Over a month before the report’s publication, the IPCC highlighted an optimistic scenario for future renewable energy use—that it may comprise 77 percent of the total world energy supply by 2050—in press releases and summary reports issued to policy makers. But when the full report was released last month, it became clear that the scenario was based on data from a study by Greenpeace—a non-profit environmental campaign organization that supports renewable energy as a solution to energy shortages and dependence on foreign oil—and that the IPCC report chapter that included the data had been drafted in part by Greenpeace’s Renewable Energy Director Sven Teske.
Shocking, eh? It's such old news it makes you wonder what rock The Scientist is published under.
Shocked, I say!
Is it published by Pravda?
In another optimistic scenario, I win the Lottery tonight. I have a ticket, so my scenario is possible. The Scientist's, not as likely.
Wonder if they'll follow up on this story . . .
"Electric Car Maker Folds, Salinas Loses $500,000"
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Shocking news I tell, just shocking.
"77 percent of the total world energy supply by 2050"
I started laughing at this drivel about then (seriously 77% , of the huge number of projected GwHs?) except I had the horrible thought that in 2050, after WW III the total energy usage on the planet might just be small enough to make this possible.
I mean if you only have 2 million left alive in Patagonia and other places like that, and most of those are subsistence farmers cooking& heating on wood fires... Bob's yer uncle!
That or there's some woo- woo tech breakthrough.
In other worlds in sane people's world view. DRIVEL.
It is slowly getting to the point where the word "expert" will be enshrined to mean opinion from anyone with a cause. Can't count the times I have listened to two "experts" with totally opposite points of view. No shortage of "experts", but definate shortage of people with common sense when it comes to brainwashed greenies. Including scientists.
As an engineer I have to say that I find the numbers being thrown about for future renewable energy use dismaying. The people and organizations producing these numbers or quite simply *lying*. They get away with the lying because the average person does not understand the technical issues.
I have always felt that if you use your technical knowledge in an area to cheat and steal from the taxpayer, then you should go to jail. Right now the cheating and stealing taking place in the area of "green" technology is on a grand scale, and what makes me sick is that the government is aiding and abetting the fraud.
I knew this fake Global warming would debase real science, as it has.
Who will be the next Cold fusion King?
Thast whe it strarted. It always does when money trumphs integrity.
Green peace! Non-profit? Suuurrrre.
The rats are starting to desert the good ship Rainbow Warrior.
Well, rats will be rats. At least we can be happy the damn ship is finally sinking.
Phantom (Well, rats will be rats. At least we can be happy the damn ship is finally sinking.) The ship may be sinking, but it reappears. There has been too much invested in the scheme to let it die. Australia now has a carbon tax--likely not because of anything related to global warming, but because it needed a tax. Any excuse would do. I wouldn't be surprised if it showed up in Canada named something like "not the Carbon Tax Dion was talking about". The IPCC is moving into different areas of research. Now they're having conferences on methods of geo-engineering the planet to neutralize and reverse the effects of carbon emissions and the supposed resulting climate changes. Things like injecting iron in the seas or sulfur in the upper atmosphere. Who knows what the unintended consequences might be. Even if they don't do any of these things, someone will be getting those research grants and you and I will be paying for them. And someone will be stockpiling iron and sulfur. The corporations have their feet firmly planted in both camps, ready to profit regardless.
The topic and the minions who feed off it, will simply morph into something else in the same way that global warming morphed into climate change when the threats didn't work out as predicted. They mutate like virus. I know I'm a pessimist, but I don't think we're winning at all. They show a desperate persistence and inventiveness--after all, lots of careers and lucrative perks depend on it.
I think your pessimism is well founded Rita. The msm propaganda machine is still very powerful, a lot of people are still taken in by it.
On the "bright" side, the economics of the next twenty years or so are shaping up pretty harsh, so I think a lot of these parasites are going to starve because of that. Probably starve last, but still starve.