Climate Hypocrisy
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My Continent Is Not Your Giant Climate Laboratory
It wasn’t the first time Westerners have tried to persuade Africans that solar engineering projects may be in our best interest. And it won’t be the last. In May, another international nonprofit, the Climate Overshoot Commission, headquartered in Paris, is hosting an event in Nairobi to help drum up support for research on solar geoengineering and other related technologies it says could be helpful in reducing risks when the world exceeds its global warming targets.
As a climate expert, I consider these environmental manipulation techniques extremely risky. And as an African climate expert, I strongly object to the idea that Africa should be turned into a testing ground for their use. Even if solar geoengineering can help deflect heat and improve weather conditions on the ground — a prospect that is unproven on any relevant scale — it’s not a long-term solution to climate change. It sends a message to the world that we can carry on over-consuming and polluting because we will be able to engineer our way out of the problem.
The solar engineering technology attracting the most attention would use balloons or aircraft to spray large quantities of aerosols — tiny particles of, for example, sulfur dioxide or engineered nanoparticles — into the stratosphere to dim the sunlight. It’s called solar radiation management and it’s highly speculative.Without using the whole earth as a laboratory, it’s impossible to know whether it would dim anything, let alone how it would affect ecosystems, people and the global climate.
More gloomy news from Biden! White House says it's open to plan that would BLOCK sunlight from hitting surface of the Earth in bid to limit global warming
- The White House has opened the door to an audacious 'geoengineering' plan
- The idea would block sunlight from the earth's surface to fight global warming
- Scientists have warned the practice could have devastating effects
Anti-Oil Group Disrupts Pride Parade Over Feud With LGBT Group
Just Stop Oil, a group associated with protests targeting famous works of art, took credit for the disruption, arguing that the organizers of the parade did not do enough to condemn new oil and gas leases. According to police, seven people were arrested on “public nuisance” charges.
“Pride is a protest. But Pride in London allows destructive industries such as Coca-Cola, who are the world’s biggest plastic polluter and who have been accused of numerous human rights abuses, to co-opt it and pinkwash themselves,” Just Stop Oil said on Twitter. “The LGBTQ+ supporters of Just Stop Oil have taken action against Pride in London today, because the organisation is working with industries complicit in worsening the climate crisis.”
According to the U.K.-based group, the protesters who disrupted the parade identified as LGBT. They managed to bring the parade to a halt for about 15 minutes before they were removed from the street by police.
“New oil and gas is a death sentence for millions of people, and the LGBTQ+ community will be one of the first to suffer,” Just Stop Oil said.
So the UK Police WILL NOT Remove these idiots from blocking the M 25, but block a Price Parade, and you get pulled off of the street and arrested
How long will Canada burn? Smoke will continue to choke NYC and the east coast throughout summer as 281 fires burn 'out of control'
- Canada is experiencing its worst fire season on record - but it is not just one fire firefighters are trying to extinguish
- Currently, there are more than 568 fires active in Canada, 281 of which are classified as 'out of control', the Canadian Agency Forest Fire Centre said
- A forecaster with the NOAA weather prediction center said Americans will remain at risk of more smoke-filled days ahead until the fires are 'fully out'
Buy Your Own Damn E-Bike
Writing in CityLab, David Zipper reports on a number of local and state programs that provide tax rebates and vouchers worth anywhere from $400 to $2,000 to purchasers of new e-bikes. Earlier this year, lawmakers in D.C. re-introduced legislation to create a $1,500 federal e-bike tax credit as well.
Supporters argue these subsidies are justified by e-bikes' potential to take gas-powered cars off the road, thereby cutting emissions, benefiting the environment, and improving road safety.
Many of these state and local subsidy programs are quickly oversubscribed, with the number of applicants vastly outstripping the number of vouchers. For Zipper, that's evidence that these policies are driving adoption and should be expanded.
"Limits on the availability of e-bike incentives is throttling their enormous upside," he says. "The growing army of e-bike-enthused advocates and public officials should ask themselves: What incentive structure can attract the largest number of new riders? One lesson is becoming clear: Get vouchers into as many hands as possible."
Global Warming was a lie
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List: Ten climate lies on 35th anniversary of global warming warning - Washington Examiner
It has been 35 years since the start of global warming was declared by climate educator James Hansen and carried on the front page of the New York Times under the headline, “Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate.”Many doomsday calls have followed, but the worst of the warnings have not...
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When will people realize you are not going to save on electric vehicles. The govt builds roads with a gas tax. Don't you think there will be an electric tax to pay for road construction. They will find a way to tax your home charging along with the remote adding up to what you pay for gas now. The govt ain't giving up those funds.
I've seen proposals to tax your miles driven each year.
The legislation will require countries to introduce measures restoring nature on a fifth of their land and sea by 2030. The aim is to reverse the decline of Europe's natural habitats - 81% of which are classed as being in poor health.
"Restoring nature brings numerous benefits to farmers," EU lawmaker Mohammed Chahim said. "It is as simple as this: we cannot grow food on dead soil."
Lawmakers and scientists have rejected the EPP's claims, accusing the group of using misinformation to court votes ahead of EU Parliament elections next year. The group denies this.
"This law is not against anybody," Luena said. "This is a law on behalf of nature, not against any person whatsoever."
Luena thanked the scientists and young people who had supported the law - among them, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who attended the EU assembly on Wednesday to watch the vote.
Brussels has already passed dozens of CO2-cutting laws to deliver the EU's overall green agenda, including its goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
But recent environment proposals have hit resistance - particularly those that would require changes from farmers to tackle environmental pollution and the collapse of bee and butterfly populations.
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"Restoring nature brings numerous benefits to farmers," EU lawmaker Mohammed Chahim said. "It is as simple as this: we cannot grow food on dead soil."
Lawmakers and scientists have rejected the EPP's claims, accusing the group of using misinformation to court votes ahead of EU Parliament elections next year. The group denies this.
"This law is not against anybody," Luena said. "This is a law on behalf of nature, not against any person whatsoever."
Luena thanked the scientists and young people who had supported the law - among them, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who attended the EU assembly on Wednesday to watch the vote.
Brussels has already passed dozens of CO2-cutting laws to deliver the EU's overall green agenda, including its goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
But recent environment proposals have hit resistance - particularly those that would require changes from farmers to tackle environmental pollution and the collapse of bee and butterfly populations.
EU Parliament passes nature law after political backlash
The European Parliament on Wednesday voted to pass a fiercely contested law to restore degraded natural ecosystems, salvaging the environmental measures that centre-right lawmakers had campaigned to kill off.
Biden administration to buy air conditioning units in push for 'equity and environmental justice'
"The situation is alarming, and it requires an all-of-society response to ensure that communities have the support they need to plan, prepare, and recover from these extreme weather events, which are costing the U.S. billions of dollars every year," the memo stated.
The White House announced several new elements in its plan. It will establish two "virtual research centers" at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aimed at improving resilience to extreme heat, and a National Heat Strategy will be created to establish "equity and environmental justice."
The White House also said it will soon host a meeting with local leaders to ensure federal funds and private relief groups improve efforts to address extreme temperatures. A "Summit on Climate Resilience and Sustainability in Affordable Housing" will be hosted to explore how the Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act can counter the heat wave they say is caused by climate change.
Nobel Prize winner denounces alarmist climate predictions: ‘I don’t believe there is a climate crisis’
During his speech at the “Quantum Korea 2023” event, Dr. John Clauser said, “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis,” according to a report by Seoul Economic Daily that has been translated into English by the CO2 Coalition.
Clauser added that “key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by approximately 200 times” and accused the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of spreading misinformation.
In his keynote speech addressed to young Korean scientists and students, Clauser said that “Misinformation is being spread by those with political and opportunistic motives.”
“Even chatbots like ChatGPT can be better at lying than humans,” he said, adding that “distinguishing truth from falsehood is a challenging task for both humans and computers.”