As the green energy dominoes continue to fall, one of the major climate cult propaganda machines falls with them. //
As we enter the year’s final phase, I am becoming more hopeful that 2023 may be remembered as an essential point in human civilization as the threat to critical and efficient energy supplies begins to recede.
Sweden’s government has ditched plans to go all-in on “green energy,” green-lighting the construction of new nuclear power plants. Fossil fuel giant Shell announced it was scaling back its energy transition plans to focus on . . . gas and oil! Specific wind farm projects began to topple due to strong economic headwinds because the cost of generating electricity was deemed too high.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced his decision to open the North Sea to more oil and gas drilling. French President Emmanuel Macron is surrendering to reality and asked for a “regulatory pause.”. More recently, the US and the United Kingdom have committed to expanding nuclear energy, and offshore windfarm projects are going kaput.
Now comes intriguing confirmation that there may be an end to the mindless and unscientific promotion of green energy sooner rather than later. One of the climate crisis propaganda machines is closing its climate desk. //
Neo | November 24, 2023 at 7:57 pm
The dam on Climate Change hysteria seem to break after ExxonMobil broke ranks saying that to reach NetZero 2050 would require sacrifices that society would not accept. //
broomhandle | November 24, 2023 at 8:14 pm
How much advanced nuclear technology could have been developed with all the resources wasted on green energy follies? Maybe that was the point all along.
cupera1 pinkunicorns
3 hours ago
For those that want to return to a world that runs totally on green, like it was centuries ago, be careful about what you wish for. Wood was used for heating and cooking; charcoal for smelting and blacksmithing; wind or waterpower for pumps, mills, and sail ships for transport; and whale oil for lamps. People and soldiers walked or rode horses and the manure that dropped on the streets dried and blew into people’s lungs and was a lot more harmful than asbestoses ever was. The smoke from open fires choked and blackened cities. This smoke from wood and dried manure would make the smog of LA look like a clear day after a rain. The forests were stripped of trees; most of the crops went to feed draft animals.
For 99.999% of the people, life was nasty, brutish and short. You would be old and worn out at 40 and dead by 50. People would be laboring 18 hours a day from before the snow starts to melt to well after snow starts to build up in the fields, then you hope you have wood to make it through the winter and enough food to last until the next harvest.
In the documentary above, one government estimate shows that if the power were to remain off in the United States due to its inability to replace and repair the damage done to the grid, 90 percent of the population could die off in one year. //
DaveM Romeg
9 hours ago edited
btw- over the years there have been various explanation.
At one time in the 70's and 80's
(when climate change "experts" predicted we were entering a new Ice Age ) the lack of detection of electron neutrinos from the Sun led to a hypothesis that there were some changes in the Solar Core fusion rate which could lead to ice ages. That one was discarded when it was discovered that electron neutrinos can decay into tau and muon neutrinos. Suddenly those missing neutrinos were no longer missing.
Before that it had been hypothesized that periodic oscillations in Earth's orbit could lead to both cold and warm periods.
The reality is that the science of climate is immature as a science. There's a huge amount of data but much of it is very low quality data.
In the world of science the sin qua non of any hypothesis is it's ability to make testable conclusions. The fact that revery single hypothesis of climate change has failed that fundamental test should have told the scientific community that the underlying theories about climate are just plain wrong. More importantly- a re-assessment should have told them that that they are making a classical mistake- instead of being led to the conclusion by the data they are starting with the conclusion and working backwards. That leads to the cherry-picking of data.
Were I a climate scientist (I'm not nor do I play one on TV) I would wonder why these hypothesis are failing. After all they are based on a sound understanding of the physics involved. There are obviously factors influencing climate that are critically important but very poorly understood. What are those factors? I haven't a clue. But then -if we knew all the answers there wouldn't be much point in studying it would there?
A famous case was a study of tree rings which proved climate change. The problem was the ring data was all over the place and the researcher threw out in excess of 90+ percent of the tree ring data. He then tried to use the remaining few percent of data to prove a conclusion. The proper scientific conclusion was that tree ring data he was using was not a valid predictor of climate. A real scientist would have seen a new line of enquiry open. Why was there such variation in a group of trees that shared the same climate and overall environmental conditions? But that would have required him to admit he didn't have a clue what was happening.
A 2022 paper by Kelly Senecal of Convergent Science and other scientists compares greenhouse gas emissions from plug-in, battery-powered electric vehicles with emissions from hybrid vehicles, which combine internal combustion engines with small battery packs.
The conclusion: Pure plug-in battery-powered vehicles can create more emissions than hybrids and even more than some traditional internal combustion engine vehicles—whose fuel delivery, air delivery, and ignition systems have improved over the past 20 years, increasing overall vehicle gas mileage.
Here’s why. //
Research shows that electricity for battery-powered vehicles is coming from coal and natural gas rather than renewables. //
Seventy percent of the world’s electric batteries are produced in China, and 83% of China’s energy comes from fossil fuels, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
The longer the range of the battery, the more carbon is used in the production process. Senecal has calculated that carbon emissions to produce a battery for a Nissan Leaf were equivalent to driving a gasoline-powered BMW 320d for 24,000 miles. For a larger Tesla Model S battery, carbon emissions used in production are equivalent to driving the BMW 320d for 60,000 miles. //
Those concerned about greenhouse gas emissions may also be worried about the negative effects on the environment of mining for battery components. Such mining, which itself creates emissions, disrupts the land in low-income countries, such as cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where abuses of mine workers and significant pollution from mining have been documented by Amnesty International.
Lithium is another crucial component of batteries, and China, Chile, Argentina, and Australia are home to potentially damaging lithium mines, according to the Institute for Energy Research.
A coalition of more than 1,600 scientists critical of their peers’ hyperbolic claims about climate change drew a prominent recruit to sign their 2019 declaration that the climate “emergency” is a myth.
John Clauser, who won last year’s Nobel Prize in physics, became the second Nobel laureate last month to sign the document with 1,607 other scientists rebuking the idea of a climate crisis.
“Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific,” the declaration organized by the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) reads. “Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.”
Last year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) debuted a roadmap to net-zero emissions that became the model for corporate bishops of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. A June report from the Energy Policy Research Foundation criticized the initiatives outlined as a “green mirage.” The IEA roadmap, researchers wrote, “will dramatically increase energy costs, devastate Western economies, and increase human suffering.”
“The aim of global policy should be ‘prosperity for all’ by providing reliable and affordable energy at all times,” reads CLINTEL’s World Climate Declaration. “There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm.”
Norwegian-American engineer Ivan Giaever, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1973, is also a signatory to the declaration. //
The World Climate Declaration also notes that carbon dioxide is plant food, “not a pollutant.”
“It is essential to all life on Earth,” the document reads.
In fact, reforestation is on the rise, promoted by a global “greening” effect proliferating plant growth.
Rickover is the man most responsible for both the success and the failure of nuclear power. Thanks to Rickover, nuclear power became a reality as much as a decade earlier than it otherwise would have. But Rickover (along with Teller) was an originator of the Two Lies. He thought and taught that any sizable release was intolerable. My guess is that this doctrine was more a product of his concern for his program than his concern for humanity. But either way such a release must be prevented. He insisted this could be done if you followed Rickover's system of quality assurance religiously enough, cost be damned. The Intolerable Harm Lie and the Negligible Probability Lie put a crushing burden on nuclear power, which has prevented nuclear from realizing its promethean promise, and will continue to do so until they are renounced.
An instructive exception to Rickover's control of American nuclear effort was the Army's successful small reactor program in the very late 1950's. This included Camp Century. Camp Century was located at 77N in one of the most inhospitable places on the planet, 6000 feet above sea level on the Greenland Ice Cap, 800 miles from the North Pole, Figure 1. //
from a nuclear power perspective, Camp Century showed what is possible when you combine
1) a non-standard nuclear manufacturer accustomed to building large components in a competitive market [American Locomotive Company],
2) a plant built entirely on an assembly line,
3) transported by ship in blocks to site,
4) an erection time measured in weeks,
5) disassembled by reversing the process,
with an attitude that nuclear power is just another way of making electricity with its own benefits and hazards. [2]
When Camp Century was abandoned, the reactor and its fuel were removed; but just about everything else, including 200 m3 of diesel fuel and reactor coolant water with an initial activity of 1.2 GBq of activity, was left buried in the ice. The ice flow at the site has been tracked by the Danes ever since, most recently by Colgan et al.\cite{colgan-2023}. The ice is moving southwest at about 3.7 meters per year. But this will speed up as the ice gets closer to the shore. Colgan et al estimate it will hit the shore at Melville Bay in about 7000 years, Figure 4.
This has been promoted as a looming radiological disaster. 1.2 GBq is about 1/800th of the activity of a nuclear powered pacemaker. The deal with the Danes required that the site surface be left with no higher than normal background radioactivity. This was checked and signed off on by Danish personnel.
The longest lived isotope in the coolant is our old friend tritium. Tritium emits a weak electron which for all practical purposes is harmless. Tritium has a half-life of 12.3 years. If we conservatively assume all the ``initial" activity was tritium, by the time the Camp Century ice gets to the sea, the tritium will be reduced by more than a factor of 1.0e170. That's 10 followed by 169 zeros. //
Camp Century left us with a precious gift, Figure 6, a 1390 meter long ice core, all the way down to the ice base.3 This was the product of a multi-year effort to do what never had been done before. It was our first real record of the climate of the last 100,000 years. The single most important data is the ratio of heavy oxygen, Oxygen-18 to normal oxygen, O-16.. The lower this ratio, the colder the planet, since more of the heavy oxygen in the atmosphere condenses and precipitates out as it moves north before it gets to northern Greenland. //
CO2 measurements showed that atmospheric concentration of CO2 dipped to around 200 ppm about 20,000 years ago, barely above the level needed to support photosynthesis.\cite{neftel-1982}
There's more. The Army actually drilled about 3 meters into the sediment below the ice. Astonishingly, this portion of the core was pretty much forgotten, until it turned up in a freezer in Copenhagen in 2017. The sedimentary record spans pretty much the whole Pleistocene (roughly the last 3 million years). It contains plant material including well preserved twigs which showed that during that period the Camp Century location was ice-free, at least twice.\cite{christ-2021} The core is still producing papers.
But there are four reasons that most Americans prefer to buy cars with internal combustion engines: cost, convenience, climate, and China. //
the Biden administration’s push for EVs is to supposedly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But in order to produce supplies of batteries for EVs and other components, China is increasing its construction of coal-fired power plants. America has 225 coal-fired power plants (which the Biden administration is trying to put out of business), and China has 1,118 (half of all the coal-fired plants in the world). //
Biden says that EVs will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and that regulations on tailpipe and power plant emissions reduce global warming. But this is a fantasy. Emissions will not be reduced until the biggest producers of so-called greenhouse gases—China, India, and Russia—reduce their emissions, which they show no signs of doing.
Tony Heller @TonyClimate
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed .... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
- George Orwell 1984
[Graph showing NASA GISS climate record snapshots 1999/2019]
ony Heller
@TonyClimate
For the sixth year out of the last eight, the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet is gaining more ice than the 1981-2010 average. This won't be reported by the @nytimes, @BBCNews or
@CNN, because it doesn't suit their #ClimateScam agenda.
Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri
Cherrypicking newspaper clippings and pointing out that there has been warm weather in some places in the past, & thinking that it proves something, shows a spectacular failure to grasp scientific principles.
Coincidentally, February 1924 happened to be unusually cold in London.
Tony Heller @TonyClimate
Belief in the #ClimateScam requires an impressive lack of knowledge of history, combined with an inability to understand fundamental mathematical and scientific principles. A lack of curiosity also seems to be helpful.
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Oct 22
The first Winter Olympics in 1924 at Chamonix almost had to be cancelled because of a lack of snow and ice. According to the world's #1 #ClimateScam fraudster @MichaelEMann, that was one of the coldest years of the past millennium.
In an influential cli-fi novel, a desperate government ignores international consensus and pumps aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the world. Could it happen for real? //
This January, more than 440 scientists signed an open letter calling for a non-use agreement on solar geoengineering – including for small-scale outdoor experiments, like the unauthorised test conducted by a San Francisco start-up in Mexico earlier this year. They argue that the side-effects are unpredictable, the current global governance system is "incapable" of guaranteeing fair and effective control, and that development might encourage "normalisation" of the technology as part of the world's climate policy. Its cooling effect could create a "moral hazard", numerous researchers and civil society organisations warn, by taking pressure off efforts to cut the underlying CO2 emissions.
Such concerns have so far resulted in a de-facto moratorium on deployment, while a planned field test over Sweden was cancelled in the wake of objections.
If we've learned anything from the left over the years, it's that they're no longer satisfied with the rest of us merely accepting their various narratives, life choices, and such. Instead, they're hellbent on forcing us to embrace their insanity.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world increasingly laughs at America — while China and Russia continue to search for ways to exploit our self-inflicted weaknesses.
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