In the sixties and 70s when I was coming of age it became so apparent to me that most in the “the movement” or down for the struggle or were supposedly so appalled by one thing or another were really “ down “ there for the party, get drugs, girls guys or what ever. Some times you could nt even enjoy the music because of the s. t heads as we called em. Some times I feel the same way about even trying to have a intelligent conversation with any of these woke alarmist types. Just more stupid sheep and a new set of con artists and worthless fools trying to pick your pocket while acting oh so “ progressive and cool”
Back in 1930, The English economist John Maynard Keynes, wrote an essay entitled: “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren”.
Keynes speculated that by the year 2030 capital investment and technological progress would have raised living standards as much as eightfold, creating a society so rich that people would work as little as 15 hours a week, devoting the rest of their time to leisure and other non-economic purposes.
As striving for greater affluence faded, he predicted, “the love of money as a possession would be recognized for what it is, a some what disgusting morbidity.
40 years later, Henry Kissinger said: “Who controls the food supply controls the people. Who controls the energy can control entire continents. Who controls the money can control the world.
2 years after, the report, “Limits to Growth”, was written, 19 years later, “The First Global Revolution” … in 2008/2010, a British Lawyer also from the Club of Rome urged the UN to accept “ecocide” as international crime on par with genocide as a fifth crime against peace.
It´s hard not to conclude that many roads leads to Rome.
How dare you, you have stolen my dreams and is in progress stealing my coming adulthood.
What do we want, 15 hours work week, what a vision, what do we get, a “cheap” laugh and alarmist scenarios … oh, what a wonderful world filled with narratives and crystal clear consensus.
iflyjetzzz
July 5, 2023 4:25 pm
Are there any studies out there to correlate temperature trends with the amount of air pollution? I would expect that as pollution decreased, temperatures increased due to more solar radiation reaching the surface.
I also remember back in the 70s when many major metropolitan cities had a constant brown cloud hanging over them. With decreases in pollution, those cities are now much clearer.
They even have the nerve to carry the numbers out to 2 decimal places. As usual no error bars
morfu03
July 5, 2023 7:51 pm
>> climate scientists told “this” for decades
seems to be a meme which recently get more hype.. I am sure they claimed this for a long time now.
But I want to point out quickly what that actually means.
As the models improve, the basis for older statements becomes obsolete.
As my favorite example the cloud parametrization was changed between CMIP 5 and CMIP6 models about 5 years ago resulting in significant changes for the CO2 sensitivity (about 25% according to people like G. Schmidt.
This is a dramatic change and means whatever climate scientists or others told decades ago needs ot be reevaluated.
Touting “we have been saying this for a long time” actually translates to:
“you need to do your homework and your statements from back then need to be reevaluated to reflect this new knowledge”
There is no shortcut around it if you want to work scientifically, they are really just saying “We are lazy people and all our statements are questionable!”
UK 26,000 MW OF ADDITIONAL OFFSHORE WIND BY 2030; AN EXPENSIVE FANTASY https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/uk-26-000-mw-of-additional-offshore-wind-by-2030-an-expensive
UK government bureaucrats, etc., justify the build out of 26,000 MW of additional offshore wind turbines by 2030, in less than 7 years, because: 1) the UK is the “Saudi Arabia of Wind”, and 2) several hundred thousand new jobs will be created (a number likely picked out of the air), and 3) household electric bills will be lower (which is the opposite of what actually happened). See below
It took more than 23 years for the UK to expensively build 14,000 MW of offshore wind turbines by end 2022, that produce high-cost electricity, that destabilizes the UK grid, and caused greatly increased household electric bills.
How many steady, long-term jobs, with good benefits, were created due to offshore wind turbines in the UK?
No answer to that question is available.
Wind + solar became 28.4% of the 312 TWh of electricity loaded onto the UK grid in 2020; excludes net imports
The counteracting/balancing costs became £1.3 billion ($1.65 billion) in 2020, likely even more in 2021, 2022, 2023. The US cost would be about 4000/312 x 1.65 = $21.2 billion, on a pro-rated basis, if 28.4% wind/solar in the US.
CO2 Reduction, due to Wind, less than Claimed: In Ireland, with 17% wind fed to the Irish grid in 2012, the officially claimed CO2 reduction of grid CO2/kWh was 17%
However, analysis of 15-minute grid operating data and fuel consumption data showed, it was only 0.526 x 17% = 8.94%, due to inefficient operation of the other power plants, when counteracting the variable output of wind.
UK Dependent on European Wind Industry
All five of major wind turbine manufacturers have their headquarters in EU countries, except for US-based GE.
All five have been making huge losses for 30 months, starting at least 15 months before the Ukraine events.
All five demand increased subsidies from the UK government, or else they will pull out of uneconomical contracts, i.e., leave the UK market.
Industry lobbyists claim unforeseen rising costs now require three actions:
– A revision to the auction rules, with winners not determined by lowest bids, but by an administrative decision that weights bids according to their ‘value’ in contributing towards the “Net Zero targets”.
– The 5th auction to provide a budget increase of two and half times the current levels for non-floating offshore wind
– Special new targets, and market shares, for floating offshore wind, one of the most expensive of all forms of generation
European Lacks Physical Infrastructure to Build 8,000 MW of Offshore Wind per Year
The EU wind industry has told the EU in Brussels: “We simply don’t have enough factories and infrastructure to build and install the volumes Europe (and the US) wants”
Wind Europe CEO, Giles Dickson, in a Press release, dd. 16 March 2023, ‘EU Green Industry Plan falls short for now’ https://windeurope.org/newsroom
Plus, the UK 26,000 MW build-out would be at much higher turnkey cost per MW, and would produce much more expensive electricity, c/kWh, than the existing 14,000 MW of offshore wind turbines
Biden wants to build 30,000 MW offshore wind turbines by 2030, that thus far has been killing dozens of whales on the US East Coast, before even a single 850-ft-tall wind turbine has been erected!
If the European companies do not have the capacity to build the 26,000 MW UK offshore wind, how would they ever be able to also build, at the same time, the 30,000 MW Biden offshore wind?
How in hell do these demented politicians and bureaucrats get into these jobs?
Why do their fanciful ideas get magnified by the government-subsidized media mouthpieces?
World Energy Outlook 2022, issued by European Information Energy Agency, IEA
“From 80% today, a level constant for decades, EIA predicts fossil fuels to decrease to about 75% by 2030, and to about 60% by 2050”
EIA is not just optimistic, but delusional!
Those fossil decrease numbers would require enormous capacity increases of wind and solar, MW, which is not going to happen.
Not in the UK, the self-proclaimed “Saudi-Arabia of Wind”, which is already impoverished, inefficient, uncompetitive and hopelessly mismanaged, with high inflation and high interest rates
Not in the US, which does not even have an offshore wind industry.
Association Between Area Temperature and Severe Vision Impairment in a Nationally Representative Sample of Older Americans
Several small studies have associated exposure to elevated average temperature with specific vision problems. However, no large-scale studies have examined the relationship between vision impairment and average area temperature in the general population. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of a large nationally representative sample of older adults to further explore this relationship.
(CO2 emissions, IPCC) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09286586.2023.2221727
GregInHouston
July 6, 2023 5:13 pm
The Houston Chronicle today printed an article entitled, “Earth Just Likely Had Its Hottest Day”;
In the referenced article, it is stated that the earth likely had its hottest day according to “… satellite data, observations and computer simulations.”
Therefore, the headline should have read, “The earth just likely had its hottest day using satellite data, [random] observations and [biased] computer simulations that have been available for only about the past 25 years.”
No one knows what the “earth’s hottest day” was before the aforementioned data were available. What did those satellite data and computer simulations reveal about the dust bowl heat waves in the 1930s?
In the sixties and 70s when I was coming of age it became so apparent to me that most in the “the movement” or down for the struggle or were supposedly so appalled by one thing or another were really “ down “ there for the party, get drugs, girls guys or what ever. Some times you could nt even enjoy the music because of the s. t heads as we called em. Some times I feel the same way about even trying to have a intelligent conversation with any of these woke alarmist types. Just more stupid sheep and a new set of con artists and worthless fools trying to pick your pocket while acting oh so “ progressive and cool”
Alien DESTROYS Liberal Mob With Message Of Peace And Unity
Oh gosh this great!
Back in 1930, The English economist John Maynard Keynes, wrote an essay entitled: “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren”.
Keynes speculated that by the year 2030 capital investment and technological progress would have raised living standards as much as eightfold, creating a society so rich that people would work as little as 15 hours a week, devoting the rest of their time to leisure and other non-economic purposes.
As striving for greater affluence faded, he predicted, “the love of money as a possession would be recognized for what it is, a some what disgusting morbidity.
40 years later, Henry Kissinger said: “Who controls the food supply controls the people. Who controls the energy can control entire continents. Who controls the money can control the world.
2 years after, the report, “Limits to Growth”, was written, 19 years later, “The First Global Revolution” … in 2008/2010, a British Lawyer also from the Club of Rome urged the UN to accept “ecocide” as international crime on par with genocide as a fifth crime against peace.
It´s hard not to conclude that many roads leads to Rome.
How dare you, you have stolen my dreams and is in progress stealing my coming adulthood.
What do we want, 15 hours work week, what a vision, what do we get, a “cheap” laugh and alarmist scenarios … oh, what a wonderful world filled with narratives and crystal clear consensus.
Are there any studies out there to correlate temperature trends with the amount of air pollution? I would expect that as pollution decreased, temperatures increased due to more solar radiation reaching the surface.
I also remember back in the 70s when many major metropolitan cities had a constant brown cloud hanging over them. With decreases in pollution, those cities are now much clearer.
Story tip Second day I a row of record high temps, at last for a data set which begins in 1979:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/unprecedented-and-terrifying-world-sets-all-time-high-temperature-record-2-days-in-a-row-192130127.html
They even have the nerve to carry the numbers out to 2 decimal places. As usual no error bars
>> climate scientists told “this” for decades
seems to be a meme which recently get more hype.. I am sure they claimed this for a long time now.
But I want to point out quickly what that actually means.
As the models improve, the basis for older statements becomes obsolete.
As my favorite example the cloud parametrization was changed between CMIP 5 and CMIP6 models about 5 years ago resulting in significant changes for the CO2 sensitivity (about 25% according to people like G. Schmidt.
This is a dramatic change and means whatever climate scientists or others told decades ago needs ot be reevaluated.
Touting “we have been saying this for a long time” actually translates to:
“you need to do your homework and your statements from back then need to be reevaluated to reflect this new knowledge”
There is no shortcut around it if you want to work scientifically, they are really just saying “We are lazy people and all our statements are questionable!”
UK 26,000 MW OF ADDITIONAL OFFSHORE WIND BY 2030; AN EXPENSIVE FANTASY
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/uk-26-000-mw-of-additional-offshore-wind-by-2030-an-expensive
UK government bureaucrats, etc., justify the build out of 26,000 MW of additional offshore wind turbines by 2030, in less than 7 years, because: 1) the UK is the “Saudi Arabia of Wind”, and 2) several hundred thousand new jobs will be created (a number likely picked out of the air), and 3) household electric bills will be lower (which is the opposite of what actually happened). See below
It took more than 23 years for the UK to expensively build 14,000 MW of offshore wind turbines by end 2022, that produce high-cost electricity, that destabilizes the UK grid, and caused greatly increased household electric bills.
How many steady, long-term jobs, with good benefits, were created due to offshore wind turbines in the UK?
No answer to that question is available.
For decades, Denmark and Germany, both wind mavens, had the highest household electric rates, c/kWh, in Europe.
But that “honor” was passed to the UK, which now has the highest household electric rates in Europe, by far.
See image in URL
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/politics/energy-prices-uk-britain-highest-electricity-costs-europe-other-countries-compare-3861624
Wind + solar became 28.4% of the 312 TWh of electricity loaded onto the UK grid in 2020; excludes net imports
The counteracting/balancing costs became £1.3 billion ($1.65 billion) in 2020, likely even more in 2021, 2022, 2023.
The US cost would be about 4000/312 x 1.65 = $21.2 billion, on a pro-rated basis, if 28.4% wind/solar in the US.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/grid-balancing-costs-sky-rocket-in-the-uk-due-to-increased-wind
https://www.statista.com/statistics/514874/energy-mix-uk/
CO2 Reduction, due to Wind, less than Claimed: In Ireland, with 17% wind fed to the Irish grid in 2012, the officially claimed CO2 reduction of grid CO2/kWh was 17%
However, analysis of 15-minute grid operating data and fuel consumption data showed, it was only 0.526 x 17% = 8.94%, due to inefficient operation of the other power plants, when counteracting the variable output of wind.
The UK, with 28.4% wind and solar in 2020, has a CO2-reduction factor significantly less than 0.526.
Ireland, the UK, US, etc., have been over claiming CO2 reduction from wind. See explanation in URL
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/fuel-and-co2-reductions-due-to-wind-energy-less-than-claimed
UK Dependent on European Wind Industry
All five of major wind turbine manufacturers have their headquarters in EU countries, except for US-based GE.
All five have been making huge losses for 30 months, starting at least 15 months before the Ukraine events.
All five demand increased subsidies from the UK government, or else they will pull out of uneconomical contracts, i.e., leave the UK market.
Industry lobbyists claim unforeseen rising costs now require three actions:
– A revision to the auction rules, with winners not determined by lowest bids, but by an administrative decision that weights bids according to their ‘value’ in contributing towards the “Net Zero targets”.
– The 5th auction to provide a budget increase of two and half times the current levels for non-floating offshore wind
– Special new targets, and market shares, for floating offshore wind, one of the most expensive of all forms of generation
https://www.netzerowatch.com/wind-industry-blackmails-the-uk-more-subsidies/
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/offshore-wind-threaten-to-pull-out-of-uneconomical-contracts
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wind-industry-blackmails-uk-demanding-huge-ramp-subsidies
European Lacks Physical Infrastructure to Build 8,000 MW of Offshore Wind per Year
The EU wind industry has told the EU in Brussels: “We simply don’t have enough factories and infrastructure to build and install the volumes Europe (and the US) wants”
Wind Europe CEO, Giles Dickson, in a Press release, dd. 16 March 2023, ‘EU Green Industry Plan falls short for now’
https://windeurope.org/newsroom
Plus, the UK 26,000 MW build-out would be at much higher turnkey cost per MW, and would produce much more expensive electricity, c/kWh, than the existing 14,000 MW of offshore wind turbines
Biden wants to build 30,000 MW offshore wind turbines by 2030, that thus far has been killing dozens of whales on the US East Coast, before even a single 850-ft-tall wind turbine has been erected!
If the European companies do not have the capacity to build the 26,000 MW UK offshore wind, how would they ever be able to also build, at the same time, the 30,000 MW Biden offshore wind?
How in hell do these demented politicians and bureaucrats get into these jobs?
Why do their fanciful ideas get magnified by the government-subsidized media mouthpieces?
World Energy Outlook 2022, issued by European Information Energy Agency, IEA
“From 80% today, a level constant for decades, EIA predicts fossil fuels to decrease to about 75% by 2030, and to about 60% by 2050”
EIA is not just optimistic, but delusional!
Those fossil decrease numbers would require enormous capacity increases of wind and solar, MW, which is not going to happen.
Not in the UK, the self-proclaimed “Saudi-Arabia of Wind”, which is already impoverished, inefficient, uncompetitive and hopelessly mismanaged, with high inflation and high interest rates
Not in the US, which does not even have an offshore wind industry.
Story tip!
Blindness now caused by global warming!
– – – – – – – – –
Now scientists say climate change is making us BLIND
University of Toronto researchers looked at 1.7million adults over 65 years old
Those in warmer areas were up to 44 percent more likely to have vision problems
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12271005/Now-scientists-say-climate-change-making-BLIND.html
The study…
Association Between Area Temperature and Severe Vision Impairment in a Nationally Representative Sample of Older Americans
Several small studies have associated exposure to elevated average temperature with specific vision problems. However, no large-scale studies have examined the relationship between vision impairment and average area temperature in the general population. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of a large nationally representative sample of older adults to further explore this relationship.
(CO2 emissions, IPCC)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09286586.2023.2221727
The Houston Chronicle today printed an article entitled, “Earth Just Likely Had Its Hottest Day”;
In the referenced article, it is stated that the earth likely had its hottest day according to “… satellite data, observations and computer simulations.”
Therefore, the headline should have read, “The earth just likely had its hottest day using satellite data, [random] observations and [biased] computer simulations that have been available for only about the past 25 years.”
No one knows what the “earth’s hottest day” was before the aforementioned data were available. What did those satellite data and computer simulations reveal about the dust bowl heat waves in the 1930s?