Climate Hypocrisy
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ABC News: Thanksgiving Dinner ‘Could Soon Become Another Victim’ of Climate Change
The report said rising temperatures “threaten the abundance and quality” of ingredients that make up a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
“As a result, these essential food items could become increasingly scarce and more expensive, potentially forcing families to omit or make substitutions in key recipes on their Thanksgiving menus,” the report said.
The report cited “experts” who said produce is among the foods most affected by climate change, and extreme weather events are affecting the yields of staple Thanksgiving ingredients such as sweet potatoes and cranberries.
One of the experts was Himanshu Gupta, co-founder and CEO of ClimateAi, a climate adaptation platform for food and agricultural supply chains.
“Climate change is a culture crisis,” Gupta told ABC News. “It’s also impacting our traditions and cultures in ways never seen before, and one example of that is Thanksgiving.”
Gupta also blamed climate change for making food more expensive versus inflation.
Report: CNBC Eliminates Climate Desk, No More Dedicated Staff Covering Climate Change
Rathi cited a LinkedIn post by recently laid-off CNBC “climate innovation and technology” reporter Catherine Clifford, who recounted a conversation she had with her “editor’s boss.”
“As part of wider newsroom headcount reductions, there would no longer be any staff at CNBC dedicated to covering climate, this boss said,” Clifford wrote. ” The climate desk was being dismantled and my position covering climate tech and innovation was being eliminated, this boss told me.”
Parent company NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast, recently enacted layoffs across multiple divisions, though it remains unclear if the CNBC cuts were part of those layoffs.
Comcast is feeling the heat as more and more Americans continue to cut the cord, opting for à la carte streaming entertainment options over pricey cable packages. This has meant dwindling revenue for channels like CNBC and MSNBC, which receive a chunk of your monthly cable TV payment, even if you don’t watch them.
Now Big Brother Wants to Control the Gas Pedal in Your Car
The proposal from the NTSB is to install “intelligent speed assistance” tech in all cars, a system that uses a car’s GPS location and local speed limit postings “to help ensure safe and legal speeds.”
What the NTSB wants is to require systems that “warn” when a driver is speeding, as well as systems that “make it more difficult, but not impossible, to increase the speed of a vehicle” as well as electronic limits on vehicles so they “fully prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit.”
That description comes from an NTSB announcement which is recommending to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration a requirement for those systems, and a campaign to “educate the public” about its “benefits.”
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The NTSB demands include required ISA systems, a plan to “educate” the public, new programs to track repeat speeding offenders, and more.
A report at The Federalist said, “While legal speed limits are capped at 85 mph in the U.S., vehicles are designed to go far faster to allow safe passing and escape in emergency situations. The capacity to go faster also puts less strain on vehicles at lower speeds.”
The NTSB also has begun work on a campaign to require a “kill switch” in new cars, a process that would allow the automatic disabling of a vehicle under certain conditions.
The Biden Administration’s Electric Vehicle Subsidies Are Becoming Another Solyndra
The Biden Administration’s Electric Vehicle Subsidies Are Becoming Another Solyndra
Proterra, an electric bus and battery company that President Joe Biden touted as a success of his green energy initiative, filed for bankruptcy in August. Last week, it finally sold its embattled battery business at a rock-bottom price as part of the bankruptcy proceeding. The rise and fall of Proterra demonstrates once again that politicians should refrain from betting taxpayers’ money on business ventures to advance their political agenda.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Proterra has sold only 550 electric transit buses since its founding in 2004. Most of the sales were underwritten by government agencies with federal grants. Proterra’s electric buses were plagued with mechanical defects and other performance issues, such as limited range and long charging times. Besides government subsidies, the company only survived as long as it had due to powerful political connections. Former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, Biden’s energy secretary, served on its board.
Despite all the quality issues of its EV buses, Proterra went public in January 2021 and raised $650 million, more than three times its annual revenue. A month after the company’s IPO, Biden tapped Granholm as his energy secretary. Proterra’s political connection to the Biden administration paid off in many ways.
Climate change already reducing global GDP: report
- Climate change reduced global economic output by 6.3% last year, disproportionately affecting developing countries.
- Developed countries like Europe initially benefitted from warmer winters, but this gain may be offset by hotter summers.
- Low- and middle-income countries lost $21 trillion in capital and GDP over the past 30 years.
Climate change already reducing global GDP
When calculated without taking into account impacts borne by the average person, the global GDP loss was 1.8 percent of GDP - or about $1.5 trillion dollars - in 2022.
"The difference between those two numbers reflects the uneven distribution of impacts, which concentrate in low-income countries and tropical regions that typically have more population and less GDP," the authors said in a statement.
Least developed countries experienced higher population-weighted GDP loss of 8.3%,, with Southeast Asia and Southern Africa particularly affected - losing 14.1% and 11.2% of their GDP respectively.
On the other hand, some developed countries benefited. Thanks to warmer winters Europe saw a nearly five percent net gain in GDP last year.
But such gains are "poised to erode" as hotter summers offset milder winters, warns the report.
We have a question for Mr. Guterres here: How did you get to Antarctica? Did you walk? Swim? Row a boat?
Because you used fossil fuels to get there, in the jacket and hat you're wearing, in the technology you used to fill and upload your video.
Ending fossil fuels would return us to the Dark Ages, quite literally.
United Nations set to call on Americans to reduce meat consumption
The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization is planning to release a first-of-its-kind report taking aim at the "over-consumption" of meat in the West.
It is time to get us out of the UN and kick them out of our country.
United Nations set to call on Americans to reduce meat consumption
The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization is planning to release a first-of-its-kind report taking aim at the "over-consumption" of meat in the West.www.foxnews.com
It is time to get us out of the UN and kick them out of our country.
Dissolve the UN, the organization is useless, a Haven for Progressive Eurocrats and Socialist Policies
Fossil Fuels and Fly-In Fools
The COP28 presidency passed to the United Arab Emirates in the person of Sultan Al Jaber. His thank you and welcoming opening remarks threw a bit of a bomb into the gathering of climate cultists.
It was also excessively awkward, as – at the same time – the sultan was busy denying a published BBC report that he’d used his position as the head of this gathering of Gaia’s lesser angels to make sure a few big oil deals got done on the side. I mean, everyone was going to be in town anyway, weren’t they?
There’s a problem?
This is the Arab version of “How dare you!” when they get busted.
But it’s all for show in any event. None of the elitists tut-tutting behind the hands covering their shocked-face mouths could have gotten to Dubai without those very same fossil fuels. I guarantee you, most of the travelers used boatloads more of their carbon allowance in that one trip than many of us will exhaust in a lifetime.
UN delegates circulate petition to shut down US natural gas production as global climate summit kicks off
According to the letter obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., is among the lead architects of the effort in addition to Lisa Badum, a member of the German Parliament who is leading her nation's delegation at the summit, and Canadian Sen. Rosa Galvez. Markey, Badum and Galvez sent the letter to other U.S. lawmakers and global representatives ahead of the COP28 climate conference, which kicks off Thursday in Dubai.
"At COP26, the United States — along with 39 governments and institutions — signed the Glasgow Statement, pledging to prioritize the clean energy transition and end new direct public support for the international fossil fuel sector by 2022," the letter states. "This is the very least we can do, considering that even existing production capacities already exceed the limits set by the Paris Agreement."
"Despite this, the United States is hurtling towards a massively harmful expansion of Liquefied Natural Gas infrastructure," it continues. "Regrettably, there exist similar plans in many other countries — including in Germany, the U.S., and Canada."
The letter further argues that while liquefied natural gas (LNG) — natural gas that has been cooled to enable easier transport — was originally looked to as a means to "tackle the consequences of the global energy crisis," additional LNG capacity is "not needed." Climate advocates have long opposed LNG and natural gas production since, when burned for power production, it produces greenhouse gas emissions.
Umm GFYS ..
When India and China come to the table and cut back in CO2 I'll consider this nonsense
Kinnakeet
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When India and China come to the table and cut back in CO2 I'll consider this nonsense...LMAO...Not me its all BS
yeah well true, but knowing India and China will NEVER be required to reduce emissions I'm safe from EVER having to have this climate discussion
The climate movement is all about Marxist take over of the West
Kinnakeet
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Truth!