Zero maintenance, no upkeep, no added costs, you won’t need to do a thing.
Yes, yes I’ll feed the cows but first…
The Sound Of Settled Science
An excellent thread from Roger Pielke Jr.
Y2Kyoto: Schadenfrozen
One of Germany’s biggest challenges in the fight against climate change is to keep the lights on.
As Europe’s biggest economy shuts its last nuclear reactor next year and utility RWE AG warns that coal plants may close earlier than planned, critics say green energy isn’t being added quickly enough. Germany’s ability to meet peak demand is poised to shrink rapidly over the next two years, increasing the risk of blackouts.
In a last push to save her fading reputation as ‘The Climate Chancellor’ before stepping down after next month’s election, Angela Merkel announced Europe’s strictest emissions goals. But the green power revolution she fronted for almost two decades is running out of steam just as the electrification of the economy will increase demand. […]
A supply squeeze would send power prices soaring for the many thousands of companies that make up the backbone of the economy. Wholesale rates have already jumped almost 60% this year to their highest level since 2008. That increase will feed through to the nation’s 40 million homes already paying the highest bills in the European Union, partly to fund the energy transition.
The green-hucksters at Bloomberg buried that third paragraph at the bottom of the article, and this one at the end:
In the meantime, Germany may have to rely more on neighboring markets for imports. But the closure of fossil-fuel plants in other nations too means that availability could be limited during harsh winters, just when the power is needed the most…
Return of the Hockey Stick
Despite years of being told that defects in prior hockey stick temperature reconstructions “don’t matter” because the Hockey Stick “doesn’t “matter”, the first figure of new IPCC Summary for Policy-Makers is a Hockey Stick.
When ordinary Canadians hear the phrase “warmest in more than 100,000 years”, very few know that Canada was under a mile of ice for most of that period. So when Michael Mann and IPCC zealots demand that we “Make the Climate Great Again”, people, especially Canadians, need to think whether the climate was really all that “great” in the Ice Age, when there was a mile of ice over most of Canada
Y2Kyoto: Deja Vu All Over Again
Y2Kyoto: A Scam, Wrapped in A Swindle, Inside A Shakedown
How French energy giant Total sold “carbon neutral” natural gas to China that doesn’t exist.
h/t Adrian
Rex Comments On The New Climate Emergency.
At least some people in the media are not buying into the latest global warming hysteria. Justin’s big election issue.
Freezing in the Dark
Earlier today Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she wants to find out if last night’s loss of power to thousands of North Island homes could have been prevented but “it was not good enough that we could not warm our homes”.
Ardern said they should know more about what happened this afternoon.
Transpower earlier today said Kiwis were close to another power crisis this morning after tens of thousands of Kiwis were plunged into darkness last night.
General manager of operations Dr Stephen Jay told the Herald he couldn’t rule out any further disruption to the network, stating “the emergency is far from over”.
“Things are running tight. Supplies have been running to the wire this morning.”
Fun fact, New Zealand currently produces 84 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. But that’s not enough for their Prime Minister.
How cold does it actually get in New Zealand?
Y2Kyoto: Party Like There’s No Tomorrow
Swept Away — An aerial photo shows the massive party tent for Obama’s party on Martha’s Vineyard.
@ezralevant: You must wear a mask. You must social distance. You cannot travel freely. You need a vaccine passport. You will live in fear. But not your ruling class. They’re having the time of their lives.
Not A Cult
Hewes is no stranger to climate action, having been jailed in March 2020 for 14 days for glueing himself to furniture at the City of London Magistrates’ Court …
The Sound Of Settled Science
We Don’t Deserve Him
The anatomy of compromise
Another hard lesson learned when you think you can successfully compromise with people whose ultimate goal is to destroy you.
But last week more than 500 organizations across Canada and the U.S., from Environmental Defence to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, signed a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, contending that ‘carbon capture’ would actually delay the transition away from fossil fuels and ultimately increase CO2 emissions.
“Carbon capture is a dangerous distraction,” the letter states. “We don’t need to fix fossil fuels, we need to ditch them.”
It’s Snowing in Brazil
Hey Buddy, Wanna Buy a Computer
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
A new study has found that if the world were to meet the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, there would be eight million more jobs globally by 2050.
But in this scenario, researchers say some fossil fuel-dependant economies such as Canada would actually see fewer energy jobs.
Because most of those eight million jobs would be in manufacturing wind turbines and the like, and not in actual energy generation. And nobody sane is going to manufacture that crap in high cost jurisdictions like Canada. It seems they’re just figuring that out now.
You know, there’s a Nobel Prize awaiting the first economist who successfully explains to mainstream journalism that when a system creates “eight million more jobs” than would be otherwise required, it’s a flashing red siren that energy generation has become vastly less efficient, and that vastly less efficient translates into vastly more expensive for consumers and industry alike.
Good luck keeping manufacturing plants in northern latitudes when winter heating costs go through the roof. Adios Amigos.
(There’s a lesser prize awaiting the first person to explain why there’s a hyphen between “fuel” and “dependant”).
Dear Sweet Saint of San Andres
Two nuclear reactors at the Diablo Canyon plant in California are being forced to shut down in 2024 and 2025. When nuclear reactors are taken off the grid, fossil fuel use and the emissions that go along with them consistently increase. Independent groups have estimated that California will emit an extra 15.5 million metric tons (MMT) of global warming emissions due to the retirement of Diablo Canyon. In an attempt to prevent that from happening this time, bill SB 1090 was passed in 2018 requiring Diablo Canyon electricity generation to be replaced with clean energy.
I’m Going To Miss The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is showing signs of recovery with some of the best coral coverage recorded in years, according to a survey of the natural wonder conducted by the commonwealth’s chief independent marine science agency.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science assessment – which found “minimal impact” from last year’s coral bleaching and increases in hard coral across 85 per cent of the reefs surveyed year on year –
Y2Kyoto: Carnel Knowledge
Ian Cumming, in the July 20th edition of Ontario Farmer;
Is it not a fact that the price of farmland has risen considerably in recent times? Is it also not a fact that moneylenders see no problem lending ever-additional dollars per acre to those they deem worthy of a loan? There is an education when following the money. It can be foolish and veer off that way, since “a fool and his/her money are easily parted” as my granny used to say. Think about legalized pot and Pigeon King. They were embedded in lies and spin.
But the real solid stuff, investments from astute people like hard-working farmers borrowing from solid banking institutions to buy farmland, never lies.
When the climate prophets of our age make their utterances of doom, whether they be David Suzuki, Al Gore, John Kerry, Prince Charles and every Canadian politician at every level – bar two – these two streams of money go in their opposite directions.The foolish who believe these gloomy prophets see the latest green energy scheme or regulation as something worth investing in. There’s never too many of them, it’s the future, our climate is changing so much, and thus we must splurge.
The farmer and the agriculture banker on the other hand, in order for those farmland payments to be made, must believe that for the next two to three decades that the land they are purchasing will grow great crops. Technology has to keep abreast to feed an ever-growing population.
There will be hiccups. China can get surly some years and not buy as much, or from elsewhere. There can be a spring frost like this year, or a hot dry spell like out west that will affect yields. Purchasing countries can, and do, go broke.
But on average, both the farmer and banker see nothing in the data even remotely factual to support the climate zealots claims. If they did, no one would be paying this price for farmland.
They can certainly state otherwise, not wanting to be viewed as dummies and deniers in polite society, when dining with political folks. Their farm organizations do spout climate tripe all the time; however, there is no one pushing to have irrigation installed as necessary long term infrastructure off available rivers.
But no one in Canadian agriculture, absolutely no one, whether in government, industry, bankers or farmers, has ever said you have to pay way less for land, since yields will be dramatically down over the next three decades due to climate change.
If you believed that to be true, you would pay way less, or not buy at all, wouldn’t you? Goodness, Prince Charles had us all frying, flooded and in mud huts by this date. But at least one knew what side of the fence he was on. He’s not the first in that Palace, with those genetics, to be certified mad by historians. Ask the Irish.
Interestingly, we recently have a curious sort of a famous banker chap that has a firm foot in either camp. The latest celebrity of note to join the Prince, Gore and that esteemed crowd in their cries of alarm. Plus, it’s noted with glee, the wee lad is considering entering… wait for it… federal politics! Yet when he was head of banking in Canada and the UK, he never once instructed ag lenders to ratchet down lending for farmland, since crop production and society will be devastated by climate change.
When you hold a nation’s money-lending levers, do you not operate on facts? Will he use facts to draft legislation as our latest anointed one in the House of Commons? The excitement of it all. There are closed minds in this world. But the chaps and lasses adding to their 6,000 acres, or milking 750 cows, paying the top dollar for prime land, didn’t get to that point by being idiots and ignoring facts. They also are not out fundraising and lobbying for a political party or cause. They just do business. Plus doing first class research from all angles before investing.
One large farmer I know frequently displays Patrick Moore (formerly of Greenpeace who now calls out the global warming zealots) on Twitter. This farmer, and others, see climate leeches vacuuming government dollars and know that’s what the Pied Piper looks like.
Reprinted with permission.
I Want A New Country
How do you destroy the breadbasket of the world?
In December 2020, the Government of Canada released A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy – a plan which pledges to reduce emissions from fertilizer by 30% below 2020 levels.
It doesn’t even do what they want it to do.
Policies that discourage fertilizer use can actually increase GHG emissions. A reduction in grain production in Canada through less fertilizer use, would not only have a significant negative impact on soil organic carbon, but would lead to carbon leakage to other jurisdictions
Farmers are pissed, you starve their plants, you starve their livelihood which is an extremely low margin business to begin with.