Guest “Make Orwell Fiction Again!” by David Middleton.
David Blackmon is a highly regarded energy and oil industry analyst. His work has often been featured here on WUWT. He is was one of my LinkedIn connections.
Dear LinkedIn: Why Have I Been Suspended? by David Blackmon
Read on Substack
I couldn’t figure out how to embed the video, so I took a screenshot:
His account has vanished from LinkedIn.
I reposted his Substack video on LinkedIn. I’ll let y’all know if I get “disappeared.”
While it is possible that someone hacked his account, I think it’s more likely that a ski instructor, pilot/songwriter or some other LinkedIn-recognized energy experts complained about something he posted.
David Blackmon’s Substack is very appropriately titled “Energy Transition Absurdities.”
While coal may have surpassed renewables (wood) in the late 1800’s, we never transitioned away from consuming wood for energy.
Energy Transition…
Or was it Bertrand Russell?
The Supreme Court punted on Missouri v Murthy. The feds were doing a lot of “nice business you have here, damn pity if something happens to it” with social media, not that social media was showing much resistance.
It’s a horrible place, LinkedIn. I feel soiled after being on there for 5 minutes.
Russians and Chinese work to make people disappear.
Piece by piece for the Chinese. Good money on some pieces! The Russians make them disappear by blowing them up in hospitals, schools, power plants and their homes.
CIA too. See how they overthrew the elected government in favor of Tin Cup Z who in the name of democracy cancelled elections 🙂
I love that these graphs start in 1776.
“The BTU’s are coming! The BTU’s are coming!”
The PSI is another fine unit – pound per square inch.
There is no room for joy or enjoyment of any kind if you are supposed to be self-flagellating for your climate sins….
Aren’t the Dimocrats (sic) pushing the ‘joy’ factor in their current gatherings?
They must believe in the ‘You will own nothing and be happy’ mantra from the WEF
In 2022 LinkedIn disappeared me for the same reason — talking realities about consensus climatology. No word, no explanation. Just gone.
Interestingly, a couple of weeks ago, X instantly restricted my account the very second I posted one of the same graphics that had so upset LinkedIn — one showing how GISSTemp had cooled the past over the decades (Figure 3 at the link).
It was almost like the X algorithm had been alerted, it was that fast.
I thought Elon Musk was against canceling people.
Elon doesn’t personally control it all though. It may have been some automated system still in effect, or an employee who still hasn’t gotten the message and continues to impose his beliefs.
Ditto. 🙂
I thought so too.
Maybe there are cryptic archeological censorial artifacts still in the algorithm.
yet another opportunity to thank the sierra club
Too bad they don’t focus their attention on National Parks- which could use some improvements.
The Sierra Club rode to power on the back of Ansel Adams’ artistic genius. Now they are just another cog in the GangGreen corporate machine, where wealthy oligarchs harvest gov’t subsidies to pad their wallets and destroy any impediment; like raptors, whales or the middle class!
Spreading the blight of Ruinable Energies across our picturesque Western landscapes must make Adams roll over in his grave!
If you want to argue against energy-transitions, maybe don’t post a graph showing one 😉
Energy transition(s) are a needless and pointless exercise in self-flagellation.
I can see why you are attracted to it. A desperate need to atone – for something, anything…
and maybe he/she/it is interested in other types of transitions?
Who can say? It wouldn’t surprise me
From idiot to moron !
Scientists say the Universe is made up of neutrons, protons, and electrons. They forgot to add morons!
OK…
In 1885 our energy mix was ~50% fossil fuels (coal) and ~50% renewables (wood).
In 2023, the energy mix was 82.5% fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas and coal), 8.8% renewables (wood plus unreliables) and 8.7% nuclear.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2024.07.03/main.svg
Where is the “transition”?
We didn’t transition from wood to fossil fuels, because we still consume almost as much wood for energy as we did in 1885.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2024.07.03/main.svg
We aren’t transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables because the rate of natural gas consumption is growling much faster than the rate of renewables consumption.
First graph shows a transition away from coal. So if you want to argue we don’t replace fuels, you shouldn’t post this.
Transition (noun):
Transition (verb):
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transition.
Wow, you get your teeth kicked in and just beg for more. What an idiot you continually prove yourself to be.
Makes me miss Griff… 😉
Must be the full Moon, this chucklehead here, ran across another one on another blog earlier and currently wacking one about the head and shoulders on Fet. Goes in cycles. ;}
It’s almost as if he/she is Simon?
Looks to me that the graph shows a continued growth of coal.
Steady growth through the early 2010’s. Since then, it has declined, mostly displaced by natural gas. Not exactly a transition.
Those changes were mostly politically imposed, not the result of a free market deciding what the best economic decisions were.
Joseph, only in the last few years according to the graph. When I first started working, we were converting from NG to No. 6 oil because we could not use the precious gas for power generation 1970s. Then in the 80s, we converted plants back to coal because the Middle East was threatening our oil, even though it was from Venezuela. Finally, we were converting to NG CCGTs for power because of PURPA (which was the right thing to do). In the 2010s we built a few windmills in Iowa. CCGT is the way to go as we transition to Nuclear. Take care, Mason
Confirms it is an ignorant progressive female. Enjoy your cats. It’s all you have.
Not if he/she/it has any recent Haitian immigrants for neighbors!
“any recent Haitian immigrants for neighbors”
NIHBY !!!
I feel sorry for the cats.
Funny how coal remains a top dog in places where economic growth is happening, and is only being replaced where stagnation and loss of industry are prevalent.
Mr. name: Nobody argues that we don’t replace fuels, so your comment is “strawman” defined. When you transition away from your delusions, let us know. Until then, you’ll never get past “hopeless and lame”.
I totally missed the opportunity to use these memes!
😎
I’ve always enjoyed these.
But I have to ask, did you make most of them or just find them and use appropriately?
I found the football referee logical fallacy penalty calls somewhere on the Internet.
I ginned up the “Torching a Strawman” meme in PowerPoint.
There is NO TRANSITION away from fossil fuels.
Still around 82% of world energy use.
You seem to be in a lecturing mood. However, with your reputation, I don’t think many people are going to pay attention to your self-indulgence.
Here’s an energy transition.
‘Equinor Axes Offshore Wind Plans in Spain and Portugal. Weighs Further Market Exits’
“Equinor decided to discontinue its offshore wind projects in Spain and Portugal following the company’s decision to exit Vietnam. Equinor may also scale back operations in other countries in an effort to cut costs”
https://www.offshore.wind.biz/2024/08/29/eqinor-axes-offshore-wind-plans-in-spain-and-portugal-weighs-further-market-exits/
Which reminds me- on the Albany, NY NPR- yesterday I think- I heard a story about how fantastic a new wind project is in NY. The person doing most of the talking was a rep from the wind farm company- saying how many jobs will be created, blah, blah, blah. NPR is a disgrace for not doing a legitimate news analysis of wind energy in NY.
How long will those jobs last?
But you should continue to post here daily, not taking your own advice, in order to change everyone’s minds.
Forced implementation is not a transition. It is fascism. If it were reasonable and practical, it would not require the threat of force at the point of a gun to come about.
What, are you 8? Who said anyone here is against an energy transition? Love how CCGTs and shale tech have caused a beautiful natural transition to natural gas that has benefited everyone.
Also love the latest nuclear tech that is bringing back nuclear with a vengeance. Even private companies are planning to buy their own private nukes.
Shame wind/solar require major – ridiculous subsidies and mandates, and even a cult following to make anyone use it.
It doesn’t show one,, except from Coal to GAS. !
World percentage of FF energy is still around 82% of all energy.
There is NO TRANSITION away from fossil fuels.
Since December 2016, LinkedIn has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft.
MS = Orwellian
LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps. It was launched on May 5, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn from its original founders and shareholders in December 2016, paying $26.2 billion in an all-cash deal to purchase 100% of the company.
Anyone still use linkedout anymore? I thought their credibility and reliability had been extinguished years ago.
Linkedout is useful for finding the actual lack of education of people making moronic climate comments.
Journalist, arts/humanities, psychos, etc etc… STEM.. what is that ???
Surely, Linkedin doesn’t check resumes that are posted.
I don’t use my Linkedin account and haven’t since I retired years ago. They spam me constantly about how all my co-workers miss me and all the great job prospects I’m missing.
I’ve asked them to stop, but it continues endlessly.
I’m going to be reposting climate charts there immediately in hopes that they suspend my account.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I gave up on Linkedin when some Chinese girl hacked my account and Linkedin would/could not figure it out. So I just quit…saves me a lot of time every day.
It’s been so long that I don’t know my password.
I also don’t know how to get out.
If someone adds easy links, I will get back in and also post climate charts.
https://www.linkedin.com/
Otherwise:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1379064
To close your account:
Several years I received an invite to join Linkedin from an engineer friend of mine.
I’m not an engineer but I was an Ohio EPA certified operator in both water and wastewater treatment. I never joined.
(Sounds like I didn’t miss out on much.)
Like so many things, the original idea has become corrupted.
Several years ago, I disappeared myself from LinkedIn
Likewise…..
My last comment on LinkedIn a couple of years ago, they called it misinformation!
from Publishing Platform Guidelines:
“Remember to be professional and don’t post anything misleading, fraudulent, obscene, threatening, hateful, defamatory, discriminatory, or illegal.”
from Professional Community Policies:
Do not share false or misleading content: Do not share content that is false, misleading, or intended to deceive.
The conclusion to this is obvious. Since you disagree with the Climate Syndicate consensus, it must be false and misleading content.
Join the Borg!
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated (or silenced)
Existence as you know it, is over.
I will be shortly deleting my LinkedIn account.
Fear is freedom, subjugation is liberation, Contradiction is true. Those are the facts of this world.
And those facts will set you free.
/s
Never bothered with L, seemed childish and stupid like so many of them.
Why would I even want to stay in touch with former co-workers? Now I’m retired I really don’t want to be reminded of my time in the corporate machine.
Corporations spend lots of time modifying employee behavior. They like to pretend that they’re a “team” or a “family”, all with the same code of “ethics” or “values”. They push diversity, but only diversity that they define.
When you bring up diversity of thought, that’s suddenly not a “Value” anymore. Instead it’s redefined as “wrongthink”, “misinformation” or “insubordination”.
Corporations spend millions on “grooming” employees. It used to be called indoctrination.
This is a personal thing. When social media including LinkedIn first made their debuts, I created accounts to evaluate them. All of them were quickly abandoned because I judged that my life could be quite happy without them. Still the case. I do not use social media except for an occasional response to a matter best answered not ignored.
I have never felt I was missing anything. I see this as social media having been born with the seeds of its own destruction. Time will tell.
Geoff S
I use LinkedIn mostly to network with other oil & gas industry professionals.
I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family who I otherwise wouldn’t keep in touch with… and to ridicule Democrats and other Communists… 😎
This is a personal thing. When social media including LinkedIn first made their debuts, I created accounts to evaluate them. All of them were quickly abandoned because I judged that my life could be quite happy without them. Still the case. I do not use social media except for an occasional response to a matter best answered not ignored.
I have never felt I was missing anything. I see this as social media having been born with the seeds of its own destruction. Time will tell.
Geoff S
We truly seem to be teetering on the brink of an age of brutal censorship. It’s not just individual sites who are choosing to censor ideas that do not conform to their dogma, more worryingly, governments are now pushing to censor the opinions of their citizens. Unsurprisingly, this is done under the guise of “protecting the children” (Lovejoy’s Law). The reality of it is that the governments and the bureaucracies who really control how things work are terrified that the people will find out what they’ve been up to. This is particularly pertinent to the goings on during the COVID period, but is by no means limited to that event.
COVID reinforced the ideological commitment of many who bought whole heartedly into the fear based propaganda, but it also released the blinders of a substantial number. This small minority of people who were, for whatever reason (I’ve been puzzling over why some bought into the propaganda while others saw it for what it was for some time) immune to the propaganda have formed a thorn in the side of governments/bureaucracies with designs on becoming Technocratic Authoritarian Dictatorships. This seems to have been the primary aim of the “Climate Change” narrative and was certainly the primary aim during COVID. Now, their intentions are exposed to the cold light of day, they could either fess up and admit that is what they were trying to do, then beg for mercy from the people, or double down and push for “victory”, knowing that if they succeed, the people will have no recourse against them. They, almost to a man, appear to have chosen the latter.
Or, perhaps as it was stated somewhat more delicately:
Bingo!
https://www.cato.org/commentary/actually-tim-walz-first-amendment-does-protect-misinformation-hate-speech
Shades of 1800…
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/election-1800-adams-vs-jefferson
I have found that using the words “you” or “your” in comments in MSN tends to trigger being censored. It makes it difficult to respond to someone who has said something really dumb or wrong.
thanks for quote Mark.