Climate policy

[Spartacus]

Still 100% unrealistic

but still able to virtue signal their clean energy intentions

 

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/california-city-gives-100-renewable-plan

 

As California goes, so goes the nation, or so they say. If that rings true, the nation is set for a reversal of some of its strictest renewable energy plans, after the Huntington Beach City Council voted to dump its plan for 100% renewable energy...

 

 

For Huntington Beach, there were three plans before it when considering a change in plan:

1. to keep the 100% renewable energy plan as is,

2. to go with a “Smart Choice” plan offering 69% renewable energy,

3. or the “Basic Choice” plan that offered 38% renewable energy.

They opted for the Basic Choice plan in a vote of 4-3.

[Spartacus]

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/sunshine-might-be-free-solar-power-not-cheap

 

Mississippi residents are consistently told that renewable energy sources, like solar panels, are now the lowest-cost ways to generate electricity, but these claims are based on creative accounting gimmicks that only examine a small portion of the expenses incurred to integrate solar onto the grid while excluding many others.

 

The graph below shows that electricity generated by new solar panels would cost $50.67 per megawatt hour when accounting for the fact that monopoly utilities are allowed to increase electricity prices to cover the cost of building any new solar facilities that receive approval from the Mississippi Public Service Commission, plus a ten percent rate of return, shown as “utility profits,” below.

 

 

The most affordable electricity in the state was generated by the combined cycle (CC) natural gas units at the Victor J. Daniel Generating Plant at a cost $30.31 per MWh, based on the 2021 delivered cost of natural gas, which was $3.90 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), and electricity generation. Natural gas prices might have risen recently, but even at these increased prices, natural gas gives Mississippians better value than solar.  So, too, does nuclear.  

 

The next most affordable power plant was the Grand Gulf nuclear facility, which generated electricity for $32.10 per MWh, based on 2021 output. Lastly, the coal units at the Victor J. Daniel Generating Plant produced electricity for $43.83 per MWh, based on 2021 delivered coal prices of $2.55 per MMBtu and electricity generation.

 

But wait, there’s more.

 

Not only are solar panels more expensive than the existing natural gas, coal, and nuclear plants on Mississippi’s electric grid, but they also provide less value because they don’t provide electricity if the sun isn’t shining, which is most of the time.

[B-Man]

 

 

How climate change could lead to more animal attacks
Yahoo! News ^ | February 1, 2023 | By Devika Rao

 

These interactions will only become more frequent as climate change becomes more severe.

 

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

42 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

How climate change could lead to more animal attacks
Yahoo! News ^ | February 1, 2023 | By Devika Rao

 

These interactions will only become more frequent as climate change becomes more severe.

 

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...

 

That whole thing smacks of trying to validate a priori assumptions.  I.e. instead of asking "Why are animal attacks happening?" asking "Why is climate change causing more animal attacks?" and back-fitting a mechanism to answer that without any real investigation.

[Cinga]

[snafu]

6 minutes ago, Cinga said:

Uh, well, sure the average shows a cooling trend.

But that obviously doesn’t reflect the reality that the globe is warming at alarming rates everywhere that there are poor countries.

 

 

[Cinga]

11 hours ago, snafu said:

Uh, well, sure the average shows a cooling trend.

But that obviously doesn’t reflect the reality that the globe is warming at alarming rates everywhere that there are poor countries.

 

 

 

And of course that is proof of raycistic activities by the planet and sun against people of color!

[Ann]

Rules for thee...
 

 

[B-Man]

 

Sea Level Is Stable Around the World… The Good News the Media Don’t Want Us to Hear

By P Gosselin

 

No accelerating sea level rise”… “no correlation between CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and sea level rise”.

Dr. Jay Lehr, Dennis Hedke 

 

We have been studying climate change and potentially associated sea level changes resulting from melting ice and warming oceans for a half century. In the 1970s our primary concern was global cooling and an advancing new ice age. Many believe that increasing quantities of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere could result in rising levels of the sea in general. The record does not show this to be true. There is no evidence whatever to support impending sea-level-rise catastrophe or the unnecessary expenditure of state or federal tax monies to solve a problem that does not exist.

 

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has updated its coastal sea level tide gauge data which continue to show no evidence of accelerating sea level rise. These measurements include tide gauge data at coastal locations along the West Coast, East Coast, Gulf Coast, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as seven Pacific Island groups and six Atlantic Island groups, comprising more than 200 measurement stations.

 

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In contrast to the steady but modest rise in sea level, revealed in long-term measurements, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) speculates that sea level will almost immediately begin rising significantly more than in the past and present. NOAA records contradict such claims. This pattern of steady but modest sea level rise extends throughout the world, throughout times of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and throughout periods of accelerated warming and cooling.

 

The IPCC and global warming activists have a difficult time scientifically supporting speculation about accelerating sea level rise, as warming temperatures have yet to push sea level rise beyond one foot per century. Current sea level trends are not significantly different from what they were seven to nine decades ago, when atmospheric CO2 levels were 310 parts per million by volume (ppmv) or less.[1] Dire predictions made decades ago of dramatically accelerating polar ice loss, and an ice-free Arctic Ocean have not come to pass.[2] As Dr. Steven E. Koonin, former Undersecretary for Science for the Obama administration, noted in 2014, “Even though the human influence on climate was much smaller in the past, the models do not account for the fact that the rate of global sea-level rise 70 years ago was as large as what we observe today.”[3]

 

Fortunately, we don’t need to wonder who is right and who is wrong in the debate over future sea-level rise. We can test the rising-seas hypothesis with real data collected from 10 coastal cities with long and reliable sea level records. Those cities are Ceuta, Spain; Honolulu, Hawaii; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Sitka, Alaska; Port Isabel, Texas; St. Petersburg, Florida; Fernandina Beach, Florida; Mumbai/Bombay, India; Sydney, Australia; and Slipshavn, Denmark.

 

More at the link: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/07/sea-level-is-stable-around-the-world-the-good-news-the-media-dont-want-us-to-hear/

 

 

[devnull]

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/14/ford-halts-f-150-lightning-production.html

[Ann]

EU lawmakers approve effective 2035 ban on new fossil fuel cars
 

The European Parliament on Tuesday formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles and combat climate change.
 

The landmark rules will require that by 2035 carmakers must achieve a 100% cut in CO2 emissions from new cars sold, which would make it impossible to sell new fossil fuel-powered vehicles in the 27-country bloc.

 

 

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[Fansince88]

6 minutes ago, Ann said:

EU lawmakers approve effective 2035 ban on new fossil fuel cars
 

The European Parliament on Tuesday formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles and combat climate change.
 

The landmark rules will require that by 2035 carmakers must achieve a 100% cut in CO2 emissions from new cars sold, which would make it impossible to sell new fossil fuel-powered vehicles in the 27-country bloc.

 

 

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What's with everyone's 2035 goal post?

[Koko]

14 hours ago, Fansince88 said:

What's with everyone's 2035 goal post?

 

It's far enough out there to placate the climate change nuts that the governments are doing something, without actually having to worry about said nuts getting pissed about cancelling the policy as stupid and unworkable 10-11 years from now.

[Foxx]

George, "say it isn't" Soros.

 

Billionaire George Soros Issues a Dire Warning About the World

[Spartacus]

1 hour ago, Foxx said:

George, "say it isn't" Soros.

 

Billionaire George Soros Issues a Dire Warning About the World

by 2012, the world will end

Al Gore said so

[Cinga]

On 2/19/2023 at 6:07 PM, Spartacus said:

by 2012, the world will end

Al Gore said so

 

But it did! Where were you?

 

 

[Fansince88]

33 minutes ago, Cinga said:

 

But it did! Where were you?

 

 

That was brought to us by Rush! Paul did great work for him.

Edited February 21, 2023 by Fansince88

[Spartacus]

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/gondola-service-halted-venice-famous-canals-run-dry

 

Part of Venice's vast network of canals has run dry after unusually low tides and drought conditions. The floating city is built in the middle of the Venetian Lagoon at the head of the Adriatic Sea in Northern Italy. Dried-up smaller canals mean some gondolas and water taxis are stranded.

 

Venice could use some of the water from melting Arctic ice that Greta Thunberg and her climate alarmist gang repeatedly warn about. 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

7 hours ago, Spartacus said:

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/gondola-service-halted-venice-famous-canals-run-dry

 

Part of Venice's vast network of canals has run dry after unusually low tides and drought conditions. The floating city is built in the middle of the Venetian Lagoon at the head of the Adriatic Sea in Northern Italy. Dried-up smaller canals mean some gondolas and water taxis are stranded.

 

Venice could use some of the water from melting Arctic ice that Greta Thunberg and her climate alarmist gang repeatedly warn about. 

 

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Environmental scientists warn that climate change has exacerbated both high and low water occurrences.

 

Breaking News: Climate change affects the moon's gravitational pull. 

[Foxx]

12 hours ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

 

Breaking News: Climate change affects the moon's gravitational pull. 

A King Tide?