It has been a whirlwind since Mr Trump took office on January 20th. It is not too much of a stretch to compare Elon Musk’s DOGE raid and swift dismantling of USAID’s operations last week to the fall of the Bastille in Paris in 1789 in historical significance. Putting aside the grand rhymes of history, the revolutionary fervour in the Washington DC air is palpable as the deep state is being dismantled in real time.
With the daily revelations of corruption and subterfuge in the nation’s capital unearthed by the Trumpian revolution, there is the growing perception among ordinary people that the gap between reality and official narratives peddled by the mainstream media is ever wider. Nowhere is this disjunction more on display than in the areas of climate change and energy policy after President Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement.
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And us, on our tiny island, will be trying to pick up the load and banish hurty gas all on our own…
…Hurty gas and oil which the UK still sits upon in copious quantities but doesn’t exploit, preferring to buy it in from lovely places like Qatar
If we prevent mad Ed from exhaling ever again, the associated CO2 reduction might not save the planet but I’m willing to give it a go.
I’m sure the Treasury can just print a couple of trillion pounds and we can solve this on our own…
No amount of death, destruction, carnage and loss of energy security will deflect insane Ed Miliband from his quest to eliminate UK’s 0.8% contribution of manmade CO2 to the atmosphere and achieve less than F All.
We seem to have this ability to concentrate unlimited efforts on small numbers, that are totally unaffected by our efforts.
420ppm (0.042%) CO2 in atmosphere
0.8% Contribution to atmospheric CO2 (at most and contested)
0.1% Case fatality rate of an assumed respiratory illness, and insane measures to achieve absolutely no change of outcome.
“No amount of death,,,”
Well… one might be enough.
No amount of death, destruction, carnage and loss of energy security will deflect insane Ed Miliband from his quest to eliminate UK’s 0.8% contribution of manmade CO2 to the atmosphere and achieve less than F All.
Millied’s job is to ensure that Dale Vince’s enterprises remain cashflow positive. Anything else is just window dressing.
We have the honourable position of being Chief Lemming leading the charge over the cliff.
Follow me! Er. Where did everyone else go?
Followed in short order by creepy Mr Miliband Minor’s 2008 Canute Tribute Act, while urgently exposing on a barren hillside blighted with bird mincers, the impending Nature and Climate Shill, and lining up forthwith in front of the nearest available red brick wall, the Climate Claptrap Committee. Take aim, Fire!
As for however many more trillions aptly-named UN Climate Change Executive Grifter Stiell has in mind to Steal – all lined up to line the pockets of green billionaire chums. Yet more candidates for an immediate appearance in front of the brick wall.
A 60 parts per million increase (if that is the actual number, which I doubt it is, it would be another fraud). 90-95% by Gaia, or a massive 6 parts per million from humans…..of a trace chemical 90% recycled by nature….
A normal person would say Co2 is not an issue. A normal person would want hydrocarbons. A normal person would understand that COP etc is just money laundering.
Climate Baloney is just a gigantic version of USAID. That is all it is.
There is a very simple comparison of data available, missed by both sides of the argument. In 2020 it was widely accepted (NASA) that lockdowns reduced human emissions by 5.4% for the year. This is equal to Germany and Japan going Net Zero. The 3rd and 4th most industrialised countries on the planet. Now look at the graph of CO2 growth above. Not a blip. This is better observed in the Mauna Loa data where 2020 is actually a higher spike of CO2 growth than 2019 or 2021. Ergo we make no difference. If cancelling the 4th and 5th largest economies, and effectively depopulating them, has zero impact on CO2 growth in the atmosphere, then clearly Net Zero is a crock.
Good point…..They can make the argument cities were less polluted, but that is another matter. They do use that to persecute drivers of older vehicles, usually the vast majority would be working class.
There was no evidence that air was any cleaner in cities either. The level of the legendary PM2.5 particle remained the same despite the empty streets. A bit like when Stuttgart banned diesel vehicles for a period and nothing changed.
The Pollution Industry relies on more accurate measuring equipment which picks up minuscule increases in this and that compared with previous records which actually make no real difference to “air-quality” and “water-quality”.
The same is true post-2008 when the World financial meltdown resulted in a fall in industrial activity and C02 emissions – no signal in the CO2 atmospheric concentration record.
Their own Global Mean Temperature Record (a work of fiction and deceit ) in fact shows no increase in the rate of global warming after the 1996 peak when El Niño subsided, despite increased fossil fuel C02 emissions. Meteorological data from around the World shows no trend in such things as rainfall, hurricanes, storms, local temperatures, snowfall, etc indicating “climate change” which is why now that term is replaced with “climate crisis” of “climate emergency” because no change is demonstrable. Just as “global warming” was replaced by “climate change” when warming stopped… or as the Climatrons like to put it “paused”.
We are dealing with liars, backed up by the West’s political filth, media grifters, and useful idiots. Facts don’t matter.
I’m reading ‘climate breakdown’ a lot recently
A quick sighting along the curve on the graph shows that that the rate of rise of CO2 is increasing (the curve is bending slightly upwards) so this means that runaway global warming should be under way – cue panic amongst the meta-Gretarites.
Sadly the weather is not co-operating – certainly in this country the winter has been more typical of traditional UK winters. No reports of early daffodils, snowdrops are only just starting to put in an appearance and frosty roofs have been a regular occurrence.
My neighbours are taking additional deliveries of logs for their stoves, my energy supplier is warning me that I need to increase my monthly direct debit – my consumption of gas since Christmas has been about 10% higher than last year. All definitely the signs of impending thermageddon – not.
That we do not have runaway global warming might suggest that the recent Kubicki et al papers on CO2 saturation were correct and only withdrawn because of the Climate Change Mafia.
On the other hand the C02 increase correlates with the COP meetings…
Gasp! COP meetings are causing global warming/climate crusis.
It must be all those private jets.
And those choice steaks they like to indulge in.
Imagine Trump as a little boy, indifferent to the foibles of the ‘grown ups’. “The Green Emperor has no clothes!” he exclaims… And eventually people see that it is so.
They, and the Emperor, had been taken in by the Climate Con and further deluded by the COP Con. We should try to ease their disenchantment lest their reaction gets out of hand, but a small knowing smile might be proportionate.
1.3 trillion annually that developing countries need to combat climate change. —-But what climate change are they referring to? There is currently no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event. —-So the west will be sending 1.3 trillion for NOTHING. —-Well actually it isn’t for nothing, it is for the reasons that Ottmar Edenhoffer of the IPCC admitted a few years ago when he said “One has to free oneself from the illusion that climate policy is environmental policy anymore. We redistribute the world’s wealth via climate policy”—–So there you have it. It is eco socialism with climate change as the excuse, and an unsuspecting public led to believe that massive changes to the way they live that costs them a small fortune is necessary to “save the planet”.
Firstly, data going back millions of years clearly show there is no relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global temperature over time. There were ice ages in periods of high atmospheric CO2 and relatively high global temperatures in periods of low atmospheric CO2. The climate was, and is, always changing but CO2 levels are currently extremely low and barely sufficient for plant life. We should be happy for every opportunity to increase CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Secondly, there is nothing ‘clean’ about renewable energy systems.
Quoting selections from Ian Plimer’s The Little Green Book:
The energy used to build a wind or solar facility is far greater than the energy they will ever produce.
Wind turbine blades slice and dice bats and birds [and insects] and create health problems for those living nearby. Offshore wind turbines are far bigger and kill whales and drop oil into the oceans. Turbine blades comprise layers of balsa wood and epoxy resin. To make blades, Amazon rainforest balsa trees need to be cut down and highly toxic chemicals in epoxy resins, such as bisphenol-A are used in the blades. Bisphenol-A is banned in many countries. The blades erode and spread bisphenol-A far and wide into soils and the waterways, and the blades cannot be recycled after their short life. They are cut up, dumped and bisphenol-A leaks into soils and waterways. The rare earth elements in wind turbines are mined in China, the radioactive uranium- and thorium-rich wastes are dumped and spread over a wide area of land. Most turbine blades are manufactured in China.
Slave labour in China makes the silicon solar panels. Lead, cadmium, selenium and tellurium in solar panels are highly toxic and are spread over huge areas during rain. Prime agricultural land for production of food is covered with thousands of hectares of solar panels. In many places during summer [probably not in UK!], the panels overheat and cannot be used.
EVs use six times as much metal as conventional cars. A huge amount of copper is used in EVs. For every tonne of copper used in an EV, at least 200 tonnes of copper ore must be dug up, about the same tonnage of tailings need to be stored and hundreds of tonnes of waste rock is moved and dumped. All this is done using diesel-driven machines. Lithium batteries in EVs use cobalt mined by black slave children in the Congo. Many die in deep open cuts and underground mines. Others are poisoned by cobalt. For every tonne of cobalt metal used in an EV, around 1,500 tonnes of cobalt ore needs to be mined. China controls the basic commodities used in EVs, such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite.
And so on …
Jimmy Greaves (Greavsie) was wrong when he said that football is “a funny old game”. —–It is climate change politics that is the funny old game that is costing us all astronomical sums of money for NOTHING.
“We” have passed through many periods of 5C and more global heating, and indeed periods of -5C and more global cooling in the last twelve thousand years since the last Ice Age – the Earth.s climate system and changes are non-linear.
And since, based on past records, “We” and our globe are headed into a tropical era over the next few thousand years, there is nothing “We” can do or not do that will change that – ‘resistance is futile’ – so meetings, mandates, regulations, taxes are a waste of time, resources and money.
At COP1 CO2 was 360 ppm and it has risen by over 15% to almost 420ppm. I wonder what temperature the computer models used at COP1 were forecasting for 420ppm in 30 years?
It seems from the data here that at the current rate CO2 would increase by about 60% each century, so by 2125 it would be roughly 670 parts per million or 0.067% of our atmospheric air. Can our scientists or technical historians tell us what temperatures were like, the last time CO2 was at these levels?