We have had a week that has exposed the no-limits extremes of the climate campaign.
John Kerry, with his parting shot as Climate Czar, said that the world might feel better about Russia’s actions in the Ukrainian war if they lowered their climate footprint.
The depths of lunacy this reaches know no bounds. It is because of the actions of Kerry and his ilk in the administration Putin has the funds to fight the war in the first place.
In Germany, destroying an ancient forest to put up wind turbines is beyond any rational thought. First of all, you can wreck plenty of open spaces with the turbines. But the removal of 120,000 ancient trees, each taking away 50 lbs of CO2 for six million pounds a year, and the environmental cost of building these monstrosities should have every environmentalist up in arms. Do they realise the effect on the local climate? Forests are a great way to remove CO2 as I mentioned above, and are naturally cooler areas. So if you are afraid of CO2 (I am not, but understand you might be) this shows in no uncertain terms the depths of delusion these people are forcing on others. How this is even considered is beyond me. And if you are an environmentalist how are you not up in arms at this? You have a forest that has survived wars and turmoil. Germany’s forests are supposedly dying because of climate change, so they destroy more forests to prevent more climate change. How is this even considered or tolerated? This is just another matter that Dostoevsky was right about.
Then, there is this illustration from the Twitter account True Science PEng, DFP, ADFS, MA, MBA.
The covering of fields with solar panels could actually add to warming. The illustration means microclimates will indeed change. We see this all the time with cities. Not only is there an urban heat island (UHI) with downstream implications. For example, the Philadelphia UHI is a great place to start thunderstorms that then follow the three major highways, U.S. 30, U.S. 322 and the Atlantic City expressway ESE toward the shore. There are major differences in thunderstorm frequency at the NJ shore for instance north of Atlantic City versus south, more to the north enhanced by the effect noted above. But now imagine fields that were covered with cooling vegetation replaced with solar panels that can elevate temperatures to 70°C. Imagine the change to the environment in those areas. The vegetation and animal life be damned..
But this is because the people pushing this have no love of weather or climate. I have written about this several times. They simply use weather and climate to advance their mission. There is no rational thinking about this. It is getting so bad that the Dostoevsky quote above not only is evident in the irrational policies we are seeing enacted in non-climate issues, but is leading to some kind of disorder that is causing societal disruptions we are seeing, with climate protesters who are blocking roads or trying to destroy priceless art. Circle back to the destruction of the ancient forest. How is that so different from throwing orange paint on a priceless piece of art as far as an irrational action based on a phony mission?
In the face of all this lunacy, these facts seem to be completely ignored, nicely compiled by man-made climate change skeptic, Graham Keagan:
Since 1900… life expectancy up 130%; literacy percentage up four-fold; population up five fold; GDP per capita up seven fold; poverty down seven fold; death from natural disasters down 50-fold (with five times the number of people on the planet). Civilisation is flourishing!
There is no rational reason for what is being forced down the throat of the planet. The destruction of an ancient forest should raise alarm bells. Kerry’s parting comments that would imply a carbon footprint reduction would somehow offset aggression that we are indirectly funding by phony climate war policies Kerry advocates should raise alarm bells. The effect of these actions on the environment, the destruction of large areas of nature by the establishment of these fields and the cost of the materials should be obvious. This has nothing to do with climate or weather. It is being pushed by people who have no love of climate, weather, nature or mankind in general.
Dostoevsky was (and is) right. It’s time for rational people to stop this irrationality. I have never thought climate should be a big issue, but what is driving all this is. The motivation for all this is the reduction, if not destruction, of man’s upward mobility — and climate is the tool. This must be stopped peacefully at the ballot box. Because, in the end, this irrationality is the nail in the coffin of our freedom and is designed for top-down elitist control.
Joe Bastardi is a pioneer in extreme weather and long-range forecasting. His latest book is The Weaponisation of Weather in the Phony Climate. This article was first published by CFACT.
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“The motivation for all this is the reduction, if not destruction, of man’s upward mobility — and climate is the tool. This must be stopped peacefully at the ballot box.”
All together now….
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
So true
Only 15 comments under this article. ——The public deserve all that is coming their way for their apathy
It looks like solar farms are good news for parascenders
When I learned to fly a glider in the ATC, we were told about the ascending air generated by barn roofs, and experienced this as a big jolt as we flew into an upcurrent. This was in Norlfolk, so plenty of barns.
Reminds me of what I used to do in a private club, years ago! Tried soaring over an old coal fired station (Didcot A) for a similar reason – plenty of hard ground inc piles of coal to be heated by the sun then, so not a bad gamble.
The cooling towers provided a lot of lift as well.
Russian democracy v Western democracy. Compare and contrast.
Russian
democracy“Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality,” v Western democracy.Plenty of contrast there.
I jumped right in and took your comment literally. Your comparison works better but I’ll make a small adjustment to mine.
Russian
democracy“Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality,” v WesterndemocracyAutocracy.There are those who say “why don’t they build solar farms in the desert, that way the done damage farm land?”
The answer is because it’s to hot!
Solar panels lose efficiency at temperatures over 25°c ,they need light not heat so siting them in a desert would be uneconomical!
Correct. It’s almost 10 years since I had a set of solar PV panels on my house roof, and it’s long been evident that efficiency deteriorates as temperature rises. The manufacturer’s figures say that the power temp coefficient is -0.38%/ °C, and on a normal hot summer day they cannot generate their maximum output. The best environment is on various satellites, where it’s nice and cold!
Environmentalism at one time was about a genuine concern for the planet. Overfishing, whaling, oil spills, smoke from coal fires and industry, the destruction of wildlife habitats eg concern for the Orang Utan due to Palm Oil production, etc etc etc. Then in 1999 something happened to change all of that. I remember working in Germany and I was supposed to be going off to Berlin in the next week, but then all of a sudden ……..down came the Berlin Wall. Communism suffered a massive defeat. People rejoiced that they no longer had to jump over this wall, in one direction only ofcourse. From Tyranny to freedom, from impoverishment to prosperity and from socialism to capitalism. No one ever jumped across in the other direction (unless they were a lunatic or related to Jeremy Corbyn) ——–Oh dear what were the communists to do now? What they did was find another vehicle for their communism and that was “The Environment”. ——-So what we have now is the hijacking of the environment for political purposes. 7 years previous to the wall coming down we had the Earth Summit United Nations Conference where population reduction and lowering of living standards were advocated to “save the environment”. Some years later we had this chilling statement from Maurice Strong who had played a big role in setting up the UN IPCC in 1998 when he said. “Isn’t it the only hope for the planet that the Industrial civilisations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about? ——–So here we had the birth of modern environmentalism which was no longer about the environment. It was about control of the world’s wealth and resources, and that eventually led to current climate policies like Net Zero. ———Problem—Reaction—-Solution. The solution always involves one thing. Massive government control over every aspect of our lives —–Communism.
Quite...
”The emerging ‘environmentalization’ of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.”
UN’s Commission on Global Governance
“I envisage the principles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“Nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible”
UN Commission on Global Biodiversity
“Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so it is morally and politically correct that the developed world who made this climate change be responsible by providing financial support and technological support to these people.”
Ban Ki-Moon UN Secretary General
“A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.”
Ban Ki-Moon UN Secretary General
“For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument [Kyoto Protocol] of global governance,’…”By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.” Jacques Chirac
“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.”
Jacques Cousteau
“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day”
Jacques Cousteau
No wonder this scam is being imposed on us when all I have is 16 thumbs up and all you have is 1 thumbs up for your fantastic comment. ———-The public deserve all the impoverishment coming their way for their apathy. If they think things are bad now just wait until Net Zero really gets going and starts to drag their living standards right downhill.
Why is Obama dropping in on Sunak? Obama is no longer in politics, officially, Sunak was not in office when Obama was President so why is he here and what is he doing? Giving Sunak his orders?
How is it that Canada, France, Ireland and Germany are introducing the most extreme
tyrannical lockstep shut down of free speech, is Pfizer and Big Phama paying these Government leaders?
How again in Lockstep is Euthanasia being pushed in these countries and ours?
plus of course America
What is going on? Do they think we don’t notice or is it the reality that the world Government a fusion between Governments, the WEF and corporations such as Big Pharma, BigTech and Blackstone just couldn’t give a damn because they now control everytthing.
Is Obama the puppeteer steering Biden?
I think/hope WEF, Big Pharma, BigTech and Blackstone, are only successful in the west.
For the first time I heard an advocate for the Net Zero lunacy, in addition to claiming the climate change justification, add a comment that switching to so-called renewable electricity generation would mean we wouldn’t have to rely on despotic regimes (he mentioned Putin) for energy.
It reminded me of an article I read in the DT shortly after 9/11 ….. which said the USA would have to wean itself off middle eastern oil ….. and presumably that meant so would the UK, the rest of the 5 Eyes and NATO.
One of the reasons for the lunacy is certainly a wish to stop funding despotic regimes by buying their oil and gas.