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PODCAST: Secretary Pompeo Sounds Off On Climate Alarmists

June 13, 2021/in Energy, Environment, Policy, Politics, Science/by Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

“Former Secretary Kerry is driving the central thesis of this administration’s foreign policy. Ours was America First, we were unambiguous. When I met with my counterparts around the world, it was pretty clear Mike Pompeo showed up to make sure Americans were more prosperous and more secure and safer. When when this administration has these conversations, if the other side will offer them a little bit of a carbon reduction, or, worse yet, a promise of some future carbon reduction—kind of like Wimpy’s “burger tomorrow,” these folks are willing to trade things that matter, the security interests that matter to the American people. So my comments were, we all want clean air, we all want safe drinking water, but to hand over the American economy to bust the American worker to get the Green New Deal done on the back of the American worker does indeed put America behind the interests of other countries.” — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

In Episode 183 of District of Conservation, Gabriella exclusively teases a clip of her forthcoming interview with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dropping Friday.

Secretary Pompeo discusses this viral tweet of his about climate change, thoughts on the Biden’s administration’s War on Energy, what sustainable clean energy options are, true conservation, firearms, the nomination of David Chipman for ATF Director, and public safety.

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Gabriella Hoffman

Gabriella Hoffman is a Media Strategist and Award-Winning Outdoor Writer. She hosts the “District of Conservation” podcast and CFACT’s original YouTube series “Conservation Nation.” Learn more about her work at www.gabriellahoffman.com.

How can climate alarmists explain away ancient megadroughts? They can’t

June 12, 2021/in Energy, Environment, Science/by John Eidson

As reported by Fox News, a 2015 study published in the journal Nature Climate Change compared 117 computer model projections during the 1990s with the amount of warming that actually occurred. Of the 117 projections, only three were roughly accurate. On average, the computer models predicted twice as much warming as that which actually occurred. The projections wildly overestimated global warming, so much so that it’s hard not to suspect that something fishy may have been behind the lopsided results.

Amid a relentless drumbeat of global warming hysteria dating to the early 1980s, NASA data showed that the period Feb. 2016 – Feb. 2018 was the greatest two-year cooling event of the last 100 years. So at least for that two-year period, apocalyptic forecasts of climate doom weren’t just wide of the plate; they weren’t even in the ball park.

Another indication that global warming forecasts have been embarrassingly off base was reported in the UK Express, which ran a story in 2018 with the headline “Climate change is ‘not as bad as we thought’ say scientists,” followed by the subheadline “Climate change is likely to be markedly less severe than forecast, study claims.”

For four decades and running, a virtually endless trail of horrifying predictions of imminent climate collapse has been trumpeted by an unquestioning western media. But despite the alarm bells, not one of those Chicken Little predictions has been on target, which brings me to the dire prediction described below.

“Risk of megadrought in southwestern U.S. could exceed 99%”

In 2015, California and much of the southwestern U.S. was in the final stage of a severe four-year drought. The same year, a terrifying study published in Science Advances forecast that man-caused climate change is making a catastrophic megadrought in the region a virtual certainty before the end of the century.

According to the study’s authors, the risk of a megadrought could exceed 99 percent. “This will be worse than anything seen during the last 2,000 years and would pose unprecedented challenges to water resources in the region,” said Toby Ault, a professor of earth sciences at Cornell University and one of the authors of the study. He continued, “As we add greenhouse gases into the atmosphere—and we haven’t put the brakes on stopping this—we are weighting the dice for megadrought conditions.”

I have a question for Professor Ault. But first, here’s an inconvenient piece of climate history which those who incite fear about droughts hope and pray voters will never discover:

Studies of tree rings, sediment and other natural evidence have documented multiple extreme droughts in the southwestern U.S. over the last 1,000+ years, including several which lasted more than twenty years—that’s FIVE TIMES longer than the relatively puny 4-year drought that hit California and other parts of the Desert Southwest in 2012-15.

Twenty years is a long time, but some past droughts in what is now the southwestern U.S. lasted even longer. Much longer.

One that began in the year 850 AD crawled on for a mind-boggling 240 years, and that megadrought occurred more than a thousand years before the climate fear industry dreamed up the man-made global warming theory in the early 1980s. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the drought of 850 was so severe that it led to the demise of an entire civilization—the Mayan Empire. And that drought wasn’t alone. Fifty years before it began, another megadrought, one which lasted 180 years, was just winding down.

With that bit of climate history in mind, here’s my question for Professor Ault: What caused those megadroughts?

The professor and his co-authors know the answer, but don’t want you to know. They certainly can’t blame megadroughts of the last 1,000 years on the Industrial Revolution, which didn’t begin in earnest until the 1800s, a full millennium after those severe droughts wreaked havoc on what is now the southwestern U.S. and parts of what is now Mexico. Since they can’t scapegoat man’s use of fossil fuels for having caused those ancient environmental calamities, how do they and their allies in the climate fear industry hope to frighten you with the specter of an “unprecedented” megadrought that could be “99% certain”? They pray you will never learn about Earth’s climate history, that’s how.

Earth’s climate history is no friend of global warming fearmongers

Absent historical context, extreme weather can be overhyped in ways that lead the uninformed to conclude that unpleasant things like severe droughts never happened before humans began using fossil fuels. In fact, extreme climate events have occurred with monotonous regularity for a long, long time.

According to the Nature Education Knowledge Project, Earth has had a climate going all the way back to the Archean Eon, from 3.9 billion to 2.5 billion years ago. Only God knows how many megadroughts occurred over that time. But whatever the number, it has to be off the chart. When the next one arrives—and one most certainly will—Professor Ault will have been right about one thing: its cause will be Earth’s ever-changing climate, the same vexing culprit which caused the megadrought of 850 AD and 100% of the multitude of other seemingly endless droughts which have plagued the planet since time immemorial. Professor Ault’s prediction that greenhouse gases will be to blame for the next one is speculation based on what likely will be yet another in a long line of dire “studies” that left egg on the face of its authors.

In my Canada Free Press article “Green is the new Red,’ I explain why I believe beyond a shadow of doubt that global warming alarmism is the most brazen scientific hoax the world has ever seen.

“Biden” Kills Oil Leases in Alaska’s Arctic Region

June 3, 2021/in Economy, Energy, News, Policy, Politics/by The Geller Report

Killing American jobs, livelihoods, independence, dreams …. this is the Democrat party platform.

Biden suspends oil leases in Alaska’s Arctic refuge

By: Matthew Daly, Associated Press, June 2, 2021:

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration on Tuesday suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing a drilling program approved by the Trump administration and reviving a political fight over a remote region that is home to polar bears and other wildlife – and a rich reserve of oil.

The order by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland follows a temporary moratorium on oil and gas lease activities imposed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office. Biden’s Jan. 20 executive order suggested a new environmental review was needed to address possible legal flaws in a drilling program approved by the Trump administration under a 2017 law enacted by Congress.

After conducting a required review, Interior said it “identified defects in the underlying record of decision supporting the leases, including the lack of analysis of a reasonable range of alternatives″ required under the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law.

The remote, 19.6 million-acre refuge is home to polar bears, caribou, snowy owls and other wildlife, including migrating birds from six continents. Republicans and the oil industry have long been trying to open up the oil-rich refuge, which is considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich’in, for drilling. Democrats, environmental groups and some Alaska Native tribes have been trying to block it.

Environmental groups and Democrats cheered the Interior Department order, while Alaska’s all-Republican congressional delegation slammed it as misguided and illegal.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an Interior agency, held a lease sale for the refuge’s coastal plain on Jan. 6, two weeks before Biden took office. Eight days later the agency signed leases for nine tracts totaling nearly 685 square miles. However, the issuance of the leases was not announced publicly until Jan. 19, former President Donald Trump’s last full day in office.

Biden has opposed drilling in the region, and environmental groups have been pushing for permanent protections, which Biden called for during the presidential campaign.

The administration’s action to suspend the leases comes after officials disappointed environmental groups last week by defending a Trump administration decision to approve a major oil project on Alaska’s North Slope. Critics say the action flies in the face of Biden’s pledges to address climate change.
The Justice Department said in a court filing that opponents of the Willow project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska were seeking to stop development by “cherry-picking” the records of federal agencies to claim environmental review law violations. The filing defends the reviews underpinning last fall’s decision approving project plans.

More:Deb Haaland makes history as first Native American Cabinet secretary after Senate confirmation

Kristen Miller, acting executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, hailed suspension of the Arctic leasing program, which she said was the result of a flawed legal process under Trump.

“Suspending these leases is a step in the right direction, and we commend the Biden administration for committing to a new program analysis that prioritizes sound science and adequate tribal consultation,″ she said.

More action is needed, Miller said, calling for a permanent cancellation of the leases and repeal of the 2017 law mandating drilling in the refuge’s coastal plain.

The drilling mandate was included in a massive tax cut approved by congressional Republicans during Trump’s first year in office. Republicans said it could generate an estimated $1 billion over 10 years, a figure Democrats call preposterously overstated.

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., a longtime opponent of drilling in the refuge, accused the Trump administration of trying to “shortcut environmental laws.″ The effort “fell apart when exposed to the facts that federal scientists say Arctic Refuge drilling cannot be done safely and oil companies don’t want to drill there,” Cantwell said.

“Now it is up to Congress to permanently protect this irreplaceable, million-year-old ecosystem and facilitate new economic opportunities based on preserving America’s pristine public lands for outdoor recreation,” she said.

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Biden’s handlers import oil from Iran for only the second time since 1991, ignoring sanctions

June 2, 2021/in Economy, Energy, Policy, Politics/by Jihad Watch

UPDATE: AP has details that make Biden’s handlers not look so bad at least in this case:

US sells off Iranian crude oil seized off coast of UAE

by Jon Gambrell, Associated Press, May 31, 2021:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. has sold some 2 million barrels of Iranian crude oil after seizing an oil tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, court documents and government statistics show.

The Iranian crude oil showed up in new figures released over the weekend by the U.S. Energy Information Agency, raising the eyebrows of commodities traders as Tehran remains targeted by a series of American sanctions. The EIA figures included just over 1 million barrels of Iranian “crude oil imports” in March.

The oil came from the MT Achilleas, a ship seized in February by the U.S. off the coast of the Emirati port city of Fujairah. U.S court documents allege the Achilleas was subject to forfeiture under American anti-terrorism statues as Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard tried to use it to sell crude oil to China. The U.S. has identified the Guard as a terrorist organization since the administration of former President Donald Trump.

Prosecutors say shippers tried to disguise the shipment by labeling it as “Basra light crude” from neighboring Iraq.

The U.S. government brought the Achilleas to Houston, Texas, where it sold the just over 2 million barrels of crude oil within it for $110 million, or at around $55 a barrel, court documents show. The money will be held in escrow amid a court case over it….

Original post:

Biden’s handlers’ stance toward Iran is predicated on the assumption that the mullahs will respond in kind to gestures of good will. This is an erroneous assumption. The mullahs will see Biden’s handlers’ appeasement efforts as signs of weakness, and become increasingly aggressive.

U.S. imports rare Iranian oil in March despite sanctions – EIA data

Reuters, May 30, 2021:

SINGAPORE — The United States imported a rare cargo of 1.033 million barrels of Iranian crude in March despite sanctions on Iran’s energy sector, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed.

The cargo is only the second oil import by the United States from Iran since late 1991, data on EIA’s website showed….

AWED: A Media Balanced Newsletter

June 1, 2021/in Elections, Energy, Environment, News, Policy, Politics/by John Droz, Jr.

Welcome to the latest issue of our Media Balance Newsletter, which covers a wide range of nation interest topics: from COVID to Climate.

(For all 2020 Newsletters, go here. For all 2021 Newsletters, go here.)

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COVID-19: Therapy

Ivermectin is effective for COVID-19 when used early: analysis of 56 studies

Ivermectin cost soars after research suggest 75% chance of cutting COVID deaths

More Good News on Ivermectin

COVID-19: Vaccines

3rd Wave of Sickness and Death will be Dominated by Those Who Have Been Fully Vaccinated

Short video: Impact of COVID Vaccinations on Mortality (for countries)

57 Top Scientists And Doctors Release Study Critical of COVID Vaccines

Sweden: Damaging Side Effects From Vaccines Tops 31,000

Documentary Film: The Truth Behind The Vaccine Trials

Twitter Censors an Eminent Infectious Disease Expert for his Opinion on Vaccines

Dr. Michael Yeadon: ‘Not One Of Those Things Is Supported By The Science’

Federal Law Prohibits Mandates of Emergency Use COVID Vaccines, Tests, Masks

COVID-19: Models & Data

NIH Study: Assessing stay-at-home and business closure effects on COVID-19

Salk Study: COVID-19 is Primarily a Vascular Disease

COVID-19: Misc

Candace Owens slams Dr. Fauci, and the Left for killing science

Did Pandemic Signal The Demise Of Modernity?

How Covid Put an End to Your Right to Due Process

How Team Biden Ended Covid Mania Overnight

Scientists Admit to Using “Totalitarian” Fear Tactics in the COVID Response to Control the Population

House Intel say ‘significant circumstantial evidence’ of COVID Wuhan lab leak PolitiFact’s Wuhan Lab Theory Retraction

Evidence COVID-19 Emerged From a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan

Wind Energy: Offshore

Questions linger regarding offshore wind’s economic, environmental impact

Socioeconomic Impacts of Atlantic Offshore Wind Development

Offshore Wind Requires 63,000 lbs of Copper, per Turbine

Cable It In Is No Strategy for Fixing the Problems with Offshore Wind

Silence from Shoreline Press on Undersea Electric Problems

U.S. Seeks to Approve Dozens of Offshore Wind Projects in Years to Come

Biden’s BOEM Pick has Worked for Top Offshore Wind Firms

Wind Energy: Other

David Bellavia on Wind Turbines: One and Two

Biden’s FERC Selection Lobbied for Major Wind Developer

Texas stops Chinese billionaire from building wind facility

Bisphenol A in wind turbines damages human fertility

Solar Energy

Report: The Case for Reform of Solar Energy Planning

Soaring Solar Costs Could Slow The Renewable Boom

Study: Strategic land use analysis for solar energy development in NYS

Excellent: VA Supervisors ease citizens concerns over future solar projects

FAA Publishes Policy on Airport Solar Projects to Protect Pilots From Glare

Nuclear Energy

Britain’s real energy revolution: to roll out Small Modular Reactors by 2030

Can Nuclear Power Go Local?

Nuclear energy is essential to goal of 100% clean energy by 2050

Economic and Carbon Impacts of Potential Nuclear Plant Closures

Evidence of beneficial effects of radiation and thresholds for detriment

U.S. senator prepares tax credit legislation for existing nuclear plants

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Fossil Fuel Energy

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Biden’s Gas Pipeline Gift to Putin

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Misc Energy

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Manmade Global Warming: Some Deceptions

Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, And Why It Matters

Study: CO2 a Source of Life or a Threat?

Joe Biden’s Climate Denialism

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Manmade Global Warming: Misc

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US Elections:

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US Politics and Socialism

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The Big Lie

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Greens Invade Exxon Mobile: Foment Shareholder Fiasco

May 29, 2021/in Energy, Environment, News, Policy, Science/by Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

ExxonMobil took it on the chin as it suffered stinging defeats at the hands of radical climate activists during its annual shareholders meeting yesterday.

Efforts by the green hedge fund “Engine No. 1” to infiltrate Exxon’s Board of Directors succeeded when two of the outfit’s activist candidates, Gregory Goff and Kaisa Hietala, defeated standing Exxon board members. The hedge has been haranguing Exxon to get on board the “green energy” bandwagon and away from fossil fuels to fight global warming.

Of the 10 resolutions put forward at the meeting, nearly half had at least tangentially to do with climate, including ones to force the company to report on lobbying, and on “environmental lobbying” in particular. Most of these passed despite leadership opposition.

For its part, CFACT had a front row seat to the Exxon theatrics. Committee representatives participated in the annual shareholders meeting along with its allies from the National Center for Public Policy Research and JunkScience.com. These three free market allies banded together to attempt to inject a point of view that contrasted sharply with those seeking to pull the corporate giant further to the Left.

Steve Milloy, a close ally and good friend of CFACT who heads Junkscience.com, delivered a passionate and well-reasoned comment to the board urging passage of a resolution he authored calling for the disclosure the true costs of emissions cuts and climate hysteria. Said Milloy:

This year I proposed that Exxon push back on climate idiocy by disclosing the actual costs and benefits of cutting emissions. The costs of emissions cuts, you see, are very high and the benefits are zero. But the ever-obtuse [Exxon Chairman] Mr. Woods refuses to acknowledge these realities. Instead, he fantasizes about appeasing the crazed political radicals who are the mortal enemies of us genuine shareholders.

Despite support from CFACT and NCPPR, Milloy’s proposal unfortunately did not pass.

Just prior to the meeting, Exxon leadership sought to assuage Green activists by promising to put a “climate expert” on its Board, no doubt hoping this gesture would help fend off the “Engine No. 1” infiltrators.

It didn’t work.

The pathetic overture did, however, prompt CFACT to challenge their appeasement-minded approach. I submitted a question during the Q&A session asking to know, “Why is ExxonMobil choosing to put a climate activist on the Board to appease green activists who want to see the company’s long-term profitability diminish?”

With at least two new members on its board certain to champion the Green cause, Exxon will almost certainly have tough times ahead. The company lost a record $22 billion last year, and likely will lose more unless it decides to fight back.

CFACT of course will be there, along with its allies, pressuring the company to take a stand. At some point, Exxon leaders need to understand there is no achieving “Peace in our Time” with a Green adversary so vicious. The question is, will the company’s top brass find it in them to toss its Chamberlains and put in some Churchill’s?

Craig Rucker

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president.

Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Thinking

May 25, 2021/in Energy, Environment/by MercatorNet - Navigating Modern Complexities

An expert in linguistics takes aim at the coloured language of the climate change debate.

Eighty-one years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article by Benjamin Lee Worf that initiated one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century.

The author was a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted as an anthropology lecturer at Yale University; the idea concerned the power of language over the mind and the claim that our mother tongue places restrictions on the things that we are able to think.

Whorf argued that Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, in such a way that their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects and actions.

Whorf’s theory led to a whole range of fanciful claims about the supposed power of language over thought, from the assertion that Native American languages give their speakers an intuitive understanding of Einstein’s concept of time as a fourth dimension, to the speculation that the nature of the Jewish religion was determined by the tense system of ancient Hebrew.

We now know that Whorf was mistaken in assuming that our mother tongue constrains our minds to the point of preventing us from being able to think certain thoughts. This would entail, for example, that if a language had no future tense, its speakers would not be able to grasp the notion of future time. But even in English we sometimes use the present tense to refer to the future, as in “They are arriving this evening.” Would a language that did this habitually prevent its speakers from having any grasp of the future at all?

Do English speakers who have never heard the German word Schadenfreude find it impossible to understand the concept of relishing in someone else’s misfortunes? More fundamentally, if the vocabulary of words in our language determined which concepts we were able to understand, how could we ever learn anything new?

How language channels our expression

In spite of these caveats, however, recent linguistic research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue we do indeed acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.

Guy Deutscher’s 2010 book Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages develops the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson’s insight that languages differ not so much in what they allow speakers to express but rather in what they oblige them to convey. Deutscher argues that this principle offers the key to understanding the real impact of the mother tongue on our thinking: if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think about, but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think.

To illustrate this, he gives the example of someone saying in English “I spent yesterday evening with a neighbour.” As a hearer, you might wonder whether my companion was male or female, but you have no way of knowing that from what I said.

However, if we were speaking French or German, I wouldn’t have the possibility of equivocating in this way, because I would be obliged by the grammar of the language to choose between voisin or voisine, Nachbar or Nachbarin. French and German compel me to inform you about the sex of my companion whether I feel it is of any concern to you or not.

Language habits

I would like to develop a corollary of this principle going back to another article by Whorf entitled ‘The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language’. In it he explores the ramifications of the impact on human behaviour of “language’s constant ways of arranging data and its most ordinary everyday analysis of phenomena,” based on the idea put forward by Whorf’s mentor Edward Sapir, an anthropology professor at Yale, that “the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.”

In support of this idea, Whorf cites his experience as a fire insurance evaluator, in which he discovered that it was often not a physical situation per se, but rather the meaning of that situation to people that was the crucial factor in the start of a fire. Thus, for example, around a storage area for ‘gasoline drums’ great care will be exercised by people, whereas around a storage area for ‘empty gasoline drums’ behaviour may be different, with people sometimes smoking and tossing cigarette stubs around, even though ‘empty’ drums are more dangerous than full ones as they contain explosive vapour.

Whorf observed: “Physically the situation is hazardous, but the linguistic analysis according to regular analogy must employ the word empty, which inevitably suggests lack of hazard.”

The aura surrounding the adjective “fossil”

In the light of this principle, it is interesting to consider the customary use in contemporary discourse of the modifier fossil to describe hydrocarbon-based energy, as instantiated in these phrases gleaned from the international Greenpeace website: fossil fuels, fossil energy, fossil gas, fossil capital, fossil-free politics, fossil-free economy, fossil-free revolution.

Two of these expressions might not be self-explanatory: fossil gas is a way of referring to natural gas; fossil capital is “an economic system that prioritises never-ending growth over the welfare of people and the planet. This system plunders our planet’s resources while oppressing our most vulnerable. It perpetuates structural inequalities and deepens the climate crisis.”

The choice of this modifier for the noun fuel is anything but chance. As illustrated in the Google Ngram below, it became frequent around 1970 at the time of a conjunction of the rise of the environmental movement and media focus on the escalation of gasoline prices due to the OPEC decision to drastically cut down oil production:

Symbolically, the expression fossil fuels associates hydrocarbon energy with a number of underlying notions that present it in a highly unfavourable light. Not only are fossils dug out of the ground, which links them to dirt and mud (viz. the expression dirty energy), but they are also artefacts from a very remote past, which connotes the idea that hydrocarbons are utterly outdated and should be extinct like the species whose skeletons we display in museum exhibits.

And so it comes as no surprise to see the companies producing hydrocarbon energy portrayed as dinosaurs who must give way to the new generation of mammals in an article titled “The era of energy dinosaurs is coming to an end,” which maintains that “the big, slow-moving dinosaurs of the energy world face increasing competition from a swarm of smaller, fast-moving mammals.”

Habits of thought about carbon

It is perhaps salutary to realize that every time we use the phrase fossil fuels, we are entrenching a habit of thought that is beholden to a certain view of this type of energy. And so, even though this phrase slips smoothly off the tip of the tongue because of the alliteration of the initial labiodental fricatives, we should perhaps think twice before using it too casually.

The same thing goes for the phrase carbon footprint, in which an odorless and colourless gas is treated as a hard metal capable of leaving an indelible mark on the environment. Indeed, the reduction of the longer term carbon dioxide to the noun carbon in current discourse concerning energy is far from innocent. Not only does it present the purported environmental threat as a solid rather than a gas, but it also constitutes a concealed attack on the very foundation of life on the planet.

If one does an Internet search for “carbon is”, the top three suggestions proposed by the Google search engine are “carbon is the building block of life/carbon is the foundation of life/carbon is the basis of life,” amounting to a total of 907,000,000 hits on the web.

And indeed, the higher levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere in the industrial era are making the earth greener and increasing crop yields: in its forecast of world cereal grain production for 2020/2021, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization foresees a 4.4 percent increase, up 2.6 percent from the record set in 2019/2020.

In 2016 a paper titled “The greening of the Earth and its drivers” was published in the journal Nature Climate Change by 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries that analysed satellite data and concluded that there had been a 14 percent increase in green vegetation over the previous 30 years, attributing 70 percent of this increase to the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The lead author of the study, Zaichun Zhu of Beijing University, says this was equivalent to adding a new continent of green vegetation twice the size of the mainland United States.

In the phrase carbon emissions, however, carbon is associated with a noun reserved for reference to pollution, thereby debasing the basis of life to the status of toxic waste.

If Sapir and Whorf are right that the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation, every time we hear or use such expressions, we are being conditioned to adopt a certain point of view on their referent. Caveat locutor et auditor!

COLUMN BY

Patrick Duffley

Patrick Duffley is Professor of English Linguistics at Université Laval, in Canada. More by Patrick Duffley

VIDEO: Biden Waives Sanctions on Russian Pipeline After Blocking Keystone XL in U.S.

May 21, 2021/in Culture War, Economy, Energy, News, Policy, Politics, Science/by The Geller Report

Democrats hate Americans. Think of it, Gas lines, shortages, $7.00 a gallon gas in Virginia, and this is what the Democrats do …..

Biden Waives Sanctions on Russian Pipeline After Blocking Keystone XL in U.S.

By: Bongino.com, May 20, 2021:

Joe Biden infamously canceled the Keystone XL pipeline that would have brought oil to America, provided thousands of jobs, and added billions of dollars in tax revenue because of extremely dubious environmental concerns shortly after taking office.

He apparently doesn’t share the same contempt for pipelines abroad.

According to Axios:

The State Department will acknowledge that the corporate entity in charge of the project (Nord Stream 2 AG) and its CEO (Putin crony and former East German intelligence officer Matthias Warnig) are engaged in sanctionable activities….However, the State Department will waive the applications of those sanctions, citing U.S. national interests.

“The Biden administration has been clear that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a Russian geopolitical project that threatens European energy security and that of Ukraine and eastern flank NATO allies and partners,” the spokesperson said. Administration sources contend any waivers applied to sanctions could be removed at any time. They also add that the Biden administration’s goal remains to see that the pipeline doesn’t go into use.

In other words, the sanctions were put in place for good reason and the Biden administration considers the pipeline to be such a serious threat that they don’t want it to go into use… so they’re allowing it to be completed. Does that make any sense to anyone?

The slant from Axios is that this is a sop to Germany, but it actually seems like the nation that primarily benefits from this is Russia. The Russians will make billions, they will weaken Ukraine by depriving them of revenue and Putin will get more leverage over Europe, which will get used to that supply cheap natural gas once it gets going.

Biden’s capitulation to Putin looks weak because it is weak. It’s also ironic. Biden is willing to allow the Russians to make all that money and the Europeans to get all that natural gas via a pipeline even when it’s not in our interests, but a pipeline that helps Americans? Sorry, but that’s not allowed.

Biden’s capitulation to Putin looks weak because it is weak. It’s also ironic. Biden is willing to allow the Russians to make all that money and the Europeans to get all that natural gas via a pipeline even when it’s not in our interests, but a pipeline that helps Americans? Sorry, but that’s not allowed.

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OUT OF GAS: What Does The Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Say About U.S. Defence Readiness?

May 21, 2021/in Energy, Government Transparency, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by MercatorNet - Navigating Modern Complexities

On Friday, May 7, hackers attacked the computer systems of Colonial Pipeline, which operates a major gasoline pipeline that brings gasoline and jet fuel from Houston refineries up through the southeastern United States as far as New Jersey. Out of concern that the hackers might have obtained data enabling them to do physical damage to their facilities, the pipeline operators shut the pipeline down while it was still under their control.

This may have saved the machinery from damage, but it produced a severe regional fuel shortage that affected everything from flights out of Atlanta to drivers’ vacation plans. As of Sunday, May 16, the pipeline was fully restarted, but the ripple effects of the shutdown meant 88% of Washington, D. C. gas stations were out of gas at one point over the weekend.

This was a ransomware attack by a group calling itself DarkSide with reported links to Russia. According to Bloomberg News, Colonial Pipeline paid DarkSide about $5 million in bitcoin for software to unlock their systems, only to find that it ran so slowly that they ended up restoring service without its help.

This is by far the most serious ransomware attack ever mounted on a U. S.-based facility, and should become a turning point in our response to this sort of attack. Although I’ve stated the following position before in relation to other ransomware attacks, it bears repeating now that millions of people are going without gas, including many in Washington, D. C., and are presumably paying attention to the problem.

Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States reads as follows, in full:

“The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.”

The key word of present interest in this section is “invasion.” An online law dictionary defines invasion as “[a]n encroachment upon the rights of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.” The Constitution was written at a time when messages travelled fastest by horseback or sailing ship. It is safe to say that the current technological facts of instant global Internet access to a domestic firm’s private infrastructure were not in the minds of the drafters of the Constitution.

But notions of justice and international relations were, and the drafters recognised that a federal government that could not successfully defend its constituent states against invasion, as defined above, was not worth organising. So they put words in the Constitution that gave the federal government the responsibility of defending the states against invasion, and in Article 1, section 8, they also gave Congress the power to “provide for the calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.” There’s that word “invasion” again.

Pardon what may look like a constitutional detour, but what happened to Colonial Pipeline this month amounts to invasion and plunder by agents of a foreign power. The DarkSide criminals may not formally be agents of the Russian government, but they operate with its approval or at least without its hindrance.

Suppose a bunch of Canadians armed with tanks and machine guns charged across the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit and took over the headquarters of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, capturing their main computer centre and demanding $5 million in ransom to turn it loose. This would quite properly be regarded as a foreign invasion, and no one would raise a finger to object to using whatever military force was necessary to repel such an invasion.

I submit that what happened to Colonial Pipeline is morally equivalent to my hypothetical invasion by Canadians. The technological details are different, but the responsibility of the US government to defend those within its borders from invasion and plunder is something that the Founders intended it to do.

So what has the federal government in fact done? Hardly anything — a few warnings not to try keeping gasoline in plastic bags, a few adjustments of shipping regulations to allow more ships to land gasoline from abroad, and that’s about it.

There is a well-known saying that generals always prepare for the last war, not the one they’re fighting now. And that is certainly true in this case. According to one source, the U. S. military has over 200,000 troops stationed abroad in over 170 countries. The vast majority of these are conventional soldiers ready to shoot bullets and drop bombs, and certainly, bullets and bombs haven’t gone out of fashion. But among the more advanced criminal element, it’s much more chic to keep your fingers clean while typing code that will shut down half of the gasoline going to the U. S. East Coast, and make $5 million in exchange for some software that doesn’t even work.

Congress is reportedly drafting legislation to do something about this sort of thing. That is where the process should start, but it’s clear that a vast reorganisation and re-prioritising of the entire domestic and foreign military establishment is called for. Cyberwarfare is where it’s at now. Metaphorically speaking, the Canadians have been rioting through the entire country for years now, and all we have done is have vague discussions about the future of military combat. Don’t people get it? It’s happening now. The fact that nobody was killed in the Colonial hack is due more to the foresight of the pipeline operators than to anyone else, as an out-of-control pipeline can do unimaginable amounts of damage.

But private companies should not have to shoulder by themselves the burden of protecting their facilities against foreign invasion and plunder. That’s one of the most basic services of the federal government, and so far it is failing miserably in its job.

The gasoline shortage Washington now enjoys has fallen equally on Republicans and Democrats. We can only hope that they will unite to make major lasting changes in the structure and priorities of the U. S. military so that we can once more be secure in our persons and property against the depredations of foreign invasion, including ransomware attacks.

This article has been republished with permission from Engineering Ethics.

COLUMN BY

Karl D. Stephan

Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977… More by Karl D. Stephan

Biden Raves Over Expensive Inefficient, Electric Ford F-150 Truck

May 20, 2021/in Energy, Environment/by Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

If inefficiency were a virtue, President Biden is its champion.

Yesterday, President Biden test drove the new electric Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck which Ford will formally unveil at midnight tonight.

The F-150 is the best selling vehicle in America, but is the American Everyman prepared to shell out $70,000 for an electric base model and over six figures at the top of the line? Those are the prices Car and Driver predicts.

Today’s pickup trucks are affordable. “The F-150 carries a base price of $28,940, which is one of the lower starting prices in the class. SuperCab models start at $33,025, and SuperCrew models start at $36,650.

Pickup trucks combine power with rugged hauling capacity that appeal to sports and tradesmen. A pickup truck enables individuals to start a business with minimal capital. Buy a pickup, maybe add a trailer, and you’ve acquired much of the gear you need to start a business as a landscaper, handyman, repairman, mechanic, or carpenter. Add some skills and a lucrative career as a plumber, electrician or tech specialist beckons.

Pickup trucks and vans are essential elements for many workers’ American dream.

Electric vehicles’ short ranges and long charging times are significant impediments to that dream.

The already announced Ford E-Transit van “delivers an estimated driving range of 126 miles in the low-roof cargo van variant.” That’s assuming warm weather and driving maximized to fit the EV power curve.

We’ll learn tonight whether some models of the F-150 lightning might make 300 miles, but if they do, we know that will mean a substantial increase in cost and particularly weight.

Motor Trend wrote, “expect the electric F-150 to therefore fall on the heavy end of Ford’s light-duty pickup lineup when all is said and done.”

Ford told President Biden that the F-150 Lightning’s batteries will weigh over 1,800 pounds. That’s a lot of lithium.

Biden raved over one of the best features of electric vehicles: their quick acceleration.

“This sucker’s quick.” Biden remarked behind the wheel, “I think it’s going from zero to sixty in about 4.3… 4.4.” The Ford spokesman confirmed, saying, “right.”

EVs boast near instant torque. However, that’s been true since the birth of the automobile at the end of the nineteenth century. Instant torque may be a cool feature for drag racing, but hauling capacity and range are what Americans demand in a pickup.

Ford partnered with Thomas Edison to develop an electric vehicle in 1914, but shelved the project due to limitations which though improved, persist today.

Lithium-ion batteries may be more efficient than the lead-acid batteries Henry Ford and Thomas Edison used, and technologies such as recombinant braking offer efficiency boosts with a cost in mechanical complexity, but the essential reasons electric vehicles never caught on remain.

Electric vehicles are costly to make, require massive batteries that don’t last, and are limited by short ranges and long charging times. They require exotic materials, sourced overseas, often mined under appalling conditions.

It remains to be seen whether pickup truck entrepreneurs will overcome sticker shock and range anxiety and embrace electric vehicles.

Will they adopt electric pickup trucks voluntarily, or only through government coercion?

Media Balance Newsletter

May 18, 2021/in Energy, Environment/by John Droz, Jr.

Welcome to the latest issue of our Media Balance Newsletter, which covers a wide range of nation interest topics: from COVID to Climate.

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COVID-19: Therapy

Ivermectin is effective for COVID-19 when used early: analysis of 55 studies

Attorney Discusses NY Court Rulings Over Ivermectin Use for COVID-19

Medical journal calls for Ivermectin to be ‘globally & systematically deployed’

Study: Exposure to high heat neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 in less than one second

Pfizer introduces oral SARS-CoV-2 inhibitor

Rutin: A Potential Antiviral as a SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitor

COVID-19: Vaccines

COVID Vaccine Killing Large Numbers, Warns Top COVID Physician

Ask The Experts (COVID-19 Vaccine)

As vaccine demand craters, big biotech use psych tactics to create demand

OSHA: Employers may be Liable for any Adverse Reactions for Mandated Shots

Students offered school credit toward graduation for getting vaccine

COVID Vaccine Trials In Animals Were Stopped Because They Kept Dying

Fauci Admits Roughly half of NIH employees have chosen not to get vaccine

I Have Changed My Mind And Do Not Want A Divorce From This Amazing Handsome Man,’ Says Glossy-Eyed Melinda Gates After Receiving Vaccine

COVID-19: Masks

Stores, States Drop Mask Mandates in Wake of CDC’s Updated Guidance

There Is No Correlation Between Masks, Lockdowns And COVID-19 Suppression

COVID-19: Models & Data

COVID Deaths Plummet as Excess Mortality Falls to Pre-COVID Levels

Study: 81% may have pre-existing COVID-19 immunity

COVID-19: Misc

A Primer for the Propagandized: Fear Is the Mind-Killer

Study: The origin of COVID – Did people or nature open Pandora’s box?

The Criminalization of Dissent

Lockdowns are No Substitute for Focused Protection

The Science-doubting Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown

Drinking the Kool-Aid

Lawsuits against W.H.O, etc for ‘Crimes against Humanity’

Greed Energy Economics

EPA Rescinds “Unnecessary” Cost-Benefit Rule

Survey: Voters Don’t Want to Pay for Biden’s Global Warming Agenda

Renewable Fortune Making at the Taxpayer Trough Is Driving Environmentalism

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences

Mega-projects divide surprise group: environmentalists

Dr. Stephen Cooper: Sleep Disturbance and Industrial Wind

Finally They Admit Renewables Are Terrible For The Environment

EU court’s bird protection ruling deals blow to German wind power

Wind Energy: Offshore

Offshore wind too ugly for the Hamptons but OK for other beach resorts?

New U.S. Offshore Wind target: from standing start to 30GW by 2030

The offshore wind energy mirage Joe Biden promotes

Biden Plan for Offshore Wind Is Wildly Expensive and Wholly Stupid

Biden administration approves first major US offshore wind project

Wind Energy: Other

NYISO says renewables and storage not enough

Locals Worry Wind and Solar Will Gobble Up Forests and Farms

Land grabs, solar deserts, turbines cluttering the coast

Biden offers hot air on wind turbine imports

Biden’s Green “No” Deal Exposes Wind Power Virtue-Signaling

Solar Energy

Researchers have evidence that PFAS could harm an animal’s immune system

Tesla sued after increasing a Solar roof project by more than $30,000

Solar soiling: energy loss from dust on panels can range from 7% to 50%

VA Board #1 denies permit to major Solar facility

VA Board #2 denies permit to major Solar facility

Large-scale CA solar panel project goes dark after commission denial

Nuclear Energy

We can’t let nuclear die

Nuclear On Verge Of ESG Inclusion

Left-wing activists demand Democrats exclude nuclear, etc. from climate bill

NIH Study: False Paradigms, Unfounded Assumptions, and Specious Statistics in Radiation Science

Fossil Fuel Energy

Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Biggest U.S. Gasoline Pipeline

The Truth About Sea Levels and Fossil Fuels

Report: How Fracking Saved Us from Global Warming

Colonial Pipeline Incident Illustrates Importance of Pipelines!

Misc Energy

The Geek in Pictures: Special Energy Fantasy League

Biden’s Not-So-Clean Energy Transition

Hydrogen instead of electrification? Potentials and risks for climate targets

Study: When Green Hydrogen came to Australia

The U.S. Will Need a Lot of Land for a Zero-Carbon Economy

Biden’s conundrum: Expand EVs without harming the Earth

IEA Report: The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions

GOP united in ire over energy law in VA governor’s race

The train travel revolution that isn’t

Manmade Global Warming: Some Deceptions

Dr. Curry: Climate is everything

Study: Global climate for last 2,000 years mimic Sun’s magnetic activity, not CO2

Relative Percentages of Man-made and Natural CO2 in the Earth’s Troposphere

Geothermal heat and climate variability

A good example of a bad environmental justice study

Red in Robe, Green in Thought

New fraud allegations deepen global science scandal

Sea of doubts

The truth about Biden’s climate summit: Unrealistic pledges reveal grandstanding

“Green Fraud” Book Review

Manmade Global Warming: Misc

Short video: Senator Kennedy Questions EPA Administrator Regan

Carbongate: The real science of climate change by a layman

China’s Emissions Exceed those of the Developed World

Supreme Court case about Social Cost of Carbon

Climate Emergency in New York? What Climate Emergency?

The green schism threatening Biden’s climate plan

Russian climate envoy calls race to tighten emissions targets ‘unreasonable‘

Judge rules that Mark Jacobson must pay attorney fees for his dubious lawsuit

Archaeologists Find Evidence of a Prehistoric Cattle Cult

Video: Climate Policy: When Emotion Meets Reality

US Elections:

Archive: Stealing Votes from the Very Vulnerable – Nursing Home Voter Fraud

Clergy vote ‘no confidence’ in election vendor Dominion

Dominion Voting System Corruption Uncovered

Team Biden Flogs Russian ‘Interference’, No Matter Intel Agencies Say

Trump attorney, other allies launch voter fraud organization

Rasmussen Poll: 62% Do Not Think Voter ID Laws Discriminate

US Elections, Arizona Issues:

Good short video about the latest in the Maricopa audit

Letter from AZ Senate to Maricopa County

Deleted Election Files, etc Prompt Senate to Beckon County Officials to Capitol

Maricopa bombshell! Election database erased just before audit began

Maricopa County Caught Red Handed

“Biden” DoJ Officials Try to STOP Arizona Election Fraud Audit

Maricopa County Refuses to Provide Routers to Election Auditors

AZ Audit Director: Dominion Refuses to Comply with Subpoena

Dominion Will Not Release Passwords to Maricopa Voting Machines

Arizona audit of Maricopa County’s election ballot will stop for a week

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Arizona Election Fraud Challenge

US Elections, Other State Issues:

Direct Evidence of Intentional Dominion Fraud Submitted to Court

Emails Prove Existence of Massive Ballot Harvesting Operatione

Lenberg Michigan Voting Machine Report

A River of Doubt Runs Through Mail Voting in Montana

An Election Partnership between Wisconsin’s Largest Cities and Zuckerberg funded CTCL

**US Elections, Our Recommendations Report:**

Video: Chinese TV interview about our Recommendations Report (in Chinese)

Restoring US election integrity is essential to our future as a democracy

Election Integrity Recommendations Report — Official Release

Sidney Powell Shares US Election Integrity Report!

U.S. Elections Integrity: Recommendations Report

New Election Integrity Report Offers US Voting System Recommendations

US Election Integrity: What Needs to be Fixed

US Politics and Socialism

Open Letter from 120+ Retired Generals and Admirals

Capitalism, Socialism and ESG

Tuning Out Wokeism

Officer Relieved After Denouncing Marxism, Critical Race Theory in Military

Facebook Admits Trump Permanent Ban Lacked Any Objective Standard

Barrasso: China’s goal is domination and is playing America for fools

The greenies’ circular firing squad is expanding

Short video: Who Has Privilege?

The High-Pressure Business of Selling Woke Corporate Armor

Other US Politics and Related

Activists bailed 70 people out last year; 25 have been rearrested

Critical Race Theory: It’s a Cancer Not a Cure

The Fed Board Agrees Never to Disagree

The leader of the western world’s cognitive capacity is in advanced state of decline

Religion Related

Karl Marx and Charles Spurgeon’s Epic Struggle for Souls

Vatican warns U.S. bishops about rebuking Biden, other Catholic pols

Are They Catholics, or Are They Heretics?

Education Related

An Appeal to Cornyn and Cole against “Civics Secures Democracy” Act

Biden’s Government Pre-K Not Okay with Parents

The Origins of the Cruel Ritual of Diversity Training

School of Journalism—or Ministry of Propaganda?

Archive: The Politicization of University Schools of Education

Are Your Kids Being Taught to Support Socialism?

7 Dangerous Books That Could Radicalize Your Child

Publish Or Perish Can Become Publish AND Perish

Science and Misc Matters

Japanese man arrested after dating 35 women at the same time

Science needs more whistleblowers and more questioning

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Al Gore, Our Melting Planet and the Blizzard of 2018

May 17, 2021/in Elections, Energy, Environment/by John Eidson

Gore and other high profile climate frauds continue to furiously beat the drums of global warming alarmism.

If not for a complicit and totally corrupt western media, the man-made global warming theory would have been blown out of the water decades ago.

In early January 2018, a powerful blizzard caused severe disruptions along the East Coast of the United States, as snow and bitter cold weather set new records, with Erie, PA shattering its all-time snowfall record. The next month, Chicago tied a long-standing record with nine straight days of snow after chalking up its most frigid New Year’s Day in history. The Plains, Midwest and Northeast were hit with record-setting frigid temperatures, and the Deep South was gripped by sub-zero freezing that dumped snow, even in Florida.

Crying wolf … every decade or so

Halfway around the world, the Winter Olympics in South Korea rivaled the coldest Games ever, and Russia had to call out the army to help Moscow dig out of what was described as “the snowfall of the century.” Elsewhere, 13,000 tourists were stranded as heavy snow blocked all routes from a Swiss ski resort, and the Sahara Desert was blanketed with 15 inches of snow.

Flashback to just four years earlier, 2014, when The New York Times, a charter member of the climate crisis cabal, ran a terrifying article that predicted “the end of snow.” That dire forecast was preceded 14 years earlier, in 2000, by the UK Independent, another charter member of the climate crisis cabal, which reported that “Snowfalls are a thing of the past. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”

In attempting to explain away the Blizzard of 2018, Al Gore said, “This is exactly what we should expect from global warming.” In his 2006 climate scaremongering movie, An Inconvenient Truth, he made no mention of exceptionally cold winters as a consequence of global warming. That was a totally new claim, one he pulled out of thin air when multiple frigid winters made a mockery of his prediction that cold winters and snow would disappear.

Dating to the early 1980s, Gore and other alleged experts have told us that the climate battle must be won “in the next decade” or by some future year, with no ifs, ands or buts regarding the contrived deadline. As reported by Climate Depot, citizens of western democracies have been the targets of a continuous barrage of grossly inaccurate climate warnings, each followed by more of the same:

● 1982: UN issues its first climate “tipping point” prediction, says time running out to save planet.
● 1989: UN issues revised tipping point, says only 10 years left to save planet; 19 years later, UN issues ANOTHER tipping point, says only 15 years left to save planet.
● 1989: Senior UN official Dr. Noel Brown: “Entire nations will be wiped from face of Earth” if no action taken by 2000.
● 2006: Al Gore issues doomsday warning: “Less than 10 years to save Earth.”
● 2007: UN IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri says tipping point imminent, planet to perish if no action taken by 2012.
● 2009: NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen: “Obama has only four years to save planet.”
● 2011: Prince Charles: “Only 96 months left to save the world.”
● 2019: UN General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés: “Only 11 years left to save planet.”
● 2019: U.S. congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “World will end in 12 years if no action taken.”
● 2020: Presidential candidate Joe Biden: “Only nine years left to save Earth.”

Gore: “I saw fish from the ocean swimming in the streets of Miami”

For four straight decades, a Who’s Who of climate carnival barkers have issued a constant drumbeat of apocalyptic warnings that climate collapse is “imminent” unless voters agree to stratospheric carbon energy taxes that will radically alter the lifestyle of all but the wealthiest Americans.

If these global warming quacks have you trembling in fear, here’s a slice of Earth’s climate history that will give you peace of mind. During the Pliocene Epoch—2.5 million-to-5.3 million years ago—global average temperatures were 2-3 degrees Celsius higher than today, and there were no humans using fossil fuels way back then.

There’s nothing this climate snake oil salesman won’t say to perpetuate the global warming hoax that’s enabled him to stuff his pockets with a staggering $300 million fortune. At the December 2015 New York Times DealBook conference, he said this:

I was in Miami a few weeks ago, and on a sunny day, fish from the ocean were swimming in some of the streets. The melting ice has now raised sea level to the point that quite a few coastal cities are already experiencing this.

Gore was right about one thing. There were fish from the ocean swimming in the streets of Miami. Was the unusual incident the result of rising sea level caused by melting polar ice, as Gore told The New York Times?

Not according to the National Weather Service. As disclosed by RightScoop.com, TV-7 News in Miami reported the following NWS statement:

South Florida has been under a coastal flood advisory since Monday because of high astronomical tides due to the lunar cycle.

In other words, the flooding of Miami’s streets was caused primarily by the moon, not global warming. According to NWS meteorologist Brad Diehl, the temporary flooding gradually receded when the moon entered its waning gibbous phase. And, Diehl said, it wasn’t just the moon that caused flooding—easterly winds pushing water ashore and a slower Gulfstream also contributed.

An attempt to frighten low information voters to think that the flooding in Miami was proof that the much-ballyhooed “tipping point” was at hand, Gore’s dissembling claim was trumpeted as gospel truth throughout the complicit western media.

“Less than 10 years remain blah, blah, blah.”

In a May 24, 2006 appearance on NBC’s Today show, Gore told host Katie Couric that the World Trade Center Memorial would soon be under water. A decade and a half later, and even though its subterranean lower level was flooded in October 2012 by the transient weather event know as Hurricane Sandy, the Memorial is nowhere near being “under water.”

2006 was also the year that Gore terrified the world’s children by declaring a “point of no return” and issuing a doomsday warning that “less than ten years remain to save Earth.” That ten-year window of doom closed five years ago and Earth is still here, no closer to its demise than in the early 1980s, when human-caused global warming hysteria first reared its ugly head.

Not a single one of Gore’s cataclysmic predictions has come even close to happening. Without assistance from a totally corrupt western media, the global warming hoax would have been blown out of the water decades ago.

Yet, Gore and other high profile climate frauds continue to furiously beat the drums of global warming alarmism. Why do they persist? Because they hope that relentlessly repeating the same lie over and over and over again—a voting majority of useful idiots will believe it.

CFACT IN ACTION: Land Grabs, Solar Deserts, Turbines Cluttering the Coast

May 12, 2021/in Energy, Environment/by Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

We have unfortunately entered a period of destructive public policy.

Joe Biden may have campaigned as a moderate, but the people around him did not get the message. Dangerously counter-productive left-wing ideology are the order of the day.

CFACT spoke out on three looming Biden disasters last week.

CFACT’s Bonner Cohen testified before the Commissioners of Klickitat County, Washington on plans to turn bucolic areas of Washington State into solar deserts blacked out by industrial-scale solar arrays. This ill-conceived plan will rake in huge subsidies for renewable corporate interests while raising the price of electricity for ordinary ratepayers.

Noted Cohen in CFACT’s official response to the plans:

The proposed Lund Hill project, with its 1.8 million large solar panels on 6,000 acres of prime farmland, all surrounded by an eight-foot-high fence, is such a terrible idea. That this monstrosity would be erected in the name of “clean energy” is simply absurd.

Solar arrays are an intermittent, land-intensive source of power that benefits Wall Street investors, out-of-state utilities, and Chinese suppliers to the detriment of ordinary working people.

Additionally,

The Epoch Times published a detailed warning from Cohen about the Biden Administration’s disastrous “30×30” policy, which aims to create 30 gigawatts of so-called “renewable” energy capacity by 2030:

The “30 x 30 Plan” is contained in Executive Order (EO) 14008, “Tackle the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, Create Jobs, and Restore Scientific Integrity Across the Federal Government,” which was issued on Jan. 27. Section 216 of the EO calls on the United States to “achieve the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030…” What began three decades ago as musings on the outermost fringes of the environmental movement, now serves as a template for federal climate policies contained in a White House executive order.

I chimed in as well.

Real Clear Energy published my article which warns of the mistake the Biden Administration is pushing us into with its plans to surround the coasts of the United States with thousands of sky-scraping wind turbines. These 600 foot tall structures would turn unspoiled natural coastal areas into generating facilities that only function when the wind is right, and would supply only a small fraction of our energy needs even if they worked 24 hours a day! Foolishness.

The Biden Administration is prepared to ruin precious natural areas with devastating consequences for the environment with no hope of meaningfully altering the climate or meeting our energy needs.

Too often left wing policies are only repealed after they have been put in place and their harmful consequences make themselves obvious. Our environment is too precious to wait for Biden’s mistakes to reveal themselves.

People need to know, and they need to know now.

PODCAST: Why “Green Energy” Isn’t “Clean Energy”

May 12, 2021/in Energy, Environment/by Conservative Commandos Radio Show

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