Reposted from the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN
This is Part II of what will now be a series titled “The Looking Glass World Of ‘Climate Injustice.’” The original post in what is now this series appeared way back on April 11, 2014. The thesis was that while climate campaigners prattle on about very minor supposed differential impacts of “climate change’“ upon the poor, at the same time the same campaigners demand schemes to intentionally devastate the economic situation of the poor by decreasing the availability and increasing the price of energy. The particular focus of the April 2014 post was policies advocated by the U.N., although the reasoning would apply equally to all national and international schemes to reduce carbon emissions. Excerpt:
Given the serious hardship faced by the world’s poor in the absence of energy access, one would think that a top priority of the U.N. would be finding ways to achieve that access as quickly, as cheaply, and as reliably as possible. But in fact, under the banner of so-called “climate justice,” the U.N. is doing exactly the opposite. It is doing its best to hobble, hinder and obstruct development of the cheapest and most reliable sources of energy in the third world, . . .
Fast forward seven years to today, and we now have the Biden administration going all in on the embrace of what they call “environmental justice” as the prime motivation behind trillions of proposed dollars of spending to transform the nation’s energy economy. It all kicked off with Biden’s January 27, 2021 Executive Order, commanding that all government agencies adopt a new focus on this “environmental justice” thing. Excerpt:
To secure an equitable economic future, the United States must ensure that environmental and economic justice are key considerations in how we govern. That means investing and building a clean energy economy . . . . Agencies shall make achieving environmental justice part of their missions by developing programs, policies, and activities to address the disproportionately high and adverse human health, environmental, climate-related and other cumulative impacts on disadvantaged communities, as well as the accompanying economic challenges of such impacts . . . .
Following the President’s directive, the EPA is just out with a big new Report titled “Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States.” Take a look at the Report, and you will see these geniuses struggling to articulate exactly how climate change is supposedly going to differentially impact the poor or minorities in any way that anybody (including themselves) can even notice. Here are a few choice quotes from the Executive Summary:
- “Those with low income or no high school diploma are approximately 25% more likely than non-low income individuals and those with a high school diploma to currently live in areas with the highest projected losses of labor hours due to increases in high-temperature days with 2°C of global warming.” Hang on — even assuming that “high temperature days” are increasing (they are not) does anyone actually lose “labor hours” due to high temperature days? As far as I know, the economy of places like Texas and Arizona, with summers above 100 deg F for weeks on end, continue to function without notable interruption.
- “With higher levels of global warming and sea level rise, the risks to socially vulnerable groups are generally projected to remain approximately the same or increase.” Scary!
- “Minorities are 41% more likely than non-minorities to currently live in areas with the highest projected increases in traffic delays from high-tide flooding associated with 50 cm of global sea level rise.” So exactly how many people in a given year experience “traffic delays” due to “high tide flooding”? They don’t say, but a good answer would be “almost none.”
Against these completely speculative and almost negligible harms to small numbers of people, we have the Biden administration working diligently to cause a dramatic increase in the price of energy, to the obvious significant detriment of everyone, and most particularly the poor and minorities. From its first days in office, the Biden crowd has fought pipelines, fought fracking, tried to ban drilling on federal lands, threatened the coal industry, and otherwise tried everything it could think of to decrease the availability and increase the price of energy that works. As one small indication of the results so far, the price of gasoline at the pump, per EIA data, has gone from an average of $2.55/gallon in January 2021 when Biden took office, to $3.16/gallon in August 2021 — an increase of about 24% in under 8 months.
But rest assured that the “environmental justice” crowd has only gotten started in their efforts to impoverish the poor in order to save them. As one indication of what they have in store for us, check out the August 16 article from Nature Sustainability titled “Personal carbon allowances revisited.” Here’s the idea: the government gives everyone a “personal carbon allowance” or PCA for the year. That’s all the carbon you can use, and when you have used up your allowance, it’s no more heat or driving or electricity for you. Then, every year, they just reduce the PCA a little until it gets to zero. Easy. Excerpt:
The literature highlights the importance of economic incentives, cognitive awareness, prevailing social norms and education as drivers for pro-environmental decision-making and behaviour. Research indicates that behavioural change could be engendered by creating a direct and visible incentive to reduce carbon emissions. Studies show that people tend to adhere to the prevailing norm and that descriptive social norms and comparison with others influence decisions about electricity use and mode of transport. Building on this literature, PCAs are envisaged to deliver carbon-emissions-related behavioural change via three interlinked mechanisms: economic, cognitive and social. . . .
Got that? Once the “experts” in our administrative bureaucracies have decreed how much carbon you can use in a year, that will become a social norm, and peer pressure will come to bear upon you not to exceed your limit. So of course you will conform. If December comes and you’ve used up your annual limit, I guess that means that you will just gladly turn off the lights and the heat and freeze.
I haven’t seen this particular idea yet put forth by the Bidenites, but it’s only a question of time.
“Climate Injustice “
It’s been a rubbish summer, cold grey and wet.
Who do I send my compensation claim to?
When you find out, please let me know. I think maybe a class action suit against their specious claims is in order.
Only problem with a class action suit Sara is The law firm takes 45% of the conference room negotiated settlement and you will get a check for $13.74 as one of of the 10,000,000 listed plaintiffs. Not bad work if you can get it.
Law Partner that is. Your share might cover parking for a couple days depending on where you live.
This is not about compensating anybody. This is a daylight robbery, pure and simple.
I was taking the….
Pith?
Is that what those helmets are for? 😉
“Climate Injustice” True Definition
Politicians grabbing hold of the easiest way possible to control populations. Scaring them into submission with horrific predictions of worldwide doom by unscrupulous “Climate Scientists”, whose only real interest in all this is to feed at the trough of public funding…
This means that climate hypocrites like John Kerry would use up their annual carbon allowance in one day given the amount of flying that he does.
Lurch ain’t bright.
Of course, people like John Kerry are exempt. Just like they are always exempt from the COVID-19 rules they impose on others. Rules that apply to everyone never apply to our “enlightened” betters.
A few questions for Mr. Griffin, Loydo, and other CAGW promoters: Why do the people who tell us global warming is a serious problem never act like it is in their personal life? (Never ever tell me to do something that you will not do yourself first; always lead by example.) Why is the solution to global warming always less liberty, more socialism, and the end of capitalism?
Not only will the elite be exempt from carbon rationing, they will set the rules so that they continue to be exempt once they have left office or retired.
We plebs will just have to put up with whatever scheme they come up with.
Because that seems to be the whole agenda. Climate is the smoke and mirrors!
Doesn’t count when you’re personally “saving the planet”. The tab only adds up when you’re using energy “selfishly”. The really funny thing is that only the “concerned” get to identify selfish usages.
The one child (carbon unit) policy will be enforced, unless of course you are part of the ruling class, special advocacy group, or other recognized donor group and faithful voter block.
Only some western democracies seem stupid enough to go down that path.
The one child policy was called by David Rockfeller a huge success ,so he and his co chief of the Bilderbergers( Heinz Kissinger )developed plans to shift western jobs to China and other asian countries(which started under Nixon)which lead to the Lima Agreements and should have ended as final blow as TPP.
As the final goal is what is written on the Georgia Guidestones (world population >500 mio),
the depopulation program must be started somehow.
It would simply be impossible to direct humanity toward Agenda 21 (2030 )without a global catastrophies
as the ice age scare(recycelt global warming,rebranded climate change)
and the Wuhan Lab Virus to achieve the goals of the World Economic Forum ( You will own nothing and you will love it).
It is also no coincidence that any politician is desperate to follow AOC’ s doomsday timeline of 2030 to “save” the planet though AOC’ s dumber than the war criminals biden and Bush combined.
People would never accept submission the direct way,therefore some indirect workarounds are necessary.
These loons are so far wrong it’s difficult to see correct from there.
Of course imported carbon in finished goods from China is not counted. Call it the Xi exemption.
But he has to pay a lot of influencers along the way who are the real traitors.
what happened to the first 10 exemptions ?
why start at 11
Because that’s what the BS meter says ?
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That’s a name, not Roman numerals.
Perhaps jono MLXVI guessed that!
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So of course the Environmental Justice crowd does what amounts to a literally regressive tax policy on energy pricing, and then decries the dire effects on the poor. Looks like chutzpah to me.
It would appear that the agricultural output of the various countries will definitely increase, given the amount of bovine fertilizer being spread around.
Higher levels of global warming????? Where? Not in my AO, not this year, not last year, not any of the years before that!! What a load of hogwash!!!
Someone please ‘splain to me, in words of less that one syllable, just WHERE this global warming is taking place? Only askin’, because it ain’t happening up here in my AO. We got ONE – COUNT ‘EM: ONE!!! 90f day this summer. That’s BELOW normal, even for this area. And whatever “warmth” there was for those two weeks in August that we had some summer heat has vanished like snow in the noonday Sun.
Global warming, my Fat Aunt Harriet!!!!
Are they really on the same planet the rest of us occupy?
New Zealand for example just had the warmest winter on record. It was 1.3 degrees C above
the long term average and 0.2 degrees above the previous record set in 2020.
Oh, the humanity!
A slightly warmer winter? How did kiwis ever survive?
Izaak,
Source of your claim, please.
Hi Herbert,
Have a look at:
https://niwa.co.nz/news/its-the-warmest-winter-on-record-again
NIWA is the government owned research institute who keep NZ’s temperature records.
What does ‘adjusted for site changes’ mean on many of the annual temperature averages graphs? What sites were changed in NZ and how much was the adjustment, positive or negative, please? How has that ‘adjustment’ altered the annual temperature average which, until about 2014 was heading for colder winters with a definite downward trend?
Good questions.
I wonder if we will get any answers.
Izaak,
No doubt NIWA “homogenised” its raw data.
The BOM in Australia certainly does.
The result according to Dr. Jennifer Marohassy is that since 2018 the raw data of Australia’s 112 recording stations has been homogenised to show an increase of 23% since the preceding period.
This brings Australia into line with the implausible 1.07C global temperature increase since 1850, cited in the recent SMP for AR6 (up from 0.85 C +/- 0.20C in AR5).
Cooling the past and exaggerating the present is now an art form .
This at a time when all GATs show a decline in global temperatures since 2015.
Pass.
Herbert,
If you like NIWA maintains a record of 11 stations that have not been moved. According to NIWA
Eleven-station’ seriesThis series comprises a set of eleven stations spanning New Zealand where there have been no significant site moves for many decades. The data used in this series are raw (unadjusted) – no adjustments are required because the measuring sites have not moved significantly. There is a warming trend over the 77-year period 1931-2008 of close to 1 ºC. Note that the 11-station series ends in 2009 and is not being updated.
https://niwa.co.nz/climate/information-and-resources/nz-temperature-record
So the fact that 2021 was the warmest winter on record shouldn’t come as a surprise.
And NIWA will happily provide you with the raw data from their stations if you wish to do you own analysis.
Izaak,
I guess the NZ records actually start in the early 19th Century [Treaty of Waitangi in 1840/1841 IIRC]; the ‘Eleven Station’ record, as you note, goes back to 1931, so perhaps after the birth of a (very) few readers here.
I note that some of the sites in those eleven are at airports: –
“Tauranga Airport, Ruakura (Hamilton), Gisborne Airport, Chateau Tongariro, Palmerston North DSIR/AgResearch, Westport Airport, Molesworth, Queenstown, Invercargill Airport” (incomplete list, but includes all four airports mentioned).
The NWIA ‘seven station series’ has had higher temperatures, notably in 2016 and – by eye – possibly 1998.
The NWIA website does, also, have a very recent article on Winter Snow:
“With the winter snowpack starting to build, who’s keeping an eye out on conditions in the mountains?”, so:
– possibly a warmer winter – but still chilly in parts, it appears.
I think the facts you quoted were completely correct, but could, perhaps, have been fuller. Thanks for the work.
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NIWA do what they are told
This is awesome! Now Nick Stokes doesn’t have to set his thermostat so low to save money…he is rich now 😉
Very eye opening statistics Izaak.
As a result of the record, above average, compilation temps, how many lost labor hours were there in NZ? That is the stated concern isn’t it … that change will result in worsening conditions?
I realize that lost labor hours were/are projected based on an ‘annual 2 degrees’, but ya gotta be able to find some lost labor hours as associated with the winter 1.3 degrees … can you find us any? No?
Mebbe there were ‘found labor hours’ as a result of the more comfortable winter. Mebbe the people that ignore the found labor hours are the same type of people that adjust the past & present temps. And likely, you don’t care to know.
Don,
The question from Sara was “Someone please ‘splain to me, in words of less that one syllable, just WHERE this global warming is taking place? “
Now I know that New Zealand has more than one syllable but hopefully Sara might still be able to understand the answer to her question.
Please tell me how much land area NZ covers, as a percentage of the total global surface area.
According to NZ media that has been rescued (paid off by the govt) and the leftest institutions have rubber stamped it. I worked for them for 20 years I know
“WHERE this global warming is taking place?” The Arctic, and anywhere that Griff says.
My electric utility (PG&E) and water utility (EBMUD) have been giving me bills that compare last years utility use by month to this year’s use. Why? To let you know whether you’ve been a “good citizen” and voluntarily reduced your use of resources. I note these utilities don’t also publish a weather/temperature comparison between last year and this year. Nope … just a comparison of utility USE. Am I supposed to feel guilty for using 0.25 more therms of Nat. Gas. this year? Evidently.
This is the START of mandatory rationing and punitive “excess” USE TAXES. Welcome to the Brave New World of Marxist economic punishment. How DARE you use more water than you did last year! Gavin Newsom has MANDATED a voluntary 15% reduction in water use! Next year? Mandatory punitive reductions.
Here’s what I want my utilities to publish: 1. the salary increases of their executives year over year. How many PSPS black outs year over year. How many rate increases year over year. How many all expenses paid junkets to Bali taken with PUC Staff year over year.
Worse, our electricity providers include a graph showing how our electricity consumption relates to similar 1, 2, 3 and 4-person households nearby. They don’t explain how they know how many people live in their customers’ dwellings, though.
Our usage is always as much as or more than a 4-person household, apparently. I don’t use air-conditioning, even though almost everyone does here in the tropics. I don’t use electricity for cooking, even though almost everyone does here, there being no gas main. There are only 2 of us in the house. It’s Bovine Scat, pure and simple.
There are certainely a lot of people out there feeling guilty of Antarctic ice melt. But that’s over now, it’s not their fault, it’s nobodys fault:
Scientists Now Blame Geothermal Heat For Melting Antarctic Glaciers
According to a new study, 36% of the 1979-2017 Antarctic ice loss was from the Thwaites (pictured) and Pine Island glaciers.Scientists believed this glacier melt was due to anthropogenic climate change “until recently.”
Now they say the glacier mass losses are due to the thin underlying crust and anomalously high geothermal heat in this region.
A note to griff 😀 😀
WUWT and it’s commenters always were right, despite your contradicting comments 😀 😀
Don’t worry, the usual trolls will pop up to proclaim that Mann has published a paper that proves that volcanism is caused by aerosols.
Mann is an aerosol
If only they spend enough money the future will surely be utopian. /s
Relative Potency of Greenhouse Molecules
The forcings due to changing concentrations of Earth’s five most important, naturally occurring greenhouse gases, H2O, CO2, O3, N2O and CH4 as well as CF4 and SF6
were evaluated for the case of a cloud-free atmosphere. The calculation used over 1.5 million lines having strengths as low as 10−27 cm. For a hypothetical, optically thin atmosphere, where there is negligible saturation of the absorption bands, or interference of one type of greenhouse gas with others, the per-molecule forcings are of order 10−22 Watts for H2O, CO2, O3, N2O
and CH4 and of order 10−21 Watts for CF4 and SF6. For current atmospheric concentrations, the per-molecule forcings of the abundant greenhouse gases H2O and CO2 are suppressed by four orders of magnitude. The forcings of the less abundant greenhouse gases, O3, N2O and CH4, are also suppressed, but much less so. For CF4 and SF6, the suppression is less than an order of magnitude because the concentrations of these gases is very low. For current concentrations, the per-molecule forcings are two to four orders of magnitude greater for O3, N2O, CH4, CF4 and SF6 than those of H2O or CO2. Doubling the current concentrations of CO2, N2O or CH4 increases the forcings by a few per cent. A concentration increase of either CF4 or SF6 by a factor of 100 yields a forcing nearly an order of magnitude smaller than that obtained by doubling CO2
. Important insight was obtained using a harmonic oscillator model to estimate the power radiated per molecule. Unlike the most intense bands of the 5 naturally occurring greenhouse gases, the frequency-integrated cross sections of CF4 and SF6 were found to noticeably depend on temperature..
Dependence of Earth’s Thermal Radiation on Five Most Abundant Greenhouse Gases
The atmospheric temperatures and concentrations of Earth’s five most important, green-house gases, H2O, CO2, O3, N2O and CH4control the cloud-free, thermal radiative fluxfrom the Earth to outer space. Over 1/3 million lines having strengths as low as 10−27cmof the HITRAN database were used to evaluate the dependence of the forcing on the gasconcentrations. For a hypothetical, optically thin atmosphere, where there is negligible sat-uration of the absorption bands, or interference of one type of greenhouse gas with others,the per-molecule forcings are of order 10−22W for H2O, CO2, O3, N2O and CH4. For cur-rent atmospheric concentrations, the per-molecule forcings of the abundant greenhouse gasesH2O and CO2are suppressed by four orders of magnitude. The forcings of the less abundantgreenhouse gases, O3, N2O and CH4, are also suppressed, but much less so. For currentconcentrations, the per-molecule forcings are two to three orders of magnitude greater forO3, N2O and CH4, than those of H2O or CO2. Doubling the current concentrations of CO2,N2O or CH4increases the forcings by a few per cent. These forcing results are close topreviously published values even though the calculations did not utilize either a CO2or H2Ocontinuum. The change in surface temperature due to CO2doubling is estimated taking intoaccount radiative-convective equilibrium of the atmosphere as well as water feedback for thecases of fixed absolute and relative humidities as well as the effect of using a pseudoadiabaticlapse rate to model the troposphere temperature. Satellite spectral measurements at variouslatitudes are in excellent quantitative agreement with modelled intensities.
The injustice is not to listen to science and it’s results.
I still do not understand why the Democrats hate the poor and middle class, let alone the hundreds of millions in the world who do not even have access to electrical energy.
But what is even harder to understand is why all these poor, middle class, and minorities continue to support and VOTE for Democrats! I just don’t get it.
I ain’t entirely too well up on the figures but I’d assert that World Population, very effectively, is already reduced.
Because the 80% (my guesstimate) who rely on carbohydrate food as their Staple Diet are effectively ‘passed away’
OK they still seem to be walking talking and moving around but their
.. is their death-knell.
Most stories on here are catalogues of same, Zombies & ghosts staggering around in the dark – scared shitless of each other and their own shadows – even before any mysterious magical invisible ‘gases’ make an entrance
Any and all all those things will be the very end of them. They are crowding into and riding in accelerating cars, buses, SUVs and lifestyles with drunks at the wheel of each and every
Vernacular: The lights are on but nobody is home
It is actually Ehrlich’s prediction playing out.
Do not celebrate extra rice production, feel sorry for the poor saps who have to eat that tasteless nutrient-free shyte and have nothing else to eat and will meet a horrible end because of it
The very real concern for the 20% who are still awake & compos-mentis, will the Zombies completely trash the place on their way out?
Which they are, you get addicted to sugar and you are ‘out’
That stuff is not funny & does not ‘mess about’ – it really is a perfect poison
But it’s a self-fulfilling solution Peta, because as we all know, zombies eat other zombies.
So, all good.
“Hang on — even assuming that “high temperature days” are increasing (they are not) does anyone actually lose “labor hours” due to high temperature days?”
I would assume they mean mostly manual labor, especially construction. When I lived in So.CA, many times during the hottest part of summer, I saw many construction crews just bring in a lot of bright lighting and work at night instead.
a$$ume is automodded too, really? I know that’s WP, but seriously people, this is an OLD issue. These programmers are living in the 90’s
It was difficult if you lived in Scunthorpe in the 90s, to be sure.
Edit: Ha ha! Still is apparently. This comment is awaiting moderation!
ZigZag that’s what I mean about WP programmers living in the 90’s. That infamous town, words like a$$ume and sk!ll – but simple substitutions in the actual words (like k!ll) get past the filters.
Then again, I’ve seen the WordPress code, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Sequester the carbon! 50 shades of selective-child per chance one-child. The competition between leftists is wicked.
“But rest assured that the “environmental justice” crowd has only gotten started in their efforts to impoverish the poor in order to save them.”
Or, as I have heard it said, government runs a racket where it breaks your leg, hands you a set of crutches and then takes credit for your ability to around on them.
Never mind that government broke your leg in the first place. And people buy into it.
Sorry kids Santa just tweeted from North Pole that the elves opertions exceeded their CO2 caps and so there will be no Christmas this year.
Minorities minorities minorities, every person on the planet is a minority, a minority of one.
From the article: “To secure an equitable economic future, the United States must ensure that environmental and economic justice are key considerations in how we govern.”
What exactly is environmental and economic justice?
More ill-defined terms used by the Left. It’s like using “climate change” when talking about the weather, to confuse the issue.
The Left thinks if it can keep the Peons confused, they can make money and acquire additional political power off the confusion.
The lefts game plan seems to be working. Much to the ire and consternation of thinking persons.
Tom,
“The Left thinks if it can keep the Peons confused, they can TAKE money and acquire additional political power off the confusion.”
An improvement, possibly?
The Left is not very good at making money.
Printing it – maybe.
Taking it – oh, for sure [See Boris’s latest bonzer wheeze, jacking up taxes on all workers; and, yes, I can remember when Boris pretended he was a Tory!].
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