Volks, it might be time to ease up on the wind turbines.
Y2Kyoto: Science By Dartboard
CBS “climate specialist”: It’s critical the Earth not warm 1.5 degrees Celsius
CBS anchor: Why?
Climate specialist: Well b/c that’s the number “we chose”
Ontario’s Global Warming
Hotter than ever.
Springtime and chill? ❄️ #ONwx #ONsnow https://t.co/OkwTQEpDvZ
— The Weather Network (@weathernetwork) May 28, 2021
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Greenland Ice Sheets
Hide The Decline!
It’s back.
New climate change indicators on the U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) website are intended to inform science-based decision-making by presenting climate science transparently. But many of the indicators are misleading or deceptive, being based on incomplete evidence or selective data.
A typical example is the indicator for heat waves. This is illustrated in the left panel of the figure below, depicting the EPA’s representation of heat wave frequency in the U.S. from 1961 to 2019. The figure purports to show a steady increase in the occurrence of heat waves, which supposedly tripled from an average of two per year during the 1960s to six per year during the 2010s.
Unfortunately, the chart on the left is highly deceptive in several ways. First, the data is derived from minimum, not maximum, temperatures averaged across 50 American cities. The corresponding chart for maximum temperatures, shown in the right panel above, paints a rather different picture – one in which the heat wave frequency less than doubled from 2.5 per year in the 1960s to 4.5 per year in the 2010s, and actually declined from the 1980s to the 2000s.
Related: Keep the faith.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story.
A report recently published in the journal Nature argues that an obsession with catastrophe has driven much of the research into how societies responded to a shifting climate throughout history. That has resulted in a skewed view of the past that feeds a pessimistic view about our ability to respond to the crisis we face today.
“It would be rare that a society as a whole just kind of collapsed in the face of climate change,” said Dagomar Degroot, an environmental historian at Georgetown University and the lead author of the paper. The typical stories of environmentally-driven collapse that you might have heard about Easter Island or the Mayan civilization? “All those stories need to be retold, absolutely,” he said.
Pizzagate, Come Back! All Is Forgiven.
The late Jeffrey Epstein emerges as the decade’s most unlikely hero, saving the planet from Bill Gates;
Jeffrey Epstein suggested Bill Gates should leave his wife Melinda during dozens of meetings at the convicted pedophile’s $77million Manhattan townhouse, according to a person who attended the ‘men’s club’-style get-togethers.
Gates’ visits to Epstein’s ‘lair’ were an escape from his unhappy marriage, and the pair ‘were very close’, a source told The Daily Beast.
The report alleges the pair’s friendship blurred personal and professional lines, and was much closer than Gates had previously admitted.
Micro Luthor’s plan to darken our skies with sun blocking dust may have to wait.
Say It Isn’t So, Qiáo!
Global Test: John Kerry admits the solar panels that will save us from the climate end times are being produced by Uyghur slaves
Stand Firm, Warrior Gretchen!
The state of Michigan has told a Canadian energy company it must shut down a controversial oil and gas pipeline by Wednesday amid growing fears that a spill would be catastrophic to the region, in a feud which threatens to strain relations between Canada and the United States.
The company’s refusal to comply with the order, and swift support from top Canadian officials, highlights the politicized nature of pipelines, which campaigners have used as a target in the fight against climate change.
For nearly 67 years, Enbridge has moved oil and natural gas from western Canada through Michigan and the Great Lakes to refineries in the province of Ontario.
But Michigan says the one section to the pipeline – Line 5 – is too risky to continue operating.
More, from the Great Reset sampler plate: Gas stations along the U.S. East Coast are beginning to run out of fuel as North America’s biggest petroleum pipeline races to recover from a paralyzing cyberattack that has kept it shut for days.
The War on Fun
Climate advocates seem increasingly concerned about fun and frivolity. I am here to defend it. But let me begin by (partially) agreeing with climate hawks’ fashionable antipathy towards one particular frivolity: Bitcoin.
And Just Like That, Protests Are Cool Again
From reader RM, via email;
The intersection of Georgia and Granville sits on one of the busiest thoroughfares in and out of Downtown Vancouver. Describing this location as the “heart” of the city would not be an overstatement.
Yesterday, my wife and I happened upon a small group of protesters who had occupied this busy intersection to draw attention to the “climate emergency.”
Rather than clearing the intersection and arresting those disrupting the free movement of people and traffic, the Vancouver Police Department had instead deployed dozens of officers to secure the perimeter of the protest and effectively provide security for what would otherwise be considered an illegal blockade.
I asked one officer how many personnel from the police department were on hand, and his response was “a lot.” I then mentioned that there seemed to be more police officers than protesters at the event, and asked him if it was fair to say that the police department was the biggest participant in the protest. He had no response.
See attached images for reference. This country is a joke.
Yes, it is.
A Man of the People
With everything that’s going wrong in Canada right now it’s good to know who’s got our back.
You Go, Gretchen!
Looming showdown as Michigan governor orders Line 5 pipeline to Ontario shut down;
In a move applauded by environmentalists and Indigenous groups on both sides of the border, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, in November ordered the firm to shut down the nearly 70-year-old lines by May 12.
Canadian officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have appealed to their American counterparts, including President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm for help. […]
Seamus O’Regan, Canada’s natural resources minister, has cast a shutdown as a threat to Canada’s energy security – one he is “watching like a hawk.” He told a parliamentary committee in March that the pipeline provides 53 percent of Ontario’s crude and 66 percent of Quebec’s and 55 percent of Michigan’s propane needs.
hahahahaha….
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer. (h/t EMS)
Destroy the village in order to save it
As Lorne Gunter points out in this concise op-ed, “fixing” the climate with carbon taxes is about as far from win-win as you can get. If you think housing prices are crazy now, just wait until these carbon taxes are fully worked into the cost of a foundation.
Trudeau’s Thursday pledge works out to a reduction from 732 annual megatonnes of greenhouse gases to 439 megatonnes.
To achieve that, not only would Canada have to shut down Alberta’s oil and gas industry, but also the entire country’s transportation sector – cars, trucks, semis, school buses and delivery vans.
And probably any construction that uses cement. A lot of emissions are produced in making cement.
Truinnerashuvadupowergeneration!
Next, from today until January 1st, 2030, when Biden’s plan calls for our emissions to be down to 3,000 MT of CO2 per year, there are about 454 weeks.
And that means we need to find sites, do the feasibility studies, get the licenses and the permits, excavate, manufacture, install, test, and commission two 2.25 gigawatt nuclear power plants EVERY WEEK UNTIL 2030, STARTING THIS WEEK.
Related: Biden’s one-burger-a-month plan.
h/t joe
Dangerous precedents
Anyone half awake over the last year could see this one coming.
Now, spurred by alarming science, growing public fury and a deadly pandemic, government officials, corporate bosses and civil-society leaders are finally waking up to a simple idea whose time has come: climate is everything.
Five years later, the COVID-19 pandemic has given the E.U. the perfect opportunity to accelerate the remaking of its economic agenda with climate at its core—what Sefcovic calls the “new economy of the 21st century.”
The “new economy” will be the negation of the economy.
Y2Kyoto: Green Fakers
Where there’s smoke — If a tree falls in a forest—and then it’s driven to a mill, where it’s chopped and chipped and compressed into wood pellets, which are then driven to a port and shipped across the ocean to be burned for electricity in European power plants — does it warm the planet?
They Have Their Schadenfraud To Keep Them Warm
WUWT: Germany so far has seen it’s second coldest April since records began in 1881.
h/t PaulHarveyPage2
Coulda Had Max
What is this man thinking? Let us totally forget this attempt to juggle with levy as not a tax. It is a tax and that’s all there is to it. Secondly the notion that should he win government he will put the money from the “levy” into a special customer account and then dictate what you’re allowed to spend it on — solar panels are good, bread is off the list — is a special kind of madness.
Update: Lorne Gunter concurs.