While the latest IPCC working group III summary report has its share of gloom and doom and ridiculous edicts, it does have one redeeming quality as Josh points out.
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Bring ’em on! Energy liberates people.
I wonder how often the IPCC people played “Age of Empires”?
( http://www.ask.com/wiki/Age_of_Empires?o=2801&qsrc=999&ad=doubleDown&an=apn&ap=ask.com )
Good one Josh!
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did they never click the IPCC is a govts toy ?
the govt likes the useful idiots because they are so, well, useful. the ecos were pumped and dumped.
the ecos never really thought the govts wanted to go back to mud huts? or maybe they did.
Global warming is eating it’s green children… (“BLURP!”)
A common goal, but not a common means.
Irony is delicious.
The slogan could perhaps be reduced to “More tracking nuclear.”
“More fracking nuclear.”
[And more fracking auto-correct. 🙁 ]
James Hansen, opponent of fracking but (recent) proponent of nuclear, must feel torn by all this.
While the IPCC may feel comfortable buying into their AGW nonsense, apparently even they have
limits to illogical thinking
jauntycyclist says:
April 14, 2014 at 1:42 pm
“did they never click the IPCC is a govts toy ?”
Green NGO’s are as well (paid by the EU commission).
So this is a Hegelian dialectic: Thesis IPCC, Antithesis Green shocktroops; synthesis:
No Coal (from IPCC)
No Oil (from IPCC)
No Nuclear (from Green shocktroops)
No Fracking (from Green shocktroops)
I am more a Sid Meier’s Civilization guy.
Green is the new red.
Am expecting a rush of greenie tree hugger suicide pacts – as they realise their ‘demi-gods’ have turned on them! Hopefully it will be like lemmings……………LOL
The irony is that too many conservatives are in denial about the science of climate change while too many liberals are in denial about the solutions.
I am in southern Wisconsin. It is currently half past April and I have 34 degrees F and it’s snowing. Forecast for tonight is a low of 20 degrees F.
Where is all that global warming I was promised? I want my global warming back!
Nuclear and fracking have to be in the report to give western governments, Japan and Europe in particular, the cover they need to gain energy independence from Russia. The cold war was never over, it was only on pause, and now the Russian bear has come out of hibernation and is carving off bits of Europe one piece at a time. The Americans and Europeans can’t act lest Europe wind up freezing in the dark. Hence all the European pressure to get rid of the sanctions regime on Iran.
If Obama had a clue (and I am not saying he does), Keystone would be approved and built on a record pace, along with facilities to export LNG from Canada and the US to Europe. This report by supporting fracking and nuclear gives some measure of cover for that strategy, though I think it may simply be coincidence in this case.
For me, this was always THE issue that showed that ‘Climate Change’ was really a political thing. It was always obvious that green energy was never going to be able to replace coal and oil anytime soon. The greens unwillingness to dial back the nuclear panic and anti fracking lies long enough to actually cut CO2 emissions [amply] demonstrates how [concerned] about it they REALLY are.
It’s easy to get the IPCC to do what you want. Pay them and they’ll be all over you. Now that we’ve established what they are, it’s just a matter of haggling over price.
Nuclear power has far too many disadvantages, as described in my series The Truth About Nuclear Power. There will be 30 articles, of which 10 are published thus far.
http://sowellslawblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-truth-about-nuclear-power-part-one.html
The Law Of Unintended Consequences bites again.
Just a passing thought on this latest dustup between greens and the IPCC.
When it comes right down to it, Nuclear is probably the only NON-Renewable energy there is. in the long run. The amount of nuclear material is fairly fixed and decreasing (even without use by man). Oil, Coal, Gas – they are all renewed. Just not on a short term time scale (like wood).
Roger Sowell says:
April 14, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Nuclear power has far too many disadvantages,
Vs
France derives over 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy. This is due to a long-standing policy based on energy security.
France is the world’s largest net exporter of electricity due to its very low cost of generation, and gains over EUR 3 billion per year from this.
France has been very active in developing nuclear technology. Reactors and fuel products and services are a major export.
It is building its first Generation III reactor.
About 17% of France’s electricity is from recycled nuclear fuel.
I am increasingly convinced that satire and sarcasm are the ultimate takedown of this nonsense. It just needs wider publication. You there, Romm, McKibben, Cook, Hansen? And Mann, we already know you cannot handle it.
Onward Josh. What an apt nom de guerre.
Isn’t this what Prof. Muller is on record as saying? GHE is real and there is real warming. The best solutions involve conservation and cleaner sources of fuel including natural gas through fracking and additional nuclear power plants.
Nuclear power has far too many disadvantages, as described in my series The Truth About Nuclear Power. There will be 30 articles, of which 10 are published thus far.
What you mean other than the fact that without it, it will be impossible to keep 9 billion people alive?