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It’s climate fact check time

From CFACT

Another month, another load of unvetted climate exaggerations and misrepresentations that climate campaigners set bouncing about the media echo chamber.

Fortunately, CFACT and our partners are on the job correcting the record.

Each month we work together to publish a scholarly climate “fact check” that debunks Green propaganda with verifiable data.

Read the full February “Climate Fact Check” at CFACT.org.

This month we remind readers about natural El Nino / La Nina cycles and the impact they have on our weather.  It was warm during the 1998 El Nino, it is warm during this one, and it will be warm during the next one, whether we live in a free economy or not.

The media wants you to know that Dallas hit 93 degrees on February 26th, 2024.  That’s a hot February day.  Dallas also hit 93 degrees on February 25th, 1918.  A touch of history adds valuable perspective, don’t you think?

The Washington Post is alarmed that recent Canadian wildfires kept on burning underground.  They called it a “zombie fire.”  We reproduced a newspaper ad about underground Canadian fires from 1988.

Nothing wrecks an alarming narrative like a touch of history.

Our February “Climate Fact Check” is chock full of facts like these and more.

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Thanks to CFACT’s climate fact check partners the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Heartland Institute, Energy & Environment Legal Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), and Truth in Energy and Climate.

“He considers Joe Biden a type of rightwing climate realist.”

From The Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

Imagine someone so left wing they think Joe Biden is a jingoistic capitalist.

‘Quite radical’: the feeling of exhaustion is key to tackling climate change, says author

Exhausted of the Earth author Ajay Singh Chaudhary says how we feel and the state of the earth are connected

Wed 28 Feb 2024 16.00 AEDTLast modified on Wed 28 Feb 2024 21.28 AEDT

Are you exhausted today?” political theorist Ajay Singh Chaudhary asks over video chat on a dark Friday afternoon. This is a question he is posing not just to me, but to you, too – and it’s one he already knows the answer to. Most of us, the indicators suggest, would suggest we are. But Chaudhary argues this isn’t just an individual problem: “Our ecological life is exhausting, our social and economic lives are exhausting, even our individual lives are exhausting.”

This is one of the central arguments of his first book The Exhausted of the Earth: how you feel and the state of the world are connected. And, he argues, it doesn’t have to be this way. “Your exhaustion is not some random byproduct […] There is a class of people out there who cause your exhaustion, [and] it’s not just Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk.” Under capitalism, we are not all in it together.

Executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, an educational organisation for adult learners, Chaudhary’s book is an accessible analysis of how climate and politics interact. Writing it was “like a return to home”, he says; his parents are natural scientists and it was drilled into him from a young age that the climate crisis was not being approached politically.

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He considers Joe Biden a type of rightwing climate realist. Among the US president’s most important climate policies is not just the Inflation Reduction Act but the US National Security Strategy, Chaudhary argues. “It is insanely jingoistic,” he says. It describes, for instance, out-competing China. If that’s the framework, he argues, we’re doomed, “because US-China cooperation is vital”. Ultimately, rightwing climate realists know there will be “instability” and “they are preparing for it”. That they will be successful is not only “plausible and possible, but probable,” he says.

…Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/28/quite-radical-the-feeling-of-exhaustion-is-key-to-tackling-climate-change-says-author-ajay-singh-chaudhary

Do you feel exhausted? I certainly don’t. I enjoy life, family, and the wonderful place I live, where I can make money doing something which doesn’t involve heavy lifting, thanks to the joys of our modern information age.

Why do some green left wing radicals feel so exhausted and fed up? Aside from the fact lots of people think they are nut jobs and ignore them, I personally believe what they are feeling is the mental stress of maintaining belief in a set of absurd fictions.

Imagine the effort of continuously forcing yourself to believe how doomed we all are during your every waking hour, reminding yourself every time you make a coffee or eat pre-packaged food, of how all the modern conveniences of life are accelerating us towards the imminent extinction of Mankind, and how if you catch a glimpse of children playing in the sunshine, that sunshine and warmth is a harbinger of the end times.

Maybe I’m wrong. I would be happy to read and review Ajay Singh Chaudhary’s book The Exhausted of Earth. But I’m not going to pay £14.99 for what essentially seems to be a political tract.

L A Times “Green China” Latest News

The Skyline of Chongqing

From Watts Up With That?

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin

The September 17, 2023 edition of the L A Times published the latest China Watch section (shown below) which highlights a large Solar PV project in Chongqing where a 37 MW facility on the rooftop of a large car manufacturing company went into operation in April of this year.

This large PV project is touted as being able to save 264,500 short tons of coal use over its planned 25-year life.

Energy Institute data shows that China’s coal energy use increased by about 1% between 2021 and 2022 representing a growth in coal consumption from 4.68 billion short tons in 2021 to about 4.73 billion short tons in 2022 with further growth expected to occur through at least year 2030.

In year 2018 China consumed about 4.38 billion short tons of coal which has now increased during the 5-year period through 2022 by about 350 million short tons according to EIA and Energy Institute data. 

The 25 year expected savings in coal consumption of this PV project represents about 0.5% of the yearly coal use increase that occurred between 2021 and 2022 and about 0.075% of the 5-year increase in coal use that occurred between 2018 and 2022.

Stated another way it would take about 200 PV projects like this each operating for 25 years to save an amount of coal equivalent to the yearly increase of China’s coal use just between 2021 and 2022. 

Given the continuing growth of China’s huge coal use that has occurred over the last 5 years it is abundantly clear China will continue to depend and rely upon coal as its primary energy resource for the foreseeable future.     

Clean, Safe & Reliable Nuclear Power the Environment’s Best Friend

STOP THESE THINGS

Wind and solar have lost their ‘social licence’; the masses no longer believe the ‘clean and green’ propaganda. Wrecked communities, wrecked environments and wrecked economies are too difficult to hide or spin away.

Once people get a grip on the great wind and solar scam, their conversion is irreversible.

The original trope had it that wind and solar were ‘friends of the earth’. But as millions of toxic solar panels and thousands of toxic wind turbine blades get crushed and dumped into landfill, that relationship appears more strained than ever.

Which is where nuclear power steps in.

Safe, reliable and affordable, nuclear power ticks all the boxes, including being the only stand-alone power generation source that can satisfy those fretting about human-generated carbon dioxide gas, by not generating any during the generating process.

Sky News’ Chris Kenny takes a look at Canada’s exemplary move towards a nuclear-powered future, in this interview with Dr Chris Keefer.

Nuclear energy is the ‘most environmentally friendly’ option
Sky News
Chris Kenny and Chris Keefer
6 September 2023

Canadians for Nuclear Energy President Dr Chris Keefer says nuclear energy is the “most environmentally friendly” form of energy due to its low environmental impact.

“The entire nuclear sector, including the uranium mines, factories, the fabrication of fuel and the power stations, even the waste storage fits on 20 square kilometres of land in Ontario, that’s the size of our Pearson International Airport in Toronto,” Dr Keefer told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“So this is an incredibly dense form of energy.

Nuclear energy is the ‘most environmentally friendly’ option

Transcript

Chris Kenny: Joining me is Dr. Chris Keefer, a medical doctor and president of Canadians for Nuclear Energy. Thanks for joining us, Chris. Really appreciate the chance to talk to you. First, tell us about Canada. Canada is not as blessed with the coal reserves that Australia has, but you have an enormous amount of gas and also an enormous amount of hydroelectricity power. Why has there been a push back away from coal to nuclear power, especially in a big province like Ontario?

Dr Chris Keefer: Well, most of the nuclear is concentrated in the province of Ontario, and that’s precisely because we weren’t blessed with the kind of coal reserves that Australia has, and so we were importing coal over from the United States. And when the 1973 energy crisis hit, we had a doubling in that price of coal and we’d been developing this nuclear reactor technology. We ended up commissioning 22 reactors in just 22 years and accidentally decarbonized our electricity grid. So it’s interesting that a power source can help grow an economy and accidentally decarbonize it. I think that shows you something about how cost-effective it can be.

Chris Kenny: Now with the continuing push for net-zero, some of that’s been expanded because around the world, after Fukushima, there was a lot of push to get out of nuclear. But now we’re seeing in South Korea, in Finland, in France, in the UK, going back to nuclear. What’s your assessment of Australia’s options when it comes to reliable, affordable emissions-free electricity?

Dr Chris Keefer: Well, listen, the grid is a civilizational life support structure, and I think there’s symptoms that it’s not doing well right now. I pick up a newspaper here in Australia and I see story after story, rolling blackouts anticipated this summer because of low wind and high temperatures from the end of the La Nina effects. I see coal stations that are being life extended because the reliability of the system is in such peril. You see the blowouts at Snowy 2.0. The situation is not looking great. I think it’s always important to have a plan B. And what we’re seeing here, I think, indicates that it’s better to have more tools in the toolbox than to cut something out that actually has a proven record of decarbonization. There’s no jurisdiction in the world that has achieved what we have in Ontario, which is a deeply, again, decarbonized grid, with wind and solar, that just hasn’t happened to this date.

Chris Kenny: Let me show you what our current federal labor climate and energy minister tends to say about the nuclear option.

Chris Bowen: The most expensive form of energy and the slowest to roll out, nuclear. The only thing small about a small modular reactor is the output. Nothing small about the cost.

Chris Kenny: How do you fact check a statement like that, Chris?

Dr Chris Keefer: Well, I hate to rub it in, but our emissions are 1/10th those of Australia in Ontario, and our electricity is one half the cost. Again, we commissioned 22 large nuclear stations in 22 years. When there’s a sense of urgency in Australia, I can see that there’s bipartisan moves that can happen, such as with the AUKUS situation. And I think as the grid Australia continues to become more unreliable and more expensive, eventually that will lead to a search for other options. And I think if you want those to be low carbon ones, that’s going to have to be nuclear.

Chris Kenny: Yeah, I think it’s inevitable too for those reasons, and we’re seeing enormous backlash around the country as we look to put in wind turbine farms, offshore wind projects, solar farms, massive transmission projects to connect all of this. So you’re creating a lot of other environmental problems and using up a lot more land. One of the advantages of nuclear is it’s concentrated in the land it requires and plugs into largely the existing transmission network.

Dr Chris Keefer: That’s absolutely true. The entire nuclear sector, including the uranium mines, the factories, the fabrication of fuel, and the power stations, even the waste storage fits on 20 square kilometres of land in Ontario. That’s the size of our Pearson International Airport in Toronto. So this is an incredibly dense form of energy, which means that it has the lowest environmental impacts. It requires the least mining and the least land footprint. And so really nuclear is the most environmentally friendly form of energy, but it’s been misrepresented so much over the years.

Chris Kenny: It sure has. And one of those relates to people’s health and safety. Just very quickly, as a medical doctor, your assessment there?

Dr Chris Keefer: You’re right, I’m a medical doctor. I am the source of the largest amount of radiation, artificial radiation that people get every year. We all get a natural background dose. Medical doctors deliver the majority of that. But it makes me literate in again, that dose of radiation. And the nuclear industry has done an extraordinarily good job at limiting any emissions from the plants. I mean, we have a perfect track record in terms of nuclear waste storage. Just the fact that we can contain all of the waste that’s produced is remarkable and again, speaks to that incredible energy density. So I live with my family about 20 kilometres from one of Ontario’s large nuclear stations, I feel very safe living there and so does the community around the plant.

Chris Kenny: Thanks so much for talking to us, Chris. I really appreciate it.

Dr Chris Keefer: My pleasure.

Chris Kenny: Chris Keefer there, sharing with us some of the insights from Ontario in Canada. We need to learn and follow this. I think, like Chris said there, I think it’s inevitable Australia will go down this path, especially given we have such great uranium reserves that we’re exporting to much of the world. We’ll go to this form of energy eventually. So every year we dawdle, we just add to our own burden.
Sky News

Heartland Institute President James Taylor Knocks It Out of the Park on ‘Hottest Days’ Last Night on The Ingraham Angle

From Watts Up With That?

From a tweet by Steve Milloy of Junkscience.com.

If cue doesn’t work, James Taylor’s segment begins at 7:44. However, no reason not to watch the entire clip. It’s all excellent.

Subsidised Wind & Solar Delivering Crushing Power Prices For Energy-Starved Californians

From STOP THESE THINGS

Looking for insight into the wind and solar ‘transition’? Then start with California – where power prices are crushing the poorest households, and blackouts and routine power rationing are now an accepted part of their attempt to run on heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar.

Power prices, already the highest in the USA, continue to rise at a staggering rate. And, as John Hinderaker points out below, in that respect, California is well and truly set on its path to oblivion, with householders in for much, much worse.

Using Electricity to Redistribute Money
Powerline
John Hinderaker
21 April 2023

One of the many problems with “green” energy is that it is ridiculously expensive. Millions of Americans, if they have to pay the cost of wind or solar energy to power their homes, will not be able to afford it, and will have to sell out. Liberals know this, despite their absurd propaganda about wind energy being “cheap.”

So what can they do? Follow the usual liberal playbook: make upper-income people pay the costs of their misguided policies:

California’s electric companies want to charge people based on their incomes rather than their electricity consumption in a bid to make utilities more “equitable.”

Most people think that when two people pay the same price for the same good or service, it is equitable. But not in today’s brave new world of Leftism.

The state’s major electric companies last week submitted an income-based billing proposal to the state government, which last year instructed utilities to “make electric bills more affordable and equitable.” Under the companies’ proposal, low-income households would pay as little as $15 a month in premiums, while high-income households could pay up to $128 per month. They also must pay for usage.

Pacific Gas & Electric, the state’s main utility provider, boasted that the plan will “help to limit the impact on disadvantaged communities, as Californians transition to electrification in support of the state’s clean energy goals.”

In a saner world, the “impact on disadvantaged communities” would be averted by using cheap and reliable energy sources, as we have in the past. The “impact” comes exclusively from liberals’ mania for expensive, unreliable energy. Unable to deny the adverse impact of their policies, the best liberals can do is shift the burden to people who comprise a minority of voters. This is naked income redistribution:

PG&E estimates that its lowest-income customers would see a 21 percent cut in their bills, while high earners would see about a 24 percent hike. The company says it would use the profits from high-income users to fund a variety of green energy initiatives, including the purchase of electric vehicles.

Which will continue California on its path to oblivion. If I owned a house in California, I would sell it.

Californians have seen their electricity rates rise nearly 70 percent since 2010, when the state started to break from fossil fuels. California households pay nearly 83 percent more than the average for homes elsewhere in the United States.

Most people think, I am afraid correctly, that California is a lost cause. The state’s crazy left-wing policies have chased away so many normals that there may not be enough left to reclaim power from the far Left. That is a sad scenario, but if nothing else, California’s decline can serve as a warning to the states that still can be salvaged.
Powerline