Climate Hypocrisy

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In late July, Forbes ran a story that proves jab-induced cognitive impairment, headlined, “Chop Down Forests To Save The Planet? Maybe Not As Crazy As It Sounds.” The sub-headline was even worse: “Bill Gates and other investors are betting Kodama Systems can reduce carbon dioxide in the air by chopping down and burying trees. Now if only Uncle Sam would get on board with tax credits, too.”



Why is it always “Uncle Sam” when they want money? This time, they want tax credits for chopping down trees and burying them! Because climate change. Gosh. What will that goofy Bill Gates dream up next? Maybe he’ll look for some sweet tax credits to release genetically-modified mosquitos or something. Oh, wait.

How will they do it? The creator of Windows BOB has now created, and I am not making this up, a 17-ton “semi-autonomous” tree destroying robot that works in the dark. My imagination is still boggled.

Now, I’m old enough to remember when chopping trees down was a federal offense, or near enough. And what about the rain forests? Whichever, chopping down trees was always bad. And planting trees was good. Over the years, I’ve represented more than one unfortunate developer or home builder who got sideways with the local zoning board for chopping down one single tree.

The usual penalty for tree assassination was paying a crateful of money and planting a few dozen new trees. And you probably remember all the charities that took your money and promised to plant trees with it.

Well, forget about all that. You — not the experts — you were wrong.

Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, wait a minute, trees are what reduces carbon dioxide. Chopping them down seems as dumb as eating Tide Pods with maple syrup for breakfast. But the experts are way ahead of you. I’ll let Forbes explain:

Yes, the conventional idea is to plant trees to soak up carbon dioxide from the air and to then sell credits to corporations, private jet owners and others who need or want to offset their emissions. But scientists say burying trees can reduce global warming as well—particularly if those trees would otherwise end up burning or decaying, spewing their stored carbon into the air.

Hahahaha! They got us! Trees are made out of carbon, dummies! So you know what that means. They must go! All of them! Unleash the robots!

The “burial godfather” explained how it works:

University of Maryland atmospheric science professor Ning Zeng, considered the godfather of biomass burial, explains that the average ton of freshly harvested forest is about 50% carbon by weight, and if left to rot or burn it would put the equivalent of one ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A good rule of thumb, he says: “A ton of biomass in the Earth is a ton of CO2 not in the sky.”

I bet you didn’t even know there was a tree-burial godfather. Which just shows how out of touch you are.

Here’s the thing: chopping down trees is good now, but we cannot allow loggers to profit from the harvested trees, by turning them into houses or furniture or pencils or anything practical like that. No, in order to prevent a windfall for the vile tree industry, the trees must be safely buried after they are chopped down, so nobody can use them.

It’s simple. Lots more carbon comes out of cutting up the trees and making useful things out of them. So under the ground they go.

The Forbes article didn’t estimate or even mention how much carbon would be created by cutting the trees down and running all of Bill Gates’ 17-ton tree-eating robots. I doubt the robots are solar powered or run on windmills.

Anyway, the very best part is: they want us to pay for it! In tax credits. If you were a billionaire, would you waste your time selling things into the fickle, demanding marketplace when you have the gullible government sitting right there?

Forbes speculated in the article about other advantages, like thinning forests to prevent wildfires — fires create carbon dioxide too! — but I can’t even. I’m starting to think you guys feel I say this too often, but I am not making any of this up, I promise.

You know what else is made out of carbon? Us. We are made out of carbon. Just like trees. Coming soon: Bill Gates’ people-harvesting robots.

Maybe Bill fall into one of his own robots. Wouldn’t that be ironic.

This seems like a good time to remind everyone of that famous old children’s lullaby, Mr. Vanderdeck’s Machine:

Oh! Mr. Vanderdeck, how could you be so mean?
I told you you'd be sorry for inventin' that machine.
Now all the neighbors’ cats and dogs will never more be seen,
they’ve all been ground to sausages in Vanderdeck’s machine.
One night the thing got busted,
the darned thing wouldn’t go.
So Vanderdeck, he crawled inside, to see what made it so.
His wife, she had a nightmare,
and walking in her sleep,
she gave the crank a heck of a yank,
And Vanderdeck was meat.
Oh!

One can hope, can’t one?

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Over 1,600 scientists have now signed a declaration titled, “There is no Climate Emergency.



Here’s the link, share freely: https://clintel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/WCD-version-081423.pdf

Do you suppose these 1,600 scientists’ opinion will stop the climate psychos from claiming there is “consensus” among scientists about global warming? I’m eager to hear your thoughts.

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I trust scientists who say and believe that nothing is ever settled, and that the quest for more knowledge is the heart of science.

 

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That’s the bottom line of New York’s “net zero” climate plan to drastically reduce carbon emissions.

It aims is to stop burning natural gas and other fossil fuels (even for cooking and heat), vastly increasing the use of electricity — even while magically switching the state’s electricity generation from mostly fossil-fuel-based to all-alternative energy.

Since we can’t add significant hydro power and won’t build more nuclear plants, that means ginormous increases in solar and wind power — plus new transmission lines.

And vast energy-storage capacities, for which affordable technology doesn’t even exist yet.

State officials pretend this will “only” cost a few hundred billion bucks (it’ll actually cost far more) but don’t dare appropriate enough tax dollars for it, which means they’re mandating outlays that must eventually show up in utility bills. (That’s what “Con Ed will pay” means, since it and other utilities have nowhere else to get the cash.)

This is the truth about the state Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act; recent hikes in your utility bills are just a taste of what’s coming unless and until the law gets changed.

Fresh proof that New York’s ‘climate plan’ is pure fantasy

Equinor and BP asked New York to pay 54% more to build offshore wind farms for “net zero” climate plan.

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Biden to Cancel Alaska Oil, Gas Leases Issued Under Trump​

Biden has said he would move to protect roughly 19.6 million acres in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for polar bears and caribou.

“As the climate crisis warms the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, we have a responsibility to protect this treasured region for all ages,” Biden said in a written statement.

Trump issued the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) seven leases right before Biden’s inauguration. The move is part of a larger strategy by which Biden has moved to cancel oil and gas exploration on public lands.

AIDEA said it would challenge the move.

“This latest action by the Department of the Interior shows arbitrary disregard for Federal law, based on campaign trail rhetoric. Campaign promises are not enough to justify this agency action,” AIDEA said in a statement.

Republicans slammed Biden’s move to develop oil and gas in Alaska.

 

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Yesterday, Portuguese communist and Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres called the whole game. It’s all over. The climate breakdown has begun. We’re doomed!



Well, “doomed” might be over-stating things a little. First, I’d refer the Secretary General to the Hunga Tonga volcano. Second, I’m not even too sure about the Secretary’s data. For example:



And it’s worth hauling out this old Project Veritas 2021 chestnut, in which a CNN technical director admitted the network was scheming to pivot to climate hysteria after people got tired of hearing about pandemic hysteria:





So.

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Environmentalist group that disrupted U.S. Open has long history of stunts​

Unlike most protests that involve carrying signs or marching with banners, the history of Extinction Rebellion's exploits seems to center not just on making its position known, but creating as much chaos and disruption as possible to draw attention to themselves.

The group has been described by Time Magazine as "the most radical of a wave of climate activist groups sweeping the world in recent years." Extinction Rebellion originated in the U.K. but has chapters in 75 different countries.

As recently as Friday, the group brought attention to themselves by spray painting a superyacht owned by billionaire Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie in Barcelona, and unfurling a banner reading: “Billionaires should not exist,” CNN reported.

For example, last year, the group carried out a protest demanding the end of fossil fuels by coordinating blockades of critical city thoroughfares, shutting down public access to key bridges in London, including Waterloo, Blackfriars and Westminster.

 

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Nobel Winner Refutes Climate Change Narrative, Points Out Ignored Factor​

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Prominent climate reports, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), National Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society, emphasize the role of CO2 but miss the mark on the critical role of clouds in the climate system, according to Mr. Clauser.

His curiosity about clouds began as a sailboat racer. He recalled, "I raced across the Pacific Ocean at least a dozen times. I had set up the boat with solar panels to charge the batteries. ... I had an ammeter on the power output from the solar panels, and I noticed every time we sailed under a cloud, the output from the solar panels dropped by 50 percent to half of its value that it was, and then we came out from behind the cloud and boom, their power went back up. And I thought, 'I wonder why it's just about a factor of two.'"

"This is how I became very curious as to how clouds work. When the climate issues came along, I very quickly realized that cloud cover has a profound effect on the earth's heat input that the clouds are reflecting a massive amount of light back out into space.

"And so I read all of the various IPCC reports, National Academy reports on this," he continued. "As a physicist, I'd worked at some excellent institutions— Caltech, Columbia, Cal Berkeley—where very careful science needed to be done. And reading these reports, I was appalled at how sloppy the work was. And in particular, it was very obvious, even in the earliest reports, and all carried on through to the present, that clouds were not at all understood. ... It's just simply bad science."

Mr. Clauser highlighted insights from former President Barack Obama's science adviser, Steve Koonin. In Mr. Koonin's book, "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters," the author noted the inconsistency of the IPCC's 40 computer models, emphasizing their inability to explain the past century's climate and suggesting that these models lack a crucial piece of physics.

 

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More Climate Fairy Tales​

Much of the media are hauling out one of their favorite words – “unprecedented” – to describe the force and destructive power of Idalia, which is not true. Hurricanes happen during the summer and early fall and some of the worst occurred long before the Industrial Age. Let’s not forget the “experts” who swore in the 1970s that the Earth was headed for a new ice age in which we would all freeze to death. Trust the science we were told.

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Concerning the predictable hysteria from some TV reporters standing in ankle or hip-deep water, the climate Chicken Littles are wrong again. According to the webpage Advancing Earth and Space Sciences: “Global hurricane counts and Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) have significantly decreased since 1990 likely due to a trend toward LaNina. (The) decreasing trend in global hurricanes and ACE is primarily driven by (the) downturn in western North Pacific activity.”

CNN went full crisis mode when its top climate “expert” Dr. Bill Weir said:

“The cost of (using fossil fuels) is becoming bigger with every storm. Science has been warning about this for a very long time, in many ways it has been predicted…”

Not all “science” and not all scientists, especially those who are in the field of environment and not receiving grants from the federal government, which could skew the credibility of their findings. The organization Climate Intelligence has published a letter signed by 1,609 scientists who say there is no climate emergency. Their letter is loaded with scientific facts and not statements by politicians and reporters who repeat familiar lines.

In addition to their citation of scientific facts, they write:

“To believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. This is precisely the problem with today’s climate discussion to which climate models are central. Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science. Should we not free ourselves from the naive belief in immature climate models?”

 

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The 'Climate Emergency' Is a Hoax​

The Biden administration also does not seem concerned that it is killing wildlife, sea life and the fishing industry by installing offshore wind turbines along the Atlantic seaboard, or that mandating electric vehicles will throw virtually the entire auto maintenance industry out of work (EVs do not need routine maintenance), or that lithium batteries not only explode but cost thousands of dollars to replace. The administration even wants military equipment, such as tanks, to be electric, as if there were charging stations in the middle of foreign deserts in the event of a conflict. Moreover, according to NBC News, volcanoes, unimpressed with executive orders, "Dwarf Humans for CO2 Emissions."

The Biden administration does not even bother to act on its own climate findings: In March, the White House released a report about the impact of climate change on the US economy. "Its findings undermine any claims of an ongoing climate crisis or imminent catastrophe" Koonin wrote in July.

"The report's authors should be commended for honestly delivering likely unwelcome messages, even if they didn't make a show of it. The rest of the Biden administration and its climate-activist allies should moderate their apocalyptic rhetoric and cancel the climate crisis accordingly. Exaggerating the magnitude, urgency and certainty of the climate threat encourages ill-considered policies that could be more disruptive and expensive than any change in the climate itself."

But facts will not stop the Biden administration from forging ahead with its radical policies: "I don't think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore," Biden, commenting on Hurricane Idalia, told reporters at the White House on August 30. "Just look around. Historic floods. I mean, historic floods. More intense droughts, extreme heat, significant wildfires have caused significant damage."

Never mind that much of climate change is apparently caused by sun flares, about which we can do nothing, and which, unlike commercial industries, do not offer grants; or that major wildfires are, ironically, exacerbated by "environmentalists" for refusing to let tinderbox brush be cleared lest the creatures there be disturbed other than by a wildfire.

Climate expert Bjørn Lomborg suggests that the trillions of dollars needed to address climate change might be put to better use:

"This isn't an argument to do nothing but just to be smarter. To ensure we can transition from fossil fuels, we need to ramp up research and development to innovate down the price of green energy. We should invest across all options including fusion, fission, storage, biofuel and other sources.
"Only when green energy is cheaper than fossil fuels will the world be able and willing to make the transition. Otherwise, today's energy prices are just a taste of things to come."

 

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‘A willingness to circumvent laws’: Legal battle awaits Biden’s Alaskan oil crackdown​

In addition to revoking the leases, the administration is planning to introduce new environmental protections for more than 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA), which would effectively remove the covered areas from future oil and gas activity, according to Reuters. The NRPA is approximately 23 million acres in size, and it is intended to serve as a reserve oil supply in the event of emergency, according to the Bureau of Land Management.

The lease sales in question were mandated by Congress in 2017 to pay for the Trump-era tax cuts of that same year.

“A willingness to circumvent laws passed by Congress has consequences reaching far beyond ANWR’s boundaries, and will impact future development across this country,” AIDEA said, adding that it “will aggressively defend our lease rights and oppose this unlawful action.”

Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin also slammed the Biden administration for its decision, calling the DOI’s moves and their implications “frankly embarrassing.” There have now been 55 executive orders and actions specifically targeting Alaska since President Joe Biden assumed office in 2021, according to Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

 

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NOAA Says 2023 America's Worst Year Ever for Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters​

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AllSides Summary​

The U.S. has had more costly weather-related disasters in 2023 than any other year on record, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The Details: An NOAA report released Monday says there have been 23 weather disasters this year with losses over $1 billion. This includes 18 storms, two flooding events, one tropical cyclone, one winter storm, and the Hawaii wildfires.

Key Quotes: "For this year-to-date period, the first eight months of 2023 rank highest for disaster count, ahead of 2020 with 16 disasters. The total cost of these events exceeds $57.6 billion, and they have resulted in 253 direct and indirect fatalities," the report states.

How the Media Covered it: Left- and center-rated sources covered the news prominently; few right-rated sources covered it at all. Some suggested the report is evidence that more needs to be done to combat climate change; the report itself doesn't mention climate change directly. Axios (Lean Left bias) reported that the rise in costly weather disasters "likely reflects both trends in extreme weather events and population growth, including in vulnerable areas with certain hazards — such as coastal and other low-lying areas," the latter of which is "thought to be more significant to date."

 

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WH Chief of Staff Jeff Zients' family getting RICH from green energy company pushed by Biden/Harris​

 

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Meteorologists, Scientists Explain Why There Is ‘No Climate Emergency’​

"Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific," the declaration begins. "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."

The group is an independent "climate watchdog" founded in 2019 by emeritus professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and Marcel Crok, a science journalist. According to its website, the organization's objective is to "generate knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of climate change as well as the effects of climate policy." And it does so by objectively looking at the facts and engaging in scientific research into climate change and climate policy.

The declaration's signatories include Nobel laureates, theoretical physicists, meteorologists, professors, and environmental scientists worldwide. And when a select few were asked by The Epoch Times why they signed the declaration stating that the "climate emergency" is a farse, they all stated a variation of "because it's true."

"I signed the declaration because I believe the climate is no longer studied scientifically. Rather, it has become an item of faith," Haym Benaroya, a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Rutgers University, told The Epoch Times.

"The earth has warmed about 2 degrees F since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, but that hardly constitutes an emergency—or even a crisis—since the planet has been warmer yet over the last few millennia," Ralph Alexander, a retired physicist and author of the website "Science Under Attack," told The Epoch Times.

 

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NOAA Says 2023 America's Worst Year Ever for Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters​

Environment, Weather

AllSides Summary​

The U.S. has had more costly weather-related disasters in 2023 than any other year on record, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The Details: An NOAA report released Monday says there have been 23 weather disasters this year with losses over $1 billion. This includes 18 storms, two flooding events, one tropical cyclone, one winter storm, and the Hawaii wildfires.

Key Quotes: "For this year-to-date period, the first eight months of 2023 rank highest for disaster count, ahead of 2020 with 16 disasters. The total cost of these events exceeds $57.6 billion, and they have resulted in 253 direct and indirect fatalities," the report states.

How the Media Covered it: Left- and center-rated sources covered the news prominently; few right-rated sources covered it at all. Some suggested the report is evidence that more needs to be done to combat climate change; the report itself doesn't mention climate change directly. Axios (Lean Left bias) reported that the rise in costly weather disasters "likely reflects both trends in extreme weather events and population growth, including in vulnerable areas with certain hazards — such as coastal and other low-lying areas," the latter of which is "thought to be more significant to date."

Its natural to happen with replacement costs going way up.

 

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According to a report from Energy Wire, lithium, nickel, cobalt and graphite demand is skyrocketing as production of electric vehicles increases. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil’s CEO Darren Woods announced that the company is “actively exploring” options for lithium mining.

Chevron is also considering going down the lithium route, but has not laid out specific plans yet, Bloomberg reports.

While there has been some pushback to America being on a fast track to an electric vehicle future due to fear of potential job loss for those in the oil and gas industry, some experts have argued more jobs would be produced.

Chevron told E&E News in a statement that this technology to mine lithium would “operate more efficiently, lower carbon intensity and launch viable new businesses.”

Some concerns regarding extracting metals include water pollution as a result of conventional mining, greenhouse gas emissions from the gasoline-burning machinery, and the respiratory issues for people in the area, according to Earth.org.

Conventional mining emits a high volume of carbon emitted in the process. MIT’s Climate Portal states that mining one metric ton of lithium results in emitting 15 times that same volume of CO2. Lithium itself is highly toxic, according to the National Institute of Health's Library of Medicine.

Oil, gas companies seeking underground metals needed to make electric vehicle batteries

There has been an active push over the past two years to push America to use electric cars and move away from oil and gas, mostly due to climate change concerns. Chevron is considering going down the lithium route, but has not laid out specific plans yet.

justthenews.com

 

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