Climate Hysteria: An Obstacle for Clear Thinking

People who are afraid that life on Earth is coming to an end, and they are many, want to completely overturn our lives. One could say: they want to have control over all aspects of our lives, they want sky high taxes, obedience to the government.

If you like a tasty steak once in a while, if you like to travel by airplane to foreign destinations, if you enjoy making a ride with your car, then in the future you will have a problem. That’s at least so, in case climate hysteria is not quelled.

Behind this mental disease is fear for life itself. Fear to go your own way in life and not bother your fellow men. People who suffer from climate hysteria, and have power, are in essence all fascists, that want to dominate others and force their fear on the whole society.

Psychiatrists should come together and develop a therapy to cure masses of people of the fear that life on Earth is coming to an end. I’m not a psychiatrist, and my message is just a drop of water on a boiling hot metal plate.

Godfather of Global Warming Criticizes Climate Change Hysteria

 Lorrie Goldstein – June 22, 2012

Two months ago, James Lovelock, the godfather of global warming, gave a startling interview to msnbc.com in which he acknowledged he had been unduly “alarmist” about climate change. The implications were extraordinary.

Lovelock is a world-renowned scientist and environmentalist whose Gaia theory — that the Earth operates as a single, living organism — has had a profound impact on the development of global warming theory.

Unlike many “environmentalists,” who have degrees in political science, Lovelock, until his recent retirement at age 92, was a much-honoured working scientist and academic.

His inventions have been used by NASA, among many other scientific organizations. Lovelock’s invention of the electron capture detector in 1957 first enabled scientists to measure CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and other pollutants in the atmosphere, leading, in many ways, to the birth of the modern environmental movement.

Having observed that global temperatures since the turn of the millennium have not gone up in the way computer-based climate models predicted, Lovelock acknowledged, “the problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago.” Now, Lovelock has given a follow-up interview to the UK’s Guardian newspaper in which he delivers more bombshells sure to anger the global green movement, which for years worshipped his Gaia theory and apocalyptic predictions that billions would die from man-made climate change by the end of this century.

Lovelock still believes anthropogenic global warming is occurring and that mankind must lower its greenhouse gas emissions, but says it’s now clear the doomsday predictions, including his own (and Al Gore’s) were incorrect.

He responds to attacks on his revised views by noting that, unlike many climate scientists who fear a loss of government funding if they admit error, as a freelance scientist, he’s never been afraid to revise his theories in the face of new evidence. Indeed, that’s how science advances.

Among his observations to the Guardian:

(1) A long-time supporter of nuclear power as a way to lower greenhouse gas emissions, which has made him unpopular with environmentalists, Lovelock has now come out in favour of natural gas fracking (which environmentalists also oppose), as a low-polluting alternative to coal.

As Lovelock observes, “Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They’ve gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it … Let’s be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.” (Kandeh Yumkella, co-head of a major United Nations program on sustainable energy, made similar arguments last week at a UN environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, advocating the development of conventional and unconventional natural gas resources as a way to reduce deforestation and save millions of lives in the Third World.)

(2) Lovelock blasted greens for treating global warming like a religion.

“It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion,” Lovelock observed. “I don’t think people have noticed that, but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use … The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.”

(3) Lovelock mocks the idea modern economies can be powered by wind turbines.

As he puts it, “so-called ‘sustainable development’ … is meaningless drivel … We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can’t stand windmills at any price.”

(4) Finally, about claims “the science is settled” on global warming: “One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don’t know it.”

Si vis Pacem para Bellum

©Matthys van Raalten. All rights reserved.

The ESG Pushback Is On!

ESG, or “Environmental, Social and Governance” investing, is a pernicious left-wing tactic designed to achieve policy goals that cannot pass legislatures by distorting investment decisions.

ESG represents not only a sneaky false flag means of forcing policy decisions, but a real threat to investors large and small.

ESG may have already contributed to the insolvency of Silicon Valley Bank, which carried a portfolio high in investments made, not for the likelihood of achieving solid returns, but to curry favor with the “woke” mob.

Here are three points I made during my testimony at a North Dakota Senate hearing this week (full submission at CFACT.org) that apply equally to every state:

  • ESG is not concerned with advancing the economic interests of North Dakotans. Instead, it is a top-down, elitist inspired effort reflecting the interests and priorities of multibillionaires and internationalists.
  • ESG is random with its ratings, it’s not applied fairly, and it empowers America’s adversaries – notably China.
  • It simply doesn’t work. ESG investing is not getting the returns it promised investors, nor is it changing the world for the better. In fact, it’s doing the opposite!

Governor Ron DeSantis announced legislation to protect Floridians from ESG which he stated “builds on my commitment to protect consumers’ investments and their ability to access financial services in the Free State of Florida,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “By applying arbitrary ESG financial metrics that serve no one except the companies that created them, elites are circumventing the ballot box to implement a radical ideological agenda. Through this legislation, we will protect the investments of Floridians and the ability of Floridians to participate in the economy.”

“We will not stand idly by as the stability of our country’s economy is threatened by woke executives who put their political agenda ahead of their clients’ finances,” DeSantis said.

The Washington Examiner reports that DeSantis will form an anti-ESG alliance “with Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.”

These states are expected, in addition to other measures, to forbid their pension funds from abandoning sound business practice in pursuit of ESG.

The life savings of pensioners, and every one of us engaged in “the pursuit of happiness” in America, are not fair game for left-wing social engineering.

AUTHOR

Craig Rucker

RELATED ARTICLE: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to unveil alliance with 18 states to combat Biden’s ‘woke’ ESG agenda

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ILLINOIS: Another Win For NetZero Reality Coalition as Town Nixes Solar Desert

The new NetZero Reality Coalition scored another big win when the town of Pontiac, Illinois said NO to transforming land from natural habitat to a silicone solar desert.

Illinois town nixes solar desert

In a stunning setback for solar, the City of Pontiac, Illinois has scuttled plans to construct a solar energy project that would transform a vacant lot in town into a shiny solar desert.

At an emotional Feb. 13 hearing before the City of Pontiac Planning and Zoning Board, city official denied the application of Bundleflower Solar LLC to rezone the property so that as many as 5,568 photovoltaic solar panels could be installed there. A few days later, Bundleflower Solar withdrew its application altogether, putting an end to a project that had garnered fierce opposition from the city’s residents.

To add insult to injury, the owner of the 49-acre property, where the thousands of solar panels were to be installed, changed his mind and came out in opposition to the project.

The dramatic turnaround shows what can happen when citizens are well informed about how harmful solar (and wind) projects are, and then mobilize to stop deep-pocketed renewable-energy developers from ruining their communities.

CFACT Informs the Citizenry

CFACT was glad to be of assistance in this David v. Goliath confrontation. Two weeks before the decisive hearing, we posted an article about the project, outlining how Pontiacs residents would in no way benefit from have the solar project in their town. The article also appeared in Real Clear Energy, giving it greater coverage. Concerned residents emailed the article to their allies, and passed out hard copies to one and all. CFACT also advised the project’s opponents to pack the hearing, where – armed with the information contained in the article – they made compelling arguments to the zoning board against the project.

Zoning board hearings are usually won by people who show up, and the solar project’s few local supporters were steamrolled by Bundleflower Solar’s well-informed opponents.

Based on information supplied by CFACT, residents pointed out that solar power is intermittent and cannot supply electricity 24/7. They knew that the thousands of solar panels would produce zero power at night, zero power on cloudy and rainy days, and zero power when covered with snow during northern Illinois’s long, cold winters. As a sign of how unserious the project was, the developer didn’t even plan to install backup batteries to provide electricity when the sun was absent. Those batteries, of course, have their own environmental problems and are another reason communities should avoid solar and wind projects that include them.

Pontiac’s residents could also note that the developer was primarily interested in pocketing generous federal and state subsidies and, absent those taxpayer subsidies, the developer would never have considered putting the project in their town.

Pontiac Provides a Template

In the end, Pontiac – a city of 11,000 people, located about 60 miles southwest of Chicago – dodged a bullet. It will not be hosting a white elephant whose sole purpose is to serve narrow corporate interests as part of the ever-expanding Climate Industrial Complex.

The resistance the people of Pontiac showed should serves as a template for other communities across the nation that shows how these wasteful projects can be stopped dead in their tracts.

Author

Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D., is a senior policy analyst with CFACT, where he focuses on natural resources, energy, property rights, and geopolitical developments. Articles by Dr. Cohen have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Busines Daily, The New York Post, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, The Hill, The Epoch Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami Herald, and dozens of other newspapers around the country. He has been interviewed on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, NBC News, NPR, BBC, BBC Worldwide Television, N24 (German-language news network), and scores of radio stations in the U.S. and Canada. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. Dr. Cohen has addressed conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Bangladesh. He has a B.A. from the University of Georgia and a Ph. D. – summa cum laude – from the University of Munich.

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NetZero Reality Coalition Forms Scores First Big Win

CFACT is proud to be a founding member of the new NetZero Reality Coalition which aims to push back against the growing tide of leftist “green” mandates being foisted on our energy infrastructure.

The NetZero Reality Coalition (NZRC) includes free market think tanks, energy experts and legislators all dedicated to preserving the reliable, affordable energy we take for granted.

NZRC stands in opposition to leftist “NetZero” advocates who seek to tear down energy sources that work, while pushing energy sources, such as intermittent wind and solar, that are not up to the challenge of powering the world’s needs. Their radical climate and energy agenda is destabilizing our grid, causing blackouts and power disruptions, and driving up costs for average, hardworking Americans.

It was high time to start pushing back!

The first such opening salvo of this important coalition has come in Utah. There, NZRC presented information that led to a ground-breaking “Energy Security Bill” that passed the Utah legislature. This bill is now on Governor Spencer Cox’s desk awaiting his signature.

The Utah energy bill was submitted by Representative Ken Ivory.  Take a look at the press release we posted to CFACT.org:

HB425 underscores that Utah supports and promotes both renewable and nonrenewable energy systems – including coal, gas, oil shale, nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal and other sources. It clearly states that Utah has both a “duty” and “sovereign authority” to defend all necessary electricity generation from “external regulatory interference.”

The legislation thus requires “at least” 180-day prior notification of any decommissioning, disposal, retirement or closure of electricity generation facilities and equipment, whether proposed or being “forced” due to federal mandates or the high costs of compliance with federal regulations. It gives the Attorney General authority to take legal or other actions to defend the state’s energy interests.

Wind and solar profiteers and their strange Green bedfellows believe that if they destroy our reliable energy grid, somehow better energy will come.  They couldn’t be more wrong.  European countries such as Germany and Spain have already invested billions on wind and solar.  The result?  Flickering, unreliable power grids, soaring prices, sham solutions such as “biomass,” and no meaningful decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. 

Consider “biomass.”  Did anyone genuinely believe that cutting down North American trees, grinding them into pellets, shipping the pellets to ports and loading them onto diesel powered freighters to burn in Europe was clean, green, or somehow good for the climate?  To the NetZero crowd, at least, that actually counts as “renewable!” 

We cannot leave our energy to NetZero zealots or the businesses shamelessly using them to cash in.

The NetZero Reality Coalition has reported for duty just in time. 

Utah was just the start. Here’s to more energy reality victories ahead!

For nature and people too.

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If You Only Have Time to Read a Few Select Articles:

*** Documentary trailer: The Commonwealth vs Katie Carico Hyatt

*** NOAA and BOEM; Ignorance is Bliss

*** Anti Offshore Wind Project Petition Takes Off, Nearing 300K Signatures

*** Renewables: the more you have, the more you pay for backups

*** Electricity prices are soaring in leading wind-energy states

*** Unstoppable

*** America’s $100 Billion Climate Change Flop

*** The New Normal?

*** PM2.5: Mass Killer or Mass Fraud?

*** Scotland Says Climate Political Correctness Trumps Us All

*** Short video: CO2 Saturation Demonstration

*** “They Lied To Us All”: Tucker Exposes January 6 Fraud

*** Top Democrat On J6 Committee: We Didn’t Review Any of the Surveillance Video

*** Let’s End Government Bullying on Free Speech

*** Massive Money Laundering Uncovered

*** New Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** Battle Between Religious Freedom and Post-Modern Moral Relativism

*** Short video: Critical Race Theory

*** Short video: The Importance of Shame

*** When a Renegade Church and a Zealous County Health Department Collide

*** The Covid Skeptics Were Correct. When Do We Get an Apology?

Education Related:

*** New Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** Ma-Nure Filled Brains

*** Archived Short Video: Who Is Teaching Your Kids? (also applies to K-12)

*** Archive: The Schools Are on Fire: Time to Get the Children Out

*** Archive: The Future of Education

The feminization of the American university is all but complete

The Great Feminization of the American University

The Humanities: Another Example Of Leftism Ruining Everything It Touches

The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom: Teachers’ Unions

CA Board of Education Approves Historic Ethnic Studies Guidance for High Schools

A Response to the Cynical Student

Greed Energy Economics:

*** Electricity prices are soaring in leading wind-energy states

The Economic Case for Net Zero Is Zero

Why Do Electricity Costs Keep Going Up Despite More Wind And Solar Being Added To Grid?

Renewables (General):

*** Illinois Put a Stop to Local Governments’ Ability to Kill Solar and Wind Projects. Will Other Midwestern States Follow? (This is a shameful violation of Home Rule)

*** Renewables: the more you have, the more you pay for backups

*** American Towns Don’t Want To Be Big Cities’ ‘Green Energy’ Graveyards

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** NOAA and BOEM; Ignorance is Bliss

*** Anti Offshore Wind Project Petition Takes Off, Nearing 300K Signatures

Biden admin scientist raised alarm on offshore wind harming whales months ago

Whale death confusion abounds and some is deliberate

Greenpeace Betrays Founders to Peddle Junk Science

Wind Energy — Other:

NY’s CLCPA Hits First Cost Overrun, with More to Follow

Solar Energy:

How solar development incentives will cost Maine’s poorest the most

Big solar in NYS

Nuclear Energy:

Reactor building internal structures completed at Chinese SMR

Georgia Nuclear facility reaches first criticality

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Unstoppable

Biden, White House cited inaccurate ‘9,000 unused permits’ figure numerous times

Biden expected to approve Alaska oil drilling project in blow to climate activists

Delaware Voters Overwhelmingly Opposes Gas-powered Car Ban

Germany to Build 30 New Gas Plants

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

The Troubling Future of the Green Electric Revolution

Clean Car Rule for New York A Messy Case of California Envy

Misc Energy:

*** The New Normal?

*** Epstein: Some of my favorite talking points on energy, environment, and climate

*** Here We Go Again — More Battery Promises

Twilight of Abundance: Energy

Heat Pumps will be up to three times cheaper than Green Hydrogen

Hydrogen Hoopla All Hyperbole?

The upcoming energy infrastructure debacle

A Good Energy Bill worth Replicating

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** PM2.5: Mass Killer or Mass Fraud?

*** America’s $100 Billion Climate Change Flop

*** The Left’s Climate Imperialism

*** It’s true – the climate fanatics are coming for your car

*** Jordan Peterson Just EXPOSED The Whole DAMN THING!

*** 1500 Scientists Say ‘There Is No Climate Emergency’ – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked

Ron Barmby Engages In ‘Jerm Warfare’ In Climate Science Battle

Researchers warn Net Zero policies will cause half the world’s population to starve

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Scotland Says Climate Political Correctness Trumps Us All

*** In Search of a (Near) Perfect CO2 Global Warming Analogy

*** Short video: CO2 Saturation Demonstration

Jo Nova wins the Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award 2023

Japan: No Kyoto (Or Net Zero)

Good public comments on why Virginia should leave RGGI

Net Zero Is No Solution for Any But Its Nattering Advocates

With the ‘expert’ COVID view blown up, green terror must be next

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** Massive Money Laundering Uncovered

Biden’s DHS Just Revealed How It Plans to Use Your Tax Dollars To Interfere in U.S. Elections

How the Voter Participation Center aims to cement Democratic rule by remaking America’s electorate

US Election — State Issues:

*** Citizen’s Guide to Building and Election Integrity Infrastructure

*** 3 More Secretaries of State Investigate Replacing ERIC System

Florida Withdraws From Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) Amid Concerns About Data Privacy and Blatant Partisanship

Activists Are Screwing Up Wisconsin’s Elections. It’s Time To Stop Them.

Whistle Blower Speaks Up On Illegal Ballots In 2020 Election

Misc US Politics:

*** “They Lied To Us All”: Tucker Exposes January 6 Fraud

*** Video: Tucker Blows the Doors Off January 6th LIES

*** Top Democrat On J6 Committee: We Didn’t Review Any of the Surveillance Video

*** Let’s End Government Bullying on Free Speech

Power Grab Behind Democrats’ War On Free Speech

Societally US:

*** Short video: Critical Race Theory

*** Short video: The Importance of Shame

*** Documentary trailer: The Commonwealth vs Katie Carico Hyatt

Why are so many people so ignorant of the truth?

Billionaire on SVB collapse: Government has 48 hours to fix ‘irreversible mistake’

Pandora’s Precedent and Online Poker

Religion Related:

*** Battle Between Religious Freedom and Post-Modern Moral Relativism

Relativism: The Religion of Contemporary Culture

Video: The Importance of Fighting for Christian Principles

Science:

*** Wide Awake (a commentary about Science)

*** The Rise of Totalitarian Science

Pennsylvania district considers bringing ‘feelings’ into math curriculum

Ukraine:

*** Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

*** A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

*** Latest Developments in Ukraine: March 12th

COVID-19 — Injection Mandates:

Djokovic withdraws from Tennis event after being denied entry to US over COVID-vaccine status

Peer-reviewed scientific literature: “The mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous”

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** When a Renegade Church and a Zealous County Health Department Collide

*** The Covid Skeptics Were Correct. When Do We Get an Apology?

Covid and Cancer: The Epidemic Begins

COVID-19 — Repeated Important Information:

My webpage (C19Science.info) with dozens of Science-based COVID-19 reports

*** World Council of Health: Early COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

*** FLCCC Long COVID Treatment Protocol

*** COVID-19: What You Need To Know (Physicians for Informed Consent)

*** If you have received a COVID-19 injection, here’s how to Detox

*** Place Your US Order for Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests


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CLIMATE MYTHOMANIA: Remembering When Scientists In 2018 Predicted the World Will End in 2023

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” ― John F. Kennedy, commencement address at Yale University, June 11, 1962.


One of the greatest myths ever propagated by scientist, politicians and eco-activists is that the world will end on _ _ _ _ due to climate change.

We call these predictions “climate mythomania.”

The members of the cult of climate mythomaniacs are the perfect examples of those who enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

To highlight this cult of climate mythomaniacs we present to our readers a tweet by Charlie Kirk:

There has been a long history of lies–deliberate, contrived and dishonest and myths–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic made by scientists, economists, professors, corporations, the media and their followers.

Here are some examples of getting it wrong, very wrong:

  • Dr. Dionysius Lardner in 1830 wrote, “Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.”
  • Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society in 1883 wrote, “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”
  • A 1876 Western Union internal memo read, “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”
  • In 1903 the president of the Michigan Savings Bank advised Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad.”
  • Economist and Yale professor Irving Fisher in early October 1929 wrote,  “what looks like a permanently high plateau…I believe the principle of the investment trusts is sound, and the public is justified in participating in them.” Two weeks after the 1929 Stock Market Crash occurred on Thursday the 24th and Tuesday the 29th of October.
  • In 1930, British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that there will be, “three hour shifts or a fifteen-hour work week” by the year 2030.
  • Albert Einstein in 1932 claimed that ”there is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. That would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”
  • New York Times in a 1936 article stated, “A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.”
  • Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 said, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
  • Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox in 1946 said, “Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”

Ayn Rand warned,

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.

The difference between these bad predictions is that they never became public policy. Rather they were proven false by science, the markets and consumers globally.

Today climate change has become the most egregious of  public policies. It’s dangerous because it controls science, the markets and consumers globally.

That’s the difference.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

The Greatest Ripoff in American History: Democrats Spent $100 Billion of Your Money on Climate Hoax

You have to wonder what its going to take for Americans to wake up to the party of treason.

Is this the greatest ripoff in American history?

America has spent $100 billion of your money on climate change. How’s that working out?

By Stephen Moore | NY Sun, March 7, 2023:

Biden admin internal climate agenda memo leaked

Former U.S. Homeland Security Adviser Dr. Julia Nesheiwat joined ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss what the leaked climate memo indicates about the Biden administration’s priorities.
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!

For at least the last 20 years, politicians in Washington, at the behest of green energy groups, have spent some $100 billion of taxpayer money to fight climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How is that going for us so far?

A recent Associated Press story, based on the latest data on global carbon emissions, provides a pretty accurate report card: “Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reached a Record High in 2022.”

The article tells us: “Communities around the world emitted more carbon dioxide in 2022 than in any other year on records dating to 1900, a result of air travel rebounding from the pandemic and more cities turning to coal as a low-cost source of power. Emissions of the climate-warming gas that were caused by energy production grew 0.9% to reach 36.8 gigatons in 2022, the International Energy Agency reported Thursday. (The mass of one gigaton is equivalent to about 10,000 fully loaded aircraft carriers, according to NASA.)”
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You’ve got to almost shriek out loud when you read this line: “Thursday’s (IEA) report was described as disconcerting by climate scientists.”

“Disconcerting”? That’s putting it lightly. We are the furthest thing from being climate change alarmists, but when you spend $100 billion of taxpayer money and achieve absolutely nothing, President Joe Biden and his green allies should be arrested for criminal fraud.

Where did all the money go? Tens of billions of dollars have lined the pockets of left-wing environmental and social justice groups that have been emitting a lot of hot air but no results. Green energy companies have milked taxpayers of tens of billions more.

Where did all the money go? Tens of billions of dollars have lined the pockets of left-wing environmental and social justice groups that have been emitting a lot of hot air but no results. Green energy companies have milked taxpayers of tens of billions more, even as wind and solar only produce about 12% of our energy.

Is this the greatest ripoff of U.S. taxpayers in history?

Keep reading.

AUTHOR

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CLIMATE HOAX: Biden’s EPA Has Paid Out $1 Billion Into Climate Grants This Year

It’s all one giant scam. The climate grift is the greatest political fraud in history.

Back in 1971, the great American political theorist, Ayn Rand, wrote in her book. “The Return of the Primitive” , “It has been reported in the press many times that the issue of ‘pollution’ is to be the next big crusade of the New Left activists, after the war in Vietnam peters out. And just as peace was not their goal or motive in that crusade, so clean air is not their goal or motive in this one.”

Boom.

Biden’s EPA Has Paid Out $1 Billion Into Climate Grants This Year

By Liz Sheld, American Greatness, March 2, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over $250 million in grants are available to fund plans for projects combating “climate pollution” on Wednesday, pushing the total number of climate grants announced this year to nearly $1 billion.

The funds include $3 million for every state, $1 million for each of the 67 most populated metropolitan areas and a total of $25 million to be distributed among Native American tribes, according to the EPA press release. The grants are among the first in President Joe Biden’s new $5 billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

In total, the IRA allocated nearly $370 billion to fighting climate change. The act also includes, among other things, $80 million in additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service, $2o billion in incentives for farmers to not grow crops and $2.2 billion in reparations for black farmers.

“We know that tackling the climate crisis demands a sense of urgency to protect people and the planet,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan in a statement. “President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is a historic opportunity to provide communities across the country with the resources they need to protect people from harmful climate pollution and improve our economy. These Climate Pollution Reduction Grants are an important first step to equip communities with the resources to create innovative strategies that reduce climate emissions and drive benefits across the country.”

Keep reading.

AUTHOR

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World’s top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ the fact that the Earth’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years

Reuters Science Correspondent: “I was wrong” on Climate

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Reuters Science Correspondent: “I was wrong” on Climate

Neil Winton worked at Reuters for 32 years, including as global science and technology correspondent.

Winton recently admitted he “was wrong” for going along and not putting in the journalistic effort to question the media’s prevailing climate narrative.

Marc Morano posted details at CFACT’s Climate Depot.

Winton said:

When I became Reuters global Science and Technology Correspondent in the mid-1990s, the global warming story was top of my agenda. Already by then the BBC was scaring us saying we would all die unless humankind mended its selfish ways. Carbon dioxide (CO2) was the culprit and had to be tamed, then eliminated. I had no reason to think this wasn’t established fact. I was wrong.

My Reuters credentials meant that I had easy access to the world’s finest climate scientists. To my amazement, none of these would say categorically that the link between CO2 and global warming, now known as climate change, was a proven scientific fact. Some said human production of CO2 was a probable cause, others that it might make some contribution; some said CO2 had no role at all. Everybody agreed that the climate had warmed over the last 10,000 years as the ice age retreated, but most weren’t really sure why.

The sun’s radiation, which changes over time, was a favoured culprit.

My reporting reflected the wide range of views, with Reuters typical “on the one hand this, on the other, that” style. But even then, the mainstream media seem to have run out of the energy required, and often lazily went along with the BBC’s faulty, opinionated thesis. It was too much trouble to make the point that the BBC’s conclusion was challenged by many impressive scientists.

Winton went on to make an essential point about the threat Green radicalism poses to freedom that has been essential to CFACT’s mission since our founding:

The Left had lost all of the economic arguments by the 1990s, and its activists eagerly grabbed the chance to say free markets and small government couldn’t save us from climate change; only government intervention could do that.

Thank you Neil Winton for this important peek inside the world of media groupthink and your insight as to how Reuters, and so many others, lost the plot on climate.

At the dawn of the 20th century, the humorist Finley Peter Dunne wrote about newspapers that “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

No one has grown more fat and comfortable, and no one more deserving of a little journalistic affliction, than those accumulating vast power and fortunes by cashing in on climate.  Just ask Reuters.

Reporters, do your job.  Ask the tough questions and fully vet the climate narrative and the myriad conflicts that flow from it.

The public deserves to know.

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The Incredible ‘Green Transition’ That Can’t

Joe Biden campaigned on getting rid of fossil fuels. He said he would ban fracking and his Green New Deal proposal would completely replace fossil fuels with clean energy by 2035.   He is also on record saying he plans “an incredible transition” of the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels, openly admitting that pain at the pump from high gas prices is part of the plan.  His administration is rushing pell-mell into a green energy future, by, among other things, drawing on the $27 billion green energy slush fund in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.

There’s just one problem: the green energy future envisioned by the administration and other wild-eyed climate change fanatics is totally impossible and won’t ever happen.

There aren’t enough minerals on earth to make a green transition a reality.  Copper, lithium, nickel, and cobalt are limiting factors, especially if you think about sustaining all-green energy into the future.

Converting all big trucks, ships, and railroads to electric – even if such a thing were possible – would require 10 times the number of power plants we have now.

To deliver reliable power from unreliable solar and wind, and avoid blackouts, would require more electrical storage capacity  than is physically feasible or economically viable.  Before we transition everything to green energy, wouldn’t it make sense to demand to see a demonstration project succeed, first?   Of course it would.  It’s also not too much to ask for a “comprehensive quantitative system-engineering life-cycle analysis of an all-renewable energy system” before we jump into it sight unseen.  Such an analysis would include the costs of materials, construction, operation, maintenance, decommissioning, and disposal.  And let’s see an environmental impact statement, while we’re at it.  Green energy is incredibly damaging to the environment, as some on the Left are beginning to recognize.  Life-cycle and environmental analysis would undoubtedly show a green transition is not physically or economically feasible.

Green energy fanatics have blinders on that don’t let them see beyond the east and west coasts.  The fact is, regardless of what the U.S. does, worldwide use of coal set a record last year and is expected to increase further this year.  The U.S. could do somersaults and cartwheels for green energy, but it wouldn’t make one bit of difference to global climate change computer models.

The fanatics want to leave fossil fuels in the ground and stop all oil & gas projects now, but the fact is fossil fuels will still be needed for decades if we are to avoid energy shortages, supply disruptions, and wild price swings.

Another problem is toxic waste.  What are we going to do with all the obsolete wind turbines, defunct solar panels, and dead batteries a green transition would entail?  No one has figured this out yet.  Put them in landfills and toxic minerals will leach into groundwater.  Burn them and it will all go into the air.

What happens to electricity prices if you get rid of all natural gas stoves, furnaces, and appliances and require everything to run on green energy?  What happens to electricity prices if you get rid of the internal combustion engine and require all vehicles to run on batteries?  Parts of Australia where gas drilling and fracking have been all but banned are already seeing double-digit increases.  Consumers in U.S. states with renewable energy quotas pay higher energy prices than they otherwise would.  Call it the ‘green tax’.

Vegetables are being rationed in Britain because soaring energy costs from overreliance on renewables is causing farmers to switch off their greenhouses before they go bankrupt.  That’s just one consequence that flows from unchecked green mania – not enough greens to eat.

Not only would a green transition place upward pressure on electricity prices, there’s another problem, as identified in E.M. Forster’s magnificent short story The Machine Stops: once you centralize everything into one system, everything comes to a grinding halt when the system fails.  A single point of failure – like an exclusively all-electric energy system – is a fundamental error well-known to anyone who has studied strategic planning.  Move everything to electricity and everything will stop if electricity becomes unavailable or unreliable.  That doesn’t happen now with energy sources for power and transportation diversified among coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear, and renewables.  There’s a lot to be said for keeping energy diversity and not letting green energy mania put the blinders on.  Our food, economic, and national security depend on it.

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Phony Climate Change Narrative: Follow the Evidence

It’s been a bad month for the climate change crowd.  More evidence came in that the Left’s phony climate change narrative is a complete crock.  NASA satellite data shows there has been no global warming for eight years and five months. One ramification of this truth is that the United Nation’s IPCC predictions of global warming made in 1990 are completely wrong.  That’s despite 475 billion tons of CO2 emissions.  Moreover, major hurricanes hit a near-record low last year and there’s record cold in the Northeast this year.  There’s temperature data going back 350 years and it shows the earth started warming after the Little Ice Age completely due to natural causes.  Nobody can claim CO2 emissions were a problem in 1659 when the warming started.  Supporters of the modern climate change narrative have never proven CO2 emissions cause the earth to warm up.  The also ignore the obvious fact the earth’s temperature varies with the amount of sun activity and how close the earth’s orbit to the sun is at any given time.

Evidence also came in this month that many things the climate change crowd believes just ain’t so.  The Left wants you to believe the seas are rising and coastal catastrophes are right around the corner.  But NOAA’s coastal sea level tide gauge data continue to show no evidence of accelerating sea level rise.  The Climatistas also want you to believe the polar bears are disappearing and wildlife in general is vanishing.  Not true.  Polar bear populations are increasing, up maybe 6,000 in the last six years. And animal populations are expanding.  This includes antelope, elk, mountain lions, and bears, among other species.  The recovery of the grizzly bear is so profound that the Fish & Wildlife service might accept Montana’s petition to remove grizzlies from the endangered species list.

Evidence is accumulating that renewable energy sources have problems and adverse consequences of their own.  Nearly 80 rural communities rejected or restricted solar projects last year.  They’re pushing back against big solar farms gobbling up their land.  The Inflation Reduction Act earmarked oodles of cash for wind and solar, but the amount of land needed to build it all out is equivalent to the size of the state of Tennessee.  The locals affected aren’t going to stand for it.

Wind power has a number of problems of its own.  Four wind turbines have collapsed since 2021, and the blades fall off.  Experts are worried the problems are accelerating in newer models.  Wind turbines have to be hooked up to diesel generators to keep them warm in cold climates in the winter and the generators leak thousands of gallons of hydraulic oil on to the land.  Where do you think it goes from there?  There is concern putting wind turbines offshore kills the whales.  Also, it’s been known since 2009 that living close to wind turbines has adverse health consequences for humans.  The turbines can cause heart disease, tinnitus, vertigo, panic attacks, migraine headaches, and sleep deprivation, according to scientific evidence.

It’s clear renewable energy is not the nirvana the climate crowd makes it out to be.  Evidence is also piling up that the Biden administration’s vaunted ‘green transition’ is a pipedream, not Shangri-La, and can’t ever happen.  I’ll pick up with that tomorrow.

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‘Climate Change’ Causing Gun Deaths!?

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‘Climate change’ causing gun deaths!? – Feds Are Coming (Again) for Your Gas Stoves! – ABC News reveals ‘Logistical nightmares’ of EV charging

‘Climate change’ blamed for 8000 gun deaths in New Study in Journal of the American Medical Association – Claims ‘association between temperature & shootings’

Turns Out They Are Coming for Your Gas Stoves – Energy Dept now projects ‘roughly half of all gas stoves’ in U.S. would not meet proposed ‘efficiency regulations’

‘We plan meals around recharging the vehicles’ – ABC News: Electric vehicle drivers get candid about charging: ‘Logistical nightmare’ – ‘Charging on the go is neither easy nor fast’

Major British Newspaper Promotes Bringing ‘Back Rationing’ to ‘Fix Global Warming’ – ‘Create a scarcity of fossil fuels’

‘Climate change!’ What can’t it do?! Flashback 2020: Fatal train derailment in Scotland blamed on ‘climate change’

1) ‘Climate change’ blamed for 8000 gun deaths in New Study in Journal of the American Medical Association – Claims ‘association between temperature & shootings’

MSN.com: Becca Inglis: Gun violence is already a pressing public health concern in the U.S., and a new study has found a troubling link between it and the overheating of our planet. As temperatures across the country soar and unseasonably warm days continue, the number of gun deaths has increased. Nearly 8,000 gun shootings can be attributed to extreme temperatures, according to research published by JAMA Network. … Warmer temperatures increase the body’s stress hormones in the nervous system, which may heighten violent impulses. With daily temperatures expected to continue rising in the coming years, the number of injuries and fatalities from shootings could worsen, too. … The study suggests that measures to slow down the overheating of our planet could reduce shootings, too.

Climate Depot’s Morano – “The global warming activists have shifted the playing field, so shootings and murder statistics are now used as some sort of ‘proof’ of man-made global warming. Instead of looking at political factors like the lax enforcement of crime due to the Defund the Police movement, they would rather make outlandish claims linking shootings to climate change! The JAMA study also claims that we must address ‘climate change’ to lower gun deaths. The study implies if you don’t support the Green New Deal, then you are supporting the shooting of 8000 people.

2) Turns Out They Are Coming for Your Gas Stoves – Energy Dept now projects ‘roughly half of all gas stoves’ in U.S. would not meet proposed ‘efficiency regulations’

Free Beacon: In an analysis published earlier this month, President Joe Biden’s Energy Department acknowledged that roughly half of all gas stoves on the U.S. market today would not meet its proposed cooking appliance efficiency regulations, E&E News reported Friday. As a result, those stoves would not be eligible for purchase. Still, Energy Department spokesman Jeremy Ortiz dismissed concerns over the proposal, saying half the gas stove market “would remain if this standard is finalized as proposed.”

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “So the Biden admin sought to ban gas stoves, then denied it. Now they admit they want to ban gas stoves. I am old enough to remember when the ban on gas stoves was a conspiracy theory — back in January 2023!

It reminds me of how the government insisted COVID never came from a Chinese lab but now later admitted that it did. But don’t fret; the Energy Dept spokesman insists that half of our stoves would be allowed to stay under their generous climate plan. Rejoice! A total ban to save the climate is only a 50% ban. Will Americans draw the line and say NO to being forced to cook their mandated insect rations on an electric stove or fight to saute their bugs on a gas stove?! Will we draw the line somewhere?!”

3) ‘We plan meals around recharging the vehicles’ – ABC News: Electric vehicle drivers get candid about charging: ‘Logistical nightmare’ – ‘Charging on the go is neither easy nor fast’

Quiroga’s sister, who lives in Northern California, takes her internal combustion car — not her Tesla Model S — when she needs to drive across the state. Even Quiroga’s team of reporters has to carefully plan and calculate how far EV charging stations are when they conduct comparison tests among manufacturers. “These comparisons tests are a logistical nightmare. We plan meals around recharging the vehicles,” he said. “We need to have the battery at 100% or close to it to test a vehicle’s performance. We have to time everything — it requires more work.” … In December, Quiroga was in Florida driving BMW’s luxury i7 all-electric sedan. He watched as its range dropped from 240 miles to 220 as soon as he turned on the heat. “You use the luxuries … and the range plummets,” he said.

… “I was in the parking lot from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. It was a cold day.” … Bragg said her parents, who also bought a Mach-E, have complained of broken public chargers and endless lines. Sometimes they drive for miles before they can find a public charger that’s working properly, she said.

4) Major British Newspaper Promotes Bringing ‘Back Rationing’ to ‘Fix Global Warming’ – ‘Create a scarcity of fossil fuels’

5) ‘Climate change!’ What can’t it do?! Flashback 2020: Fatal train derailment in Scotland blamed on ‘climate change’‘Scotland’s transport sec. said the climate crisis is presenting increasing challenges for rail safety’ – Scottish transport secretary, Michael Matheson, said it was reasonable to presume the weather had had an impact on events, adding he hoped investigating authorities would advise whether efforts to address the challenges posed by extreme weather events should be stepped up. “[Network Rail] are well aware of our views about the need to make sure that we are taking forward the right types of mitigations that help to manage a challenge of these types of localised, intense weather events,” he said.

Climate Depot’s Morano“Climate change has hijacked the real environmental movement. Climate concerns now trump concerns over clean air, clean water clean soil. The next time a train derails, we have learned that if you want to get the attention of the Biden administration, you need to claim that the train wreck was a result of ‘climate change’. If East Palestine Ohio had blamed the toxic train derailment on ‘climate change, Secretary Pete would have been there the same day.”

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— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

If You Only Have Time to Read a Few Select Articles:

***The Great Green Energy Transition Is Impossible

*** Why the intermittency problem can’t be solved

*** My Response to NPR’s Solar Hit-Piece

*** Adequate Storage for Renewable Energy is Not Possible

*** Using Electric Vehicles as Grid Storage: Another Green Fantasy

*** The Case Against the FDA for their Illegal Anti-Ivermectin Actions

*** Federal Agencies Again Resist a Likely COVID Preventative and/or Treatment

*** Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo sends scathing letter to FDA and CDC

*** Buckle Up, All Ye Unvaccinated!

*** Study: Prior COVID infection provides just as much protection as vaccines

*** Do Masks Protect You? Here’s the Conclusive Evidence

*** Videos of the Heartland Climate Conference

*** The myth that “97% of scientists agree” about a climate crisis

*** The Climate Scare Narrative Continues To Collapse

*** The global warming /climate change / net zero fraud

*** Report: The 2022 Hurricane Season (and it’s not getting worse)

*** The Shameless Attack on a Climate Change Dissenter

*** ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution

*** Remembering The Real Reasons For Black History Month

*** Biden’s latest whack at the suburbs will change your neighborhood for the worse

*** University of North Carolina cancels woke diversity in hiring

*** Is The ESG Colossus Stumbling?

*** I’ve been to #AsburyRevival. It’s real and spreading

*** The Sudden Dominance of the Diversity Industrial Complex

*** The Politicization of Social Science

Note: I periodically arrange the Newsletter news content to reflect importance, urgency, interest, etc.  Starting with this issue, I’m promoting Education material to the top, and moving COVID content to near the end.

Education Related:

*** An Outline of the Left’s Strategy for US Education

*** Some criticisms of the Framework and Next Generation Science Standards

*** University of North Carolina cancels woke diversity in hiring

*** The Politicization of Social Science

*** School board brawls over silencing dad exposing book on sex

Grade Inflation at Harvard

Undermining U.S. Citizenship at K-12 Schools on American Military Bases

Alarming Findings From a New Study on Kids’ Screen Time

Game-Changer? Tennessee En Route to Rejecting Federal Education Money

Revolutionizing our K-12 Education System

Don’t Eliminate Standardized Testing for Teacher Candidates

At Texas A&M, a Different Kind of “Climate Change”

One-Size-Fits-All Education Doesn’t Work Well, but Diversity Advocates Are Hitting the Accelerator

Renewables (General):

***The Great Green Energy Transition Is Impossible

*** Why the intermittency problem can’t be solved

***Adequate Storage for Renewable Energy is Not Possible

*** Across the country, a big backlash to new renewables is mounting

*** The U.S. Has Billions for Wind and Solar Projects. Good Luck Plugging Them In.

*** Experts: California’s grid faces collapse as leaders push renewables, EVs

Bangladesh to increase coal power after renewable problems

Dispatchable Intermittent Renewables

Green Energy: Greatest Wealth Transfer to the Rich in History

Wind Energy— Offshore:

*** Thar She Blows

*** CFACT/Heartland Filing Against Dominion’s VA Offshore Project

Why Are Whales Dying Off the East Coast?

Greenpeace Betrays Founders to Peddle Junk Science

Study: Noise pollution spooks whales the way predators would

Dead whale washes onto Jersey shore — 9th one in NY-NJ area in 2 months

Whale hell looms in Massachusetts

New Jersey Residents Rally Against Offshore Wind Projects

Short video: Something’s fishy along the coast of New Jersey

Wind Energy— Other:

Texas Still Blowing It with Reliance on Wind Energy!

The dead birds and bats that improve renewable energy

Solar Energy:

*** My Response to NPR’s Solar Hit-Piece

*** The Solar Industry and Climate Advocates Can’t Wish Chinese Human Rights Abuses Away

China is trying to strangle the world’s solar panel industry

Archive: Solar Power in Florida

Nuclear Energy:

*** New Red Tape Makes New Nuclear Reactors ‘Impossible’

Are Small Modular Reactors The Future Of Nuclear Power?

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Report: Curbing US oil, gas production would hurt the environment

*** Debate over the future of fossil fuel: Alex Epstein and Roger Pielke Jr. face off

The deadly reality of eliminating fossil fuels

More Gaslighting on Gas Stoves

Podcast: Do Gas Stoves Cause Asthma?

China’s Taking Control of LNG as Global Demand Booms

How the establishment uses the “straw man” fallacy and the “soft man” fallacy to dismiss powerful challenges — the case of Tyler Cowen and Fossil Future

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Using Electric Vehicles as Grid Storage: Another Green Fantasy

*** EVs Indicted

The False Promise of Electric Cars

Chinese Communist-backed tech companies are poised to cash in on Biden’s climate bill, national security experts warn

Three Huge Reasons Why Electric Vehicles Will Never Dominate American Roads

Misc Energy:

*** Net Zero is a threat to energy security

The Trouble With Hydrogen

Attacks Against American Power Stations Dramatically Increasing as Climate Radicals Call for More Violence

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** The myth that “97% of scientists agree” about a climate crisis

*** The Climate Scare Narrative Continues To Collapse

*** The global warming /climate change / net zero fraud

*** Report: The 2022 Hurricane Season (and it’s not getting worse)

Tropical Cyclone Attribution

Where Is This “Climate Crisis” That Activists Keep Talking About?

Short video: The Millimeter Tidal Wave

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Videos of the Heartland Climate Conference

*** New Report: Challenging “Net Zero” with Science

*** The Shameless Attack on a Climate Change Dissenter

Book: The Truth About Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

Still think the 2020 Presidential election was fair?

Programmer: Writing code to flip votes very easy to do but hard to stop

California Councilman Arrested On Multiple Election Fraud Charges From 2020 Election

US Election — State Issues:

*** Citizen’s Guide to Building and Election Integrity Infrastructure

Video: Alternatives to ERIC

Ohio looks to standardize election data statewide

Misc US Politics:

*** Attorney John Eastman Answers California Bar Complaint

Address to the Mosman Park Geopolitical Society: China

Is Biden A ‘Manchurian President,’ Facilitating Nuclear Cooperation between Iran’s Mullahs and Russia?

Biden Shoveled $36 Billion In Taxpayer Funds To Bail Out Teamsters For Mismanaged Pensions

Societally US:

*** Remembering The Real Reasons For Black History Month

*** Biden’s latest whack at the suburbs will change your neighborhood for the worse

*** Is The ESG Colossus Stumbling?

The Ugly Face Of Gender Confusion Disorder

Intellectually Speaking – They Is Nuts!

Denialism: A Woke Way to Stifle Dissent

Letter to a Mainstream Straddler

US Politics and Socialism:

*** The Sudden Dominance of the Diversity Industrial Complex

*** DeSantis Announces Crackdown on ESG Investments Using State Funds

Woke Revolutionaries Versus Americanists

What Biden’s “affordable housing” plan will do to suburbia

Globalism:

Musk’s Big Nudge: Warns Global Leaders Of ‘Too Much’ World Government

Religion Related:

*** I’ve been to #AsburyRevival. It’s real and spreading

*** Vatican partners with leftist Swedish group to send ‘climate change’ books to parishes worldwide

Christian teacher loses job after refusing to deceive parents on kids’ gender transitions

A Catholic college ready to ax core majors like theology

Science:

*** ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution

*** The ‘Great Awokening’ Is Transforming Science and Medicine

*** Archive Study: Deming, Data and Observational Studies: A Process out of Control and Needing Fixing

*** Renowned International PCB Professor on ‘alternate assignment’

Misc Matters:

Short video: Luke Aikins 25,000 Feet Airplane Jump with No Parachute

Ukraine:

*** Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

*** A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

*** Latest Developments in Ukraine: February 26th

We Are About to See the Biggest Escalation of the War in Ukraine so Far

COVID-19 — Therapies:

*** Update: Comparing COVID-19 Early Treatment Pharmaceuticals

*** The Case Against The FDA For Their Illegal Anti-Ivermectin Actions

*** Federal Agencies Again Resist a Likely COVID Preventative and/or Treatment

*** Xylitol Nasal Spray Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Infection

*** Can Nasal Sprays Treat or Prevent COVID-19? (a conservative assessment)

COVID-19 — Injections:

*** Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo sends scathing letter to FDA and CDC

*** Buckle Up, All Ye Unvaccinated!

*** 132 Canadian doctors have died suddenly or unexpectedly since COVID-19 vaccine rollout

*** Study: Prior COVID infection provides just as much protection as vaccines

*** Pfizer found to have covered up injuries and deaths of study participants in their clinical covid-19 vaccine trials

Medicare data shows the COVID vaccines increase your chance of dying

Major German Newspaper Reports Pfizer-BioNTech Fraud

Florida Health Alert on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Safety

Idaho Lawmakers Seek to Criminalize Giving mRNA Vaccines

COVID-19 — Masks:

*** Do Masks Protect You? Here’s the Conclusive Evidence

A Recent Study Shows Why Mask Mandates Will Always be Doomed to Fail

COVID-19 — Misc:

Forget COVID; CDC now warns this virus is highly contagious

There Must Be Investigations

COVID-19 — Repeated Important Information:

My webpage (C19Science.info) with dozens of Science-based COVID-19 reports

*** World Council of Health: Early COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

*** FLCCC Long COVID Treatment Protocol

*** COVID-19: What You Need To Know (Physicians for Informed Consent)

*** If you have received a COVID-19 injection, here’s how to Detox

*** Place Your US Order for Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests


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Joe Biden’s Hydrogen Slush Fund Means More Dollars Wasted On The Green Energy Boondoggle

Nearly 50 years ago in 1976, congress authorized the Hydrogen Program managed by the National Science Foundation. Then in 1983, Bush and Congress threw more money at hydrogen as an alternative energy source.

Last year Congress and Biden, in their infrastructure bill, created a $9.5 billion dollar hydrogen slush fund. The Europeans have also authorized $5.2 billion euros for their hydro slush fund.

Since 1839, scientists have been working on hydrogen for energy and storage with little to show for it. The future of green hydrogen is just as dull. Brown and grey hydrogen, made with CO2 creating coal or natural gas (CH4) makes reasonably priced hydrogen now.

Hydrogen is not a fuel. It must be created and is only a way of storing and transporting energy. All of which are difficult, expensive and there is no infrastructure to support it.

This $9.5 billion slush fund is a breeding ground for multiple Solyndras. Solyndra was 1/3 of the 1.5 billion-dollar taxpayer loss on Obama’s solar revolution.

The Biden administration has authorized a half billion loan guarantee for a green hydrogen hub in Delta, Utah. Never mind that green hydrogen requires huge volumes of water and Delta is on the edge of the desert, and the entire southwest is chronically short of water. Or that Utah today only gets 4% of its electricity from wind and solar.

There is no “excess” wind and solar to create green hydrogen in Utah. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: Greta Thunberg’s Solution For Climate Change — End Modern Life As We Know It)

Building a green hydrogen hub in a very dry place with very little “renewable” energy is not wise; some would even call it stupid. The Biden administration needs a talking point to a fix the recently admitted unreliability problem of wind and solar. So common sense and fiscal responsibility are unnecessary.

Our electric grids need full-time demand matching electricity, or we have blackouts. There is a dawning realization by the climate religion, there isn’t enough lithium in the world, over the next few decades, to build tens of millions of electric vehicles and industrial scale grid batteries too.

In addition, lithium batteries cannot store the abundant solar power California has in the sunny mild winter for use in hot July. The energy will have left those batteries long before July rolls around.

Hence, the expensive talking point of green hydrogen was born.

Making green hydrogen takes a lot of energy. About 35% more energy than the created hydrogen stores. Then you lose another 30% when you transport and use it. Hydrogen yields only 35% of the energy input. It is a real energy loser.

Making green hydrogen requires 13 times more water, sea water has to be desalinated first, and additional water for cooling. Then heat the water to 2,000 degrees and electrocute it, freeing oxygen into the air and hydrogen into the factory. Then super chill to near-absolute zero. Then compress it to 10,000 psi, which is three times the psi of an average scuba tank.

Super cold liquid hydrogen is born.

It can be used for fuel cells and burned in electric producing power plants instead of natural gas. We get far more bang for our buck with natural gas rather than create electricity to make green hydrogen, only to burn it again, to make electricity using a process that costs 65% of the energy.

The whole concept of using wind and solar to produce green hydrogen has an elephant-in-the-room type problem.

The Industrial Four Step process of making hydrogen isn’t something that can be started on sunny mornings and stopped in the late afternoon. Or fired up when the wind starts blowing and then shut down when the wind stops. What will keep the hydrogen process flowing on dark windless nights?

Does a green dreamer care to answer that? Do the facts matter? Heck, it is only federal borrowed money anyway. Hydrogen is just another form of political greenwashing at the American people’s expense.

We need to stop the wasteful spending of taxpayer money — money we don’t have — on green boondoggles before it is too late.

Before the communist Chinese, who use more than half of the 8 billion tons of coal as their primary fuel source (60% of total energy), eat our lunch and rule the world, Americans need to wake up to the dangerous threats of the green energy nightmare and the rising threat of the Red Chinese Dragon before it is too late!

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Frank Lasee is a former Wisconsin state senator and former member of Governor Scott Walker’s administration. The district he represented had two nuclear power plants, a biomass plant and numerous wind towers. He has experience with energy, the environment, and the climate. You can read more energy and climate information at www.truthinenergyandclimate.com which Frankleads.

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Federal Employees Say Forcing Them Back Into The Office Endangers The Planet

This is where your hard earned taxpayer dollars go – to these sloths. They should all be fired. Clearly, they are not needed. The U.S. government is the nation’s largest employer. It’s obscene.

Federal Employees Say Forcing Them Back Into The Office Endangers The Planet

The largest union of federal employees is arguing against a return to the office because it would be harmful for the environment, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

By: John Hugh DeMastri, Daily Caller, February 22, 2023

President Joe Biden has been under increasing pressure from Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky and Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., to send federal employees back to the office, the Post reported. In response, representatives from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) told the Post that a return to the office would have negative environmental impacts.

“We all know that personal automobiles are responsible for a tremendous amount of pollution through the burning of fossil fuels,” Jacque Simon, public policy director at the AFGE, told the Post. “So every car trip not taken has an environmental benefit.”

This sentiment was echoed by AFGE Local 1236 President Bethany Dreyfus, who represents employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Hawaii, California, Nevada and Arizona, according to the Post. The calls to return to the office have “unsettled” EPA employees in that region who tout the environmental and work-life balance benefits of remote work.

“So many of us work on reducing emissions in our daily jobs at the EPA,” Dreyfus told the Post. “So to be able to do that not only through our work, but how we get to work, is really important.”

The U.S. federal government owns or leases roughly one-third of properties in D.C., and accounted for approximately one-fourth of the city’s pre-pandemic jobs, ABC News reported. D.C. is the U.S. city with the highest work-from-home rate, putting pressure on businesses, who are seeing less foot traffic, and city officials are concerned that tax revenue may take a permanent hit.

“We need decisive action by the White House to either get most federal workers back to the office, most of the time, or to realign their vast property holdings for use by the local government, by nonprofits, by businesses and by any user willing to revitalize it,” Bowser said in her inaugural address Jan. 2, ABC News reported.

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