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Lots of really interesting material in this issue, but particularly note the asterisked items below.


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

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

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

COVID-19 — Therapies:

*** Why suppress early safe treatments for COVID-19? Here’s $24 billion reasons

*** I Don’t Know How You Sleep At Night (a story about ivermectin)

Will curcumin be the next promising antiviral alternative in COVID-19 treatment?

Here’s what you should know about Pfizer’s new COVID drug

5 Things To Know About Bamlanivimab

Doctors Outraged After Biden Regime Shuts Down Monoclonal Antibody Treatments

COVID-19 — Injecting Children:

*** What our leaders have done to young people is unforgivable

*** Sacrificing Children to COVID-19 Injections

*** End Covid Vaccination of Children Because the Risks Outweigh the Benefits, UK Government Told By Doctors and Scientists

COVID-19 — Injections:

*** The Powerful Pfizer Presentation that got Dr. Robert Malone Kicked Off Twitter

*** Are Unvaccinated Lives Unworthy of Life? We Are Slipping into Nuremberg Space

*** Over 1,000 studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals say the COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous

*** Harvard Study: Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States

*** Massive 145-Country Study Shows Sharp INCREASE of Transmission and DEATH After Introduction of COVID Vaccines

Rhode Island went from firing unvaccinated health care workers to allowing the COVID-positive to work

Vaccinated people are dying from autoimmune attacks against their own organs

Study: COVID-19 Vaccines and Neurodegenerative Disease

Bhakdi/Burkhardt pathology results show 93% of people who died after being vaccinated were killed by the vaccine

Treating Disease With Health Not Vaccines

Wealthy man w life insurance for his family’s benefit, died from COVID jab. Insurance company refused to pay out because he took experimental drugs, treatments

Booster Bust: Medical Establishment Changes Its Mind

EMA warns that booster jabs can oversaturate the immune system

A Religious Perspective: Charity and Vaccines

Vaccines Not Durable, Omicron Might Turn COVID-19 Endemic: Bill Gates

COVID-19 — Injection Mandates:

*** Doctors Supreme Court Brief: Injections are not Vaccines, but rather Treatments

*** 146 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to COVID-19

*** Harvard study shows recovered immunity is far stronger than vaccine protection

800+ Members of Boston College Community Demand COVID Booster Mandate Policy Recognize Natural Immunity

Dr. McCullough: Your Right to Optimal Health Now and For Eternity

Justices Hear Case on Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers

Japan health ministry shoots down mandatory COVID-19 injections

Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis of Vaccine Administration on Deaths and Cases Associated with COVID-19: A BigData Analysis of 145 Countries

COVID-19 Letter to a Governing Body

A Vaccine so Good, Australia has to Punish the World’s Best Tennis Player?

COVID-19 — Models and Data:

*** Flu deaths reality check

Official UK data shows the Triple/Double Vaccinated accounted for 80% of COVID-19 Deaths in December

Unprecedented: Deaths in Indiana for ages 18-64 are up 40%

Life Insurance CEO: Working-Age Deaths Up Whopping 40%

CDC Sued For Keeping COVID Vaccine Data Secret

CDC new paper that admits that VAERS is underreported by at least 6.5X

Federal judge orders FDA to quickly release all Pfizer vaccine data

Two years of Pandemic have caused excess deaths that need explanation

Reality Versus Fear, Data Versus Delusion

COVID-19 — Omicron:

*** Study: Vaccines and most monoclonal antibodies are not effective against Omicron

*** Dr. McCullough on Omicron Realities; VAERS Reports on Vaccine Injuries & Deaths

Omicron Spurs Media to Reassess Reporting (about time!)

Dr. Campbell video: Science indicates less severe omicron disease

Dr. Campbell video: Symptoms and Sequelae

Omicron Less Likely to Cause Lung Damage or Death, Studies Find

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ Defines Psychology of Covid Hysteria

*** Shame on the US medical and public health establishments

*** Project Veritas Video: Military Documents about Gain of Function contradict Fauci testimony under oath   [Note at 4:23 re ivermectin]

*** SCOTUS Denial of Natural Immunity in CMS Vaccine Mandate ‘Unprecedented in Modern History’: Dr. Scott Atlas

*** Hanson: Politicizing COVID-19 from the start

Video: Three ways government agencies are harming your health

Failed Government Policies Plus Failed mRNA Shots Spell Disaster

Top 12 takeaways from the Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone interview

Forty-Five Years of Mask Studies Prove They’re Worthless

The Day Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma

Dr. Campbell video: Interactions of health

Mass Formation (Psychosis) and the Coronavirus Narrative

Great Barrington Declaration now has over 900k signatures — please sign!

Meet the woman launching multiple legal challenges to make America free from COVID-19 tyranny

Professor’s Powerful Letter to the Israeli Ministry of Health

Greed Energy Economics:

*** How green policies are fueling the energy crisis

*** Calculating The Full Costs Of Electrifying Everything Using Only Wind, Solar And Batteries

A wind and solar electric grid? That’s a terrible idea

Families are “rationing fuel or turning off fridge freezers” due to soaring energy prices

Climate “Leadership” Will Cost New Yorkers More than $5,000 Each

Wind Energy:

*** Finally, Bloomberg Admits Renewables Mania Caused Energy Shortages

Huge wind energy project gets harpooned by new federal lawsuit

A Detailed Submission Against a Great Lakes Wind Project

Will Europe Abandon Green Energy?

Wind turbine dismantling method prompts debate among North Dakota regulators

Feds sued over New Jersey offshore wind turbine leases

Solar Energy:

Farming leaders fear solar projects will steal prime farm land

Alberta Solar and Wind Gave Only 2.5% of Capacity When Vital!

California’s Misguided Rooftop Solar Debate

Storm clouds ahead for solar projects

Lawsuit: Biden-Backed Solar Company Lied About Effectiveness of Solar Modules

Nuclear Energy:

*** Why Greta’s Climate Panic Failed

The EU finally admits nuclear and natural gas are part of the energy solution

Three Reasons Nuclear Power Has Returned to the Energy Debate

Nuclear Power Gets a Fresh Look as Nations Chase Climate Goals

Giving nuclear power a second look to fight climate change

Why Nuclear Power Plant Life Extensions & Uprates Matter

Fusion finance: could private capital deliver energy’s holy grail?

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Life Runs On Energy, Connected by Oil and Natural Gas (Energy TV Commercial)

Climate Industrial Complex Left Clueless as Fossil Fuels Proliferate

Biden’s fuel afflictions

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Going Anywhere, So Get Over Your Vapors

Misc Energy:

*** New York State’s new climate plan is a bunch of electric schlock

Imagine electric vehicles in bad weather

Report: The Net Zero Watch Guide to the Energy Bills Crisis

Ammonia combustion analysis: powertrains, turbines & power generation

Bringing Britain’s woes to America?

Diversity Is What It’s All About When It Comes to Energy Supply

Environmental Justice Is Energy Elitism Wrapped in Condescension

Manmade Global Warming — and Disasters:

*** Global Weather and Climate Disasters 2000 to 2021

Why Disasters Have Declined

Cold still causes far more deaths than heat in India

Geologist: Claims of Accelerating Sea Level Rise And Skyrocketing Rate of Extinctions Are False

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** Report: 10-years-to-save-the-climate is based on flawed forecasting and distracts from real solutions

Two minute video: Recent UN Votes about Climate Change

The New Climate of Panic Among the Panic-Mongers

Multi-billionaires and their Mind-blowing Hypocrisy

Video: Ambulance Chasers Arrive In Colorado

Dutch Lawmaker Refutes the Claim that ‘97% of Scientists Agree on Global Warming’

Climate authoritarians and the lessons of history

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Tyranny in the Name of Climate Change

*** 140± Scientific Papers Detail the Minuscule Effect CO2 Has on Earth’s Temperature

New study confirms nature controls atmospheric CO2

Good AGW submission to FERC

Measuring Climate Change

Will the Climate Industry Move the Goalposts Again?

US Election — The Freedom To Cheat Act:

*** The Freedom to Cheat Act: The Radical Left’s Latest Attempt to Undermine Our Democracy

*** The 10 worst provisions in Biden, Schumer’s voting rights bills

Dr. Alveda King & Ambassador Ken Blackwell on Biden-Harris Speech Regarding the Freedom to Cheat Act

Media May Again Be Leading Dems Toward Disaster with Radical Election Law Push

Dem ’22 Strategy: Cheat

Democrats skeptical of McConnell’s offer to talk on election law

US Election:

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

*** Video: An Election With More Rigging Than a Five-Masted Clipper Ship

How anyone with an Excel spreadsheet can prove the election was rigged

Heritage Experts Fact Check Biden & Harris’ Statements About Elections, Voting Rights, and Filibuster

Michelle Obama’s midterm push to recruit thousands of lawyers, 100k volunteers, register 1 million voters

US Election — State Issues:

*** VOTER ID LAWS: And The Many Myths of ‘Voter Suppression’

State by State Guide to Voting Laws

Judge Deals Huge Blow to Democrats: Bans Use of Drop Boxes in Wisconsin

Georgia ‘Ballot Trafficker’ Admits To Being Paid Thousands In 2020 Election Ballot Harvesting Scheme

Georgia opens investigation into possible illegal ballot harvesting in 2020 election

RNC sues NYC Mayor Adams over law allowing non-citizens to vote

Cyber Ninjas CEO Says Arizona Senate Shut Down Firm Not Leftwing Judge

Maricopa County Auditors Speak Out

California Just Became Permanently Democrat

11 executive actions new VA Governor signed on day one

US Politics and the Senate Filibuster:

*** Top Democrats Want to Take Over the Senate to Take Over Elections to Take Over America — Forever

*** Democrats’ Rule-Breaking Senate Takeover Would Silence Millions of Americans and Permanently Damage the Institution

2017 Letter signed by several Senate Dems agains changing the filibuster

Schumer’s Scorched-Earth War to Put D.C. in Charge of Our Elections

Warner says Manchin carrying Byrd’s torch as he fights filibuster changes

US Politics and Socialism:

*** Tucker video: This is worse than we thought

Environmentalism has lost its way

The Democrat Party and The Red [Marxist] — Green [Islamist] Alliance

Welcome to the end of democracy

The Sadly Ubiquitous Karl Marx

Domestic Terrorism: The Nation’s Biggest Threat?

US Politics and January 6th:

*** America’s Justice System Says Jan. 6 Was Neither A Terrorist Attack Nor An Insurrection

Pelosi Owns The J6 Commission, And That’s Why It Failed

RealClearInvestigations’ Jan. 6 vs BLM Riots Comparison

The Real Threat to Democracy: Dems to Want “Rule or Ruin” Once Again

Other US Politics and Related:

*** What Is the Great Reset?

Hunter Biden . . . and the Coverups

Declassified documents show assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders

Biden administration hits the Hill to lobby Dems against GOP-backed Russia sanctions

Where Does NATO Enlargement End?

Documentary: Battleground Melbourne

The ‘New Normal’ and the Assault on Reason

Religion Related:

*** Video: How the Left is Stealing Your Church

Remembering when Josef Stalin’s daughter Svetlana became a Roman Catholic

Biden Administration Institutionalizes Religious Discrimination

Education Related:

100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids

How the Woke Mob Captured Business Schools

From Hiring to Admissions, Universities Seek Ideological Conformity in Applicants

More Than 1 Million Fewer Students Are In College, the Lowest Numbers In 50 Years

Restoring Merit to Higher Education: An Entrepreneurial Approach

Science and Misc Matters:

*** The Winner of ‘The Leading Cause of Death’ in 2021 is: Abortion!

*** The Political Hijacking of Science

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy

Baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province

Binary [Science] or Non-Binary [Myth] — That is the Question!

Short good video: In the Dutch Parliament, speaking truth to power


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Global Warming: As Eastern U.S. Braces for Bone-Chilling Winter Storm

Saturday, January 15, 2022: With much of the Eastern U.S. about to be hit with a bone-chilling winter storm, this weekend is an appropriate time to reflect on the frenetic hysteria that accompanied the blizzard of 2018.

Al Gore, Our Melting Planet and the Blizzard of 2018

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 TheNew 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.

©John Edison. All rights reserved.

41 Inconvenient Truths on the ‘New Energy Economy’

Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.” He’s right.


A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor, policymaker or pundit joining the rush to demand, or predict, an energy future that is entirely based on wind/solar and batteries, freed from the “burden” of the hydrocarbons that have fueled societies for centuries. Regardless of one’s opinion about whether, or why, an energy “transformation” is called for, the physics and economics of energy combined with scale realities make it clear that there is no possibility of anything resembling a radically “new energy economy” in the foreseeable future. Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.”

He’s right. So, in my recent Manhattan Institute report, “The New Energy Economy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking,” I did just that.

Herein, then, is a summary of some of the bottom-line realities from the underlying math. (See the full report for explanations, documentation, and citations.)

1. Hydrocarbons supply over 80 percent of world energy: If all that were in the form of oil, the barrels would line up from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, and that entire line would grow by the height of the Washington Monument every week.

2. The small two-percentage-point decline in the hydrocarbon share of world energy use entailed over $2 trillion in cumulative global spending on alternatives over that period; solar and wind today supply less than two percent of the global energy.

3. When the world’s four billion poor people increase energy use to just one-third of Europe’s per capita level, global demand rises by an amount equal to twice America’s total consumption.

4. A 100x growth in the number of electric vehicles to 400 million on the roads by 2040 would displace five percent of global oil demand.

5. Renewable energy would have to expand 90-fold to replace global hydrocarbons in two decades. It took a half-century for global petroleum production to expand “only” ten-fold.

6. Replacing U.S. hydrocarbon-based electric generation over the next 30 years would require a construction program building out the grid at a rate 14-fold greater than any time in history.

7. Eliminating hydrocarbons to make U.S. electricity (impossible soon, infeasible for decades) would leave untouched 70 percent of U.S. hydrocarbons use—America uses 16 percent of world energy.

8. Efficiency increases energy demand by making products & services cheaper: since 1990, global energy efficiency improved 33 percent, the economy grew 80 percent and global energy use is up 40 percent.

9. Efficiency increases energy demand: Since 1995, aviation fuel use/passenger-mile is down 70 percent, air traffic rose more than 10-fold, and global aviation fuel use rose over 50 percent.

10. Efficiency increases energy demand: since 1995, energy used per byte is down about 10,000-fold, but global data traffic rose about a million-fold; global electricity used for computing soared.

11. Since 1995, total world energy use rose by 50 percent, an amount equal to adding two entire United States’ worth of demand.

12. For security and reliability, an average of two months of national demand for hydrocarbons are in storage at any time. Today, barely two hours of national electricity demand can be stored in all utility-scale batteries plus all batteries in one million electric cars in America.

13. Batteries produced annually by the Tesla Gigafactory (world’s biggest battery factory) can store three minutes worth of annual U.S. electric demand.

14. To make enough batteries to store two day’s worth of U.S. electricity demand would require 1,000 years of production by the Gigafactory (world’s biggest battery factory).

15. Every $1 billion in aircraft produced leads to some $5 billion in aviation fuel consumed over two decades to operate them. Global spending on new jets is more than $50 billion a year—and rising.

16. Every $1 billion spent on data centers leads to $7 billion in electricity consumed over two decades. Global spending on data centers is more than $100 billion a year—and rising.

17. Over a 30-year period, $1 million worth of utility-scale solar or wind produces 40 million and 55 million kWh respectively: $1 million worth of shale well produces enough natural gas to generate 300 million kWh over 30 years.

18. It costs about the same to build one shale well or two wind turbines: the latter, combined, produces 0.7 barrels of oil (equivalent energy) per hourthe shale rig averages 10 barrels of oil per hour.

19. It costs less than $0.50 to store a barrel of oil, or its equivalent in natural gas, but it costs $200 to store the equivalent energy of a barrel of oil in batteries.

20. Cost models for wind and solar assume, respectively, 41 percent and 29 percent capacity factors (i.e., how often they produce electricity). Real-world data reveal as much as ten percentage points less for both. That translates into $3 million less energy produced than assumed over a 20-year life of a 2-MW $3 million wind turbine.

21. In order to compensate for episodic wind/solar output, U.S. utilities are using oil- and gas-burning reciprocating engines (big cruise-ship-like diesels); three times as many have been added to the grid since 2000 as in the 50 years prior to that.

22. Wind-farm capacity factors have improved at about 0.7 percent per year; this small gain comes mainly from reducing the number of turbines per acre leading to a 50 percent increase in average land used to produce a wind-kilowatt-hour.

23. Over 90 percent of America’s electricity, and 99 percent of the power used in transportation, comes from sources that can easily supply energy to the economy any time the market demands it.

24. Wind and solar machines produce energy an average of 25 percent–30 percent of the time, and only when nature permits. Conventional power plants can operate nearly continuously and are available when needed.

25. The shale revolution collapsed the prices of natural gas & coal, the two fuels that produce 70 percent of U.S. electricity. But electric rates haven’t gone down, rising instead 20 percent since 2008. Direct and indirect subsidies for solar and wind consumed those savings.

26. Politicians and pundits like to invoke “moonshot” language. But transforming the energy economy is not like putting a few people on the moon a few times. It is like putting all of humanity on the moon—permanently.

27. The common cliché: an energy tech disruption will echo the digital tech disruption. But information-producing machines and energy-producing machines involve profoundly different physics; the cliché is sillier than comparing apples to bowling balls.

28. If solar power scaled like computer-tech, a single postage-stamp-size solar array would power the Empire State Building. That only happens in comic books.

29. If batteries scaled like digital tech, a battery the size of a book, costing three cents, could power a jetliner to Asia. That only happens in comic books.

30. If combustion engines scaled like computers, a car engine would shrink to the size of an ant and produce a thousand-fold more horsepower; actual ant-sized engines produce 100,000 times less power.

31. No digital-like 10x gains exist for solar tech. Physics limit for solar cells (the Shockley-Queisser limit) is a max conversion of about 33 percent of photons into electrons; commercial cells today are at 26 percent.

32. No digital-like 10x gains exist for wind tech. Physics limit for wind turbines (the Betz limit) is a max capture of 60 percent of energy in moving air; commercial turbines achieve 45 percent.

33. No digital-like 10x gains exist for batteries: maximum theoretical energy in a pound of oil is 1,500 percent greater than max theoretical energy in the best pound of battery chemicals.

34. About 60 pounds of batteries are needed to store the energy equivalent of one pound of hydrocarbons.

35. At least 100 pounds of materials are mined, moved and processed for every pound of battery fabricated.

36. Storing the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil, which weighs 300 pounds, requires 20,000 pounds of Tesla batteries ($200,000 worth).

37. Carrying the energy equivalent of the aviation fuel used by an aircraft flying to Asia would require $60 million worth of Tesla-type batteries weighing five times more than that aircraft.

38. It takes the energy equivalent of 100 barrels of oil to fabricate a quantity of batteries that can store the energy equivalent of a single barrel of oil.

39. A battery-centric grid and car world means mining gigatons more of the earth to access lithium, copper, nickel, graphite, rare earths, cobalt, etc.—and using millions of tons of oil and coal both in mining and to fabricate metals and concrete.

40. China dominates global battery production with its grid 70 percent coal-fueled: EVs using Chinese batteries will create more carbon-dioxide than saved by replacing oil-burning engines.

41. One would no more use helicopters for regular trans-Atlantic travel—doable with elaborately expensive logistics—than employ a nuclear reactor to power a train or photovoltaic systems to power a nation.

This article is republished with permission from Economics 21. 

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How can you take control of the world? Make Green the new Red!

How can you take control of the world? By convincing the world’s people they will die if they don’t do what you say. And for the last four decades, that is what’s been done with climate alarmism, the greatest scientific hoax the world has ever seen, an international collusion to plunder trillions of dollars from the world’s greatest capitalist nation, all under the guise of “saving the planet.”

According to propaganda on the website of the World Economic Forum, the communist organization’s “Great Reset” initiative will save Earth from climate apocalypse by “resetting the direction of national economies.”

Translation: By using climate alarmism to frighten citizens of capitalist nations to acquiesce to communism. The article below contains shocking statements by three senior level UN climate officials that will leave your jaw on the floor.

Green is the new Red: The terrifying agenda behind climate alarmism

Twelve years ago, a climate research cheating scandal known as ‘Climategate 2009’ rocked the scientific world to the core. Hacked emails among highly influential scientists at the center of worldwide hysteria over climate change reportedly were rife with routine data tampering and other instances of flagrant scientific misconduct. Although the scientists implicated denied wrong-doing, emails hacked from computers at their employer, the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, reportedly revealed a consistent pattern of climate data manipulation, conspiracies to falsify data and withhold findings that cast serious doubt on man-made global warming theory, to exaggerate the existence and threats posed by global warming, and to obstruct contrary research from appearing in scholarly publications. Aided and abetted by a complicit western media establishment, the climate crisis industry dismissed the scandal as much ado about nothing and continued beating the drums of climate hysteria as if nothing had happened.

Climategate 2009 tore off the fraudulent façade of global warming alarmism

The Climategate cheating scandal exposed man-made global warming theory for what it is: the most brazen scientific hoax in human history, an international collusion to destroy capitalism in the world’s largest capitalist nation to pave the way for that nation’s sovereignty being handed over to a global governing authority run by the United Nations. That is a serious charge on my part, so please allow me to justify it by citing the words of three high profile UN climate officials in the thick of the plot to strip away America’s sovereignty.

Christiana Figueres served as Executive Secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010-16. In a frank admission that laid bare the stealth agenda behind climate alarmism, Figueres said during a February 2015 press conference in Brussels that the UN’s real purpose in promoting climate fear is to kill off capitalism throughout the world:

“This is the first time in human history that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally changing [getting rid of] the economic development model that has reigned since the Industrial Revolution”.

The economic model to which she referred is free-market capitalism. A year earlier, Figueres revealed what U.S. capitalism must be replaced with when she bitterly complained that America’s two-party constitutional system is hampering the UN’s climate objectives. She went on to cite China’s communist system as the kind of government America must have if the UN is to do as it pleases.

Figueres is not alone in embracing communism. Another high-level UN official had comments of his own about the stealth agenda behind climate alarmism. If you’re among those who believe climate alarmists when they tell you all they’re trying to do is save the planet, what Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer had to say will leave you feeling betrayed. In a Nov. 14, 2010 interview with Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Edenhofer, co-chair of the UN IPCC’s Working Group III, made this stunning admission:

“One must free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. [What we’re doing] has almost nothing to do with the climate. We must state clearly that we use climate policy to [re]distribute de facto the world’s wealth.”  

On the same date, Edenhofer added this

“Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with protecting the environment. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which [re]distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated.”

Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, one of the UN’s top climate officials, effectively admitted that the organization’s public position on climate change is a hoax. The same admission was made in July 2019 by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who told Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) that the Green New Deal is not about saving the planet:

“It wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”

Translation: The intent of the Green New Deal is not to “save the planet,” but rather to use climate alarmism as a pretext to dismantle America’s capitalist economy. Virtually the same sinister intent was expressed to reporters at the 2018 Climate Conference in Katowice, Poland by then-UN climate chief, Patricia Espinosa:

 “We require deep transformations of economies and societies.”

Figueres, Edenhofer, Chakrabarti and Espinosa aren’t the only hardened communists to recognize the effectiveness of using environmental hysteria as a fig leaf to hide their true intent. In 1996, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev advocated using climate fear to create a global demand for communism:

“The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order.”

The “new world order” to which he referred is global governance under the banner of the hammer and sickle, the same objective subsequently called for, in 2015, by then-UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres.

The Great Reset

Global governance is the objective of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which announced last year its “Great Reset” initiative. According to the organization’s website, the Great Reset will address challenges like global warming by resetting “the direction of national economies.” Translation: Using climate policy as a slight-of-hand means to force western nations, especially America, to give up capitalism in favor of communism.

At a September 2020 panel discussion hosted by the WEF and the UN, John Kerry, who would later be appointed as President Biden’s climate czar, said this about Biden’s intent to impose the Great Reset on America:

“Yes, the Great Reset will happen, and I think it will happen with greater speed and greater intensity than a lot of people imagine.”

The Great Reset is a desperate push to culminate the progressive dream of unifying the western world under communism. For that to occur, America’s sovereignty must be ceded to the UN, an organization infested from top to bottom with Marxist revolutionaries hell-bent on dismantling capitalist economies and national sovereignties wherever they exist. German chancellor Angela Merkel, a prominent member of the WEF, revealed the intent of the Great Reset when she said the following during a 2018 speech in Berlin:

“Nations must be ready to give up sovereignty.”

In other words, for a New World Order to impose its will on citizens of the western world, the sovereignty of the greatest crown jewel of them all—the United States of America—must be stripped away.

They’re coming for your liberty

The stunning pronouncements by Figueres, Edenhofer, and Espinosa and are all the evidence a rational mind needs to conclude that climate alarmism is being used as a Trojan horse to justify the stratospheric new carbon taxes clamored for by climate charlatans like Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Kerry and Bill Gates, none of whom have denounced the profoundly anti-American sentiments of three of the UN’s top climate officials.

The words of one of those officials revealed that such taxes would be used not for environmental healing, but to fund the most massive redistribution of wealth in history, literally trillions of dollars extracted under false pretenses from hard-working U.S. taxpayers, and handed over to corrupt governments of every undeveloped nation on Earth, all in the guise of “climate aid.”

Powerful progressives in this country feel it’s not fair that billions of people in the world sleep on the ground in mud huts, while Americans sleep on soft mattresses in air-conditioned comfort. The progressive elites who feel that way also believe that America’s wealth must therefore be redistributed to an unprecedented extent to the world’s poor nations.

Progressives in high places are attempting the largest heist in human history, a collusion to plunder unprecedented sums from taxpayers of the world’s largest capitalist nation. Why? To implement on a global scale the mandate set forth in The Communist Manifesto:

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

The high profile progressives who push climate fear would have you believe they’re nothing more than environmentally-concerned Americans who would never even dream of participating in a traitorous attempt to turn their country communist. These Marxist wolves in sheep’s clothing have been lying to you, and now you know it. Their sinister intent is to use massive new global warming taxes to control every aspect of your life: where you’re allowed to live, the size of house you’re allowed to have, the thermostat settings in your home, the kind of car you’re allowed to buy, the amount of miles you’re allowed to drive, your freedom to travel by air, and the kind of food you’re allowed to eat. In short, they’re coming for your liberty.

Bottom line

No rational person can fail to see that the Democratic Party is using climate alarmism as a ruse to fundamentally transform the United States of America.  But because the human ego is loathe to admit it’s been duped, many patriotic Democrats will continue allowing themselves to be led like sheep into the closing noose of the hammer and sickle. By the time they realize what happened, it will be too late.

©John Edison. All rights reserved.

Google Censors Climate Scientist

Dr. Roy Spencer is a scientist, known as much for his unshakeable integrity, as for his brilliant work in climate science. He is also a good friend of CFACT.

He works with global temperature satellites at the University of Alabama at Huntsville / NASA.  Together with his colleague John Christy, they maintain one of the most crucial global temperature datasets, one which is regularly relied on by the UN and scientists worldwide.

Dr. Spencer posts satellite temperature data to his website DRRoySpencer.com where he also posts useful information and discusses all things climate.

Google recently notified Dr. Spencer that it was demonetizing his website.  Now, we’re not talking a fortune of money here.  The website generated maybe enough money from Google AdSense ads to pay for its web hosting, spam filters and that sort of thing.  The website was demonetized for “unreliable and harmful claims.”

This is part of Google’s new policy to demonetize climate skeptic websites.  On October 7, 2021, Google announced it “will prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.”

In other words, Google will dutifully do its part — as a loyal shill to the progressive establishment — to make life miserable for anyone who challenges, fact checks or questions the wild climate claims being made by the UN, EPA, and far-Left climate activists.

Dr. Spencer was shocked when Google finally shared the pages on his site that they found misleading.  They were mainly the pages containing the actual raw satellite temperature data!

Dr. Spencer explains:

“This is obviously because some activists employed by Google (who probably weren’t even born when John Christy and I received both NASA and American Meteorological Society awards for our work) don’t like the answer our 43-yearlong satellite dataset gives. Never mind that our dataset remains one of the central global temperature datasets used by mainstream climate researchers in their work.” 

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE CENSORED UAH SATELLITE-BASED TEMPERATURE OF THE GLOBAL LOWERE ATHOMOSPHERE (VERSION 6.0)

Satellite data routinely reveals that climate computer models run hotter than measured reality.

Google has committed a serious transgression, not only against free speech and academic rights, but against science itself!

It is axiomatic that when data contradicts a hypothesis, it is the hypothesis which must change.  Scientists must never alter or suppress data which contradicts a favored conclusion.

Google should immediately remonetize Roy Spencer’s website and stop interfering with the publication of scientific data and the free exchange of ideas in the climate debate.

COLUMN BY

Craig Rucker

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

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Virginia Leads the Way Up from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Energy ideology is one thing.  Energy reality, another.

Just ask the motorists who spent a night stranded on I-95 in Virginia this week when winter dropped some epic snow if they’d rather have spent the night in an electric car.

Virginia foolishly joined eleven other states in a “Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative” which dramatically raised energy prices and covered pristine natural landscapes with inefficient wind turbines and solar panels.  All without making any meaningful impact on the temperature of the Earth.  The RGGI is a perfect poster child for “all pain no gain” policy making.

Gabriella Hoffman reports at CFACT.org in a piece that originally appeared in The Virginia Pilot:

“‘RGGI describes itself as a regional market for carbon, but it is really a carbon tax that is fully passed on to ratepayers. It’s a bad deal for Virginians. It’s a bad deal for Virginia businesses,’ Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin said. ‘I promised to lower the cost of living in Virginia, and this is just the beginning.’”

Gabriella further reports that:

“Virginia’s continued participation in RGGI will result in residents paying more for their electricity bills. According to recent State Corporation Commission filings, participation in the RGGI program will raise energy costs to $4.37 a month, or $52.44 per year, if enacted on Sept. 1. When paired with the new — and costly — Virginia Clean Economy Act, the net-zero law slated to raise energy bills $800 a year by 2030, this spells disaster for Virginians currently paying more to heat and power their homes.”

CFACT’s close friend Collister (Terry) Johnson is a tireless Virginia energy advocate.  Terry and his friends and allies did a brilliant job beating back plans to wreck Virginia’s energy infrastructure with the facts.  Well done!

Virginia under Governor-elect Youngkin is waking up to energy reality… fast.  Other states are heading for the RGGI exit as well.

Energy reality beats energy ideology every time.

EDITORS NOTE: This CFACT column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

MEDIA BALANCED NEWSLETTER: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

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Lots of really interesting material in this issue, but particularly note the red *** items below.


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

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

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

COVID-19 — Scientifically Proven Therapies:

*** Denial of Early Covid-19 Treatment – A Crime Against Humanity

*** The Left’s resistance to ivermectin is shameful

*** A Myth is born: How CDC, FDA, and Media wove a web of ivermectin lies that outlives the truth

*** Report: Did Dismissals of Safe Outpatient Drugs Cause Needless Covid Deaths? Dissenting Doctors Say Yes

*** Biden Ignores Science on COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines

*** Hospitals Choosing Death Over Ivermectin

*** Study: Combination Therapy For COVID-19 Based on Ivermectin in an Australian Population

*** Study: 20-Week Study of Clinical Outcomes of Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment

Short video: What is Ivermectin?

Video: The Inexplicable Suppression of Several COVID-19 Treatments

FDA Ignored: Seventy-One (71) Scientific Ivermectin COVID-19 Studies

COVID-19 — New Therapies:

FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of COVID-19 (Pfizer’s Paxlovid)

FDA Authorizes Additional Oral Antiviral for Treatment of COVID-19 in Certain Adults (Merck’s molnupiravir)

Paxlovid: What we should know about Pfizer’s new COVID treatment drugs

Do Paxlovid and Ivermectin have Similar Method of Action?

COVID-19 — FDA Fact Sheets:

FDA Fact Sheet for Healthcare providers for Paxlovid

FDA Fact Sheet for Healthcare providers for Molnupiravir

FDA Fact Sheet for Healthcare providers for Ivermectin

Merck sells federally financed COVID pill for 40x what it costs to make

Pfizer’s COVID-19 Oral Antiviral Cost $529 per Course

COVID-19 — Injections for Children:

*** Report: Are COVID-19 Injections Safe for Children?

*** Report: Should You Vaccinate Your Kids?

Expert testimony regarding Comirnaty (Pfizer) COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine for children

Expert testimony regarding the use of Moderna COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine in children

The Dangerous Push to Give Boosters to Teens

CDC: Heart inflammation cases among 5- to 11-year-old kids after COVID-19 shot

Study: COVID vaccination and age-stratified all-cause mortality risk

The American College of Pediatricians Supports Parental Choice

California School District Reverses Vaccine Mandate after Thousands of Children Refused to Comply

Texas AG gains federal injunction against another Biden vaccine mandate

Fauci: Hospitals are ‘Over-counting’ COVID-19 Cases in Children

COVID-19 — Injections (Others):

*** Unintended Consequences of mRNA Shots

*** Endless Boosters Threaten To Destroy Normal Immune Function

Ontario’s ‘top doctor’ says double-vaxxed people should stay away from triple-vaxxed relatives

World Council for Health Calls for an Immediate Stop to the COVID-19 Experimental “Vaccines”

‘Killing our patients’: Nurse exposes hospital failures, side effects of COVID shot

Japan Puts Warnings on COVID Injections

Real Not Rare website: a collection of some post-injection stories

New York Times Editor Who Won Pulitzer For COVID-19 Coverage Dead of Heart Attack One Day After Booster Shot

Study: Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination and Its Potential Impact on Fetal and Neonatal Development

RT-PCR Test Loses FDA Emergency Use Authorization On January 1, 2022

Army working on COVID-19 vaccine that may provide protection against all variants

Sarah Palin: ‘Over my dead body’ will I get the COVID-19 vaccine

Why Does Trump Keep Promoting the Vaccine?

The FDA Wants to Hide Pre-Licensure Data Until You’re Dead and Now the CDC Wants to Hide the Post-Licensure Safety Data

COVID-19 — Injection Mandates:

*** Boeing halts vaccine mandates for US workers

*** What’s Your Vaccine Discrimination Story?

*** U.S. Navy warship remains in port after COVID-19 breaks out among ‘100% immunized’ crew

COVID-19 — Models and Data:

*** ABSOLUTE (effectiveness) vs RELATIVE (efficacy) RISK REDUCTION in Research Reporting Bias

Looking at COVID infection levels after vaccination versus natural immunity

More Americans Have Died From Coronavirus Under Biden Than Trump

Why This New Virus Testing Makes No Sense

Oregon Health Authority: 622 Fully Vaccinated Residents Died Of COVID

I tackled a COVID modeler on Twitter and it was quite the revelation

Cheap, at-home COVID-19 testing is the quick fix we need

COVID-19 — Omicron:

*** Short video by MD: Beat Omicron Before You Catch It!

*** Omicron prompts rethink of vaccine impact, COVID-19 mandates

Physician Interview: All You Need to Know about the Omicron

Study: Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection with the Omicron or Delta variants following a two-dose or booster

Omicron – Conclusions

Omicron Policy Implications

CDC Confirms 80% of COVID-19 Cases Caused by Omicron Variant in the US are Fully Vaccinated Individuals

CDC significantly reduces estimate of omicron prevalence in US

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** Proof that the CDC, FDA, and NIH are corrupt and/or incompetent

*** Federal Agencies: Should We Trust Them?

*** Pfizer’s History of Fraud, Corruption

*** Archbishop Viganò’s startling warning to the American people

Video: The pandemic will end when the digital monetary system is in place

The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School

NY suburban Dems, Republicans refuse to enforce Gov’s mask mandate

Aaron Rodgers video: If science can’t be questioned it’s not science

WHO insider exposes GAVI, Bill Gates for perpetrating coronavirus plandemic

COVID-19 Whistleblower on Why She Won’t Be Silent Despite Threats to Her Life

Criminals have stolen nearly $100 billion in Covid relief funds, Secret Service says

Gates, Fauci, etc charged with Genocide in Court Filing

Dr. Mercola Files Lawsuit Against US Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Study: SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence throughout the human body and brain

This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It.

COVID-19: A constant fight against misinformation and propaganda

Greed Energy Economics:

Green energy firms the biggest corporate welfare recipients ever

Thank you Senator Manchin — as he Says No on Build Back Better Green New Deal

Here’s how much energy prices rose in 2021

Europeans Face a $395 Billion Hike in Energy Bills Next Year

NYS Playing a Climate Shell Game with NY Ratepayers

Wind Energy — Offshore:

Texas Public Policy Foundation brings fishermen’s lawsuit against Vineyard Wind

Vineyard Wind Harpooned By New Federal Lawsuit

Offshore wind developer tries to calm worries

Oswego County Legislature (NY) formally opposes wind turbines in Lake Ontario

Wind Energy — Other:

Which Country Or U.S. State Will Be The First To Hit The Renewable Energy Wall?

No benefits, only negative impacts from proposed wind turbine

Industrial Wind Turbines Once Again Demonstrate their Unreliability

Energy Security Can’t Be Assured by Unreliables

Fort Indiantown Gap (PA) leaders pushing back against proposed wind farm near base

A rural community in Spain is fighting wind energy

Solar Energy:

Paving Virginia with solar slabs is bad law

VA Solar project — will be considered, with conditions

The Uselessness of Solar Energy

Nuclear Energy:

*** World’s first nuclear power plant using 4th generation high-temperature gas reactor officially enters operation in China

Europe’s biggest nuclear reactor receives permission to start tests

Zoom: Exploding the nuclear myth: the role of nuclear in the energy transition

Shift to nuclear brightens Asian energy future

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** US Sends Fleet of LNG Ships to Fuel-Starved Europe

Biden’s Oil Price Heading to $100 a Barrel

Decarbonization cannot manufacture products demanded by civilization

Germany Burning More Coal, Renewable Energy Share Falling

Misc Energy:

*** Netherlands Goes Nuclear In Massive Atomic Humanist Victory!

The Biden White House’s Energy Incompetence

Report: Realism or Utopianism?

Lights Out for New York?

Europe Shows the Way to Energy Chaos and Disaster

Video: Angry owner blows up his Tesla

How and why Youngkin should quit the RGGI

New Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Created

Boris Johnson: Declare an energy emergency or risk economic disaster

Manmade Global Warming:

*** Senator Manchin “cannot vote” for Biden’s “mammoth” “Build Back Better” Bill

*** The Science of the People who will not be Slaves again!

*** Unsung Zeroes: The Top 10 Under-Reported Climate Flops of 2021

*** The Climate Movement and It’s 10 Biggest Failures of 2021

New AGW Book: Hot Talk, Cold Science

Many Climate Ambitions Will End With 2021

CLINTEL 2021 Report

US Election:

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

*** The Power of 3/10 of 1% of 74 million

US Election — State Issues:

Hearing to Ban Georgia’s Dominion Voting System Marred by False AG Claims, Irrelevant Judge Interruptions

Lawsuit Reveals Fulton County 2020 Absentee Ballot Results Were Physically Impossible and Files Were Modified

Court Fight Over Dead People on Voter Lists Heats Up in Michigan

Pennsylvania Court Will Allow Inspection of Fulton County Dominion Voting Machines

US Politics and Socialism:

*** Who is to Blame for the “Industrial Revolution”?

*** John F Kennedy vs today’s Democrats

*** Facebook Admits in Court that its Fact Checks are Just Opinions

How Do We Stop the Cancel Culture’s Formula: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity = DIE?

The Sandcastle

Why BBB Would Be Hazardous to Your Health

Video: Bowing Down to China (10 minutes)

Biden’s EPA Turned Its Science Advisory Boards Into Woke Green Groups

Judge Hears Opening Arguments on Biden Administration’s Alleged Purge of Industry from EPA Panels

Other US Politics and Related:

*** The Real Misinformation Problem

*** AP’s Hit Piece on RFK, Jr. Symbolizes Intellectual, Moral Collapse of Mainstream News Industry

*** Documentary: The Complete Documentary of What is Happening In This World

British Medical Journal on Facebook “fact check” ‘… inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible’

How Did the FBI End Up in This Mess?

The Danger of Nuclear War is Very Real

No, Congress should not codify ‘Chevron deference’

We Shouldn’t Allow Progressives to Limit Participation in Regulatory Process

Please—Stop the Coup Porn

The Fed’s Doomsday Prophet Has a Dire Warning About Where We’re Headed

Religion Related:

*** Why gratitude should be a part of your daily routine

*** Fake pastors and true

Christian Nationalism Is The Only Godly Option

Russia Fines Google With Record $100 Million For Corrupting Minors

Education Related:

*** Let the Buyer Beware!

*** No Critical Race Theory in Schools? Abundant Evidence Says Otherwise

*** How Marxists Captured the Universities and Will Soon Capture the Nation

Children are being ‘brainwashed’ by TikTok videos on ‘cool’ trans surgery viewed 26 billion times, campaigners claim

Many NC Students Are Missing out on Core Knowledge

Homeschooling Gifted Students: 9 Tips for Curriculum and Teaching

10 Books on Education That Are Worth Reading

Education Reform in 2022: Our Hopes for the New Year

Science and Misc Matters:

*** Implications of the retraction of a recent paper for scientific integrity in the White House

*** The Problem With Science is Scientists

If You Can’t Question It, Don’t Call It Science

EPA Announces Nationwide Monitoring Effort to Better Understand Extent of PFAS in Drinking Water

The Dirty Secret of America’s Clean Dishes

Dodge Is Cancelling The Hemi V8


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Biden’s oil price heading to $100 a barrel. Read on …

“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” – Debby Boone


Unless the treasonous usurper in The Peoples House and his evil, satanic administration changes course on the insane energy agenda of theirs, oil will reach at least $100 a barrel in 2022. Right now it is hovering around $72 a barrel as the oil market weighs up if there will be massive closures and shutdowns universally due to the new China Virus Omicron variant which will affect consumption.

You will all remember that under the last fairly elected president, Donald J. Trump, the U.S. became a net exporter of oil. We could supply all our own needs and had plenty left over to export. Now however, due to the communist green policies of these extremists who stole the 2020 election, we are now buying approximately 37% of our oil needs from OPEC ( Not our friends ) and Russia ( Not our friend ) both of which are making huge profits from us as they ship their overpriced oil to us. Russia especially is ecstatic as it now has billions of extra income coming in to pour into their military. This as Pervy Joe is weakening ours.

Both OPEC and Russia can control the spigot to shorten our supply at will and manipulate the price we pay. Biden has begged them to increase production but they just laugh at the pathetic little man he is. They have us under their thumb.

2021, under the aforementioned Biden, has seen inflation soaring as supply chain issues, unconstitutional covid lockdowns and restrictions, whole sectors of businesses being destroyed, has given us inflation not seen since 1982 – and it is growing. Understand when the Government says inflation rose by 6.8% in November, that doesn’t include fuel, energy and food increases which we all know have gone up well into double digits. Hyper-Inflation is almost upon us. Pay increases nationally which were substantial, have all fallen behind the inflator figures and in many cases people are worse off now. Unfortunately the poorer, the middle class and all ethnic minorities have suffered the most under the illegal dictatorship in stolen power. That is the opposite of what happened under President Trump.

Saudi Arabian energy minister Abdulaziz bin Salman has hinted that they may cut production by 30 million barrels a day which would be catastrophic for our economy and our people. It would however enhance that cartels dominance in the global market for oil and gas energy.

Under President Trump, my President, inflation was kept low, contrary to many experts predictions, because the shale Revolution we created produced plentiful cheap oil and energy. Increases in normal businesses were kept offset by low energy costs. Simple!! Small and large businesses and corporations benefitted by our low cost oil and gas.

However, this administration made up of traitors, imbeciles, corrupt officials ( I am trying to be diplomatic here! ) are obsessed with the lies of Global Warming and supposed Climate Change. Alternative energy sources are just not ready for prime time!! We saw that in Texas. They cannot produce reliable energy in enough volume competitively priced to compete or replace fossil fuels. Period. Simple as that.

Since Biden took over the reins investment and much needed work and development in the fossil fuel industry has dried to a trickle. Biden holds responsibility for that and the resultant rises in the energy prices we have seen and are facing. Fears of new regulations, taxations and aggressive anti fossil fuel activities politically by this administration energy sector corporations are not willing to invest at the percentage needed. Right now investment is running just over 42% of what is needed. John Kerry, another slimeball politician and cowardly former Vietnam war liar on his non existent so called heroism, and now the climate czar, have been pressuring Wall Street, banks and financial institutions to cut investment and future investing in any fossil fuel and join or create a “Net-Zero Banking Alliance” Banks like BOA, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase among others hastened to join this alliance. There is a story about one large oil company being asked to close their account so that bank could reduce its carbon footprint. Insanity.

The climate control rules and regulations in Europe have forced prices of energy sky high. With the shorter production there is a distinct possibility that there may very well be major shortages of fuel this winter.

Combine that with the Russian oil economy booming and with their troops massing on the Ukrainian border readying for a likely invasion, Russia knows, despite feeble Joes pathetic threats about oil and energy sanctions should Russia invade, that a weakened Europe heavily relies now on Russia for gas and oil and will not risk their own countries by supporting energy sanctions on Russia energy supply’s as they will not want to be going without. Russia is in a great position greatly aided by Biden’s energy policies.

I guess Sniffer Joe likes to see our enemies strengthen while we contract.

Another aspect of our reduced oil production is other countries like China are being forced to burn dirtier fuel which increases pollution and counteracts any reductions in so called carbon footprint reductions by countries like America.

Nobody I know wants to harm planet earth but cyclical weather changes have been going on since the beginning of time. This whole green new deal and climate change rubbish is just about money, power, control and destroying the middle class and lower class citizens of the world. It is about a one world nation where the rich will become richer and more powerful and the rest of us will become property of the world government.

The above scenario is not something I could stand still and give into. I know all my friends and millions of Americans feel the same.

Let’s put a stop to this insanity in the mid term Elections. Let’s send the corrupt and extremist politicians where they belong. We know where that is America. Now let’s find the fortitude to accomplish that simple goal and let’s get on with Building a truly Better America, where capitalism trumps socialism and criminals, political included, are held accountable. Where we lead the world again in every aspect and we bury this insanity once and for all.

Do what needs doing America. It’s time to do the right thing by our Founding Fathers, the constitution and our kids.

©Fred Brownbill. All rights reserved.

Coal Hit Record Highs in 2021

China and India drive coal to record highs.


Reports of the death of coal are, to quote Mark Twain, “greatly exaggerated.”

In fact, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals that coal is having its best year ever, propelled by insatiable demand from China and India.

Read the IEA’s full “Coal 2021” report at CFACT.org.

Here are a few eye-opening takeaways:

  • The price of coal more than doubled, hitting an all time high of $298 this fall, up from $81 last year
  • “Coal is the largest source of electricity generation”
  • Global coal power is “on course to increase by 9% to 10,350 terawatt-hours (TWh) – a new all-time high”
  • Coal is the “second largest source of primary energy”
  • China, which both produces and imports the most coal, increased its coal use another 9%
  • Chinese power accounts for “one-third of global coal consumption”
  • Chinese “overall coal use is more than half of the global total”
  • India, the number two coal user, increased coal 12%
  • “Global coal consumption is not on the Net Zero trajectory”

Click Here for a chart showing coal use by region with the IEA’s projections out to 2024

China and India value coal so highly that they worked together to scuttle tough anti-coal language at COP 26, the UN climate conference in Glasgow, prompting COP President Alok Sharma, MP, to issue a tear-filled apology.

While China and India ramp up their economies, the Biden Administration is strangling American energy production, crippling decades of work toward energy independence, and causing severe inflationary pressure.

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (if that’s your thing) count for nothing with nations such as China and India eager to supply the goods we no longer manufacture… and expand their fossil fuel energy use as fast as their economies will allow.

COLUMN BY

Craig Rucker

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

EDITORS NOTE: This CFACT column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Why California’s Move to Ban Gas-Powered Generators [and Lawn Equipment] Could Leave Californians in the Dark

California legislators have not only cut ties with reality—failing to see that they’re heading for ever more blackouts—they also want to cut their citizens’ last lifeline to reliable power when blackouts inevitably occur.


“Excuse me,” says your landscaper. “The mower’s out of juice. Mind if I plug in?” You look from the immobile machine to your half-cut lawn. “Outlet’s over there,” you tell him. “But let’s knock $20 off your fee? What are we up to now, 25 cents a kilowatt-hour?”

Welcome to the future. Welcome to California.

The state, committed to net-zero emissions by 2045, is moving to ban sales of gas-powered landscaping equipment as early as 2024. This is not the first attempt. Politicians tried and failed to do the same in 2003. Since then, though, more than half of homeowners in the state have swapped out their consumer-grade equipment for “zero emission equipment” (ZEE), meaning, battery-powered weed whackers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers, chainsaws, and even lawn mowers.

Many make the switch because, although lower-powered and less reliable (do batteries ever die at the right time?), battery-powered equipment is less noisy. That’s what prompted Mayor Stewart Welch of Mountain Brook, Alabama to begin switching his town’s tools over to electric. The bellow of leaf blowers disturbed his tennis game with a friend who, as chance would have it, had previously complained about the town’s noisy equipment. The city has spent $18,000 over the last year outfitting its public works crew with electric trimmers, blowers, and more.

According to Stanley Black & Decker, sales of the company’s electric yard equipment jumped 75 percent between 2015 and 2020. But, although lots of people are making the switch of their own accord, they’re not doing it fast enough, according to California’s legislative assembly.

The biggest holdouts are those who do landscaping for a living, and for good reason. I searched Husqavarna’s site high and low for battery run time info for its 550iBTX, which one landscaper reviewed as “The best electric blower on the market.” For $469? Not bad, I thought. After lots of web searching about the battery, I gave up and contacted support. Turns out, it does not come with one. The lowest-priced option will cost landscapers an extra $300 and lasts between thirty and sixty minutes. The one the associate recommended, though, costs $969 (yes, more than double the cost of the blower) and “lasts up to 3.5 hours,” he told me. That’s if you run it in “normal” mode, which is half the power of Husqavarna’s $459 gas blower; boost mode saps the power faster and is about 33 percent less powerful than the gas blower.

Some landscapers make electric work, and not just those whose equipment is paid for by taxpayers, as in Mountain Brook. Chris Regis, owner of Florida-based lawn care company Suntek, is able to charge customers between 10 and 20 percent more for all-electric lawn care. He says, “There are people who don’t care and say, ‘I just don’t want the noise.’” All power to them. That’s exactly how free markets work.

Given the numbers above, though, it would take a lot of lawns to make up one’s initial investment with only a 10 or 20 percent upcharge. But Regis’s investment is far greater. He has outfitted the company’s vans with solar panels for recharging batteries on the go—each van costing about $100,000. Reflecting on how much longer the same work now takes him, Jimi Layne of Mountain Brook’s crew asked, “Are we looking at dollars and cents?”

That’s an even more pertinent question in California, where energy prices are the highest in the continental US. (23.11 cents per kilowatt-hour, as of June 2021). Gas is more expensive there, too, in large part because of penalizing policies, but researchers predict electricity prices can only rise in the golden state, thanks to a host of factors. Prices are high, in part, because the size of the state increases transmission costs, as do wildfires on mismanaged public lands that have knocked out critical infrastructure, requiring replacement.

But the biggest contributor to high prices is the state’s push to adopt wind and solar, which require big upfront investments but nonetheless necessitate a reliable backup for when the sun’s not shining and the wind’s not blowing.

This problem came to the fore in 2020 when, for two days, California’s three big energy companies instituted rolling blackouts across the state because the grid could not meet demand. It was a self-inflicted wound. Given the state’s environmental restrictions, many coal-fired power plants are being decommissioned, and thanks to irrational fears, they’re not being replaced with clean, reliable nuclear energy, either.

Instead, taxpayers are being forced to subsidize massive investments in “renewables,” and power companies make up much of the state’s inevitable shortfalls by buying energy from more reliable, fossil-fuel plants in neighboring states. Unfortunately for Californians, on August 14, 2020, when the sun set and solar farms went offline, these companies realized they had miscalculated how big that shortfall would be. Western states were in the grip of a heat wave, and as Californians reached for the AC dials, they lost power altogether.

Losing power is no minor inconvenience, particularly when you live in what is naturally a desert, and especially when it’s more than 100 degrees outside. It’s not just that people can’t charge their Teslas or their ZEE mowers. One 2020 study concluded that more than 5,500 Americans lose their lives due to extreme heat annually. Climate-related deaths are a key indicator of low climate resilience, the ability of a locale to deal with extreme temperatures and weather. And, of course, climate resilience is directly dependent on plentiful, affordable, reliable energy.

But, increasingly, that is what California is doing away with in favor of expensive, unreliable energy. Unsurprisingly, the poor suffer the most. Research done in 2020 shows that many in Los Angeles can’t afford air conditioners, and many who have them can’t afford to run them because electricity prices are so high. In fact, accounting for cost of living, California has the highest poverty rate in the country, in large part because energy prices are so high. This, not in spite of the state’s adoption of “cheap” and “reliable” renewables, but because of it—because solar and wind are not cheap nor reliable and require a backup that is.

Yet, with startling shortsightedness, the state assembly has sent Governor Gavin Newsom a bill that will effectively eliminate a go-to backup: gas-powered generators. The bill (AB-1346) lumps gas-powered generators in with the offending landscaping equipment and all other “small off-road engines,” referring to them as SOREs. It “encourages” the California Air Resources Board (the state’s own sort of EPA) to “adopt cost-effective and technologically feasible regulations to prohibit engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines” and to consider “expected availability of zero-emission generators.”

Such generators do exist, but they are far more expensive, generate far less power, and most need to be recharged after just a few hours. Consider the GOAL ZERO YETI 3000X. It costs $3,400, and an additional $250 kit enables you to use it as a battery backup for your home. After all that, you can power a single refrigerator for less than 2.5 days, and that of course drops if you want to power, say, a few lightbulbs. By contrast, a Duromax XP10000HX can power your whole home—lights, appliances, and A/C system—continuously, running on either gasoline or propane, and it costs $1,400.

When the power went out last August, says Collin Blackwell of Eldorado Hills, California, “We went out and bought an $800 generator, so that way we could have the fridge powered up in the garage at least and be able to have food and everything in the house.” Mark Galloway of Cameron Park said he lives in a mountain community where losing power is fairly common. “You should have something, so having the backup generator and things like that—I think it’s on you to really take care of that,” he said. “It’s not like it’s something that you can’t plan for.”

But, if AB-1346 is signed into law, going out and buying an $800 generator will no longer be an option.

California legislators have not only cut ties with reality—failing to see that they’re heading for ever more blackouts—they also want to cut their citizens’ last lifeline to reliable power when these blackouts inevitably occur. California is committing energy suicide, and given that people rely on energy for just about everything, we shouldn’t be surprised by the toll this will take on human life.

COLUMN BY

Jon Hersey

Jon Hersey is managing editor of The Objective Standard, fellow and instructor at Objective Standard Institute, and Hazlitt fellow at Foundation for Economic Education.

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Electric Cars vs. Gas Cars: Is the Conventional Wisdom Wrong?

What rings true intuitively isn’t always backed up by the numbers.


Joe Biden, the current front-runner of the Democratic 2020 field, promises the return of electric vehicle (EV) tax credits. The presidential candidate says that “a key barrier to further deployment of these greenhouse-gas reducing vehicles is the lack of charging stations and coordination across all levels of government.” Biden wants 500,000 new charging stations by the end of 2030, thereby incentivizing the use of electric cars beyond the advantages given when buying them.

As it stands—and depending on the state in which the car is bought and withholding the individual tax situation of the buyer—some people can save up to $10,000 on a new Tesla thanks to this tax incentive.

This policy introduced under the Obama administration had the intention of promoting electric vehicles in order to reduce carbon emissions, but what happened in the countries that eliminated the tax credits tells a different story. When Denmark got rid of its tax credits for electric vehicles, Tesla’s sales dropped by 94 percent. In Hong Kong, the company saw a decline of 95 percent as the city got rid of comparable tax advantages for those buying electric cars.

According to Biden, that is because the right user incentives aren’t there, notably charging stations. However, the countries involved have considerably more charging stations than the US: Denmark has 443 charging stations in its capital Copenhagen, as well as over 500 more across the rest of the country. As for Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post reports:

The move [Tesla opening a super-charging car park in Hong Kong] followed the opening of Tesla’s first supercharger station – which can fully charge a Tesla in just 75 minutes […]. Currently there are 92 Tesla superchargers at 21 supercharger stations, with more than 400 public and shared charging points.

Clearly, the question of EV is not one of convenience but of price.

Norway has the largest fleet of electric vehicles in the world, making up 60 percent of all new sales this year. Reporting on the story, NPR writes that “10,732 [sold cars] were rated with zero emissions.”

The Institute of Transport Economics at the Norwegian Center for Transport Research lays out the ambition of carbon dioxide reduction through electric mobility.

For these vehicles a massive transition to electric engines can result in an up to a 97 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions and up to 76 per cent reduction in energy use per transport unit.

Adding to that, over 95 percent of Norway’s electricity comes from hydropower, of which 90 percent is publicly owned. That does not come without its downsides. As electricity consumption increases in Norway, the sector is unable to keep up. Last year, lack of rainfall and low wind speed exploded Norwegian electricity prices to the level of Germany (which is still in the process of phasing out nuclear energy). Norway then resorted to coal power, and as fossil fuel power imports exceeded energy export, Norway has actually seen an increase in CO2 emissions.

This is despite the fact that Norway’s climate and geography make it ideal for the production of renewables, which is not the case for every state in the US. However, electricity production is only half the story of EV.

Electric vehicle batteries need a multitude of resources to be manufactured. In the case of cobalt, the World Economic Forum has called out the extraction conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where more than half of the world’s cobalt comes from. Miners as young as seven years are suffering from chronic lung disease from exposure to cobalt dust. Not only does battery manufacturing account for 60 percent of the world’s cobalt use, but there are also no good solutions to replace it, which is something Elon Musk is struggling with.

This does not even address the extraction procedures, complications, ethical conditions, and emissions produced by the need for aluminum, manganese, nickel, graphite, and lithium carbonate.

With a European market estimated to reach a total of 1,200 gigawatt-hours per year, which is enough for 80 gigafactories with an average capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours per year, that need is set to increase exponentially.

The renowned German research institute IFO declared the eco-balance of diesel-powered vehicles to be superior to electric vehicles in a study released in April.

We know from the US Department of Energy that the average fuel economy of cars more than doubled from 1975 to 2018. Fuel economy is increasing while horsepower has also increased exponentially, making cars both cleaner and faster. In 2017, the average estimated real-world CO2 emission rate for all new vehicles fell by 3 grams per mile (g/mi) to 357 g/mi, the lowest level ever measured. View the Real-World Economy (MPG) and Real-World CO2 Emissions Chart (g/mi).

It doesn’t even matter which car brand you feel loyal to since all brands have made comparable improvements. View the Fuel Economy vs. CO2 Emissions Chart.

No wonder: As much as consumers might care about CO2 emissions, they are even more price-sensitive. Even those consumers who aren’t will eventually be swayed when they find out their car brand is costing them comparably excruciating amounts in fuel.

Electric cars won’t be the one-size-fits-all solution to our current transportation challenges—at least not for the foreseeable future. As both technologies have up-and downsides, we need to consider what innovation can realistically achieve before we make calls for bans or rushed replacements.

COLUMN BY

Bill Wirtz

Bill Wirtz is a Young Voices Advocate and a FEE Eugene S. Thorpe Fellow. His work has been featured in several outlets, including Newsweek, Rare, RealClear, CityAM, Le Monde and Le Figaro. He also works as a Policy Analyst for the Consumer Choice Center. Learn more about him at his website.

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THE MEDIA BALANCED NEWSLETTER: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections

Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

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Lots of really interesting material in this issue, but particularly note the red items below.


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —


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

COVID-19 — Therapies:

*** Now we know why the establishment has always opposed early treatment

*** Dr. McCullough Describes ‘Sinister Ways’ Doctors Worldwide Are Restricted From Treating COVID Patients

*** Brazilian City Cuts Hospitalizations, Mortality In Half After Implementing Ivermectin To Everyone Pre-Vaccine

NY Times Reports that Merck COVID-19 Drug Can Mutate DNA, Cause Birth Defects and Male Infertility

Report Update: The FDA COVID-19 Drug Approval Process: Remdesivir vs Ivermectin

Ivermectin Fans Have a New Champion to Root for – 3CL Protease Inhibitor Tollovid

COVID-19 — Injections for Children:

*** 16,000 Physicians and Scientists Agree Kids Shouldn’t Get COVID Vaccine

*** Over 15,000 Physicians and Scientists Reach Consensus on Vaccinating Children and Natural Immunity

Dr. Robert Malone, Advises All Parents Strongly Against Vaccinating Children with COVID Injections

Israeli Public Emergency Council Position Paper: COVID-19 Vaccine for Children

COVID-19 — Injections vs Acquired Immunity:

*** 137 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to COVID-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted

*** Rep Jordan Urges CDC To Do A Natural Immunity/Vaccine Study

Study: Acquired immunity is superior to injection immunity (also here)

Study: Vaccinated people have 600% higher risk of COVID-19 infection compared to those with natural immunity

COVID-19 — Injections (Other):

*** Pfizer COVID-19 Inoculations: “More Harm Than Good”

*** Japan Places Warning on COVID ‘Vaccines’

CDC now recommends avoiding Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine

160,000 Adverse Reactions from Early Pfizer COVID Vaccine Rollout

90% of all “COVID” deaths since August occurred in fully vaccinated

Study: Increased risk for COVID-19 breakthrough infection in fully vaccinated patients with substance use disorders

Study: COVID-19 vaccines drop below zero efficacy on spread by about 200 days

Study: The Pfizer mRNA vaccine: pharmacokinetics and toxicity

Study: COVID vaccination and age-stratified all-cause mortality risk

Could Immune System Erosion be Connected to the Injection?

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi – The COVID vaccines were designed to fail

COVID-19 — Injection Mandatess:

*** Powerful, short video about an acclaimed nurse being terminated

*** 37 Studies on Vaccine Efficacy that Raise Doubts on Vaccine Mandates

*** Forcing People Into COVID Vaccines Ignores Important Scientific Information

*** The Supreme Court’s New York State vax mandate ruling: A missed opportunity

Americans increasingly refuse to obey mandates in the name of fighting COVID

Defeat The Mandates DC March: January 23rd

NYS Bill Proposing Covid Concentration Camps

Mandatory vaccination spells the violent end of European liberalism

US Mega-Corporations Rush to Abandon Illegal Vax Mandates

As Many as 123,000 UK Healthcare Staff May Resign Rather Than Take the Jab

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Fail the Jacobson Test

Supreme Court Declines Emergency Relief for NY Health Care Workers

Austrians age 14 and over who refuse Covid vaccines will be fined £1,000 per month

Military Members Seek New Injunction Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

UK Gov’t admits there are 23.5 Million unvaccinated people in England

COVID-19 — Models and Data:

*** The Science and Ethics Regarding the Risk Posed by Non-Vaccinated Individuals

*** CDC Admits That “Fully Vaccinated” Americans Are Super-Spreaders Carrying Deadly Variants And High Viral Loads

Virologist: Fully vaccinated are a major source of COVID virus transmission

Scotland: Vaccinated account for 9 in every 10 Covid-19 Deaths over the past 4 months

Some recent Pfizer Documents

COVID-19 — Omicron:

*** CDC: Most Reported US Omicron Cases Have been with the Fully Vaccinated

*** CDC Admits Omicron Spread Almost Entirely By The Vaccinated

*** Dr. Campbell: Optimize your immune system for Omicron!

Dr. Campbell: Omicron Predictions

Dr. Cambell: First Omicron Science

Danish Report on Omicron (see table 4)

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** Dr. Ben Carson: Pandemic Could Be Solved Quickly If Politics Thrown Out

*** The Medical Profession Implodes

*** Dr. Meyer’s COVID-19 Preparation Toolkit

*** Robert Kennedy Jr.: US Intelligence Agencies and Military Were Involved With The Wuhan Lab Research

*** The pandemic will end when the digital monetary system is in place

Emails Expose How Dr Fauci And Mark Zuckerberg Colluded To Impose Control Over Pandemic Narrative

As International Trials Begin Against the Globalists Will a Return to Public Executions be Necessary?

Report: SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England

Efficacy, Effectiveness and Efficiency in the Health Care: The Need for an Agreement to Clarify its Meaning

‘Follow the Science’ a Potent Source of Authority for Politicians

Oregon Coming Through Exactly as Predicted — and It’s Bad for All of Us

Maskerade: Some Facts about Masks

Greed Energy Economics:

Industrial Wind Turbines Once Again are Up to Their Old Tricks

California To Slash Rooftop Solar Subsidies, Add New Fees

Wind & Solar Energy:

Green Energy Push Is Contributing To Forced Labor, Slavery

Offshore wind project go-ahead ‘will be disastrous’ for already-struggling seabirds

Nuclear Energy:

Is nuclear energy green? France and Germany lead opposing camps.

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Report: Fossil fuels for China, Decarbonization for everyone else

Biden’s New “Regressive” Methane Tax Will Raise Average American’s Gas Bill By 17%

Kawasaki to build industrial scale H2-capable gas turbines in Germany

California imported crude oil ranks as a major emissions generator

Global Coal Power Demand On Track For Record As Green Energy Transition Crumbles

Misc Energy:

Rush to green hydrogen masks mammoth plans to wood-chip the forests

Electric Batteries Are Not Emissions Free

Manmade Global Warming — Recent US Tornadoes:

Tornados Ravaged the South and Liberal America’s Reaction was Insanely Predictable

Short video: Kentucky Tornadoes, Climate Change and Pressure Systems

Meteorologist responds with data after Biden blames climate change for tornados

Tornado Tall Tales Being Spun Off Tragedy by Biden

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Russia opposes linking climate and security issues at the UN (kudos to them!)

Does the CCP (China) control Extinction Rebellion?

Climate Dogma Killed Biden’s “Build Back Better”

Fossil fuels are not to blame for world’s climate issues

The East Slams the West’s Climate ‘Colonialism’

The Real Climate Crisis Isn’t What We’re Told; It’s Worse!

US Election:

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

*** Heritage: Election Integrity Scorecard

*** The Big Truth: Election 2020 Really Was Rigged

Sinema pops Democrats’ filibuster trial balloon on voting rights

Senator Rubio Introduces Bill to Prohibit Foreign Citizens from Voting

New IRS Disclosures Confirm Flood of Private Money to Elections Offices from Zuckerberg Grantee

Legal Policy Focus: The Voting Rights Act

US Election — State Issues:

Whistleblower Claims 35,000 Votes Were Added To Democrat Totals In Pima County’s (Arizona) 2020 Election

PIMA County (Arizona) Election Integrity Hearing

US Politics and Socialism:

Whose fault is it that America is descending into Third World status?

Drifting Toward a Catastrophic American Defeat

The anti-American agenda of President Biden’s nominees

Other US Politics and Related:

Joe Manchin in talks with Republicans on filibuster reforms

How Government Bureaucracy and Media Wokeness Led to January 6

How the States Can Reform Health Care

DC Bar Restores Convicted FBI Russiagate Forger to ‘Good Standing’

Religion Related:

Anti-Christian hate crimes in Germany increased by nearly 150% in 2020

Education Related:

Three Ways to Teach Students How – Not What – to Think

Universities Have Forgotten Their Purpose: Pursuing the Contemplative Life

Harvard waives ACT, SAT admission requirement for graduating classes through 2030

The malicious, historically illiterate 1619 Project keeps rolling on

Science and Misc Matters:

*** Short video: The Government Just Took Away YOUR FREEDOM

All-Out Defense of “Chinese-Style Democracy” Exposes Cracks in Xi Jinping’s Armor

Video: Digital Book Burning and the Degradation of the Scientific Culture


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How CO2 Supply Chain Mayhem Almost Caused a Meat Shortage in Britain

In recent months, many of us have faced empty shelves, long lines, and frustrating delays as supply chains have seized up around the country, and indeed the world. Some have argued that the government should step in to fix these issues, blaming the problems on “corporate greed” and “the free market”. But while it may be tempting to blame private companies for our current woes and see the government as the savior, the reality is not that simple. Indeed, far from being the solution, government intervention in the market is arguably the primary cause of these problems in the first place.

A good case study for this issue is Great Britain. Back in September, the nation’s supply chain issues got so bad that they almost had major disruptions in their food supply. The UK government has been intervening in an attempt to fix the problems in the short run, but the situation is still extremely precarious.

So who is responsible for these issues? Well, let’s follow the supply chain link-by-link and see if it can lead us to the culprit.

The immediate problem that food producers are facing is a shortage of food-grade carbon dioxide (CO2). The meat industry is particularly affected by this shortage, since CO2 is used in many meat production processes. But aside from that, the gas also plays a key role in modified atmosphere packaging, which is used to prolong the shelf life of many food products. It’s also used in carbonated drinks (hence the name) like beer and soda, and in its solid form as dry ice it is used to keep fresh food cool during transportation.

Why is there a shortage of CO2? Well, most food-grade CO2 comes from fertilizer plants, because CO2 is a byproduct of the fertilizer manufacturing process. These plants, however, have been producing far less CO2 than normal. So to understand why there’s so little CO2, we need to investigate the fertilizer plants. This brings us to the next link in the chain.

Two of the biggest fertilizer plants in the UK are owned by a company called CF Industries. Together, they normally produce about 60 percent of the UK’s food-grade CO2. However, these plants were actually shut down for a large part of September, which drastically reduced the UK’s CO2 production.

The reason they were shut down is because natural gas, an essential part of the fertilizer process, has been very expensive in recent months. With the price of this key input so high, it was actually uneconomical for the plants to operate, so they decided to shut down temporarily in hopes of restarting their operations once the price of natural gas came back down. But why is natural gas suddenly so expensive? This brings us to the third link in the chain.

First, to say that natural gas prices are high in Britain is really quite the understatement. According to Industry group Oil & Gas UK, wholesale prices for gas in September were up 250 percent since January, and had increased 70 percent since August. As one UK energy CEO remarked, this is “the most extreme energy market in decades.”

So what’s causing the high prices? A number of factors. High global demand has played a role, especially since roughly 60 percent of the UK’s natural gas supply is imported. Lower solar and wind output have also been factors, as well as outages at some nuclear stations. The cold winter in 2020 also resulted in depleted stocks (since people use natural gas to heat their homes), and several gas platforms in the North Sea have closed to perform maintenance that was paused because of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

But one of the biggest sources of price volatility is the dearth of natural gas storage facilities in the UK.

“The UK currently has very modest amounts of storage, less than 6% of annual demand.” writes Michael Bradshaw, a Professor of Global Energy at the University of Warwick. “In Germany, France, and Italy, storage covers about 20% of annual demand,” he continues for context. Another report noted that the UK has enough storage to last for about 7 days, whereas Germany and France have roughly 90 days of storage.

While storage is far from the only factor affecting natural gas prices, it certainly plays a significant role. But why does Britain have so little storage capacity? This brings us to the final link in the chain.

One of the reasons for Britain’s low storage capacity is that a storage facility called Rough, which used to provide a significant percentage of the UKs natural gas storage, was decommissioned in 2017 as a result of age-related deterioration.

Industry leaders were concerned about the resulting lack of storage at the time, and have been warning about the issue ever since.

“Rough makes up an impressive 70% of the UK’s storage working gas volume,” Timera Energy noted back in 2017, when permanent closure was still being deliberated. “This can be contrasted with Rough’s contribution to the UK’s daily deliverability, at around 25%. And it is the deliverability that the UK market will miss most.”

They go on to explicitly discuss the likely impact of the closure on the price of natural gas. “The loss of deliverability should boost spot price volatility as it reduces the buffer of supply flexibility available to respond to swings in daily demand…The loss of working gas volume is likely to mean that supply shocks…have a sharper and more prolonged price impact.”

The need for more storage was reiterated in 2019 by another industry leader named InfraStrata Plc. “There is more demand in the market than we can satisfy,” said John Wood, the CEO of InfraStrata. “The market in the U.K. is sending out strong economic signals for additional gas storage capacity.”

So why wasn’t more storage built? Well, as it turns out, natural gas storage is taxed and regulated very heavily in the UK, much more so than other industries. Indeed, one of the largest gas storage operators in the country, called Storengy, explicitly called attention to these problems back in 2018, pointing out the “punitive” and “extortionate” tax levels that are applied to storage facilities as well as the numerous regulations that burden the industry.

As a result of these barriers, many potential storage projects have remained on the shelf, since they are prohibitively expensive in the current business environment. Thus, even though the demand is clearly there, the market has been unable to meet it, because taxes and regulations have severely crippled the industry.

This analysis is hardly exhaustive, of course. But at least with respect to the storage issue, it seems clear that government intervention in the market is the primary cause of the food supply chain disruptions.

One of the interesting things about this story is how it highlights the plethora of people, items, and systems that work together to keep our grocery shelves full. First, we discovered that food producers rely on CO2. That led us to investigate fertilizer plants and the crazy natural gas market, and then from there we explored natural gas storage and learned about the many ways that government intervention has been crippling that industry. Of course, most people wouldn’t intuitively connect gas storage regulations with food availability, but the rippling unintended consequences of these policies are very real nonetheless.

In his famous essay “I, Pencil,” Leonard Read similarly draws attention to the “innumerable antecedents” of everyday items, such as the seemingly simple lead pencil.

“Just as you cannot trace your family tree back very far, so is it impossible for me to name and explain all my antecedents,” Read wrote, speaking as the pencil. He goes on to discuss some of the many ancestors of the pencil, the people and things that went into producing it, and he points out how they all depend on one another. Indeed, you can’t mess with the trucking industry without impacting the production of pencils, just as you can’t mess with natural gas storage without impacting food supplies.

With that said, trucking and natural gas are not only ancestors of pencils and food. They are also ancestors of many other products, and this leads to an important insight. In reality, it’s actually somewhat misleading to speak of supply chains, as if the economy consisted of independent, linear processes. The economy is much more accurately characterized as one giant supply web, a multiplicity of interconnected processes that all depend on each other in various ways.

With this in mind, it quickly becomes apparent why interfering with the economy can be so dangerous. When the government breaks one part of the web, they aren’t just impacting one chain, they are creating countless unintended consequences, many of which are impossible to foresee.

If we’re lucky, those consequences will only lead to higher prices. If we’re not so lucky, empty grocery shelves await.

To address the looming crisis, the UK government ended up bailing out CF Industries, the company that owns the fertilizer plants. The deal, which was finalized on September 21, resulted in one of the two plants resuming operations, with the UK government providing “limited financial support,” which the Environment Secretary later clarified was “going to be into many millions, possibly the tens of millions [of euros].”

Since then, the government has brokered a deal between CF Industries and its CO2 buyers. Though the details are unclear, the government seems to be involved in setting the price of CO2, which would constitute even more intervention in the market.

But intervention is not the solution here. When governments intervene, they inevitably distort price signals, leading to increasingly inefficient outcomes. The real solution is for the government to stop causing the problem in the first place by removing the taxes and regulations that are standing in the way of the natural gas storage market.

Granted, it will take some time before the storage market can adjust, but even in the interim, the best way to address these problems is to let markets and prices do their thing.

COLUMN BY

Patrick Carroll

Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education.

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Electric Batteries Are Not Emissions Free

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy


The below article is a WOW factor one and should be required reading in every High School Science class.  Batteries are not emissions free and certainly contribute to so called “Climate Change” yet activists who push the persistent, persuasive and unrealistic myths of Climate Change are also advocates for “alternative power sources” including solar, wind and battery powered devices like all electric cars.

Electric Batteries Are Not Zero Emissions Power Sources

By Bruce Haedrich

When I saw the title of this lecture, especially with the picture of the scantily clad model, I couldn’t resist attending. The packed auditorium was abuzz with questions about the address; nobody seemed to know what to expect. The only hint was a large aluminum block sitting on a sturdy table on the stage.  When the crowd settled down, a scholarly-looking man walked out and put his hand on the shiny block, “Good evening,” he said, “I am here to introduce NMC532-X,” and he patted the block, “we call him NM for short,” and the man smiled proudly.

“NM is a typical electric vehicle (EV) car battery in every way except one; we programmed him to send signals of the internal movements of his electrons when charging, discharging, and in several other conditions. We wanted to know what it feels like to be a battery. We don’t know how it happened, but NM began to talk after we downloaded the program.

Despite this ability, we put him in a car for a year and then asked him if he’d like to do presentations about batteries. He readily agreed on the condition he could say whatever he wanted. We thought that was fine, and so, without further ado, I’ll turn the floor over to NM,” the man turned and walked off the stage..

“Good evening,” NM said. He had a slightly affected accent, and when he spoke, he lit up in different colors. “That cheeky woman on the marquee was my idea,” he said. “Were she not there, along with ‘naked’ in the title, I’d likely be speaking to an empty auditorium! I also had them add ‘shocking’ because it’s a favorite word amongst us batteries.” He flashed a light blue color as he laughed. “Sorry,” NM giggled then continued, “three days ago, at the start of my last lecture, three people walked out. I suppose they were disappointed there would be no dancing girls.

But here is what I noticed about them. One was wearing a battery-powered hearing aid, one tapped on his battery-powered cell phone as he left, and a third got into his car, which would not start without a battery. So, I’d like you to think about your day for a moment; how many batteries do you rely on?”

He paused for a full minute which gave us time to count our batteries.  Then he went on, “Now, it is not elementary to ask, ‘what is a battery?’ I think Tesla said it best when they called us Energy Storage Systems. That’s important. We do not make electricity – we store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid. Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, n’est-ce pas?”

He flashed blue again. “Einstein’s formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.”

He lit up red when he said that, and I sensed he was smiling. Then he continued in blue and orange. “Mr. Elkay introduced me as NMC532. If I were the battery from your computer mouse, Elkay would introduce me as double-A, if from your cell phone as CR2032, and so on. We batteries all have the same name depending on our design. By the way, the ‘X’ in my name stands for ‘experimental..’

There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals.  Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium.

The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them.

All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery’s metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill.

In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle batteries like me or care to dispose of single-use ones properly.

But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive embedded costs.”

NM got redder as he spoke. “Everything manufactured has two costs associated with it, embedded costs and operating costs. I will explain embedded costs using a can of baked beans as my subject.

In this scenario, baked beans are on sale, so you jump in your car and head for the grocery store. Sure enough, there they are on the shelf for $1.75 a can. As you head to the checkout, you begin to think about the embedded costs in the can of beans.

The first cost is the diesel fuel the farmer used to plow the field, till the ground, harvest the beans, and transport them to the food processor. Not only is his diesel fuel an embedded cost, so are the costs to build the tractors, combines, and trucks. In addition, the farmer might use a nitrogen fertilizer made from natural gas.

Next is the energy costs of cooking the beans, heating the building, transporting the workers, and paying for the vast amounts of electricity used to run the plant. The steel can holding the beans is also an embedded cost. Making the steel can requires mining taconite, shipping it by boat, extracting the iron, placing it in a coal-fired blast furnace, and adding carbon. Then it’s back on another truck to take the beans to the grocery store. Finally, add in the cost of the gasoline for your car.

But wait – can you guess one of the highest but rarely acknowledged embedded costs?” NM said, then gave us about thirty seconds to make our guesses. Then he flashed his lights and said, “It’s the depreciation on the 5000-pound car you used to transport one pound of canned beans!”

NM took on a golden glow, and I thought he might have winked. He said, “But that can of beans is nothing compared to me! I am hundreds of times more complicated. My embedded costs not only come in the form of energy use; they come as environmental destruction, pollution, disease, child labor, and the inability to be recycled.”

He paused, “I weigh one thousand pounds, and as you see, I am about the size of a travel trunk.” NM’s lights showed he was serious. “I contain twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside me are 6,831 individual lithium-ion cells.

It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each auto battery like me, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just – one – battery.”

He let that one sink in, then added, “I mentioned disease and child labor a moment ago. Here’s why. Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?” NM’s red and orange light made it look like he was on fire.

“Finally,” he said, “I’d like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being ‘green,’ but it is not! This construction project is creating an environmental disaster. Let me tell you why.

The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium-diselenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly toxic. Silicon dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot be recycled.

Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used blades. Sadly, both solar arrays and windmills kill birds, bats, sea life, and migratory insects.

NM lights dimmed, and he quietly said, “There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions. I predict EVs and windmills will be abandoned once the embedded environmental costs of making and replacing them become apparent. I’m trying to do my part with these lectures.

Thank you for your attention, good night, and good luck.” NM’s lights went out, and he was quiet, like a regular battery.

©Royal A. Brown, III. All rights reserved.

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