We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Nearly half of Texas wind energy production has frozen to a halt.

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More details here. I have friends in Texas currently in blackout, dealing with challenges and conditions they have no experience with. We’ve been helping with what advice we can offer.

Fifteen years ago, Al Gore, in his Oscar-winning film “An Inconvenient Truth” predicted “Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro. We all know how ridiculous that sounds now (well, everyone but John Kerry and Joe Biden and an endless stream of miseducated social justice warriors who have never read, nor heard of, Bjorn Lomborg.)”

16 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans”

  1. In my part of Oklahoma right now, it is -8 F and the wind is gusting to 30mph. The oil refinery I used to work at is down. We are in a rolling blackout. One hour, no electricity, Two hours electricity on. Our water supply and treatment plant is freezing up. There is talk of residential natural gas shortages on Tuesday. I know it’s piddling to what you all further north get, but we are not structurally perpared for this, this long.

  2. Windmills use very little hydrological oils,
    But when the oil freezes the device seizes.
    Ask any Germans that fought the Russians during the winter at Stalingrad?

    So damn cold the Diesel Hoses tried to crawl into the backs of their frozen German trucks and tanks.
    COLD!

    1. Depending on the helicopter, jet fuel burned to fly ranges from 26 to 33 gal/hour. For a Jet Ranger to Gazelle. Bell 204 burns 45 gal/hour. Do the math. Then add in what load you’re gonna fly of windex, for how long, and how many loads for a few hundred windmills. Screw wind and zolar, burn clean coal, or nat gas. In Teaxs the stuff is right underneath those windmills, or close by. Cut power to greenies, let them live fossil free.

  3. Pretty common knowledge for several years amongst people who aren’t AGW cult members that we were heading for global cooling.

    I’m guessing this will be classified as “just weather” to preserve the believer’s subservience.

    1. I believe it is true that we are headed for global cooling. The warming and cooling of the earth has a lot to do with the tilt of the earth on its axis. Between belief in people fading global warming and the bizarre policy responses to the pandemic, it is clear we are living in an age of irrationality.

    1. A nice datum, but not over a long enough time period to be definitive. File under “background climate”.

  4. Call Bill Gates. Perhaps he could sprinkle some of his fairy dust into the atmosphere to help prolong this event.

    1. Call Elon Musk, too. I thought by now somebody would have figured out how to get helicopters converted from fossil fuels to electricity. That great big propeller thing that turns a shaft so fast should be able to generate enough electricity to make it fly. Just needs more tax-funded subsidies.

  5. I can’t believe that no one has realized that there is a “Grand Solar Minimum” going on right now. The sun has no sunspots, or very few! The sun regulates the earth’s temperature, no carbon dioxide. The weather network weather commentators should be ashamed of themselves for whoring the global warming and climate change scam every chance they get. The CBC has not once mentioned grand solar minimum. Maybe it’s too deep for them to comprehend!

    1. The CBC and other Canadian paid-for news broadcasters aren’t paid to point out the problems in the government’s stated reasons for doing things.

  6. The problem was that nobody asked at the time, “so what?” when confronted with the awful prospect of a snow-free summit near the equator in Africa. And as we can now see, the “so what?” question might have avoided a lot of unnecessary disruption to our lives, including (I suspect) this COVID19 proxy event for climate change hysteria.

    These poindexters have had a generation to run amok with their mad-scientist program of mass destruction, and it’s time for the people to put an end to it, before they put an end to all of us.

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