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The Week That Used to be: 2021-09-25 (September 25, 2021)
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Quote of the Week: “Every piece, or phase, of the entire of nature is at all times simply an approximation to your complete reality, or your complete reality as far as we realize it. If truth be told, the entirety we all know is only a few roughly approximation, as a result of we all know that we have no idea the entire regulations as but. Due to this fact, issues should be leaned best to be unlearned once more or, much more likely, to be corrected.” – Richard Feynman, “Atoms in Movement” from Lectures on Physics. [Boldface in quote were italics in the original.]
Selection of the Week: $11 BILLION a yr through 2024
THIS WEEK:
By way of Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Coverage Mission (SEPP)
Scope: September 14 marked the outlet of the UN Common Meeting with Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives because the Common Meeting President. The leaders of the Maldives have lengthy claimed that they’re going to drown with emerging sea ranges brought about through carbon dioxide-caused world warming. If truth be told, exam displays that the land house of the Maldives has been expanding. Additional, during the last few years the government-controlled Maldives Airport Corporate has been increasing the Velana World Airport to herald world vacationers. In keeping with Wikipedia, a brand new terminal is below building, designed to serve 7.Three million passengers at a price of about $800 million US. The elevation of the airport is 6 toes (2 meters) above imply sea degree. The level of the brand new building contradicts the claims through nationwide leaders that the country will quickly disappear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velana_International_Airport
On September 21, the Common Debate started with leaders of more than a few international locations pledging to sacrifice the prosperity in their international locations to “combat” world weather substitute, which has been happening for loads of tens of millions of years. The “science” advocated through the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Trade (IPCC) is founded upon assumptions remodeled 40 years in the past within the so-called Charney File. Since then, house age generation has accumulated in depth proof that those assumptions are unsuitable, and that carbon dioxide isn’t a big reason of world warming or weather substitute. The UN IPCC has systematically left out the brand new proof and the clinical manner as in part described through Feynman, above. Because it continues with mistakes of the previous, its claims that its findings are in line with science are false. Compounding this falsehood, the IPCC claims large walk in the park in its findings. This TWTW will talk about the pledges made through decided on nation leaders.
First, this TWTW will talk about a up to date paper through Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences, MIT, titled “The Imaginary Local weather Disaster – How are we able to Trade the Message?” Then it’ll talk about positive leaders who’re so keen to sacrifice the longer term prosperity of others to combat a danger that has no bodily foundation and assert that the UN, shaped as a hope for humanity, has grow to be a device to oppress humanity. It’s going to wrap up with how mass media corporations are suppressing clinical inquiry and the way fragile grid has grow to be with additions of wind and photo voltaic.
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Shortcomings Of Skeptics: Richard Lindzen starts his paper exploring how skeptics of bad world warming can perhaps substitute their way through writing: (layout modified)
“For roughly 33 years, many people had been scuffling with in opposition to weather hysteria. We’ve got appropriately famous: 1) The exaggerated sensitivity, 2) The position of alternative processes and herbal inside variability, Three) The inconsistency with the paleoclimate checklist, and four) The absence of proof for greater extremes, droughts, floods, wild-fires, and so forth.’ [Structure modified}
“We’ve got additionally identified the very actual advantages of CO2 or even of modest warming. And, as considerations authorities insurance policies, we’ve got been beautiful useless. Certainly, our efforts have achieved little as opposed to to turn (incorrectly) that we take the danger state of affairs severely. On this communicate, I need to make a tentative research of our failure.
“In punching away on the transparent shortcomings of the narrative of weather alarm, we’ve got, possibly, overlooked probably the most severe shortcoming: particularly, that the entire narrative is beautiful absurd. After all, many of us (despite the fact that in no way all) have large problem entertaining this chance. They may be able to’t consider that one thing so absurd may just acquire such common acceptance.”
He likens the UN response to a slight warming to a health care provider who unearths a affected person has a relatively increased temperature and orders the affected person be put on lifestyles strengthen. He then explains how meaningless the common world temperature is on the subject of herbal variation. Then he explains that the govt. reaction is similar to:
“After your bodily, your doctor tells you that you will have a deadly illness. He’s now not in reality positive, yet he proposes a remedy that can be dear and painful whilst providing no prospect of stopping the illness. While you ask why you might ever comply with the sort of factor, he says he simply feels obligated to ‘do one thing’. This is exactly what the Paris Accord quantities to. On the other hand, the ‘one thing’ additionally provides governments the ability to keep an eye on the calories sector, and that is one thing many governments can’t withstand. Knowledge is not going to modify this even if even the UN’s IPCC recognizes that their warming claims would best scale back the immensely expanded GDP through about 2-Three% through the tip of the century – one thing this is trivially manageable and rarely ‘existential.’”
He attracts an analogy in a paper he wrote 25 years in the past at the absurdity within the 1920s of america looking to save you a pandemic of feeblemindedness. This led to techniques selling eugenics to reinforce the human race in The us:
“Outstanding supporters of eugenics integrated Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, the racist founding father of Deliberate Parenthood, the Bishop of Ripon, George Bernard Shaw, Havelock Ellis, and plenty of others. The supporters additionally integrated technically adept people who weren’t professional in genetics. Alexander Graham Bell for instance. In addition they desire a coverage function. Within the early 1920’s, American citizens turned into all in favour of immigration, and it was once argued that The us was once threatened with a pandemic of feeblemindedness due allegedly to immigrants from Japanese and Southern Europe.
“Main points of this example are in my paper which you’ll be able to request through electronic mail. The foremost takeaway issues are the next:
“1. Elites are at all times on the lookout for tactics to promote it their distinctive feature and assert the authority they consider they’re entitled to.
“2. They view science as a supply of authority moderately than a procedure, and they are attempting to acceptable science, suitably and incorrectly simplified, as the foundation for his or her motion.
“Three. Actions desire targets, and those targets are most often embedded in regulation.
“four. The impact of regulation lengthy outlasts the alleged science. The Immigration Aid Act of 1924 remained till 1964.
“five. So long as scientists are rewarded for doing so, they’re not going to oppose the exploitation of science.
“In relation to eugenics, authorities investment was once now not at factor, yet personal investment did play a job, and for plenty of scientists, there was once the general public popularity in their relevance.”
Lindzen additional discusses eugenics and two cultures the place the skilled elite is maximum liable to an absurd narrative as said through the novelist and bodily chemist C.P. Snow. Snow asserted that many literate humans don’t perceive science, or the clinical manner. But they’re indignant when their lack of awareness is demonstrated. Lindzen concludes:
“What C.P. Snow failed to notice, I believe, is that the crowd he describes is in fact conscious about their clinical lack of awareness, and this leaves them very insecure. This accounts for his or her desire for easy narratives, on the other hand unsuitable. It permits them to consider that they in fact do ‘perceive’ the science, and, as we see, they grow to be arrogantly proud in their alleged accomplishment. After all, they disregard that their lack of awareness extends to figuring out what science in fact is. They disregard that the other of Science is ‘The Science’. The location is compounded when one involves weather the place maximum scientists also are ignorant, yet the place their strengthen for the narrative comforts the non-scientists. On best of all this, I think that during an extended length of wellbeing, this elite feels the wish to display that they too have met demanding situations – despite the fact that the demanding situations are purely imaginary. This appears to be like specifically true for younger people who find themselves faced with tales of the braveness of the ‘largest technology’.
“One will have to notice once more that the majority atypical humans don’t have those issues.
“Our activity is to turn the related humans the entire stupidity of this factor moderately than punching away at main points. In specializing in the main points, we’re simply looking to show off our personal specialties. My use of the phrase ‘simply’ is most definitely unjustified; the main points can, in reality, be scientifically necessary. On the other hand, we aren’t taking into consideration both our target market or the intrinsic absurdity of the problem. It’s most probably that we need to capitalize at the lack of confidence of the skilled elite and lead them to glance foolish as a substitute of awesome and virtuous. We should keep in mind that they’re impervious to actual science until it’s diminished to their degree. When it’s diminished to their degree, it’s crucial that we, no less than, retain veracity. Whether or not we’re in a position to successfully doing that is an open query. On the other hand, as a minimum, we should forestall treating the proponents of weather as an existential danger, as worthy warring parties. Don’t ascribe reasonableness to the opposite facet’s place. It’s not true, and now not even believable.
“After all, there stays the most obvious undeniable fact that the proposed insurance policies forget about the agreed conclusion of even the IPCC that not anything achieved through america and the EU may have a vital affect on weather. In a rational international, this may result in the realization that the most productive coverage could be to extend the resilience of the Western Global to weather substitute without reference to its reason. As an alternative, the proposed insurance policies would go away us extra prone. This strongly suggests malicious intent. This essay supplies a curious chance for this malicious intent. As I’ve famous, maximum atypical humans (i.e., operating middle-class humans), are smart adequate not to settle for the perception that weather is so serious a danger as to warrant insurance policies that whilst monumentally disruptive, harmful and dear, may have imperceptible affect on weather without reference to what one believes about weather. The self-anointed elite, in reaction, suppose the gnostic place of proclaiming precisely the other. I exploit the phrase ‘proclaiming’ moderately than ‘believing.’ Frankly, I don’t suppose they in fact consider what they’re proclaiming – particularly once they purchase mansions at the coast. Somewhat, they stay up for the ache their insurance policies will reason to a gaggle that they seem to despise. I nonetheless hope that this research is unsuitable, yet, in nowadays’s odd international, it kind of feels all too imaginable.” See hyperlinks below Difficult the Orthodoxy.
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UN Speeches: On the opening of the UN Common Meeting, the UN issued a file, “Our Not unusual Schedule: File of the Secretary-Common.” Amongst different issues it said:
“For tens of millions of humans around the globe, poverty, discrimination, violence and exclusion are denying them their rights to the fundamental prerequisites of lifestyles: fitness, protection, a vaccination in opposition to illness, blank water to drink, a plate of meals or a seat in a study room.”
The next week in the beginning of the Common Debate, President Joe Biden addressed the Common Meeting mentioning amongst different issues:
“I quote the outlet phrases of the Common Declaration of Human Rights, quote: “The equivalent and inalienable rights of all contributors of the human circle of relatives is the basis of freedom, justice, and peace on the earth.”
Top Minister Boris Johnson mentioned:
“My buddies the youth of humanity is coming to an finish.
“We’re drawing near that vital turning level – in not up to two months – after we should display that we’re in a position to studying, and maturing, and after all taking accountability for the destruction we’re causing, now not simply upon our planet yet ourselves.
“It’s time for humanity to develop up.
“It’s time for us to hear the warnings of the scientists – and take a look at Covid, if you need an instance of gloomy scientists being proved proper – and to know who we’re and what we’re doing.
“The sector – this valuable blue sphere with its eggshell crust and wisp of an environment – isn’t some indestructible toy, some bouncy plastic romper room in opposition to which we will be able to hurl ourselves to our center’s content material.
“Day-to-day, weekly, we’re doing such irreversible harm that lengthy earlier than one million years are up, we will be able to have made this gorgeous planet successfully uninhabitable – now not only for us yet for plenty of different species.
“And this is why the Glasgow COP26 summit is the turning level for humanity.”
All this sounds grand, yet do they perceive what they talk? To say that the modest warming during the last century is a danger to humanity is absurd. As said through the World Fee on Stratigraphy and proven through fresh research of the Greenland Ice Sheet, the planet was once hotter about 8200 years in the past and there’s little bodily proof that human carbon dioxide emissions are inflicting bad warming. See hyperlinks below Difficult the Orthodoxy and Protecting the Orthodoxy.
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From 4 Freedoms to 4 Phantom Fears: In his UN speech, President Biden cited the Common Declaration of Human Rights followed in 1948 with the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, the previous first girl. Those had been evolved from the 4 Elementary Freedoms articulated within the 1941 State of the Union cope with through President Franklin Roosevelt when america was once nonetheless within the Nice Melancholy, even if it was once getting ready for Global Battle II. (The primary peacetime draft in US historical past, the Selective Coaching and Carrier Act of 1940, was once enacted on September 16, 1940.)
Claimed as everybody’s birthright, the 4 freedoms are: 1) freedom of speech; 2) freedom of worship; Three) freedom from need; and four) freedom from concern. Freedom from need will also be interpreted as the appropriate of a wholesome lifetime, from, amongst different issues, oppressive poverty.
As proven in earlier TWTWs, during the last 30 years the sector has witnessed a exceptional decline in severe poverty from about 1.Nine billion humans in 1990 (36%) to about 650 million (Eight.6%) in 2018, even if international inhabitants grew from five.Three billion to 7.6 billion. Maximum of this decline in severe poverty has been in China and the A ways East.
Over this era China’s in keeping with capita CO2 emissions grew from about 2 heaps in 1990 to 7 heaps in 2018. (In 2018, the sector’s absolute best in keeping with capita emitters, Australia, US and Canada emitted about 16.6 to 16.7 heaps in keeping with capita.) But, the UN and plenty of world organizations and particular person international locations are punishing many extraordinarily deficient international locations through denying them the appropriate to construct the coal-fired continual crops that made imaginable this decline in poverty.
This concern of carbon dioxide is a results of the UN IPCC and plenty of others who, with none considerable bodily proof, declare that CO2 emissions will reason 1) dire temperature building up; 2) unexpected sea degree upward push from a cave in of the cryosphere; Three) huge deaths from severe climate occasions; and four) standard famine. If certainly, the leaders of the international locations that gave wonderful speeches about humanity on the UN in reality cared about humanity, they’d query the scientists who assert those phantom fears. See hyperlinks below Protecting the Orthodoxy, Wondering the Orthodoxy, https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty, and https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?side=none&nation=OWID_WRL~USA~GBR~CHN~IND~AUS~ZAF~BRA~CAN&Gasoline=COpercentE2%82%82&Accounting=Manufacturing-based&Gas=Overall&Depend=Consistent with+capita
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Suppressing Clinical Inquiry: Willie Quickly and Ronan Connolly, who together with 21 different scientists, wrote a 71-page paper explaining other issues of view at the extent to which the converting solar is influencing fresh temperature adjustments. The paper does now not settle for or reject the placement of the UN IPCC, however it refutes the IPCC’s declare of significant walk in the park of the low affect of the solar. Sadly, positive “truth checkers” don’t test the info, or don’t know the way to, and best call for conformity to the UN.
Thankfully, The Epoch Occasions revealed an editorial through Quickly and Connolly explaining the deficiencies of such “truth checkers.” See hyperlink below Suppressing Clinical Inquiry.
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Nature’s Whimsy: As UK Top Minister Boris Johnson was once in New York to deal with the UN Common Meeting claiming, “It’s time for humanity to develop up” Nature delivered just a little of caprice. She stopped the wind from blowing, growing havoc. Successive Top Ministers have claimed wind continual is the option to decarbonization, and that it may possibly ship electric continual as reliably and as cost effectively as fossil fuels. It can’t that as the United Kingdom public now realizes.
Possibly its time for leaders similar to Johnson to develop up and have interaction in mature determination making which calls for examining the strengths and weaknesses of different lessons of motion. Britain is already dropping a vital a part of its business base which calls for dependable electrical energy 24 hours an afternoon, 7 days every week. Wind continual merely can’t ship until there are in depth and dear continual garage method along. By contrast, wind continual is eroding the monetary feasibility of dependable assets, making those assets of electrical energy way more dear.
The United Kingdom sits on a wealth of shale gasoline which the govt. has denied lets in to expand. Thus, it’s transparent that for the United Kingdom, what’s maximum necessary isn’t the price of electrical energy when wind delivers, yet the price of electrical energy when wind does now not ship. Matt Ridley has a specifically just right dialogue in this factor and what the longer term brings for the United Kingdom. See hyperlinks below Difficult the Orthodoxy and Power Problems – Non-US.
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Pogo-Stick Energy: With nameplate technology of 27,879 MW of which 79.five% is hydro and 10.five% (2930 MW) is wind (the steadiness is from different assets similar to nuclear, gasoline, biomass, and so forth.), the Bonneville Energy Management (BPA) confirmed that wind continual can’t be relied upon. On September 20 it went from 1500 MW to 0 through midafternoon, bounced round 0 till mid-day September 22, when it shot as much as over 1500 MW, then go into reverse to close 0 mid-day on September 23, and after all bounced round between 0 and 300 MW till mid-day September 26. This change puts large pressure at the generators that hydropower calls for, which should range their output to fulfill the weight necessities of the BPA.
By way of comparability, the California Unbiased Machine Operator (CAISO) reviews extra constant continual technology for photo voltaic. At the day of the autumn equinox, September 22, solar energy was once just a little erratic, most definitely because of clouds. On the other hand, on September 21, photo voltaic generated over 11,000 MW through 11 AM and stayed between 11,000 and 12,000 MW till about four PM. By way of 6:30 PM it was once long past to not seem till 7 AM day after today. CASIO backs-up photo voltaic mainly with herbal gasoline, imports, and nuclear to fulfill its necessities of over 22,000 MW. Wind is unreliable. With decarbonization, how California will stay the lighting fixtures on at night time is still observed. See hyperlinks below Power Problems – US.
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14th ICCC: The 14th World Convention on Local weather Trade offered through The Heartland Institute can be October 15 to 17, 2021, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. See https://climateconference.heartland.org/
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Selection of the Week: $11 Billion US through 2024. President Biden has pledged america will give a contribution $11 Billion in keeping with yr to the UN Inexperienced Local weather Fund through 2024. The place he will get the cash is still observed. The online impact can be to disclaim the extraordinarily deficient, specifically in Africa from following China’s style to reinforce their lives. In impact, thus denying them their rights below the UN Common Declaration of Human Rights.
Observation: Is the Solar Emerging?
Sun Replace September 2021
Visitor publish By way of David Archibald, WUWT, Sep 22, 2021
Censorship
Local weather Conversation Professionals
By way of Tony Heller, His Weblog, Sep 24, 2021
https://realclimatescience.com/2021/09/climate-communication-experts-2/
Pricey Wiki: Time to Right kind (IER description biased, inaccurate)
By way of Robert Bradley Jr. Grasp Useful resource, Sep 22, 2021
‘Truth Exams’ through Non-Professionals Are Shutting Down Authentic Clinical Inquiry
By way of Willie Quickly and Ronan Connolly, The Epoch Occasions, Sep 22, 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fact-checks-by-non-experts-are-shutting-down-genuine-scientific-inquiry_4008914.html
Difficult the Orthodoxy — NIPCC
Local weather Trade Reconsidered II: Bodily Science
Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental World Panel on Local weather Trade (NIPCC), 2013
Abstract: https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/paperwork/CCR/CCR-II/Abstract-for-Policymakers.pdf
Local weather Trade Reconsidered II: Organic Affects
Idso, Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental World Panel on Local weather Trade (NIPCC), 2014
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/climate-change-reconsidered-ii-biological-impacts/
Abstract: https://www.heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-IIb/Abstract-for-Policymakers.pdf
Local weather Trade Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels
By way of A couple of Authors, Bezdek, Idso, Legates, and Singer eds., Nongovernmental World Panel on Local weather Trade, April 2019
http://retailer.heartland.org/store/ccr-ii-fossil-fuels/
Obtain and not using a fee:
Why Scientists Disagree About World Warming
The NIPCC File at the Clinical Consensus
By way of Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer, Nongovernmental World Panel on Local weather Trade (NIPCC), Nov 23, 2015
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/
Obtain and not using a fee:
https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming
Nature, No longer Human Process, Regulations the Local weather
S. Fred Singer, Editor, NIPCC, 2008
http://www.sepp.org/publications/nipcc_final.pdf
World Sea-Stage Upward push: An Analysis of the Information
By way of Craig D. Idso, David Legates, and S. Fred Singer, Heartland Coverage Temporary, Would possibly 20, 2019
Difficult the Orthodoxy
The Imaginary Local weather Disaster – How are we able to Trade the Message?
Richard S. Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences, MIT, Accessed Sep 24, 2021 [H/t Real Clear Energy]
Energy mad: Visions of an eco apocalypse had been used to justify a headlong fee to carbon 0 for years… yet this present disaster is a trifling harbinger of the candle-lit destiny that awaits us if we don’t substitute route
By way of Matt Ridley, Day-to-day Mail, Sep 20, 2021
https://www.dailymail.co.united kingdom/information/article-10010693/amp/Energy-mad-devastating-audit-lays-bare-costly-errors.html?__twitter_impression=true
The melting Greenland ice cap
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Sep 22, 2021
Hyperlink to paper: In situ cosmogenic 10Be–14C–26Al measurements from just lately deglaciated bedrock as a brand new instrument to decipher adjustments in Greenland Ice Sheet dimension
By way of Nicolás E. Younger, et al. Local weather of the Previous, Feb 17, 2021
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/17/419/2021/
The summary starts: “Someday all over the center to overdue Holocene (Eight.2 ka to ∼ 1850–1900 CE), the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) was once smaller than its present configuration.”
[SEPP Remark: Eight,200 years in the past coincides with the shift from the Greenlandian to the chillier Northgrippian Age as ratified through the World Fee on Stratigraphy in June 2018.]
IPCC AR6: Tropical Troposphere heat bias, unspun version
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Sep 22, 2021
From IPCC AR6, “Therefore, we assess with medium self assurance that CMIP5 and CMIP6 fashions proceed to overestimate seen warming within the higher tropical troposphere over the 1979-2014 length through no less than Zero.1°C in keeping with decade, partially on account of an overestimate of the tropical Sea Floor Temperature fashion trend over this era.” [Boldface added]
[SEPP Comment: If anything can be said with high confidence in the report, it is that the models overestimate observed warming of the entire tropical troposphere (below the tropopause, where water freezes out).]
The Greenhouse Impact, A Abstract of Wijngaarden and Happer
By way of Andy Would possibly, WUWT, Sep 21, 2021
[SEPP Comment: In the graph “Outgoing Radiation from Earth at 288.7K,” May inserts altitudes of 84.8km and 33km. These appear to be reversed.]
Local weather Trade Ate My Homework: Politicians Blame Local weather Trade for Bureaucratic Disasters
By way of Jonathan Lesser, Actual Transparent Power, Sep 22, 2021
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/09/22/climate_change_ate_my_homework_politicians_blame_climate_change_for_bureaucratic_failures_795507.html
Observe the Science, Even When It Adjustments (Particularly When It Adjustments)
By way of Jeff M. Lewis, American Philosopher, Sep 18, 2021
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/09/follow_the_science_even_when_it_changes_especially_when_it_changes.html
Local weather Objectives Are Constructed on Magical Considering, No longer Fact
By way of H. Sterling Burnett, Heartland Local weather Trade Weekly, Sep 23, 2021
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/information/climate-targets-are-built-on-magical-thinking-not-reality
The Impossibility Of The 1.5C Goal
By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other people Know That, Sep 24, 2021
The Nice Local weather Furphy (Rumor)
Advert through Local weather Trade The Info, Sep 24, 2021
Protecting the Orthodoxy
IPCC, AR6, 2021: Abstract for Policymakers
In: Local weather Trade 2021: The Bodily Science Foundation. Contribution of Running Staff I to the 6th Evaluation File of the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Trade
By way of Masson-Delmotte, V., P, et al. Cambridge College Press. In Press.
Hyperlink to Technical Reinforce Report
UN Energy Clutch
By way of Wesley J. Smith, The Epoch Occasions, Sep 16, 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/un-power-grab_4000051.html
Hyperlink to Our Not unusual Schedule: File of the Secretary-Common
By way of Personnel, United International locations, 2021
Remarks through President Biden Sooner than the 76th Consultation of the United International locations Common Meeting
By way of Joe Biden, The White Area, Sep 21, 2021
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/09/21/remarks-by-president-biden-before-the-76th-session-of-the-united-nations-general-assembly/
PM speech on the UN Common Meeting: 22 September 2021
Top Minister Boris Johnson‘s speech on the 76th Consultation of the UN Common Meeting.
By way of Personnel, Top Minister’s Workplace, Sep 23, 2021
https://www.gov.united kingdom/authorities/speeches/pm-speech-at-the-un-general-assembly-22-september-2021
Empire of the Surroundings Solar
By way of Madison Czerwinski & Emmet Penney, Actual Transparent Power, Sep 21, 2021
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/09/21/empire_of_the_setting_sun_795478.html
Hyperlink to review: DOE Releases Sun Futures Learn about Offering the Blueprint for a 0-Carbon Grid
By way of Personnel, DOE, Sep Eight, 2021
https://www.calories.gov/articles/doe-releases-solar-futures-study-providing-blueprint-zero-carbon-grid
[SEPP Comment: A report from fantasy land, imaginary health savings will pay for unreliable electricity made reliable by imaginary technology?]
BoJo Scolds Global Leaders for Lacklustre COP26 Local weather Finance Commitments
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Sep 21, 2021
‘The longer term is elevating its voice’: A dire temper at UN assembly
By way of Edith Lederere, AP, Sep 22, 2021
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-health-china-climate-business-ce8a39b4001eb05e572093cd3b6459a1
Blinken says weather substitute worsening conflicts round international
By way of Joseph Choi, The Hill, Sep 23, 2021
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/573638-blinken-says-climate-change-contributing-to-wars-in-syria-yemen
Secretary of State Antony Blinken: “’We’ve got an excellent continual to modify issues and to modify issues for the simpler, and an excellent continual to save lots of ourselves,’ he added. ‘My buddies, the youth of humanity is coming to an finish and should come to an finish.’”
[SEPP Comment: Who is the adolescent, the one who seeks and examines all the evidence or the one who reacts to whatever is presented?]
Protecting the Orthodoxy – Bandwagon Science
Biden proclaims plan to wrestle severe warmth brought about through weather substitute
By way of Ben Adler, Yahoo Information, Sep 20, 2021
https://information.yahoo.com/biden-announces-plan-to-combat-extreme-heat-caused-by-climate-change-163537576.html
“Excessive warmth is now the main weather-related killer in the US, and it’s changing into extra commonplace and serious. This summer time, at 2.6 levels Fahrenheit above the ancient reasonable, was once the warmest on checklist within the continental United States.”
[SEPP Comment: Nonsense, the 1930s were hotter over most of the US.]
Wondering the Orthodoxy
World warming saves 166,000 lives a yr: UN says Forestall That Now
By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Sep 24, 2021
Nottest summer time ever
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Sep 22, 2021
This month China has spray painted on its inexperienced tan, simply in time for the Glasgow Local weather Attractiveness Contest.
By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Sep 22, 2021
“China doesn’t need to win the Glasgow Local weather Attractiveness Contest. It simply needs the opposite contestants to stay preventing for the booby prize. They [the other contestants] win the trophy and lose the industry conflict.”
Local weather substitute reasons bears to behave like bears
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Sep 22, 2021
Trade in US Administrations
four Takeaways From Biden’s First UN Speech
By way of Fred Lucas, The Day-to-day Sign, Sep 21, 2021
Biden says US ‘to double’ contribution to weather finance
By way of AFP Personnel Writers. United International locations, United States (AFP), Sept 21, 2021
https://www.energy-daily.com/reviews/Biden_says_US_to_double_contribution_to_climate_finance_999.html
“’Strongly welcome @POTUS additional doubling weather finance dedication to over $11bn through 2024,’ mentioned British lawmaker Alok Sharma, who will preside over COP26.”
How Biden’s The us Closing Insurance policies Gas Russian Power Whilst Boosting China’s Dominance Over Renewables
By way of Kevin Mooney, Actual Transparent Power Sep 23, 2021
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/09/23/how_bidens_america_last_policies_fuel_russian_energy_while_boosting_chinas_dominance_over_renewables_795520.html
Issues within the Orthodoxy
In weather landmark, China guarantees to finish coal investment in another country
By way of Shaun Tandon with Issam Ahmed in Washington, United International locations, United States (AFP) Sept 21, 2021
https://www.energy-daily.com/reviews/In_climate_landmark_China_promises_to_end_coal_funding_overseas_999.html
Is China’s pledge to chop in another country coal investment a game-changer?
By way of Poornima Weerasekara, Beijing (AFP) Sept 22, 2021
https://www.energy-daily.com/reviews/Is_Chinas_pledge_to_cut_overseas_coal_funding_a_game-changer_999.html
“Sure and no. China is the largest public funder of in another country coal crops and its shift is symbolic.”
“It’s was hoping the transfer will discourage China’s personal gamers from making an investment.”
[SEPP Comment: Years of negotiating to stop the Korean War and the Vietnam War taught American politicians nothing!]
Don’t Dissatisfied China, Say Vegetables
By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other people Know That, Sep 22, 2021
Kerry: ‘We will be able to’t get the place we wish to cross’ in weather combat if China isn’t becoming a member of in
By way of Mychael Schnell, The Hill, Sep 22, 2021
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/573410-kerry-us-cant-get-where-we-need-to-go-in-climate-fight-if-china
Science, Coverage, and Proof
Delingpole: Rubber bullets for Public Well being – Australia Is going Complete Fascist
By way of James Delingpole, Breitbart, Sep 22, 2021
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/09/22/delingpole-rubber-bullets-for-public-health-australia-goes-full-fascist/
Covid 1984 – KFC Smugglers and Brutal Police Repression
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Sep 21, 2021
Dimension Problems — Floor
1931 – Document Warmth And Flu In West Australia
By way of Tony Heller, His Weblog, Sep 24, 2021
https://realclimatescience.com/2021/09/1931-record-heat-and-flu-in-west-australia/
Shortening Northern Europe Summers…August Temperatures Have Been Cooling Since, JMA Information Counsel
By way of Kirye and Pierre, No Tips Zone, Sep 21, 2021
Converting Climate
Are Northwest Summers Getting Drier? The Fact Would possibly Marvel You.
By way of Cliff Mass, Climate Weblog, Sep 21, 2021
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/09/are-northwest-summers-getting-drier.html
Converting Local weather
New Reconstructions Display It Is Chillier Now Than At Any Time In The Closing 10,000 Years
By way of Kenneth Richard, No Tips Zone, Sep 23, 2021
Hyperlink to at least one learn: Early deglacial CO2 liberate from the Sub-Antarctic Atlantic and Pacific oceans
By way of R.Shuttleworth, et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Jan 15, 2021
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X20305938
Converting Local weather – Cultures & Civilizations
Historical footprints may well be oldest strains of people within the Americas
Youngsters left tracks in New Mexico round 22,500 years in the past — hundreds of years earlier than maximum scientists idea people settled in North The us.
By way of Ewen Callaway, Nature, Sep 23, 2021
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-Zero21-02597-1
“…researchers recommend that human footprints from an historical lakeshore within the park [White Sands National Park] date to between 21,000 and 23,000 years previous. If the relationship is correct — which consultants say is most probably — the prints constitute the earliest unequivocal proof of human career anyplace within the Americas.”
Converting Seas
Australian wildfires induced large algal blooms hundreds of miles away
By way of Brooks Hays, Washington DC (UPI), Sep 15, 2021
https://www.terradaily.com/reviews/Australian_wildfires_triggered_giant_algal_blooms_thousands_of_miles_away_999.html
Hyperlink to paper: Standard phytoplankton blooms induced through 2019–2020 Australian wildfires
By way of Weiyi Tang, et al. Nature, Sep 15, 2021
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-Zero21-03805-Eight
[SEPP Comment: The fires enhanced primary production in oceans thousands of miles away likely from adding iron,]
Nice Barrier Reef : Identical Quantity Of Coral As 1985
By way of Tony Heller, His Weblog, Sep 23, 2021
https://realclimatescience.com/2021/09/great-barrier-reef-same-amount-of-coral-as-1985/
Oceans Have been Extra ‘Acidic’ In The 1730s…These days’s CO2 Ranges Are Geologically Trifling
By way of Kenneth Richard, No Tips Zone, Sep 20, 2021
Hyperlink to paper: Evolution of paleo-climate and seawater pH from the overdue Permian to postindustrial sessions recorded through boron isotopes and B/Ca in biogenic carbonates
By way of Hai-Zhen We, et al. Earth-Science Critiques, April 2015
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825221000453
Converting Cryosphere – Land / Sea Ice
Arctic Sea Ice Recovers Strongly In 2021
By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other people Know That, Sep 24, 2021
[SEPP Comment: Didn’t the final collapse of Arctic Sea Ice occur 5 years ago causing a global disaster as Prof. Peter Wadhams predicted?]
Arctic Ice In Point of view 2021
By way of Ron Clutz, Science Issues, Sep 23, 2021
“Some whinge it’s too quickly to mention Arctic Ice is getting better, or that 2007 is a real substitute level. The similar humans had been fast to leap on a declining length after 1996 as proof of a ‘Demise Spiral.’”
Wrangel Island analysis group counted a checklist collection of Chukchi Sea polar bears in 2020
By way of Susan Crockford, Polar Endure Science, Sep 21, 2021
Frame Of Proof: All Of Antarctica Is Cooling… Peninsula Cooling Since Lengthy Sooner than Greta Used to be Born
By way of P Gosselin, No Tips Zone, Sep 19, 2021
Agriculture Problems & Worry of Famine
The Nice Reset of Pork Intake
By way of Janet Levy, American Philosopher, Sep 21, 2021
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/09/the_great_reset_of_beef_consumption.html
[SEPP Comment: Should the term “organic” be limited only to those products that have not altered by human intervention, such as selection of seeds from plants the produce desirable characteristics, hybrid varieties, etc.? If so, how many vegetables do we have today that are truly “organic?”]
Reducing Requirements
Congressional Directive to Nationwide Academies Displays Politics Force Local weather Analysis
By way of James Taylor, Local weather Realisim, Sep 20, 2021
Hyperlink to NAs announcement: Local weather Safety Roundtable
By way of Personnel, Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medication, Accessed Sep 24, 2021
https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/climate-security-roundtable
Scientific Journals Condemn the Deficient
By way of Donn Dears, Energy For USA, Sep Nine, 2021
[SEPP Comment: Medical Journals join the quest for authoritarian government power against an imaginary threat!]
Checking In With The “Sensible” Other people At Harvard
By way of Francis Menton, New york Contrarian, Sep 18, 2021
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2021-Nine-18-checking-in-with-the-smart-people-at-harvard
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Yellow (Inexperienced) Journalism?
Low-lying international locations plead for motion to keep away from weather substitute ‘demise sentence’
By way of Joseph Choi, The Hill, Sep 23, 2021
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/573731-low-lying-countries-plead-for-action-to-avoid-climate-change-death
“Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih echoed Kabua’s enchantment, telling the meeting, ‘The adaptation between 1.five levels and a pair of levels is a demise sentence for the Maldives.’”
[SEPP Comment: The Maldives need the money to expand tourist traffic from Europe.]
Oh no, ozone restoration hides warming
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Sep 22, 2021
Speaking Higher to the Public – Exaggerate, or be Obscure?
Horrifying Warming All over the place In other places
By way of Ron Clutz, Science Issues, Sep 24, 2021
Local weather substitute is greatest world difficulty we’ve observed since Global Battle II, says PwC chairman
By way of Catherine Clifford, CNBC, Sep 20, 2021
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/20/climate-change-largest-global-problem-since-world-war-ii-p.c-chair.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Primary&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1632165408
Speaking Higher to the Public – Make issues up.
Declare: Local weather Trade is Inflicting Catastrophic Energy Line Fires
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Sep 22, 2021
Going Batty Over Local weather Trade
By way of Michael Kile, Quadrant, Sep 25, 2021
“Shifts in world bat variety recommend a imaginable position of weather substitute within the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2”.
Preposterous Projection By way of German Inexperienced Celebration Chancellor Candidate: 7 Meters Sea Stage Upward push By way of 2100!
By way of P Gosselin, No Tips zone, Sep 22, 2021
[SEPP Comment: Tidal wave coming!]
Speaking Higher to the Public – Use Propaganda
No children? Local weather Trade and Sustainability fears force extra younger males than ever to get a vasectomy
By way of Jo Nova, Her Weblog, Sep 22, 2021
Increasing the Orthodoxy
WHO toughens air high quality checklist
By way of Zack Budryk, The Hill, Sep 22, 2021
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/573417-who-toughens-air-quality-guidelines
Hyperlink to file: WHO world air high quality checklist
By way of Personnel, UN Global Well being Group, 2021
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/care for/10665/345329/9789240034228-eng.pdf?series=1&isAllowed=y
Wondering Ecu Inexperienced
ALEX BRUMMER: Why are we going through an calories disaster after we’re sitting on a gold mine?
By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other people Know That, Sep 23, 2021
Wondering Inexperienced In other places
Ecu Power Folly May Turn into U.S. Power Crisis with Democrats’ Reconciliation Invoice
By way of Personnel, Institute for Power Analysis, Sep 23, 2021
“Over the last ten years, the Ecu Union greater its wind technology through 183 % and its photo voltaic technology through 532 %, whilst reducing its technology from coal through 49 % and herbal gasoline through five %. It’s now going through skyrocketing herbal gasoline and electrical energy costs and the potential of blackouts as calories delivery is inadequate to fulfill call for.”
Inexperienced Jobs
ABC: Why Australia Stopped Production Sun Panels
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Sep 19, 2021
Investment Problems
Folks’s cash
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Sep 22, 2021
[SEPP Comment: The UK is losing money on social housing properties, but making it up on volume?]
The Political Video games Proceed
Power disaster may just erupt into ‘greatest political factor of the last decade’, senior Tories warn
By way of Personnel, Day-to-day Telegraph, By the use of GWPF, Sep 21, 2021
When greenwashing is going dangerous
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Sep 22, 2021
Litigation Problems
New Information Go well with Towards MN AG Ellison Raises Additional Questions About Workplace’s Coordination With Outdoor Lobbyists
By way of Personnel, Executive Duty & Oversight, Sep 20, 2021
[SEPP Comment: AGs using merchant lawyers paid by others?]
Cap-and-Industry and Carbon Taxes
The Proposed Methane Price: An All-Problem Proposal
By way of Benjamin Zycher, Actual Transparent Power, Sep 23, 2021
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/09/23/the_proposed_methane_fee_an_all-downside_proposal_795871.html
Consultant Diana DeGette (D-CO: “’This isn’t a tax. It’s a rate on herbal gasoline waste,’ including oil and gasoline operators have the applied sciences to wrestle methane leaks at low charge.”
[SEPP Comment: Who do we tax for natural leaks?]
Methane Price Impacts American
By way of Donn Dears, Energy For USA, Sep 24, 2021
[SEPP Comment: Another attack on American prosperity based on imaginary threats.]
EPA and different Regulators at the March
Price of Air Conditioning to Warmth up, Because of New EPA Local weather Legislation
By way of Ben Lieberman, CEI, Sep 23, 2021
https://cei.org/weblog/cost-of-air-conditioning-to-heat-up-thanks-to-new-epa-climate-regulation/
EPA to suggest cuts to biofuel mixing requirement: file
By way of Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Sep 22, 2021
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/573428-epa-to-propose-cuts-to-biofuel-blending-requirement-report
[SEPP Comment: Conceived when it was believed that the US would run out of oil and gas, biofuels are unneeded and expensive.]
Electrical energy Costs Rocketing, Simply As Successive Governments Deliberate
By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other people Know That, Sep 23, 2021
Fracking can have stored us from this calories disaster
The United Kingdom has huge gasoline reserves that we’re refusing to milk.
By way of Rob Lyons, Spiked, Sep 23, 2021
Family payments will leap through greater than £1,500 a yr with households at the cusp of the largest spending squeeze in just about a decade, consultants warn
By way of Ben Wilkenson and Fiona Parker, Day-to-day Mail, Sep 18, 2021
https://www.dailymail.co.united kingdom/information/article-10003047/Family-bills-soar-1-500-year.html
Power disaster is going from dangerous to worse: Gasoline costs leap 16computer as Russia assists in keeping faucets closed
By way of Personnel, Day-to-day Telegraph, By the use of GWPF, Sep 20, 2021
Renewable Power Crunch Comes To The United Kingdom
By way of Francis Menton, New york Contrarian, Sep 20, 2021
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2021-Nine-20-renewable-energy-crunch-comes-to-the-uk
[SEPP Comment: Replacing reliable generation with unreliable generation. Is it similar to replacing a hardy breakfast with sugar smacks?]
Cambo Oil Box
By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other people Know That, Sep 24, 2021
“The straightforward actuality, on the other hand, is that the United Kingdom will proceed to want each oil and gasoline for many future years.
“Even the tripling of offshore wind capability within the subsequent ten years will slightly make a dent within the figures underneath:” [UK primary energy consumption.]
Inexperienced Britain faces meals shortages ‘through finish of week’ as calories disaster worsens
By way of Personnel, GWPF & Day-to-day Telegraph, Sep 20, 2021
UK continual companies forestall taking new consumers as calories disaster escalates
By way of Personnel, Bloomberg, By the use of GWPF, Sep 21, 2021
Families [in Ireland] face paying €400 extra this iciness as calories disaster intensifies
By way of Charlie Weston, Unbiased.ie, Sep 18, 2021
https://www.unbiased.ie/enterprise/personal-finance/households-face-paying-400-more-this-winter-as-energy-crisis-intensifies-40862452.html
Power Problems — US
The us Leads the Approach on Blank Power
By way of Dan Newhouse [D-Wash.] & Heather Reams, Actual Transparent Power, Sep 20, 2021
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/09/20/america_leads_the_way_on_clean_energy_795296.html
“These days marks the beginning of Nationwide Blank Power Week, and with regards to blank calories, The us continues to prepared the ground.”
[SEPP Comment: Have they seen the cobalt miners in the Congo, or the lithium mining in China?]
Inexperienced gold rush looms for electrical continual
By way of David Wojick, CFACT, Sep 19, 2021
https://www.cfact.org/2021/09/19/green-gold-rush-looms-for-electric-power/
Boston lawmakers approve 0 emissions for enormous structures through 2050
By way of Adam Barnes, The Hill, Sep 23, 2021
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/573672-boston-lawmakers-approve-zero-emissions-for-large-buildings-by-2050
“The Boston Town Council on Wednesday authorized an ordinance requiring structures better than 20,000 sq. toes to chop emissions totally through 2050.”
[SEPP Comment: Would huge wind turbines in every building do? True “see through” buildings.]
Governor Pritzker indicators new blank calories invoice, making Illinois nationwide chief in weather substitute
A historical calories regulation signed through Governor J.B. Pritzker will make Illinois a countrywide chief in preventing weather substitute.
By way of Alfonso Cerna, WQAD8, Sep 15, 2021
https://www.wqad.com/article/information/native/governor-pritzker-illinois-energy-bill/526-b57f3bcd-dc0e-447d-ab7a-73993d45c734
“’In brief, with financial enlargement and jobs woven into its material, this new legislation is probably the most important step Illinois has taken in a technology towards a competent, renewable, reasonably priced, and blank calories destiny in a technology,’ Pritzker mentioned.”
[SEPP Comment: Leading the race to the bottom?]
By way of Personnel, BPA.Gov/transmission
BPA Balancing Authority Overall Wind Technology, Close to-Actual-Time
https://transmission.bpa.gov/Industry/Operations/Wind/twndbspt.aspx
BPA Balancing Authority Load and Overall Wind, Hydro, Fossil/Biomass, and Nuclear Technology, Close to-Actual-Time
https://transmission.bpa.gov/Industry/Operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx
California ISO
By way of Personnel, Present Provide, Sep 21, 2021
http://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/pages/delivery.html#section-supply-trend
Washington’s Regulate of Power
[Interior Secretary] Haaland requires ‘steadiness’ in federal oil and gasoline program
By way of Rachel Frazin, The Hill, Sep 23, 2021
https://thehill.com/coverage/energy-environment/573724-haaland-calls-for-balance-in-federal-oil-and-gas-program
‘We’d like a balanced technique to this factor,’ she instructed journalists. ‘We knew that our public lands emit 25 % of the carbon into the ambience. There’s an imbalance there.’
[SEPP Comment: Is the balance no oil or gas?]
Oil and Herbal Gasoline – the Long run or the Previous?
Why Gulf of Mexico Oil and Herbal Gasoline Is So Vital
By way of Lori Leblanc, Actual Transparent Power, Sep 21, 2021
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/09/21/why_gulf_of_mexico_oil_and_natural_gas_is_so_critical_795497.html
[SEPP Comment: An argument that by suppressing the oil and gas industry Congress is indifferent to the welfare of Americans.]
Go back of King Coal?
China performs its inexperienced card, promising to promote the sector its wind and photo voltaic initiatives produced through reasonable coal
By way of Personnel, GWPF World, Sep 22, 2021
Nuclear Power and Fears
Nuclear Energy Kept away from through Local weather Alarmists: Why?
By way of Robert Bradley Jr. Grasp Useful resource, Sep 21, 2021
Nuclear Is the Bastion of Pennsylvania’s Latest Local weather Motion Plan
By way of Sonal Patel, Energy Magazine, Sep 23, 2021
Selection, Inexperienced (“Blank”) Sun and Wind
The Accumulating Hurricane (However with No longer Sufficient Wind): Europe’s Power Mess Will get Worse — a Lesson the U.S. Appears to be like Set to Forget about
By way of Andrew Stuttaford, Nationwide Evaluate, Sep 18, 2021
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/the-gathering-storm-but-with-not-enough-wind-europes-energy-mess-gets-worse-a-lesson-the-u.s.looks-set-to-ignore/
Remaining of wind turbine plant in jap Germany raises questions on coal area’s destiny
By way of Benjamin Wehrmann, Blank Power Twine, Sep 21, 2021
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/information/closing-wind-turbine-plant-eastern-germany-raises-questions-about-coal-regions-future
“Wind continual is Germany’s maximum necessary renewable continual supply and should develop as much as 4 instances quicker than lately to permit Germany to phase-out nuclear and fossil continual capability. A key function of the govt. within the coal go out is to strengthen the economically susceptible jap German coal areas in changing misplaced jobs in coal new ones rising in renewable continual manufacturing.”
[SEPP Comment: Is the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas really shifting to “more localized manufacturing facilities” or shifting to China where electricity will be affordable and reliable thanks to coal?]
Energy combat
As photo voltaic farms upward push, park cities weigh blank calories, perspectives
By way of Gwendolyn Craig, Adirondack Explorer, Sep 19, 2021 [H/t Real Clear Energy]
[SEPP Remark: Upstate New York, is a smart position for business photo voltaic? In keeping with NREL photo voltaic maps it compares with Maine with Three.five to four.Zero kWh/m2/day. The most productive puts in america come with the dessert in California with about five.Zero to five.five kWh/m2/day they usually can’t maintain dependable electrical energy! https://www.nrel.gov/gis/resources/photographs/nsrdb-v3-ghi-2018-01.jpg]
Selection, Inexperienced (“Blank”) Power — Different
Declare: Inexperienced Metal “Many years Off”, Calls for “Reasonably priced Renewables”
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Sep 22, 2021
[SEPP Comment: BlueScope may be far more realistic than SAAB which claimed “proof of concept” but did not state costs.]
Selection, Inexperienced (“Blank”) Power — Garage
Centrica Call for Billions Of Taxpayer Cash
By way of Paul Homewood, No longer a Lot of Other people Know That, Sep 22, 2021
“A £1.6 billion plan to position Britain’s biggest gasoline garage facility again to make use of in a brand new hydrogen-fuelled Internet 0 generation has been unveiled.”
“Let’s manufacture hydrogen, at an enormous charge to calories shoppers, after which get taxpayers to spend billions extra to retailer the stuff until we want it”
Selection, Inexperienced (“Blank”) Cars
Unsafe at any pace, or none
By way of John Robson, Local weather Dialogue Nexus, Sep 22, 2021
[SEPP Comment: Don’t park a lithium fire hazard within 50 feet of another lithium fire hazard?]
California Dreaming
Drought Crisis In California
By way of Tony Heller, His Weblog, Sep 23, 2021
https://realclimatescience.com/2021/09/drought-disaster-in-california/
Well being, Power, and Local weather
Local weather as a Public-Well being Factor May Simply as Simply Backfire
By way of Robert Hefner, Actual Transparent Power, Sep 22, 2021
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/09/22/climate_as_a_public-health_issue_could_just_as_easily_backfire_795508.html
[SEPP Comment: Does industrial wind create a public health issue?]
Different Clinical Information
Bronze Age Town Destroyed through Bolide
By way of David Middleton, WUWT, Sep 21, 2021
Different Information that Would possibly Be of Passion
China Turns out Decided To Smash The Issues That Have Made It Quite A success
By way of Francis Menton, New york Contrarian, Sep 22, 2021
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/weblog/2021-Nine-22-china-seems-determined-to-destroy-the-things-that-have-made-it-relatively-successful
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE
Bloomberg: Nowhere is Protected from the Local weather Apocalypse
By way of Eric Worrall, WUWT, Sep 19, 2021
‘Combat Local weather Trade with Each and every Swipe’
New weather substitute debt card debuting: Displays your ‘own sustainability ranking’ – ‘Plant a tree each time you are making a purchase order’
By way of Marc Morano, Local weather Depot, Sep 24, 2021
The sudden downsides to planting trillions of bushes
Massive tree-planting projects incessantly fail — and a few have even fueled deforestation. There’s a greater approach.
By way of Benji Jones, Vox, Sep 22, 2021
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22679378/tree-planting-forest-restoration-climate-solutions
The Odd Ideas of Catastropharians
By way of Tony Thomas, Quadrant, Sep 21, 2021
Hyperlink to: Digesting the IPCC File: A message from Psychology for a Protected Local weather
By way of Personnel, Psychology for a Protected Local weather, Aug 13, 2021
ARTICLES
1. A Inexperienced Power Texas Whitewash
The federal file at the iciness continual outage ignores some key info.
By way of The Editorial Board, WSJ, Sept. 24, 2021
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-green-energy-texas-whitewash-federal-energy-regulatory-commission-richard-glick-report-power-outage-11632522932?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s
TWTW Abstract: The editorial begins:
“The Federal Power Regulatory Fee (FERC) on Thursday issued its long-awaited file on Texas’s iciness continual outage. Why did it take goodbye? Chairman Richard Glick’s foregone conclusion was once that renewables had been to not blame regardless of the proof.
“‘These days’s file makes it transparent the info don’t strengthen the rhetoric,’ Mr Glick mentioned Thursday. That was once a swipe at humans, together with us, who attributed Texas’s weeks-long continual outage all over February’s arctic freeze partially to the state’s heavy reliance on unreliable wind. Wind generators iced over around the state, forcing gasoline turbines to run all out earlier than many additionally failed.
“The file makes a speciality of the screw ups at herbal gasoline crops, which skilled mechanical issues and gas shortages as temperatures plunged and kit iced over. Texas’s grid regulators compounded those issues through mistakenly shutting off continual to gasoline processors and crops.
“In keeping with the file, gasoline crops accounted for 55% of the power-plant capability that failed all over the freeze in comparison to 22% for wind, 18% for coal and 1% for photo voltaic. However exact continual technology in Texas greater 400% for gasoline and 25% for coal within the week earlier than the ability outage. Sun and wind continual fell 80% and 55%, respectively.
“The photo voltaic business hilariously tooted that photo voltaic ‘carried out as anticipated all over the February 2021 Texas blackout’ and is a ‘predictable, dependable and reasonably priced blank calories supply.’ Sun carried out the worst of any supply and produced not up to 1% of state continual all over the freeze. However good day, regulators be expecting photo voltaic to be predictably unreliable.”
After disregarding weatherization as too expensive for fossil gas crops, the editorial will get into the key difficulty:
“Here’s the basic difficulty: Hefty subsidies permit renewable manufacturers to pay to dump their continual in aggressive wholesale markets and nonetheless make a benefit. This erodes the economics of baseload continual turbines and makes the grid much less dependable. All of that is value holding in thoughts as Democrats pour extra subsidies into inexperienced calories and try to keep watch over fossil fuels to demise.
“Electrical energy and herbal gasoline this iciness are anticipated to be tight because of decrease gasoline manufacturing and greater exports. Energy shortages are roiling Europe as wind continual has plunged and Russia has limited gasoline deliveries. On the identical time call for for liquefied herbal gasoline has surged in Asia. Producers in Europe are shutting down on account of the calories shortages.
“President Biden will have to be begging U.S. gasoline corporations to extend manufacturing to verify American citizens don’t lose continual and warmth this iciness. However he received’t lest he dissatisfied the weather foyer, and if there are shortages or value spikes, Mr. Biden will 7blame fossil fuels.”
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