Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Who feels like shedding a tear, that the unprecedented opportunity, the Great Reset Green New Deal Build Back Better renewable revolution is foundering on the rocks of political and economic reality?
We’re at a turning point on climate change. But most countries are still choosing fossil fuels over clean energy, report says
By Helen Regan, CNN
Updated 1401 GMT (2201 HKT) December 2, 2020(CNN)Governments of the world are at a “critical juncture” for shaping the climate’s future but are on course to produce too many fossil fuels in the decade ahead, a new report has found.
To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) — which scientists say would avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change — countries need to wind down their fossil fuel production by 6% every year between now and 2030, according to the 2020 Production Gap report.
Instead, countries are on track to produce an increase of 2% per year.
And as governments pour money into their economies in a bid to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they risk locking the world into a climate disaster by investing more heavily in fossil fuel industries — such as power, aviation, and car manufacturing, according to the new analysis from the Stockholm Environment Institute, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Overseas Development Institute (ODI), E3G and the UN Environment Programme.
“We find ourselves at a critical juncture at this time. While global fossil fuel production will dip sharply this year, government action and recovery measures are poised to shape our climate future,” said Ploy Pattanun Achakulwisut, SEI scientist and co-author of the report.
“They could either return to pre-Covid production levels that lock-in severe climate disruption, or they could set the stage for a managed wind down of fossil fuel production.”
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/02/world/climate-production-gap-fossil-fuels-intl-hnk/index.html
If only all that proposed green energy infrastructure was a genuinely profitable business opportunity, so wealthy people would invest in renewables without demanding the assurance of economically unsustainable government mandates and subsidies.
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“We’re at a turning point on climate change.”
Isn’t it the case since billions years ?
By the way, since we have been in a warming phase, a turning point means that we are entering a cooling phase, isn’t it ?
So, if the AGW assumption is true, why bother with CO2 emission ?
The 2020 Production Gap report authors live in some bizarre world disconnected from the real world the rest of us live in. As Dr. Roy Spencer reminds us every month when he publishes his UAH Global Temperature Update:
Until recently it was +0.13/decade, but regardless of the extra 0.01C/decade, the salient point is that, if the trend continues—and there is no reason to suppose it will since natural variation dominates global temperature—we can expect warming by 2100 that is only 1.4° C warmer than in 2000, not the crazy 3.7 to 4.8 of the RCP8.5 scenario that every climate “study” and breathless “news” about an imaginary apocalypse tells us. Why the huge difference? Because all the climate scaremongers always refer to predictions by the CMIP computer models, not measured temperature trends. Because you can manipulate computer models to say whatever you want.
Latest UAH report:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2020/12/uah-global-temperature-update-for-november-2020-0-53-deg-c/
My favorite graph from IPCC AR5, plotting model projections of temperature against measured temperatures:
Incidentally, that +1.4C puts us in the range of the RCP2.6 scenario, the one no one worries about.
Hasn’t CNN also chosen fossil fuels over renewable energy? I am sure they use plenty. Why doesn’t CNN power all their studio and server infrastructure with renewable power that CNN could put on their buildings or in open areas they could purchase? Why not require all CNN employees to purchase and electric car and recharge it with rooftop solar panels? CNN could give employees money to offset these expenses.
All these people and corporations who think we need to move to an all electric and renewable power structure could start today. Let’s see some serious action here, CNN, not some token small solar cell on one building.
We will see what happens in Hamburg, when the 5 year old 1600 MW Moorburg coal plant will close in July 2021 and the reactor Brokdorf closes 31.12.21.
Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein lack of any powerplant able to produce the need of alone Hamburgs industry demand of 11 Mio MW/h.
Moorburg was built to back up wind and solar.
Source
All forms of green energy take as much energy to build as they pay back in their lifetime. Thus the more green energy you implement – the more fossil fuel you require.
This simple truth is easily verifiied by comparing the price of energy to the cost of building green energy devices. You will find for example that over its lifetime a solar panel produces enough energy to build 1 solar panel. In effect it is a parasitic device.
Lillies of the field .
They could either return to pre-Covid production levels that lock-in severe climate disruption, or they could set the stage for a managed wind down of fossil fuel production.
So, wind down energy usage (and the economy) even more than we have over the past year.
CNN: “most countries are still choosing fossil fuels over clean energy”
THIS ” clean energy” crap is a farce from the get-go anyway today … SOMEONE is burning plastic again in their fireplace on this cold December 3rd day in Tejas!! I could detect/smell it for some number of blocks as I rode my bicycle to the library to use the computer that I’m using to make this post.
This mad dash towards “clean energy” (and ever-increasing costs) forces some people to burn what they can find available to ‘ward off’ the cold …
Clean drivers. Gray energy. More like laundered energy through shared/shifted responsibility and an unprecedented cover-up. Well, politicians, regulatorss, corporations, investors, and environmentalists joined on a politically congruent axis.
In other news, most diners are still choosing steak (or your protein of choice) over wilted lettuce. Strange world we live in.
Didn’t I just read that leaves from the trees are falling earlier this year due to climate change? Yet, last year they were falling later in the year due to climate change. Oh, dear, this is all so confusing!
It does not really matter. Since some power plants in Denmark are burning wood, the climate crisis is over for now and for all time.
There’s none so blind as those who will not see.
The BBC was also high-fiving themselves the other day, claiming (and apparently believing) that China was on board with the silliness, and that the rest would follow. Their gleeful hubris has only increased since Saint Biden of the Thunberg is likely to be given the keys of the city. We need to fix something in our education system that encourages people to think that something impossible can be made to happen by simp;y passing enough draconian laws.
The new political method:
1. Invent a moral panic(climate change, covid 19)
2. Imply that ‘the people’ are somehow responsible for the supposed damage and death;
3. Suppress democratic assent so that governments can assume draconian power to deal with the behaviour of the people.
4. Embed the suppression into the desired new normal.
The common man must start to mobilise and tell the WEF and the UN that we do not want them running our lives.
Also Fossil Fuels (FF’s) are needed to for starters: Design, Mine/Muster requisite materials (Rare Earths, Concrete, Steel, FibreGlass etc., etc), Site-Clearance (Land & Sea), Commission, Maintain/FaultFind, Repairs & Spares provisioning, Decommissioning & eventually LandFill for all so called ‘Renewables’ (plus activities between); the Wind & Sun are renewable but not the extraction of their energy. RE is as environmentally damaging as any other forms of energy production for the National Grids. The only reason they exist is the new ClimateIndustry & reliance on FF’s
I worry most about the ‘western’ children frightened by climate alarmism and those in sub-Saharan Africa deprived of electricity by the World Bank