , half slave – to the ancient enemies of man – half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day , ” Stevenson declared .
“ No craft , no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions .
On their resolution depends the survival of us all.
” The following year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , exploitative “ cowboy economy , ” which regarded consumption as a good thing , with the “ spaceman economy , ” where mankind ’ s material wellbeing would be constrained .
On spaceships , after all , supplies are rationed .
“ The less consumption we can maintain a given state with , the better off we are , ” Boulding concluded .
As with Covid , the spaceship economy carries a strong presumption against personal freedom : What anyone does , anywhere is the concern of everyone , everywhere .
Green @ @ @ @ @ @ @ salvation or even liberation from the privations of Spaceship Earth .
A recent paper in Global Environmental Change points out that improvements in energy efficiency largely served to boost productivity – and enable more growth .
But renewable energy swaps highly efficient , energy-rich hydrocarbons for vastly more material-intensive wind and solar while degrading the reliability of the electrical grid .
Energy expert Gautam Kalghatgi estimates that Britain will need the equivalent of at least 110,000 3-megawatt wind turbines to meet its net-zero targets .
A single 3-megawatt wind turbine needs 310 metric @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 9 mt of copper , 1,200 mt of concrete , 2 mt of rare earth metals , 20 mt of fiber glass , and 28 mt of other plastics and aluminum plus large amounts of oil – and it lasts 20 to 25 years .
Multiply all that by 110,000 , and you end up with huge environmental impacts and a price tag of $ 1.4- $ 2 trillion .
Anti-growth advocates argue that imposing hard caps on resource use is the only realistic prospect for avoiding ecological collapse .
But we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were made in the Limits to Growth debates of the early 1970s .
Back then , scientists advising the British government argued that a “ fundamental and painful restructuring of our industrial society is necessary if mankind is to survive ” and questioned whether the pace of democratic politics was sufficient .
And here we see the common theme between Covid and climate change .
Thanks to the virus , governments now know that they can impose draconian restrictions on their citizens .
“ The government has discovered the power of public fear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Sumption argues .
Net-zero will shrink people ’ s choices and curtail the lives they wish to lead .
Consider Covid a warning of what might yet come .
Rupert Darwall is a senior fellow of the RealClear Foundation and author of THE CLIMATE NOOSE .


climatedepot--2020-11-04--NY Times Keeps Reporter On Energy Beat Despite Tweet Linking Industry to ‘White Supremacy’

A New York Times reporter who said the oil and gas industry is linked to white supremacy is still on the energy sector beat , despite complaints she can ’ t provide objective coverage , emails obtained by InsideSources show .
“ I ’ ve been thinking a lot about fossil fuels and white supremacy recently , ” Times climate change reporter Hiroko Tabuchi tweeted on Oct. 1 .
“ Almost every single oil executive , lobbyist , spokesperson I ’ ve dealt with is white and male .
It ’ s difficult not to see the link.
” One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ executive with the American Petroleum Institute emailed Times climate editor Hannah Fairfield , who in turn tried to allay their concerns .
“ We agree that the tweets you cited were overly opinionated , ” Fairfield said to the executive .
“ Hiroko herself made the decision to delete them from her account .
However , we are confident that her reporting on the industry has been accurate and fair , and has adhered to the high journalistic standards of the New York Times.
” Times executive editor Dean Baquet added in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ senior editors ” had consulted with Fairfield about the response .
“ We believe strongly that we have taken appropriate steps , ” Baquet said .
However , there is no indication that the New York Times has taken any steps .
Tabuchi is still covering the petroleum industry for the paper .
“ I am at a loss in justifying to our executives why we would engage with a reporter who believes our entire industry and its executives are linked to white supremacy , something we strongly denounce , ” the API @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The official ’ s name was blacked out in the emails provided to InsideSources by a source close to the matter who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge the emails or speak on the subject .
The API official added that allowing Tabuchi to simply delete the tweet without any correction or apology was “ insufficient ” and that Tabuchi ’ s comments were “ in direct violation of your own handbook on ethical journalism.
” “ Your institution is too good to look the other way on such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” he continued .
“ She has lost the confidence of our organization and I imagine any reader who views her troubling comments.
” An online version of the Times handbook for journalists says , “ Staff members are free to discuss their own activities in public , provided their comments do not create an impression that they lack journalistic impartiality or speak for The Times.
” A request for comment from the Times was not returned .
Officials with API tell InsideSources they are still under the impression that no further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The reporter ’ s comments were deeply offensive and downright wrong about our industry , ” said API ’ s senior vice president of communications Megan Bloomgren .
“ Such baseless name calling and attacks take away from important discussions and progress that our industry and many others are making to increase workforce diversity , understanding , and shared actions to advance equity and inclusion.
” “ We immediately raised the reporter ’ s comments to the highest levels of the New York Times since they directly violated the paper ’ s handbook @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exchanged emails and had a meaningful discussion , the editors took no action .
Deleting tweets doesn ’ t delete inherent bias.
” When journalists delete tweets , they often publish an explanation for the deletion .
But no such tweet appears to have been sent from Tabuchi to her more than 126,000 followers .
Her current Twitter timeline only goes back to September 21 , indicating she ’ s deleted her previous posts .
The simmering controversy over Tabuchi ’ s tweet illustrates how the social justice issue is being injected into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country is grappling with questions of race and fairness after a summer of protests .
“ Police violence and pollution are more connected than you might realize , ” Tabuchi said in a since-deleted tweet from September .
“ This investigation documents how the fossil fuel industry finances police groups in major U.S. cities , while polluting majority Black and brown communities.
” In another deleted tweet , Tabuchi quoted an environmental activist who said , “ Fossil fuel facilities are disproportionately — let me say that again , disproportionately — located in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Baytown , Texas to Cancer Alley in Louisiana , communities of color are in the crosshairs of this pollution.
” Pennsylvania is a top natural gas producer in the country , especially as hydraulic fracturing technologies — usually called “ fracking — have come to dominate the field and have unleashed a decade of new productivity for the industry .
A 2017 study by API estimated that Pennsylvania is home to 322,600 fracking jobs .


climatedepot--2020-11-04--Biden Would ‘Transition’ Your Standard of Living – Seeks to get rid of fossil fuels

Steve Milloy : `` When Biden says that the U.S. will get rid of fossil fuels , many believe that this is both a worthy goal and an achievable one .
It ’ s neither .
Fossil fuels are inextricable from our lives .
Nothing happens in our modern world without them .
While it ’ s possible to replace one fossil fuel ( e.g.
, coal ) with another ( natural gas ) , nothing can replace fossil fuels themselves as an energy source . ''
... `` Now imagine a man running for president who announces that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sources of energy .
He offers no hints on how he would do this or what he would replace them with .
But he wants to make the “ transition , ” regardless of its practicality .
That ’ s Joe Biden .
If Biden is elected president , would he seriously try to get rid of fossil fuels , or is he saying such things just to appeal to green-minded Democratic voters ? ''
Joe Biden is no moderate .
He admitted as much at the final presidential debate when he said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ away from oil .
Many don ’ t realize how radical a statement that is .
Since at least 1988 , politicians and advocates have tried to sell the American people two demonstrably false ideas .
The first : that our use of fossil fuels like coal , oil , and gas is bad for the planet .
The second : that we have access to affordable substitutes for these energy sources .
Since the mid-2000s , these notions have been incorporated into K-12 and university curricula and adopted and propagated by virtually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. oil companies striving to be politically correct .
When Biden says that the U.S. will get rid of fossil fuels , many believe that this is both a worthy goal and an achievable one .
Fossil fuels are inextricable from our lives .
Nothing happens in our modern world without them .
While it ’ s possible to replace one fossil fuel ( e.g.
, coal ) with another ( natural gas ) , nothing can replace fossil fuels themselves as an energy source .
You may support wind turbines and solar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be manufactured or installed without massive quantities of fossil fuels .
And wind and solar , as intermittent energy sources , must be backed up by fossil fuels when the wind doesn ’ t blow and the sun doesn ’ t shine .
You want to buy an electric vehicle ?
They can ’ t be made or even re-charged without fossil fuels .
It ’ s not possible to build an electric grid powered by wind and solar that would supply a nation driving 250 million electric vehicles .
Look at where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be built without fossil fuels ?
How would the bricks , concrete , steel , lumber , windows , paint , and siding materials be produced and transported in an affordable way without fossil fuels ?
Or look inside your home .
You see cars , TVs , computers , phones , kitchen products , furniture , clothing , and so one – and all require plastic .
If we phased out oil , how would we make plastic and other products with synthetic materials ?
What would replace it , wood or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fuels to make them , too .
Ever been to a hospital and noticed all the plastic equipment and single-use supplies ?
Maybe a restaurant can replace plastic straws with paper ones , but a paper IV tube is just not going to cut it .
Do you like eating ?
Fossil fuels are the reason why we can feed the 7.8 billion people on our planet .
Growing , harvesting , transporting , storing , and refrigerating food all require fossil fuels .
Even organic farming depends on fossil fuels – in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fossil fuels than conventional farming .
How would you enjoy French or even California wine without fossil fuels unless you lived in France or California ?
Or winter grapes from Chile ?
How about seafood ?
There is no such thing as an electric fishing boat – and even if there was , it would require fossil fuels to build and charge .
Need to fly for business or pleasure ?
There are no battery-powered 747s and there never will be .
The only way that airlines can reduce emissions is to fly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for president who announces that he wants to do away with these indispensable sources of energy .
He offers no hints on how he would do this or what he would replace them with .
But he wants to make the “ transition , ” regardless of its practicality .
If Biden is elected president , would he seriously try to get rid of fossil fuels , or is he saying such things just to appeal to green-minded Democratic voters ?
Do you really want to take the chance to find out the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ served on the Trump EPA transition team and is the author of “ Scare Pollution : How and Why to Fix the EPA ” ( Bench Press , 2016 ) .


climatedepot--2020-11-03--Energy and Race: The Media’s New Intersectionality – ‘Before Trump, Republicans were losing the ener

Energy and Race: The Media’s New Intersectionality – ‘Before Trump, Republicans were losing the energy war by not fighting it’

Energy divides the Left and Right , but not in the most obvious way .
The Left sees energy as a means of controlling society and the “ commanding heights ” of the economy , to use a Leninist phrase .
The Right tends to see energy as an important sector of the economy , but not an economic control knob – with one important exception .
The exception , of course , is Donald Trump .
As he sees it , cheap energy powers blue-collar prosperity .
It ’ s not surprising , then , that until the Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had the upper hand .
It ’ s why Trump ’ s zinger in the second presidential debate caught Joe Biden off guard .
“ Would you close down the oil industry ?
” Trump interjected .
Biden allowed that he would “ transition ” out of oil usage .
“ Saying you want to phase out oil and gas hits differently on a debate stage than in a whitepaper , ” progressive site Grist commented .
“ And it was the first time a major candidate for U.S. president has said anything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stage.
” Before Trump , Republicans were losing the energy war by not fighting it .
“ Our security , our prosperity , and our environment all require reducing our dependence on oil , ” President George W. Bush declared in January 2008 .
The transition from the Bush to the Obama presidency was well-nigh seamless in this regard .
“ We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy , ” President Obama said in his first address to Congress .
In waging this war , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ partisan and one-sided media .
Examples of bias abound , including “ soft ” documentaries .
Netflix ’ s 2019 “ Our Planet ” documentary , narrated by climate icon Sir David Attenborough , carried a subtext of banning fossil fuels to save the natural world .
One segment shows walruses falling off cliffs as they are pursued by polar bears , hungry allegedly because of a lack of sea ice due to global warming .
Much of what the film asserted turned out to be fabrication or outright falsehood .
Then there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against fracking .
Fracking causes gas pipelines to explode , the magazine claimed last year , though pipelines are far and away the safest way to transport oil and gas .
Five years ago , fracking – “ a form of extraction dating back to the Civil War ” – was supposedly killing babies and afflicting children with “ cancers – leukemia , lymphoma – in places with no known clusters , ” the magazine asserted in another story , claims that could have come straight out of Rachel Carson ’ s Silent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soaring and people were swimming in “ a sea of carcinogens , ” Carson wrote in her 1962 classic , although there was no scientific basis for either of these assertions .
The energy debate takes place in a sea of bias and misinformation .
At various times , the nation ’ s two leading newspapers have reported that fracking causes low birth weights ( Washington Post ) ; more out-of-wedlock babies ( WaPo ) ; mouth ulcers ( New York Times ) ; and – inevitably – more cancers ( WaPo again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ran a story based on anonymously sourced , redacted emails from the independent Energy Information Administration .
It turned out that much of the material derived from emails between an intern and the anti-fracking Natural Resources Defense Council , earning a rebuke from the Times ’ s public editor .
One virtue of Twitter is seeing journalists ’ unfiltered venting .
“ Every oil and gas call I ’ m on , I ’ m reminded how almost completely white and male this industry is , ” the Times ’ s climate and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ Speaking on a just-ended call : three white men called Rob , Rob , and Ed.
” ( She later deleted the tweet . )
Tabuchi ’ s Twitter followers comprise a rolodex of the sharp end of the climate-industrial complex .
They include Josh Fox , director of the tendentious anti-fracking movie “ Gasland ; ” hockey-stick climate scientist Michael Mann , a co-founder of 350.org ; the executive directors of Greenpeace USA and the Sunrise Movement ; and a former EPA regional administrator fired over comments about how he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gas industry .
The alleged prejudice at play here : climate change is racist , and the industry responsible for it is run by white supremacists .
A far different viewpoint , however , rarely makes the news : that draconian climate policies disadvantage minority communities .
Two weeks ago , The Two Hundred , a coalition of Latino civil rights leaders in California , wrote a blistering letter that begins , “ We write again to object to the continued racist conduct of the California Air Resources Board.
” Indeed , if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racism theme , he can find much more of it in the pages of the Times and other papers that resolutely toe the official environmental line – while ignoring how regressive climate policies advocated by white billionaires in Silicon Valley and Wall Street disproportionately hurt Latinos , African-Americans , and those on low incomes .
Perhaps Twitter should add a mirror function to help journalists like Hiroko Tabuchi .
Rupert Darwall is a Senior Fellow of the RealClear Foundation and author of Green Tyranny .


climatedepot--2020-11-03--Climate statistician Dr. Caleb Rossiter to Congress: ‘Facebook has turned its fact-checking in clima

Climate statistician Dr. Caleb Rossiter to Congress: ‘Facebook has turned its fact-checking in climate over to a partisan group devoted to censorship’

Rossiter : How do we know that Climate Feedback is alarmist and partisan ?
Because it was founded and funded by long-time climate alarmist Eric Michelman for the express purpose of promoting the climate crisis narrative .
Indeed , Climate Feedback is tech mogul Michelman ’ s third foray into shutting down a debate that he said , well before he created Climate Feedback , “ is settled .
” Facts vs. “ Fact-checkers ” : Facebook ’ s Censorship of Climate Science and Energy Economics Submitted by Dr. Caleb Stewart Rossiter Executive Director , CO2 Coalition Chairman Wicker , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Committee : Thank you for bringing attention to the important topic of censorship by technology and social media entities who , because of their reach into our daily lives , operate as both formal private corporations and informal public trusts .
I was a congressional staffer and a statistics professor , and now I direct the CO2 Coalition , an alliance of 60 distinguished climate scientists and energy economists .
For the past year our non-profit educational group , like many others in this area , has been subjected to censorship by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ labeled as false and hence blocked from sharing , and , after making a scientifically detailed case to Facebook , had them unlabeled and unblocked .
We ’ ve been shadow-banned , meaning that both labeled and unlabeled posts have been limited in their distribution , and then un-shadow banned .
We ’ ve been denied the ability to advertise our group and promote our posts , and then , after appeal , permitted to advertise and promote .
All of this back and forth adds up to a full-time job , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the importance of Facebook as the world ’ s new bulletin board .
Let me make it clear that I sympathize with Facebook .
I am sure that Facebook never expected that people would use its bulletin board to post hateful comments and call for violence against ethnic groups and religions .
Facebook has the right as a private company to do something about those things .
I am sure that Facebook never expected posts telling people the wrong rules for voting or discouraging the use of long-proven AIDS treatments or vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to teach students how to analyze claims rather than rely on others ’ analyses , I ’ d prefer that Facebook let readers use their own judgment and common sense rather than censor such claims .
After all , freedom of speech is always preferable , and so for these claims that clearly fall within constitutional bounds , caveat emptor .
The buyer , the citizen , must always look skeptically upon all claims until they can be analyzed .
This is true whether the claims are in a poster , a post @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are made by your neighbor , a politician , or a scholar .
It is up to all of us to know and use techniques to separate the dross from the gold .
However , I also believe that Facebook has the right to address as it sees fit its concerns about harm being done in these areas .
And further , I think it ’ s fine for Facebook to permit climate alarmists and alternative energy enthusiasts to use posts and promotions to make a case that science and economics , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This case is the dual narrative that we all know so well : carbon dioxide emitted as a byproduct of fossil fuels is a net danger to society , and we can make a cost-free transition away from those affordable , reliable fuels that account for over 80 percent of global energy .
But Facebook made its first false step when alarmists began to demand censorship of those of us who point out the evidence for the contrary case .
We publish studies showing the net positive impact on our economy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CO emissions .
We publish studies describing the current technological and financial barriers to replacing fossil fuels with intermittent “ renewable ” wind turbines and solar panels and their storage batteries — none of which , by the way , are even remotely renewable , since they rely on fossil-fueled mining , transportation , refining , construction , and back-up power for down times .
Rather than let these dueling narrative duke it out and allow readers to come to their own conclusions based on the evidence provided , last year Facebook tried @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crisis narrative , and ended up being captured by them .
You can not sate the appetite of an anaconda by giving it just a taste of your foot .
It always wants more .
Facebook ’ s key mistake was placing open debate about the past , present and future state of the complex arena called “ climate change ” into the category of hate speech , incitement to violence , and misinformation about voting and medicines .
But the scientific and economic debate about climate change has good arguments on both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harms society .
This debate is precisely the sort of thing the internet does a good job on , helping people find data , analysis , and conclusions that they may not have considered .
The Structure of Climate Censorship at Facebook Here ’ s how climate censorship happened , once Facebook gave its foot to the anaconda by agreeing that the debate should be moderated like hate speech : • Facebook had already turned its day-to-day censorship decisions over to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies ’ International Fact-Checking Network .
• @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tampa Bay Times and operates the left-leaning PolitiFact .
• An alarmist , partisan group called Climate Feedback worked for years to get itself certified as an unbiased source on climate issues by Poynter , so it could join its “ fact-checking ” network .
• By 2019 , Climate Feedback had succeeded , and issued its first censorship decisions .
How do we know that Climate Feedback is alarmist and partisan ?
Because it was founded and funded by long-time climate alarmist Eric Michelman for the express purpose of promoting the climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is tech mogul Michelman ’ s third foray into shutting down a debate that he said , well before he created Climate Feedback , “ is settled.
” The debate is settled ?
But this debate covers literally everything from A to Z , from atmospheric heat dynamics to zooplankton , with cloud formation , polar bear appetites , forest management , sunspot cycles , land subsidence and sea-level , hurricane and drought measurement , assumed parameters for mathematical modeling , Hadley air circulation cells , ocean heat transfer , CO retention rates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ science , electricity generation and transmission , and much , much more in between .
It ’ s sort of a study of everything , and everything in it is complex and constantly changing , so that our data and conclusions today might well be different tomorrow .
These topics literally cover the waterfront … and the atmosphere-front , the agronomy-front , the space-front , and many more fronts .
And that ’ s just for the physics , not even for the even less certain and less predictable economics .
Subsidies and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a slight alteration in reasonable future discount rates can change the CO emissions cost/benefit ratio in even the most alarmist damage models from negative to positive in a flash .
Facebook has turned its fact-checking in climate and energy over to a partisan group devoted to censorship , not scholarship .
They don ’ t fact-check whoppers by the alarmist side , just studies cited by skeptics .
We win our protests to Facebook because Climate Feedback ’ s reasoning is typically superficial and often just plain wrong , and contradicts the data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change body .
The former president of the American Association of State Climatologists , Patrick Michaels , and I wrote a detailed , scientifically-referenced response to Facebook that soon got the false label reversed on our 2019 critique of mathematical climate models for running three times too hot compared to the actual data .
Our letter is almost identical in form and argument to responses in 2020 to similar Climate Feedback censorship , which were written by environmental writer Michael Shellenberger , Dr. Michaels again ( after a televised appearance on Fox ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , and climate statistician Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. All of us authors agree , and have told Facebook : Climate Feedback is biased , sloppy , and often just flat wrong .
For example , in its “ fact-checks , ” the group blatantly contradicts the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ’ s finding that there has been no statistically significant increase in rates of sea-level rise , hurricanes , droughts , and floods during the carbon emissions impact era that began with the dramatic industrialization after World War II @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some objective “ truth ” about analysis and opinion about the past , present , or future of the literally millions of issues that I have noted cover the complex fields of climate science and energy economics .
Facebook recently created a Climate Science Information Center to dispense this truth to its users , apparently universally .
Ironically , the site features links to the UN climate body , many of whose findings and data are denied by Climate Feedback in its politicized censorship decisions .
My question for the Committee and for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treating varying analyses and opinions in this crucial area of public policy , one of great complexity and uncertainty , as if they were incitement to violence or hate speech ?
Why do we need fact-checking in the climate field ?
Facebook has not provided an answer to date .
However , two recent letters to Facebook by leading public figures make the case .
These letters call on Facebook to do even more , and completely ban my organization and other skeptics .
Why ?
Because we have convinced some in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carbon dioxide as dangerous , and that has stymied policies like an end to fossil fuels that would protect public health : • Four senators , including one member of this committee , asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ban us because “ climate change is an existential crisis ” that is as dangerous to humanity as non-vaccination or the spread of COVID-19 .
Facebook works to restrict “ misinformation ” on these topics , and so should on climate change as well .
“ The climate crisis and environmental degradation are not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ senators , and publicizing any view contrary to that claim “ puts action on climate change at risk.
” • Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams , former presidential candidate Tom Steyer , and representatives of 17 environmental lobbying groups also asked Facebook ’ s Oversight Board to ban us .
They believe that “ by allowing climate misinformation to go unchecked , Facebook is actively putting the health and well-being of our nation ’ s most vulnerable low-income communities and communities of color at risk.
” Mr. Chairman and Madame Ranking Member @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Pennsylvania legislature recently , explaining in detail why these claims are incorrect .
Fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions provide an overwhelmingly positive net benefit to public health , compared to a Green New Deal policy of banning them .
I certainly hope that these legislative bodies won ’ t be asked by their members to take down their links to my testimony , provided here and here , because they “ put action of climate change at risk.
” In fact , it is well-intentioned but misguided action on climate change @ @ @ @ @ @ @ California , with its high energy prices and investment in “ renewable ” energy rather than forest management , to Texas , with its failed , rate-raising effort by the city of Georgetown to achieve net-zero emissions of CO .
And real people die when “ fracking ” is banned .
According to a study for the National Institutes of Health , the reduction in heating costs due to this important technology saves 11,000 Americans ’ lives every year .
When fuel prices are high , people cut back on heating , leading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pneumonia and bronchitis .
Even more tragically , U.S. policy today blocks African nations from building the power plants they need to expand access to electricity from its current one-third .
African lives matter , and universal electrification would take a big bite out of the 439,000 African the World Health Organization estimates die every year from indoor air pollution from cooking with wood and animal dung .
Without access to Facebook , our CO2 Coalition and other groups would be less effective at publicizing these facts , and the deadly Green New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So , for the benefit of sound deliberation and public health , please ask Facebook why debate about climate and energy can not be adjudicated in the court of public opinion , rather than by Climate Feedback .
This statement was submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce , Science , and Transportation Hearing on Examining Section 230 ’ s Usefulness : Has the Digital Age Surpassed It ?
October 28 , 2020 .
For more information on the hearing , go to https : //www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/committee-to-hold-hearing-with-big-tech-ceos-on-section-230


climatedepot--2020-11-03--Biden’s advisors urge him to use ‘U.S. financial regulation as a tool to fight global warming’ – Cen

Biden’s advisors urge him to use ‘U.S. financial regulation as a tool to fight global warming’ – Central banks to ‘mitigate climate risks to financial markets’

Reuters : `` A climate advocacy group comprised of high-profile backers of Democratic presidential candidate Biden urged the former vice president to consider using U.S. financial regulation as a tool to fight global warming if he is elected .
Evergreen Action , a group of former staffers of Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Senator Elizabeth Warren who have advised the Biden campaign on a range of issues , handed the campaign a policy memo detailing how he could use the U.S. financial system to counter climate change within his first 100 days in office if he defeats Republican President Donald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just focus on the Environmental Protection Agency or the Interior Department .
We really need to start thinking more expansively about tackling climate change , ” said Maggie Thomas , political director of Evergreen Action .
...
The memo also calls on the next administration to catch up with other countries whose central banks have taken action to measure and mitigate climate risks to financial markets .
It also recommends creating a climate “ stress test ” for large financial institutions , and urges the financial sector to prioritize clean investments in communities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to use financial regulation to control climate change ( Reuters ) – A climate advocacy group comprised of high-profile backers of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday urged the former vice president to consider using U.S. financial regulation as a tool to fight global warming if he is elected .
Evergreen Action , a group of former staffers of Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Senator Elizabeth Warren who have advised the Biden campaign on a range of issues , handed the campaign a policy memo detailing how he could use the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his first 100 days in office if he defeats Republican President Donald Trump .
The U.S. election is on Nov. 3 .
“ We can ’ t just focus on the Environmental Protection Agency or the Interior Department .
We really need to start thinking more expansively about tackling climate change , ” said Maggie Thomas , political director of Evergreen Action .
The recommendations here include appointing nominees to key posts like the Treasury secretary , a new Federal Reserve chair in 2022 , and others , who prioritize climate action and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transparency around the financial risks posed by global warming .
Progressive policy groups have pushed for Warren or Sarah Bloom Raskin , former deputy Treasury secretary under Democratic President Barack Obama , as candidates for Treasury secretary under a possible Biden administration .
Raskin consulted on the Evergreen Action memo .
The memo also calls on the next administration to catch up with other countries whose central banks have taken action to measure and mitigate climate risks to financial markets .
It also recommends creating a climate “ stress test ” for large @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sector to prioritize clean investments in communities of color .
The Federal Reserve has only recently begun to acknowledge the potential for climate change to destabilize the financial system and consider possible responses .
Meanwhile , the Trump administration has sought to discourage institutional investors from favoring clean energy over fossil fuels , calling it discriminatory , stymie investor pressure to address climate change , and limit required environmental risk disclosures .


climatedepot--2020-11-03--Aussie Scientist Dr. Jennifer Marohasy on climate change: ‘Better a question that cannot be answered

Aussie Scientist Dr. Jennifer Marohasy on climate change: ‘Better a question that cannot be answered than an answer that cannot be questioned’

I attended the IPA ’ s book launch of Climate Change The Facts 2020 at Sunshine Beach last week .
@ @ @ @ @ , came up with the following quotation which was new to me : Attributed to @ @ @ @ @ physicist ( 1918-88 ) , but may not be an entirely original thought by him @ @ @ @ @ up the state of contemporary climate science , does it not ?
If you would @ @ @ @ @ of Climate Change The Facts 2020 go here : https : //climatechangethefacts.org.au/


climatedepot--2020-11-03--Watch 2016 video: World Economic Forum’s utopian Great Reset vision of 2030 – ‘You’ll own nothing, a

Watch 2016 video: World Economic Forum’s utopian Great Reset vision of 2030 – ‘You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy’ – ‘Whatever you want you’ll rent & it’ll be delivered by drone’  – Meat ‘will be occasional treat’

World Economic Forum : `` The U.S. wo n't be the world 's leading superpower .
`` A billion people will be displaced by climate change . ''
`` Polluters will have to pay to emit carbon dioxide . ''
`` There will be a global price on carbon this will help make fossil fuels history . ''
Global Agenda 8 predictions for the world in 2030 Excerpt : We asked experts from our Global Future Councils for their take on the world in 2030 , and these are the results , from the death of shopping to the resurgence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ All products will have become services .
“ I don ’ t own anything .
I don ’ t own a car .
I don ’ t own a house .
I don ’ t own any appliances or any clothes , ” writes Danish MP Ida Auken .
Shopping is a distant memory in the city of 2030 , whose inhabitants have cracked clean energy and borrow what they need on demand .
It sounds utopian , until she mentions that her every move is tracked and outside the city live swathes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a society split in two .
2 .
There is a global price on carbon .
China took the lead in 2017 with a market for trading the right to emit a tonne of CO2 , setting the world on a path towards a single carbon price and a powerful incentive to ditch fossil fuels , predicts Jane Burston , Head of Climate and Environment at the UK ’ s National Physical Laboratory .
Europe , meanwhile , found itself at the centre of the trade in cheap , efficient solar panels , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3 .
US dominance is over .
We have a handful of global powers .
Nation states will have staged a comeback , writes Robert Muggah , Research Director at the Igarapé Institute .
Instead of a single force , a handful of countries – the U.S. , Russia , China , Germany , India and Japan chief among them – show semi-imperial tendencies .
However , at the same time , the role of the state is threatened by trends including the rise of cities and the spread of online identities , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Technology will have further disrupted disease , writes Melanie Walker , a medical doctor and World Bank advisor .
The hospital as we know it will be on its way out , with fewer accidents thanks to self-driving cars and great strides in preventive and personalised medicine .
Scalpels and organ donors are out , tiny robotic tubes and bio-printed organs are in .
5 .
We are eating much less meat .
Rather like our grandparents , we will treat meat as a treat rather than a staple , writes Tim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the University of Leeds , UK .
It won ’ t be big agriculture or little artisan producers that win , but rather a combination of the two , with convenience food redesigned to be healthier and less harmful to the environment .
6 .
Today ’ s Syrian refugees , 2030 ’ s CEOs .
Highly educated Syrian refugees will have come of age by 2030 , making the case for the economic integration of those who have been forced to flee conflict .
The world needs to be better prepared for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Solis , Founder and CEO of the NGO Blue Rose Compass , as climate change will have displaced 1 billion people .
7 .
The values that built the West will have been tested to breaking point .
We forget the checks and balances that bolster our democracies at our peril , writes Kenneth Roth , Executive Director of Human Rights Watch .
8 .
“ By the 2030s , we ’ ll be ready to move humans toward the Red Planet.
” What ’ s more , once we get there , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alien life , writes Ellen Stofan , Chief Scientist at NASA .
Big science will help us to answer big questions about life on earth , as well as opening up practical applications for space technology .
Dr. Matt Briggs comments : You ’ ll Take The Great Reset—And Like It – Way back in pre-doom days , in 2016 , the WEF put out a video explaining how by 2030 you , dear reader , will no longer own anything .
And “ you ’ ll be happy ” about this .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ insist .
Meat will become “ a rare treat ” .
Instead of owning , we will rent all things , mostly delivered by drones .
Who will we pay rent to , who can we pay rent to , but an owner ?
Somebody has to own the materials that make things , or the processes that produce them , or the drones that deliver .
Who decides what to make ?
And what resources to gather ?
If they say the “ state ” owns all these , as in socialism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or thugs that are the owners , regardless of what it says on a piece of paper about “ stakeholders ” .
It takes no special genius to figure out where this open conspiracy is going .
I only touched on a small portion of it here .
More is sure to come—the mysterious phrase “ Build Back Better ” ( look it up ) , immunity passports , COVID-21 , transhumanism , UN Agenda 2030 , Vigano ’ s letter to Trump , etc .


climatedepot--2020-11-03--You’ll Take The Great Reset—And Like It

You’ll Take The Great Reset—And Like It

Dr. Matt Briggs : The Great Reset is a plan to move away from financial liberty to woke economics .
This will be done in the now usual way .
The WEF cajoled Bank of America and others to add “ nonfinancial metrics and disclosures ” to their annual reports , to answer questions such as “ What is the gender pay gap in company X ?
How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted ?
What progress has the company made toward reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions ?
” “ Business needed to do more than make a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unwoke balances , they said .
... Way back in pre-doom days , in 2016 , the WEF put out a video explaining how by 2030 you , dear reader , will no longer own anything .
And “ you ’ ll be happy ” about this .
All products will become services , they insist .
Meat will become “ a rare treat ” .
Ladies and germs—coronadoom germs , that is—the World Economic Forum introduces us to our next wave of forced confinement , which it insists we shalt enjoy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ else .
They tweeted the sappy mugs of two nouveau slaves pleased at their imminent loss of human contact .
There is more than a whiff of a hint in the tableau that we all ought to get used to this .
Because The Great Reset is coming .
Conspiracies have taken on a bad name in our woke culture , relegated to the status of theory .
Yet not all conspiracies are theories .
Some are actual .
Take MK Ultra , our beneficent government ’ s once-secret plan to use brainwashing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and brought to this country by their originators , to create secret spies , killers , and whatnot .
They say it didn ’ t work .
The Great Reset is likewise a non-theoretical conspiracy , a plan by our elites to leverage the coronadoom to take from us all that we own , and confer it onto them .
“ Hold up , Briggs .
That ’ s rank nonsense .
Nothing but hyperbole , you fraud.
” Meet Klaus Schwab , author of the new book COVID-19 : The Great Reset @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Great Reset is a guide for anyone who wants to understand how COVID-19 disrupted our social and economic systems , and what changes will be needed to create a more inclusive , resilient and sustainable world going forward .
Klaus Schwab , founder and executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum , and Thierry Malleret , founder of the Monthly Barometer , explore what the root causes of these crisis were , and why they lead to a need for a Great Reset .
Theirs is a worrying , yet hopeful analysis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reset of our global social , economic , and political systems .
But the power of human beings lies in being foresighted and having the ingenuity , at least to a certain extent , to take their destiny into their hands and to plan for a better future .
Time magazine recently published an article by old Klaus : A Better Economy Is Possible .
But We Need to Reimagine Capitalism to Do It .
He opens with his experience of the doom .
He said it was bad , but the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drop in greenhouse-gas emissions , which brought slight , temporary relief to the planet ’ s atmosphere.
” By “ societal discord and discontent ” he does not mean the growth of the Undead Woke Army , BLM , and Antifa , but the resistance to these .
The WEF recommends embracing “ intersectionality for tackling diversity and inclusion.
” They promise that being an “ # LGBT ally can transform your life ” .
And , as they say , so on .
The Great Reset is a plan to move away @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This will be done in the now usual way .
The WEF cajoled Bank of America and others to add “ nonfinancial metrics and disclosures ” to their annual reports , to answer questions such as “ What is the gender pay gap in company X ?
How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted ?
What progress has the company made toward reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions ?
” “ Business needed to do more than make a well-intentioned but vague pledge ” to redress unwoke balances , they said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ presented by the “ crossing borders ” coroandoom , will usher in the idea of “ stackholder capitalism ” , which removes ownership by owners and transfer it to stakeholders .
Way back in pre-doom days , in 2016 , the WEF put out a video explaining how by 2030 you , dear reader , will no longer own anything .
And “ you ’ ll be happy ” about this .
All products will become services , they insist .
Meat will become “ a rare treat ” .
Instead of owning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mostly delivered by drones .
Who will we pay rent to , who can we pay rent to , but an owner ?
Somebody has to own the materials that make things , or the processes that produce them , or the drones that deliver .
Who decides what to make ?
And what resources to gather ?
If they say the “ state ” owns all these , as in socialism , then they admit it is oligarchs or thugs that are the owners , regardless of what it says on a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It takes no special genius to figure out where this open conspiracy is going .
I only touched on a small portion of it here .
More is sure to come—the mysterious phrase “ Build Back Better ” ( look it up ) , immunity passports , COVID-21 , transhumanism , UN Agenda 2030 , Vigano ’ s letter to Trump , etc .


climatedepot--2020-11-02--Cheers! Nov. 4, 2020: The USA will ‘become the only country in the world to formally exit the Paris

Cheers! Nov. 4, 2020: The USA will ‘become the only country in the world to formally exit the Paris agreement’

USA `` will become the only country in the world to formally exit the Paris agreement .
In the historic global climate change deal , struck in 2015 , 189 countries agreed on nonbinding domestic targets to keep global temperatures well below a disastrous 2 degrees Celsius ... ” US Officially Withdraws From Paris Agreement On Climate Change – The U.S. officially withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change Wednesday , the Associated Press reported .
The 2015 agreement was ratified by 189 countries and six more have signed , but have yet to ratify , the AP reported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support after announcing the U.S ’ s withdrawal in 2017 , according to another AP report .
( RELATED : It ’ s Been One Year Since Trump Promised To Leave The Paris Climate Accord ) “ Having the U.S. pull out of Paris is likely to reduce efforts to mitigate , and therefore increase the number of people who are put into a life-or-death situation because of the impacts of climate change : this is clear from the science , ” Engineering Professor Natalie Mahowald at Cornell University , said , according @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Paris climate deal expires at midnight – Regardless of how Election Day turns out for President Trump and Joe Biden , the US will no longer be a part of the Paris climate deal as of midnight , according to a report .
Trump withdrew the US from the global accord on July 1 , 2017 , but the rules of the deal stipulated that any country wanting to pull out would have to wait three years from Nov. 4 , 2016 – the day it became international law , Politico reported Monday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ documents last Nov. 4 , and the one-year cooling off period expires at midnight .
The State Department will not take an active part in United Nations ’ meetings on the climate deal , but it will remain an observer .
The Paris Climate Accord , signed by 197 countries , created a goal to halt warming “ well below ” 2 degrees Celsius and try to maintain it at 1.5 degrees by cutting greenhouse gas emissions .
Biden said , if elected , he would reenter the agreement .
Flashback 2017 : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Paris pact at UN climate summit in Germany


climatedepot--2020-11-05--America should stay out of UN Paris Pact — ‘A dangerous affront to democracy. Trump was right to cha

America should stay out of UN Paris Pact — ‘A dangerous affront to democracy. Trump was right to challenge it’

One of President Trump ’ s most controversial moves on the world stage was his withdrawal of the USA from the 2015 Paris climate agreement .
Coincidentally , the US ’ s departure from the agreement fell the day after the US presidential election , which at the time of writing is inconclusive .
Challenger candidate Joe Biden has promised to take the US back into Paris .
Whatever the results of the US election , the fact of a close race reveals the unstable and anti-democratic basis on which global climate politics has been advanced .
Paris required countries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But as treaties go , it was a fudge which let countries to determine their own level of reductions – it was an agreement to agree , intended mostly to save the face of the hosting diplomats and the ailing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) process .
The next UNFCCC meeting , known as COP26 ( Committee of Parties ) was due to take place in Glasgow this year , but it was postponed until 2021 , due to the Covid-19 pandemic .
British officials and diplomats have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that will bind countries to deeper levels of commitment , aiming towards the UK ’ s flagship ‘ Net Zero ’ target .
The US withdrawal had thrown a spanner in the works , as the process is based on mutual commitments of self-sacrifice to overcome the ‘ free rider ’ problem that haunts global agreements to protect the environment .
The costs and consequences of radical emissions-reduction policies that UNFCCC agreements require have yet to be calculated fully , but there can be no doubt that they are far-reaching , and involve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of pounds in Britain alone .
Travel of all kinds is likely to become prohibitively expensive , with poorer people priced out of international travel and private transport .
Legislation will require homes to be expensively ‘ retrofitted ’ to meet energy efficiency standards , costing owners of even the smallest properties tens of thousands of pounds .
The price of electricity will multiply .
The gas network that supplies the majority of British homes with heat will be shut down , prohibited to new buildings , and subject to increasingly punitive tariffs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poverty .
Yet , despite this , governments , the UK included , have not sought to check their commitments to global agreements with their voters who will bear the economic consequences .
Trump was one of the few political leaders who recognised that the UNFCCC process lacks democratic legitimacy , and was prepared to depart from the global political consensus .
( Another was Australian PM , Scott Morrison , who won the 2019 federal election , which the Labor opposition had called a ‘ climate election ’ , though Morrison has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . )
In reply to Trump ’ s characteristic recalcitrance to lofty , global , eco-virtue-signalling imperatives , politicians all across the world who champion the climate agenda , including Biden , have promised vast budgets of investment , the creation of millions of jobs , and booming ‘ green ’ economies .
Despite decades of climate policymaking , evidence that those promises can ever be made real is still lacking , whereas evidence that green policies cost vast sums of money , jobs , incomes and freedoms is growing .
False promises @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stock-in-trade .
But publics are – in theory , at least – able to hold politicians to account for lies , hubris and incompetence by voting for alternatives .
But there are two clear obstacles to the public gaining democratic control over politics .
First is the increasing tendency to form cross-party consensuses on issues like climate change , and second is the growth of global agreements to put these policy areas out of the reach of national democracies .
In Britain , for example , the legacy Westminster parties formed a cross-party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In other words , MPs agreed to deny the public a choice on the most fundamental political questions – on the management of the economy and the role of government in everyday life .
For the time being , this creates the risk – which Trump has exposed as a possibility – of an outsider party or politician making political capital out of establishment intransigence .
Global agreements , such as Paris and its successor , put such a challenge further out of reach .
The consequences of reneging on commitments to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to discipline against any future expression of democratic will .
Trump may yet lose the contest .
But even a successful Biden would have to face the consequences of managing a vast country very much split on the question of globalism , as well as the particular commitments that it demands .


climatedepot--2020-11-05--New Jersey signs strongest plastic and paper bag ban in US – ‘Banned single-use plastic & paper food

New Jersey signs strongest plastic and paper bag ban in US – ‘Banned single-use plastic & paper food items at stores & restaurants’

On Nov. 4 , New Jersey Gov .
Phil Murphy ( D ) signed the strongest single-use bag ban in the nation , effectively prohibiting the use of single-use plastic and paper bags in all stores and food service establishments across the state .
The bill , S864 , was introduced into the New Jersey state Senate with five primary sponsors , including Sens .
Bob Smith , Linda Greenstein , and Nancy Pinkin , all Democrats .
It traveled through several committees before being passed on Sept. 24 .
Some of the containers affected by the ban include plastic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , polystyrene foam food service products ( commonly known as Styrofoam ) , as well as the limited usage of plastic drinking straws .
ICE IN BERING SEA HITS LOWEST LEVEL IN THOUSANDS OF YEARS 10 THINGS WE CAN ALL DO ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE Single-use plastic products are increasingly seen as environmental scourges that clog waterways and oceans , the bill ’ s sponsors noted , with about 8 million tons of plastic waste seeping into the oceans from coastal nations every year .
Since they are not biodegradable , they can linger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ negatively impacting multiple ecosystems .
“ Plastic bags are one of the most problematic forms of garbage , leading to millions of discarded bags that stream annually into our landfills , rivers , and oceans , ” Murphy said in a press release .
“ With today ’ s historic bill signing , we are addressing the problem of plastic pollution head-on with solutions that will help mitigate climate change and strengthen our environment for future generations.
” The bill goes into effect in May 2022 , with products like meat and fish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and select straws being legal for another two years after that .
Food service businesses will be allowed to offer single-use plastic straws upon request beginning in November 2021 .


climatedepot--2020-11-05--Global Cooling will kill us all!

Global Cooling will kill us all!

As Angus McFarlane shows in a 2018 well researched wattsupwiththat.com web post ( McFarlane , 2018 ) , some 65 % of the peer-reviewed climate papers , that offered an opinion , published between 1965 and 1979 predicted that the global cooling seen at the time would continue .
He references and is supported by a Notrickszone.com post by Kenneth Richard ( Richard , 2016 ) .
Attempts to erase the “ global cooling scare ” from the internet by the notorious William Connolley , who has rewritten 5,428 Wikipedia articles in a vain attempt to change history , failed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Telegraph , Connolley systematically turned Wikipedia into a man-made global warming advocacy machine ( Delingpole , 2009 ) .
He rewrote articles on global warming , the greenhouse effect , climate models and on global cooling .
He tried to erase the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age .
In the Wikipedia pages he trashed famous climate scientists who were skeptical of man-made global warming like Richard Lindzen , Fred Singer , Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas .
He also blocked people from correcting his lies .
William Connolley is friends @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which includes Phil Jones and Raymond Bradley .
He is also a cofounder of the alarmist website Realclimate.org .
Obviously , Connolley made sure that Mann and Bradley received glowing praise on Wikipedia until he was fired in 2009 and removed as a Wikipedia administrator ( Delingpole , 2009 ) .
We are not surprised that Connolley shows up as a co-author on the peer-reviewed paper , “ The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus ” in BAMS , written by Thomas Peterson , William Connolley and John Fleck ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2008 ) .
The paper is nonsense and made no difference because facts are stubborn things .
That the paper passed peer-review illustrates how corrupt climate science has become .
The paper begins with this : Figure 1 .
The U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit ( CRU ) at the University of East Anglia global average temperature reconstruction since 1850 .
It shows , like other reconstructions , global cooling of about 0.09°C ( 0.16°F ) from 1944 to 1977 .
The global cooling scare of the 1960s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientists and the public were afraid that the global cooling trend , that began in the 1940s ( see Figure 1 ) , would continue and the world would turn very cold , maybe even return to a glacial period like the one that ended about 11,700 years ago at the beginning of the Holocene Epoch .
The Peterson , et al .
paper carefully cherry picks 71 papers and claims that only seven papers between 1965 and 1979 disagreed with the “ consensus ” position that global warming would occur in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a neutral position and 44 that agreed with the global warming consensus .
But the world was cooling then and had been since 1944 .
Kenneth Richard researched this and expanded the time frame to 1960 to 1989 .
Richard found 285 papers that disagreed with the “ consensus ” position that global warming would occur in the future ( Richard , 2016 ) .
Of these 285 papers , 156 discussed the cooling since 1940 and predicted future cooling .
Seven tried to show that CO might be causing the cooling .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ downloaded from Kenneth Richard ’ s post .
The alarmists fudged the numbers to show a 97 % consensus that man caused global warming , then they fudged the global cooling consensus in the same way .
Angus McFarlane took the databases created by Kenneth Richard and Peterson , et al.
, merged them ( there were 16 duplicates ) and then did an independent search of his own .
He found two additional relevant papers that were not already in one of the two databases .
Then he eliminated the papers that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
period of 1965-1979 .
McFarlane ’ s database is smaller than Richard ’ s and only has 190 relevant papers , but this is 119 more than Peterson , et al .
found and it covers the same period .
McFarlane ’ s review of the papers found that 86 predicted future cooling , 58 were neutral , and 46 predicted warming .
Of the 86 cooling papers , 30 predicted a possible new “ ice age.
” Strictly speaking , we are in an ice age , what they mean is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a major new maximum extent like 19,000 years ago in the last major glacial maximum .
The 86 cooling papers are 45 % of the total .
If we ignore the neutral papers , like John Cook , et al .
did ( Cook , et al.
, 2013 ) in his 97 % consensus study , then cooling papers are 65 % of the papers that offered an opinion .
Using Cook ’ s rules , we can comfortably claim there was a global cooling consensus in 1979 .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and became a warming trend , it did not take long for the “ consensus ” to reverse as well .
The global surface temperature trend changed to warming ( about 0.017°C/year as shown in the graph ) around 1977 , and the peer-reviewed climate papers from 1977-1979 changed to a ratio of 52 % warming to 48 % cooling , a bare majority of warming papers , ignoring the neutral papers .
During the 1980s the papers quickly changed to pro-warming .
The press in the mid-seventies reported that a consensus of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the cooling would continue ( Struck , 2014 ) .
Articles on the cooling consensus appeared in Newsweek , Time , the New York Times , and National Geographic .
A landmark story by Peter Gwynne in Newsweek April 28 , 1975 was typical ( Gwynne , 1975 ) .
It was entitled “ The Cooling World.
” In the overheated style of Newsweek , the article begins , “ There are ominous signs that the earth ’ s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically.
” Later in the article Gwynne @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s climate seems to be cooling down .
… and the resulting famines could be catastrophic.
” Gwynne ’ s cited sources include the National Academy of Sciences , Murray Mitchell ( NOAA ) , George Kukla ( Columbia University ) , James McQuigg ( NOAA ’ s Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment ) ( Gwynne , 1975 ) .
George Kukla of Columbia University and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory did not change his view of a long-term global cooling trend , like many of his colleagues did .
When he sadly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he still believed that a new massive glacial period would begin in the future , perhaps 5,000 years from now .
Javier Vinós , in his blog post on “ The next glaciation , ” ( Vinós , 2018 ) predicts that the next major glaciation will begin in 1500 to 2500 years .
It is fortunate that both predictions are far in the future .
When the next global cooling period begins , as it inevitably will , will climate scientists write more global cooling papers ?
Why should we believe climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dangerously now , when just 50 or 60 years ago they were saying it was dangerously cooling ?
A reasonable question .
What direct evidence has arisen that convinced them to reverse course ?
We had a consensus for cooling when the world was cooling , now we have a consensus for warming and the world is warming .
Is that all there is to it ?
Both are hypotheses , what makes them become facts or theories ?
Hypotheses are speculative ideas .
A real scientist asks , “ Is that so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” A rigorous scientific process must be used to demonstrate why observed events , such as global warming or global cooling , are occurring .
To show they are potentially dangerous takes even more work .
Consensus is a political thing .
The public forms a consensus opinion , then vote and make laws or rules that reflect the opinion .
In science , we first form a hypothesis or idea that explains an observed natural phenomenon , such as warming or cooling .
The next step is to attempt to disprove it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We publish what we did , and others attempt to disprove the idea , if they fail to disprove it , it survives .
Once this has gone on long enough , the idea becomes a theory .
A scientific theory simply survives , it is never proven , it must always be subject to testing .
We mentioned above that seven of the papers examined by Angus McFarlane and Kenneth Richard suggested that CO might be causing global cooling .
A good example is Sherwood Idso ’ s , 1984 paper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paper is entitled “ What if Increases in Atmospheric CO Have an inverse Greenhouse Effect ?
” ( Idso , 1984 ) .
Idso speculates that additional CO will encourage plants to move into more arid areas , because additional CO causes plants to use less water per pound of growth .
Idso thinks that this might change Earth ’ s albedo ( reflectivity ) in such a way as to lower temperatures .
In a similar way , Richard Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi speculated that additional CO would increase humidity in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & Choi , 2011 ) .
Extremely small changes in average cloud cover can have a large cooling effect during the daytime .
Peter Webster presents an interesting discussion of Sherwood Idso ’ s work in his Climatic Change paper , “ The Carbon Dioxide/Climate Controversy : Some Personal Comments on Two Recent Publications ” ( Webster , 1984 ) .
Besides an interesting discussion of the emotions involved in the human-caused climate change debate , we can see from Webster ’ s discussion , and Idso ’ s paper , how little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ additional CO in the real world .
Tiny changes in Earth ’ s albedo , whether due to cloud cover or the distribution of plants can make a huge difference .
Empirical estimates of ECS ( the change in air temperature due to doubling the CO concentration ) have never matched theoretical calculations from climate models .
The empirical values ( like Idso ’ s or Lindzen and Choi ’ s ) are normally about half of model estimates , and can be negative , like Idso ’ s .
This is likely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possible future changes in albedo due to changing cloud and plant cover are likely candidates .
This post is condensed and modified from my new book , Politics and Climate Change : A History .
To download the post bibliography click here .


climatedepot--2020-11-05--Britain faces green energy disaster as lack of wind triggers new blackout warning

Britain faces green energy disaster as lack of wind triggers new blackout warningThe Global Warming Policy Forum ( GWPF ) / by bennypeiser / 1dIs this article about climate ?
YESNO As the GWPF and other critics of the Government ’ s foolish wind obsession have warned , the risk of lights going out all over Britain is rising relentlessly .
Click on image to read The Brink of Darkness : Britain ’ s Fragile Power Grid For the second time in weeks National Grid has warned that Britain ’ s big onshore and offshore wind farms will be failing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ today because of low wind speeds .
In the meantime , the costs of stabilising the national grid and avoiding catastrophic blackouts have been rising sharply , as unreliable renewables have taken a leading role in electricity supply .
During the first lockdown , National Grid expected the total cost of these rescue measures to be about £2bn this year , but even that figure was based on the erroneous assumption that the country and stabilising costs would return to normal after the summer .
The time has come to pause the blind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reassess the evident technological , national security and economic costs and problems the renewable energy obsession faces .
National Grid last night sent out an urgent call for more power stations to fire up to keep Britain ’ s lights on today after plant outages and low wind farm output increased the risk of blackouts .
The electricity system operator issued an “ margin notice ” , its most serious security of supply alert in four years , warning of a supply crunch between 4:30pm and 6:30pm today .
It forecast a shortfall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cent , compared with the power plant capacity it wants to have available to meet demand and to provide back-up in case plants break down .
Sources said the operator was in talks for coal-fired power stations to fire up to provide back-up .
EDF confirmed it had been asked to warm up its West Burton A plant in Nottinghamshire .
National Grid said the margin notice “ highlights that we would like a greater safety cushion between power demand and available supply ” but “ does not signal that blackouts are imminent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Britain relying on polluting coal plants to keep the lights on will raise concerns about energy security .
All coal plants are due to close by October 2024 , while the government recently committed to a renewed push for offshore wind farms .
National Grid said that it was “ forecasting tight margins on the electricity system .
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owing to a number of factors , including low renewable output and the availability of generators over periods of the day with higher demand ” .
It was “ exploring measures to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to increase our buffer of capacity ” .
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